This Mother’s Day was wonderful. It started off by Randy sending me flowers to work on Friday. They weren’t just flowers…they were amazing. Then on Saturday I spent the entire day alone with my kids. I’m not going to lie…it wasn’t all puppy dogs and rainbows. Having these 2 all to myself for the day …
Category Archive: Holidays
May
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Dec
26
Nov
01
Thanksgiving Challenge
This year I am going to intentionally focus on Thanksgiving for the wonderful opportunity it is to give thanks for all the blessings in our life. I will not skip right from Halloween to Christmas and I will intentionally give thanks for (at least) one thing every day. It might be a single picture, or only a …
Jul
05
Fourth of July
No trip to the lake this year, but who needs the lake when there is a perfectly good swimming pool just down the road? We took it easy this year and decided to hang out at Duke and Ya-ya’s new house with the pool in the back yard. It is certainly easier than packing for …
May
31
Memorial Day Weekend
We spent the weekend in Leakey, Texas with 2 other families that have kids. In a cozy 3 bed/2 bath hill country house, we set in for a 3-day weekend with 6 adults and 5 kids under 3yrs old. This may as well have been traveling daycare. We had what you would expect from a …
May
09
Mother’s Day
Mother’s Day truly is the most important holiday (except Easter) for me. I would rather celebrate Mother’s Day than my birthday, and I don’t think that will ever change for the rest of my life. My entire life all I wanted was to be a mom and raise a family. That sounds so archaic, but …
Jan
01
Christmas/New Years
We realized not too long ago that when Reed gets home and is cranky after his full day at daycare, it’s because he gets bored at home and had nothing to do or play with. It was so bad that he refused to come inside from the car, and wanted to stay in the garage …
Nov
01
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
Reed’s second Halloween was certainly more interactive than his first. As you may remember, as a Garden Gnome, he pretty much just sat there for us to take pictures, and Trick-or-Treating was us following the older kids around with Reed in a stroller. This year was our first as parents of a child that got …
Jun
25
Father's Day 2010
My second Father’s Day was not one I would care to remember. I came down with a stomach virus at about 5am and spent the next 6 hours making trips to the bathroom for more than one reason… I was down for the count. Needless to say, I missed out on the Father’s Day plans …
May
11
Easter party pictures
I found several pictures that I love and never posted.