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Wednesday, February 1st, 2012My Dearest Girls, I want to apologize if I ever wasn’t patient enough when you had ear infections. I had no idea of how excruciatingly painful the pressure of an ear infection is. I now understand fully why you would cry for hours on end. Love, Your Mother I have been sick for over a [...]
Merry Christmas
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011Christmas was wonderful. The kids woke up at their normal times. They went downstairs and checked out the gifts Santa brought them. They were all so excited for themselves and for the siblings. Madeline immediately opened her American Girl, Rebecca. Annie got her rollerblades on in record time and kept them on practically all day! [...]
They never got sick!
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011I know that may seem like a strange title for a post but it was amazing! My kids are always healthy from September on and then once Christmas week hits they are sick as dogs. Finally a year where nobody was running a fever and not able to fully enjoy Christmas. It was wonderful! (Annie [...]
Handmade ornaments
Thursday, December 22nd, 2011We finally had time today to get to making our homemade ornaments. We try to make a new one each year. This year we made felt ornaments. Paul’s is the mitten and aside from the idea of it I pretty much made it for him. The Girls sketched out their ideas. I helped them cut [...]
Thanks a Bunch
Wednesday, December 21st, 2011The other night while we were out caroling we got “elfed” again. This person had been trying to elf us for a while but got us. The kids LOVE the sock monkey. It is perfect for our family.
Kids . . . Gotta Love ‘em
Wednesday, December 7th, 2011We had family photos taken this past weekend. The photos came out gorgeous except for one teeny tiny detail. Did you notice it??? Madeline somehow missed it when I was telling all the girls to get black dress shoes on! All I can say is, “kids . . . gotta love ‘em”
Settling In
Friday, December 2nd, 2011Since Penny has passed away Lucy has been struggling to figure out her sleeping arrangements. Since she is young and can hold her bladder and walk up and down stairs with ease she is allowed to have free reign of the house at night. (Penny was blind, and had bladder issues for years, so much [...]
New Traditions
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011I am such a Christmas lover that I just can’t stop myself from adding more traditions to my repertoire. We already have so many but I can always find time for more. This year we are adding opening our Christmas cards at dinner each night and elfing. Yesterday we received our first Christmas card and [...]
9th Christmas
Sunday, November 27th, 2011As I was copying and adding the new ornaments into the blog with Madeline breathing down my neck so that she could get her ornament input and up on the tree, I didn’t notice the numbers of years. Annie and Kimberly are celebrating their 9th Christmases!!!! Just a flash ago they were tiny babies celebrating [...]
Just keeping track . . . don’t mind me
Saturday, November 26th, 2011Since the blog is just an extension of my memory, a far better one , I keep track of the ornaments the kids collect each year. Today we went shopping and we picked these special ones out. Kimberly: 1st Christmas: Elephant cookie and baby bib with picture 2nd Christmas: Gingerbread house with crayons on it [...]
Quaking in Their Boots
Wednesday, November 23rd, 2011We’ve got a situation. Last weekend, Annie and Kimberly attended a birthday party at Castles ‘n’ Coasters and they went together on the log ride. I stood on some stairs so I could get a good view and cheer them on. Unfortunately, the first time I saw them they were both wailing and freaking out—even [...]
Beautifying the Place
Sunday, November 13th, 2011Over the last month we have been working on the house a bit. We had a full patio put on the back with two ceiling fans on it so that next summer it will have more shade and breezes on those days when there is no breeze in sight. The patio looks perfect and people [...]
Perfect Children
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011Nothing in the world makes you appreciate your perfect, wonderfully behaved, well mannered, smart children than spending a couple of days with an classroom full of children. When I was a teacher I knew that my children, (the ones I dreamed about at the time), would NEVER behave like some of the kids in my [...]
Back in the Saddle
Monday, November 7th, 2011Today I had my first day back working at Boulder Creek. I substituted in a 2nd grade classroom and throughly enjoyed it. I have loved the past 8 years raising and hanging out with the kids day in and day out but I have missed teaching in a classroom. I relished the days that I [...]
Saying Good-Bye to Penny
Tuesday, November 1st, 2011Today our Penny girl passed on. We adopted her back in April of 2006. We spent the years enjoying her. We certainly will miss her.
Trunk or Treat
Monday, October 31st, 2011We love the fall festival at our children’s preschool so much. The time spent there is so heartwarming and not just because we were married there and our children spent their first days away from home there, but because the festival is just so nice and quiet. This was the first year we were there [...]
Carving Pumpkins
Sunday, October 30th, 2011Today we finally had time to get our pumpkins from the pumpkin patch carved up. We have finally reached the point where none of our kids are afraid of the guts and each one is able to do a pretty good job clearing their pumpkin. Gotta love that! I will get pictures of the kids [...]
Happy Birthday Annie
Saturday, October 29th, 2011Annie Elizabeth has turned eight! It is amazing how fast she has grown. She is an amazing girl who we treasure. This year we changed our tradition a tiny it to work Annie’s birthday better into the extremely busy schedule of Halloween weekend. We had her birthday dinner on “labor day.” She requested salisbury steak [...]
BooFest
Tuesday, October 25th, 2011Due to budget cuts the City of Phoenix hadn’t been doing their BooFest for a couple of years. Thankfully this year they had it. We went this past Saturday and the kids had fun. It was far more busy than usual. I am thinking that they must have done a lot more marketing to make [...]
Frozen Memories
Friday, October 7th, 2011When I was a child one of the millions of little cherished memories I have was being babysat by my Great Grandmother. My parents didn’t go out a whole lot but when they did she was the person we were left with. My Great Grandmother was amazing at a lot of things but cooking wasn’t [...]
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