Date Night!!!

October 4, 2010 - Mommy and Daddy escape for a date night. Dinner at Coliseum Steak and Pizza and a concert at Rexall Place. Darius Rucker stole the show singing oldies from his Hootie and the blowfish days and a great version of Purple Rain - and Brad Paisley sang as all the women swooned and gushed over him. We danced through the whole show and didn't want the night to end.

Family Vacation

I love vacations with my family. Sure you have the stress of packing, making it to the airport at an ungodly hour, dealing with cranky rushed over-tired children......being confined to three seats for four people.....

BUT...you also have the wonderful experience of learning new adventures as a family. Spending time together is the most valuable thing I feel I can do.

I seam to complain quite a lot about my children, and how much they stress me out - but to be honest with you, my kids are pretty amazing. They are (in general) well behaved, respectful, affectionate and down right entertaining!

We are having a great time and the trip home is sneaking up on us. I wish we could stay forever....

Do you ever...

....just want to throw the towel in and give up? More specifically - do you ever wonder why the hell someone did not tell you before you became a grown up, a mother, a wife that it would be hard. Not just hard, but want to run away, join a convent, feel like becoming an alcoholic so super duper hard???

I remember dreaming of my life as a grown up when I was a child. I had these grand illusions of how wonderful it would be, and how I would furnish my home, how many children I'd have, what kind of car I'd drive, who I'd marry - and now I have all that. And I can't help but wonder - Is this it? I've accomplished all my goals in life. (Okay, not ALL of them - I still want to become a skinny race car driver!)

I've always had the next goal to work for, and I am feeling a little lost not knowing where my life is going now that's I've attained everything I wanted. Sounds selfish, I know. And there are those who do not have all I do, and I KNOW I should be thankful - don't get me wrong I am!! I am just feeling a little lost! I always feel like I need something to look forward to, something to make the hard times a little more bearable knowing a reward was just around the corner...

When I was in Kindergarten, I couldn't wait to be in Junior High.

When I was in Junior High, I couldn't wait to get to High School and drive.

When I was in High School (and driving), I couldn't wait to have my own place.

When I had my own apartment, I couldn't wait to get married.

When I got married, I couldn't wait to go to own a home.

When I got our first condo, I couldn't wait to have a career.

When I got a career, I couldn't wait to have a baby.

When I had a baby, I couldn't wait to have a house.

When I got a house, I couldn't wait to have a second child.

When I had a second child.........


So there I am, wondering what comes next. I have to do some deep soul searching and decide what I want next in life.

Small Me!

For once in a long time, I felt small....

Fireside Baths

When you are camping and one baby has too much sand in his butt crack...one momma comes up with the plan to bathe her boy in the lid from a clothes tub. From that idea comes the plan to bathe my children in the main part of the tub. This is what happened next...

These are my children....

These photos capture the true essence of my children. Sooo accurate, and sooo my children.

Procrastinator

Yup, that's me! I am sooo horrible, and I've been this way as long as I can remember. I have a special account with work that I get "Profession Development" money, and the cut off for last year's fund was March 30th. The bonus is that you have until May 30th to submit the paperwork. Guess who hasn't done it yet...on May 28th??? Yup, that's me! Guess what I am doing on my lunch hour? Driving all around the city getting forms signed and delivered to the correct location - yup, that's me!!!