I was Reminded

Yesterday Abigail woke up in a MOOD. She was grumpy, fussy, and unpleasant. She yelled all the way to church. We kept going even though we weren't sure we would be staying once we got there. By the time we got to church, we ready to sell the sweet darling on EBAY. She was already wearing us out in just a short time. She was still wild during church adn had to go to the nursery earlier than usual. After lunch I put her straight down hoping a nap would cheer her up.

While she was down, I read a blog that I recently stumbled upon about a family who lost a daughter to ancephaly a couple weeks ago. Since the 20th week of pregnancy they had know their child would only live for a few minutes or hours. I have read this blog and cried and prayed for this family. Yesterday, I thought of their pain as I had been complaining about my child. Oh how blessed I am to have her here with me where she can whine, and cry and drive me crazy. I was reminded to be blessed and cherish every moment with my daughter, even the wild ones.

A Great Day

Today has been a wonderfully blessed bonus day. We had a "snow" day, but I'm not sure why. Somewhere in our county there must have been some ice. For me, it was just a day of good things. I don't know yet about making it up or fuloughing it or what, so for today, I can just enjoy. SOme of today's fabulousness included...

• Spending extra time with Charlie this morning. The three of us got to hang out in PJs for awhile.
• Very Few people at Walmart and super helpful bag girl. She let me run back to my car for my fogotten coupon.
• An amazing lunch of a grilled cheese on my mom's homemade Sourdough bread. I'm looking forward to another one when I get more bread.
• A Sonic drink :)
• Time to bake for my friends at school. I love to give away goodies, but without this extra day, it would not have happened.
• I got to read the Day on The Farm book 47 times.
• I spent extra time just watching Abigail.
• Dinner for tomorrow night is ready in the form of a lasagna waiting to be cooked.
• Slept til 7:15

Life is good and I am blessed. Pretending to be a stay home mom is fun. Tomorrow will be a day of corralling and trying to keep the wild ones semi settled. After that, freedom and two more weeks of home.

Almost There

Four days stand between me and freedom. I am looking so forward to this break. I am longing for the extra time with my husband and daughter. What I look forward to most is spending time sitting on the floor surrounded by toys and animal books pointing to the tiger, and elephant while making the noises. For two weeks, I get to be the one to get my daughter up and dressed in the mornings. I look forward to watching a movie with Charlie by the light of the Christmas tree all snuggled on the couch. We'll have time to sit with our daughter and play, all together. Extra sleep is also on the wish list for the time out of school. I want to cook and bake. My house is going to get cleaned. For a few minutes at least we won't look like a tornado has just blown through. Four days, four days four days, This week it seems so long. Next week those same four days will fly. So my mantra for the rest of this week is I can do this, I can do this, I can do this. AFter all the reward waiting at the end in the form of family is priceless.

Christmas Cuties

On my Thanksgiving break we spent some time with my family in TN. It was a wonderful few days of enjoying each other's company and watching young cousins love on each other. My mom and her sister had both bought super cute outfits for their own grandchildren for Christmas. Here is the result of our family photo shoot.

Granddaddy holding a lap of love with all 3 of his grandkiddos.

My grandmother doing her best to corrall all five of her grreat grands. Until March 2008, we had no great grandchildren. My how quickly we've grown.

These two are really starting to love each other.

We took many pictures, but this one turned out the best of all five.

My Little Tiger saying, "ROAR!"