Dear Mom,

You're kind of ... you know? Short.

Oh thank you Miss T. I love you too.

Near death experience..

Okay, that might be slightly dramatic. But only slightly.

A little back-story -

After the very first week of school for EJ and Miss T, they both started the weekend off with the sniffles. The optimist in me, said it must be from going between the super chilly classroom, to the hot and humid outdoors; obviously aggravating their sinuses. I mean how could both children get sick at the same time? Impossible right?

Pain revisited

Have you ever had your heart just break over something that may or may not directly affect you? I had one of those moments today.

Workout Log - 8/23/2012 - 8/27/2012

Ahh, I've been slacking on updating!

Day 4 went amazingly well.. I woke up feeling MUCH better than I did on day 2 or day 3. I seemed to be able to complete more repetitions with ease, yet the cardio was still a bit rough.

Workout Log 8/22/2012

Day 3!

I feel a teensy bit ashamed to admit that I had 0 motivation this morning.

Workout Log 8/21/2012

Day 2!

So this morning I was definitely questioning my ability to move. My legs haven't hurt this bad in ages. But no pain no gain right?

Workout Log 8/20/2012

So today was day 1 of Jillian Michael's 30 day shred.

Let me start off by saying, this girl is a BEAST!

Neglect!

I've definitely neglected my poor blog these past few months, and never even finished posting about the rocks! I will certainly (hopefully) get around to posting the finished products- which was impressive! We've yet to start a new round of the rock polishing, mostly due to the noise, and the fact that someone (not naming names *cough* Miss T *cough*) lost interest halfway into the process, and was less than excited about the final product. I found it really neat though!

So, the big news!  June 9th I birthed a gorgeous 9lb 5oz baby girl! (shock and awe I know!)

Multitasking...

If there's one thing that I've learned from being a mother, it's that you need to have an immense knowledge database. You also need to be able to Google with a quickness, for things you aren't sure about.

My children literally think I have the answers to everything sometimes. That's sweet and all, but sometimes I TRULY just don't know. Today I got to use information that was randomly stored, and helped Miss T dig up a plant. Not only did I need to know the proper way to dig up this flower, I also needed to know how to re-pot it. To go a step further, she wanted to know how I knew how deep to go, and if I got all the roots. I explained it was a bulb plant, and once I could see the bulb it was just a matter of leaving it intact. We had our own little science lesson. However she was just in awe that all she had to do was hand me a spade, and I went to work carefully removing this precious flower from it's home.

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I've been meaning to write.

No, really, I have. I set a goal of writing once a day until it became habit, and then slowly weaning off to once every 2-3 days. Writing is an excellent release, and really does uplift my mood.

However, yesterday, and so far today, I can't put together a thought to save my life. At least nothing even remotely interesting to read, or write about. Though I'd settle for mostly coherent at this point.

I started writing about co-sleeping, yet the thought just dwindled into a "duuuuuuhhh" as I was staring at more blank page than page that had been filled with text.

Wonderful..

Today has been a pretty spectacular day!

We started off by sleeping in until 10am, which is a pretty awesome gift to me on a Saturday morning, especially after being up until 2 (thanks insomnia) - and back up at 4 (thanks diapers that promise 12 hour protection) - and uncomfortable until finally sleeping again at 6 (thanks massive belly). Suffice it to say I'm a walking zombie 9/10ths of the time... er..all the time.

Step 2 complete!

Oh the joys...

..of having a 2 1/2 year old!

We are officially in the "I do it!" stage. Something as simple as getting in our pj's, washing our hands, and brushing our teeth for bed - took approximately 45 minutes.

I watched her determination to get those pj pants on - pay off. Though admittedly they are backwards, and it seems to bug her that the crotch is poofy from normally being on her diaper, but by cracky she did all by herself. I haven't criticized her pants dressing abilities, because hey, she is 2 and put on her pants. That's a pretty big deal.

Tumblin'...

So Miss T got this awesome piece of machinery for Christmas -

She was completely excited thinking that in just a few minutes, she'd have awesome semi-precious stones.

Ages and stages..

It's crazy to think it's really been over a year since I posted my "uneventful" blog, that ended up being full of information on the kiddos and where they were at that point in their life.

So I think it's only right to do another ages and stages! It's crazy to think how much they've changed since that post, but they do say 'don't blink' or you'll miss everything. How true a statement.

Punkin' is going on 2 1/2 years old, and completely full of herself.

The one-time explanation.

I always try to avoid updating/writing about anything that is negative, but sometimes the downer posts are needed to understand a situation a little better. I find that's the point I'm sitting at currently. If I don't explain at least partially, it's difficult to write anything new going on without leaving a lot of you scratching your head.

So here goes.