Children

This was the subject line of an email a friend recently sent me. As soon as I read it I knew what it was about. The last few times we were together she mentioned her indecision about having a third child. We reviewed the positives and negatives and now it seemed that she had decided to go for it.

Whoever coined the phrase "spring break" was obviously looking at things from the students' perspective. For parents it's more like "make a desperate attempt to fill up 12 hours a day with stimulating activities while it is not even warm out yet." This year I was actually pretty excited about the whole thing because for the first time in several years we were really going away. Granted, Pompano Beach, FL with the in-laws is no Paradise Island...but hey, it beats 5 days in a row at the neighborhood tot lot.

8 kids in my house last night awake until past midnight! Yikes! What fun!

We all have memories from when we were little of our mothers doing things that we perceived as horribly embarrassing but now realize were not actually all that crazy. I remember feeling like I didn't have the right clothes or that my lunch wasn't cool (brown bread instead of white bread, goopy natural peanut butter instead of smooth jif). When I was a new mom I vowed that my daughter would never feel that way so I always try my best to make sure I do things the "right" way.

My friend Karen had her baby and I had to share this beautiful little creature with everyone!

For those of you who might have been on line at 1am, you know that Jake's lip had a run in with Piper's teeth - a zip up by the plastic surgeon later we were on our way home.

It isn't very often that I hear something truly complimentary from one of my children - afterall, that's not their role in life, is it? We are the nurturers and they are the receivers of that nurturing......

Today I went to a baby naming for my new baby neice, Olivia Claire. My youngest brother (I have six) and his wife have now four beautiful children. Three girls and one boy. Olivia, like her siblings, is perfectly gorgeous and I am certain destined to be another "good one", just like my brother:-) ...................