"The Komono Dragons. Wait no, actually, my favorite part was Gladys."
Tuesday, May 7, 2013
Thursday, May 2, 2013
Writing
To write and write well, you just have to start writing. I have been away from this blog for awhile and I'm not sure why, because I have missed it a lot. I need a place in my life to document all the ridiculousness that I experience; like at the grocery when my child asks me in the deli section around a handful of people if I pooped her out or if they had to cut my belly open, or the ridiculousness at my work that I would love to share if I wasn't terrified of being sued over HIPPA because some of the experiences I have one cannot even make them up.
A very wise man, Ernest Hemingway, once said that to overcome writers block, "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
I want to be a fabulous mother that fills her children's memories full of fun, smiles, laughter, and a slew of life experiences.
That's the truest sentence I know, and that's what I miss from not blogging the past few months. I of course have been finding ways to make our lives fun and having fun experiences with my family, but don't have one place to look back and read about the memories to remind me and to look at the photos that brings me back to that moment in time.
Tomorrow we plan on going to the zoo. One of my favorite places in our city. I plan to take 500 million pictures and capture the smiles of my girls next to blooming spring flowers and little wee zoo babies and post them here so I never forget and my girls never forget wonder days like that.
Plus somehow these kids have grown up on me and I just need to be paying closer attention to it all.
A very wise man, Ernest Hemingway, once said that to overcome writers block, "All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know."
I want to be a fabulous mother that fills her children's memories full of fun, smiles, laughter, and a slew of life experiences.
That's the truest sentence I know, and that's what I miss from not blogging the past few months. I of course have been finding ways to make our lives fun and having fun experiences with my family, but don't have one place to look back and read about the memories to remind me and to look at the photos that brings me back to that moment in time.
Tomorrow we plan on going to the zoo. One of my favorite places in our city. I plan to take 500 million pictures and capture the smiles of my girls next to blooming spring flowers and little wee zoo babies and post them here so I never forget and my girls never forget wonder days like that.
Plus somehow these kids have grown up on me and I just need to be paying closer attention to it all.
Monday, April 15, 2013
The Root Beer Stand II
If you will remember, we visited the Root Beer Stand before, Raigan was just a wee little one and my photography skills were way better. I'm slackin' that department of life at the current moment, but hope to practice my skills on a more regular basis again.
But we went and I documented it none the less, even if some may have been with my iPhone. I also added to the repertoire by throwing in a fun spur of the moment trip to Sharron Woods. God bless my husband for always being supportive and go with the flow to my crazy ideas for our adventures.
Our day started out in this fashion which is always promising; the girls are getting along, clean, dressed, have hair accessories. This is way above some day's standards.
The Root Beer Stand is awesome because it has kegs? barrels? large amounts of homemade creamy root beer and the best root beer floats known to man.
They have a large play structure in the back for the kids to play on.
After we stuffed our bellies with root beer, ice cream, and chilli dogs we rode right up the street to Sharon Woods and rented a petal boats spur of the moment on this beautiful spring day. You can find info about boat rental in Sharon Woods here.
But we went and I documented it none the less, even if some may have been with my iPhone. I also added to the repertoire by throwing in a fun spur of the moment trip to Sharron Woods. God bless my husband for always being supportive and go with the flow to my crazy ideas for our adventures.
Our day started out in this fashion which is always promising; the girls are getting along, clean, dressed, have hair accessories. This is way above some day's standards.
The Root Beer Stand is awesome because it has kegs? barrels? large amounts of homemade creamy root beer and the best root beer floats known to man.
They have a large play structure in the back for the kids to play on.
After we stuffed our bellies with root beer, ice cream, and chilli dogs we rode right up the street to Sharon Woods and rented a petal boats spur of the moment on this beautiful spring day. You can find info about boat rental in Sharon Woods here.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Easter 2013
We have our annual Easter Egg Hunt party with the girls' cousins. I love Easter and it's my favorite holiday. I think I mention that every Easter, but it never changes. I love that it's the start of spring and something new. I love that these kids will have a tradition that they will forever remember also. It's amazing to see the bigs that were once littles helping the little ones out.
The annual Easter egg dying, always chaotic and always fun.
The food setup, or what is left of it rather:
For our egg hunt each year we hide a key in one of the eggs and the finder of the key gets a large chocolate bar or bunny or some kind of large prize; this is this years:
We take this picture every year and they all change so much:
The finder of the key:
When I was a little girl as young as I can remember I used to help my mom purchase things for Easter baskets and make them. I was the 3rd and last child of the family so the secret of the Easter bunny and Santa didn't last. I still love carrying on this tradition with my girls and they think the Easter Bunny really does hide their basket every year.
The iced coffee is what the Easter Bunny brought for me:
Happy Easter my girls, I hope you enjoy every minute of your childhood.
I hope to start a new Easter tradition by putting a Reds shirt or some kind of merchandise in their Easter basket for Opening Day.
Happy Easter 2013!
The annual Easter egg dying, always chaotic and always fun.
The food setup, or what is left of it rather:
For our egg hunt each year we hide a key in one of the eggs and the finder of the key gets a large chocolate bar or bunny or some kind of large prize; this is this years:
We take this picture every year and they all change so much:
The finder of the key:
When I was a little girl as young as I can remember I used to help my mom purchase things for Easter baskets and make them. I was the 3rd and last child of the family so the secret of the Easter bunny and Santa didn't last. I still love carrying on this tradition with my girls and they think the Easter Bunny really does hide their basket every year.
The iced coffee is what the Easter Bunny brought for me:
Happy Easter my girls, I hope you enjoy every minute of your childhood.
I hope to start a new Easter tradition by putting a Reds shirt or some kind of merchandise in their Easter basket for Opening Day.
Happy Easter 2013!
Thursday, March 7, 2013
Books
My kids and their books:
I love bookstores. It doesn't matter if it's a national chair or a mom and pop (those I do love more, though). I hope that there is a whole category of my girls' childhood memory that holds the hours we spend in bookstores.
I had a short moment of envy when we were in this particular bookstore because I wanted to purchase every single children's book there for my kids library, but obviously do not have the means to do that. Short after, I soon realized that my girls already have a good portion of the books from our many "you can pick out one book to purchase" trips. I also thought about how beautiful these books on these shelves are with their nice clean covers and fresh spines that aren't yet worn, but there's something to be said about our books at home. They show that they have been held, read, played with, read again many of times and there is a beauty just as beautiful to the worn, tattered books in my girls library.
I love bookstores. It doesn't matter if it's a national chair or a mom and pop (those I do love more, though). I hope that there is a whole category of my girls' childhood memory that holds the hours we spend in bookstores.
I had a short moment of envy when we were in this particular bookstore because I wanted to purchase every single children's book there for my kids library, but obviously do not have the means to do that. Short after, I soon realized that my girls already have a good portion of the books from our many "you can pick out one book to purchase" trips. I also thought about how beautiful these books on these shelves are with their nice clean covers and fresh spines that aren't yet worn, but there's something to be said about our books at home. They show that they have been held, read, played with, read again many of times and there is a beauty just as beautiful to the worn, tattered books in my girls library.
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