This past week was such a long one and my emotions were all over the place. My best friend got married on Friday evening and as excited as I was about that we had to get through some really rough stuff earlier in the week.
Monday night we buried her grandmother, Wednesday we buried the groom's grandmother and finally on Friday we were able to celebrate with them, their joining in marriage.
It was such a super fun and fantastic event starting with the rehearsal dinner the evening before at her parent's place. Then we had a day of pampering and champagne, champagne, champagne!! All of us girls got together to spend the day with our bride and it was great. Everyone looked fantastic in their purple strapless dresses and of course the bride was as stunning as ever.
The ceremony was perfect and I couldn't have smiled any bigger. The flowers were gorgeous purples and oranges and reds. They were married with a sunset back drop on a horse farm in the fall. Can't get any more beautiful than that.
The reception was also an absolute blast. Dinner and dancing and dessert. My kids were on the dance floor from the moment the music started until we forced them to go home! We all had such a fun time and went to bed way too late.
The next day however was a rough one as we left for Michigan at 6am to attend my Great Uncle's funeral. This is the uncle who raised my mother and was the only father she ever really knew. So we visited family while we were up there and did have a good evening with my Grandma Em and Uncle Steve and his lovely wife Janine. We went back to our hotel and didn't get to sleep until well after midnight- kids included.
Driving home, everything seemed to hit me. I am all grown up. When I visit Michigan my family is no longer all in the same town. My Grandfather passed away last year and now when I visit, I can hardly stand to see their house because it makes me so sad to not have him sitting in his chair. My grandma still lives there but can't be by herself right now due to a knee surgery so she is staying with my Uncle. Driving through the old town makes me sad. Everything has changed and times aren't as easy and fun as they used to be.
My cousins have all moved away and have their own families. People I looked up to and admired turned out to be just regular old people who struggle and have faults. I know this is all part of growing up but some of these changes I just don't like or want to handle.
Maybe I am being a big baby about it, or maybe I am now truly realizing what being a grown up means. It means sleepovers with the cousins, jokes with your grandpa and weeks on the farm have ended. Now we have less visits, less people to visit and there are family members that we don't really even know. There are funerals and headstones to visit when there used to be people to see.
Like I said, this has been an emotional week that has been like a roller coaster for me. I am so happy on one hand and on the other, completely devastated. Being a "Big Kid" is much harder than it seemed when I was little and looking up.
Tuesday, October 25, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
A Stay at Home Mom Day
Today has been a busy stay at home Mom day. Let's see, we ate breakfast, made an octopus and a squid out of clay, glittered ornaments for Mommy's shop, played with the dollhouse and barn, drew pictures, played a few board games, had lunch and oh, Callie fixed her hair!
Monday, October 17, 2011
Family Emergencies
It's funny once you have kids, what becomes a family emergency. "AHHH we are out of milk!!" or "We're on the last diaper!" These things become very serious very quickly.
Last night, while I was at work, there were two emergencies at my house and of course my husband called to tell me about them as they happened.
Emergency Number One: 2 year old takes big poop in the bathtub!! As soon as it happened, and it was completely unexpected, Jon whipped the kids out of the tub. The kids just stared at the mess and cried standing beside the tub!
Emergency Number Two: 4 year old kicks his foot down and gets stabbed by a bobbi pin that fell between the couch cushions. This one was totally different and the phone call was to make sure he had up to date tetanus.
Callie and Henry were laying next to each other on the couch and all of a sudden Henry starts screaming. Jon is trying to figure it out when he sees blood, alot of blood. When Henry sees the blood, of course, he is screaming even more and when Callie sees the blood, she starts to cry with concern. I am so touched that she was so sweet and compassionate toward her brother.
Jon takes the kids into the bathroom to wash and sanitize Henry's puncture wound and as he is wincing in pain, Callie starts making faces to try to make him smile!
Even though I got a couple of "emergency" calls last night while I was working, I was so proud of my little girl and her empathy and compassion for her big brother. She loves him so much and the two of them are quite the team. I absolutely adore these children and their Daddy who knows how to handle every situation whether Mommy is here to help out or not.
Last night, while I was at work, there were two emergencies at my house and of course my husband called to tell me about them as they happened.
Emergency Number One: 2 year old takes big poop in the bathtub!! As soon as it happened, and it was completely unexpected, Jon whipped the kids out of the tub. The kids just stared at the mess and cried standing beside the tub!
Emergency Number Two: 4 year old kicks his foot down and gets stabbed by a bobbi pin that fell between the couch cushions. This one was totally different and the phone call was to make sure he had up to date tetanus.
Callie and Henry were laying next to each other on the couch and all of a sudden Henry starts screaming. Jon is trying to figure it out when he sees blood, alot of blood. When Henry sees the blood, of course, he is screaming even more and when Callie sees the blood, she starts to cry with concern. I am so touched that she was so sweet and compassionate toward her brother.
Jon takes the kids into the bathroom to wash and sanitize Henry's puncture wound and as he is wincing in pain, Callie starts making faces to try to make him smile!
Even though I got a couple of "emergency" calls last night while I was working, I was so proud of my little girl and her empathy and compassion for her big brother. She loves him so much and the two of them are quite the team. I absolutely adore these children and their Daddy who knows how to handle every situation whether Mommy is here to help out or not.
Friday, October 14, 2011
All Hail A Taxi!!
I packed the kids and the husband up and sent them on their way to Hawesville, Ky where they will be visiting our friend, Alex, who is in town from LA for a movie he made that is being featured this weekend. I have to work all weekend but didn't want them to be stuck here just because I couldn't go so off they went on their road trip with Daddy this afternoon.
Of course this is bittersweet for me because I miss them already, but it will be fun for them and I will get to sleep in tomorrow (when is the last time that happened). About 15 minutes into the trip I get a phone call from Jonny and I am wondering if the car broke down or Callie puked (yup the little one gets car sick) when he tells me that he just called to tell me that a road trip isn't as much fun without me. It made my day he was so sweet. We promised to chat later after they arrived and before I had to go to work.
On my way to work, driving Jon's car the gauges became possessed by the devil himself. They were all over the place bouncing up and down and stuff. The car was still going in the direction of work so whatever. I did call Jon to tell him about it with the hopes that it was just a simple fluke.
**NOTE** We drive old cars. We refuse to have a car payment and just buy cars with cash. The car in question is a 1996 Neon.
So I am almost to work and finding a parking spot and decide for poops and giggles to turn the car off and try to turn it back on...no go. The car is not making any noise and not starting but hey at least I got to work. The car is broken down in the employee parking lot at my work! This is the car that Jon has to return to work with on Monday!
All in all, I wasn't even mad. So I have to get a ride home from work. So my Mom has to drop off a car for me tomorrow. So Jon has to spend the rest of his weekend, once he returns home, figuring out and fixing the problem. Remember after all this, I still get to sleep in tomorrow!
Of course this is bittersweet for me because I miss them already, but it will be fun for them and I will get to sleep in tomorrow (when is the last time that happened). About 15 minutes into the trip I get a phone call from Jonny and I am wondering if the car broke down or Callie puked (yup the little one gets car sick) when he tells me that he just called to tell me that a road trip isn't as much fun without me. It made my day he was so sweet. We promised to chat later after they arrived and before I had to go to work.
On my way to work, driving Jon's car the gauges became possessed by the devil himself. They were all over the place bouncing up and down and stuff. The car was still going in the direction of work so whatever. I did call Jon to tell him about it with the hopes that it was just a simple fluke.
**NOTE** We drive old cars. We refuse to have a car payment and just buy cars with cash. The car in question is a 1996 Neon.
So I am almost to work and finding a parking spot and decide for poops and giggles to turn the car off and try to turn it back on...no go. The car is not making any noise and not starting but hey at least I got to work. The car is broken down in the employee parking lot at my work! This is the car that Jon has to return to work with on Monday!
All in all, I wasn't even mad. So I have to get a ride home from work. So my Mom has to drop off a car for me tomorrow. So Jon has to spend the rest of his weekend, once he returns home, figuring out and fixing the problem. Remember after all this, I still get to sleep in tomorrow!
Loving the Fall
I have always had a fun time doing anything and everything to prepare for Halloween. I love the fall and everything about it and Halloween seems to be the time to kick off the fall.
I love the pumpkin patch and bonfires. I love leaves and jumping in them, the smell of them, raking them. I love all of the scents of fall; warm apple pie, spiced cider and cinnamon. I am getting giddy just thinking about all of it!
When we started chatting with the kids about Halloween I thought I could predict what they would want to be, based on their current obsessions and I was right 100%. So we got to planning. Our son, Henry, who is 4 1/2, is all about plans and authenticity. He sketched out pictures and we talked about how to attach things and how to make this costume look "real", up to his standards.
We went to several stores to collect all of our goodies and got started on costume making. Callie is just 2 1/2 so she didn't have quite as many "plans" but she picked the colors of her costume and helped make it as well. It was a super fun evening with cutting and pinning and ironing and sticking and then of course the grand finale DRESSING UP!!
Henry is an Octopus complete with a beak and a tilted head. Callie Anne is a puppy and as soon as she was in her get up, she stopped talking and went straight to barking!
I can't wait to take them out trick or treating. They have been practicing what they will say to get a treat and what they will say after they get their treats and they are so super excited about it. Now if I can just figure out how to rig up 8 candy bags on little Henry's tentacles, we will be in business!
I love the pumpkin patch and bonfires. I love leaves and jumping in them, the smell of them, raking them. I love all of the scents of fall; warm apple pie, spiced cider and cinnamon. I am getting giddy just thinking about all of it!
When we started chatting with the kids about Halloween I thought I could predict what they would want to be, based on their current obsessions and I was right 100%. So we got to planning. Our son, Henry, who is 4 1/2, is all about plans and authenticity. He sketched out pictures and we talked about how to attach things and how to make this costume look "real", up to his standards.
We went to several stores to collect all of our goodies and got started on costume making. Callie is just 2 1/2 so she didn't have quite as many "plans" but she picked the colors of her costume and helped make it as well. It was a super fun evening with cutting and pinning and ironing and sticking and then of course the grand finale DRESSING UP!!
I can't wait to take them out trick or treating. They have been practicing what they will say to get a treat and what they will say after they get their treats and they are so super excited about it. Now if I can just figure out how to rig up 8 candy bags on little Henry's tentacles, we will be in business!
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Henry-isms
My little guy is full of them today!!
As he hands me a seashell he says, "Mom, back in the day, I thought this was a pearl."
Back in the day!!!
Right before bed he comes up to me and says, "Mom, I have a cut on my favorite finger!"
His favorite finger...ahhh he is making me laugh today.
As he hands me a seashell he says, "Mom, back in the day, I thought this was a pearl."
Back in the day!!!
Right before bed he comes up to me and says, "Mom, I have a cut on my favorite finger!"
His favorite finger...ahhh he is making me laugh today.
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