Don't Encourage Me!

In the nursery school yesterday I was sitting with Eva at the play dough table and all my bound up creativity just exploded into a masterpiece of hardly describable proportions. Check out my little orange man. The little children, and parents too were just doting on him [or laughing at me behind my back]. I think I have found my true talent. Ha!

It's over. Soccer season is over! We attended our last three games on Saturday!
After three pizza parties in five days our Saturdays have been returned to us! We are free at last, our Saturdays are free at last! I was proud of myself for thinking of this:
Emily has had the same soccer coach, Kim, who is also a friend of ours, for the last four years. I scanned all the team photos and put them all together on one page. I wanted her and all the other families to know how much of her time and incredibly good willed effort she has given to the girls, and us parents. She an amazingly genuine and kind person too. I hope she liked it. She gave me one of the best gifts I have ever received once when she came over and took my older kids away for an afternoon just a few days after Eva was born so that Tony and I could have time together with her and just our two selves. That gift really sticks out in my mind. I put little asterisks by Emily in each team picture so if you click on the picture to zoom it up, you can find her.

Tony and I went out to dinner [yay!] Saturday while the kids stayed at home with his Mother. I was so high [figuratively, of course] and happy that I wore two different shoes! The last thing I remember is standing in my closet trying to decide which pair to wear! Haven't I always told you I was a serious dork! We had a evening out and about, what a difference an hour and fifty-five minutes can make to a Mama's well being. Now say Amen.

Sunday we went to Tony's parents for lunch and look what his Mother has in her backyard:
What a beauty, that little heart, just thriving along so nicely with the other not so shapely cacti. Imagine how tasty she might be someday! Mmmmmm! Imagine how big she could get!

Parent teacher conferences today, that along with piano lessons and CCD should make for a nice full day. Catch me on the other side. Mom, Renee, get ready for some[thing] fun...were coming your way!

Peace.