Hanging In There.

I closed my eyes for just a second and just like that, March is closing up shop. I am really looking forward to this Easter weekend and to the upcoming week of spring break. You know me, I am happiest when my kids don't have to be anywhere and we can just hang around and be together in an unscheduled and unhurried kind of way.

I am now the proud mama of a seven year old boy! Wyatt was so excited about his birthday. Every night when I would tuck him in he would tell me how many days until his birthday and he would raise his shoulders and giggle as he looked up at me. My boy is growing up and it's all happening way too fast. The scads of parents that told me that these years go by very quickly were right after all. When you are a young parent, you look at them and listen to their words with a short nod and a crinkle in your eye as if you understand or believe what they are saying. Then one day it comes true for you and it becomes pure heartbreak.

Sorry to report that there is not much news to report. We are just business as usual at my house. As the end of the school year nears, all things kid related ramp up before they fall off completely and summer break begins [aka the best time of the year!] For tonight, I am just taking dinner out of the oven and heading out to watch my eldest child play a basketball game. Afterward, we will all come home and eat that dinner then call it a day and do it all over again tomorrow. The day after that, let's call it April.

Peace and love be with you in this wonderful holy week.

March On.

It's not easy for me to make the time to write something for this little blog when things are really busy and it's not easy when things are really slow. Well hey, things have been really busy.

With all this sunshine, we have rediscovered [as it happens every spring] all the housework that does not involve actually being inside the house. So, good weather actually multiplies the work load around here, probably at your house too and that just doesn't seem fair! It's kinda fun though and definitely a welcomed change.

Emily is playing basketball with 11-14 year olds and the competition is heating up and is becoming a blast to watch; it's fully entertaining! So too with Wyatt and Sarah playing little league baseball on the same team, sports have suddenly become very exciting for our family! All the practices are wearing me out but it's worth it to watch them blossom in each their own ways day by day. Just like all the pretty leaves and flowers with this gorgeous time of year. Welcome Spring, I'm so glad you're here!

Over the past several weeks I have had the pleasure of some fun visits and chats with friends that I have been missing like Sherri and Melissa, I spent a whole weekend with Nena, and I had a day of food and shopping with my mother and my sister Renee. It's so great to get caught up with everybody. I miss my sisters like crazy. If I could see them and my friends more often I would be one happy lady. Heehee I just called myself a lady, sometimes I laugh at things that make me feel like I am nine years old. Looks like I have made peace with my dorkiness!

A fun little slideshow of our annual snow cabin weekend with our friends. It was our 5th year at this cabin that we rent, Eva was just a few months old our first year. It was another epic weekend.



And I have to throw in a few snow trip video clips just for fun! I took my camera downhill with me on my sled and it ended badly funny.



Eva had the most fun sledding of all of them. It may have something to do with the fact that she got a ride up the hill from Tony every time while the others toted their own sleds up. The youngest get all the perks don't they? She laughs from the top of the hill to the very bottom!



And Wyatt ripped it with a smooth little wipeout. Way to be tough buddy.



March on March, bring it on, I can handle it. Wyatt's birthday week is here, can you believe my boy is going to be 7? Then my favorite week of the year, Easter week is right around the next corner. Good things on the way.

note: my videos are not showing up on my weak computer and i'm thinking that maybe you are seeing blank spaces too? i'll look into it tomorrow :)