June 4, 2013
It is 3:30 in the afternoon and other than to nurse Beckham this is the first time I have sat down all day. I needed to catch my breath and return a few emails, but as I sit here I am fighting back the tears. My heart is so full of the most indescribable joy… joy that only a mother can comprehend.
Five years ago today God saw it fit to make me a mother for the very first time. Words cannot describe the joy that floods my soul when I look at this sweet face.
June 3, 2013
When you let your toddlers play with your IPhone you never know what you might find… it is very common for me to find silly pictures. I love this set of pictures because Colton was apparently trying to help Claire get her face in the photo.
June 2, 2013
People often say “you are so lucky to have good sleepers”. While I agree that Chris and I are definitively blessed to have children who nap and sleep good at night, it was not without a little work. When people find out that all three of our kiddos nap and sleep good at night they usually ask “how do you get them to sleep so good”. The funny thing is – most do not want to hear the answer. Or once they hear the answer they think it is for everyone, but their child.
While in college I was SO fortunate to have the opportunity to be a nanny for a family of six. At the time when I started they had four toddlers four and under! The youngest two were twins. At naptime the mom would take them to their rooms and lay them down, walk out of the room and the kids napped for 2 hours! Twice a day! I could not believe it. I ask her about their great sleeping habits and she told me about Preparation for Parenting. It is a basic WAKE – EAT – PLAY – SLEEP system that helps you in establishing good sleep habits and in the end happy babies!
On days like today when I have a million things to do I am eternally grateful that I was introduced to GrowingKids.org. So as I am typing this all three of my kiddos (even my almost five year old) are down for naps. Now I can catch my breath, have a few moments to myself and get some things accomplished like writing in my blog and entering Pampered Chef orders. Things that I cannot really do when the children are awake.
It breaks my heart when I hear moms say that they are so exhausted and their children do not sleep through the night. It seems like more and more I am hearing moms tell me how they have to lay down with their kids to get them to sleep or just co-sleep all together. I desperately want to tell them that life does not have to be exhausting and they too can have great sleepers!!
June 1, 2013
May 30, 2013
I have been browsing through all my pictures in an attempt to get organized. You know, delete the duplicates or blurry pictures. Make sure everything is in the correct folder according to date. All that fun stuff that I do not have time to do. Anyway… while browsing I came across these two pictures. They are two of my favorites of my husbands grandmother.
This picture is of Nanny, my husbands grandmother and her son in law Tom. He is a big hoot and can make anyone smile. I remember this day so vividly. This was probably one of Nanny’s last trips down to the dock.
Claire was just a few months old and we put her on the boat (while docked of course) to get her picture taken with her great-grand parents. This is such a sweet photo – one that I think needs to be framed.
Nanny is ill now with Alzheimer's. What I would not give to have one more moment like this. Time is short… time is precious. I am trying my best to live in the moment, every moment.
May 29, 2013
Beckham has found his voice… in a BIG way!
Here he cannot decide though what he wants to do. Do I want to scream…
suck my thumb???
or maybe just suck on my toe…
such a tough choice!
May 28, 2013
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