Tuesday, 22 May 2012


  • The rain is back.
    In Oregon you really learn to enjoy the good weather when its here
    because all too soon its gone
    Brooklyn got a new bike and is sooo excited.  

    The past week she went from riding her bike to painting.
    She loves to paint rainbows and sunshine.
    I've also realized she loves to garden and weed.
    Not that I have much for her to garden :)



    from bike riding to painting  to a movie night


     The kids love it when Michael decides to let them have a movie night.
    They put on their 3D glasses and snuggle up. Well Brooklyn snuggles up to Ethan.
    I think its so cute how she automatically puts her feet over his.  Notice her toes :)
    We did go out for a pedicure and  we both enjoyed every minute of it together



     



Friday, 18 May 2012

  • Some sugar with a little tea

    My sweet girly has been asking me every day this week   if we can have
    a tea party  or a pedicure?
    I have offered several times to give her a pedicure but no,
    she has been to the real thing and wants that .
    The hand massage and extra cute painted flowers on her finger nails. 
     She has been once in her life and apparently realized she really
    likes this part of being a girl.
    On Sunday Ethan kept saying "Mom why don't you and Brooklyn go get pedicures?"
     Being his mom I knew exactly what he was thinking.
     If I get the girls out of the house maybe dad will  turn on his PS3
    and play some video games with me, and mom won't be there to say anything .
     I told Michael it was sacrilegious to ever turn on video games on Mother's Day. 

    No pedicure for us but I did rush to the store after work on
    Thursday to buy some goodies for a tea party.
    Brooklyn was so excited and ran next door to invite her friend Jules.

    Ethan of course joined..he said he did not like Tea Parties, just cake.
    He is at this age where its just sooo uncool to associate with anything girly.















    Our lone blooming plant that survived the long winter







    Its all about the sugar :)


Monday, 14 May 2012


  • My little soccer player just happens to be the youngest on her team.














    She's not afraid to take on the 7 year olds though :)








    Poor thing ain't use to 80+ degree weather
    and as much as I dislike the cold I think my kids dislike the heat :(





    trying to cool off by putting water on her head












    her favorite part of soccer is all the other girls on her team







  • As much as I complain about living in Oregon and the long, wet,cold winters.
     The Spring and Summer's here are soo beautiful!
    Everything is so green and lush. We went on a beautiful mothers day bike ride.
      Bike riding has kind of become our families "thing" to do  together.
    A special thanks to my hubby because even though he was sick he still made
    a big effort to make the day fun for me.
    Bright and early,  I got the nicest card from Ethan full of cut out hearts in it.
    Around 7:00 am I heard him talking to his sister saying
    "Brooklyn you  have to make mommy a card.
     Here draw something and I will write on it for you. What do you want to say?"
    I heard her give him some resistance, like she didn't feel like doing it.
    I then  heard him say to her very firmly. "Brooklyn, you have to do this right now"  
    The dynamics of their relationship and their different personalities make me laugh inside. 
    So thankful I get to be their mommy!

    Pictures taken from our phones.







     




Friday, 11 May 2012

  • Today has been one of those looong days.
    A day where I felt like I was going to loose it at any given moment.
    A day no man or father could ever endure  :) 

    Because I work full time from home I don't have a day care, nanny or
     babysitter helping me with the kids.
    Its all on me.

    I love my kids dearly but not when they decide to have World War III
    right as I'm typing up a report trying so hard to concentrate  and figure out what
    the doctor is trying to say. Or World War IV right as I'm on the phone to a doctors
    office trying to leave a message for a surgeon  and pronouncing 5 different drug names
     he is requesting  for the patient

    Working from home might be all glamorous and fun ...if you have a quite house.
    I have two kids with lots of energy so working from home ain't all its cut out to be. 

    You know the saying  "a squeaky wheel gets the grease" 
    Well that was miss Brooklyn today.
     


    She has gotten into the bad habit of tattle  telling on her Brother
     ( though not when he is watching t.v when he shouldn't be)  just when she is mad at him.
    Which was pretty much all day today.  The arguing, the loud voices ...as I'm trying to work.
    I gave Ethan the assignment of being the "Peace Maker".
     He wanted to know why he was always getting into trouble and Brooklyn never did.
    He wanted me to know she was no angel. 
    Unfortunately due to work I did not have time to put out all their conflicts.
    They were on there own. 
    So all I could do was assign him to be the peace maker.
     I wish it had worked otherwise I wouldn't be venting on the blog tonight :)

    the honest truth
    ------
    I felt like a failure as a mother today
    My heart is with my kids and wanting to be there for them all the time
    The truth is with work demands I just can't during the day



     
     
    Not quite sure how working moms balance it all
    I have not figured it out yet





    my sweet honey is passed out on the couch exhausted from a long work week..
    I'm busy cooking hash browns as an after dinner snack for a growing boy
     who knows how to melt my heart through poems he writes about me

    Thankfully the weekend is here just in time

    Brooklyn was out running wild  around the neighborhood
    this evening with her friend Jules
    and yes this is the mischievous  face she gave me all day


     
    Ethan locked himself in the car to have a few peaceful moments away from the girls
    which they of course turned into a game not granting him a moment of silence :)





    and yes Brooklyn saw her friend Jules  dressed like this this morning and ran up to
    her room to get "re dressed for the day"
    Jules is actually Ethan's age and in Ethan's class at school
    But she and Brooklyn play sooo well together , that is until Ethan joins the mix.
     I've decided two kids play great together..three not so much, that's really when
    the World Wars break out.




Thursday, 10 May 2012

Wednesday, 09 May 2012

  • Brooklyn has been sick the past few days with a fever and stomach bug 
    As every mom knows there is nothing quite like those  3:00 am wake up calls
    to throw up and diarrhea 
    Thankfully we have mattress protectors on all our beds :)

    Thankfully 5 days later ,  she is on the mend
     Ethan came home from school Monday asking his sister to breath on him and kiss him
     so he could get sick and stay home from school the next day "rolling eyes"

    Michael took this of Brooklyn and I  on Sunday  morning after a long night

    love my girly and our morning cuddles




    and this is the cute boy who likes to play cityville
    and then post the results to my facebook so consequently I get
    many a stay at home moms sending me requests to help them build their  cities.
    When all I really want to do is say 
    I don't get the game, don't play the game and most of all don't have time


     


    Brooklyn doesn't get these games either. She is a  snuggle bunny.
    So anywhere  Michael, Ethan and I are sitting she will hop in and snuggle right up
    Ethan is a good sport about it for the most part
    and if he's distracted enough doesn't complain :)








Wednesday, 02 May 2012

  • Ethan sent me an email after dinner tonight
    It was a Star Wars e-card that said

    Thank you so much




    this was a nice treat from my boy because lately his emails
    consist of a link to  his online shopping cart from Target or Amazon
     of items  he would like for his birthday

Thursday, 26 April 2012



  • Brooklyn was a mermaid all day today

    It's her favorite  imaginative game to play. She even gets Ethan to play along "sometimes" .

    Brooklyn has asked me on several occasions   "mom, did God make real mermaids"

    because if God  did I know she wishes she was one


     

    a very special thank you to her Auntie Rachel  who made her this beautiful purple cape
    It has provided countless hours of mermaid/princess fun



  • Poor Ethan has been bored to tears in his classroom. 
    I feel for the boy. I've encouraged him to read when he finishes assignments early. 
    Its just been a bad combo this year between a not so great teacher who has checked out
     ( she is not coming back to teach next year )  and a wild class.
    Brooklyn is doing so great with her reading.
    I have high hopes she will be ready for first grade. 

    Ethan and Michael spent the last few days building a pine wood derby car for
     Ethan's  cub scout race. They had lots of fun making it,  but  it didn't win.  
    So happy my boy is enjoying his cub scouts.

    The last few days Ethan  has been coming home from school asking for jobs to do.
    He wants to earn money to buy a Gecko lizard. Ethan's  friends little sister is also on Brooklyn soccer team
    so while the girls are playing soccer,
    Ethan is out catching frogs and lizards with his friend. 
    Its cute because Ethan is not a kid who likes to get his hands dirty.
    He is not an animal lover or an animal toucher. 
    So  yesterday Ethan  came to show me a frog he was holding
    that his buddy caught that he wanted to take home.
    I laughed inside and was  glad my boy was stepping outside his comfort zone  :)
    --------

    Brooklyn's second tooth fell out the other day.
    As she was getting ready for bed she was frantically cleaning her room.
    I asked her why and she said
     "mom, remember dad told me last time that the tooth fairy
    can't come if my room is a mess. She has to have a path" 

    "But mom, doesn't the tooth fairy have wings? Can't she just fly over all my things"?
    This morning  after the tooth fairy had paid her  a visit  she came downstairs
    with the tooth fairy note
    and  with a hundred different questions for me about tooth fairies.

    "Are there different types of tooth fairies? Like, different color dresses and stuff? 
    Different color hair, different color shoes, different color skin color?
    You know, like a fairy with brown skin, white skin? "

    I love the questions of 5 year olds!

    I love that she still believes that the Disney Princess are real,
    as are tooth fairies and the Easter Bunny.
    Over Easter/Passover she was really quite confused as to what the
     "real" Easter bunny looks like?

    Some days I just want to bottle up this fun and innocent age where
     the make believe world is real

    Brooklyn on Saturday at her Game




    Thinking I need some fairy pictures and less soccer pictures :)

     


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