Da, Da

27 September 2012
 
 B seriously woke up on Darren's birthday last Friday morning and said, "Da, Da." It was the sweetest moment.  Now he is obsessed with it.  I'm just a wee bit jealous, but since his first word was Mom, I'm over it. :)

You can see he is a busy boy and took every single game and dvd off the shelf. 

How Do We Do It?

23 September 2012

  I scrolled through past blog posts and thought, "Man, am I glad I blogged about B doing that for the first time." I updated Bradyn's baby book yesterday and I sorted through his clothes, weeding through the ones that no longer fit.  This morning I washed his bottles and labeled them with the new Inchbug name and date labels I purchased online so I wouldn't have to write his name and date on each bottle every day before taking them to the CDC.  I then picked up toys off the floor, which were trailed all over the living room, and I washed even more dishes left behind by Darren who was up watching UFC all night. In between doing all that, I some how managed to get papers corrected and into my gradebook, prepared homework packets, and emailed myself some reminders for the week. 
  I have a home list and a work list, and although my lists are never complete, at least I made a small dent in them this weekend. How do us moms do it? The only answer I could come up with was, I don't know, we just do. We care so much for our family that we put them first before ourselves and still find time to do the 100 million other things on our list. Whatever doesn't get done today will just have to wait until tomorrow. And even if I mark 0 things off those lists, that's ok because life's too short to worry about what there is TO DO! Sometimes it's important to JUST BE.
 
By the way, I highly recommend seeing the movie, "I Don't Know How She Does It", which was my inspiration for this blog post today. I love SJP and although I read the book by the Welsh author, Allison Pearson first, I think this movie was far better and a gentle reminder of how us moms may have two lives, but neither one of them are worth living unless we have time to enjoy them.

 

  

 

 I'm looking at Bradyn sprawled out on the floor, who is currently snoozing and as comfy as can be. Stealing just 5 minutes for myself to post to my blog/public journal. So very therapeutic. Ahh, I feel better already. (Must remember to back this thing up! lol!)

Brighton, UK

3 September 2012

 

 

We hope these pictures "Brighton" your day as much as they do ours!

The Grand-our hotel






 

 

 

 

Royal Palace

Brighton Pier