So, Here I Go!!!

I was just on my sister's blog and I am so very impressed! Well, let me clarify which sister I am referring to, the youngest! She has redesigned her blog spot and I LOVE it! Both my sisters are really cool with making neat things happen with their perspective blogs. Another thing they do really well with their blogs is WRITE! Yeah, my youngest sister told me tonight that she wouldn't help me make my blog jazzy with music and such until I used my blog spot more and wrote! So, here I go, again!!!

I want to also take a minute to say I loved my youngest siste's painting she did for her roommate's birthday. What a wonderful gift from the heart and so very thoughtful, too.

OK, today was a busy day. I did loads of things around the house. My youngest and I did a lot of preschool prep today...puzzles, colors, shapes and ABC's and 123's and we rounded the time off with his fave "Reader Rabbit" computer game. He is a whiz with the computer mouse. I hope he is as quick to pick things in life like his daddy. On that note, today at my oldest t-ball game he was so into what his big sissy was doing, as per the usual. However, after the game was over he went on the field with daddy and had his sissy's bat in hand and slugged the ball off the tee 4 times in a row, without any help from his dad. No one has ever helped him or showed him what to do, he has just been soaking it all up at practices and games. Oh how his dad was beaming from ear to ear; I think I could just read his mind.......it would go something like this...that is my boy, a doer, a thrill seeker, an adventurer, a slugger, a future athlete! I love that little tyke! Yeah, he is a proud papa! When we got home and started our nightly routines for shower, bath, teeth, stories and bed, my husband stole a moment away from the kids and asked if I saw my youngest on the field earlier that evening, and I said why yes, I did! I saw you both and I told him how the both of them looked so happy having fun out there! It truly was a moment in time that I wished I had a camera or maybe even a video camera, yeah that would have been much better!! Anyway, our kids grow up so fast. We should all enjoy it while we can. Heck, you may not believe this, but often I say out loud to my husband, I can't believe we have two kids and they are already 2 and 6! Wow, time flies by so fast. Hug and love your kids right now and always!

K, I also banged out a stack of really cool thank you cards for a group of awesome volunteers at my oldest school. The cards look really cool and I am so glad I got to make them rather than giving them a store bought one which the coordinator wanted to do. I feel like they take time out of their lives and give that time to us, the very least we can do is put a little time into a nice thank you! And so off I went and got them all done today! What a good feeling of task complete and task done for a good cause, too!!!

My day was complete with good family times, good deeds, and fun, too! I just wish I was a little more motivated to exercise more and EAT less sweets!! Lord, I pray for that strength and motivation I need to get myself healthy.

Oh, my husband, who is just a big kid, told the daycare kids that they could swim today. Yeah, he opened the pool two Sundays ago and it has been his hobby ever since. Well, I said no one gets in unless the water temperature was 75 degrees and our pool clocked it at 76. So, with great reservation I let them all go in for about 25-30 minutes and not one of them complained of being cold, and yet I saw one little bean pole of a sweet day care kid shiver her lips many times. She was the first to say she wasn't cold, but she too, was the first to get out!! In the end they all had fun and I suppose if I were a kid, I'd be excited about a pool opening and want to get in it too! Perhaps they were just simply giddy with excitement about being in the pool that they didn't pay any attention to the fact that they were a slight bit cold. Oh well, I hope no one gets sick and all is well with everyone for the next few weeks. I continue to remind everyone that all pools don't open until Memorial Day and then my big kid of a husband kindly reminds me that this is OUR pool and OUR rules rule!

Good night and we shall see what Wednesday has in store for all of us! And gosh it feels good to have an entry on my blog in the current month! Grins and Giggles~

Tally Ho