Category Archives: our life

balloon

We gave him his first balloon on his first Valentine’s day.  He was completely fascinated… it stayed with him most of the day. Until it popped at our Valentine’s picnic.  Those are the sad pictures.  So for now, I choose to share these. Pin it

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happy love day!

  I love this holiday!  Above right is what the kids gave to their friends and teachers.  Addi put together her valentines completely on her own (including cutting paper, hole-punch, names etc, and I only helped tie some of the bracelets).  They both had a blast at their parties and (as I remember so well…

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my heart breakers

already buddies already restling already telling secrets already breaking hearts (okay, maybe just mine for now… hopefully “just mine” for a very very long time because the thought alone breaks my heart)    Pin it

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waiting on dinner

My older two are 5 and 3 and they still have a witching hour in the late afternoon. Is it the impatient excitement approaching “Daddy time”? Or maybe a blood sugar thing? Or they sense the energy of me being ready to wave the red flag and hand the kids over to Dad? Or maybe it’s an attention thing, given…

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