so while in line checking out at the grocery store, the cover of southern living caught my eye with this picture. i thought to myself "my husband would LOVE that!" so i still need to go and get the ingredients, but i am definitely going to make it for him! here's the easy recipe:
so today i have switched over my playlist to try out new-to-me music from folk rock acoustic, singer songwriter joshua radin. i just read after appearing on the ellen show, ellen and portia turned down offers from justin timberlake and george michael, and instead chose joshua to sing at their wedding. he performed "today." i know my sister will love the songs. how about you?
owen loves this great tale of a grandfather and a boy on a dragon hunt. the beautiful images and hidden dragons make for a special story.
this new book by josie bissett (from melrose place) comes with tickling gloves and also has a video. i cannot wait to get it for grace. we used to always play tickle monster with wyatt and owen, but grace has yet to meet it. i cannot wait to hear her endless giggles!
my grandmother gave wyatt this amazing book as a gift. it presents AWESOME facts of the universe in a fascinating and captivating way. wyatt was reading it the other day, then says "hey, i am learning from this book!" how cool is that...reading and learning!!
hope you have an awesome birthday! you and michael are more than cousins to us---you are like our brothers! tons of love!!
i love green grass. i typically, however, do not wish to be on the side with the greener grass. for me it is not always "greener on the other side", i just work harder to make my own grass grow. though, it is hard for me when my beautiful grass turns to shades of brown, especially in times that no matter how hard i tend to it, it just is beyond repair. but, i think that when given the option to jump that "fence" and head to lush, i will stay. i think that i am beginning to see that truly the grass is not always greener on the other side.
since an early age, i was passionate about becoming a physician. emergency rooms and hospitals thrilled me and still do. a few semesters into college, todd (then my fiance) and i decided that a life as a doctor would interfere with my desire to be devoted mom, so i went the route of speech-pathology hoping to have a nice mix of medicine and life. once wyatt was born, i leaned even further to the life side and completely left my life of working.
now, though i never want to leave my life as a full-time mother, often i wish i could have 2 lives where i could live out my dream to be in a hustle-bustle ER. the other day, as i went from class to class at the kids school, trying to fulfill my volunteering duties, one of owen's classmates mom's stopped me. she typically is not able to "pop" into school as she is a cardiologist and works long hours. on this day, she had a day off, but could not tell her daughter as she would beg for her to be at school volunteering. she then went on to say that her daughter begs her to be home with her and not work. i said "oh, i so wish i could "live" my days in a hospital" and she said "oh, i so wish i could live my days not in a hospital." she said she would never again have done it the same. so when, for an instant, to me the grass was greener on her side, to her the grass was greener on mine. so we are left, not jumping fences, but just keeping on our own sides tending to our own yards, appreciating our neighbors. can't wait for spring!!!
okay, whenever laura turns a year older, i celebrate vicariously through her since i know my "big year" is right around the corner. so i guess, this means that if laura is turning 35 (yes, i did say it out loud) that i am only a year away!!! thanks for being my true-blue, stand-by-my-side, stand- up-for-me, pick-me-up-when-down, dance-if-i-need-to-dance, eat-if-i-need-to-eat, cry-if-i-need-to-cry friend! it is nice to always have someone that is in it with me, for the long haul!! HAPPY BIRTHDAY!! here's is a chocolate cake you CAN enjoy!
