st. patricks

My mom & I went to Savannah years ago for St Patricks day. we had a BLAST. we said that when it rolled around on a weekend we would def be going back. well it's on a saturday this year & we are scrambling like mad women trying to find somewhere to stay b/c we waited so long to do it. but it will get figured out, we will be in Savannah on march 17, and i will be having a great time :)

birthday parties

why do we stop having birthday parties? when do we hit an age where some one says i'm not having you a party anymore because you are to old to have parties? why is it that every year of our life isn't worth celebrating with all our friends & family? when you become married you generally just do a dinner/movie type thing with your spouse for your birthday or they may even surprise you by taking you away as a gift. but why can't we do those things as well as celebrate with a big bash with everyone we love? i mean you survived yet another year of life so why not have fun & have a party because of it?

Love for a lifetime

so a book that was given to skip & i as a wedding gift just sat in a box or on a shelf for all of our years of marriage. that is until about June of last year when I finally picked it up & started reading it. it kills me to know that if we had only sat and read and followed this book how different our lives could have been. the fights that wouldn't have been had, the struggles that we would have known how to deal with, the separations that wouldn't have taken place. now of course their is no way of knowing how many things could have been prevented over the past 11 years but if we actually lived the way the book suggests then i truly feel it would have been 11 years of calm & love instead of anger & yelling.

oh the things they say & do

Tuesday evening put us back in gym after our Christmas break. Xavier was good for about half his class & Serenity missed part of hers due to a melt down she had because she wanted to tell me she loved me before I went out with Xavier but didn't get a chance to. Xavier & I took a time out from his class to go talk to her & she said I love you & then went on to class. She always tells me different things she is going to tell Miss Mandi (her teacher) about or show her. Well she had wanted me to paint her nails a new color to show Miss Mandi but she napped & we ran out of time & didn't get to paint them, So I guess with no new nails to show her she decided to tell her about the calm down corner. Well, at least her 3 year old version of it. Mandi came up to me after class & said that Serenity has to sit in the corner for 100 minutes. LOL
I told Mandi I'm sure some days it feels like that to here because it does to me.

Yesterday I overheard Serenity playing in Xavier's room as I was cleaning the bathroom. I stood in the doorway of the bathroom to make sure I was hearing her right before asking. She was playing with her friends.  A little boy named Kimmie & a little girl named Immie. I asked her if I could meet them and she went to ask. She came back telling me yes but when she took me to where they were they had left. I told her maybe they were shy & not ready to meet her mommy just yet.

Xavier was just sitting here eating pretzels and counting them. well at least he was trying. it was 1,2. 1,2. 1, 2. but it was cute none the less

new year, new us

so 2012 is officially here & we are in with the new & out with the old. I'm am more excited than ever to see 2011 disappear & just wish you could even crumble it up & burn it as well. but not being able to do that I decided to write down crappy things I would love to be able to let go of from 2011 & i burned those instead.and for every crappy thing I burned I made a positive note for the new year. 2011 was probably the roughest year of my life,no i take that back, not probably, it was the roughest,longest,most gut wrenching year of my life but 2012 will be so good it will make it as though 2011 never even exsisted.

Lots of changes are going to take place this year. some will be hard to adjust to but in the end they are all going to produce very postive outcomes for my family.

• Skip & I are going to have more "date nights" because without a happy us there is no happy family.
• Skip is starting school. He is nervous, I am nervous, but I know he is going to do great & I am so proud & happy for him.
• We will be spending more time as a family doing family things.
• We are going to do our best at learning how to be the best husband/wife & father/mother we can be

here is to a great new year!!