The wonderful ladies over at 5 Minutes for Mom is holding a Mother’s Day Giveaway.
The first one is to share a photo of what motherhood means to you. I took this picture last week and added some text to show what this photo means to me. This is definitely what being a mom is all about! Madisyn’s eyes say it all in this picture to me.
It has been an interesting few days around here of trying decide about our move back to NC. I was hoping the move wouldn’t be this fast as we had plans for May, but it is what it is… and we can always make new plans.
This is the last few months before my daughter starts kindy in August, and I am going to make it special for her so she will have memories of a lifetime. I cannot believe she has grown so fast. She definitely has my heart wrapped around her heart. It warms my heart as well to see her micmic me. She loves to put make-up on as I do, and yesterday she wanted me to straighten her hair like I do mine. Just take a look at my beautiful daughter. This is definitely what I dreamed of being a mom and is what life is all about with my daughter’s.
Last night while I was doing some work for clients here in my office, she surprised me once again with the love she has for her sister with this drawing. Is it not the cutest? I will hold onto this image forever.
Just to show you what kind of heart Madisyn has for her sister Lyndsee… yesterday we were out running errands and the humidity and heat was some kind of crazy down here in Florida yesterday. We were getting out of the van and Madisyn saw Lyndsee having problems breathing and she was sweating. While I was tending to Lyndsee, Madisyn immediately ran into the house, grabbed a washcloth, wet it and ran to Lyndsee to put it on her forehead and head. I have never told her to do this, and I just starting getting tears in my eyes when I seen what Madisyn had done.
This is what life is all about and it tells me I must be doing something right as a mom :).
While I have your attention as well…I have been reading Amy’s blog for just a bit, but it is definitely one of my fun daily reads. She also is a NC gal too 🙂 Pretty cool huh? Anyways she presented me with an award this week and it just made my day and put a huge smile across my face. It is the “I Love Your Blog To Pieces”
Thank you for the honor Amy and I’m so glad I have you as a reader here. Now I would like to present this award to four more people who I enjoy their blog very much so and so glad to have you a part of my daily reads.
My bestest bud who I love and adore so much – Casual Friday Everyday
I love her humor and wittiness in her posts – We Are That Family
These two sisters share something that I always wanted in a sister and I love how they look out for the mom community with their generousity. – 5 Minutes for Mom
I love to read about how life is in Hawaii and see her beautiful posts of the land there and also her spunk in her posts. – Island Life
We took a little outing today and had such a wonderful time. It makes me really sad we are moving now, because I feel like Stef and I hit it off so good and our girls got along soooo good especially Madisyn and Stef’s little girl.
We have been meaning to meet up but kept putting it off… and I’m so glad we finally got the chance to today.
The girls were waiting on their arrival:
We saw them and proceeded to our destination… the oh so delicious Cheesecake Factory. I had never been and was soooo excited to try it. Even though after we ate, I didn’t have any room for Cheesecake :(.
The girls went straight to playing with each other… soooo cute.
We got seated at our table and while Stef and I were having fun chatting the girls were enjoying themselves as well.
After we ate our oh so delicous food, our waiter was so nice to snap a couple picts for us.
Jen (myself) on the left and Stefanie on the right.
Keep a watch out on Stef’s blog for more pictures our waiter took.
After we ate… we went for a little shopping time. Just wish we had more time in there as this was a HUGE place. It was time to say our good bye’s after what… 3.5 hours… it went by SOOOO fast.
I know the girls and I both enjoyed our outing with Stef and her daughter. It was like we had knew each other forever. I know when we come back down, I will make sure we plan another meet-up.
Thanks so much Stef for having a day out with us. I hope you all had a blast as much as we did.
The girls were so tired, that not even 10 minutes on the interstate, they were both sleeping.
Oh… Oh… Oh…. Look at that smile. Doesn’t it read all over that I have my mommy and daddy wrapped around my finger.
I will admit she is our little comedian around here and is always making us laugh. Last night was well laughing and thinking oh my gosh where did she get this attitude from hehe.
We were at walgreens and it was time to load back in our van and she decided she was going to do a little dance and not get in her car seat. Daddy said firmly, Lyndsee get in your car seat now. She replied with “Daddy do not use that voice with me, that hurts my feelings”
Hubbs and I both looked at each other in amazement and started laughing at the same time to where she couldn’t see us though. She did get in her car seat after a little talk!
Then while we were driving down the road, we had to stop at the bank. She proceeded to say to us: The bank is boring times, I would rather be checking the mail! What the heck… where did she come up with that now LOL. We were laughing and she yelled out.. Yeehawwww… Ride em cowboy and started swinging her arms.
That’s our little three year old with some spunk HA!
End of Week 3.
I’m not going to lie… it has been a very stressful week filled with all kinds of family. I didn’t even focus on drinking all my water I should be and doing my DVD.
But… I got on the scale this morning and was happy to find 2 more pounds gone. That made my morning because I was doing me some more stressing that I had gained.
With that said:
Beginning Weight: 200 lbs
This Week’s Weight: 189.5
I believe everything is calming down so I am going to be doing a big week this week with my DVD and my water water and more water.
How did everyone else do. Please link up and tell us. We all need the support and us moms can do it!!!
