Big Sis

My Little Ham

June 17, 2010 by Jennifer 3 Comments

We were out and about last weekend and I thought an impromptu photo shoot would be great with the girls. Let’s just say that L was having no part in smiling for the camera. She is such a ham. Let’s take a stroll through the many faces of L.

Isn’t she a little ham with her smirks and all? We were all just laughing because these pictures are so L. Guess what though? I finally got a smile out of L! Look what it involved in order to get that smile.

I so <3 my girls. They truly make life so much more fun 🙂

Letter to my Grandma in Heaven

June 6, 2010 by Jennifer 2 Comments

Summer here at One Moms World has finally arrived. I am pretty stoked about this and so ready to have fun times this summer with my girls and hubby. As a tradition, (started last year with M) I am taking a picture on the last day of school to compare with the girl’s first day of school pictures.

M on the First Day of School

M on the Last Day of School

L on the First Day of School

L Last Day of School

Both Girls First Day of School

Both Girls Last Day of School

The girls at the beginning of the school year with my Grandma. I know she would be so proud of them!

Grandma,

You would be so proud of L. She really dived in this school year and came out of her shyness stage. She would fold her arms and tell the teacher to go get her mommy at the beginning of the school year and now as we end the school year, she LOVED talking to the teachers and all her fellow classmates. You didn’t have anything to worry about Grandma. L really likes when you bowl those strikes up in heaven. She teases you and tells you to stop getting strikes Grandma. She is so artistic and very detailed in her art. She is always drawing such beautiful art. The teacher says she is really smart and already showing some strong math skills. We are so proud of our beautiful L.

Grandma, you would always say how smart M was and she didn’t let you down at all this year. She is reading on the middle of a 3rd grade year and and writing on a middle of a 2nd grade year. She mastered all the math skills including geometry and algebra that they now do in 1st grade. That is a little crazy isn’t it? She got voted Best Personality in her First Grade class. Her teacher said that M is friendly with everyone and loves to help everybody. I wonder who she got that trait from Grandma? You passed it on to daddy, then he passed it on to me and now our beautiful M is keeping the special trait alive. We are so proud of our beautiful M.

Grandma, I finished out my college year with another 4.0 GPA. I know you always wanted me to finish and guess what? I only have 3 classes left. I know you are smiling down on me and so proud.

Grandma, we love you. We are all trying to heal and miss you so much. We are all sticking together as a big large extended family and keeping the memories alive. I have our picture of all of us together sitting here in the living room and look at it several times a day. I just miss you so much.

The girls are so excited to start out their summer and be able to sleep in each morning. I’ll keep you posted and can’t wait to listen for those bowling strikes.

Love,

Your Granddaughter Jennifer

The School Has Turned Into a Zoo

June 1, 2010 by Jennifer 5 Comments

Watch out…. there are monkey’s on the loose. My precious M has turned into a monkey… and pardon me a Singing Monkey!

M’s 1st grade class treated us to a wonderful and cute musical today call the Wack A Doo Zoo.

We had Lions OH MY, We had Monkeys, We had Pigs, and We had Cows. Our kids were transformed right before our eyes, but one thing for sure is that there were plenty of laughs and smiles from the parents. M did a little duet.

They all did so cute and it was a great note to end the school year on for sure. I just so happen to love my little monkey so much and so proud of her 🙂

Surprise Your Child With An Encouraging Card

April 28, 2010 by Jennifer 7 Comments

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Children need praise when growing up. Amen, right?

They do not need to just hear:

“Sit down”, “Stop that now”, “Don’t give me that attitude”, “Go clean your room”, “Do your homework, now.”

Do those phrases sound familiar? It is tough just typing those out, because at times I do feel like all I am constantly doing is disciplining. Life shouldn’t be like that. Kids thrive when they know they are making us happy. Thanks to Hallmark for helping us parents to come up with such a cool innovative way to praise our kids while surprising them.

Hallmark has recently introduced the all-new Kids Collection. Click on that link and you’ll see a sampling of the gifts and cards that are available for parents, aunts/uncles and grandparents to share with the kids in their lives.

I have been surprising Big Sis with cards in her lunch boxes for the past couple weeks. When she gets home, she says mommy I smiled today because of something and we will go through a little guessing game of what made her smile. Here is one of the cards that I surprised her with:

She is having the best fun reading these and she never knows when to expect one either :). I just love that we can encourage our kids because there is at times they may be too busy playing, that they will not hear your little whispers to them on doing a great job. Now, you can sneak in cards and the kids will always have them in their room to check in on every once in a while. Big Sis is really enjoying putting these up on her dresser and loves to show everyone that comes over.

Hallmark and I want to give YOU the opportunity to encourage your kids as well. Hallmark is going to give 3 lucky readers here a set of Encouraging Cards. All you need to do to enter is click on the Kids Collection site and let me know a favorite card design that you like 🙂 Have fun and I cannot wait to hear how your kids react to these super cool cards.

If you would like to stock up on the Kids Collection cards or pass the information along to other family members, then click to find a store near you that carries the Kids Collection cards in the store. They cards are found in Hallmark Gold Crown stores.

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Performing Is What We Love To Do

March 30, 2010 by Jennifer 16 Comments

L is really showing she is reaching for the stars. This little diva girl LOVES to perform and big sis M caught it on video recently.

Big Sis

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