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Mom is Working Less

January 12, 2009 by Jennifer 8 Comments

New Year’s Change #2

Over Christmas Break, I got to take quite a bit of time off work.

You see, since hubbs had been out of work since last August, I had been working two full-time jobs and my web design. I was putting in 80+ hours of work and barely got to see or spend anytime with my girls.

Yes, I was working at home, but that still means I had to be engrossed into the computer at all times.

Back to Christmas break… since I was off quite a few days, my girls got use to me being with them and doing more activities. It wasn’t till I went back to work that my oldest dear daughter said to me “I wish you would get fired from your jobs, Mommy” Wow! Those few words spoke volume big time.

I am proud to say, since Hubbs has went back to work, I am only working one full-time and my freelance technical web biz. I feel so much stress taken off of me. I absolutely, whole heartedly LOVE my work now.

I feel like I have missed so much in the last 5 months and can actually breathe again. One thing I am looking forward to as well is talking to my best bud Nell more as well. Can you believe we have been friends since early 2003 and still have not met. What’s up with that? I need to make that a change this year too ;).

Baby girls, mommy is working less and loving it. You can finally have your mommy back!!!!!!

Take A Walk Along A Christmas Journey

November 30, 2008 by Jennifer 6 Comments

Have I mentioned lately, how this is my favorite time of year? Oh I just love it. It was so hard to get in the Christmas spirit in Florida last year, so you know we are really loving it this year.

First off… we had our small town Christmas Tree lighting. It was so glorious and soooo packed. We live in a Resort town where a lot of tourists visit and especially this time of year with all the ski slopes here. So needless to say it was packed at the lighting show. We saw so many tags from Florida and Georgia… so funny. We snapped a couple picts in front of the infamous Christmas tree.

Once the girls had played their hearts out, and we had enough of hot chocolate and hot cider… we decided we better head home to get the girls in bed. It was a big day the next day you know ;). M was in her very first Christmas parade. She was beyond excited… she was over the moon. I am not going to lie, the tears were flowing when I seen her go by up in the parade up on her float. I cannot believe she looked so grown up. Gosh I love her so much and seeing her blow kisses to me from the float just made my heart melt all over. Here are a couple picts from the parade and a short video of her.

We chilled out at home afterwards as the sleet started coming down. I fixed a big crockpot full of homemade chili and it was just sure bliss the rest of the night enjoying family time.

Once we got up this morning after a good night’s rest… it was still freezing rain so I decided it was Christmas craft time. The girls really enjoy doing crafts and I just love the interaction we have together while doing the crafts. We worked on some big red bells made out of cups, Christmas wreaths, Christmas ornaments and snowflakes. These ideas just come off the top of my head this morning in a split second, but I really think they had a great time.

They all turned out so good and definitely will be up as our Christmas decorations each and every year. I want my girls to remember these traditions, as I don’t have anything from when I was a child. Makes me sad, so I am making it up with my girls in hopes they will pass it on down to their children as well.

Merry Christmas everyone :)… December is here. Can you believe it?

New Milestone For My Girls – High School Musical 3

November 9, 2008 by Jennifer 9 Comments

M and L are almost 6 and 4. They had yet to step foot into a movie theater until yesterday. I have been thinking for the last two weeks, I wanted to surprise the girls with a day out with mom.

I did just that. I surprised them with High School Musical 3 tickets.

I didn’t realize the movie was 2 hours long. I was thinking UH OH, what have I got myself into ;). Do you know they did not move the whole two hours. They were loving High School Musical. So I believe I picked a great movie for their first experience to the movie theater.

I am happy to announce, I did not eat one piece of popcorn either ;).

I think I was excited as the girls to go see this movie. The last movie I seen in a theater was back in 1997 when Titanic came out.

In my opinion, this is the best movie of the series in High School Musical. It brought back a lot of memories of my High School Days. Makes me feel old now haha. There were times, I just wanted to get up and dance a jig and clap my hands. I was just getting into the movie so much. My girls were of course dancing in their seats.

I will definitely give this a movie a 10 out of 10. I can’t wait to get it on DVD so I can sit and watch it with my girls again. Is it really ok that I just admitted that ;).

So have you took your child to see HSM 3. What did you think?

Why Does Saying No Have To Be So Hard

November 5, 2008 by Jennifer 4 Comments

So my little L has been night trained over a year and due to her tummy issues, we had a setback over the summer that put her back in diapers during the day. I think (knock on wood) we have finally put her tummy issues to rest, so I thought I would go ahead and take the diapers away again.

She did so good all last night and all day today. Well when she woke up from her nap this evening, it wasn’t good. Oh my it wasn’t good. My ears, the tears that were flowing from my face, her face, her big sis M trying to soothe her. It just wasn’t good :(. L was screaming from the top of her lungs that she wanted a diaper. She wasn’t taking that little two word NO either.

You all this broke my heart to pieces. I DO NOT let my girls cry. We have always been attached and I have always been there for them drop of a hat, so to hear L cry like this was tearing me to shreds. Finally after about a hour of soothing, talking calmly, (I never once lost control of myself) and assuring her everything was going to be ok, she went “woo woo” in the potty twice. That’s all her little tummy needed and I had back my pretty blue-eyed, black hair girl. The smile and her arms around my neck was just what I needed. I had told Nell that I needed a (((HUG))) tonight and just a bit after that… I got it from my baby girl :). So we are day 2 down…. can we make it through day 3. Chant with me!!!! I don’t know what I’ll do with not having to buy diapers anymore after 6 years.

Our First Snow Day of the School Year

October 30, 2008 by Jennifer 5 Comments

WHAT? You say! Yep its only October, but we have already had our first snow day. I thought M would be a little sad since she loves school so much, but once I showed her outside what was falling from the sky… she was yelling WOOHOOOO!

Look at the blast they were having.

We missed out on this a lot last year in Florida, so hopefully we will make a great comeback this year. A funny from M.

Mommy: Gosh snow already, I bet this will be a bad winter.

M: Mommy I think it is going to be a good winter since we are already getting lots of snow.

HAHAHAHA… she always is cracking me up. L loved going out in the snow this year as well. She used to say it was too cold and would not stay out long, but she did this time YAY :). I see lots of sledding, making snowmen and whipping up some homemade snowcream in our future.

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