Conversation with Erin

As we laid in bed all snugly together watching TV Erin looked at me with her eyes inebriate with love.

Erin-Mommy do you love me?

Me-ABSOLUTELY!

E-How much?

M-As high as you can count and more.

E-Why?

snuggling closer

M-Because you so wonderful, sweet, funny, beautiful, nice, you make mommy happy and Heavenly Father blessed me by letting me be your mommy.

Closing her eyes with a big smile and rubbing her face on me with total content.

Me-Do you love mommy?

E-yes.

M-How much?

E-127 and 6

M-why do you love mommy?

E-because you give me food.

Motherhood can be so taken for granted but I wouldn't trade it for anything.

True Confessions

This is inspired by Liz Biz-nis. I don't want to leave such a long comment on her blog. I'm going to limit my list because I'm doing this blog as a "journaling" method to pass to my kids and I don't want to spend my later years seating next to them on a couch at their Dr's appt while the therapist tells me what a lousy job I did. For the record I'd like to say that we visit the dentist every 6 months and I have a chart for Erin to make sure we brush our teeth daily. Being that said I would like to begin my confession now.

1. Ellie spits up all over me all the time and I wore the same shirt for 3 days because John is out of town so there is no reason to take a shower.

2. Make the bed? What are these people talking about? We're suppose to make the bed?

3. I bought one of Erin's Christmas presents with her money out of her piggy bank. I figure she has more money then I do and she wants the expensive gift.

4. We ate cookie dough for breakfast.

5. Erin knows all the lyrics to Welcome to the Jungle by Guns and Roses.


That's enough. I plea the fifth on the grounds that I may incriminate myself for the remainder of this confession.

I'm proud of my little guy.

This post my cause some folks to look a little different at me but it is what it is. If you don't know this about me already I get a little stressed (understatement)when my house is disarrayed. I'm not quite sure what takes place when I go to the store for an hour but it's not pretty. I returned home right after a nuclear bomb hit my house about two weeks ago and instead of cleaning I was in that "I call mercy" mood. A few days later (when I was over my I give up mood) I decided to clean the watermellon juice and seeds off the chairs and table in the kitchen and Erin found a dry watermellon seed and wanted to plant it. ONE seed, 3 days old, stuck to this chair. "It won't work Erin, but if you insist (and she did) whatever, do what you want". So in the soil it goes and that was the end of that. Erin patiently waited and 3 days later, "MOM!, look at my watermellon" Sure enough there was a little sprout.

About a week later we had sandwiches for lunch and being the clean freak I am the next morning I was cleaning up the mess and in all my frustration of not having time and energy to be more clean I looked down and right there.....a dried tomatoe seed stared me in the face. "Should I try this?...it will never grow." I decided to take Erin's childlike Faith with this seed and I secretly planted it not wanting to be embarressed about being naive if it didn't work. But 3 days later a little sprout pop thru the soil and 5 days later a couple of leaves pop out and each day he gets a little bigger and more leaves continue to grow out. The little guy is in my kitchen window and he reminds me everyday that if I have understanding that I'm not perfect and faith that Heavenly Father will take care of the rest I can truely still be productive.

P.S. The watermellon vine is still growing like a weed also. Erin is very proud of it.

Erin and Ellie~I'm so proud these girls call me mom.

I hate to brag but I will anyway.

Ellie turned 12 weeks today and I think she's a genius. Is this normal or is she advanced for her age? This is her first time in the ExerSaucer. Tiffany just brought it over today. I only showed her the button 2 times then let her play.

Halloween

Ellie's Blessing

October 19

My Love has Multipied

When I was blessed with Erin I could not imagine ever being able to love anyone the way I loved her. Now that Ellie is here I truely understand how Heavenly Father must feel about each and everyone of his children. My love has mutiplied. I don't know how I ever deserved these girls but I'm truely grateful to be intrusted with them. I love you girls!

Way Past Due

To all my blogging friends.........FINALLY! I've been telling a lot of you I would start blogging and I'm sure many of you have given up on me. But here I am. I feel very proud of myself because I barely get the dishes done these days with an active 4 year old and a newborn. They have consumed all my extra time. Here are the little time eaters. Aren't they worth it?