Endless Pursuit for Mom of the Year

Remember kid, there's heroes and there's legends. Heroes get remembered but legends never die, follow your heart kid, and you'll never go wrong. ~ "The Babe" from The Sandlot ------------------------------------------- Daughter of the year #2 has turned two.  Enough said!  She is so smart, funny and absorbs absolutely everything around her.  I love how she makes us appreciate the humor in life and not to take things too seriously. Around Christmastime, we begin using the term "You're killin' me smalls."  We both love the movie The Sandlot.  It's so fitting for her so we kept saying it well afterwards.  We must use it a lot. She is also potty training.  Ugh.  I can't complain, as she's been fairly easy given the number of times her sister has traipsed her into the bathroom to give her the step by step process of going potty.  She really looks up to her big sister.  It just adds a whole other element to our life, which means askin...

Before I was married, I had a hundred theories about raising children and no children. Now, I have three children and no theories. ~ John Wilmot ------------------------------- Remember the days before kids, or as dad of the year and I refer to it, BK?  Not that I don't absolutely love my girls, but come on, what couple doesn't admit that things change when you have kids.  Valentine's day is a perfect example of this.  After kids, or AK, changes things.  In the days before kids, dad of the year and I would wake that morning with lots of hugs and kisses and professions of how much we loved each other.  We'd share breakfast, read the paper, and then shuffle off to work, but not without one last kiss.  We'd plan an extravagant night out.  It would involve a restaurant with cloth tablecloths and no crayons.  We'd have drinks and eat ourselves stuffed.  We always had dessert.  I'd dress nice and wear heels.  Neither of us woul...

True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears checked.  ~ Erich Segal ------------------------------------ HELLO-O-O-O-O!!!  Once again, I have failed you.  You can see in that little bar on the right hand side of this blog, I've had pretty much no activity for some time now.  It's wrong...just wrong I tell you!  But, what can I say, life got in the way.  So, since it is Valentine's Day, I thought I'd hop on the Internets and spread some love.  Roses.  Cliche, I know.  Many men would call this holiday worthless.  It's simply a reason to open their wallets and spend exorbitant amounts of money on something you could grow in your backyard.  Yet, I find my husband, year after year, not planting a thing in our yard except a lawn chair and a cold beer.  Last I checked, that did not a rose make.  I used to be really into Valentine's Day.  I guess in some ways, I'm a hope...