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When my oldest daughter was baptized in January 2005, I was pregnant with my youngest son, AJ. I remember how old and mature I thought she was – my oldest was 8! Now here we are, 8 years and a few months later. My oldest is 16 and my baby boy is 8. As grown [...]
AJ’s 8th birthday weekend was wild and crazy with grandma, grandpa, aunt, uncle, and cousins in town…but he had so much fun! Seven Clown Circus | Parenting By Dummies | Project Alicia | Angry Julie Monday | Live and Love Outloud | The Paper Mama | Jenni from the Blog | Baby Baby Lemon | [...]
Reese turned 10 last month. We had to wait for a few weeks after her birthday to have her party, but it was worth the wait. Reese is at such a funny age – that in-between stage where she stops being a little girl and starts becoming a young woman. It’s kind of driving me [...]
Reese had a birthday this week, and by some streak of birthday luck got to spend the two days before her birthday with her out-of-state cousins. Since the cousins were in town, we decided to cut into the birthday cake a day early and share it with the extended family (and as a side note, [...]
To Reese, my 10-year-old daughter, Today is the beginning of your first double-digit year. You’re 10! I remember when I found out I was pregnant with you, my 4th baby. I knew it was YOU from the beginning. I had been waiting for you, specifically YOU, for many years (since Dad started calling your older [...]
Shopping for a 12 year old boy is tough. The only two things he wanted were to join a field hockey team and to have a special birthday dinner at Outback Steakhouse. The dinner was easy enough to handle, but here are NO hockey teams anywhere close to us. 12 year olds no longer play [...]
Tomorrow, my oldest son (baby #3) will wake up as a 12 year old. It’s already bad enough that he’s growing about a foot a month and is in high school math at the middle school. Sigh. There’s no avoiding or denying it now. I’m about to have a teenage boy in the house. Wednesday [...]
I think I’ve mentioned before that I am not a party organizer. My poor kids have suffered through the years with boring – or non-existent – birthday parties. Luckily, my oldest daughter, KitKat, was determined to have a party for her “sweet 16″ birthday and did all the planning for it to happen. All I [...]
I am still having a hard time wrapping my brain around the fact that I have a a 16 year old daughter. How in the world have 16 Christmases gone by since that Christmas Eve that I welcomed my first daughter into my life? I am also amazed at how different my daughter is at [...]
Monday was my birthday. And it kinda stunk. Two days after my birthday, the doorbell rang. One of the kids yelled up to my office – “Mom! Someone sent you flowers!” I almost cried when I saw them. I needed some beauty this week. And these birthday flowers were beautiful. Thank you to my friends [...]
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