Birthday Party Madness! Wordless Wednesday

birthday

I will truly let the pictures speak for themselves today. Linked up to Wordful Wednesday, Wordish Wednesday, and Wordless Wednesdays all over.

My Baby is Six – PSF GMYBS Link-up

6th Birthday

If I had any doubts about the fact that my baby is growing up, those doubts are gone today. Yesterday, AJ celebrated his 6th birthday. I remember when KitKat turned six years old. She seemed so old. Now with my baby turning 6 and my oldest in high school, gone are the days of bottles, [...]

8-Year-Old Reese (Photostory Friday linky!)

Reese birthday Hat

March 11 is Reese’s 8th birthday. Eight! She is a joy. A little ball of energy. A lot of personality stuffed into a small package. Happy birthday to my Reese! My mom has been crocheting hats ever since she arrived at our house on Tuesday night. I love the hat she brought for me, and [...]

A #WordlessWednesday Birthday List

friends

On Twizzler’s 10th birthday this past Sunday, I wrote about the top 10 things I love about him. After I was finished, I asked Twizzler to make a list of his 10 favorite things. This is what he listed, in specific order: Meat (besides clam. Yuck!) Italian food Legos Playmobil Sleeping Ketchup Friends (people I [...]

Top 10 Things I Love about Twizzler

Brothers - Easter 2009

My oldest son, Twizzler, turned 10 today. In honor of the last 10 years with him, here are the top ten things I love about him: His freckles. Twizzler is tender and thoughtful. I love that we share a mutual love for Pocket Frogs on my iTouch. We have spent many wonderful moments together breeding [...]

Fourteen! GMYBS-PSF (+ important info on My Chaos, My Bliss)

14th birthday dinner

Last Friday, my baby turned 14. I can remember with vivid clarity my first pregnancy….the fears, the excitement, the anticipation, the questions. There were plenty of each. I don’t know if the fears and questions ever go away. As soon as the questions are answered and the fears put to rest, they are replaced by [...]

What Women Really Want For Their Birthdays

wilton cake decor pattern

After several years of birthdays that were rather mediocre (sorry, hun, but it’s true), I decided that men and children out there needed a little lesson on what women want for their birthday (or Christmas or Valentines Day or Mother’s Day. Heck, we’ll take it for Halloween, too). What we really want is to be [...]

Then….and Now: GMYBS-PSF

Lolli's birthday 1979

Help me win the Amazing Avocado Big Hit Grand Prize ($5000!) for my yummy Avocado recipe by voting daily for me at http://www.theamazingavocado.com/bighit/vote.php?id=8 I really hope I’m not stepping over some copyright line by posting the front of the birthday card that I got in the mail from my mom, but it was just too [...]

Letter to Me

16th birthday

Raise your hand if, as a youth, you ever wrote a letter to yourself, to be opened many years in the future. I know I did. I stumbled upon a blog post entitled Listen to Your Own Advice and loved the idea of the older me writing a letter to a younger me. Just like [...]

It Started 36 Years Ago

5 days

Help me win the Amazing Avocado Big Hit Grand Prize ($5000!) for my yummy Avocado recipe by voting daily for me at http://www.theamazingavocado.com/bighit/vote.php?id=8 My birth story My mom was due with her first child (me!) around October 20th, but by the 14th she had been in labor for several days. Finally, at her last OB [...]