Poor Si - you'll notice that once you get to kid #3 - you don't really bother to buy new or match much....he just gets all the hand-me-downs including pink hats and boots... (click below to see photos...lots of playing in the snow pics)
Only click on the picture above IF you are interested in seeing the 100+ pictures from the kids playing at the school playground.
What a fun weekend. Mason is still not feeling great - I feel bad that his whole weekend was spent feeling cruddy. He sat on the couch all day reading and watching TV. Poor guy.
Today we knocked off a bunch of stuff on our To-do list (laundry, more organizing, weekly menu, grocery store, library...yada, yada) and then took Ella and Silas to the mall - Si played in the kid play area while Ella and I went to Build-a-Bear. We FINALLY used the gift certificate that she got for Christmas in 2006!! Sorry it took so long Mam-moo! She picked the pink and white bear and named her Pinky. Can you guess what she picked out for her clothes? Yep, a Hannah Montana outfit with a microphone and bunny slippers. That was our first time to Build-a-Bear and I loved it. Next time I am making ME a bear!!
For our far away families to keep up with the gang, and so that I can look back at all the fun of life with 3 kids :) This is my rememberer. We are: Mason (20), Ella (12), Silas (9), Dad/Justin (old), Mom/Christa (older)
Words to Live by...
“The biggest mistake I made [as a parent] is the one that most of us make. . . . I did not live in the moment enough. This is particularly clear now that the moment is gone, captured only in photographs. There is one picture of [my three children] sitting in the grass on a quilt in the shadow of the swing set on a summer day, ages six, four, and one. And I wish I could remember what we ate, and what we talked about, and how they sounded, and how they looked when they slept that night. I wish I had not been in such a hurry to get on to the next thing: dinner, bath, book, bed. I wish I had treasured the doing a little more and the getting it done a little less” Anna Quindlen (Loud and Clear, 2004)
Mom of three, wife, sister, friend. Love being with family and friends, having a cup of coffee with sunrise and a glass of wine with sunset. Life is Good.