Little time

 I rush around to be on time, to get dressed, to make sure teeth are brushed, breakfast is made  the kids eat, are dressed, lunches made, meetings set, arrangements are made so hopefully the day will go smoothly.  Through all the hustle and busle and worry I forget to enjoy the day.  Then life is rudely intruppeted with a big smack of reality, a force greater than a hurrican.  The news of a death or the battle someone you know will be facing.  It makes you stop for some time.  And then as time goes by I fall back into the familar routine, the hustle and busel, the rush of the moments, the worries of life as an adult and parent.  There really is so little time, so the many hats that you wear, make sure they are vibrant, brilliant, loud and obnoxious hats!  Hats that no one could possibly forget!

Seriously cold!!!!!

It got down to 1 degree last night, that's not including the actual temp. with the wind chill.  I heard it was -10.  Though I long for warm weather, Ohio is where I'm supposed to be (I think, right).  People in Ohio are tough, our kids are tougher than those southern warmer state kids.  We brave the snow and ice and extreme cold.  Ohio builds character and strength in us.  We bundle, and brave the elements while dreaming of warm sandy beaches, delicious fruity beverages with umbrellas in them and sunburns.   Oh how a sunburn sounds great right about now..... but us Ohioans, we are tough and resilliant!

She is five today!!!

     Five years ago today, Sienna made her first appearance!  Seven hours of labor, 30 minutes of pushing and there she was, perfect in every way.  An 8lb 7oz 21inch long little thing.  How can it have been five years already?  I'm not old enough for my youngest to be five right???  I have a fun tradition I started with Corah on her first birthday.  The girls have a charm bracelet, on their birthday I get a charm that hopefully represents something of significance from the year. And I write them a brithday letter recaping the past year for them.  They will get thier birthday books with all of thier letters on their 18th birthdays.  At this rate that big 18th birthday will be just around the corner.

Going to Kalahari

I  signed up to go to Kalahari (water park) with the girl scouts.  I signed up a couple months ago with every intention of  dealing with the extra holiday pounds.  Then in a blink of an eye time flew by at an incredible speed,  we leave tomorrow.  I will pack my bathing suit (with hopes that it fits) and take my pasty white, over bulging body to the water park with my daughter. We will have an exhausting good time, we will laugh a lot, we will have wonderful stories to tell for years to come.  I will curse all the women with fit bodies, and swear that by summer I will look like them.  I mean summer is a whole 4 months away, I have plenty of time right?

One of those days (or weeks)...

I'm sure I am not alone in this..... but these past few days (week or so)  I feel as though my brain has a short in it.  Just like when the lights go out in one room in the house (again) and I have to flip the switch in the fuse box.  I have lost my keys,  I can't seem to read a calendar correctly, and have double booked on things (my calendar is my life line of sorts).  I forgot preschool was cancelled, but packed up the gang and waited for school not to begin.  Somehow I need to find the right switch in my fuse box and flip the switch already!!!!

Have to start somewhere!

   Navigating the world is hard, navigation through technology is even harder.  So bear with me.  Though at the moment this blogging thing seems like a fun and exciting idea.  Just like everything I start,  however finishing things is more difficult. But spending the time to start something usually leads to somewhere.
   And so I begin....