Motherhood is not like any other profession. It's not like performing on stage where you get a huge applause. I don't recall my children ever cheering when I came in to get them in the morning. I've never gotten a standing ovation or encore after making a speech about keeping the house clean, I've never received a paycheck or bonus at the end of the year, I've never been given a tip after cooking and serving dinner, I don't get promotions based on my performance, or plaques with my name on it for multi-tasking day in and day out.
But, I do get sticky kisses, high fives, thank-you's in the form of smiles, looks, and hugs. I get artists portraits drawn with crayons, markers, paint, and food drawn daily to hang on the fridge. When my kids get hurt I am the first one on-call to kiss the boo boo, those I take care of are so comfortable around me they act themselves all the time with no reservations no matter the situation, and I am the first one to hear how their day has gone, what they learned that day, or new accomplishments. I get to watch my kids grow up and be a part of their life. My kids love playing with me and I love playing with them. What a divine profession I get to be a part of. I am so grateful I don't have to do this alone and that there is someone else on call 24/7 to talk to and get comfort, advice, support, and answers. I just felt this and had to write it down. I was in the middle of cooking dinner and the girls were playing in the living room so nicely. I am so blessed!
Thursday, December 30, 2010
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
The Perfect Day
Today was the perfect day. All my friends are gone, just had a baby, with their husbands who are off for the break, etc. So, today I spent the day with my girls. Just us. We made a fort in the basement, watched a Barbie movie together in the fort, rode scooters and played at the playground (which was covered in snow), played Uno, a matching game on the rug in the living room, took naps, I watched a movie, and then we danced until there we were tired and sweaty:-) We jammed to "girls just wanna have fun" and other fun songs. We even knocked on the neighbors door to make sure they weren't home so we could blast the music and sing into our microphones. We then played with playmobil toys in the fort, and are fixing dinner and waiting for daddy to come home and join us for meat pies from our neighbor, green smoothies, green beans, rice, and some sweet bread. The ending to a perfect day. I feel so blessed and I had so much fun just being with my girls and doing what they love to do.
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Christmas Morning
Sorry it's taken so long to post pictures. My lens has been in the shop for over a month due to complications so I finally just broke out the point and shoot. It's been fun to get video footage even though the quality isn't amazing. I just loving capturing moments a still camera just can't.
In Brian's family they have a tradition of lining up on the stairs youngest to oldest and then coming down to see the tree and what Santa brought.
Aren't they so cute and cheesy?
Christmas Anesthesia Party
A slight disclaimer on the quality of the pictures. I have my lens in at Canon and therefore and using my point and shoot where I say cheese and then 3 seconds later my flash goes off. We were playing duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck duck...goose (that's how it goes in our house), and one always had to be sitting in this toy container from Ikea. They were being so silly in it I had to take pictures.
Brian was off Thursday and we took the girls sledding by our house. It was so much fun. Madison was born to play outside in the snow. She could stay out for hours. Abby loved it too, but wanted to be carried up the hill a few times:-)
Madison ready to go and Abby having separation anxiety.
This is how we solved the problem the second time around. Abby is now smiling:-)
Finally...a picture with me and the girls. I am always the one behind the camera. It's fun to be with them and spend time doing things they love.
Abby loved it, but didn't ever want to go alone.
Madison couldn't get enough of sledding.
Christmas ornaments
We made gingerbread cookies to hang on our tree since we own 4 ornaments. The girls loved it and hung them up by the candy canes. They have eaten one off every day:-) I love how Abby is hugging the pam spray.
Eating it was their favorite part!
Here is our beautiful tree in all it's glory. This was before we put all 24 cookies on the tree:-)
Visiting Santa
This was all the smile we could get out of Abby...you'll see in the video. She was all about the candy cane afterwards though:-)
They love to dance and started to do this spontaneously. I love these two girls.
Madison's Preschool Christmas Party
Abby was so excited to go to Madison's preschool party and even got to participate in the music presentation to the parents. She loves to do whatever Madison does. Madison is loving preschool and loves her teacher Miss Annie. She has many friends and loves the crafts. Abby already tells me that when she is four she is going to preschool...Madison's was so excited to see Abby and showed her off to all her friends and made sure Abby had a place to sit right by her.
Making Ginger Bread Houses...
She really enjoyed the candy unlike Madison who was so intent on decorating that she didn't eat or ask for a single piece until she was all finished!
Abby's tilt and half smile. Madison taught it to her:-)
Madison and Brian worked on one and Abby and I worked on another one. Madison was the expert and kept telling Brian how to do it:-) This brought back a memory of making ginger bread houses with my grandma Nichols. She was a widower and lived in this apt. that had a huge rock out front that came with a story. I'll save that for another post. Anyway, she had gotten all sorts of cool candy, stuff I didn't even know existed like rock candy. It was so cool to have candy that looked like rocks to decorate our houses with. She won me over then. What a great grandma to do that for us grandchildren and make it so much fun. I remember she had a cup that had writing on it, but it was upside down, so in order to read it you had to flip it upside down. I did this and it was full of hot chocolate which I spilled all over the table. The saying was "If anything can go wrong it will." My grandma had such a sense of humor and just laughed as she cleaned it up and explained it to me. She didn't make me feel dumb or bad about it. Thanks Grandma N.
The finished Products. They had so much fun and we had lots of leftover Halloween candy for the project! Guess whose is whose.
Cannon and Lilley
I got to take pictures of my niece and nephew and gorgeous sister in law (Sister really). It was so fun and they were such troopers! It was cold, but they stuck it out after some gum, skittles, and warming up their noses in the car:-)
I meant Lillian for the first time this trip and fell in love with her. She is always smiling and makes everyone happy around her.
Emily, you are so beautiful!
I love Canon's eyes. This was a candid after we were all done. He is adorable!!!!
Annual Evans Turkey Bowl
Every year the uncles and nephews play a turkey bowl before Thanksgiving dinner. No one was hurt this year. At least not too bad. A few of the older ones had a hard time walking after for a couple of days.
Brian and brother Rick...Rick was always smiling!
Brian with his brother Mark...talking strategy?
It was a cold day
Mark ready to take Brian down...I think he does:-)
Chest bump with Adam after a scored goal!
The whole crazy group who played football in the snow on Thanksgiving morning.
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