10 years.....

So another year of my kids' birthdays has come and gone. It was fun. Today was Kristen's 10Th birthday. As I sit here typing, I can hear her upstairs giggling with her friends......aah, remembering the fun and excitement of birthday sleepovers. While they are settling in for the night (yeah right, settling in, who am I kidding), I thought I would reminisce for a minute.......

Ten years ago, I gave birth to my first baby girl. I knew from the start having a girl would be wonderful. How I loved to dress her up and show her off. How I loved to sit and rock her, looking into her sweet face and wondering who she would become. My heart melting every time I looked into her deep green eyes, hoping I could be the mama she deserved and praying she would always know how much I love her. Then as the days, weeks, years passed, her sweet personality developed and now I sit and look in amazement at the young woman she is becoming. It makes me so proud to see her interact with others and to hear the compliments I always hear about her. She is such a good girl and has a heart of gold. She shows so much love and care for others, especially those younger than her. She is always so willing to help. Watching her now, is like looking at mirror of myself at 10. She is so much like I was in so many ways, it is truly amazing. It is bittersweet to see my little girl growing up so fast before my eyes, leaving little girlhood behind but I know one day she will become a special woman and will continue to make me proud. Happy Birthday to my beautiful sweet girl....I love you Kristen.

Running on empty...

.......that is how I feel tonight.( and my gas tank will also be by the week's end!!) We had a fun but long day today and will be out again all day tomorrow. Thanks to the wonderful pollen this time of year and me having to to take something for my raging allergies, I feel like I am running on empty (not in a bad way, just crazy busy tiredness). I will be glad when this week ends so I can "refuel" myself........and my gas tank!! OK.....that is it, short and sweet tonight, I hear my pillow calling my name..................

A quiet place to think......

I am not exactly sure what I am going to blog about here. I have been thinking about creating a new blog for awhile now but just haven't done it. Thanks to my friend, Alice, sharing her blog, I decided I would go ahead and create mine here too.
My goal is to blog about the "me" side of life. Just me, the good days and the bad days, the crazy stuff and not so crazy, really just whatever strikes me that day. I have another blog where I mostly post about the kids and day to day life around here. I am sure some of that will spill over into this blog, but mostly, this is going to be just me. I guess you could say, a place for me to think out loud so to speak.
So......don't say I didn't warn you, this blog will be a hodge podge of craziness and probably lots of rambling about who knows what!!