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mom’s day…

today, 67 years ago, my mom was born. if i remember the story correctly, it was during a blizzard and the doctor couldn’t make it to the house. my grandmother must have been a trooper…i’m sure it was as natural as natural could be!

i hope she had a great day. she’s been working really hard to stay with my uncle in the hospital day to day. it’s a long, stressful haul and she’s been there every day. she took today off for her birthday (her husband took her spot) and spent the day doing laundry instead. that’s mom!

as far as california went…rain again. it was another dreary day with a ton of rain! my poor hydrangeas are in a permanent puddle i think. there is really no where for the water to go! the weather said 100% rain for thursday 90% overnight and 70% for friday.

i guess it’s not so much the rain that has me down…it may just be the time of year. my mood is dreary. i could crawl into bed and stay there for days!

thomas turns 14…

i cannot believe how fast my children have grown. thomas turned 14 today! he’s just a hair shorter than me and that won’t last long. he voice is lower and nothing of a baby face remains at all. soon he’ll be taller than me, stronger than me and hopefully wiser than me.

thomas with his breakfast in bed

thomas with his breakfast in bed


a tradition at our house is to serve the kids breakfast in bed on their birthdays. thomas had presented me with his menu requests the night before. he had a VERY had time waking up this time.

thomas with his ghetto cake

thomas with his ghetto cake

love you thomas!

kaitlyn’s birthday…

kaitlyn is 19 today.  what is up with that?  i’m getting old!  kaitlyn was born about 2 months and 2 weeks after i turned 19.  i’m so glad that kaitlyn is off to a much better start on adulthood.

we went to agava last night, kaity’s choice, for her birthday dinner.  it was nice.  we love agava and they treat us so nicely there.  kaitlyn had a wonderful salad and then a great steak.  we all loved our meal except thomas who keeps ordering the pork with pesto, forgetting that he doesn’t like pesto!

kaity’s wish for a birthday gift this year is a shopping trip to the mall.  we will do that tomorrow.  pictures later i hope!

happy birthday kaitlyn!