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my love affair with whoopie pies

Thu, 03 Jun 2010 19:28:43 +0000

So, today I got in the mail a free pedometer. I figure I will be shocked with the lack of exercise I get these days or I may be surprised with how many steps I do take in a day with three little ones. I am guessing it will be the previous. Yesterday we had the chance to stop at Trader Joes since we were in Charlotte and when I spotted the whoopie pies I just couldn’t pass them up. YUM. So, today I put my pedometer on and promptly walked through the kitchen and spotted the three remaining whoopie pies. It would be such a shame to let those little pies of yumminess go bad…so, I took a walk AND ate a whoopie pie. 1038 steps and a long ways to 10,000. The end.

Soccer

Thu, 06 May 2010 03:17:02 +0000

C has recently started playing a 5-year+ soccer league. One could hardly call it a league, I suppose, but it’s great for us. There are 2 games a week for one month. So far, he has had a lot of fun, and it will be great for him to learn team work and following the directions of the coach/refs.

The first game was rainy, which made it all the more fun. And an extremely abnormal trip to DQ (we’re not health nuts, but DQ is definitely not on our radar) sealed the deal. I told him I’d get him whatever he wanted, and just like his old man, he got a full-blown banana split. Good work, son.

Here are a few photos (look for #1 – he was given that number, seriously)

c sheds the wheels

Sat, 03 Apr 2010 02:53:15 +0000

April 3, 2010. The day c decided to ditch the training wheels. He just hopped on, and rode off. He’s hardly stopped since. Take a look. This video is of the day he took them off. Quite a lot happened in this one day.

P.S. A cookie for whoever identifies the artist/track in the video.

The Cat in the Hat

Sat, 06 Mar 2010 19:47:35 +0000

Storytime! A dear friend of ours – one of the best storytellers of all time, mind you – has a yearly time when she dresses up as the Cat in the Hat for children to adore. Well, today was the day, and c, e and little h went to see. They also had their faces painted while they were there. We have several cats running around the house this afternoon.

Click on the thumbnails below to see the full shot.

Christmas 2007

Mon, 31 Dec 2007 20:16:59 +0000

We enjoyed a wonderful Christmas in New York visiting j’s family. Unfortunately, our son, c had a cold that he shared with papa and mmom (stands for magic mom) . So it ended up being a time of mainly recovering and just sitting around. For Christmas every year j’s Mom, makes gingerbread men. She decorates them and puts one in each of our stockings. This year I was so surprised when I looked in my stocking and saw two gingerbread men! One of them had a heart and question mark on it. j also had two, another little man with a heart and question mark on it. I of course, was brought to tears.

My dear sister-in-law and mmom have consistently remembered that we are “expecting”. In their own ways they remembered our children in Ethiopia this Christmas season. sis-in-law gave us two children books with multi-racial characters and mmom gave us “There is No Me Without You” and two multi-racial children’s books (plus the gingerbread men!). In an earlier post several months ago I wrote how sad it can be at times when people who you love or are close to don’t even remember that you are expecting a new arrival in the family. I know it is hard for them because they don’t see the evidence of this happening and when you have no name or picture it is hard to relate. I am so happy that some have remembered to celebrate our coming children.

I was also excited to find the GAP (RED) onesies with the word “Treasu(red)” and the continent of Africa. Several months ago when I found out about the product I called our local store and was told it was last year’s product and they had no more. The day after Christmas I was at the mall in NY and was so surprised to walk by a children’s display of the (RED) line and see some “Treasu(red)” onesies left; plus they were on SALE! I took a gamble and bought a 3-6 month one and a 18-24 month one. I am so excited to have our children wear them!! It was a nice little reminder from the Lord that He does care about little details.

Also while in New York we had a fun little game where j’s Dad, had saved all his change throughout the year in a jar. We each gave a guess and then sat and counted it all out and rolled the change. In the end, j won because his guess was the closest to the total. So we were able to get some extra money. I’d like to think it would go to the adoption, but I think we’ll have to use it for gas since we’ve done a good bit of traveling over the Christmas holiday!

Our Christmas holiday was extended as we decided to drive up to Maine to see my family. We were sitting at the table in NY several hours before we had to leave to go back to South Carolina and the idea was hatched to come to Maine. My dear husband was in favor and so off we went! Now we are enjoying the snow in Maine.