Friday, September 7, 2012
Monday, September 3, 2012
Holiday Weekends
3 day weekends can be brutal. There, I've said it. I have made a very conscious choice to keep this blog as a record of daily life for Eliza and Jackson -- and so I stay away from really exploring the more "challenging" aspects of parenthood. There are times I skim the blog and think this is a really unfair representation of our family to anyone checking up on us who doesn't see us very often. It looks so happy, so idyllic. I just wanted to go on record saying there are tantrums, there are lost tempers, there are some really bad days -- we all have them.
I had a lot of anxiety about this upcoming 3 day weekend. We didn't have a lot of plans and the kids have had a lot of change lately (the family coming and then going, traveling a bit, camp ending and getting ready for school to start for Jackson, activities and classes on hold, bottles officially gone - yes it took this long, potty training -- well, you get it). And the good news is, we all came through it pretty unscathed. There were a few ugly moments but for the most part, it was so much better than I thought it was going to be. The kids got along, we found a lot of fun activities (even if the parents were exhausted for some of them), and we ended our last night in the car with a family rendition of "monkeys jumping on a bed." Hey, day 3 and we are all still singing. That's a good sign.
I had a lot of anxiety about this upcoming 3 day weekend. We didn't have a lot of plans and the kids have had a lot of change lately (the family coming and then going, traveling a bit, camp ending and getting ready for school to start for Jackson, activities and classes on hold, bottles officially gone - yes it took this long, potty training -- well, you get it). And the good news is, we all came through it pretty unscathed. There were a few ugly moments but for the most part, it was so much better than I thought it was going to be. The kids got along, we found a lot of fun activities (even if the parents were exhausted for some of them), and we ended our last night in the car with a family rendition of "monkeys jumping on a bed." Hey, day 3 and we are all still singing. That's a good sign.
Saturday, August 25, 2012
Thursday, August 23, 2012
Catching Up
The birthday celebration continued into quality time spent with family and friends. We played, swam, went to the zoo, the beach, the water park, a boat ride -- and ate lots of ice cream along the way.
Sunday, August 12, 2012
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