tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-11870889362877789142011-06-30T01:14:35.513-07:00One mom's ramblings of life with her two young sons as she follows them on their journey through childhood.Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383039718040670720noreply@blogger.comBlogger511100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1187088936287778914.post-69785292342849475352008-12-31T00:02:00.000-08:002008-12-31T00:29:47.570-08:00

One of my favorite parts of the day during the winter season is to light up the candles on our table during dinner. It's gotten so dark at dinnertime now and there is something so warm and reassuring about the candle light coming from the 4 candles that adorn our table. These are not just any 4 candlesticks that adorn our table. Oh no! These four candlesticks were made by the boys these past 2

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We have very few deciduous trees on our property. But here is our lovely peach tree losing it's leaves. The boys are enjoying an hour outside while I unload the grocery bags from the car and make lunch. It looks like they have found some leaves to keep them busy. Raking up leaves. If that isn't a sign of fall then I don't know what is.

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At Bubba's school there are 3 chickens. They are free to roam the school grounds during the day. They are amazing chickens as they allow the children to chase them and carry them around. Bubba loves one of the chickens..the poppy chicken. Poppy chicken just happens to have the same name as his grandfather. Very sweet coincidence.Here is my little boy and his chicken... Now...I have to admit, in

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I love being outside and could spend hours on walks lost in my own daydreams and filling my lungs with the scents of the outdoors. I grew up with the stories of my parents' childhoods filling my head. The ideas of playing in the creek, hunting for bugs, climbing a tall tree, picking a tomato from a vine and sitting down in the tall grasses to eat it. Running in packs with the neighborhood

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Here's my baby boy ready to head off to his first day of school. He was so excited especially after watching his big brother go to school the day before. We had a lovely first day. The weather was in the 100's in town so it was a very nice low 80's in the mtns. What a treat! It's quite a hike from the parking area to the outdoor classroom. Bubba had to carry his own backpack and it was little

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Today was my baby's 1st day of his elementary school career. It was hard work getting all of us out the door. Boy wonder was excited but a little apprehensive. We arrived a few minutes early outside the kindergarten class and waited with all the other kinders and their parents. Boy Wonder knew a few faces from playdates he had over the summer and from the great pre-kindergarten party his teacher

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My little baby is starting kindergarten in less than a week. I can't believe it! How is this possible. It seems like just yesterday I brought him home from the hospital and now he's old enough to go to elem school. The werid thing is, I remember my first day of kindergarten and that seems like just yesterday too. The tricks that time plays on us.Today his new kindergarten teacher had a party at

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I'm always amazed how well these two can play together, work together and just be together. Yes, they have their unsibling moments of hitting, yelling, taking each others toys, throwing things at each other. But for the majority of time they are great friends. I love listening in on their play. As I'm typing this they are playing in BW's room. I have a video monitor with sound on my desk so I can

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More updates about the boys coming soon....

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It's the small things in life that make life great. And for me it was having a week off of school. It was such a needed break just to recharge my batteries and take a breather. As much as I love school it pretty much has consumed me this year and I know next year will only be that much harder with having two in different schools and one at home. But for this year it feels like I live at the

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Here are a few of my favorite photos from our trip to Hawaii. The first few show the view from our hotel condo.Here is Bubba comfortably whale watching from our boat.BW riding on the sugar train. He loved riding this train!The view we had at the wedding reception. Amazing! This was taken as the sun was setting right on the beach infront of our hotel.

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Our sweet Mandy Blessings left us on Wednesday afternoon. She was a gentle and sweet girl who was born with as hubby said..the short end of the straw. Her body just never worked right and in the end it was her liver that failed her. She was one of our first children. Before Hubby and I were married I wanted to get a dog. I finally talked him into getting one dog. We did research like crazy to

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We've been hit with the cold bug. I have tried to be so careful this winter season since we didn't get our flu shots. I've tried to avoid being out in public and have washed our hands like crazy. But there must have been a crack in our defense against those pesky cold bugs because they got in. We are going on 11 days now of dripping noses and wet coughs. And while I have really enjoyed slowing

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"Do you remember the storm? It was a big storm that hit the fireplace and broke out all the lights. And (BW) was scared."My youngest, Bubba has quite an imagination. I often fantasize that he might become a writer. He talks all the time and lately because I have so much going on I tune him out a bit. I know...what a terrible thing to admit! It's just when Bubba is occupied and content, which is

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Our traveling day home was so unbelievably crazy, I just had to share it. Warning...this is very, very long and yes...I promise, all true.So we woke up the day we were to leave Maui all packed to go home. It was a pretty uneventful morning our last day in the condo. We cleaned out the fridge, had breakfast, threw the pjs and kids sleeping bags in the luggage, showered, checked out, drove to the

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We made it to Maui. What an adventure we had and the boys were so good on our very long day of travel. We wanted to fly out of our local city so we could only get a flight to Honolulu. We then rode a small prop plane to Maui. That was a lot of fun. There was probably just 15 people on board. It was 25 mins up and down. And what a lovely view of the islands from up above. The flight

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I have been doing laundry and packing like crazy to get ready for our week long trip to Maui! The boys are so excited for the plane ride. I hope after 2 hours they are still excited. 5 hours and 2 wiggly boys is going to be a long trip!We headed out to the office supply store last night to pick up a few odds and ends to keep the boys entertained on the trip. Hole punchers, mini calculators,

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Here are a few photos of X-mas at our house.The boys decorating the tree...The boys unwrapping their presents at our house on X-mas day.We also enjoyed visiting my grandma and aunt on X-mas Eve morning. And then in the evening we hosted X-mas Eve dinner for hubby's family. On X-mas morning we opened our presents at our home and then had breakfast and gifts at my parent's house with my side of the

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Fall was lovely this year. The weather was just beautiful. Of course we really need the rain but it was hard not to appreciate the great weather. With fall comes pumpkins. Having 2 children in school gave us the pleasure of 2 school outings to the pumpkin patch. This is a great patch for variety of pumpkins. Who knew there are so many pumpkins and not all pumpkins are orange..they can be white,

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I can't believe how fast the days are flying by. It's been ages since I have had a chance to sit down and blog about the boys. Although good news...I've been scrapping again and working on Bubba's scrapbook for school. I promise to sit down later today and do some updates. I have a lot to catch up from and want to share Halloween and X-mas pictures too!!Hope everyone had a Merry Christmas!!

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Wow!! At 8:05pm we just had a 5.6 magnitude earthquake. I haven't felt one that strong since the big one in 1989 at 6.9. I had just walked downstairs after kissing both boys goodnight. The whole house just shook very fast and very strong. I almost lost my balance and just saw all the pots on my potrack swinging back and forth. I yelled out my husband's name and ran back up the stairs to grab my

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I love Halloween. I'm not sure what it is about Halloween I love so much. Is it the pretending to be anything other than yourself? Is it the girl in me wanting to play dress up? Is it because deep down I just love to decorate? Or do I love to be a little scared? I'm not sure what it is but I love Halloween!! We live in a small community that is made up mostly of young children and dogs. So

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So today we have a field trip to the Firestation with Bubba’s class. BW was so excited. Field trips could include siblings and BW loved the firetrucks and helicopters. My boys are not the crack of dawn risers, they prefer 7:30/8am time frame. It’s now dark in the mornings, throw in an early start time and we have a hard time moving on school mornings. I slowly creep into BW’s room this morning

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I love being outside and one of the things I love about our new house is we finally have a patio table set. I'm not sure why I waited so many years to buy a patio table set. It's great to be able to sit outside. The kids have discovered eating outdoors and they ask at every meal..."Can we eat outside?" The weather has been so great so of course I say "YES!"We recently enjoyed eating dinner

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Raising kids continually amazes me...you just have to roll with the punches and follow their lead. A lesson I'm contantly learning. So Bubba has been using the potty since he was 16 months old. His older brother is only 2 years older so when Bubba was just a year old he pretty much spent much of his time in the bathroom as his older brother was 3 and we were in there a lot for big brother. So it

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We had a great time in San Diego. We flew down for the week with my parents and my sister and her family. It was the boys first flight that they could remember. They did really great. BW was so excited he couldn't wait. He wanted to know everything he could..he was so funny he even absorbed what he could of the emergency landing card...I couldn't get him to put it down to take a photo..it looks

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Bubba has been actually sleeping these past 2 weeks during his rest time in his room. Yeah!! I hope this continues as he really seems to need it. Hopefully its more than just a growing period. We have actually had to wake him up most of the days. I've probably just jinxed myself by writing about it...we'll see.

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I can't believe we are in August already. Where did the entire summer go? It feels like fall is in the air. It is getting colder in the nights and it has been so overcast this past week in the mornings. As much as I love fall with the leaves turning, and the fireplaces on and snuggling on the couch with the kiddos and going for night time walks with the flashlights and returning to our beloved

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Last week we took a trip to the boardwalk. We haven't been able to spend as much time at our favorite beach this summer so we packed up the kiddos and headed off to the boardwalk for day of fun in the sun. Gotta love the beach!!We spent the first part of the day walking the boardwalk, having lunch and riding a few rides before hitting the beach. The boys had a blast on the beach...running in the

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We were pirates today. What a fun day we had celebrating my nephews 2nd birthday. The hit of the party was a 9 foot pirate ship with bell, steering wheel and sails. The kids loved climbing aboard with their pirate hats on and driving the ship and ringing the bell.It was such a beautiful day that the kids got to also play in the pop up jets they have in their backyard. What a fun day to be a

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Today is our anniversary. Hard to believe we have been married 7 years. For our anniversary my hubby gave me a bouquet of red roses and a sign from my favorite store. It reads:To celebrate, hubby's parents were so nice to come down and take care of the boys and we went out to the movies to See the new HARRY POTTER MOVIE: ORDER OF THE PHOENIX. It was really good!! Today is also my grandparents

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We have a garden in the backyard. On the fence of our garden we planted thornless blackberries. Some of the berries are finally ripe. The kids wanted to help pick them and really seemed to enjoy the hunt for the blackest berries.Here they are enjoying the berries over sherbert ice cream.

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It amazes me...I've been a SAHM now for the past four years and my hubby is off for the summer and still the excitement that Friday brings. My weekends are really not that different from the weekdays...yet still there is something special about Friday. We had a great day today. We did not try and accomplish anything...no moving...no errands...no crazy getting up extra early to meet appts. It

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Bubba and I were sitting in his bathroom this evening as we do every evening as part of the routine for getting ready for bed. Well.. he was sitting on the toliet and I was keeping him company while we were waiting for him to make his "splashing poo poos" as he calls it. I noticed his legs were really dry from being out in the sun all day. I got the lotion out and was massaging his left leg and

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This past week has been crazy busy. We have been trying to pack and clean out the old homestead in time for a huge garage sale on Sat (more about the garage sale later). Well, for the past few days we have been in the car at 11am on our way back home for lunch and naps when surprise, surprise we arrive home and Bubba has fallen asleep. I have been able to transfer him to his bed and he has been

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I have noticed I have yet to make 10 posts in a month. I even seem to have missed posting all together in the month of May. So my goal for this month is to make it to 10...10 posts! I think I can...I think I can...it's good to start small and have goals.

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I've had an Oprah "ah ha moment" this evening. You see, I've been thinking a lot about our parenting methods and worrying a little about our in home interview with our SW (for our homestudy to adopt our daughter from Russia) and wondering if our SW will think we are good parents with positive parenting methods and write a favorable review for us. Now mind you, I haven't been stressing about this.

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Okay, I've seen this done on other blogs and thought I would give it a try for myself.1. I'm 32 years young.2. I was born in and have lived all my life in California.3. I am a quarter japanese.4. I love being outside.5. I believe in fate and I'm a hopeless romantic. Favorite symbol I wear..a heart.5. I met my hubby when I was 18. He was my floor RA in my freshman dorm. He was 20.6. I hate to be

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I love the summer months. Our routine quickly changes...school is out, hubby being a teacher is off and the schedule has so much room for wiggliness. One afternoon this week we enjoyed hanging out with a dear friend who just recently had her own first little baby boy. Our boys were down for "quiet time" for the hour (since neither naps) which gave us a great relaxing time to sit and chat and

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The weather has been so beautiful here for the last 3 weeks...summer is really in full swing. The boys and I decided to take a break from unpacking and took a trip to the flower nursery. I wanted to plant an herb garden right outside my kitchen. Well, once at the nursery I spied a mini garden of colorful, beautiful flowers they had set in the middle of the nursery. I couldn't help but admire all

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Hmmm....what to do when your younger child is clearly giving up his nap but he is so cranky by dinner time that it feels like you want to run screaming from the house rather than sit on pins and needles with a kid who will blow up over the littlest thing. I'm on the fence. BW gave up his nap almost at this age it was really in late Aug/Sept not June. But who is keeping track of these things

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I'm easily impressed. We were sitting at the table tonite eating dinner when BW announces his fork is too small and he needs a bigger fork a grown up fork because he is big too...right mom? Absolutely I say. He gets up and goes to the pantry grabs a fork and comes out. He stops and says, "look at that." Pointing to the pantry door (we have a frosted glass pantry door) he says, "did you

Janinehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17383039718040670720noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1187088936287778914.post-258117585267187182007-06-10T23:01:00.000-07:002007-06-13T14:41:49.221-07:00

Where has the time gone?? These past few months have been busy with packing, finishing up another year of preschool and moving. Yes...we have moved. It's been a long road....18 months of decisions but finally our home is finished!! We spent memorial day weekend in our new home. The boys and our dogs are adjusting very well. No problems at bedtime..no waking up in the night. Now me on the other

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Bubba...my very dear and difficult child. The child who makes me laugh so hard one minute and the very next is throwing a very public war of wills making me wonder if I am being an effective parent, had his dad home this week due to spring break. It was nice having daddy home, helping with the boys as we are trying to get through the final weeks of remodeling and there are so many last minute

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Over our winter break we decided to take the boys to Disneyland!!! What a crazy idea!! We haven't been on a family vacation in 2 years. We weren't sure what to expect with two little boys on vacation for 5 days so we decided to drive. It seemed that everyone else had the same idea so we got the last room in all of Anaheim. We lucked out...it was a great room. It even had a refrig and microwave

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Well....I love to scrapbook but realistically have not had the time and I feel like I'm forgetting so many of the day to day funnies of my kids' lives. So I thought...why not a blog. Give it a try and when I have the time to scrapbook again I can refer to some of my posts for their books. I have to admit I have become really addicted to reading blogs and have many blogs I read on a day to day

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So, I have been trying to think up cute names for my boys on this blog to avoid using their real names. It's been a bit of a challenge as I think a name even a nickname should tell something about the child. I think I have it. I will refer to my oldest as "Boy Wonder" or "BW" for short. That name seems perfect for him as he is constantly amazing us with his incrediable talents or endless

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Today we went on a field trip with my son's preschool class. The trip involved riding the train up north for 20 mins then walking to a park to play and have lunch and then return home on the train. Both my boys were so excited especially my oldest. He could not wait to leave the house to head for the train station. As soon as we arrived at the station a large double deck train flew on by. It

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We had a playdate at the park today. It was a lovely day...the weather was perfect...the kids got along well. They entertained themselves for a long time on the play equipment and then we moved to the blanket for lunch. My son blew bubbles and the children ran around laughing and catching the bubbles. After lunch we took a hike and followed the train tracks down to the creek where we were able to

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Today my oldest had picture day at preschool. Taking pictures professionally can be a real uphill battle. I love photos. I love my boys and I love to see photos of my boys. They do not always share this same feeling and thus I dread the taking of photos by professional photographers. Last year's school photo day was one of those battles. It seemed as if every child so willingly followed the

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there was this girl who could not wait to be a mommy. She decorated the nursery, shopped for clothes, toys and all baby stuff blue and though she loved being pregnant she could not wait to meet her little boy. Fast forward almost 4 years...she is now a busy mom to count them 2 little boys!!! I would never have imagined I would have two little boys entrusted to me to raise. I'm hoping to share

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