Ohio cherry blossoms...

Make a Smilebox photobook

Am I the only one? I am loving this spring! Is it just because we're in Ohio? Is it just because this year is almost over? How is spring where you are?

To the mother....

Happy Mother's Day to the ordinary mother who feels a little out of place when they sing about angel-mothers with the purest of hearts.

**What about the other kinds of mothers??!?**

Here's to the imperfect mother not usually spoken about on Mother's Day...

Here's to the mother who sometimes looses her temper, and has to apologize to her 3 year old.

Here's to the mother who gets tired of picking up the same old toys and socks everyday, and thinks motherhood can get pretty monotonous.

Here's to the mother who would never go back because the few amazing moments outshine the monotony.

Here's to the mother who wants to freeze time and watch her kids sleeping forever. Forget teaching independence!

Here's to the mother who forgets to pick up her kids from school, and sometimes has to say, "cause I said so" because she doesn't know why.

Here's to the mother who's just winging it...trying to be just one step ahead and hoping they don't see she's just making it up.

Here's to the mother who falls asleep while reading an 8 page goodnight story but agrees to a second one anyway.

Here's to the ordinary mother who messes up everyday but tries a little harder the next.

HAPPY MOTHER'S DAY...too ALL mother's, perfect or not!!

I feel like I'm surrounded by mother's I would like to emulate. Your examples are inspiring! One day, maybe. :)

Hyrum's little prayer...

The other night this was Hyrum's prayer... "Thank Thee that we could be cuddled up in the house all day. Please bless that our house won't get blown down, because it's made of bricks. In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen."

Moment of insanity...

Those of you who have had husbands in school for YEARS know the excitement I felt when Jeff graduated with his PhD last year and the big fat sign-on bonus arrived in the mail! I had anticipated this moment for years, and here it was! I consulted some of my best shopper friends and decided that the first thing to be replaced were grandma Brimhall's wicker couches, complete with matching floral blue and pink patterned pillows. So, the day before moving to Cleveland, Karina and I reved up Randy's big 350 Ford truck and headed to Dallas to shop for furniture. After haggling with a guy that was openly hitting on Karina...I bought these elegant cream colored couches...



Much better than the wicker blue and pink floral hand-me-downs! (Not that I'm ungrateful to grandma Brimhall.)

So the practical mom would now be saying, "Who in their right mind buys CREAM colored couches when they have toddler's at home?!?" Unfortunately, that practical mom was nowhere to be found. This week she has finally surfaced.

Hyrum attacked the couch with a yellow highlighter last week, finishing the job with red crayola marker on the weekend. That was topped off today when Hadley left her BLUE nailpolish on the table and the house got quiet for a moment....and you guessed it. Hyrum was found under the red blanket painting his fingernails on the cream couch.

Now I have a cream couch with blue highlights. **Sigh** So the practical mom in me is telling my fruffier self that I shouldn't have anything that I like too much, because it's going to get "altered" at some point by some cute kid with a marker.

Hadley's Birthday Party Invitations