Tadpole no more

Two years ago your daddy and I were coming to the end of our first day with you. You were tiny and delicate. Our hearts overflowed and covered you with love.

Daddy was able to see you born. He was the first to feed you. Change you. The first skin you snuggled up to was his. You couldn't hold on to much yet but you got a good firm grip on Daddy's heart. You still do.

When your sister first saw you her grin stretched from ear to ear. I could hardly believe the size difference! Now you're catching up to her. You run from room to room after her. Mornings are not your favourite time. They mean that she's gone for the day. You'll call her name for the rest of the day and nearly push Daddy out the door when its school pickup time.

I wasn't your sister's first word. I wasn't your first word. I'll settle for being your favorite word. You love to be near me. When I go for a nap on the weekends you'll knock on the bedroom door and call me. When Daddy gets you up and brings you to me you crawl across our bed and snuggle in with me.

Today* you are 2. Two years of a darling little redhead transforming our family from three to four. Reducing our storage space but filling a space in our family we didn't even know was there. A space that you fit perfectly with your demanding, loving, mischievous little body. You fill us up with blown kisses. "l-l-love loo's" and cuddles. You run from one to the other begging kisses and hugs, sharing us, connecting us.

Happy Birthday, my little Frog.

*This should have actually been posted on the 12th, but Blogger was down. As the whole world knows.

Blogging in bed

It seems everybody who is in the know likes to have blog posts written ahead of time. You know, those bloggers who have posts that exist for longer than 5 minutes before you post them for the whole wide world to see.

I?  Can barely drag posts out on time (meaning for a linky party somewhere).  I was getting frustrated by hauling my tired behind up out of bed every night I had a good idea for a post.  By the time I got up and the computer was going my idea was long gone.

Frustrating.

Then I read this.  Wait. What? REEEEEALLY?

So now I can roll over in bed, peck out my blog post on my iPod and email it to my drafts folder.

Thank you Carolyn!

Emailing rough blog posts to my drafts folder works for me!

What blogging tips/tricks make it easier for you to keep up on posting?

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April and May Happiness Project

April's resolution category was work.

Specifically I wanted to a) find a new side 'hustle' and b) get a new job.

a) I spent at least one day a week in April volunteering at Turtle's school. As a result of all my hard volunteer work (and the student teacher leaving) I will now be spending my Tuesday afternoons counting, spelling and reading with individual kids from Turtle's class. I'm excited! I am learning some awesome teaching/tutoring skills but not for any benefit except homeschooling Turtle over the summer.

b) I'm waiting to hear from one place.  I worked there while pregnant with Frog and they may have a permanent part time position opening that is ONLY weekends (and one night, but we can work with that).


May's resolution category is clutter.

How I love this category! Especially since we are still unpacking bags from the bugs.  I decided today I would work the girls' stuffed animals down to the absolute bare minimum.  So far Turtle hasn't asked for even ONE of them.  I'm taking that as a sign I can purge them all a few.

My specific goals for this month are a) reduce the amount of clothing we own b) maintain household systems

a) Since we had to wash everything in the girls' room I took the opportunity to go through it when I was putting the clean clothes away.  I filled 2.5 gallon Ziploc bags of clothes from them! Next I'm on to my closet.  I really don't have a lot of clothes unless you count what I need to alter.  If I can't figure out how I want to alter anything - it's gone!

b) I have a lot of unlabelled baskets that Turtle and I both need to access.  With us both having ADD the lack of labels means a lot of "I don't know where it goes!"  Since I've already containerized them, labelling the baskets will make the homes of items more concrete for both Turtle and I which means a big sigh of relief.

I'm going to be changing up my chalkboard with May's quote "Have nothing in your house you do not know to be useful or believe to be beautiful" William Morris.

If you want to know more about how I set up my Happiness Project you can go on over to Alissa's where I am doing my very first guest post!  Go! Read!

LWU - This and That

The bed bugs are gone! We hope. Turtle had 3 bites on her leg this morning that we hope are from some bug on our patio.

Since the bugs are gone we have been slowly unpacking and reorganizing the apartment.

Here's my weekend 'tada!' list;

coat closet bins labelled - check!

girls books on Expedit - check!

pantry baskets all labelled up - check!

And I started my Project List.  Or, I created the page for it. Watch for updates there!

What lovely things did you all get accomplished this weekend?

Updated because I can't remember everything when I blog at night.

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