The Extraordinary Life of an Ordinary Mother

Disclaimer:  This blog post is all about my girls...my wonderful daughters.  Yes, I too am blessed with boys...my wonderful sons.  I promise one day soon, to feature them in their own blog post as well (that is if they'd even let me!).  These beauties...and they are beauties, inside and out.  They are kind, smart, clever, creative, imaginative, problem solvers and well...just plain old sweet. One of daddy's girls...both have him wrapped around their little fingers! Never a dull moment shopping.  Or eating out... Ready for a picture anytime, anywhere. (this is in McDonalds!)  Sweet sisters... They make me get in pictures too... Summer selfies! On Thursday, for no particular reason, the girls decided to have a picnic upstairs. I was in the kitchen, piddling around, when they invited me.  Who can turn down a lunch date like that?  Did I mention they made and organized everything?  I was completely a guest. And Savannah's room is

I'm thinking that I might try to post something daily or at least weekly, this summer on this here little blog of mine.  As a blogger,  they say you should post daily.  I assume that's for the bloggers that make a career of their blog.  I'm lucky to get a post or two out a month!  I'm happy if each post gets 50 page views.  Recently though, my blog actually brought me a little attention from the outside world. (What!?!  You mean people that aren't related or friends with me, actually read my blog!). The Mutual of Omaha, Aha Moment campaign reached out to me, via a blog comment, back on my Little Celebrations post.  They wanted me to film a clip about an Aha Moment I've had.  What an honor! Saturday they sent me a message that my clip was ready.  Here's the link to my Aha Moment . Anyway...my goal this summer is to really pursue my writing, put more focus into it and maybe get that book started.  Blogging is a great daily outlet, to just get words from m

There's no tired like the "end of the year teacher tired".  Yet I'm at the pool with the kiddos because they have more energy than ever!  Must be all the sugar they got at school today.  School's out and I have mixed emotions.  My class was an amazing group of students this year...smart, sweet and kind.  The best combination of clever and witty.  I enjoyed them so much I'm not ready to let them go.  Yet I didn't shed a tear today.  A lot of these kids are friends with Jonas, so I know I'll see them plenty.  No reason to be sad, and I'm not like crazy needing a break either.  Looking forward though to as much sleep as I want and no alarm clock waking me up at 5:30! There's a party at the pool right now.  Lots of excitement and screaming.  The kids here are definitely ready for summer. Some last day of school photos from the kids... I barely saw Bailey today...guess I have to get use to that.  He wasn't downstairs