Little P

Little P just chillin' at the hospital!

I have a friend who has a little girl....and at this point, I have to stop and take a deep breath. Little P is just younger than my own daughter. A beautiful, amazing nearly 2 year old little girl. But, she is not a healthy girl. She is at a great hospital with amazing staff to care for her, she had a minor surgery this past Friday, and she is getting ready to under go major surgery at the end of April. My heart hurts for her mom and Dad. They are such sweet, strong people. Who have already endured so much with their daughter. Watched her go through so much.................I am fortunate enough to not only know these people, but to get to see Little P's story as it unfolds. I get her mommy's emails. And most days I cheer, but today's was hard and broke my heart a little. Today's made me cry and made me think I needed to do something, no matter how small, to help this sweet family. So please, can I ask you, my friends, to offer a quick positive thought, prayer, quite moment of hope for this little family of 3. Whatever your faith, your higher power. Please remember this beautiful little girl. If nothing else, to give her family peace and love in their hearts. They have been through more, in 2 years, then most of us will ever even have to consider, and are not yet to the end of their road. I cannot do much else for them, this I can do. This makes me feel a little less helpless.

My thoughts on Spring

I am not a big fan of Spring. In fact it is probably my least favorite season. And here is why.....you never know what you are going to get. It is supposed to be warming up....su.pose.ed!! But around here, it just has been doing anything but getting warm. Take this lovely little fact, at Brighton (a local ski resort) they recieved about 57 inches of snow during March of 2010, that would be 31 days, this will matter in just a second. During the first five days of April, Brighton recieved 58 inches of new snow. Yep, that is right, they out did the entire month of March is just 5 days!!! Rediculious!! Okay, so good news if you are a skier, which for the record I am NOT. But crazy for all the rest of us. Last year it was freezing cold and wet until the last week of JUNE. So much for the whole global warming thing everyone is always yapping about! And I remember last year very clearly becasue we tried to sit outside to watch our cities yearly fireworks wrapped in fleece blakents while wearing our coats and gloves! Needless to say they ended up being rescheuduled for later in the year!! Spring is just a crazy time here. You could get weather that is lovely, rainy or even snowy. One can never quite be sure. I enjoy winter. Alot! It is supposed to be cold and wet. I expect snow. Heck, I even desire it. I know it is supposed to be cold. And that is sunny and cold that I am good with. But I am not good with 40 degrees in April. So come on Mother Nature, let's get on the right schedule here. Give us some nice a little warm days before we do what we did last year, which was to go from 40 to 90 in about 5 days. I am going to need more time to adjust then that.

Easter 2010

Easter is another of those hoildays when I spend alot of my time trying to make sure that my kids understand more than just the fuss about a bunny. Much like Christmas, Easter has a much greater meaning that we tend to forget about. So I like to read a lovely little book we have about Easter, and to remind my children on a regular basis that the bunny is NOT why we have Easter. Easter is the miracle of Christ rising from the tomb, despite being hung on the cross and killed by those who did not agree with/like him. My mom asked me if we got into the nitty gritty of Christ's death. Flatly I told her NO! We do not. It does not help to tell my children that he was tortured. I feel that is something far beyond their comprehension (thank God!) and really it does nothing for the true meaning of Easter, at least in my book. All that being said, we did get a visit from the Bunny and he was rather gracious to us all...........

On Saturday night we had a little egg dying. Which is a riot since no one here will eat a boiled egg. We took the to Greg's parents. His dad like egg salad and potato salad with egg.

Our end results. They are pretty good looking for what we had to work with. Namely a 5 yr old and a 2 yr old.

The goods from the Bunny. He even left something at our house for my cute mom.

Check out the goodies in the eggs after (yet ANOTHER) in door egg hunt.

During a moment of pure insanity the EB thought pixie sticks would be a fun thing to put in the baskets. I think he will not be that foolish again!!