It's great to be Mom...

It is great to be a Mom. I always knew that someday I would love to be a mom. I can say that I never really had any back-up plan if that didn't happen for me. I went to college, and studied, but everything I learned in those classes I just thought about how I would apply this to being a Mother.
Now I have three wonderful daughters who are bright and unique. I love them to pieces and sometimes find that I should calm my mothering to them at times. Like after swim practice, I'm the only mother in the locker room still helping them. And I've finally taken the hint from Audrey, when she says, just wait right here and we'll be out in a little bit. Yikes, she is getting so independent...
But I love them and I'm so thankful for all the wonderful women in my life, my mother, mother-in-law, grandmothers, sisters, and aunts, and cousins, who I've always looked up too and have been wonderful examples to me of what a mother does and how a mother acts.
Happy Mother's Day!

Piano Recital

Audrey and Olivia recently had the opportunity to perform in their Spring piano recital.
They did an absolutely fantastic job. I even got in the action a little bit, by performing in a duet with Olivia. I am so proud of them and can't wait to find out what the future holds for these two lovely girls. Oh, and please excuse our video quality, we haven't quite figured out all this technology stuff yet. Without further adieu....

Better late than never...

Well I must say, I did it... I haven't posted in about a whole year. I knew I could do it, way to go...
As much as I would like to put a positive spin on it, I just can't erase the fact that I have been completely a-wall in the blog department. But thankfully I have my great little conscience, kind'a like a Jimmie Cricket type, but a little bigger, who occasionally whispers to me and says, when are you going to put something on the blog. Or, I sure do miss our blog. And in fact when I logged on again today to see the sorry state of affairs, I missed my blog too!
It was so wonderful to see some of my old posts and gaze in wonderment at how big my kids are now. I re-read about some of our trips and it was fun reading things that I had forgotten. So I must say, blogs are a good thing. And I will try my best to preserve a history for my children and their children the best I can. There, I've said it, now I must go and do...
So don't give up on us, we are still in Iowa. Although sadly, not Dubuquers anymore, but we've taken up residence in the wonderful town of West Des Moines, that is west of Des Moines. We been here since July 2010 and have enjoyed this new chapter in our lives. So here you have it, we may have been down but not out....