2009

I seriously cannot believe how fast this year has flown. It makes me sad to think that another year has past in the lives of my fast growing children. I am reminded at how terrible I am at recording our history and realize the importance of recording our lives. It is fun to look back at the memories we have created and the pictures I may or may not have taken and know now how much I have neglected recording these fleeting moments. I downloaded my camera the other day and it was so sad to say that I still had last Christmases pictures on it and everything in between now and then. I have come to the reality that life will not slow down in order for me to catch up, it only seems to get busier and busier, if I am going to get it done, I just have to do it! So here's to starting my new 2010 goal...keeping better record.

In order to feel I have a "fresh" start, I must record the highlights from 2009.

Someday!

Someday I will download pictures from my camera and make a record of our happenings.  Someday.

Thoughts by Charli

We have been trying to take the kids and dogs for a walk every night to "magic" park.  On the way its a wonderful time to visit with the girls.  The other night Charli and I were walking hand in hand and she asks me. "Mom, when I was in your stomach, did I explode it because I was growing so fast?"  She proceeds to tell me what is was like to be inside my stomach, "It felt so right, like I was finally alive and I could feel my heart start beating!"  Charli is a very observant little character, and I was really taken back by her comment. 

 We often find ourselves giggling and at the silly things she says and does.  Often times when we are walking she is talking constantly...so much that I have to tell her to take a breath.  Her personality has changes drastically from when she was an infant.  She was very quiet and easy going, and leery of people she didn't know.  Today, she is much the opposite with bounce and zeal,  she talks openly with people she doesn't know, and is continually teasing her bigger sister.  (Good thing Charli is the younger, not older sister).  

UPDATE ME!

Update me please!  Life is flying,  kids are growing, and I have not taken one moment or one picture to record our Herrera Happenings, and sadly the desire is about as strong as my desire to go to work today.  Urgh.

STARS

Charli was sick with a stomach bug a couple weeks ago, and I went to the store to get a few things that feel "not so bad" on a sick stomach.  I ended up buying a can of "Chicken and Stars" soup.  Well, it has sat in our cupboard with small pleas from Skye, "Can I please have some star soup".   Isaac fed the girls a early dinner, so when I got home from work they were hungry once again.  I caved and gave the girls the soup.  You thought they had died at gone to heaven.  They were so excited and then Charli asked me, "Do they have to kill stars, to make star soup?"  Then she proceeded to look out the window and admire the stars up in the night sky, with the look of  , "How do they do it?"  

New Year Resolutions!

I have yet to even upload pictures from Christmas day, and record the memories which came along with it, the whole purpose of my blogging.  Yet, more often then not I wish to blog about other things.

I don't know if many of you have seen this manuel or not, but it is fabulous in my eyes.  It is the new nursery manuel the church put out and it is amazing.  I secretly wanted to go back into teaching in the nursery, just so I could use it with the kids.  Anyhow, it is so simple to use, it has everything you need, right where you need it, including lesson pictures, art projects, and songs.  

I bought one for our family and wrapped it up, along with some other church related gifts.  On the night of Christmas day, after all the unwrapping and toy playing, I got my girls together and talked with them once again, about what Christmas is really about.  I told them that Jesus had a gift for each of them, and I let them unwrap their gifts.  It was nice after all the chaos of the day, to bring the focus where it should be. 

I often feel like I fall far behind on the numerous things that I would like to be accomplishing.  Well, this New Years I made a resolution, not to pressure myself, not to add to the list of "I didn't do's".  I made one resolution, and that was to have a family home evening lesson every week with my girls.  I decided to use the new manuel "Behold your Little Ones", as our outline.  It has made it so simple and flawless.  I just add to it to make it more age appropriate. 

In just the past few weeks, this one change has allowed for so many other things to fall into place.  This is just another testimony of where our priorities need be.

New Year!

Well, the laundry is finally caught up, and now it's time to catch up on what has been going on around here.  I am just beginning to feel under control from the Christmas after math.  Can you believe it has already been over two weeks?  I still have gifts that are not delivered.  I am grateful that the weather shows no snow removal needed this week, and maybe just maybe I might have time to figure out how to use my new Christmas gift.  It was a Christmas of pictures.  I received several framed pictures along with a digital picture frame.  Now I just have to give myself sometime to get our Holiday pictures downloaded and posted.