Happy Anniversary!

This is the date upon which my wonderful husband and I joined our lives together. We just talked the other evening how lucky we feel that we are still so much in love and that we would happily do it all over again. I'm very lucky to be married to my best friend and to share my life with him. Happy Anniversary honey!

Ladies' Day

I just returned from shopping, normally my least favorite activity to do. However, my husband and I are going with another couple to an alumni formal later in the month. So the wives were off to the mall! We had a very nice day, and were lucky enough to find inexpensive dresses at the same store. I can't wait to see what our husbands think about how well we coordinate! We even had lunch out together before returning to home be Mommies again.

This evening HT is going to be a crown bearer for a ceremony at the high school. He is looking forward to his responsibility!

Finally!

HT's tooth has finally come out! He pulled it out himself this afternoon and he is both very excited and very proud. Now we can all start obsessing about something else!

Returning to normal

Life is pretty much back to normal now. Yesterday, our kids had a 2 hour delay, and the district my wonderful husband teaches in was closed due to a great deal of snow further south. After the chaos of Tuesday, it was very nice to be able to sleep in yesterday, and for he and I to be able to spend a little bit of time together. There has been no word yet on the status of the car, and we are very grateful to my parents for the use of their vehicle. Today, everyone is in school and at the normal time so everything pretty much feels back to normal.

Rough morning

I was awakened prior to 7 this morning (1/2 before normal wake-up time) by JC letting me know that she had heard her little brother vomiting. Sure enough, HT was sick, but fortunately had managed not to get sick in his bed! I brought him down to the couch and was working on getting him settled when the phone rang. The phone ringing at 7AM is never a good thing! It was my wonderful husband, letting me know that he was okay but was in a car accident. I hate that 45 minute drive to work! Apparently a teen had left her car parked on the blind side of a hill because she left her cell phone in the house. Fortunately, she doesn't have any major injuries either. I called my mom right away and she threw clothes on and began the drive down to our house because I obviously can't take a vomiting child anywhere. My mom's drive is about 40 minutes so in the meantime, my wonderful husband got a ride in the tow truck back to town, and after Mom arrived I took the older two to pick him and see the car before I dropped them off at school. Due to the age of the vehicle and the fact that the airbags deployed, we are fairly certain it's totaled. My parents very generously offered us the use of their third vehicle, so my mom took my husband back to their house to pick that up. After they had been gone about 30 minutes, the school called to ask me to please come and pick up JR who had just vomited at school. My wonderful next door neighbor came to stay with HT so I could dash up to the school. It's been a heck of a morning! We are very, very lucky though! My wonderful husband is okay, the other driver is not seriously hurt, and her insurance will take care of the car. The kids will be fine, and we are so blessed to have such a large group of family, friends and neighbors that love and support us. Even though, I'm a little drained at this point, I can't help but feel good about life and all the blessings we have!

Groundhog Day!

For those of us in southwest Ohio, the fact that Punxy Phil saw his shadow is not at all surprising, especially this evening as we had quite a snow shower come through! We received another quarter to half inch of snow here in our town, but hopefully that will be the major extent of any accumulation. I'm not ready to have the kids home again after only one day back!

Also, my brother-in-law happens to live in Punxy. The kids' teachers of course talked quite a bit about the day and the event. JR's teacher explained that Punxy Phil lives in a hole and comes out once a year on this date. JR, who happened to have the benefit of his uncle, corrected his teacher by explaining, "Actually, Phil lives in the library." I'm not sure his teacher was overly grateful for his contribution to the story!

Here we go Steelers!

Yep, we are pretty happy people in this house! We spent the afternoon and evening at our friends' house, staying close to home so that we could bring the kids home right after kickoff. This allowed them to be in bed at a normal time. Why, oh why do they play the Super Bowl on a Sunday?! A sitter met us here and then we rejoined our friends to watch the rest of the game. Our friends are not Steeler fans, but we are all Miami grads so they are Big Ben fans. They were happy to jump on the Steeler bandwagon and we had a fun time. My in-laws have season tickets to Steelers games and had won the lottery for tickets so they were there to enjoy every moment. We are all enjoying our black & gold victory today, and my husband had enough sense to take a personal day today so we can rest up!