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Hunting for Eggs

>> April 2, 2013 – fun, Holidays, spring, the little things

We had a great Easter weekend, and better yet, it was a three-day weekend for our family. (that rarely happens)

Friday was spent doing a lot of work building our vegetable garden - more to come on that later. So Saturday, we had some fun finding rainbow-colored eggs.

What made it even better, one of Georgia's favorite friends also made it out to this egg hunt - Mia.

And just look at this smile..

You know this girl found a lot of eggs - I'm pretty sure more than anyone else in her age group and maybe the entire group. She is an egg hunting machine!

With a basket full of chocolate, who could wait to get home to start eating? Certainly not my little one.

What a great way to spend part of our holiday weekend - making memories.

Spring is Close, I Can Feel It!

>> March 16, 2013 – outdoors, seasons, spring, weather, winter

We're are at that time of the year when winter and spring seemed intertwined - mix in a few days of a chilly breeze, toss in a few days of sunshine, add in a few days of cloudy cool skies and follow it up with some flower buds and greening grass. Spring is almost here and lately, we've had some spring-like days in this ending winter season.

Warm sunny weather tends to do this to little three-year-old girls:

Side effects: finding the nearest hill and rolling down it over and over and over again.

Ah spring, how sweet art thou?

April 4, 2012 - Return of the Turtles!

>> April 4, 2012 – critters, outdoors, spring

In the community where we currently live, there is a nice little area with a playground, a dog run, a little garden and a pond. We learned when we moved here last year that that pond is teeming with turtles - turtles who LOVE stale bread. We got into the habit of taking them some bread once or twice a week, but then when the cooler weather of Winter moved in - the turtles moved out.

But guess who's back?

I guess going to feed the turtles right before lunchtime may not be the best idea - they had to compete with Georgia for the bread.

I promise, there were two end pieces in there I grabbed out of our fresh loaf, and that's what she's eating. But the turtles still got what they could.

March 19, 2012 - Turning Sand into Water

>> March 19, 2012 – outdoors, playing, spring

So it's not "officially" Spring yet, but darn it, with temps in the high 70's - I'm calling it Spring. That means are water table is officially getting re-filled with water after posing as a sand table all winter long.

Green Thumb in the Making?

>> May 10, 2011 – garden, spring

Georgia has a new love... she loves to help me water the plants. No - scratch that. She loves to drown the plants.

She waters and she waters and she waters, each time turning up the pitcher and then looking at me and saying "muh." So I indulge her, and give her (and the plants) more water.

Um, I'll update you later in the season on whether I have herbs or fish swimming around in the pots.

Happy Easter!!!

>> April 25, 2011 – Holidays, spring

Boing, boing, boing! That's the sound bunnies make in our house, and boy did the Easter bunny leave a lot behind as he/she boinged, boinged, boinged right through our home. But let's not put the bunny before the egg. Before the Easter bunny comes the egg dying, and this was Georgia's first time.

To say she had fun would be a great understatement. My baby truly dug the egg coloring thing!

Um, that last picture is what happens when you have way too much fun coloring eggs and accidentally (totally on purpose) squish one between your fingers. I would not recommend it.

In the end though, she did a great job!

Now back to that bunny. In our house, you have to work for your Easter basket. There are clues to follow and be found, and it all starts with the first clue sitting on the dining room table.

The egg hunt is a tradition my mom (and the Easter bunny of course) started for me and my siblings, and it will always remain in my house. I can still remember hunting for those clues tucked inside plastic eggs as a child.

Now it's Georgia's turn.

At the end of the hunt, Georgia's Easter basket!!

Oh yeah, and a new slide.

Georgia's grandmother (my husband's mom) also sent some goodies this way. Georgia is rockin' the new shades!

Her papa (my dad) also sent her a box of goodies as did her Uncle James. The little one cleaned up this Easter, my goodness! And it was a very happy day for her and all of us. I hope your day was just as fabulous.

Now boing, boing, boing on out of here!

Just a Lazy Evening Outside

>> April 20, 2011 – garden, seasons, spring

Before winter decided to show its frozen, windy, 30-something degree head again, we spent Sunday evening outside getting the flower beds ready for the warmer weather I know is coming. Trust me, there are rain dances, I'm out doing the freaking Spring dance and I don't care what kind of crazy get-up I have to wear to make it happen. So flowers - get ready to bloom!

My most perfect flower though is blooming already. Isn't she beautiful?

She would rather take the dirt out of the flower bed and examine it (and taste it too), than leave it in there for the flowers. But hey, dirt for plants to grow in is over-rated, right?

It doesn't hurt that Georgia and I have quite the guy to serenade us while we work!

We are two lucky ladies. Now if only he can do something about the weather...

Spring Makes Its Return

>> April 4, 2011 – seasons, spring

This weekend, we got outside as much as possible. With temperatures in the high 60's, it appears spring has decided not to leave us after all. Yeah!

In the backyard on Friday afternoon, Georgia found the only standing water in the whole place and was sucked right in. Why is it kids just seem magnetized by water!

Not to mention, it was gross water sitting in the Christmas tree stand that never made it back to the garage after Christmas. Did I mention our Christmas tree is still in the backyard too? Yeah, sad, I know.

But what could get a kid away from gross, yucky water? Teasing the dog with his tennis ball that he is obsessively attached to.

After the ball thing, I think Bailey might have been laughing when Georgia did a face plant in the grass!

Georgia's Birth Story

The timing of Georgia's birth, in a way, came out of a journey to death. I'd like to think with every death comes new life, and for me, Georgia is that life. She is my saving grace and has kept me breathing when my lungs were screaming to stop, screaming to drown in my own self-pity.

My husband and I decided to try for Georgia just a few months after our walk down the aisle. You see, my mom had been diagnosed with incurable Ovarian Cancer, so I wanted a baby soon. I wanted a baby while there was still time to have my mother there as I brought a new being into the world, to see my mother hold her granddaughter, to ask my mom which of my baby features my daughter bore, to lean on my mother when I had those "new mom" questions and for so many other moments I had played out in my thoughts over and over again through the years.

My husband and I were thrilled to soon find out our little Georgia was growing inside of me, rounding out my belly day by day, pushing tiny feet into my sides, entertaining us with a neverending chorus of hiccups. We went to the doctor's appointments, the baby classes, took the hospital tour and had everything ready for the day we brought our darling home in Omaha, Nebraska.

It's funny though, life seems to fight our planning and always chooses its own course - and so it did. When my belly was just shy of 38 weeks round, the day came. After a 52-year-long life, which was as bright as they come, my mother faded away. She died on Sunday, October 11, 2009.

Early Monday morning, with my doctor's permission, my husband and I got on a plane to fly home to Georgia for my mom's funeral. We got off the plane in Atlanta around 3 p.m. Twelve hours later, at 3 a.m. on Tuesday, I was sleeping at my parents' house. As I lay in the home where my mom had been just days before, that journey toward life took a leap. My water broke and the contractions started coming within minutes. We were more than a thousand miles away from our doctor, our hospital and our house.

So off to the local hospital we went in the dark of night, my husband driving my mom's SUV and not having a clue where he was going. I had to give him directions between contractions. We arrived at the hospital and didn't even know what entrance to go to. We found locked doors twice before finding the right entrance, and yeah, I floundered up to both locked doors!

We checked in and by the time we got to a room, I turned around and there were my sister, brother and cousin in the room with my husband and I and my other sister and father were on the way. We had thought we'd be delivering in Omaha with just my husband and I and the calming classical CD's I'd burned. I guess my mom had other ideas.

So there we were, in the hospital where two years earlier they had cut cancer from my mother, in the hospital where my two nieces were born, in the hospital where my delivery nurse had also been my sister's bridesmaid - there surrounded by those who love me most and the memory of one who just couldn't stay long enough to make it. I delivered Georgia Katherine at 10:46 a.m. She weighed 7 lbs. and 8 ounces.

We left the hospital on Wednesday with a borrowed car seat, a bag full of borrowed baby clothes, a lot of flowers and hearts bursting with every emotion you can possibly imagine. We arrived at my parents' house to a borrowed crib, borrowed baby supplies and relatives arriving in town with funeral clothes and baby gifts packed in their suitcases. On Friday, my daughter and I looked down on my mother in her casket, and on Saturday we buried her. It's the only time my daughter every saw her grandmother.

My mother fought hard to live long enough to meet her granddaughter and in the end, she missed the date by two days. But life doesn't stop, and it's the beauty of my daughter's life that keeps me smiling. And oh how her life makes me smile. I like to believe whenever I'm holding my daughter and she's starring off into the distance, over my shoulder, that she's seeing my mom - a guardian angel for both of us - and that they are already the best of friends.

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Hunting for Eggs

Spring is Close, I Can Feel It!

April 4, 2012 - Return of the Turtles!

March 19, 2012 - Turning Sand into Water

Green Thumb in the Making?

Happy Easter!!!

Just a Lazy Evening Outside

Spring Makes Its Return

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