The Farmville Life

There's been a lot of Farmville-ing going on around my house. And some of it has even been in real life!!



This is the start of my memorial garden for Dad.













I have twelve tomato plants (six beefstake and six cherry), six jalepeno plants, eight cucumber plants, three green pepper plants and six banana pepper plants. I also have six cayenne pepper plants and basil yet to plant. I also have about four pounds of onion sets to plant throughout the summer. Whew...Its hard work just to name them all.



Don't you so badly want to pull the lever?

Two Weeks

Its been two weeks since Dad passed away and life is slowly returning to normal... Or what is to be the new normal. I no longer sleep with one eye opened, phone in hand and in sweats and a t-shirt just in case I was needed in the middle of the night. Daily routines are being re-established. Potty training is back in full swing. Projects have been resumed. Then it comes time to blog about life's ups and downs with two kids when I'm reminded of the reason I started this blog in the first place. Dad.

It was January 2009. Dad had just been diagnosed with the cancer in October, started radiation for the brain tumors in November and had just finished a cycle of chemo right before Christmas. Since his immune system had taken such a blow, I was always hesitant to take Bree over to visit but I also didn't want Dad to miss out on all the great, wonderful, funny and frustrating things that Bree did. Thus the creation of my blog.

I know Dad enjoyed being able to follow our lives from home. He would talk to Bree as if he had experienced everything first hand with her and he never forgot to harass me when I fell behind in blogging. Which leads me to my next emotional turmoil. Regret. I know Dad understood that life with a two year old and a newborn doesn't leave much time for anything personal to get done and we tried to spend as much time with Dad as possible but that doesn't stop the waves of guilt that flood my body when I see how few and far between my posts became towards the end. I know there is nothing I can do to change the past. I can only hope to not make the same mistakes in the future. Although Dad is now experiencing everything first hand with us via heaven the rest of you depend on my blogging to keep up with our exciting lives. So, with the co-operation of my children, I vow to be better at blogging from here on out.

And please don't forget to harass me if I begin to neglect my blog. Just be sure to do it in memory of Dad. :o)

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

For whatever reason, when I think of Mothers Day, my mind flashes back to an episode of the Smothers Brothers comedy hour where they sing to their "mother" actress Anne Ramsey:

M-O-T-H-E-R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell "MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.

I was hoping to find a clip of it on youtube to share with those of you who have no clue of what I"m talking about but I couldn't find it. However I did find this following clip that I also vividly remember and it fits quite nicely into the meaing of the day. Happy Mothers Day to all of you out there.

Domestic Days

Domestic
-Adjective
-Devoted to home life or household affairs

What have I been doing with all my "free" time since Jacob was born? Well, I've become quite the domesticated wife. Just look...

Homemade Taco Seasoning



Homemade Bread (and not out of a bread machine)



Homemade Lasagna with an extra one in the freezer



Homemade garden signs



And lastly, a homemade afghan to enter in the county fair

Sibling Similarities

Bree's First Bath

Jake's First Bath




Hopefully they prove to be similar in many other ways as well.

Wordless Wednesday

One sided bedtime conversation

Me: "Bree, get your blankets and babies and get into bed."

Jackpot!

The question is did Bree hit the candy jackpot or Mommy and Daddy?

One week down...when will he start sleeping through the night?

Now introducing...

Jacob Graham Dominique
Born Monday, March 29th at 12:01am
8 pounds 4 ounces
21 inches long

Traumatizing labor story to come...

Remember when...

Remember when watching your favorite TV show was more important than eating?



Oh to be young again.

My Little Musician

Since I'm the one who bought her the recorder, does it make me a bad parent when I take it away because I'm getting annoyed with her playing it?

Sticking with it?

Anybody out there make a New Years Resolution to work out more? Are you sticking with it?