Early this morning, as I was getting the kids ready for school, we heard a loud thud against our picture window in the living room. We went outside to see what the noise could have been, and found this little guy laying on our walkway:



He was pretty stunned, and his right wing seemed to be injured. We brought him to the Center for Wildlife, and will probably go back this weekend so the kids can see how he's doing.

Happy 4th Birthday to my beautiful baby.

The kids watched the royal wedding with me yesterday, and it was beautiful! Avery danced around the living room to the music, and Emily has decided that she would like to marry a prince someday. When it was over, I called Dave and begged him to take me to England sometime soon. Instead of the the response I was completely expecting, he actually said "We'll see". So exciting!!



Today was Ben's second tee ball practice. He loves it. He still needs some fine tuning, and a little more back yard practice (he keeps putting his hands in the wrong position), but he's getting there. Here are a couple of pictures from this morning's practice. Oh- and take note of the color of his shirt. When he found out his team color was going to be purple, he almost quit. He's still pretty unhappy about it.

Quite the oxymoron, wouldn't you say?

I don't know where the term "Stay at home mom" came from, but it has always seemed quite contradictory to me. Here is my agenda today:

Drop Taylor off at school early for her civil rights meeting
Drop Emily off at school
Drop Ben off at school
Bring Avery to the library for story hour
Pick Ben up from school
Drive Avery to dance class
Get home to get Emily off the bus
Drop Emily off at gymnastics
Pick Taylor up from debate team (after school)
Drive Ben to tee ball practice
Leave tee ball practice (early) to get to Parent Association meeting (late)
Pick Emily up from gymnastics

And then, at 7:30 pm, I can "stay at home"!

As hectic as these days are though, I wouldn't trade them for anything in the world.

"You're gonna miss this. You're gonna want this back. You're gonna wish these days hadn't gone by so fast."

I'm back!

For months now, I've been thinking about restarting my blog. Starting all over from the beginning though just seemed so daunting, so I procrastinated...a lot... until now. So here I am, blogging again. (Yay!)
I'll start off with the most recent picture of the kids: