Christmas Tree

It's the day we've all been waiting for. We are putting up our Christmas tree(s) today! Although everyone is excited, it causes me to reflect on how FAST Christmases seem to get here. I couldn't help but remember some of my own childhood memories from when I was a little girl and how my parents made Christmas magical and special... and yet, we turned around twice and I'm grown up having Christmas for my children. Even though it is the happiest time of year, I'm so sentimental that I can't help but be sad for all the years gone by. Although I can't remember a truly blue Christmas, I am sad that time passes so quickly on this Earth and before I turn around twice again, my children will be having babies of their own and putting up their own Christmas trees at their houses and I'll once again be sad for all the years gone by.

I suppose I've always put myself through this sort of thing.

Mommy Moments.....

Today is Monday, November 1, 2010. This is my new diary so that I can record all my mommy moments... I'm afraid that as they days drag by, the years are flying and before I know it... they will be off to college. I just hope I have preserved all the memories possible. So, here is the first of my post. AS you can see in the pic, we are all still in our pj's. Carter in her purple princess pj's and Cale in his red racecar pjs. We are having a lazy Monday morning and all are skipping school. Watching the Grinch, the Christmas spirit has already hit our house, as it usually does hit early here. The kids are still sorting through all of their Halloween candy and as hard as I try, I'm sure they have eaten too much. After breakfast this morning, they each got to pick one thing. Cale ate skittles and Carter chose an airhead.

We had a great weekend at home although it was busy with Halloween and all. We also had my cousin Layla here from TX. I need to post a halloween pic! Cale was such a wonderfully tough Spiderman and Carter was a beautiful Delta State cheerleader!

Clint is working hard at school this morning while we are all being lazy. I am going to start recording all their cute sayings and funny happenings through here. My prayer is that I will be faithful at this and in years to come, my children will enjoy reading about themselves.

For instance, just now I went into Cale's room to turn on his light and Carter wanted to pull the light cord from the fan... as Cale runs in his room and shouts... YOU SAVED MY WITE.

Other Cale-isms include: peanut bwutter, "Mommy, where you are?" and "I'm a homerun." "I thought you was lost" and he loves to drink spwite.

Carter isms include: candy came, binoclears, "being an artist" and callapitter