Exhausting Week

This week my husband lost his grandmother. She was sick for the entire time I've known her (6 years) but it is still a hard loss for our family.

The blessing is that we've seen a lot of family we do not usually see, but it's just such a sad event. Gabs was one of Memere's favorite people. When we'd go to visit her, she'd light up at the sight of Gabs. Gab's daddy was her favorite as well. She was asking for him in her final moments and he made it in time to say goodbye and see her go. Now he's dealing with the stress of that. Tomorrow it's back to business as usual but I am still saying lots of prayers for my husband, our family and his family. It's never easy to lose someone even if they have led a full life and have been ill for sometime. It's never easy...

Vacation Planning

Part of our Christmas gift this year is a trip to Disney World! Gab's Mae-Mae goes every year, usually for about a month. This year she is going for a week with us.

I haven't been to Disney in 9 years and never with a young child so I am finding vacation planning a challenge. Mae-Mae has definite ideas about what we should do and should not do and I have ideas about things I want to do, and things I do not want to do, and Gab's daddy is just trying to keep everyone calm and make everyone happy.

I know we are all going for Gabs and to see her enjoy everything. She will LOVE the characters and the carousel, I don't know about too much else, we will see... But it turns out vacation planning is both fun and exhausting. Only 16 days until we leave though... if I survive the planning, the trip will be a BLAST! :-)

Balancing Act

That's what my life has become. Before the Gabs I was a teacher. School and my career came first and my boyfriends, and finally husband were all very supportive of me. School, and my school children were my focus, and it was great.

But now I have a baby. Not just any baby either... I have the MOST fantastic child you can imagine. She is smart, funny, caring, and amazing. She is my world. My priorities shifted from career to family in the blink of an eye. Being a mom is by far the most important job I've ever had, and it's helped me to see how important my job as a wife is as well.

Now I am working on balancing family and work. I have taken a new job this year and it demands a lot of my time outside of the regular school day. I have to arrive at work by 7:30 most days and am unable to leave until 4:30. I know balance is the key, but I need to figure it out.

Mommy's Little Helper

Today my darling Gabs became my little helper. I was trying to take care of the dishes while she played but she decided that helping me was far more important! She began handing me bowls and then started on the silverware (I quickly snatched all the forks and knives, she took care of the spoons)! When that was done, I began loading again but my little helper kept handing them back to me. Ahhhh to be 13 1/2 months and love to do the dishes.

After dishes she went and read. Seriously, how am I not the luckiest mommy ever?

New Year's

Happy New Year!! WOW 2011 already and the Gabs is growing so fast!

Gabs actually rang in the new year with my parents as Gab's Daddy and I went away for the night. It was great, we spent the night at a hotel and casino with some friends of ours. We were not lucky in gambling but had a great time nonetheless.

Gabs went back to day care today and I was so sad to leave her there. BUT... we are leaving for a vacation in Florida in 22 more days! :-) Disney World here we come.... I can make it 22 days right?!