Another Candle on the Birthday Cake

Six. Really, can you even fathom the idea? I can not. She is growing up so fast, and I am enjoying it completely. Liv is my kindred spirit. We all know that each and every child has a different personality. While we love them all immensely for all their different reasons, some of them are just more like you than others. Liv and I GET each other. I understand her thought process, I understand her idiosyncrasies, I know how she is going to react to every situation placed before her before she does. Even though these characteristics can be frustrating at times- because I KNOW when she is just pushing my buttons- I LOVE her to the moon!

Six

When I was One,
I had just begun.
When I was Two,
I was nearly new.
When I was Three
I was hardly me.
When I was Four,
I was not much more.
When I was Five,
I was just alive.
But now I am Six,
I'm as clever as clever,
So I think I'll be six now forever and ever.

-- A.A. Milne, 1927

Happy Birthday Olivia!!!

The Day of Love

While this house is split on the love of this day (every year it is discussed with the same results- some see it as forced, others think it is nice) I myself enjoy it and want to wish you all the most love your heart can hold until it brims and begins to spill over! Let those around you know they are loved and enjoy everything you get in return!

This is how all my girls looked as they left for school with packs full of Valentine's, boxes crafted with meticulous care and eyes eager and brightly shining to make all their friends smile with delight.

Happy Valentine's Day!!!

A Decade

You think I'm pretty
Without any make-up on
You think I'm funny
When I tell the punch line wrong
I know you get me
So I'll let my walls come down

Before you met me
I was a wreck
But things were kinda heavy
You brought me to life
Now every February
You'll be my valentine, valentine

You make me
Feel like
I'm living a Teenage Dream
The way you turn me on
I can't sleep
Let's runaway
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

My heart stops
When you look at me
Just one touch
Now baby I believe
This is real
So take a chance
And don't ever look back
Don't ever look back

-Katy Perry, Teenage Dream

10 years and my heart still beats for him like the first day we met.

For our 5 year we went on a Cruise in the Caribbean. This year we decided to visit another place we have never been:

Maui, Hawaii

I can't wait to feel the sand in my toes and the sun on my freezing cold skin!!
Because we realize that we are about the only people around who have never been to the island, let us know what we must plan to see and do while we are there, all advice would be welcome!!!