Thanks Keri

How cute is Kaitlyn in this outfit that Keri bought her. I've loaded a bunch of miscellaneous pics up on our gallery from February.

Oxymoron

Again to those of you who received my email about the password thingee I have changed my blog name to "protect" my family's identity.

When I went to log on to post a new blog I realized how silly my blog title was now. What an oxymoron...a working mom. Any mom knows how silly this is. The very title mom implies work. All moms "work" whether you work outside of the home or not. I work outside of the home from 4 or 5 until 1 and then come home to start my "real" work with my kids. This is the part of the day that I enjoy though. I LOVE being a mom.

When I leave my office, I'm done with "work" for the day. Once I get home though my "work" is never finished. I'm sure all of you stay-at-home moms feel the same way.

We are constantly thinking of ways to enrich our children's lives or make our family better or run more smoothly. I don't think my family brain ever turns off. Our work doesn't stop because we are sick or tired or stressed...we are still "on duty". Here is to all of the "working" moms out there who love their jobs :-)

Happy Valentine's Day

I just got back from Zach's little Valentine's Day Party at school. He was having a blast. He had a great time giving all of his teachers his homemade candies. I put a picture of him making the candies on the bag and he had to show everyone "Zachary making the candies"...it was super cute!

I hope everyone has a nice day.

I got the cutest pictures of Leah and Erin and Halle in the mail yesterday. Those pictures were all SO cute!

Pre Valentines Day Fun

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I just have to tell you all about a GREAT craft project for all of your little ones. Zach is having a Valentine's Day party at school on Thursday and we were in charge of bringing in 2 things for the goodie bags. I headed up to Micheals and bought some candy molds, paint brushes and those little meltable candies.

I melted some of each color in little bowls and let Zach "paint" all of the molds before I poured the rest of the chocolate in them. He had a blast and he loved that he could eat the "paint". I'm a little worried that he might try this with real paint but I made it pretty clear this was "special" paint. The chocolate was just barely melted so it wasn't very hot. I of course had to try rubbing it on myself just in case :-)

The candies that Zach painted came out amazing. An adult never would have mixed all of the colors together the way a child would. I'll post some pics on the gallery tonight when I get home.


I also took the kids to Sadies to get some Valentine's Day pics that I'll post later.

Pics

I've finally uploaded all of the zoo pics and some pics I took of Zach and Kaitlyn tonight. See pics at our gallery


We officially started our tax season hours this week so I'll probably drop off the blog face of the earth for awhile. I'm going to try and keep posting so I'll be able to remember what it was like to have two little ones later but we'll see how that goes.

As far as the healthy lifesyle goes, I'm still doing well with the dieting aspect but I'm still finding it hard to follow through with the exercise. Each week I'll just try to do the best I can. I'm down 12lbs. :-)

I took the kids to the mall tonight to get pictures for Valentine's Day and Kaitlyn's 4 month pictures. What an adventure that was. Zach lasted about 5 minutes and then he wanted to play. The backdrop was a little kitchen to make cookies for Valentine's Day. It was adorable but Zach really wanted to cook. He didn't understand that the idea was to take pics not cook. Kaitlyn was adorable. She laughed and cooed the whole time. We got some really great pics. I'll post them later this week when I get the disk. Zach tried to help me get Kaitlyn to laugh but he kept getting in the pics...he was trying to be helpful but...it was hillarious. I love my children :-)

When you leave the house with both kids you know you are in for an adventure. After my second photo shoot alone with both kids I think I've decided a need a helper for this job. I've mastered Target (my home), Publix, the Dr.'s office and the mall but pictures...I need a helper!