Kindness is love in action

Yesterday was day 2. The dare was to do something kind for your spouse and of course continue on with dare #1. I stayed up until 3 am working on steves English paper for him. Which I know he truly did appreciate. I was going to get up and make him breakfast before he went to work, but I could not get myself out of bed at 430. Oh well isn't it the thought that counts. He of course was too busy to do anything kind, but he admits that and it wasn't just an excuse. So I guess I'll let him off the hook for this one day. Hopefully he'll do better on dare #3. I think so far throughout the first few chapters of the book I have learned a lot about myself...and hopefully good will come out of all this.

Love is Patient

So today was day one of the love dare. Me and Steve have decided to strengthen our marriage we are going to do the 40 day love dare. We bought the book and today was our first day. Our dare of the day was to demonstrate patience and not say anything negative to each other all day. And surprisingly I was successful (well Steve was too) But then again he is the patient one in our marriage so I knew he'd be alright on this one. If I learn nothing else during these next 40 days, today I learned that sometimes it's better to just say nothing. I'm going to try to bite my tongue more often and be a little more patient.

Now hopefully we'll be as successful on day two....

Proud Mommy Moment :)

Everyday my kids amaze me. I am so proud of Mikey and Lexi and how good they are doing in school this year. I always worry when we move because every school has different standards and expectations. Well Friday they both brought home their report cards. Mikey got As and B+ which a B+ here is a 90-94 so technically if he was at any other school that would be considered an A. So he did fantastic as always. Along with his great grades he is also in band, plays soccer and works in the library one morning a week. He's a busy boy :) And Lexi got all O's and G's. Which is outstanding and good in everything. She is reading at the level she needs to read in to be in 2nd grade. And is doing great in everything. I am so proud of her. I'm so lucky to have 2 kids that love school and are so smart...ahhh it's a proud mommy moment :)

oh and Mikey told me I couldn't hang his report card on the fridge, because he doesn't want anyone to know he's a nerd. LMAO!!

Samantha Grace is ONE!

Samantha Grace is ONE!!

I still can't believe Samantha turned one on Friday. It seems like just yesterday she was born. And now she is running around and officially a toddler. Time goes by too fast.

I don't know...

so disappointed...

I'm just so disappointed right now. I feel completely let down by my mother. She promised me over a month ago that she was going to come visit for the long weekend. And she got a plane ticket and everything, so i figured it was safe to tell the kids she was coming. Well she calls me yesterday and says that she's not coming today because she has a dr. appt, but will try to change her ticket to Friday. Well I call her last night and she tells me that she is not coming, she'll try to come next month. wtf?!?! the kids had their hearts set on seeing her. I know i should have never told them she was coming. ugh...i'm just really sad right now. I really wanted to see my mom.

Lock Down...

Today about 3:25 my neighbor comes knocking on my door telling me to hurry up and get to the school, the school had been put on lock down. They founds some sort of substance and didn't know what it was but 12 kids and 2 adults had rashes and burning eyes and coughing from it. And they weren't sure if anyone else was going to be affected by it. So we stood across the street from the school from 325 til 715 when they finally let the kids start to leave. They still have not said what it is that they found in the school and the kids that were effected by it are ok, but it was so scary. The kids were locked in their classrooms and honestly had no clue what was going on. They said they were afraid there might be some bad guy in their school and that breaks my heart that they have to worry about things like this. When I got up to the school there were about 20 fire trucks 14 ambulances and numerous police, the SWAT team and of course the hazmat team. Now we're home and completely exhausted. I so need some sleep...