Monday, March 21, 2011

Anticipation!!

Finding out the sex of that little thing living in my belly this Wednesday!! Can't wait to see what we are having. Sooooo excited.
Next post hopefully will be the sex of the baby. :o)

Monday, March 7, 2011

4 generations

Love this.....

21 Memos From Your Child: 

1. Don’t spoil me. I know quite well that I ought not have all I ask for. I am only testing you. 
2. Don’t be afraid to be firm with me. I prefer it, it makes me feel secure. 
3. Don’t let me form bad habits. I have to rely on you to detect them in the early stages. 
4. Don’t make me feel smaller than I am. It only makes me behave stupidly “big”. 5. Don’t correct me in front of people if you can help it. I’ll take much more notice if you talk quietly with me in private. 
6. Don’t make me feel all of my mistakes are sins. It upsets my sense of values. 
7. Don’t protect me from consequences. I need to learn the painful way, sometimes. 
8. Don’t be upset when I say “I hate you”. It isn’t you I hate, but your power to thwart me. 
9. Don’t take too much notice of my small ailments. Sometimes they get me the attention I need. 
10. Don’t nag. If you do, I shall have to protect myself by appearing deaf. 
11. Don’t forget that I can’t explain myself as well as I should like. This is why I’m not always very accurate.
12. Don’t make rash promises. Remember that I feel badly let down when promises are broken. 
13. Don’t tax my honesty too much. I am easily frightened into telling lies. 
14. Don’t be inconsistent. That completely confuses me and makes me lose faith in you. 
15. Don’t tell me my fears are silly. They are terribly real to me and you can do much to reassure me if you try to understand. 
16. Don’t put me off when I ask questions. If you do, you will find that I stop asking and seek my information elsewhere. 
17. Don’t ever suggest that you are perfect or infallible. It gives me too great a shock when I discover that you are neither. 
18. Don’t ever think it is beneath your dignity to apologize to me. An honest apology makes me feel surprisingly warm toward you. 
19. Don’t forget how quickly I am growing up. It must be very difficult to keep pace with me, but please try. 
20. Don’t’ forget I love experimenting. I couldn’t do without it, so please be patient with it.
21. Don’t forget that I can’t thrive without lots of understanding and unconditional love, but I don’t need to tell you that, do I? 

Jacksonville Zoo 2010



In Brandon's own words...

I was going through all my old recipes and typing them up into a word document to save and Brandon walks in to discover this. He asked me what I was doing and I explained to him I was upgrading and throwing away my old, raggedy recipe book. He looked at me with his big brown eyes and says... but mom, what about when I get older? I won't know how to cook and I need these recipes.
I never laughed so hard. My son is an old soul and he shows it all the time.
So he wouldn't let me throw away my old recipe book and he kept it knowing that one day when he gets older he too will know how to cook. :o)