March 18th, 2010
My kids often don't get along. Especially Riley and Ciara. I don't know if its the three year age difference or that the fact that one is a boy the other is a girl. My sister and I didn't really get along either so I don't know why this behavior surprises me.
Every once in a while though, they remind me why I wanted more than one child. Like this cute card that Ciara made for her brother when he stayed home sick from school.
* The second page says "Now that you are sick, I would love to help you." (It was too big to fit on my scanner and I was too lazy to piece it together)
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| "Now that you are sick, I would love to help you." |
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March 17th 2010 - Happy St Paddy's Day!
I have been trying to make a big deal of holidays again. I used to, but for several reasons, kinda got away from it. I have to say it has really helped put me in a good mood. And of course, children love anything that has to do with a holiday and celebrating!
The day did make me a little sad. My grandfather Patrick was born in Dublin Ireland and celebrated his birthday on St Patrick's Day. They say that time heals everything but I still miss him all these years later, especially with my grandmothers recent passing. But they would both want us all to be happy and celebrate life, so that is what I tried to do.
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This picture does not do these letters justice at all - but trust me, they are soo cute. I got them from my new "blog friend" Nicole. I discovered her through another friend who lives in Idaho and I just love everything she creates. They looked amazing sitting on top of our piano in our front room. Who can't use a little more luck right? You can check out all her great stuff here at her blog
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| Ella - St Paddy's day cutie |
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I couldn't resist dressing Ella up in some green. My grandmother actually bought this little kilt for Ciara when she was Ella's age. This is an authentic Irish kilt - my grandmother actually brought it back from one of her trip's to Ireland.
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We baked up some yummy Shamrock Shaped Sugar Cookies which we of course frosted green. We had a great time running around town delivering them to our friends!
You can also see the tablecloth I sewed. I have been really into fabric tablecloths recently instead of the generic plastic ones that you buy in the store. I love changing them to suit the occasion.
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January 30th, 2010
If you check in here at fivejordans.com every once in a while you may have noticed a definite lack of updates. I had all these great plans for 2010. Christmas was great. We had two wonderful early St Louis Christmas celebrations. One with the St Louis Jordans and another with the Ziegler clan. Clair's dad joined us and we hopped on a plane and took a family vacation to Las Vegas where we celebrated Christmas with my sister Danielle, her husband and three kids.
This of course meant that all the Christmas stuff needed to get done early because of our trip. Well.....not everything got done. I addressed Christmas cards to everyone, but didn't get them in the mail. I had planned to send out a "Recap of 2009" letter. Well, that didn't happen either. We returned home from Las Vegas, Chris returned to work, my father returned to England and the kids returned to school. Suddenly after a month of being surrounded by family and friends, everyone was gone! To top it off, our entire family started sharing one bug or another and it seemed like someone was always sick.
Just when I thought maybe things were looking up and I was coming out of my funk - I got the sad news, that on Jan 16th, my last living grandparent, my grandmother had passed away. On top of the normal grief of losing a loved one, my sister and I had the stress of trying to figure out if we could make it to England or not for the funeral. To make a long story short, we tried to go, but an expired passport for me, and a misspelled name on a document for my sister, meant we couldn't go. I will try to write a little about her when the mention of her name doesn't reduce to me to tears.
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