a five lily bouquet to my door

On the saturday before mothers day five lilies came to my door. I was so surprised, I love Lilies they were so pretty and the bouquet was heavy and the delivery guys joked he will now get better gas mileage. To my awesome husband who remembered I can now have fresh flowers in my house after 5 years of not being able to have them (because of chlo pie's cancer treatments) I say thank you. Five lilies for every year I couldn't send you flowers the card said (I had forgotten for a minute why it had been so long) and five for our five beautiful kids. Thank you so much for remembering Jake, and for my mothers/birthday gift, it rocked(I was so surprised).

I gotta weakness for...

these delightful treats. Cruchy on the outside soft on in the middle can't be beat in my mind. I love chocolate chip cookies. Everytime we have clinic, I get one from the hospital or Jake is nice enough to feed my weakness and brings one home to me, they are the best! When I don't have time to make them I have found, in the refridgerated section of the grocery store, they sell ones called simply. And they are simply delightful (and easy). My mouth is watering for them, but since I had three *twinkies yesterday (i know shame shame) I better stay away from treats for a bit.


*rough day and Jake brought them home(thanks to Hudson) and I haven't had them for a long time and boy they were good. hummm maybe they should have their own post :).

cause I'm Ms Brightside

Addie is a very postitive thinker. She tries to look at the brightside of most every situation (well besides math haha). She very responsible,and takes pride in her school work. She is into music a lot and gets to download a song for every A she gets at school. She will be turning 12 this summer, everyone tells me she looks and acts way older than she is. I agree. She will get to go to girls camp with me and I don't know if she will view that as a good thing but I think it will be fun.

We Love our ipod wearing girl (humm) I mean, young women (crazy I will have a 12 year old in two months).

Chlo- pie the reading fool

Chloe has been reading a ton. She doesn't just read one book, she reads three to four at a time. She is reading Helen Keller bio, she just finished the fifth Harry Potter, she just began Fable Haven and occasionally she read Dear Dumb Diary.
She is always full of information and retains a ton of facts she learns. When she learns about sea otters, she comes home and tells us all about them starting with "Did you know that..." So now we are hearing about Helen Keller. It is very cute, she is so excited to learn and doesn't take it for granted. She always thanks us for anything she gets to do. Love ya Ooee :).

Elsie-ism

I watch Pride and Prejudice (both versions) in the spring and fall. They are my favorite movies. As we watched them Addie, Chloe, Elsie, and I we were at the part where they are at Rosing Park dining with Kathrine Deburg. Mr Colins was told that he can't sit by his wife. Addie wondered why they couldn't sit by each other, and Elsie snickered and said cause they would kiss and stuff.
The funny thing is later I heard somewhere, she was right! Gotta love that girl.

Elsie has become a great reader this year and tries to keep up with her older sisters. She has sooooo much energy, she can't even sit still to eat. She will bounce up and down and up and down, shaking her legs and wiggle her bum, all while shoveling a fork full of something I have made for dinner. The statement we say ALOT at our house is, Elsie sit down and just eat. I wish I could have some of her energy!