Don't get pinched!

I'll tell you a secret, but you have to promise not to look at me with distain.  I very much do NOT like St Patrick's Day.  I think my annoyance was brought on by getting pinched *really* hard by a mean boy when I was younger.  Since then, the 17th of March evokes fear into the self-preservation part of my heart.

As a mother, I did my duty today - my kids are all wearing green.  No one will be pinching MY children, ugh. 

Here's my girls this afternoon (Superboy is still at school):

In other news, I got my camera back after a whole week of NO camera.  It was a painful week!  I would grab for my camera, and remember again that it was gone, reminding me how sad I was to not have it!  I begrudgingly let my dear husband take it on a trip ... and the turkey never even used it once the whole week, grrr!   It's back in my arms now, and I don't think it will be going anywhere without me for a while!

CONGRATULATIONS!!!!

Yay to my lil' sister!!!!!  Watch out BYU - my gorgeous little sister is headed there this fall!  

A little sneak peak of the hottie:

I'm so excited for her!!!

Sigh ... my sisters have left me :(

Total bummer. I was getting so spoiled with enthusiastic teenaged bouncy-ness. I actually had to make my children's lunch myself today. It was less fun than my sisters made it seem. The house now looks like a tornado blew through - now that there's just me to combat 3 little whirlwinds, I'm loosing! Please, please come back! I had my 16 year old sister for 2 weeks and my 13 year old sister for 2 weeks after - 4 weeks of my children being entertained by their Aunties! I was able to rest, I read 5 books, and my house looked soooo nice.


Please, dearest mother . . . since I helped raise my sisters, bathing them and dressing them and feeding them for 8 years of my teenie-bopper life life while they went through my room, and gave me NO privacy . . . please could I have them back now that I'm the one with 3 little children? I don't have the 13 year old daughter you had (ME of course), and I could really use the help ... not to mention the company and energy they spilled throughout my house!

Ahh, I think I may need to drown my sorrows with my dear friends Ben and Jerry, and their pints of Strawberry Cheesecake Ice Cream ... I'm gonna make myself sick from self-medication. Dear mother, It would be much easier, not to mention less fattening, if you'd just send my sisters back!

I need them more than you do, honest. :)

Love,

Your Oldest Daughter

My little girls ... SISTERS

This is how I found my little girls the other afternoon during naptime. They do have their own beds ... they just like to snuggle together. It's moments like this that I am so happy they were born so close together (they are 16 months apart). Having 3 kids in 3 year has been really hard on me, but now that we are leaving the baby-stages behind, their age differences are so wonderful - they are all the best of friends. I'm hoping it stays that way as they grow up, because they are so tender to each other now. Yes, they have their fights, but my son reminded me: "mom, that's just what Best Friends do!"

Someday, when My Girls are fighting over the same pair of jeans, or who should wear what shirt, or (heaven forbid), who should get to be the one to "like" a certain friend of their brother's, I will pull this picture out, and remember that though they might fight, they share an unreversable bond of love. The bond of Sisters.

What is the bond of "sisters"?

It's the bond that allows you to stay awake giggling, far past when you remember why you are laughing - whether you're 4 or 40. It's the bond that allows a shared look to speak volumes - when just a look can cause both to burst into fits of giggles, or show each other compassionate love when the other is in trouble. It's the bond that allows you to sneak up in the middle of the night to share bowls of ice cream, and when you're caught, you can giggle like crazy together once you're sent to bed. It's the bond that helps you not be afraid of monsters or the dark - cause you have each other. It's the bond when you fight and sass at each other, but if anyone else tries to do the same towards one of the sisters, the other will defend her, and all their differences are gone. They might fight, and they might grow apart, but somewhere deep down, they will never loose the bond of Sisters!

I'm so glad that I have sisters (Love ya J & J!), but I'm also so glad that my daughters have each other. I might be their mother, but sisters is a bond they share with each other, and I love that at 1 and 2, they seem to get it already!

White Christmas' "Sisters":

Sisters, sisters
There were never such devoted sisters,
Never had to have a chaperone, No sir,
I'm there to keep my eye on her
Caring, sharing
Every little thing that we are wearing
When a certain gentleman arrived from Rome
She wore the dress, and I stayed home
All kinds of weather, we stick together
The same in the rain and sun
Two different faces, but in tight places
We think and we act as one
Those who've seen us
Know that not a thing could come between us
Many men have tried to split us up, but no one can
Lord help the mister who comes between me and my sister
And Lord help the sister, who comes between me and my man