I truly love the holidays, big or small, they are all each fun and unique in their own way. Even if its the special foods that we make on those certain holidays or in this case the Easter Egg Hunt. This year Kaiya will actually be old enough to understand how to find the eggs and that each one will have a special surprise just for her. I am thrilled to spend those special moments with my wonderful child (even though she a brat 90% of the time).
I have racked my brain for weeks on how to make our own special Easter traditions and what to put in her Easter basket. I have come up with the wonderful combination of the things that she loves and only a little candy.... I have an Easter basket surprise I would love to do but I am too scared that Ellie (the dog) will eat the "rabbit droppings" before Kaiya can follow them to her basket and left over carrots from the bunny.
Kaiya has been especially spoiled this Easter, she has gotten "early" Easter gifts from all of our extended family, between shopping spree's and boxes full of goodies she is a happy little girl. Though this makes it more difficult for us to pick and chose what to get her we know what she has gotten and what she would like more/want of.
Dinner will be amazing, even though our "original" plans have been changed we wont let that damper our moods. I cant wait to make our yummy food and spend a full day with my family. I am truly blessed between the life that I have chosen and the decision that I have made. Work is amazing and I am truly blessed to have found such a wonderful company to work for, I will be here until they close there doors or until we are no longer in Virginia. My wonderful/crazy husband, we have our ups and downs but love can defeat all odds. Last but not least Kaiya and Ellie, my two wonderful, crazy kids that both drive me crazy, but I couldn't live with out them.
As a child I never really thought how much work it is for the "fantasy characters" that surround the holidays. Now as a mom I see that it is difficult and the traditions they she will remember for ever and they will be the same each year. I have to say that I do not do the very exact same things that my parents did for us or the Cody's parents did for him, but we try and combine all of our traditions and change/make new ones for our special family.
Happy Easter to all and I hope the Easter Bunny brings lots of spring to you!
Thursday, March 28, 2013
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Friends at a Distance
How close is too close for friends? We have been asking our selves that the past few days, its not that we don't enjoy friends and having people over, but is living 3 buildings down too close?
Here is the situation:
We have some good friends that are going to be moving literally right next door. Now we like to hang out with them and have family dinners and what not, however we still like to keep our friends at a safe distance. We do not like it when people expectantly drop in or come over for every little thing or when they fight. Now we have known them for almost a year (a long time for military people) and they have had their ups and downs and we have our own opinions on everything. The issue at hand is that we have what they don't so when they want to say use the computer and internet they ask to come over, well in tow is the WHOLE family including kids, one is the same age as Kaiya and then they have an infant. Well when they come over its fine and dandy for the first 2 hours but when we get into hours 4 and 5 and the kids are getting at each other, my house is turned upside down and I am fully irritated and cleaned out of juice and food and my trash is full, lets just say that is enough for me.Not to mention that they only have 1 vehicle and the husbands both work at the same place in the same unit and everything, so "ideally" for them carpooling would be great so she can have the car and do what ever. "Ideally" for us, that isnt going to be happening. We have our own life outside of friends and I am not wasting more money on things that other people need to do, go and take care of because they wanted to "carpool".
Now our issue is how do explain/tell them that we are great full for them to be our friends, yet we would still like the distance that we had when they lived 25 mins away. We have gone over various scenarios and all of them sound totally selfish and rude and these are the people who will take it that way and feel like we hate them and abandoned them in their time of need (which we totally havent, and we have been more then supportive financially and friendly in their "times" of need).
I know it sounds a little like we dont like them, we do, we just like our space and distance from them... Now the question comes as to what do we do and how do we do it with out being extremely rude.
Here is the situation:
We have some good friends that are going to be moving literally right next door. Now we like to hang out with them and have family dinners and what not, however we still like to keep our friends at a safe distance. We do not like it when people expectantly drop in or come over for every little thing or when they fight. Now we have known them for almost a year (a long time for military people) and they have had their ups and downs and we have our own opinions on everything. The issue at hand is that we have what they don't so when they want to say use the computer and internet they ask to come over, well in tow is the WHOLE family including kids, one is the same age as Kaiya and then they have an infant. Well when they come over its fine and dandy for the first 2 hours but when we get into hours 4 and 5 and the kids are getting at each other, my house is turned upside down and I am fully irritated and cleaned out of juice and food and my trash is full, lets just say that is enough for me.Not to mention that they only have 1 vehicle and the husbands both work at the same place in the same unit and everything, so "ideally" for them carpooling would be great so she can have the car and do what ever. "Ideally" for us, that isnt going to be happening. We have our own life outside of friends and I am not wasting more money on things that other people need to do, go and take care of because they wanted to "carpool".
Now our issue is how do explain/tell them that we are great full for them to be our friends, yet we would still like the distance that we had when they lived 25 mins away. We have gone over various scenarios and all of them sound totally selfish and rude and these are the people who will take it that way and feel like we hate them and abandoned them in their time of need (which we totally havent, and we have been more then supportive financially and friendly in their "times" of need).
I know it sounds a little like we dont like them, we do, we just like our space and distance from them... Now the question comes as to what do we do and how do we do it with out being extremely rude.
Tuesday, March 12, 2013
Anniversary
Today marks 2 years that Cody and I have been married... sometimes it feels more like 10. However that being said we had a wonderful anniversary date on Saturday night. We are truly great full for our friends coming over and watching Kaiya.
We started off at the gun range, it is a good thing we were getting along that day, then we headed over the local Mexican Restaurant it was time for some overfilling good food and tequila filled margarita's. I dont drink often but when I do it will most certainly be a margarita on the rocks with sugar on the rim. One pushed me over the edge, Cody likes his with salt on the rim and he being the bigger drinker between us was perfectly fine.
We had a great time and it was a joy to celebrate 2 long years together and hopefully we can make it another 2 years.
Happy Anniversary my love!
We started off at the gun range, it is a good thing we were getting along that day, then we headed over the local Mexican Restaurant it was time for some overfilling good food and tequila filled margarita's. I dont drink often but when I do it will most certainly be a margarita on the rocks with sugar on the rim. One pushed me over the edge, Cody likes his with salt on the rim and he being the bigger drinker between us was perfectly fine.
We had a great time and it was a joy to celebrate 2 long years together and hopefully we can make it another 2 years.
Happy Anniversary my love!
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