Easter

Breakfast with the Easter Bunny

Reason I Love My Husband No. 4

Because he hosts DANCE PARTIES ...
in the living room.

Reason I Love My Husband No. 3

Dallas World Aquarium

Because I can wake up on a weekday morning and say, "Let's go to Dallas," and he, the kids and the car are packed within the hour.

We're on the Move

... to end Alzheimer's! Tomorrow morning, my lil fam will participate in the Memory Walk to do our part to help end this debilitating disease. While we have not been personally affected by Alzheimer's disease, we do have family and friends who have been affected in some way. I became interested in the Alzheimer's Association through my sorority's philanthropy work, and this will be my fifth Memory Walk. And as part of our family's new initiative to get healthy and promote exercise to our children, we will be participating in tomorrow's walk together, Millie Bug and Brother included. If you are interested in joining our team or donating, please visit http://memorywalk09.kintera.org/shreveport/sigmakappaalum. Thank you!

On being a mommy

Today I wandered if I will ever eat, use the restroom or shower in peace again. Completely selfish I know.

Ready and Waiting

After months of anticipation,
we're having a girl!

Well, Alanna and Russ are. I'm just the aunt ... ready and waiting. My little brother is having a baby. Wow. The seasons of life.
Funny, I remember rubbing my own mommy's tummy with Mother's Friend when she was swollen with child ... ready and waiting for my little brother to arrive. I remember Daddy pacing in the hospital waiting area, wiping the sweat from his brow. It was the middle of August 1984 ... the Olympics, Mary Lou Retton, Ronald Reagan and Russ Jr., a boy. He, to this day, second to my own children of course, is the most beautiful baby I have ever seen! I mean, the boy has dimples! To me, a soon-to-be first-grader, he was MY baby. The baby I had been ready and waiting for trained me to be a nurturer. Since his arrival in this world, I knew I one day wanted to be a mommy. What a blessing he has been to my life!
So, here I sit ... ready and waiting ... to wrap his little girl up, sit out on the porch swing on a sweltering Louisiana night and rock her to sleep to Linda Ronstadt's "Blue Bayou" just like I did her daddy.
Yes, I'm tickled pink and smitten ... already.