"Wordless" Wednesday - Happy Birthday Wishes!

Happy Birthday to a sweet boy who turns 3 (!) today!  It seems like just yesterday when I was driving in the dark at mach speed to the hospital from two counties away to meet this precious boy!  Happy birthday, Shawnee!  You are a lucky boy to have such a fantastic Mama and she is one lucky Mama to have you!  We love you!

It's The Little Things...BFF

I have been blessed with many wonderful friends in my life but none that I have known as long as my BFF, Pam.  We met in the 6th grade when were assigned to the same homeroom and we've been (mostly) inseparable every since.  Ok, so there was that year in 11th grade when she hated me, but that's a whole other story!  Seriously, though...Pam is one of those friends you can easily pick right back up with regardless if it's been a week or a year since you last saw her.  She's a genuine, big-hearted person with a fantastic positive spirit and radiating charm.  

This week, to celebrate a bit of a variation on the It's the Little Things Thursday over at Starts At Eight, I want to share a story of a "little thing" in friendship that meant the world to me!  A week or so ago I was having a conversation with Pam at work and the (not-so-uncommon) fact that I am a bit of a pat rack came up.  If I recall correctly, I believe the awful word "hoarder" was used, but we won't reminisce that tiny detail.  

Anyway, that night I got home and was cleaning off my dresser and packing up some stuff to get our house ready for our first showing when I found this:

This, of course, is part of a Best Friends necklace that Pam and I once shared in junior high.  I sent this photo to Pam late that night with a text that said "okay, so maybe I am a hoarder".  She was right.  Some 20 years later I still have this trinket of our friendship from our adolescence.  I guess I DO have issues!

Much to my surprise (and delight!) I received a return text a short time later with this photo, 

saying "Then I am too!!"

Seriously, that small thing, the fact that she, too, had held on to this symbol of our youth and everlasting friendship was HUGE to me.  It's one thing for me to have senseless sentimentalities cluttering around, but Pam is much more practical than I am.  I couldn't believe she had kept it!  It gave me a warm fuzzy and filled me with love!  IWN, Pam!

Please join in focusing on and sharing the "Little Things" that mean a lot and make this journey through motherhood (and LIFE!) worth it in the end!  Stop over at Starts at Eight to link up!

3 going on 15

I can't believe in one short week this little man will be 4-years-old!

Where has the time gone?!?

It seems like just yesterday I was sitting at home incessantly crying over episode after episode of A Baby Story.  Sleeping completely upright on the couch an hour at a time to keep my heartburn at bay.

Now this little man is almost 4 with the sass and attitude of a teenager, the imagination and story telling abilities of an old wise man who's lived many adventures, the sympathetic heart of a boy much older than his years and the energy characterized by all three of his years.

Stolen from my BFF, Pam, who believes birthdays are meant to be celebrated in style, I am starting Birthday Week 2010 for Nathaniel, starting today.  Every day this week, leading up to his birthday, will be a post in honor of my Bug.  Stay tuned!

10 on 10 : August 2009

One week ago (yesterday) my best friend in the whole world gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Brianna Sadie. She joins big brother, Shawn into one of the best families I know! In honor of this sweet new blessing, I focused on all things PINK for my 10 on 10 photos today! (Which, for the record was VERY hard to do in a house of all boys and a workplace with institutionally white walls!) So here they are - one picture an hour for ten hours on the 10th of the month - GIRL style!!

Wordless Wednesday