Merry Christmas Baby!

TONS of fun with the fam this Christmas. Lots of gifts, Nana and I really had a blast. Hope you enjoy the holidays as well with family and friends. Realizing I don't care so much for the materialism of the season, but its great to reconnect with our loved ones so I'll get over it. Much love from us to you!

Welcome All:)

The holiday season for me marks a period of reflection as the year draws to a close, I reconnect with family and friends, and celebrate the days my daughter and I were born. Instead of making the ever-popular list of 'resolutions', I prefer to step back and consider the experiences that have shaped me and the deeper lessons I've learned that will hopefully better serve me in the year to come.

Coming up on my daughter's second year of life, I realized, for what feels like the thousandth time, how precious these fleeting moments really are. The time goes so quickly with these small people that you truly must enjoy each moment with all of its joys and frustrations.

It always seemed a bit cliche to me when other moms would say, "You'd better enjoy these times now, she'll be grown before you know it." And yet I sat on the sofa yesterday, marveling at the fact that the toddler sitting beside me, eating sweet potato fries and chatting away, had just begun walking this time last year. She possessed very little coherent speech, yet now she totally entertains me with stories about her day, asks tons of questions, "reads" me books at night... wow. The year before that found her tucked away inside me, awaiting her introduction into our world. How wild is that?

I regretted not having chronicled our journey together thus far, as there's obviously no way to relive all the cute, funny, bizarre, even annoying little moments she's had. I'm not getting any younger to my knowledge, so I figured the time has come to commit all of this to something other than memory! It was then that I decided to start a blog dedicated to her, which gives me a really cool, easily accessible and durable (key!) format to journal her progress. I will really do my best to keep this focused on HER, and to save my grand perspectives on parenting or rant sessions for another blog- or not:0) Since you are reading this, I'm sure you'll keep me on track when necessary, but please be nice and permit me the occasional vent/ rambling every now and again.

I hope someday to share these reflections with her, especially as she gains more language, and as babyhood dissolves into girlhood gives way to womanhood. Whoa. Imagine that!

For all who know and love the dynamic little being known affectionately as Nana, this also fulfills my endless promises to post photos and keep you updated on the haps. I'll do my best to post regularly and when I don't, feel free to harass me about it which you are already sure to do! Lol. To those of you who don't know our family but have somehow stumbled across this blog, I hope you enjoy getting a glimpse of one of the most brilliant, charismatic, outgoing, energetic, loving, and intelligent little kids on the planet. Really.