i remember saying i was not getting a facebook account and then i got one and now i cannot remember why i said i would not get one. but i do sight facebook as one of the reasons that i don't blog as much as i originally intended. facebook is easy to "use" and it re-connects you with people that you missed talking to for years. of course, people say, if you loved these people so much that you are now obsessed with seeing every status update then why did you lose touch with them in the first place. i do not have the answer to that. and then there is the argument that fb is impersonal and promotes more "sitting in front of the the computer" communication...i say "so"?
christmas this year was very fun. and on new year's eve we all met up at mom's house and had a great time. lots of food and drink and noise.
in january, we went to a birthday party in Holland MI for Jacob's bday. the party was at an inflatable bouncy house place. the slides were huge and both kent and i were amazed that samira loved going down the scary things. we realized at this party that we are really old. we are pretty sure that this is just the beginning of feeling old too, which makes us old and sad!
samira and pierce are having a great time getting to know leila. Pierce's first non-mom/dad/sito word was leila! he loves seeing her and she seems to really like trying to communicate with both of them. we are all very glad that sam and jese moved home. sammie turned 32 this past week and we were able to celebrate his b-day at my house.
so i am thinking february should be called the party planning month. of course, people who are my age shouldn't need a party every year but i am going to try to find a way to celebrate my birthday again this year. and since tori (my niece) is having 43 kids at my mom's for her 13th birthday party we will not be having samira's party at my mom's house. instead we are going to have a low-key, small party here at our house. which of course everyone without kids probably thinks is the only appropriate way to have a party for a 4 yr old anyway.
our house is still on the market. i have personally adopted the everything-happens-for-a-reason (crap) philosophy. not fully embraced it though. we are of course still happy to have a house and all that blah blah blah but we would like to re-locate to the west side. anyone who has been to laporte but isn't from laporte will tell you that there is no real distinction in a part of town when you can drive through the entire town in less than 6 minutes. we, however, feel strongly about the other side of town so we are hanging on to hope.
kent's summer is booking up with gigs and that is supposed to make me happy. people who are pleased to know they will be single-parenting all through the summer months have little in common with me. i am going to be looking for one great go-to activity and spending any amount of money perfecting it all summer long! any ideas would be appreciated!
for our anniversary, sam and jess came to watch the kiddos so we could go to dinner and we had a wonderful time. we love to talk about and remember the days when we did whatever we wanted and were not ruled by how long s or p would "last" in a given situation.
finally, i would like to say that even though parenting almost kills both kent and me on a daily basis, we love these little people and they bring laughter and sillyness to our lives all the time. samira asks great questions and pierce is learning to say "hi". very simply, they are unbelievable and can turn on you in half a second. but then they turn back and they are sweet and you forget why you wanted to sell them. (it would actually be more like rent, we would take them back eventually).
go green
