Focus On The Good

Focus On The Good

Today I'm thankful for....

Being able to wear my hair curly (and have it "done")...

Having boys that help each other get out the door in the morning...

Having wonderful people around us that spend the day with our boys when we're working...

Working in a place that's so much more than a school...it's a home away from home...

Working with friends every...single...day...

A tiny momento from a students trip to India...a little wooden elephant I will cherish

Students that make me laugh...

Teacher friends that don't mind helping out with non-teacher projects...

Audiobooks...

Jodi...

A hubby that cooks...

And cleans up after dinner so I can work out...

The ability and the time to excersize...

Giggling on the couch with the littles...

Being able to take care of Luke as he's on day 3 of fevers (really trying to focus on the good here)...

Tubby time...

Story time...

Knowing Bob Marley songs to sing to my babies...

A hot bubble bath...

A delicious cup of coffee...

 The Bachelor...

Flannel sheets...

A book to finish...

A hope for a restful nights sleep...

Xoxo

A Bittersweet End to the Holiday Season

A Bittersweet End to The Holiday Season

(Warning: Fuzzy pictures below!)

Great Wolf Lodge, blow up lawn decorations, visits with grandparents, visits to Santa, Peddlers Village, Christmas shows, Christmas Eve and Day traditions, Pats, Art Museum, Rocky, date night in AC, NYE, basketball, couch time, and preparation to get ready to go back to school!

So thankful for these little faces!

Such happy memories!!!

Xoxo

An Ordinary Saturday

An Ordinary Saturday

Taking down decorations, basketball, lunch in Doylestown, smoothies, and a nap!

Woke to Luke with a fever and Nick a crazy cough!

Here's to winter!!!

Hoping tomorrow's a bit healthier!!!

Xoxo

Keep Calm

Today's Motto: Keep Calm!

Woke up feeling like I still had a cold coming on...The baby was up early and wanted to snuggle...and Nicholas had come into our bed in the middle of the night and was super restless all night!

Just Breathe! It's a Friday and we don't have to work!

Everyone moseyed up to our bed to get wake me up (a perk of vacation is getting to sleep in a bit)! We snuggled and giggled and watched some Mickey Mouse Clubhouse!

We were getting ready to come downstairs when Zack took a tumble
...all...the...way...down...the...stairs!

Terrified!
Heartwrenching!
Tears...from almost everyone as we watched it happen!

Try to just breathe!!!!

Seemed like he was ok just so, so scared!

Domenic left for work and the boys and I got ready for the day!
Dr. appt, drive to NJ, visit Grandma Pascarella, visit with Mimi and Pop, dinner with Diane, Lori and Philip, and drive home!

Just Breathe!

It was all lovely!!!

Visiting with Grandma and Aunt Anne was awesome! They loved the frame and had lots of treats! Nick loved hanging with Armann and talking all about WWE.

Then we hung at Mimi and Pop's house. Mimi, Pop, Clare, JR, Cat, Bern, Cousins...Dinner and dessert were delish!

Breathing...

Getting home I finally looked at the press surrounding Hannah's services today!

Can't write too much about her today but it was on my mind all day!

I'm so lucky to have happy, healthy people around me! Not just my own children but throughout my family and friends!

Today I pray for Hannah. I hope and pray she's in a better place doing all the things her terrible illness never allowed her to do. I pray for her mom, dad, sisters, and grandparents who are missing her so terribly. I can't imagine the void she has left!

Just Breathe!

Today's motto..keeping calm and breathing...accomplished!

xoxo

A New Year...A New Beginning...A New Chance

Happy New Year!

2015 is here!!!!!!

This year I hope to be many things!

Stronger...

Braver...

Kinder...

Unstoppable...

Determined...

Patient...

Appreciative..

Energetic...

Positive...

Grateful..

Healthy...

Relaxed...

and Happy!!!

I have lots of goals! All equally important and exciting!

But a bit too big of a project tonight!

Tonight I'm thinking about how much fun my little family had at our NYE party last night (which is impacting my fatigue levels tonight!)

I'm thinking about how lucky I am to have this guy!

I'm thinking about how lucky I am to have 3 funny, sweet boys!

I'm thinking about how lucky I am to have been able to rock Zack for 20 minutes while he snuggled with me (even if its because he's feeling under the weather!)

I'm thinking about how lucky I am to have Nick beg me to snuggle (even as I try and finish this post!)

I'm thinking about how lucky I am to have Luke jump next to me as we watch Armageddon because I was teary and we was a little scared!


I'm thinking that this week my goals are to be kind to myself and blog every day!
7 days!
I can do it!

Happy New Year!

Resolutions are just chances to form new habits!
Can't wait!

xoxo

The Start of Fall is upon us...

The Start of Fall is upon us...

Pumpkin coffee +

And sweats and flip flops (my favorite clothes)...

= this momma is having some moments of peace!

Summer Days

Summer Days

It's August 14th and it's my last night of summer vacation...

Sorta...

Tomorrow we leave for Disney World and return the night before I report to school! I couldn't be happier about this trip! My entire family...all 15 of us...are taking off tomorrow with hopes and dreams of 10 days packing with magical moments!

It will surely be a way to end summer of 2014 with a bang!!!

And so I find myself sitting alone at the football field watching Nick finish his 2nd week of practice and I'm filled with a sense of calm!

It's quiet! I hear whistles and coaches giving directions but I'm so calm I can here the crickets. I've been so hurried lately I can't remember when I last heard the crickets.

If I didn't say I was disappointed in myself for letting 2 full months go without a single blog post...I'd be lying!

Big lies!

I've had lots of ideas...happy and not! Excited and not! Frustrated and not! But I've lacked the ability to put pencil to paper....or finger to keyboard!

But I'm going to be kind to myself (advice from last post) and be ok with it!

I'm sure I'll use some of the ideas that have been swimming in my thoughts and I have tons of pictures I'd like to use! 

But for now I'm going to appreciate the sprinkles of raindrops falling on me in this calming moment during a beautiful summer night!