A day (or two or three) in the life of...

2013 was beautifully exhausting. Joaquin went through some tough times, which led to us going through some tough times. It beat us to a pulp at times and forced us to rebuild. Repeatedly. Our little man is now growing and smiling more. Running all through the house (usually with items he aquires by stealing from Izzy when she's not looking and having her chase him for them), eating everything in sight and giggling at the mere threat of tickling coming his way. Izzy went through some pretty epic tantrums and meltdowns and flipped our world, as we knew it, upside down. She reminded us that little people (well, people in general) are ever changing and if we think we know what the next action/reaction will be, we got another thing coming. She is also becoming one of the most loving, attentive, brilliant and unavoidably beautiful little girls in the world. Every day she humbles me and reminds me about how perfectly pure human nature is w/out life's jading. Every single day she m...

Even though time is flying by like crazy, I feel like this Christmas season has been the longest in ages. Probably because it hasn't been a very joyous one so far. Stress makes time slow, right when you want to just close your eyes and be past the stress hump. Ah well. In the meantime, on our to do list is: Pack us all up for Okahooooooma trip! Eeep! I'm of the school of packing more than you need so that you don't need. Cowboy is a minimalist. This will be an interesting process. At least with Izzy mostly potty trained, we won't have to pack up a ton of diapers.  So there's that. With Cowboy's impending layoff on the horizon, we're not really doing Christmas in a gift sense this year. We're not even really in the spirit for sending Christmas cards so it's just not feeling so exciting this year. Don't get me wrong, I'm not all about the gifts but I feel uncomfortable not gifting those we love and who we want to bring a smile to. SO, w...