I'm Back.....

I know...It's been a long while since I have posted. I had my surgery and was recovery and was about to post when my cousin was killed in a car accident. She was 20, a college student with so much still ahead of her- she was a great person and would have become an even better person, and when I sat down to write a post after she was killed I just didn't have anything to say. What could I say? What would have changed the way I was feeling? What words would have had any meaning? I still feel as though whatever I write here is of no importance, but when I started this it was to be a way to remember my kids at whatever stage they were currently in, and I need to get back to doing this or years will go by with nothing written down... huge blanks in my memory.... just like what happened in my previous journal attempts.

Ok- so here I go in an attempt to start to be "normal" again.

The kids are good. Actually- pretty great. Ethan is a delight most of the time- growing out of his awful 3 year-old-ness. He says the cutest things. He was looking at my scar the other day and I said, "I know honey- it's ugly." He replied, "No mom, it's be-ew-tiful." Beautiful is his new word. The "shamrocks" (clover) in the yard are be-ew-tiful, the tacky yard crap at Walmart is be-ew-tiful, my hair is be-ew-tiful. He knows how to talk to a woman! Hudson is a drawing fool. He is very interested in Batman lately and works on Batman drawings all the time. Yesterday he took a break from Batman and drew a wonderfully imaginative image of a warrior fighting a beast that came from underground. I'll post a picture of it. Alex is a smart little cookie and an attention junkie. She just had pictures of herself in the school newsletter. She is competing in a school wide storytelling competition and has had one workshop for it. Both her teacher and the librarian told me she is a natural at it. I can't wait to see her in action. She also has to give a classroom oral presentation about Galileo on Monday- dressed as the man. She's psyched.

Ok- well, nothing earth shattering- but at least I got back in the game.