Giving Thanks...

Happy Thanksgiving friends! I am so thankful for all of those in my life including all of the amazing people I have met in Blogland.

I know I spend way too much time complaining and certainly not enough time THANKING GOD for all I have. I am overwhelmed with the amount of love and blessings in my life and need to dwell on those gifts and blessing each day.

I wish you all a very Happy Thanksgiving and hope you all enjoy a weekend filled with love, laughter, yummy food, and lots of time together.

Happy Turkey Day!

Blowin' Out the Candles

Today is my birthday.

I will be blowin' out a lot of candles. I have much to wish for, much to be thankful for, and much to look forward to.

I will spend the day with those I love the most...I am so thankful to have such a wonderful husband, two awesome minis, and a wonderful family in my parents and my sister and her husband.

I hope you will get a slice of cake or a cupcake today and celebrate with me. I am thankful for each of my friends and truly wish I could spend the day with you guys laughing and chatting the day away.

Have a great day!

I Heart New York

I BIG PUFFY HEART New York! I am not shy about my love affair with this city. I would live there, I would go there for just about every vacation, and I have even briefly thought about naming one of my children Manhattan...ok, that might take it a bit far, but you get the idea. However, the Beckhams have a son named Brooklyn, so it can't be quite the most terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea I know my husband and mother are thinking right about now.

I just got back from spending three glorious days, much too short of a trip there with my Mom and sister in celebration of my birthday. An amazing and AWESOME birthday gift. We shopped, we walked, we ate, we saw, we walked, we saw, we shopped, we walked, we briefly slept, we laughed, we people watched, we walked, we oohed and ahhed, we walked, we talked, and we had the best time together.

We became best friends with Tina Fey, we at least that is how I remembered it. I got to drool over my somewhat weird HUGE crush on Matt Lauer and he may or may not have met eyes with me in a glance and fell in love. (I mean not that I would even dream of that since Mr. Molly Lou is the perfect man.)

My mom who had not been since she was a small child loved it, and I fell in love even more with "the city that never sleeps." I had never been in the fall, but totally understand why people love Autumn in New York. It is amazing and I enjoyed seeing the preparations for Christmas.

The minis survived their weekend with Dad and the only sign of wear and tear is poor Mini #2's face. She face planted and has a beat up nose and a big bruise and scratches on her forehead. The children seemed well adjusted and still healthy. The mess wasn't too much and Mr. seem to be as sane as when I left too.

I can't wait to go through our pictures. Thanks to my mom and sister for going with me on this wonderful and memorable trip!

Hope you all had a great day!

Snapshot Saturday

Here are a few snapshots from the photography session last weekend that I was so worried about. Out of 2364 pictures, we did get a few ones and I am pleased to say that I was able to get three pictures for our Christmas cards. Some of the shots were quite funny.

On a side note, we spent 7 hours in the Children's Emergency Room with Mini #2 last night. She is hopefully fine now, but this virus (we think) for almost two weeks that got worse caused her to need a lot of fluids. Tests have been run and so far everything has come back normal. We were so incredibly proud of her...she was such a big girl. Everyone was so kind to us and truly so helpful. Please just send up a small prayer that we are on the mend. We are thankful that this is the extent of the illness of our children and know how truly blessed we are.

Happy Saturday...have a great weekend!

Wordless Wednesday~O.M.G. I need about 21 of these today!

Tuesday's Tidbit

My tidbit for the day...BUY STOCK IN LYSOL!! The Molly Lou house has a cloud of Lysol vapors...you have to crawl military style on the ground to avoid the vapors.

Mini #2 is still sick. Oh goodness, how I am over cleaning up bodily fluids exiting the body in a disgusting manner. Poor thing, I feel so bad for her. She is quite pitiful, but still has it in her to fight with her brother. (Not that he goes easy on her either. He certainly knows her buttons to push and he was sure to rub it in her face that he got to go to school today, while she had to stay home with mean old mom who wouldn't let her puke on her friends.)

After I buy that stock in Lysol, I will transport myself here...sipping something yummy and only hearing the water and the voices in my head. Care to join me?

Happy Tuesday. Have a great day!

Sick day...

I had this great post ready to type today. One that would humor you and make you wish for more, but I am too tired to charm the pants off of you all today.

Mini #2 is sick with the wretched stomach bug that seems to be running rampant around preschools, churches, schools, grocery stores, parks, restaurants...pretty much any place where they could be copious amounts of children and germs.

Or perhaps she is getting back at me for making her stay clean, not fight, and attempt to smile for all pictures during our family picture session on Saturday. (Which I think were fantastic. I have seen 11 as a sneak peek and am very excited.)

I guess we all need sick days every once in a while. I hate that she is sick, but the extra cuddle time in between bouts of sickness is worth it. Mini #1 is loving the extra television time he is getting too.

The long to-do list and school list I had to for today will have to wait along with the housework I had planned to do this afternoon. The mountain of laundry can wait too, except for those "christened" Mini #2 sickness ones.

Perhaps the chilly day and extra coffee I will get to drink today will make up for it and perhaps during one of her napping spots like now I can watch some daytime television. There really is a silver lining to just about everything, isn't there.

Happy Monday! Hope you all are well and enjoying this beautiful fall day.