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twas the week after Christmas

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Just another week, then again not. I mean it WAS the week after Christmas.

A week to enjoy a good cup of coffee. And a week to get to know your new technology.

and leave your Mommy’s alone.

A week where we enjoyed visits from baby unicorns

listening to good music

and NOT propping our dirty shoes up on the sofa.

But it wasn’t all relaxing and playing around.

We had x-rays and an MRI…planned and routine with good news…good news we have waited ten years for. Lesson learned: don’t listen to know-it-all-assholes who presume to know you and your family and the decisions you make for your family’s health and well-being better than you do….ALL the assholes!

There was time to recover from anesthesia…for the MRI.

and bad colds…and bad hair days.

Unfortunately there isn’t much one can do about the bad hair days except just power on through.

Or you just laugh about them.

Yeah, definitely laugh.

Then get back to enjoying the holidays making plans to get with your friends.

and share a little bit of cheer

and sparkle as you prepare to say goodbye to 2012 and hello to the adventures that will be 2013.

This final week of Focus 52 prompt was what we all are up to this last week of 2012.

Happy New Year everyone!

and to figure out new technology.

her Starbucks addiction

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Now that Jodie is a licensed driver, and, more often than not is driving her self to school she has become an early morning regular at the local Starbucks.

MY Starbucks.

It would seem that she is there for the Caramel Brulée Lattes…and the cute barista…at least that is what she says in her early morning tweets before school starts. Can’t speak about the latte but yes, I have seen the cute barista and he is very easy on the eyes which somehow makes my caffeine fix that much more enjoyable…

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…making my spirits (and all the other ladies) bright, baby!

Stopping the other morning for my usual fix, my favorite barista (no, not the cute one) tells me how strange it is to see Jodie come in every morning all on her own. The girl is growing up!

“So you’re the cute barista that she tweets about!”, I tease.

He laughs and tells me that she is probably talking about Oscar. Yeah, I agree. She is indeed talking about Oscar. He laughs again knowing the attention Oscar gets.

He is that cute.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8197/8234043598_3a4816c49e.jpgI tell Ray that I spied the cute barista flirting with Jodie early one morning. And she was flirting right back! Weird it was. No, not in a bad way just in that oh-my-god-my-little-girl-is-no-longer-a-little-girl-and-attractive-guys-around-her-age-are-flirting-with-her way. You’d think after the three sisters before her I would be prepared for it and used to it.

Um, no.

Ray laughs a little not really understanding how surreal such a moment is in the life of your darling daughter.

But he will.

Someday.

His own sweet little girl is growing up much too fast. Soon enough she’ll be driving her self to school and picking up her own early morning treat at the local Starbucks and flirting and crazy stuff like that.

These crazy kids need to just slow down a little.

Am I right?

Of course I am.

coffee talk time with Mi-ma

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So now Fallon has been here for a month. And how is Hazel faring many wonder?

Well, let’s just say the girl’s world has been rocked…a lot. Any parent with more than one child can appreciate the shuffling, the shifting of attention followed by (in great retrospect) the acting out for attention that comes from the big sister/brother. Don’t get the little darlings, or me wrong. The brand-new big sister/brother is absolutely thrilled that the baby is here…and is so cute…until the baby seems to get most of the attention…from Mommy and Daddy…from the grandparents…the aunties and uncles…and friends…and (WTH?) total strangers. It’s very easy to feel like maybe this new baby sister and being the big sister to love and guide her (without killing her) is not all it is cracked up to be.

There may or may not be some serious acting out…

There may or may not have been a mountain on the coffee table in the living room fashioned from nothing but baby powder. There is a sudden need for your binky and your favorite blue blanket…all the time. There are definitely tears…lots of tears. Sometimes, even you, the big sister/brother might even start to cry too.

It’s hard.

Then your baby sister starts to cry because she is hungry, bored, wet or whatever and you suddenly forget how hard it is and the resentment you feel because she needs you…her big sister. Everyone notices how much you care and, well, they forget the baby powder mountain and every other frustration or annoyance that you might have or might have not wrought.

As for Hazel, she’s coping and she is thriving. Someday she and her family will look back on these early days of adjusting to Baby Fallon’s arrival with a lot of laughter.

Someday.

For now the kid needs a little TLC and extra attention. I shared with Holly how I stumbled on this realization when she became a big sister. I also reminded her how hard we tried to carve out one on one time with each of them any chance we got. I’m not sure if she or her sisters and brother really appreciate those mind-numbing errands they had to run  with just mom or walks around the block or any other free moment with just that one child and mom but they had a purpose…to give that one child time alone with mom. Perhaps now that she is a mother of more than one child she will or does appreciate all of them.

With the help of my darling daughter #3, Abby, and my darling husband, who looked after Fallon, I was able to give Hazel some Hazel~Mi-ma time after dropping Jodie off to the dance class she teaches in the next town.

A couple hot chocolates with candy-cane sprinkles, silly talk, laughter and funny You Tube videos watched on Mi-ma’s iPad…what more could we both ask for. I won’t always have the chance for one on one time with her…I didn’t always have the chance with any of the five of my own children…I imagine her Mommy and Daddy won’t always have it either. Still times like these are that important…important for both child and parent or child and grandparent.

That one hour with just Hazel was absolutely priceless…if not for anything else but the candy cane sprinkles…OMG, how awesome are those?!

This is this week’s Wordful Wednesday post. Wordful Wednesday is like Wordless Wednesday, only WITH words. It’s for those of us that can’t contain the chatter, but in a good way. Have something to be Wordful About this Wednesday?  Head on over to Seven Clown Circus and Parenting by Dummies to link up and share.