Our family's "Crown Jewel"

Our eyes finally met, and life would never be the same again!

Oh, my sweet wee one, I am so thankful to have you...

and could never have imagined that from this tiny sprout:

such a beautiful, BIG-little-girl could emerge:

Today you are five, and I simply cannot believe that half a decade has whizzed past us already.

Happy Birthday, my spritely, spirited girl.

You make our family perfectly complete.

xoxoxo proud to be your mummy xoxoxoxo

Sunday Morning Potty Humour.

Child Number Two: (bursting into the kitchen with the balletic grace of a sumo wrestler) Hiya, Mum!! What's for breakfast??!!

Mother: (blearily stirring concoction in large mixing bowl, whilst waiting for coffee to brew) Bran muffins. Bran, with raisins.

Child Number Two: (deadly serious) Bummer.

Cue hysterical laughter.

Can Wee Three pleeeze, puh-LEEZE have her training wheels off this weekend?

Ummmm... Nope.

Happy Mother's Day

When You Thought I Wasn't Looking

When you thought I wasn't looking

You hung my first painting on the refrigerator

And I wanted to paint another.

When you thought I wasn't looking

You fed a stray cat

And I thought it was good to be kind to animals.

When you thought I wasn't looking

You baked a birthday cake just for me

And I knew that little things were special things.

When you thought I wasn't looking

You said a prayer

And I believed there was a God

I could always talk to.

When you thought I wasn't looking

You kissed me good-night

And I felt loved.

When you thought I wasn't looking

I saw tears come from your eyes

And I learned that sometimes things hurt-

And that it's alright to cry.

When you thought I wasn't looking

You smiled

And it made me want to look that pretty too.

When you thought I wasn't looking,

You cared

And I wanted to be everything I could be.

When you thought I wasn't looking-

I looked...

And wanted to say thanks

For all those things you did

When you thought I wasn't looking.

--Mary Rita Schilke Korzan

Happy Mother's Day to my very own mother, who I'm sure, did more for me "when she thought I wasn't looking" than I could ever begin to imagine.

I am the woman, wife and mother I am today, because of her.