Friday Letters

Dear Children, oh it's been a long week. A cold week. With a couple of sickies around. Dear Avary, you came home with a headache on Monday and wound up laying in my bed so sick. Poor thing. You got to watch some animal shows that you love so much when you missed school. I am glad you recovered pretty quick. Dear Hazel, you say the funniest things lately. You have a cold right now and I feel bad for you. You are so cute though when you ask me if you have a cowd. Dear Kade, helping you study for your bones test was...interesting. I am glad you passed and that you had a list of the written words to choose from, otherwise it would have been...interesting. Dear Hailey, you turned 14. You had a friend over and opened your cards, but we will party for you tonight. You are growing up too fast. Lets just have all of your teen years be fun. Ok? Dear Will, I felt bad for you when you had a horrible cold all weekend while you worked. I don't know how I managed not to catch it. You have been kind of...we will say funny, this week. I will admit you have made me laugh more than a few times this week. Dear Self, it has taken so long for my old lady back to heal. I knew it was bad when I heard a snap sound. It has taken all of my patience not to do anything and just wait for it to get better. Here's to hoping it continues to improve through the weekend cause it's busy around here.

Friday Letters

Dear Children, it's been crazy the last couple of weeks. I am glad to be home with you. I am so relieved that you all had a fun time while I was away. Dear Halloween, a couple of weeks ago...I am glad we had our trunk or treat on Wed. so I got to see the kids dressed up and I didn't miss it completely. I didn't even dress up this year. We had a fox, monster high, ghoul and Alice in wonderland. Dear Babysitters, I feel so fortunate to have found such good people to take care of my kids while I was gone. The kids talk about them everyday and how much fun they had. They taught them so many things. They even cleaned! I really could never have gone if I didn't know my kids were ok. Thank You SO Much! Dear Sister W, I was so grateful to you for taking Hailey to the Dr. when she got knocked down by a car on her bike when I was gone. We are part of a great ward. (she is fine) Dear Avary, you had a great birthday. You wanted an animal party, no surprise there. You were so surprised when you opened your presents. You went crazy for your fur vest and stick horse. You opened the box half way and said "oh just what I needed an umbrella" you were so polite and thankful even though you had only seen the stick and thought it was an umbrella Ha. We had to make you finish opening it so you would see the horse you had been asking for. Oh my little Babycakes, I love you so much! Dear Hailey, next week you will turn 14yrs old. You are growing up way too fast! You wrote me a very sweet note this week. Thank you:) Dear Kaden, I have been watching you. I saw you play cards with Hazel for and hour and a half and make her balloon animals. I didn't even know you could make balloon animals. Dear Hazel, I missed all your sweet hugs and your toothless smile. Dear Cold, the weather had been just perfect when I left town and I come home to it being so cold. I had to turn the heater on today! Dear Hawaii, I am now in love. There is just too much to love. Except what it does to my hair. Dear Water Jug, I have lifted you a hundred times. It only takes one small, wrong move and my back breaks. I really hate it when I put my back out. At least it happened at home. Dear In Laws, Thanks to Will's Dad for being so generous and taking us all to Hawaii. I really enjoyed getting to know everyone better, it was so much fun. The whole family are such great people. Dear Will, I loved getting to spend all of my time with you for a whole week. That was the trip of a lifetime and full of so many happy memories with you. Dear Self, it was so good to have a break from life for a moment. Somehow my brain still doesn't want to work. My mind is all over the place. It must be because I am a year older.