Halloween Preview (again)

The good news is that there are only 2 days left until Halloween. The bad news is that there are still 2 days until Halloween, so there might be even more "Halloween Preview"-type posts from me.

Today was Anna's Halloween parade at school. She's dressing up as Diego this Halloween. She's currently obsessed with Diego (and can re-enact complete episodes, which is amazing and sad) so we'll likely get a lot of mileage out of this costume. When she puts the costume on, she's star-struck at how much she looks like her idol. It's kind of cute. And, again, sad.

Pre, pre, pre-Halloween

Wearing their Halloween finest to school today.

My kids just can't be normal, when posing for a picture together

Who's this little boy and where did my baby go?

Also curious to know who this girl is and wondering where my baby girl went.

Wordless Tuesday: Ham Edition

My Former Favorite Place on Earth

To celebrate our 10 year anniversary, (which is next month) we had planned to go to Isla Mujeres, Mexico the second week in October. We'd booked our flight, hotel, grandparents for kid-watching and petsitter for cat-watching. Hurricane Paula had different plans for our trip though, as she decided to weeble and wobble precariously closely to Isla in the days preceding our trip there. Having survived Hurricane Ike here, we opted not to chance it and made a last-minute change of plans, deciding instead to head to Sedona, AZ.

Prior to having the kids, we went to Sedona almost every year. I used to say that it is my favorite place on Earth. It is still lovely, awesome, breath-taking and spectacular however, I missed my children. Although I might not admit it some days, I think that I've discovered that anywhere my kids are, is my favorite place on Earth. Now, if we could just pack up our family and move to Sedona? That would be Heaven on Earth.

Please enjoy our trip slideshow below. Most of what you'll see is Sedona, Jerome and the vineyards between Sedona and Jerome. Music by John Mayer.

Sedona 2010 from jurica on Vimeo.

Holding it together

It's probably safe enough now to let you know that, for the past 2 weeks, I've been a single mother. Last week, Kevin had a lot going on with work, so he was only home one night of the week. Then, over the weekend, he had to go on an impromptu business trip to California, which lasted all of this week. As I type this, he's (thankfully) on a flight home.

The past couple of weeks have gone smoothly. When it's just me and the kids, we get it done--early to bathe and early to bed. Even though everything went smoothly, it was still very tiring and frustrating at times. So, with this being my last night of single motherhood, I'm pretty spent--both physically and emotionally.

Just now, as I was bathing the kids, Anna looked up at me and said:

"Mama, why aren't you smiling?"

Me: "I'm just tired"

Anna: "Why are you tired?"

Me: "I'm guess I'm just ready for Daddy to get home"

Anna: "Mama, you really need to try to hold it together"

I think that I've "held it together" rather well, thankyouverymuch.