Mother's Day

It was my first *real* Mother's Day and it was quite special. I feel incredibly blessed to have such a loving family around me. I am super blessed to have my mom so close to help me with this rollercoaster that is motherhood. In fact, I wrote her a letter apologizing for being such a brat when I was younger and giving her such a hard time growing up. I can understand now how she loved me throughout it all, but I can also understand how much I must have hurt her along the way. She is an incredible woman and I can only hope and pray that my kids will look up to me the way my brother and I look up to her.

Sunday was a great day. The previous post explains the morning. After Cal's morning nap (actually, I think he was too excited about the lot to sleep. He opted out of nap time.), we went over to the new neighborhood and walked over to the new lot! I loved being with my boys and just walking and talking-- perfect for me!

We spent some time outside then headed home for Cal's afternoon nap (all of 45 mins....). After he woke up, we went over to my parent's house to celebrate with the family. It was such a special day. Here are some pictures from the afternoon...

"He got me....A LOT!"

The new lot!

No, really.... an actual LOT! We are building a new house!

Let me back up. Happy Mother's Day to all of you Mommies out there! Hope you had a great day.


I woke up on Sunday morning when Eddie jumped out of bed (he has a pattern on special holidays/birthdays. He gets up before I do, runs to the florist, picks up breakfast and wakes me up when he comes back). When he returned, he had a dozen of the most beautiful white roses-- those were from Cal :). He gave me Cal's card and then a card from him too. I was getting up to go eat my cinnamon roll (yummmmm), and he handed me a gift: wrapped in the home section of the newspaper was information tube--the thing that you stick in your front lawn with flyers in it.

We had been talking about moving to this new neighborhood for a while. We didn't think it was feasible money-wise, so we looked in other surrounding neighborhoods. We couldn't find anything we liked. Everything that was big enough, was wayyyy out dated and would need loads of work. We just kept going back to this new neighborhood. Last weekend, we drove through it (as I do every single day on my way to walk), and the real estate office had gone through an updated all of the SOLD signs. There were very few lots remaining....! Eddie and I had been talking about it a lot since then, and every time I could see him get a little panicky when the financial side was brought up. We would be able to swing it fine, but Eddie was a little nervous because he tends to worry/stress about that stuff-- he is a Financial Adviser, after all....

Back to the story: after I unwrapped the information tube, Eddie said we should probably go ahead and list our house since we were wanting to move. Then the second "gift" was the sticky numbers to stick onto the sign, and he said the 3rd gift was in the back of my car: it was a For Sale By Owner sign! Stuck to the sign was a letter from the neighborhood broker office officially signing over our lot! WOOHOO!

We will meet with the builder next week to start the next steps of the building process. They are totally custom built homes so I am going to have a field day picking it all out!

Happy Mother's Day to everyone!

Our current house