Wouldn't it be nice if life was easy?

Being unemployed has made me question what I really want in life... I used to think that I wanted to be a "career woman" but having Josh in my life makes me realize that isn't important. I am enjoying the time with my son so much that I wish that I could be a stay at home Mom until he goes to school, but the reality is that we can't afford for me to stay at home. My job search has not yet been successful and the jobs in the Customs industry locally at my level are not in abundance... which is starting to make me depressed. So barring winning the lottery or finding a benefactor I really have to start looking for a job outside of my field.

It sure has been an eventful couple of weeks! Congratulations to Teri on her new daughter Ellie and Sue on her new son Cullen!

I am thoroughly enjoying being a SAHM for the time being while searching for a job although Josh, Barry and I have picked up some kind of bug. Josh seems to be feeling better but Barry and I are still feeling under the weather. I am really looking forward to going to Florida at the end of the month to visit my twin sister Jill.

mmmm.......................Cake!

Last night we celebrated Aunt Heather and Great Aunt Sharon's Birthdays. It was the first time that Josh had cake and as you can see he really enjoyed it! It was quite a party and my usual late night partier fell asleep at 8 p.m.!

A-B-C-D-E-F-G

Josh at Daddy's Office

My big boy is reciting the ABC's! Grammy likes to sing the ABC's to Josh (albeit out of tune!) and all of a sudden last week while we were at the mall I heard him reciting them! Now he does it all the time and usually gets as far as G!

My big boy!

My baby got his first pair of big boy shoes (and sneakers too) yesterday! He was so cute sitting on my lap watching the lady measure his feet and putting the shoes on him. After the lady put his shoes on I tried to get him to walk but he had other ideas and crawled across the store to flirt with a little girl!

Sometimes Daddy is clueless!

Last night I was trying to fold laundry and Josh climbed in the laundry basket and Bailey was making her bed in the folded clothes on the carpet.... so I proclaimed to Barry who was upstairs..........."They are driving me crazy!" so what does my clueless DH do?????? He comes downstairs picks the dog up and takes the dog upstairs with him!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mommy and her wonderful ideas

My Child Prodigy!
Josh with Jonah (L) and Noah (R) who were 3 weeks old yesterday!



Josh spent a fun day yesterday with Grammy and Poppi complete with pancakes and syrup at the Pancake House, playing the piano and a visit from his cousins when Mommy had a wonderful idea to go out for a Valentine's Sushi dinner. It is a good thing that Josh is a wonderful baby because it took 1/2 an hour before anyone even came over to our table to even take our drink order (after I asked someone twice to send our server over) and another hour before we got served!!! Josh took it all in stride laughing, playing, eating his cheese puffs and flirting with the ladies at the tables near us.