Goodbye Friend

Today was a very sad day for our family. We had to have our cat, Blacky, put to sleep since she was suffering from kidney failure. Barry found her as a stray about 13 years ago. She was a funny, inquisitive, sweet cat and she will be sadly missed by our family.

I took this picture of Josh and Barry last weekend when we took a drive to Wilson. Josh was sick all this past weekend. He caught a virus from his cousin Noah and spiked a fever of 103.9. I called Dr. Beney and he had us bring him into his office on Saturday even though he doesn't have office hours on the weekends. Grammy and Poppy came over yesterday to see Josh and bearing gifts. Josh especially loved the new Little Tykes Basketball net!

Let's go for a ride!
My babies taking a ride
Bailey's had enough
Chasing poor Bailey
Pooped! Fell asleep in the middle of dinner!

We don't have too many pictures of the family since Mommy is usually behind the camera but here is a picture from the Passover Seder at Heather and David's house on Saturday night. It was a beautiful night and we even got to enjoy David and Heather's new deck.

Happy Birthday Josh!

Amanda and Josh
Jake and Olivia
Josh and Elmo
Julian, Josh and Jake

It is hard to believe that in a few short hours my baby will be 1. My Mom commented yesterday that the past year has been the most wonderful year of her life because of Josh and I couldn't agree more.

Here are a few pictures from his birthday party today at Rolly Pollies.

I love you Joshua...............................Happy Birthday!

We had a wonderful trip to Florida

We had a wonderful vacation visiting Aunt Jill and Uncle Patrick. We went to either the pool or beach every day. Josh loved the pool but wasn't too crazy about the beach this trip. He went in the Gulf but was not happy at all about the sand... which is too bad because Mommy loves the beach. Now the countdown begins until Josh's birthday which is 1 week from today!!!!!!!!!! It is hard to believe how time has flown.

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.