Merry Christmas from the Withingtons

Well, here's to another Christmas that went by too quickly, to early morning squabbles and children waiting impatiently for parents to get wake up, make coffee and set up camera & video equipment etc. Here's to an afternoon nap well deserved, to children hopped up on peppermint bark and candy canes, racing through piles of new toy packaging scattered around the house, and covering up their new favorite baby dolls with blankies in the middle of the dining room floor... and finally to the one person who, once holiday festivities have ended, is now passed out on the living room sofa. Christmas just wouldn't be the same without all of it:)

Now I'm off play with my pile of toys, which are dishes and a bottle of Palmolive. Wish me luck!

& hope you all have a Great Day with those you love.

Merry Christmas

Miss You Gals

Roxanne

Growing Up

So I know...it's been soooo long since I've blogged. Just felt the need to open up.

Yesterday, Adrienne turned 11 years old. Geeez! Where did time go. My mind glimpsed back today to years ago when she was a tot. We brought her home from the hospital right before Christmas and watched how amazed our family was with her. It was so easy to make her giggle, and cry sometimes too. Now she's quickly on her way to becoming an adult, reserving her right to giggle (tomboys don't),and refusing to cry, but always finding a reason to ignore anything I say that she does not like.

My Adrienne,standing at 5'3", awkwardly accepting changes of preteenhood, brave and beautiful, imaginative and independent, uniquely her own person, my goofy sugar-loving counterpart, my Adrienne is done with childhood.

Childhood is fleeting. There's just no way to stop it. I love her so much and am glad she still likes to watch a good movie (Julie & Julia), will share some of her secrets with me and counts me as the best baker she knows.

With that I leave you with today's best quote from my Audrey at 3yrs...

"Mommy, wouldn't it be so much fun to have a parade down our street with giant teddy bears and roller coasters, and we could ride on dem!"

xoxo

Luckylass