Spring Cleaning and Lots of Cooking

This last week was a long one. Something happened to my baby - she morphed into a different little person. She went from her normal happy self…..

To this….a whiny, slobbery, unhappy, crying toddler…..

And this was my week. I had a hard time dealing with it all. I am lucky to have a husband that understands, and he helped take her off my hands after work so I wouldn’t go crazy from all the screaming tantrums and almost non-stop whining.
Then I realized as I was brushing her teeth on Saturday that two of her 2-year molars had grown almost all the way in in the matter of a week! My poor little one! She has since been given some Tylenol, Ibuprofen, Baby Orajel, some natural herbal teething tablets and is the happy, smiley, funny and mischievous toddler I’m used to! Whew!

My baby is back!

This weekend while I.C. napped Hubby and I did some spring cleaning. Our garage is kind of a nightmare, the kind I probably shouldn’t tell you about, but I will. For almost a year now we haven’t had a car in the garage because we have too many other things occupying space in there! A few years back my husband and I lived in Ecuador for close to a year. Before leaving we each had our own apartments, and we put all our stuff together in storage while we were gone. When we got back we lived in a small duplex and we kept the storage unit because we didn’t have enough room in our apartment. And because we had to go through a lot of boxes to find stuff because my husband didn’t label anything that was his.

Dancing Queen, a Warm Spell & Two-Year Pictures!

My Aunt recently passed away and this weekend my family and I attended her funeral. It was a beautiful service and my uncle and one of my cousins were able to get up in front of the whole congregation (?) and speak about what a wonderful woman she was. I am in awe and still can’t believe that they had the courage to get up and speak about their wife and mother without breaking down completely. My daughter loves my aunt, and talks about her all the time. She was a wonderful woman who gave her time, energy and friendship to a lot of people.
Throughout the last couple of weeks, when my aunt’s liver was failing and then after her death friends and family have been at my uncles house with baked goods, home-cooked meals, and lots of support for them. A neighbor of my grandma has some chickens and gifted my uncle with dozens of fresh and organic eggs from their farm. There were too many for him, and so he gave some away to family, and I was lucky to end up with a dozen fresh eggs, all different sizes, colors and shapes!

This morning it was cold out, but the sun came out after a while and I decided to scramble up some of those fresh eggs for breakfast. It was a peaceful morning as my daughter and I ate eggs with the sun shining in the windows! I thought about my aunt the whole time, and how good she was to my precious little girl and how much fun we had playing at her house with her, my uncle, their grandson and my cousins!

One of my aunt’s requests for her funeral was that one of her favorite songs be played, and so we all marched out of the funeral listening to Dancing Queen by ABBA! She was one spunky woman!