One Day At A Time

God broke our hearts to prove to us, He only takes the best!"

There was some sadness in our weekend as we attended a memorial. Cancer reared it's ugly head in our family again. My heart breaks for everyone who has lost a loved one to this awful disease. ♥♥♥ I ask the one or two that read my boring little blog to please give your loved ones an extra kiss & hug today, tell them you love them and call that friend/family member that you have been meaning to touch base with. You never know when some one's expiry date might be up.
As we were leaving the luncheon I heard C say to my sis-in-law "Just take it one day at a time." I thought about that all the way home. How often do we put things off or make excuses as to why we can't do this or that until the next day, month or year? How would our lives change if we lived each moment as if it was our last? We spend so much time and energy rushing through life. Always dreaming, always making "goals", always striving for more. As we drove home I had visions of moving to a small community far away from the busy city. Spend more time gardening, making memories with my children and travelling. Of course as we pulled into the driveway I had already found many reasons why we couldn't do such things yet - maybe when C is done school or when the girls are older or ......

Onto lighter topics ....
It's Muffin Tin Monday!

Snack - Fruit snacks, water, pears, goldfish, cream cheese (with blue food coloring to look like water), more fishies.

Lunch - Star cucumbers, 1000 island "dip", carrot dots, sausage, scrambled eggs (with cauliflower .. shhhh) served in a baked tortilla bowl, tortilla crisps (made from the scrap tortilla).

The rest of our weekend was okay. Nothing exciting. Did some house work, swimming lessons, a little shopping. Tried once again to give Miss Daisy a bottle. Once again we failed. So now I am onto Plan B. Introducing the sippy cup. I picked her up a special trainer cup and put a little boob milk in it. So far she just plays with it but i am hoping eventually she will take to it and realize that she gets the sweet nectar of mommy from it. In return mommy can get away for more that 1.5 hours at a time.
Miss Lily continued to drive me batty and make me giggle (not always in that order) all week. She is such a ummmm .... spirited ... child. Most days it seems like she is 2 going on 13. She has taken to slamming the door to her room when she is mad at us (okay, mostly me). Trying to get ready for swimming lessons she decided that she didn't want to go because she didn't want to go under water. Which she informed in a very loud voice punctuated by a door slamming in my face.

~ looking all (blurry) sweet and innocent~

Today she has decided that naps are so yesterday. No nap for Miss Lily makes mommy a little something something.
I see a tall glass of wine in my future.