Maderville

Lazy Day
What makes a rainy day = a lazy day? Today Landry and I were absolute bums. She wanted to nap a good part of the day so who knows what time she will finally end up going to sleep tonight. If you know anything about my parenting style, you know that I am a schedule follower and that I NEVER deviate from her eating or bed time schedules. I am kind of OCD about it actually. I am so blessed that she is such a great sleeper. She rarely gets up in the middle of the night and when she does, she usually puts herself back to sleep. She has been sleeping about 11-12 hours every night. WOW!
Yesterday we had a lazy day too. It was one of those pajama days that we are all entitled to everyone once a while. I decided that March 12th was an optional pajama day for the rest of my life. So far, I have exercised the holiday for the last 3. The first year, several of my friends came over in their pajamas and we watched movies and ate lots of really bad(good) food...all day long. They left late in the afternoon and we met up again at Sophie's first annual Dessert before Dinner party. This year was the 3rd year to celebrate her and we really had a good time. I bought 4 balloon for us to send up to heaven. The first one had Happy Birthday on it for Sophie, the second one was all of the Disney princesses for Landry to send to her sister and Grandmother, the third one was a pink heart for Martha because her heart was so big and the last one was a smiley face for a sweet guy from our church who just passed away and his name was Grif. There have been some very special people to pass in the last month and I couldn't go to their funerals. I had a hard time admitting this at first but I just don't do funerals well. I didn't think I could handle such an emotional funeral as Martha's so I just didn't go. I felt terrible for not going but I just couldn't do it. I gave the balloons to Landry to send up to heaven and she screamed ' BALLOON!' and let them go. She waved bye-bye until we couldn't see them any longer. I thought she was going to get upset but she never did. It was almost like she knew where they were going. I want to thank everyone for coming and for all of the sweet thoughts and prayers. I got an unexpected gift yesterday from my cousin Mindy and her husband Jim. Little did she know but she sent me my favorite flowers. She sent me a beautiful bouquet of flowers and the sweetest card remembering Sophie. It was total surprise and one that truly touched my heart. The unexpected sentiments are the ones that really take you by surprise. I woke up this morning and they were such a beautiful way to start my day. Thank you Mindy...I will never forget your thoughtfulness. I was also surprised at all of the phone calls, emails and Facebook wishes. I know that life goes on and people forget but it is really nice to know that you are loved and thought of on difficult days. I certainly felt loved yesterday and the pain of the day was certainly dulled from all of the kindness. If you want to take a look at all of the pictures from yesterday click on my photo album to the right. Otherwise, here are a few I picked out from the day.