Browsing Archive: June, 2011

Better Days

Posted by Aprille D on Friday, June 24, 2011, In : Miscellaneous

Not long after I wrote my post about Losin it!, I started having better days. Things tend to work that way...

First, God sent me my "Mommy's Helper." A young lady in my church who has a lot of babysitting and housekeeping experience. She came over and played with Ezra while I taught piano lessons and deep-cleaned my kitchen (for the first time in months!)

She even bought me a java chip frappucino on the way to my house. :)

That evening, (since my house was CLEAN!), I took Ezra out to a local pa...

Losin it!

Posted by Aprille D on Sunday, June 12, 2011, In : Miscellaneous

If I am honest...I am not doing nearly as well as I had expected or hoped to during this deployment.

I feel like I am losing my sanity. Last night I washed a load of clothes, put them in the dryer, and as they were drying I realized that I had never put detergent in the washer. A few days ago I shampooed my hair twice in the matter of two minutes.

Every where I look around my house I see a mess. Toys, laundry, dirty dishes, groceries from Wednesday that I STILL haven't put away (and today is ...
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May Montage

Posted by Aprille D on Wednesday, June 1, 2011, In : Photo blogs

Between Ezra being sick and teething, I feel like I've been a prisoner in my own home for most of the month of May! It has not been easy, but we are doing okay. And we have managed to do a LOT of fun things this month in spite of everything!

We got to see Uncle Kurt graduate from college with his Masters degree:

Ezra had a few playdates:

Ezra is growing so rapidly - doing new things just about every day - sometimes even every hour!
I blink and now he's all grown up and doing new things....

New t...