Birthday Girl turns 1!

 One is a big deal. Right. It also helps if you are sharing the party with two other family members too right? So the party should be fun. . . .

 Uncle Aaron shared his birthday party with Hazel.

So did Aunt Becca.

Hazel, you are so adorable. You are so gentle and easy going. I guess you have to be if you are the youngest of four. You love your older siblings and like to follow them around the house. You are also one smart girl. You taught yourself how to go up and down the stairs. I didn't even have to do the stair lesson with you. One day you just started climbing the stairs. And just recently you decided that you should learn to go down the stairs, so you did that too. I think you were tired of being left behind at the top of the stairs. All you want to do is be with your siblings. So cute.

Your brother and sisters love you to bits. Thanks for joining our family. Happy Birthday little one.

Fountain of Youth

My younger sister and I were shopping recently and a sale associate was assisting us. At one point in the conversation the woman asked me, "Are you her mother?"

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I was sucking in air. My eyes got huge. I may or may not have made a fist with my hand and caulked my arm. I looked back at the sales associate and said with my sweetest voice that I could muster through my teeth, "She is my younger sister."   The horrible woman was trying to age me 26 years.

At this moment I should have just tried to laugh it off, or at least the nervy woman should have laughed it off and apologized. I don't know where this woman learned manners but in her attempt to try and clear her name she then said, "Oh,  . . . its not that you look really old (referring to me), well it is just cause she looks so old, (referring to my sister) You know how mothers and daughters can look so much alike."


Dang woman.


Needless to say I've been seeking the fountain of youth as of late.