Sunshine + Smiles

Sunshine + Camera = lots 'o smiles. Wish the warm would have lasted a bit longer.

This Feels Like A Yearly Family Letter

I manage to make my way back to this blog every few weeks. I always say I want to get back to being consistent and writing a post every few days if only for the sake of documenting our lives. I want to share our story and express myself. We all deserve to be heard no matter how boring we think we are. I guess my once-a-month post is consistency in it's own way.

At the same time I don't want to over share. I struggle with privacy issues. Am I sharing too much or not enough wherein I don't even seem real? And then my head starts to hurt and this is the part where I usually just delete the blog post and close down my browser or post something superficial like this but today I'm going to continue on...

So..my life.. yes I guess that's where I should begin. The snow and no water is as good as start as any I suppose. We've had snow on the ground every day since the beginning of December so we are all ready for Spring and ready to get out of the house. We've experienced more water outages than anyone ever should this Winter and I'm hoping it's all over with. On the up side, I've managed to perfect the pots & pans bath technique. I also experienced getting water from an old well so I'm pretty much prepared for anything 2012ish.

On a more serious note, most of you know our 5 yr old son has EE and has thus far not had to have a feeding tube like many kids with his condition. He's had some bad weeks of constant vomiting. For about 10 days he ate nothing but rice, cereal, baby food, and gatorade. During his last appt. with his Pediatric GI, he had basically stopped growing and gaining weight. I pretty much already knew that because he's been wearing the same clothes for a while now. After a long arduous process we are finally getting into the CCED clinic in Cincinnati. They specialize in this disorder and can hopefully help him. With this comes the possibility of a feeding tube but hopefully he will come out with better results. In March we have to go to Cincinnati (5 hours away) and stay there for 5 days of testing. I'm both hopeful and stressed out at the same time.

Now on to birthdays...Did I mention I feel like I'm writing one of those yearly family letters? Anyway, our oldest will be 9 in 2 days. Wow. In 4 short years I'm going to have a teenager. You do not know how much that scares me. We had his birthday party last weekend in the midst of a water outage. He chose a camo/war theme and we asked everyone to wear something with camouflage. How appropriate. He had an awesome birthday party! Here's the cake:

A couple of days ago I ordered some backgrounds (because I'm crazy and want to start a photography biz) and I needed to do a few test photos so I thought we should just go ahead and do some 9 year portraits. I love how this one turned out of us together. Yes, I'm aware that he is almost as big as me thus the blog name, Petite Mommy ;)

I know this post seems like it will never end which reminds why I never write these types of posts - they take way too long to write and I never have the time... what with homeschooling, my day job, and being a Mom. Not to mention the other 1,000 roles I play.