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It is March and I still can not believe that it is 2020!  It has been a long time since I blogged regularly and one of my new years resolutions was to get to it!  Ever since we moved in 2015, I keep thinking I will "catch up" on our blog but now I am realizing that will never happen.  Recently, I had a friend ask me if I still wrote or blogged and the answers is not really, I start a lot of posts but never finish.  Somewhere in between sports, scouts, volunteering and planning meals I have lost myself.  2020 is the year of LEAH! So I have been making a effort to do things for me, walking, making time for coffee with friends and writing.  Because writing has always been so therapeutic for me, I hope to relocate my voice in my personal writing and begin blogging again because it is a unique way to share our story and our feelings in this current time and space to read in the future.  And, as we are all in a Pandemic COVID-19 Quarantine- there is no bett...

We enjoyed another summer creating memories of fun & chaos. The actually calendar dates for the seasons never seem to coincide with the weather in Washington.  Summer in my head runs from the last day of school to Labor Day weekend.  Since moving to Whatcom county in June 2015, we don't spend as much time at the parks.  Although the people in the community are more family oriented & friendly, the parks system leave much to be desired after living in King County.  Our favorite park this summer was Lynden City Park.  Issac spends the entire time in the creek chasing fish and crawdads.  Josie goes back and fourth from the water to the swings, with the tire swing being her favorite. We did less camping than last summer but we participated in more summer time activities than ever before.  Issac played summer baseball and the kids each participated in a couple of summer camps.  The kids are become very social little people and spent a lot of ...

Thanks to the fun "memories" feature on social media, I was reminded that today marks three years since our family moved from King County to Whatcom County. So many things have changed and yet so much is the same.  We moved to Ferndale on a Sunday and I started working part time for my aunt that Tuesday.  The days, weeks and months flew bye.  Tyler would work during the day and then I worked at night and it seemed like we were constantly shuffling back and fourth in a constant struggle to function.  I lost myself moving home.  Silly to get exactly what I wanted for so many years to be meet with challenges.  But the commitment Tyler and I have to each other and our family fueled us to take all of life's punches head on and overcome the difficulties we faced from relocating. Now in 2018 we are back and my friends know that I have dedicated 2018 to being the year of LEAH!  I quit my part time job in March and since then I can feel myself shining t...

I think it was only a day or two after his fourth birthday party that Issac declared that for his fifth birthday he wanted a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle Party when he turned six.   Honestly, I’m half surprised he didn’t change his mind & half not surprised at all that he didn’t change his mind during the year because Issac has loved turtles ever since he was two.   Issac loves not just TMNT but all things turtle, he has books about turtles, a handful of stuffed turtles and even a pet tortoise, Crush.     Above- Issac invited 6 school friends to his party. Bellow- Cupcakes for his class w/ TMNT toppers made by me.  Above- Josie bought Issac 6 balloons. Bellow- Cupcakes at school.  Above- Issac & Josie celebrating his birthday with his class. Bellow- Birthday morning tradition- new Mariner's hat. Issac requested that his birthday be a TMNT theme, with Pizza at his favorite park, Steel Lake in Federal Way.   T...