The Visual Mom

Myself and the kids have had about enough of this snow, grey skies and cold weather.  The other day while we were at Lowes picking up some home items, I saw that they already had their patio furniture and gardening department up -- at least inside. I couldn't help myself and I purchased seed packets for various flower varieties that I love to have on the patio each summer.  This included wave petunias, dwarf petunias, giant zinnias, shade and sunny wildflower seed mixes and a couple of others.  I bought a seed starter container and some specialty soil for starting seeds indoors.  Since I wanted Eva to be involved (Jacob is still a bit young for this) I spread out newspaper on the table and Eva helped me spread the soil in the holes and put seeds into the containers.  I designated 1-2 rows for each type of flower and we labeled them so that we'll know what they are.  There are 24 starts of petunias.  They're my favorite. :)  And then there are 12...

Its hard to believe that it is already February 13.  That means that in just two days, my baby boy will be a year old.  Already.  How did that happen?  Where did the time go?  How is it possible that he wasn't even here a year ago and now he's almost walking?  Almost talking?  It is crazy.  And even though it seems like the time has flown by, I wouldn't change it -- not a second of it.  Birthday cake with the cousins. At the water park with Grandma Judy. We celebrated Jacob's first birthday last weekend during a trip to Wisconsin.  All the relatives were there and so it seemed appropriate.  Our trip home was to go to an indoor water park in Wisconsin Dells, which was a very nice respite from the bitter cold temperatures we've had this winter.  I admit to having some reservations about making a 6.5 hour drive (one way) to the Dells with a (nearly) one year old and a two year old.  Somehow, a water park weekend se...