Happy Friday!

• I'm loving work!  Getting out of the house, putting on nice clothes and getting to work with some pretty cool folks has been a nice change of pace. 
• The first week was rough because the kids were sick, but thankfully they weren't really miserable.  They were still full of smiles, but the smiles were accompanied by lots of runny noses, nasty coughs and fevers.  Kaitlyn's was eventually diagnosed with bronchitis, but thankfully they are both better.
• Even though I'm gone three days of the week, Ron still gets a better reaction from the kids when he walks in the door.  I've just come to terms with the fact that he's their favorite right now.  When they were younger I was the preferred parent. I'm sure that had something to do with mammary glands, but my day will come again!
• I thought this was hilarious:

• Madonna is opening her 2012 World Tour in Israel in May.  There is a new Facebook page urging Prime Minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, not to strike Iran until after the show.  Ha! 
• After watching a story on some of the most memorable Super Bowl commercials, Ron decided to reenact one of his favorites.  We're a bunch of dorks!
• I bought Jonathan a baseball cap a couple of weeks ago.  It's from a store called e.p.k.  Not sure what it stands for, but it was on super sale and actually small enough to fit him. He hated it at first, but now loves it.  And he looks so cute wearing it! :)

• I'm not running like I should be.  Ron and I are officially registered to run the 10K of the TLV Marathon and neither of us have been training.  Of course, he could probably run the half without training.  Work has definitely made finding time to run much more challenging.
• Another challenge: taking all the pictures and blogging like I resolved to do at the beginning of the year.  Having said that, here is a super long Friday Photo Dump to make up for the last couple of weeks when I didn't do them.  And for once...it's actually being posted on Friday! :)

Have a great weekend!

Weekend Check-in + Friday Photo Dump

This is my last weekend before I officially become a "working mom".  Does that mean up until now, I was a "playing mom"?  Ha!  We've had a relaxing weekend so far, trying to keep the kids from getting sick (Kaitlyn has been feeling under the weather today) and trying to find ways to entertain ourselves during the rainy afternoons.  

I feel like I have lots to do before Monday.  I just hope I can start the week feeling ready and not stressed and unprepared.  I'm looking forward to this new challenge.  My stomach still turns when I think about being away from the kids for 3 days a week, but it could be worse.  And I think it will be good for all of us.  We'll see...

Once again, a day late...

 

Photo Frenzy

I still have few catch-up posts to blog, but I wanted to get this one up...

Ron got me a tripod and remote shutter for Christmas (thank you, babe).  We've only used it a handful of times, but  I love having the ability to be in the pictures and take family pictures without relying on someone else being there to take them for us.  Here are some of the fun ones we've gotten so far:

Kaitlyn and I had some photo-booth-style fun while Jonathan napped.

On my birthday, we used it to get a photo of the family as they sang "Happy Birthday" to me.  My birthday "cake" was a carton of Ben & Jerry's Chucnkty Monkey.  Yum!

I obviously need some practice hiding the remote when I take the pictures!

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Some of you may remember this time last year when I started a version of Project Life...taking one picture every day and creating a scrapbook.  I loved it.  I loved having photos of our family and our everyday lives.  What I started to not love was the scrapbooking part of it.  The layouts of the photos, choosing what colors to make the backgrounds, etc.  Don't get wrong, I think they are gorgeous, but actually doing them took a lot of time.  Then I fell behind on getting them done and playing catch up became too overwhelming so the project just died.  I'm sure I still took a picture a day (or close to it), but I didn't do anything with most of them.  As much of a big, fat failure the project was last year, I'm trying again.  This time, even more simplified...no creative layouts, coordinating colors, just the pictures.  Some will be taken from my nice camera, but I'm sure most will come from my iPhone because it's the camera I always have with me.  (Hopefully, blogged at the end of each month.)  Additionally, any other random photos I take (strictly from my phone) will get "dumped" here once a week.