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In the Blink of an Eye

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Holy moly. You hit “post” about a cute little Father’s Day story on a Monday. Then you blink and it’s almost a week later.

How did that even happen!?

This last week was spent soaking up all the family time I could get before my handsome, well deserving husband jetted off for the fishing trip of a lifetime.

Now I’m attempting to wrangle a toddler solo. I’ve said it before and I will say it again. I have so much admiration for mamas, or any parent for that matter, that does it on their own.

Oh what’s that? You want to know more about those adorable little photos you already peeked on? Well, a couple of months ago I won my very first giveaway! A photo session with Marissa from Marissa Lynn Photography. After two previous attempts at booking an outdoor photo session, the crazy Oregon weather finally decided to cooperate and the result was cute that would kill you if you would have witnessed it first hand. I stole err…borrowed these two shots from the “teasers” she posted on her facebook page.

I am already in love and cannot wait to see the rest of them!

Wife Fail? Or Super Sweet?

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We decided to celebrate our Father’s Day as our little family of three on Saturday. Leaving Sunday to celebrate with our own dads.

The day went a little something like this:

  • Rylee wakes up at 7 AM. I get up with her.
  • Andy gets out of bed about 9:30 AM.
  • Father’s Day cards given to Andy before we leave for the day.
  • Starbucks drive-thru. Sure, sure, Andy doesn’t even like the smell of coffee, but, Happy Wife, Happy Life. Right?
  • Off and running to Cabela’s where we check out the newly opened store and Andy gets some new long underwear for his impending trip to AK.
  • From Cabela’s we head to the Springfield Police K-9 Unit annual competition. Very cool event. Ry loved it! We met up with some friends there. We knew one of the competitors (he won 1st place by the way!).
  • Ry fell asleep on the way home. Napped after we got home.
  • I made an awesome dinner of jerk-chicken and veggie kabobs and jasmine rice. 

That was pretty much that. An awesome day. So why the “wife fail” you ask? Well, let’s rewind a couple of weeks…

Rylee and I are at Target and we decide to pick up some Father’s Day cards. I am intently reading all the husband ones and letting Ry pick out her own. She finds one. I glance at it. It’s got a dog on the front holding a trophy that says “#1 DAD!”. Perfect. I tell her to put it in the cart.

We get home from Target and I hide the cards in my dresser. Saturday morning I pull the cards out of the dresser and hand Rylee’s card to her with a pen so she can “sign” in. I sign mine. Ry hands me her signed card. I put it in the envelope, she licks it and we head out to the living room to present Daddy with his specially picked out Father’s Day cards.

Andy opens Rylee’s card first. I’m sitting at the other end of the couch. He kinda smiles, let’s out a chuckle looks up at me and says…

“Happy Birthday!?…really Babe?”


Ok so…I never once actually READ the card Rylee had chosen for Andy. It wasn’t a Father’s Day card at all…whoops.


I think it’s safe to say that this will be a Father’s Day memory neither of us forget any time soon.


***For the record: Andy thought it was funny and he loves the card Rylee picked out for him.***

Rockin’ the Bump, like woah.

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Ok…I’m doing it. I’m linking up with the “Rockin’ the Bump” deal some other mama’s are doing. I couldn’t resist…my photos are just…too good not to. HAHA! {My “more traditional” bump photos are still stuck on my old computer.}
These were taken less than 2 weeks before I had Rylee. 
Damn straight…I was out turkey hunting less than 2 weeks before giving birth.
I had to get creative on my hunting hear that fit, but I was totally working it! 
Don’t you think?
P.S. Be kind…I’m not one to get up an extra 10 minutes earlier to put makeup on when my alarm was already going off before 5 AM!

I can do this… I think I can do this… Can I do this?

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“Mommy, I have a question.” she says to me as we settle down in her room for the night. She’s had a bath, has fresh PJ’s on and has her head lying on her little sheep pillow.

“Ok, Ry, shoot.” I respond with a smile and a bit of a chuckle. {where does this kid come up with this stuff!?}

She sits up on her knees, looks me square in the eyes and says “So, how was your day?”

I pause for a quick second and actually think about it. I tell her I had a great day and ask her if she knows what my favorite part of it was.

“No, Mommy, what was your favorite?”

“My favorite part of my day was the special night we had tonight. We played ball outside… We laughed a lot… We ate ice cream… We read books… We had fun tonight, didn’t we?”

She smiles and says “yea…” lays her head down on the pillow then taps the bed right next to her and says “One more minute…”

As I lay there I think, I can totally do this.

This time next week Andy will be on his way to Alaska for his EPIC Alaskan Fishing trip with his dad and best friend. So while he’s off traveling the great state of AK for an adventure of a lifetime, I will be playing the single mom role.

With nights like last night it’s easy to think, “pshhh, this will be nuthin’!”

But then…I think back to Saturday. Oh how easily it all comes back to me.

The crying.
The screaming.
The hitting.
The timeouts.
More crying & screaming.
The anger.
The frustration.

The overwhelming feeling that I’m an awful mother who can’t even handle her own child.

Can I really do this? By myself? For 12 whole days?

Last night was great. Maybe it’s all mental? I was “ready” to have a fun night with just Rylee and me. Maybe it was the promise of ice cream after dinner?

By no means am I any sort of expert in the way of parenting, but here’s what I do know:

I am going to go into next week with a smile on my face and a freezer full of ice cream.