Life is Sweet

Every morning I wake up at 7:20. Every morning I find my 10 year old daughter up brushing her hair and getting dressed like the responsible little lady she is. I wake up a sleepy eyed Penelope, and every morning she is happy. I'm so glad my girls love school, but I'm so ready for summer days of relaxing and family time to begin. Honestly, I miss them when they are at school. Every morning we get up, and Ceci and I have our coffee (hers hot cocoa) and we send the big girls off to school.

Many mornings I get teary eyed as I watch them cross the street looking so big. Many days Penelope gets past the fence and takes off running because she is so excited to go!

And, every morning Ceci waves goodbye and they yell "Bye Ceci! Love you!" as they hurry away for their fun day of learning. She's usually pretty sad to see her "best friends" leave, and this makes me feel the need to keep her days eventful. I don't have time or patience to sit and read books and play games all day long so we go! We do things! Many mornings we are out for walks or we go to the zoo. The local workers in the post office and grocery store know Ceci pretty well and she is often greeted with dum dums and peppermints when they see her. Yep, the life of a 2 year old is pretty sweet. 

Today we took a stroll through my hometown downtown, Woodbine. Gosh is it beautiful! I miss that little town and all the happy people in it. Walking down the streets, I just feel good. So comfortable. It's nice to go where everybody knows your name. I couldn't pass up the beautiful sites without taking time for a few photo-ops.

Of course being her 2 year old self, she wasn't having it...

  So, I bribed her with a sucker....Yes, I'm that mom. You know what, it was worth it. What's a little sugar gonna hurt?

Yep, it's pretty darn good....

 She loved it so much, she gave it a hug!

She even insisted on getting two extra suckers for her sisters. Yep, life is sweet.

Cheers!

-Angee