A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week.
A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. .
I seem to have a hard time with this "no words" part ... but heck, it's my blog, I can do whatever I want to :)
This is my (still) 5 year old daughter, sleeping, dreaming of her birthday, her school, her GP and GM and her Omi, her Jay [for sure], Disneyland, swimming, a camp car, hiking, how to bother her sister the best and how to keep her parents on their toes at all times.
Tomorrow, she'll wake up a 6 year old ... and in a blink of an eye she'll wake up being a 16 year old.
It just blows my mind how fast time runs by when you have something so precious in your life.
6 years ago, on October 22 at around 9:30 am a little baby girl was born at Kaiser Permanente in Walnut Creek. Lillie Marie Sigrid Agnes Czarnota
She changed our lives the moment we met her and has taught us so many things we thought we already knew.
Love, unconditional deep heart aching love, trust, responsibility, caring, crying, pain, worry, hope, happiness, happiness in the most simplest things in life, and the power of family and togetherness.
This little person taught us how to see the world through her eyes. Her happiness is our happiness and her sorrow and pain is our heartache and our tears.
She taught us appreciation for our parents and families. I looked at my mom very differently once I became a mom myself. Everything we, as kids, take for granted, now comes to shine in a very new light.
Where once we dreamed of holidays and x-mas away from people, on a beach or at a ski resort we now want family, grandparents, uncles and aunts, cousins and friends to share these special days with us.
Santa came to life again and turned from a pure gift giving "thing" to an enchanted, magical time with cookies and milk in front of the fire place. The tree shines so much brighter when you have little people staring at it with amazed eyes and in awe of all that just happened.
"Purple Landing" (... inside joke for FGM and FGF) was a hoot last x-mas [Remember that guys? We are still laughing and feeding off these wonderful memories].
I cut both of my hands open while pushing a plastic sled down the hill in front of our friends house at 11:00 pm on Dec. 24 to leave sled marks in the frozen snow.
I almost broke my teeth trying to gnaw on the (by now) frozen carrots the kids had left in the snow for the reindeer and pushed the oats away to make it look like hoofs had been walking all over them.
Little did I know that it would snow again that night and all my efforts were covered with a white, fluffy blanket the next morning.
We celebrated x-mas with the H-team and their two little people and the excitement in that house on x-mas morning was CRAZY to say the least. 4 kids in "x-mas overdrive" ... it couldn't have been any better!!!!
Being a mom has changed my whole life.
I learned to love my husband not just for being my best friend, soul mate and Goalie but also as a father of my girls. Nothing makes me more happy than watching them race into his arms, jumping right into them and hug him so tight his head turns red.
Every night before I go to bed I go and check on the Ls to make sure they are o.k., warm and tucked in and every night I catch myself staring at their little faces, wanting to freeze time right at this moment.
I no longer care about me getting older, my aches or worries as long as they are happy and healthy.
So today I would like to thank God for giving me the honor of being the mom of this wonderful, smart, beautiful, loving, caring, funny, silly, amazing little girl and her just as perfect little sister.
I am not sure what I did to deserve so much happiness and joy and I vow with all my heart and might to make the best out of this opportunity and to enjoy each and every simple, special, extraordinary moment given to me.
Happy Birthday Lillie-Bean! You are our Sunshine and always will be.
We hope your day will be the BESTEST Birthday ever!!!
We love you very, very much!
Your Mama, Papa and your little Issie
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