Even though just a year ago she was my little baby, after seeing her care for "her" baby I had to admit Ms. P was growing up. One of her favorite things to do at school is care for her babies. She loves tucking them in and giving them blankets. Ms P is also the classroom "Mom" she is very caring and nurturing to her fellow classmates. She loves going back to the infant room and seeing "her" live babies.
One example of her kindness and her momness occurred this morning when I dropped Penny off at daycare. There was a group of toddlers looking at pictures of their families taken at the Father's Day event last week that were taped to the wall. One little boy saw his dad in the picture and started crying. That's when Penny went over to him and put her hand on his shoulder and patted his back. Then she leaned in and hugged him. I've never been so proud!


Have you ever watched those TV Game shows where they have a couple of doors and behind one is a grand prize? Well, this weekend the hub and I found out what was behind our Door #1. The hubby and I are starting the beginning phases of landscaping our backyard. Our first step, was to clean out the area behind our garage. When we moved in, there was about 2 feet of walking space behind our garage the rest of the area was covered in vines. Vines were growing on the roof and generally it was a mess. Not wanting the vines to take over the roof, we I started to clear out the vines last fall. But after we cut a million vines with only a pair of clippers we gave up and decided to clean out the rest in the spring. Spring came around and we didn't do much until one day when I was sick a few weeks ago, I ran into our gardener. I showed him the mess and asked if he knew of anyone who could come clean it out. I could tell he was actually, quite happy for me to broach the subject of ...