Well, we officially have negative mother nature karma now. Well, we have for a while, actually. When we first moved in we cut down two trees on the side of our house that were overgrown and growing way too close to the house. We also cut down three bushes in the front of our house that were overgrown and just didn't look good. So there starts the negative karma. Well, we tried to repair it by planting two lilac bushes--which quickly died. Now this week we've torn up a small pine bush/tree under our deck to make way for the patio and also cut down our neighbor's tree that we tried to transplant and failed. Now, that bush under the patio has long been suffering--receiving no light, had no roots. The poor thing was better off being put out of it's misery. But cutting down the tree in front.... *sigh* We so wanted that to work out.
We have vowed that come spring we are going to buy a new tree for our front yard and bushes for the side of our house where the lilacs were. We're also having them professionally put in so they most likely won't die or at least have some kind of guarantee.
Onto our Maddy. She did such a great job in baby ballet today. I was so proud of her. She did a lot of the moves on her own with very little prompting. Plus she had so much FUN. It was so cute to watch. I brought down her clothes early and put it on the chair. She kept bringing it to me and kept saying, "Bah!, Bah!!" --meaning ballet. It was great. She was ready to go and wanted to be there.
Now, the same cannot be said for my mother's helper today. I actually sent her home a half an hour early since Maddy would have NOTHING to do with her and just kept clinging to me. I'm hoping next time it goes better... we'll see.
Bedtime was hard tonight, too. Maddy just did NOT want to go to bed!! I had to rock he for a little while but she seems to be down now. That's GREAT.
Matt did some more work on the patio. I am so impressed with his skill level. It is going to look so professional by the time he's done. I'm in awe. Honestly, it's turning out even better than I thought it would and I KNEW he'd make it look great.
Tea of the day: Green Tea/Honey bush tea
WO of the day: 45 min. core workout dvr recording