Positively Mom Street

As some of you know, back when I was a new Mom facing the isolation that comes along with the first baby, a career change (OF COURSE I want to be a SAHM) and living so far from family, I made a promise to myself that I would try to make one new friend every year.  It was a bit daunting  since I no longer went to a job and pretty much spent all of my waking hours at home with the kiddo.  I did, however, decide to try REALLY HARD and put an ad on Craigslist (lol) looking for "other like minded Mommies that enjoyed listening to Phish and hanging out" - it was Boulder after all!  And I got exactly zero responses. I was discouraged to say the least and was certain that I'd made some sort of terrible mistake that would doom me to a life of Barney and bottles.   Then, a few weeks later, I got a response!  I was so excited - this girl seemed really cool (loved hippy music and hangin') and we set up a time to meet.  I was as nervous as I would have been going...

My...the time flies. I can't believe I haven't written since November 9th - I am a bad blogger. Well - on to the positive.  We had a great November and December is shaping up to be just as good.  The kids are into their routines - Hayden is doing great at swim team and has finally mastered the butterfly - and Harlyn is loving Kindermusik.  Chris and I are plugging away at work and are incredibly grateful to have good jobs we both enjoy. In honor of Thanksgiving we did a little "round robin" of thankfulness.  Hayden is thankful for his family and his swim coach (awww).  Bella "unofficially" told me she was thankful for big, soft bean bag chairs and a warm house on cold winter days.  Harlyn loves going to Ms. Rhonda's and singing at Kindermusik. Chris surprised me by saying he was appreciative of "lessons learned."  I thought this was quite powerful.  It's easy to be thankful when things go your way - life is moving along smoothly - but w...