11 Years ago...

yesterday, Emma Plum was born at 3:28 in the afternoon. Hard to believe so much time has passed, eventhough in ways it has gone slow, in others ways entirely too fast. Kids always grow up too fast and she is no exception. Emma has acted well beyond her years since she was just a baby... in some ways that is good, and in others, not so good lol. She is a wonderful kid, she couldn't be a better big sister to her 3 younger siblings, and is also an excellent student! We are very proud to say she made it to the A/B honor roll, just having received 4 A's and 1 B on her latest report card. She also excels in reading, having a target end of year range from 779 - 1039 on her SRI's, Emma scored a 1226. We are all very proud of her, yet I take no credit for her brains, I never did that well in school lol. Then again I loathed school, and Emma, much like her aunt Gina LOVES school!

We took her out for her birthday dinner, like we do all the kids and then for ice cream and our 'family picture' hehe. Enjoy a few pics I thought I'd post for a little look back. =)

And...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO EMMA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (you can stop growing now, I can deal with 11 forever if I have to.) I love you Princess P.

Your Dad and I shortly before you were a twinkle. =)



In labor =)











On our way to dinner!


Mom and daughter =)


All done with her cheese ravioli birthday dinner!


A really bad picture of the full moon. Oddly enough, Emma was born 11 years ago, the day before the full moon.


Bring on the oreo overload! She wanted chocolate devotion but they were sadly, out of brownies. Chris said it was just wrong, they wouldn't make Emma a batch of brownies on her birthday. ;)


Extra insulin needed for this! (she didn't eat the WHOLE thing haha)


And a good time was had by ALL!!!


Saying goodnight to the full mooon

A month and a week?

something like that anyway, since I started the St. Johns wort. today, im down. i've had my ups and downs like always but many more ups than i'd seen for awhile. some days i just don't want to hold it altogether anymore, or at least not try so hard, like today. today started off really pretty good, i was going in circles trying to get things done and was making progress to a point (progress is one thing on my happy list) but i quickly became a bit saturated with negative feelings, enough so that i couldn't push them away any longer and they ate at me til i wanted to cry. but i didn't. my eyes started to well and i told myself that i was stupid for all those stupid thoughts making me feel this way. i then began to clean in a frenzy and quickly wore myself out, thereby making everything feel better, my mental state included. not bad! it's usually much worse than that and affects me much more deeply. but i think im OK now.

maybe these new ditches will be a little more shallow when i fall into them. one can hope.