It's been a week since I've posted. I would much rather post a few times a week rather than wait a week or so. It's easier to keep my blog shorter and simple at that!

I have never posted a YouTube video before and had quite a challenge with it. I ended up somehow having TWO of the same video on this blog. I couldn't figure out how to remove it. It was easy to add it but for some reason the title I wanted didn't show up. The title of the video is: Women in Art I hope you enjoy it! I enjoyed the music and especially how the faces kept morphing into another woman. It's amazing how talented people are with this stuff!

As you can see new pictures of Kiersten & Nicole as well as our chocolate Labrador Retriever has been put up on the right side. My husband & Nicole at her favorite restaurant for her 20th birthday, then Kiersten at a tea party at her apartment she used to live at or someone else's apartment, then a picture of Nicole when she had longer hair. Nicole is growing her hair for sure! I don't like any of the pictures that were taken of me so I'll have one of the girls take some more and I'll put the one I like up soon. My hair has grown quite a bit for the first time since 2002. My hair was extremely short. But not anymore. I absolutely hate my hair the way it is now. But I'm letting it grow out and we'll see what, if there's anything that can be done with it. If nothing, then it's going back to the way it used to be. So it needs to grow a few more months. We'll see!

It was Nicole's 20th birthday yesterday! I cannot believe our baby is already 20! Where does the time go? Time just flies. I guess when you have children, you sometimes cannot wait until they are old enough and on their own! But now that they are old enough and have been on their own, they are home now. I think it's a lot better that they are at home. It's just too expensive out there. I'm back to being the taxi mom for the girls. It isn't so bad. They are older and most of the time they go with their friends. I just have to drive them to and from work. Sometimes it does get to me. I decided to tell our oldest daughter she has until August to get herself a car because I can't keep driving her to work all the time. I do feel bad saying that but if I keep driving her to work, she will eventually get so used to it and not focus on taking care of things she has to take care of. We also told our youngest daughter she has got to get a job because she just cannot stay home and expect things handed to her. She also has to focus on her priorities.

You know, I had "images" of how things would be when the girls are older. Nothing of what I imagined happened. That's OK though. The positive thing is that they are decent young ladies and they are still quite young to do things that I hope they will do so they are set for the future. Education is extremely important. I truly believe that. Without a college diploma, there's not much out there that pays well without a college diploma. If there is something out there that pays very well without a diploma, I certainly am not aware of such. Today young adults quit their job faster than you can blink. It's a shame how much the times have changed. Like all parents, we all hope for the very best and nothing less for our children.

I will be posting later on in the day what I did with the Polka Dot Fatbook project. I will also post just a couple of pictures of the Polka Dot Fatbook and the rest I will have in a photo album. I am not sure which photo album just yet because there are so many of them out there. I just want one with a slide show so anyone who wants to see pictures that I've taken can just use that rather than clicking on pictures one by one and then if they want to backspace, they won't have to backspace forever to get to where they want to be at.

I would like to end this with a card that I got for Nicole's 20th birthday and write what it says....

For a Precious Daughter

"When your daughter is small,
you carry her in your arms.
When she is grown,
you carry her in your heart."

Daughter, all your life you'll be part magic and part mystery,
because you have ideas, thoughts,
and wishes all your own...
And where it counts, inside the heart,
we've grown together, not apart,
through challenges and changes
as the passing years have flown.
Your loveliness begins inside
and brings such happiness and pride,
it isn't easy to express
in simple words and phrases
how beautiful you'll always be
in ways the heart alone can see,
how much you mean, how dear you are,
how well deserved this praise is.

Well that was what was in the card. I loved it. It was perfect for Nicole. Smile. Well... it's very late and I just want to get a bit of shut eye. I'll be back in a while to write about my project as I said I would! Thank you for visiting my blog! Smile