Thursday 13 for March

Last Thursday of March .. here we go! Click here to play:

A picture of me: 

Current Scent:  Cherry Blossom

What I am reading:  I'm back to Cooking Light again.. unless you want to count my endless Iphone conversations!!!

Newest Music:  Lou Rawls - You'll never find, another love like mine

Movie I saw: I've gotten hooked on Mad Men.. Netflix is awesome!

Something Yummy:  My hottie Doctor .. absolutely YUMMY .. finally got to spend some time with him! 

(okay, okay .. so he was poking me .. I still enjoyed it! hahaha!)

The last place I ate:  Miguel's 

Something that made me cry:  listening to my honey Peyton say goodbye to the Colts

Something that made me laugh:  "I'm going to take you out, ol' Yellah style" -said  my teenage girl to me when she felt I had said too much!

Something that I look forward to in April:  warmer weather .. Kayak?

Something that I want to remember from March:  My kayak hit the water on March18!!! 

Something I am thankful for:  Always my teenagers - I am having so much fun with them

A photo I took this month:  

Happy Thursday!

The little moments ..

Where has the time gone?
 So, another birthday has come and gone, and once again I am reminded how lucky I am.
2012 came with so much change, and often times I am caught in the superficial drama of life.. but when we stop and just look at what matters most, I quickly realize who and what matters most to me.
My teenagers surprised me on my birthday by taking me on a sunset picnic dinner at Schoodic Point. It was by far one of the best birthdays ever!
We took over 500 pictures .. teenage girl has taken over my camera. I didn't realize she was taking these pictures, and had a great chuckle when I started previewing the pictures the next day.

And of course we needed to get a family portrait using the self timer , first the set up of balancing the camera..

then the quick jaunt to sit in the designated spot, not realizing what 'they' were doing ..

Finally a picture worth framing!

and of course A Schoodic Point sunset!

At the end of the day, I realized how lucky I truly am to have these moments with my teenagers. It's hard to believe that in less than 15 months, both my babies will be on their "own" ... well, somewhat!

One of those moments ..

I miss my family .. this weekend I went over to Rob's sister's and met most of the family .. his sister's, cousins .. little babies. I got to watch new grandparents, and great grand parents all interact. It was pretty cool. In my married life we would go to the in-laws every Thanksgiving and see Grammy and Grampy .. all the uncles and aunts and cousins. They were nice, very down to earth ..I find myself always wishing I had my sisters and their families close by. Now that I'm divorced, the teenagers and I go to my sister's house in Massachusetts. I love it there .. my nephews and niece are so fun. Hard to believe I changed their diapers 25 years ago!!! My other sister lives in the Philippines .. we're lucky if we see each other every other year. I haven't seen her girls since 2003!
My other sister lives in Amsterdam .. usually we'll see her family every other year. My mom lives in the Hague ..every other year is just too little. My mom is getting older, and traveling for her is getting more difficult .. I don't like the thought that we'll never have those family gatherings.. watching my nephews have babies, seeing my sisters become grandparents ... large family dinners and lots of conversations going in all directions... complete chaos .. but family chaos.
Right now the best I get is daily Yahoo Instant Messaging with the Manila sister .. a weekly call to my mom .. and maybe every other month to Amsterdam sister. I talk to my Massachusetts sister probably every other day ... I should be grateful that we have that .. but on gatherings like this weekend, I begin to realize how much I miss my family.

My uncle and aunt, my sisters and me in 2009.