Currently

"Where have you been?"
I know, I know... I suck lately. I wish I was one of those moms that could do it all - but I am learning that is just simply not possible. I have to pace myself and only do what I can do. I can't be the mythical Super-mom that we all strive to be. Something has to give ... and most often it's my blog that suffers, right up there with my photography as a close second for suffering.

So anyway, what's going on currently? Here you go...

Loving:
Tyler & Julianna. The Yankees trying to make a come back this season. My husband. Beautiful sunny days we've had lately. Tyler sleeping 10 hours at night. Julianna telling me she loves me and giving me a big hug (unsolicited). Ben & Jerry's Ice cream. The best thing I Love is that my husband was able to take off from work for 4 weeks to be home with Tyler! It is a once in a lifetime opportunity and I'm so glad he did it!

Reading:
Your kidding right? I can't honestly say I'm reading anything right now. That might actually fall under that "Something's got to give" category. I've had several books loaded in my Kindle for a very long time now, maybe one day I'll get to actually read them. Oh wait, I have read some books lately - The Little Blue Truck, The Little Puppy, Tractors, Diggers, Trucks, Llama Mama book, and various kids library books - Yes all are Julianna's books that we read before bed time.

Thinking About:
Stuff we'll do once we have to pull the boat out of the water in 3 weekends. I want to go apple picking, pumpkin picking, take some pretty fall photos of the leaves, Christmas (yes I said it), Brian's birthday, printing and framing some new pictures I took recently, and all of the TV shows I can't wait to see the season premiere of!

Anticipating:
Speaking of premieres- I really can not wait to see Greys Anatomy, Nashville, Law & Order SVU, and Parenthood. Sleepy Hollow looks really good too! By the way, if you haven't seen Nashville, you MUST watch it. MUST. I just love it! I loved Smash too - but I was so disappointed it ended last season. I thought it was so well written and great story lines too.

Wishing: 
Wishing boating season wasn't coming to an end. Totally bummed out about that. This year, the lake does their '5 year draw-down' where it is dropped 6 feet (slowly) to allow lakefront homes & businesses to repair their docks. It starts on September 23rd and our marina has told us they will be pretty much inaccessible by around October 1st. The party's over. So with that said, we will be thoroughly enjoying the next 3 weekends out on the water!

Making me Happy:
The fact that we are blessed with my beautiful son. My heart is just filled with so much love I never even knew I could have! He is such a happy little boy, like he just knows how truly special he really is! (His Heart story HERE)

Miscellaneous:
Fantasy football sucks. Whoever invented it sucks. Some disgruntled man that hated his wife made it up no doubt. I love football. I love football season. But I hate Fantasy football. For anyone whose husband does fantasy football, I think you know exactly what I mean.
My husband does it - 2 leagues - he was up until about 2am last night with his strategic printouts and calculating all his draft picks. Oy vey. And not even one stinkin NY Giant in his picks. Come on?! He better not pick Tony Romo or he'll be sleeping on the sofa! HAHAHA!
Oh and let's not forget the mock drafts... he's done plenty of those all weekend. I told him that I could pick player names out of a hat for my team and probably win the league. He laughed & agreed.

And Finally:
I really really have been trying to pick up my camera lately. I did a "Day in the Life" a couple weeks ago - which I will be posting soon. I felt inspired then... and I still do. We are going to a local farm that has Sunflower tours - they take you on a wagon out to the huge sunflower patch.. I can't wait to go and take some beautiful (hopefully) pictures!

Changes

Hello - it's been a while. Can you say BUSY??
I can't get the time to do anything lately and the days are whizzing by. I promise I will catch up on blogs soon - I haven't gone underground! I forced myself to pick up my camera and take some photos in the last month so I do have some stuff to share at least... and I am working on a "Day in the life" post as well. (Maybe you'll see it by Christmas!)

I go back to work on Monday. {Insert big sad face here}
Tyler is 14 weeks old - but luckily my husband (God bless him!) is taking 'baby bonding' time off from work for 4 weeks to stay home and take care of Tyler so he can be here with us for a little longer. His leave starts Monday. The state of NJ offers baby bonding time for parents - it's paid time off too. One of the benefits of living in NJ.

I will be taking 2 weeks of vacation time once Brian goes back. So all in all, Tyler will have been home with us for 20 weeks total. He will start going to daycare the fist week in October - when he is almost 5 months old. I feel much better about sending him at that age than now.
We are sending him to the same woman that has cared for Julianna since she was 14 weeks old & it will be the 2 of them together with her - that puts me at ease for sure! But is still scares me to let him out of my sight.

If you missed Tyler's story about his Congenital Heart Defect, click HERE. 

It's a strange dynamic. I am kind of happy to be going back to work as that is my "normal" and I will be back to my routine (I have still felt so off kilter because of everything that has happened with Tyler and trying to get life back to normal). I am happy to go back to work but also sad because my time is done with Tyler (aside from the 2 weeks I will have off with him at the end of september).

Another exciting milestone coming up - Julianna starts preschool on September 10th - I am so excited for her! I know she will love it. Every time we drive by the school in the car, she says "There's my school!". We have 'back to school' night in 2 weeks. I will say I'm giddy to get her into school because this is such a special time in her life where she will make new friends, learn new things, experience something else outside of her day to day life!

Here are some pictures from lately...

The community garden 

Community garden with Tyler 

Julianna and Tyler 

 She's such a ham! 

My beautiful belle 

At the community garden

There they are again!