Today is a new day. Tomorrow is a new month.

Tomorrow is the first day of December. I'm excited and sad. This day - as every day - is very different from the day before. I am sitting here trying to think of the words to type and all I can think about is how blessed I am. My baby girl is so cute and precious even when she's sick. She's had a cold and is still the happiest baby I know. She is a wonderful gift from God. I can't ask for more. She is amazing. On this note, I want you all to know that I will have updated pictures soon. I'm SO sorry that I'm behind. I just get out of the groove and get so busy on other things. I can NOT believe that tomorrow is December already. It seems that this year has gone faster than the year before. Not being in retail has helped me to prioritize. I really don't need all the things that I would buy before. I also forget how fast Christmas comes after July each year. The months just fly by and I'm left standing here saying - It's December already. For all of you who are completely finished buying and wrapping Christmas presents - I don't like you very much. I usually am finished by now, but this year - MY FIRST YEAR OUT OF RETAIL - I am not even close.

My love to all - Jami

More to come another day.

My hubby and baby - Thank you God for my family.

I have to say that I have the best husband and baby in the whole world. Aren't they the cutest? I believe it doesn't get any better than this. It was taken a few weeks ago (ok, time gets away from me - months ago) and she looks so much like him it's just adorable. Anyway, I can brag on the 2 of them all day long, but I have other information for you. I believe Kati is the best baby in the world. She's happy all the time and I am so blessed to have her.
What brings all this bragging on? Public. I work in the public and today I realized how special and blessed I am. A couple with 2 kids (2 years old and 4 years old) came in to my work place and had a show for everyone around. The kids acted up, so the parents acted up more. I tried giving the kids things to play with, but the parents were so unruly that it was sad. The little boy (4) wanted to ask the daddy a question and tried to get his attention, when he leaned up to his dads face and patted him, the dad hauled off and hit the kid in his face and said, if you slap me, I slap you. THEN spanked the kid for crying... meanwhile, the 2 year old was crying because he wanted a lick of his mom's sucker and screamed and the mom said to shut up. Tell a 2 year old to shut up - I was shocked by their lack of love or care or SOMETHING. I was just shocked and saddened. I wanted to think - well, I am in Arkansas - but ANYWHERE - is this the way humans act to the ones they love? It was tough to see.
I know that is a huge can of worms, but it was just on my mind. And that brings me to being so happy. I really know that happiness is something that we have to learn. Anyone can be happy. I choose to be happy. I can be sad, but I want to be happy. Content. I read somewhere that when you get up, you can decide what kind of day you will have. I did that today. I chose to have a great day! And I did. Although it seemed hard (yucky - rainy day, crazy people, rude people, and just everyone out to test me)... I had an amazing day. Just looking at Kati - makes me happy! Just look at that picture! Just look - it will make you happy too!
I wish true happiness to everyone reading this. Good luck with this, and just choose to be happy. This is the month of Thanksgiving. I'm dedicating the next few weeks to my "thanks" giving.

Thank you God for my family.

Kati

This is my first time doing this, and it's all new, so we'll see how it goes. Kati is almost 8 months old, and I'm finally getting time to do things.

I'm just going to play with this for the first couple of times. We'll see....

This picture was taken at Mom's house this past week. I love the leaves and she's growing so fast and looking so cute! (that is the Mom in me talking).

Anyway - this is all new to me, so I'll get better with time! (I hope).

I'm new to this Blogger world and since everyone else is doing it... hehehe I have to learn so I'm not feeling so techimpared or antitech or technologically challenged. We'll there is about all I can think of right now.

She still looks just like her daddy... and I can't describe the feeling I get when I see him hold her. It's a love and a feeling that you have to experience.

We just got back from a trip to Branson - Christmas shopping. It was a successful trip, as we got started on our lists. Now I'm back home and in Thanksgiving mode. Making lists and things. Work is still very new. Learning a new job, career, and learning to be a Mom all at the same time, I would not recommend to anyone. You can't imagine the stress all day and night. I just wanted to sleep many nights because thinking all day and learning is extremely exhausting. But months later - I wouldn't change a thing. Not one! I love it and God has really guided our lives. We prayed long an hard for Kati and for my job and career. I really know that I'm where I'm suppose to be right now.

Enough of that - I need to go make lists. That's my thing now - a list of all the lists, etc. Right now I'm only working on 3 - Thanksgiving meal list, Christmas gift lists, and grocery shopping lists for tomorrow.

Have a great day! Love to all!