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Fall, My Favorite Season is Here…Well Almost

16 September, 2009 | dcfemella | Comments

Fall is the best season of the year! It’s my favorite time of the year, and I think it has always be. I count Fall as the first day the kids start school. Yes, I know I am stretching it a bit there, but I don’t care. I love when the kids are in school because that is when life starts getting interesting again.

1. School and Extracurricular Activities - I love school. Now that I am done with going to school; I have to live vicariously through the kids. It’s great to do homework with them and take the to all of their activities. Cebastian is doing Soccer and Cub Scouts. I am still trying to find out the Brownies information for Isabelle. I am also going to place them both in a reading program that a mother told me about that the school is now offering.

2. Apple Picking - We are actually going to our first AppleFest this Sunday. It’s apple season, and I am ready to take the kids apple picking and hopefully bop for some.

3. Pumpkin Patch - We do this every October. There is this wonderful pumpkin patch at Belivedere Plantation in Fredericksburg, VA that I have been going to since 2003. It has all these great activities for the kids, kettle corn, apple butter, a corn maze, zip line, pumpkins (of course!), hot apple cider, hayride, and I know I am missing more. It’s great seeing the pictures I have taken over the years because it really helps you see how big your kids have gotten.

4. Birthdays - October is the month when Cebastian and I were born.

5. Halloween - This is my favorite holiday of all times. I have always been a little macabre, and so I love Halloween. The costumes, horror films, scary stories, and CANDY!

6. Thanksgiving - A wonderful time to be with family and cook all day.

Enjoy the Fall. It’s when my family and I have the most fun!
Photo Detail: Happy Thanksgiving!, originally uploaded by Blazingstar.


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Dear Mom, You’re the Best Mom Ever

10 July, 2009 | dcfemella | Comments

This morning while I was getting ready for work, the kids came in with notes for me. They eagerly told me to open them up. I did, and it made my day.

Best Mom Note Ever, originally uploaded by dreamingindc.

There were two reasons that I was so happy for these notes:

  1. Is the obvious.  The fact that the kids would write that I am the best mom ever shows me that I must be doing something right.  I felt appreciation for the things that I am doing.
  2. They could have watched TV or played on the computer, but instead they decided to use the notecards that I have on the coffee table to write.

I want my children to love reading and writing.  Writing is a skill that is slowly dying in this country, and I want them to be masters of it.  I see how I never have to worry about getting a job due to the fact that I am a Writer, so I want them to have the same (or better) opportunities that I have.

I now have the note at work, so when I am stressed out, I can look over and see these wonderful words.


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Stop Introducing Every Person You Meet to My Children!

15 June, 2009 | dcfemella | Comments

Nature Walk

Originally uploaded by dreamingindc

When do you introduce your significant other to your child(ren)? I have only had two people meet my children: First, was someone I knew for over a year, and we dated for nine months or so; and second was someone I dated for three years, and the kids still know. I have a huge issue with my ex. Every time he meets someone, he has them around my children. He is now on the tenth one.

This morning while I was getting the kids and I ready for school/work, my daughter says, “Hope is really nice.”

“Who’s that?”

“She is daddy’s new friend.”

I was ready to scream. This guy doesn’t know when to quit. He only has the kids four days out of the month, and he doesn’t even bother to see them more than that. You would think that he could just tell her that he will see her the 26 days out of the month when he pretends he is a 22-year old man. No, seems he can’t.

I wrote him right when I got into work:

“Just heard from the kids today that you have another girl around them. I am sick of it. This is the 10th girl, and it needs to stop. Unless you are going to marry this girl, and you have been dating her for over six months, I don’t want her around my children. I don’t want Cebastian to turn out like you, and I don’t want Isabelle thinking it’s ok for men to do that”

He ignored my IM because he is going to continue to do it.

I don’t know what to do anymore. I feel that this will cause some issues with the children later when it comes to their future relationships because of this man not being able to think with the right head. How do I make him realize that having every random girl you date around your children isn’t healthy for them?

I usually wait six months before introducing someone to my children, and now that I am thinking marriage, I won’t unless we have discussed being together for the rest of your lives. I hope that one day my ex realizes that this is the best policy.

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Sorry! Can’t Be a Godmother Unless You Are Part of a Church

15 May, 2009 | dcfemella | Comments

Mother’s Day 2009

Originally uploaded by dreamingindc

My older sister calls me this morning to asks me something.

“I need to ask you something.”

“What?”

“Do you want to be Ethan’s Godmother?”

I screamed for awhile and then said, “YES!” I’m already my niece’s Godmother, so I am glad to also be my nephew’s. This is when she decides to drop the bomb on me.

“You will have to join a church,” my sister sheepishly says.

With my niece, my sister was able to allow her church to bypass that rule, but it seems with this church, they are not as forthcoming.

This really bothers me. What if I was an Atheist or Agnostic? I wouldn’t be able to be a godparent?

Derrick asked the question this week wondering who was religious. Many people answered that they were spiritual, but not religious. I was one of those people. I’ve read books on different religions, and I have talked to many people. I don’t think there is one religion that has it more right than the rest. All of them have gotten bits and pieces right, so I don’t believe that I have to go to one over the other.

Now, I have to join a church and go (probably) for a month to become my nephew’s Godmother. There is another issue I have with this. I will feel awful doing this to a church. You meet the people and invest time in getting to know them, just so you never go after a month? I think that is just as wrong.

I’m really having issues with this, and I really feel like calling my sister’s church and raising these questions to them. Or should I just do this for my nephew, even though I don’t think he is really benefitting in any of this. The only thing maybe is that he is going to be getting spoiled by me. However, I am his aunt, so he would anyway.


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Once a Baby, and Now a Young Man

13 May, 2009 | dcfemella | Comments

Kamryn Playing Moonlight Sonata

Originally uploaded by dreamingindc

I remember when my then 18-year old sister told us that she was pregnant. My younger sister and I were shocked and excited to see our first niece or nephew and the future to behold him/her. When Kamryn came into our lives, we couldn’t get enough of him. He was this pudgy, calm baby who would look at us with his huge, brown eyes.

My older sister wasn’t ready to be a mother, so my 11-year old sister and my 14-year old self practically raised him. We would feed him, take him wherever we went, and spoil him rotten. It was at this moment that I knew that I was destined to be a mother because I already felt like one at this point.

Now, Kamryn is 16, and he is such an amazing young man. He still has this innocence about him that I hope he never loses. One thing that I know that my sister and I instilled in him was his love for music. We tried to get my older sister to put him in music classes, but she never did. However, it didn’t stop him. I love when he calls me “Mommy,” and I hope that he does til the day that I die.

It took me three hours to get to his music concert yesterday, but when I saw him, I knew it was worth it. He was so happy that the kids and I were there, and I couldn’t tear up watching this young man who now overtowers me. I hope that he continues on this wonderful path, and never lets life or anyone get him down.

I love you Kamryn!

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