tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-140128802024-02-28T11:04:29.629-08:00The Yash ExperienceThe latest and greatest from YashYash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.comBlogger187125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-41628919618848209122015-01-14T16:15:00.003-08:002015-01-14T16:15:48.976-08:00Great quote<br />
I know a family who cruise out of Sydney often and they always book the
YHA at the rocks. They get a family room and would never consider
staying anywhere else. Don't think YHA think, comfortable hotel without
all the unnecessary trimmings. They tell me the view from the rooftop
is the best in Sydney.<br />
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Think of a youth hostel as a hotel without all the trimmings. Genius! Hats off for the spin.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-5846039580140967002014-11-06T16:27:00.001-08:002014-11-06T16:30:44.016-08:00A surpriseTeddy's grandmother sent me this. It was so kind of her and it was sweet that she even thought of me and sent it. He looks happy. Look at those football hands and the man boobs, he has and it's only nine months in this pic. Look at that gorgeous, dimply smile. Oh, my Scandal baby. You are loved, missed, and prayed for.<br />
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Here's Jory with the adorable three-month-old who doesn't want his picture taken after church. I love him to death, but Teddy is ruining my pics where my boys have matching outfits on. God bless you, Sears! Now I know our first stop next year for Easter is going to be Sears so Jack and Jory (and yes, that is intentional. They'll have all the same initials, mostly, too.) can match. God bless the buyer at Sears who understand that sometimes a ten-year-old and his one-year-old brother should be dressed alike. I might do something crazy next year, like buy the boys' outfits first and then get the girls' dresses in coordinating colors. I am so avant garde, it scares me.<br />
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My boys on Easter Sunday, but for the life of me I couldn't get my Teddy bear to smile. Notice the matching tie and shirt.<br />
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These pictures were taken three hours after Teddy arrived with a baby bag, a capless bottle with an ounce of some unknown type of formula, some clothes, not all seasonal appropriate, and no white onesies.<br />
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His look is I'm tired, where's my Ma, my aunt, my cousins, who are you people, why don't you smell like anything I've known, what in the world is going on....<br />
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And these photos were taken on Sunday after Teddy's first church service at AWANA church as the kids call it. Layla was rockin' crazy bangs because someone who will not be named but goes by the name of Aunt Lala was too busy to cut the poor baby's bangs. A tragedy the baby and everyone who saw her had to live with for months, but I digress.<br />
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TTT are rockin' their Easter 2013 clothes and Teddy is rockin' his new outfit that Aunt Peggy and Uncle Ric bought him. He was celebrating his two month birthday and it was Super Bowl Sunday. And this was one of the only times he allowed me to put him down, his terrorism had begun I just didn't know it. And on this Sunday I literally held him for eight hours.<br />
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This poor baby had lost everything he knew and then thrust into this life with TTT.<br />
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These pictures were taken minutes before Teddy went to go live with his maternal aunt. While he wasn't smiling at least he was rockin' those two teeth that took three months of drooling to get here.<br />
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They are sitting in Jory's car that taught me after the 23rd, Toys R Us doesn't answer the phone, and had me spending my birthday at their store at 2AM to see if the shipment really had this car on board, it didn't. And I was there on Christmas Eve too, to check too. People recognized me when I cam in the store, just what you want at Christmas time. This car is staying in the house so my grandchildren can ride it for all the effort it took for me to get it. <br />
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hand foot mouth viral infection that he got from another kid under the age of five. I think he got it playing with the toys in the visiting room when he had his visit with grandma. These pics were taken when he was on the mend, so Teddy missed VBS. He stayed home and was held by Oma and when I got home held by me. The first night we probably slept in one or two hour increments. Sometimes I couldn't remember if I had even slept or if I had just closed my eyes for a minute or two.</div>
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The blisters on his body, tongue, back of his throat, on his palms, the bottom of his feet didn't itch, PRAISE GOD, but didn't look comfortable either. The ones in his mouth made it so that he didn't want a spoon or a bottle in his mouth. Poor Teddy. This of course sent Happy and Oma into a tizzy. Having older wiser BTDT moms in your life is good, except sometimes I think they forget they were ever parents and they just start freaking out when illnesses come. </div>
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I tried to explain that like us Teddy is human and when we get sick sometimes we don't eat and we don't starve to death and neither would Teddy. We just had to keep him hydrated. Neither liked that answer and I'm pretty sure neither believed me, so I had to call the doctor. And the doctor said, if we had to put some water or sweetened pedialite down his throat with a syringe. Hearing this made them feel better, and Happy discovered Teddy was quite happy to suck on a Popsicle. And although half the content landed on his bib, he could drink out of a cup.</div>
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The doctor said it was contangious, but mainly to children five and under. Man was I never so happy to have a six, seven, and nine-year-old. And he said it would last a several days. A sick Teddy isn't a happy Teddy. Poor chunky monkey. He just wanted to hold him, which made it impossible to get dressed to go to work. I didn't want the kids to touch him, just in case they got it. Cause while dealing with Teddy was difficult, if one of them had blisters and couldn't eat, particularly Jory or Layla, it would have been a complete disaster. Yikes! I don't even want to imagine.</div>
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Thank God for understanding bosses during hell week. I got to work by 10, on good mornings I got there by a quarter to 10, and left by 4. Teddy just went to Happy's in a onesie and blanket. On Wednesday my sleep deprived self wanted the week to be over, but we pushed through and made it to Friday. Yippee!!! Hopefully next year VBS is a little less stressful.</div>
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So Teddy missed his first VBS, but he was able to come see their final performance and make it impossible for me to eat my chili hot dog after their performance.</div>
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You can tell he is feeling back to his old self because he's drinking out of a bottle and holding it himself. He was a champ through his first illness. </div>
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VBS aka hell week. Such a torturous week for me. Getting off early, picking up the kids, rushing home to eat dinner, put on VBS t-shirts, head out the door, thankfully drive against traffic, struggle to find a place to park, drop them off, then relax, eat dinner, and wait the two hours for it to be over. Pick them back up, get in the car, drive home, take showers, put pjs on, then try to get them settled into bed. So tiring.<br />
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But this was the final night. I got to see their grand performance singing songs about what they learned. This year's theme - - Agency D3. As special agents, kids examined eyewitness reports, physical proof, and Biblical accounts to uncover and defend the truth about Jesus.<br />
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The boy child is in the third row, right above the baby.<br />
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Aunt Connie and Uncle Dave bought Teddy this cool swing, that plays classic music, has a mirror so he can see himself, a safari theme, and makes animal noises. He loves it for like five - ten minutes at a time. I think he would like it for longer periods if little people didn't harass him and make him think life outside of the swing was better. <br />
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Jory is rockin' his - - Big Brother, Super Hero t-shirt......Rowan is proudly rockin' her Big Sister t-shirt, Layla rockin' her Sisters Rock & Rule one.... They look very cute. Whoever buys their clothes not only has great taste, but is a genius.<br />
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An unintentional moment of genius, last year's Easter picture of the terrific trio is right behind them. GENIUS!<br />
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But I did. He's says Little Brother courtesy of Aunt Suzanne.<br />
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And then he wouldn't smile and he started drooling on it. The clean shirt, he wants to drool on it. Seriously dude?Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-49587069206905495412014-07-07T16:39:00.002-07:002014-07-07T16:46:50.606-07:00Easy like Sunday morning....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Back from church and taking a few pics. The girls look so cute in the matching dresses we got for them on the last cruise.<br />
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There were many races configured by a computer generated system, so everyone had a chance to race everyone else. Jory's car wasn't a winner. He was knocked off in the second rounds of eliminations. He didn't seem to mind.<br />
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Teddy is wearing Mijo's Winnie the Pooh outift. Mijo wore it. Tigger wore it. Jory wore it. Sasha wore it. Layla wore it. It's a family heirloom and now Teddy wore it. Okay, so it was a little small, but you can't tell in this photo since our $10 a pair gloves cover it. $10 that still hurts my feelings.<br />
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And here's the little lovebug sleeping in his favorite position. And no, that's not me copying the same picutre twice. You got....<br />
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Your hands up<br />
You’re rocking in my truck<br />
You got the radio on<br />
You’re singing every song<br />
I’m set on cruise control<br />
I’m slowly losing hold<br />
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a sojourn in America’s past, exploring the great conflict that divided
state from state and brother from brother. The vast fields and orchards
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participate in a large mock battle, reenacting the Battle of Malvern
Hill . Fight for your home and land as a Southerners, or uphold the
Union and fight to keep the country together as a Northerner. Given the
muskets they are drilled with, all students will be lead into battle by
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Our first stop after the assembly was seeing what the women folk back home had to do and they had a lot to do with the men gone. Do housework inside and then keeping the farm going also.<br />
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On to a trial for desertion. This man was lucky and was saved at the eleventh hour, but others weren't so lucky and they hung and thrown in a coffin quite quickly. Man, those men were short. And yes, those are Jory's legs next to the baby.<br />
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By the end of the conflict, over 103,400 Confederates alone had committed desertion.<br />
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We visited the surgeon. You were better off dying in battle than going to see the surgeon, where you more than likely died from a disease then your actually injury.<br />
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Before the battle, we got our lunch. Yep, of cornbread, cheese, apple, dried beef, and lemonade. Those poor hungry soldiers. I had to stop at Mc D's on the way driving home because I was so hungry.<br />
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We learned baseball was invented as a way to pass time during the war and how they made soldiers out of common folk.<br />
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And the battle is on. We learned that on some battlefields the weapons were put down and men fought hand to hand because they were fighting their sons, fathers, neighbors, cousins, and friends.<br />
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then the final round up and we were done. We bought Riley's Farm talked
about chicken pot pie, which was delicious and we bought the 3lb apple
pie, which was also good and very, very apple filled and big. We had a
great time and would definitely come back, even though we had to drive a
gazillion miles to get there, drive through a wind warning ( I have
never in my life seen a wind advisory warning on the freeway that asked
high performance vehicles to get off the roads. At times I wondered, if
I was still in LA or California.). We had to roll the windows up and
turn on the air the noise from the wind was a bit much and the car was
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We don't get to go on very many field trips, but it's nice when we can meet up with others and have fun, while learning at the same time.<br />
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<br />Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-88868794613508292502014-07-02T17:27:00.002-07:002014-07-02T17:30:27.409-07:00And all together now....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I see these pictures and I think, the near insanity was worth it.....They are four beautiful human beings who I am blessed and honored to have call me mommy.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-91044685403114603432014-07-02T15:28:00.005-07:002014-07-02T16:45:40.445-07:00And here he is....<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Mr. America, looking very dapper. My baby is nine. This is the boy who made me a mommy. I am madly in love with him, I can't believe it's only been nine years. Other days I can't believe it's only been nine years, cause it seems like a thousand years. For a thousand years, he's been my baby. I adore him even when he's plotting to drive me insane. He looks so grown up in this last picture.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-9997194193984491852014-07-02T15:25:00.002-07:002014-07-02T16:46:02.703-07:00Look at this face...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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how could you not love this cute little face. He is as happy as he is in these pictures. He is the happiest baby I've ever had the pleasure And he loves to drool. Minus the drool around his mouth, on his chin, on his vest, the slightly turned up collar and the unbutton sleeves, these were perfect pictures of an adorable four-month-old first professional shots.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-3689273270436126702014-07-02T15:20:00.004-07:002014-07-02T16:46:20.804-07:00My big girl...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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is now 7. Amazing how time flies. And it's great to see her smiling cause there were some years where you couldn't get a smile out of her, sometimes you could even see tears on her face.<br />
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Score! You can see her lilac earrings and her lilac ribbon. A successful picture, okay minus the hands on the hips. Just not a fan of that look.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-23495740882098856162014-07-02T15:16:00.002-07:002014-07-02T16:46:43.778-07:00My baby...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My baby is six. Where did the time go? And after all the hard work I put into these outfits, you can't see the lilac ribbon in her hair. How do you know the accent color is lilac, especially when you can't see the socks?Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-83155097912551502014-07-02T15:09:00.001-07:002014-07-02T15:09:27.422-07:00Easter 2014My motto for Easter is shop early and shop often. When Layla came home, I realized that I couldn't take three children and my mother to clothing stores to shop for Easter clothes. So I started the process of buying all the dresses I thought my mother might like, take them home, and the Irish twins put on a fashion show. I'd take back all the dresses that didn't make the cut, then I'd move on to the next store. This was the pattern until I hit all the stores, Children's Place, Macy's, JC Penney's, Target, Ross, Marshall's, TJ Maxx, and Sears. We'd make a final selection, then all the other dresses would go back, then it would be time to find Jory a matching outfit.<br />
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CP used to be our go to place. They were fabulous at having coordinating outfits for the boys. Then they got a new buyer and sadly the store turned into a hot mess.<br />
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Last year, my aunt told us about a store that sold suits in all colors and sizes. With the girls' dresses in hand, we went to the store, hidden in this mini-mall. We were received a friendly greeting as soon as we walked through the door and serviced shortly thereafter. The forty-something-year-old man looked at the girls dresses, walked away for two minutes and showed us a brown striped suit. My mom and I looked at each other and the doubt was strong in both of us. But the salesman assured us it would look good. He looked at the two teal dress shirts I had to choose from, grabbed one and put it under the suit. He assured us Jory would look sharp and match his sisters nicely. He seemed sure, I'm not a man, or a clothing expert, and so I said, okay. And just like that in ten minutes, we had been helped and I had spent $100 on Jory's very first suit. Before we left the man put his hands on Jory and said, he would be a monument for God.<br />
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This year, I knew we would go back to this store. I liked it. I liked this men's clothing store, where the employees know their business, can size up a customer in a few seconds. You don't get that kind of service at a Sears or even a Nordstrom's, unless you go to the personal shopper section. But before Jory could get his new suit, I had to choose the girls' outfit.<br />
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I looked at this site and looked at the colors we wore previous years and decided this year we could wear blue, green or lilac. That made shopping so much easier, even the girls could help. We went into a store and I reminded them what colors we were looking for and everyone brought back their favorite dresses. Sometimes that meant glittery dresses that I knew were never going to make it to Easter Sunday, but they were participating for the first time so some iffy dresses I let pass.<br />
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Ultimately we found our dresses at Burlington's, a place I never would have thought to look, but we were there to buy Jory some dress shirts and I decided to look at their dresses and the all white dresses were the winners. This was even after I did an Amazon clothing buy for the first time. Those dresses looked prettier in the picture. <br />
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For a coordinating color, I decided to go with lilac. I quickly discovered we live in a sad world where people don't sell lilac colored church socks for girls, not even on the internet, so that meant I had to create my own. Yeah, they don't sell lilac colored dye either. With white lace socks from Payless and dye from Michael's, I went about creating matching lilac socks for my Irish twins. If you had ever told me the price of motherhood would be watching the season finale of Scandal, while using a stick to stir socks in hot purple water without letting the water splash so the dye won't stain the beige colored kitchen sink (it stains according to the internet), I would have laughed in your face. But yet that's what I did for one solid hour, only to discover that since the lace and the socks were made of two different materials the lace became deep purple and the socks lilac. Whatcha gonna do?<br />
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With runs to various Claire's and a hair store, I found the bows that I felt would best match the socks and officially the girls were done. Then it was time to find my boys to coordinate. We went back to the suit shop for Jory, the same guy waited on us, he remembered and once again we were out of that store in ten minutes. I'm in awe of this man. I love a person who knows their job and knows it well. Great customer service. It's awe inspiring. Jory was taken care of, so now on to Teddy. I thought this task would be fairly simple. It would have been if lilac wasn't the coordinating color. There were tons of suits out there for little infant boys, but none with lilac shirts. Are you kidding me? I checked the internet, nothing. This shouldn't be this hard, then finally at Sears I found a lilac shirt, but of course the vest was grey. Jory's suit is black, black jacket, black vest, black pants. But they did have this suit in Teddy and Jory's sizes. Hmm.... I bought them each one and continued to hope that one day, somewhere I would find this same suit except with a black vest. And I found it, at JCP in a size 18 months. Teddy is a chunky monkey, but he's not that big. So I had to settle for him wearing a grey vest and Jory a black one.<br />
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There were new challenges to this year's pictures. One, there were now four children to get dressed. And two, we were at a new place, JCP instead of our beloved Sears. JCP was busy, but they had a video playing, Frozen, and the kids hadn't seen it. SCORE! They could be entertain in one space, I took over three chairs, put Teddy in Jory's lap as I began with the most difficult one - - Rowan. She's tenderheaded so I thought I would deal with her crying at getting her hair combed and brushed, first. She didn't cry too much, but based on her hairstyle, I realized there was no place to put her big lilac bow, oh well that could be saved for Easter. Thanks to PE with Mimi, I knew how to discreetly change my big girl and put her in her white dress, her lilac socks, and her black patten leather shoes. With the threat of "It being on" if she dared dirty the dress, it was on to the baby. Her hair decided not to cooperate, so I made my second adjustment of the day I gave her a hairstyle different than Rowan's. It hurts me just to write that, but sometimes you have to take one for the team and dreams of a perfect Easter picture die a slow, horrific death.<br />
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The threat of something worse than death if she got her Easter dress dirty lingered in the air as the baby went to sit down to watch Frozen, now it was Jory's turn. I love boys! They are so simple. I hand him his socks, then I look through the double stroller looking for his shoes. The shoes he polished the night before in the kitchen.<br />
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"Jory, where are your shoes?"<br />
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"I left them in the kitchen."<br />
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So when he saw me laying everything out..hairbows in one bag, brushes and combs in another, socks in one in case the color bled onto something else, the night before did he think I was doing that for my health?! Was he created to slowly drive me insane? I've watched shows on the ID network and think it's so evil when a spouse kills another spouse by using rat poison. It takes months and months for the other spouse to die and before their death they are in such pain and agony and the doctors can't figure out what's wrong. Sometimes I think the terrific trio are doing their own form of this, minus the poison. <br />
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Does he know how long and hard and how much I stirred those socks, which not can't be featured in our pictures because he has no shoes?!?! The pressure is on, I know they are going to be calling us soon, and now it's time for the spitter to get dressed. I saved Teddy for last because he spits up a lot, I think he has some form of reflux. I figured I'd work my way up so his shirt has a better chance to survive not looking so wrinkled in the pictures.He looked so cute in his church shoes with his black dress socks on. His black pants looked good, then I put on his shirt. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?! I bought this last month and it's too small. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!!?! I just bought this suit last month. Does it start at four months? At four months, you join the band wagon to drive your mother insane? So it seems. Yep, this three - six month outfit is a goner so I get to spend the day before in the mall finding Teddy hopefully this same suit in the next size up. Then I hear it. Our name has been called, I ask the photographer to start with the terrific trio and to take birthday pictures with them. While they are busy with that, I pull those buttons together because Teddy is wearing this outfit in these pictures. I moved to the floor of the studio so I could watch the other ones take their pictures when I noticed Jory didn't have his suit jacket on. <br />
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Seriously it's amazing I'm not in a nut house. Did he think the jacket was just there in case it got cold? Not to wear with the matching pants and vest. I pray one day when its Easter picture taking day, my beautiful daughter gets sick, and it's up to my handsome son, Jory, to take their kids to the photo studio to take pictures, then he'll understand. He'll understand.<br />
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Slow, horrific deaths are hard to watch before your eyes, but then I look at my watch and realize this train needs to speed up so we don't miss that much of our Good Friday service. As I watch the photographer cajoling Rowan to calm down, I feel something wet on me. I look down, yep, Teddy had spit up. I take the diaper and wipe him off and quickly button his vest so the stain can't be seen. <br />
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The photographer is ready for Teddy before I have time to button his sleeves, but bygones. As I say, yes, he can sort of sit up by himself, I notice that the drooling boy has now drooled on his sleeves and the vest. He hates me. I let it go, but him on the sofa. Three quick shots, two of which Teddy is smiling and showing those dimples. The photographer throws in the other three, snap, snap, snap, and we're done.<br />
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I'm amazed. I don't remember a photo shoot going so quickly. Everyone quickly undresses and I put everything back in its correct bag. I hand out the church clothes, so we can walk into church dressed. After I put everything back in the stroller, the workers have restarted Frozen so the kids are occupied as I select pictures. I was surprised to see there were that many pictures, then it hits me. Crap! We didn't take two shots. We always take pictures of Rowan & Layla, Jory & Rowan, Layla & Jory, but the photographer was on to the next family so not this year. Maybe this is the price you pay when four people need pictures taken. Next year, I'll have a list of shots I need to hand to the photographer and a list of exactly how many photos I need.<br />
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With less pictures, it made the selecting go quite quickly and we were out of there. A sweep of the infant section to see if I could avoid going to Sears on the day before Easter, was fruitless and out of the store we went. The breakdown of the stroller and getting all the Easter stuff out went quickly and before I knew it we were on the road. I dropped the kids off at children's church and Teddy and I found a sit near the front. I was surprised we hadn't missed that much of the service, then I looked down at the program and realized I had the time wrong. Score! For all the misses at the photo shoot, it was less stressful than usual. We'll see how next year goes.<br />
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And now you know the rest of the story...<br />
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I got everything up, the night before. Jory shined his shoes and he left them in the kitchen to dry for the morning. While watching the Scandal finale, I dyed the girls socksYash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-89013732919318830232014-07-01T16:05:00.001-07:002014-07-01T16:05:21.207-07:00How I got the 2013 Easter pictures....I forgot to include this in the other post. But basically I spent so much money on photos so for "free" I got a cd of the session. Thank goodness that I did or else I would have had no photos from 2013. I then took the cd to CVS to print out photos, unfortunately their cutting skills need a lot to be desired. My 5X7s aren't quite by 5X7s and don't quite fit in the frames, but bygones...at least we have the photos.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-63463417121345302632014-03-28T15:15:00.000-07:002014-03-28T15:15:54.103-07:00The journey to the Easter 2013 pictures<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On Good Friday, March 29, 2013, I took my three children to Sears Portrait Studio for an appointment to take pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>During the photo session, the photographer
took Easter pictures of my son and two daughters together and separately, and
then she took birthday portraits of them using the numbers:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>eight, six, and five, in celebration of their
birthdays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The photo session was
something we had been doing since my now eight-year-old son was
three-months-old, celebrating his first Easter.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">At the conclusion of session - Sxxxxxxxx, the
photographer took me to the computer and had me choose which of the portraits I
would like to purchase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She had me write
down the numbers of the poses I wanted to purchase.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She then sat with me once I had selected my
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wanted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She informed me of the best deal
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">On May 9, 2013, the Friday before Mother’s Day, my
eight-year-old son and I went to Sears to pick up our Easter and birthday
pictures from the portrait studios so we could put the photos in the Mother’s
Day cards we were giving out on Mother’s Day, which was two days away.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we walked through the automotive
department and headed towards the portrait studios I noticed the lights were
off in the portrait studio.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thought
that was odd since I knew they stayed open late on Fridays.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we got closer, I noticed something on the
portrait studio’s counters, when we arrived into the department I realized the
something I had noticed were envelopes and loose pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were hundreds of loose pictures laying
on the counter in piles next to Sears Portrait Studios envelopes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I realized the portrait studios must have
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">I told my son to look for pictures of himself, his
sisters, and the three of them together, in the loose pictures on the counter,
while I went through the envelopes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">My son found three photos of himself, but none of his
sisters or group pictures of them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While
I was unsuccessful in finding our Easter/birthday pictures in any of the
envelopes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>A female manager arrived and
explained to me that she came to work one day and the portrait studio
department had gone out of business. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
said they had given no advanced notice that they were closing, they just
closed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She informed me all the pictures
they could find and where in the portrait studio’s drawers were on the counter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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my children and asked what would happen if I couldn’t find them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me she would find out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She made a call and explained my situation, and
then she turned to me and said I could receive a full refund with my
receipt.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told her I had more than
likely thrown the receipt away because I couldn’t return the photos once I
received them and that all I had given the photographers in the past was my
name and phone number and they gave me my pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked if a copy my credit card charge for
the photographs would be enough.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She
told me to bring it in.</span></div>
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him up on the floor to search for the pictures.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The manager offered to help me look through the pictures and asked what my
children were wearing in their photos.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
told her my daughters were wearing matching teal tank top dresses and my son
was wearing a brown suit with a vest and a teal color shirt on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Upon saying that, I looked at the photos my
son had found and realized the photos were the non-purchased extra copies of
the school picture I had him take at Sears Portrait Studios in late November of
2012.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I told this to the manager and she
nodded her head.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me the photos
she had seen were mostly Christmas pictures and she suspected that my Easter/birthday
pictures had not even been developed or printed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me they would not be receiving any
more shipments of photos from the main Portrait Studios office. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thanked her for her help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me to take the photos of my son’s
school picture free of charge.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thanked
her again and I left.</span></div>
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of my credit card statement where I was charged for my children’s
Easter/birthday photo session.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I went
into the garden/tools department and asked to speak to a manager regarding the
portrait studios.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The sales associate
called a manager and told me one would be with me shortly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fifteen minutes later, Mary L. introduced
herself as a manager.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I explained the
situation with her and she took my credit card statement to give me a full
refund since I was charged for merchandise I had never received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She tried giving me a refund, but told me she
couldn’t; because she needed the salescheck number in order to issue a refund
because she could not override the cash register.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked would my credit card company have ht
number she needed and she said possibly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I told her I would go home, call my credit card company, and then call
her back with the number.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>My son and I
left the store to do what I had just said.</span></div>
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spoke to a customer service representative.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I explained the situation to the customer service representative and he
told me the exact time my card was swiped, the day my credit card was charged,
and the authorization number for the sale.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He told me if Sears did not resolve my problem to call back and Capital
One would handle it because I couldn’t be charged for merchandise I never
received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I thanked him for his help and
the information.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I called Sears and
asked to speak to Mary L.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She came on
the line and I gave her the number and information I had just received.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Mary L. told me that was not the number, she
needed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then gave her the portrait
studio’s session number to which she informed me that number was solely for the
purpose of the portrait studio to differentiate amongst themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She told me she needed a number that started
with 10.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I asked her if my credit card
company didn’t have the number who would, she had no response.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">While Mary L. was very nice she was not helpful in
solving my problem or coming up with a solution to keep a customer, who had
spent over a thousand dollars over the past eight years purchasing photos from
their portrait studios, satisfied or happy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We hung and I immediately called Capital One back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I informed the customer service
representative of the situation and he began the dispute for me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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photos of my son posing next to the number eight in celebration of his eighth
birthday.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I have not received the photos
of my youngest daughter happily posing next to the number five or my eldest
daughter next to the number six. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I do
not have in my possession and based on what the first manager I met upon my
first visit on May x, 2013, said I will never possess the pictures taken on
Good Friday of my three children dressed in their brand new Easter outfits
laughing out loud because the photographer did all she could to make sure they
looked at the camera while smiling as big as they could.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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Why is Jory's foot sticking out like that? And why are Layla's nails painted? I know why hers would be painted and not Rowan's. But why didn't I get the polish off her nails before we took pics? I probably couldn't find the fingernail polish remover, Oma likes to put things up. Plus I probably never thought her fingers would be featured or really seen in the photos. Was it the girls or the photographer who was a fan of the hand on the hip? I think it was the photographer, though the girls would have loved the pose too.<br />
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in all of their glory. Wow, that's a really big smile from the baby.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-3089328728407352892014-03-27T17:17:00.001-07:002014-03-27T17:29:07.884-07:00My heart stops...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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look at the beauties in these pics. They take my breath away. When my mind's void/You're my joy/You're the dream when I sleep.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-69929491993622544562014-03-27T17:14:00.003-07:002014-03-27T17:14:22.986-07:00The Irish Twins<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Rowan seems to be towering over my baby in the photos were they are right next to each other. They are only one dress size apart. Our last year buying both girls' dresses for the toddler section. Thanks Target for going up to 5T.<br />
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Okay my baby looks like a midget when standing in front of Rowan, but how cute are the matching shoes, socks, dresses...matching poses, if only Rowan had bangs. My beautiful Irish twins. I'm so blessed to have them. I should post a year later all the time for their Easter pics, then I can't remember the absolute nightmare I'm sure this session was. Though so far thank God, none have matched the debacle that was Easter 2009. Rowan's life was saved by that Sears photographer.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14012880.post-18778888175202679782014-03-27T17:02:00.000-07:002014-03-27T17:02:01.627-07:00Oh where, oh where<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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is my handkerchief? It must be hiding down in his pocket. How did I not notice this? See this is proof this shoot was crazy. I was probably trying to get the girls to chill out and stop touching things and stop spinning around on the stool and I totally missed the lack of matching handkerchief and askew tie. Picture taking was easier when it was Jory, you know as long as it wasn't naptime that is.<br />
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He's so handsome, so loving, so smart, such a wonderful boy. No one else on earth could have eased me into motherhood the way that he did.Yash's Worldhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14060423860262166770noreply@blogger.com0