May

Mother’s Day Rawr…

I hope everyone had a wonderful Mother’s Day & were able to spend time with your Littles or your Mamas or BOTH.

I had a very nice day with my 3 Dudes. We took the Boys to get their pictures taken for Mother’s Day & for Ryan’s 3 Month Birthday. The pictures turned out way too cute & both of the Smalls did great!!! We did a little shopping @ Target, had lunch @ home & the Boys took naps. Hub’s mom came over in the evening & Hubs made us chicken, corn on the cob & roasted potatoes for us. My 4 year old made the salad & he was so proud. Dinner was great & then Hubs & I gorged ourselves on ice cream after James went to bed. Although he did come out & caught us red-handed!!! He goes “Heyyyy……. What’s THAT?!” So busted.

I was in bed last night thinking about my nice day & thought about my most interesting Mother’s Day so far. 2 Years ago Hubs, James & I went to New Orleans for my Birthday (May 6th) & Mother’s Day (May 9th, 2010). The day before Mother’s Day we spent all day running around New Orleans. We walked down Bourbon Street (in the day time before it gets TOO weird), went to the Aquarium, walked around & shopped @ the RiverWalk, walked all around the French Quarter & ended up @ the Hard Rock for dinner. Everything was going great; we were laughing & having a good time & James was just happy as could be. Until the SECOND the food came & the poor Kid puked his little guts up!!! Our Waiter was AMAZING though & totally didn’t even skip a beat & started cleaning up the table & asked if we wanted him to box up our food so we could get James home to rest & if he needed some water in a to-go cup. We got all cleaned up, put the Dude in his stroller & hoofed it back to our hotel. James still wasn’t feeling well & puked well into the wee hours of the morning on Mother’s Day. There I sat @ midnight on Mother’s Day, on the bathroom floor of our hotel, propped up with the cushions & pillows from the couch with a pukey Kid. Happy Mother’s Day to me. LOL!!! I guess that’s what I get for procreating.

*KODI*

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May

Puzzle Pieces

A year ago today a Friend of mine took his own Life. I wrote this a few days after he died & just wanted to share it with you. ❤

“I’ve been thinking about Friends & Family a lot the last couple days after learning about the death of a good Friend of mine from my Childhood.

The people in our lives are like Puzzle Pieces. Most of the people we encounter are like the Middle Pieces & help connect our Lives together. May it be a Friend or just an Acquaintance or a Family Member you speak to occasionally. There are some people though that are more like the Edge Pieces. They are more important in the shaping of our lives. People who we have confided in & shared our Lives with. People who we love. Even fewer still are the People I think of as Corner Pieces. People who truly shaped us & really did help us become who we ARE. Most of these people are our Parents & Siblings. Some of these few Corner Pieces are Friends. The People that were a major influence in what we became & who we turned into. People that if it weren’t for them & something they did, we would not be able to say “I am Me.”

I can honestly say that Dustan Wilson was one of my Corner Pieces. There is so much of who I am today that stems from the Friendship I had with him in Middle & High School. I’m lucky to have had him as a Corner Piece as he helped me grasp the idea of being ME & not conforming to what “They” think I should be. He helped me become an Individual. Thank you Dustan. You were an amazing Friend. ♥

Most of you are my Middle Pieces, several are my Edge Pieces & a handful of you are my Corner Pieces. Regardless of what Piece of my Puzzle of Life you are, without You, I am not Me.

*KODI*”

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Apr

Eating Under the Stars

This afternoon Hubs, First Son, Small Man & I met up with a Friend & his Son (our Son’s Bestest Buddy) @ Sci-Port, our local science center. We had a blast chasing the Boys around & checking out all the awesome science-y stuff. After a while everyone in Sci-Port knew it was time for Small Man to eat, because he RAWR’ed his little face off for a couple minutes.

I had been trying to think of a good nursing spot & figured that the Planetarium would be perfect & boy, was I right. I told Hubs we were going to go have some Boob & we’d catch up to them as soon as we were done. We went into the darkness & were all by ourselves, which was quite a contrast to the hustle & bustle going on just on the other side of the walls. It was wonderful.

I got to feed Small Man while listening to beautiful, relaxing piano music in the dark, quiet, star-filled Planetarium. I wish we could have stayed forever.

*Ohhmm Raawwr*

*KODI*

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Jan

All Things Rawr!

Rawr. According to THE Urban Dictionary Rawr has several meanings:

1. A word that means “I love you” in dinosaur.

2. A primitive sound used to represent a personal feeling. Due to the generic and modular nature of the word, the actual implied meaning varies from person to person.

3. A more sexually oriented and cooler version of the word “roar”.

4. In dinosaur, the way of saying, “Hey. You there. Yes, you good sir. I wanted to afford you the courtesy of letting you know that I’m about to eat you. Quite right, eh?”

5. More importantly, we consider the word, “RAWR” to be all of the above and then some. Rawr is a mother’s love, a child’s hunger, a pregnant woman’s anger, an alternate to honking at bad drivers, and a socially acceptable replacement for any other four letter word. It can mean good and bad, hungry and full, light and dark.

This blog is an attempt to gather All Things Rawr into one space that enriches and enlightens our daily rawrs.

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