Free Valentine Day Tags & Kiss Labels

I am taking life day by day, moment by moment.

Jackson had to have surgery to place 2 pins in his arm on Wednesday.

Needless to say, my week has been somewhat busy & exhausting.

I think I need a vacation, a nap, a nice relaxing bath, or maybe all three.

Somehow, I feel strength. I know it is from God as I pray for it daily.

I had wanted to get these out earlier, but my first love & responsibility

is being a Mom, especially when my kids desperately need me.

Anyway,

 I LOVE Valentines Day!  I love showing my family & friends how much I love them,

especially my little kids.  

We made these last Saturday & had so much fun with them!  Morgan

said, "Can we do this every year?!"  My favorite part was when Hallie

started dancing & shaking her hips to Selena Gomez' song "Who Say's"

while sliding the candy hearts in their bags.  She always makes us laugh.

Here are the jpeg files (click, save to your computer & print)

*If you would like PDF, please email me & I'll send

you the files. Thanks & Happy Valentines Day! 

A Broken Leg, A Broken Arm, & A Full Heart

Life for me, never seems predictable.

Although sometimes I try to make it that way. 

For example, I was so excited to start the new year with 

blog posts, being organized, creating, designing, & on, & on, & on.

And then, this little guy broke his leg 2 days after Christmas.

Not a huge problem, just some minor tweaking to our everyday schedule.

And then, Landon became a little clingy- always wanting me to hold him.

I guess, wouldn't you want to be held instead of trying to push your way

around your house on your back with your good leg?

Well, we were getting the hang of things & I was starting to get

back into the routine and then last week, my cute little man Jackson

decided to do an acrobatic move while turning on the light, and

broke his arm in two places, thus needing a simple surgery to try to

 align his bones back together.

"Two broken bones!"  you may say.  Yes, it's true and yes my hands are 

very full.  Three of our 4 kids, along with my husband have a brittle bone disease called 

"Osteo-Genesis Imperfecta"

In other words, their bones lack collagen and are therefore easier to break.  Although

extra calcium helps, it doesn't cure.  Thankfully Shriner's Hospital offers treatments. They are wonderful

to work with our family, and we have a wonderful orthopedic doctor too.  Our family has

the mildest form of OI.  In some more serious cases, babies break bones inside the womb.  

At this point, just between the 4 kids, we have had 9 broken bones.  Brian is another story

for another day. :)  This may seem like a hard challenge, and sometimes it is, but there

are so many other challenges that parents are concerned about with their children,

the a broken bone actually seems like just part of our lives that only lasts for 6 weeks instead of daily.

Our kids can still do almost everything that other kids can do except for high-impact sports &

jumping on a trampoline, the big air jump things, etc.  Other than that they are just your average kids.

Hallie does not have it and is so excited to help with Jackson & Landon- they don't 

look to excited to have her help them. :)

I saw this quote on Pinterest yesterday & it is exactly how I feel.

I am learning to just go with the flow and take life

day by day instead of trying to predict what may happen.