Snow day number 2 here... And golf practice starts tomorrow...needless to say I'm as cranky as the rest of the Minnesotans wanting spring to get here...Well, I'm not actually for real cranky because I am still on a high from a wonderful, perfect week and weekend with friends and family and Junebug's first shower!
First off, Andy did a marvelous job last week when he was on afternoons of painting the nursery and pulling out the old carpet for out new carpet to arrive! Ugly yellow paint is gone...ugly orange 70's carpet is gone. The tile he found underneath the carpet was quite unique as it was a variety of game boards... checkerboards, tictactoe boards and one area looked like backgammon! So crazy!
Friday night my amazing, now-retired, first secretary @ HLWW, Jan, threw my friend Jackie and I a combined wedding/baby shower at her home. It was so special to be with all my close coworker friends who make me grateful everyday to have a job that may be a lot of work bat times, but a lot of fun and so worth it with them all the time. I couldn't imagine being anywhere else or ever having coworkers as awesome as them. We were blessed with TONS of necessities for baby and having our new nursery filling up is making it all more real!
Jan loves to write Left Right stories (door prize presents are passed around whenever Left/Right is said) and I just loved it and laughed and teared up so wanted to share it/save it here:
An
Exciting June is Right Before Us!
Well Brooke and Jackie as we gather
here today we hope you have not left
your humor behind because we have some sage advice to extend as we celebrate
the additions of a brand new baby and a brand new husband to the HLWW Middle
School family.
To you Brooke, it sounds like humor
will be a key ingredient right from
the start of motherhood. Everyone wants
you to laugh a lot! Right! Kim says “no matter
how splattery your surprises are, laugh often.
Then Janell wants you to laugh first and never ask “what were you
thinking”? As I, a mother of three said,
right!
Well here we go with the “enjoy each
day, they grow up so fast wisdom” from Colleen.
Stephanie knows how right she
is as she reminds you to not wish the time away and to appreciate each stage as
it comes, as time passes too quickly.
Carol seems hopeful you will run
into a good sale on Kleenex, as she is encouraging you to buy a pallet
load! Guess she isn’t expecting your
weeping to go away with motherhood and thinks it only will make you want to cry
more! Once again, speaking from
experience, she is so right. Now you have to add all the amazing
milestones that will only bring tears of happiness as you experience
motherhood. I almost left out that this never stops, we moms
just keep on crying happy tears even when they are all grown up.
Your motherly instinct is what
Laurie wants you to go with. She has
found that sometimes this is better than any book or advice you may have been left with.
Mary has summed up a right-fine reminder to take care of
yourself, so you can be a good mom.
Well
Jackie, you would think we left all
our wisdom to creating a beautiful baby world for Brooke. Oh no, don’t you feel left out.
Stephanie
suggests that you put each other first and everything else will fall right into place. I guess this goes along a little with
Janell’s thoughts. She says to always
compliment your husband around other people.
Mary
mentions to always remember to say you are sorry and so did Kim. Kim did also add that if that doesn’t work, a
lil whoopie can solve most issues! Right to the point our Kim is!
Laurie
left you with some beautiful
sentiments. She says never put down your husband’s parents. Always talk to your
friends or family about any concerns because you can never take back what you
may have said. Your husband may not react or say anything at the time but it
will impact your relationship. When it gets challenging, remember the best gift
they gave to you is their son and be right-thankful
for that.
Probably the most practical piece of
advice was left for you from your
fellow farm wife Colleen: Be sure to
shut the stove off when you are called to help outside for a few minutes? A few minutes is almost always three hours.
And
lastly a reminder from Carol to enjoy the single life while you still can. She says you only have a few months left to sass it up! When you miss that alone time, just think of
her!
I
almost forgot that I had not left you
girls with my advice. Silly but the same
advice seems to work for your new baby, Brooke and Jackie, for your soon to be
hubby Nate. Smile into your endeared
“baby’s” eyes and speak kindness to them.
Happiness will come right
back to you.
The
month of June will find us decklin the halls for your celebrations at HLWW with
pink for the wedding and possibly the arrival of a little girl. Who knows we probably should add some blue too
if my guess is right that Brooke
will have a boy!
All
that seems left to say is each of us
prays that blessings abound not only in June for the two of you but each day of
these new adventures in your lives.
Enjoy!
The weekend was then filled with fun and relaxing with my sister in the cities and she decided to just come out to Hutchinson to hang with us. We picked up the stroller mi madre bought us, shopped in some golf stores, saw OZ and ate at Old Chicago! After that we head to the Golf Zone heated driving range and Brittany was doing awesome. Got me excited to start coaching a few of my newbies this week!!
Spent the rest of Saturday and Sunday just hanging out, going to church, making good meals and playing some cribbage... Oh yes, and making some green virgin drinks for a little St. Patty's day fun!
