ALMOST........

forgot how to get into my blog for a new posting!

January will soon be over and I have not made any postings since New Year's Day!
I am just beginning to recover from Christmas 2011 and feel alive again!!
Each year I say that this was the "worse" Christmas in the terms of retail and even thought I THINK it cannot get worse, I am proven wrong.  I think it is a combination of people getting worse and I am a year older!
It just makes me appreciate all that I have all the more!
There have been the continual Fun Friday with January being a theme of Let it SNOW!

I missed the "last" Fun Friday in January as I had an unexpected trip to Ohio..... it may have been "unexpected" but it was a "treat" to be there.  Rumor has it Fun Friday last week was hot chocolate & packaged donuts.  Hopefully they missed me! :)  IF not I am going to simplify much more.
I am working on a special project for the next two months with work.  We are getting (what Target calls) PFresh.  It is a remodel of our store that will end up giving us a much bigger line of grocery's.  Our shoe department remodeled and baby department.  They will redo the back room to accommodate the freezers.  I will be in charge of the "training" to which everyone in the store has to go through so I am working in the office for the next two months.  I was sitting in the office by myself on Tuesday and I had an overwhelming prompting to go and H E L P Amanda as there were a few more complications for her to deal with.  I cleared it with those in charge and  I left work after 2 hours there.  I came home, threw a few things in a suit case and off I went to Columbus.  I arrived shortly before Amanda was returning from the hospital and I was able to spend the week with owen.
All week I thought about the gift we have with the promptings and what it means to us and the help that it gives us in life. I am so grateful for this guidance in my life.
I enjoyed doing lots of things with Owen and learning a little more about the daily schedule Amanda handles. This little boy is BUSY for the time he gets up until the time he goes to bed.

Owen has a love for ANY electronics.  If I had to SIT for a moment all I would have to do is give him my phone and he would intensely sit there and play with it.  When I did not want to SIT for a moment I had to make sure it stayed in my pocket!

We took a walk around the block and yes, even outside Owen has ONE speed and that is FAST!

In his hand are "special people" and I took a picture of them.  I quickly learned about each one as these are Owen's favorite toys to play with......

June, Quincy, Leo & Annie
Do you know which one is Owen's favorite???
It's a girl and it's hair coloring is the same as his mom's!
JUNE
is the right answer.....
He will maneuver all four of them as he goes upstairs and down stairs.
They are his constant FRIENDS!

SNACK TIME

This little "girl-to-be" already has all kinds of hair bows

A venture to Target always means a "SMOOOOOTHIE!
He drinks and Marnie and I shopped.  

Owen "earned" a M O V I E.... so we
enjoyed a quiet moment of watching it

Marnie has down loaded some Elmo books on her kindal fire
and Owen thinks this is awesome!

"Mom....I would really like one of these for myself"

The time came that I had to leave and return home.  It is back to work Monday and how I wish I could
have stayed to HELP Amanda and to PLAY with Owen.
He makes you
LAUGH
SMILE
GIGGLE
and appreciate life as you see the world through a toddlers eyes!

"EIGHT plus is enough to fill my
HEART
with
LOVE"

Posted by Barb Zinn