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Donna's Diary Entries Diary Navigation: Choose A Diary Entry -------------------- Latest Entry: 5/19/07 -------------------- 4/21/07 3/11/07 2/9/07 1/9/07, Entry 2 12/22/06 12/11/06 11/28/06 11/20/06 11/15/06 11/10/06 11/1/06 10/24/06 10/17/06 10/11/06 10/3/06 9/25/06 9/17/06 9/11/06 9/6/06 8/27/06 8/20/06 8/13/06 8/6/06 7/30/06 7/23/06 7/16/06 7/9/06 7/4/06 6/25/06 6/19/06 6/11/06 6/4/06 -------------------- Donna's Introduction

05/19/2007 - Happy Mother's Day!

May 19, 2007

Mother's Day
As it has been for the past few years, Mother's Day was wonderful.  We didn't do anything exciting or different, but just the fact of celebrating that I was able to become a mom is exciting enough for me.  I can still remember those Mother's Days when we were trying to have a baby and even before that, full of a mixture of hope and sadness at the same time.  I wanted so badly to have Justin, and with all the crazy behavior and things he puts us through, that stuff is truly insignificant when I really think about the gift we have been given in being parents.  Thursday night, he was fooling around with my digital camera and broke it, so I bought a new one on Saturday.  Sunday we ate some ice cream at home and blew some bubbles and just had a nice day.  He sang the Sunshine Song to me and I got a video of it on my new camera.  At school, Justin made me a beautiful card, hand print mold, and a little box of hugs and kisses candy.

New Business
On May 1, I was asked to be a partner in a startup business.  It is quite exciting for me, because I had tried to start a business once by myself, but since I was working full-time and could not leave my job I really didn't have enough time to devote to finding new clients.  This business provides dressed up characters for children's parties.  Things are moving along nicely so far, and we already have parties booked for June.  What's nice about doing this as partners is that we can each bring our own skills, work on the time that we are each available, and together we seem to have everything in place that we will need.  I work weekdays and she works on weekends (at our current jobs), so we both have different times we can devote to the business.  The only problem we're having right now, is finding a time when we can both be at the bank to open a checking account.

Justin News
We had a birthday party to go to for a boy in Justin's class who turned three.  That was fun and it was the day I got my new camera, the day before Mother's Day, so I got to try it out right away.  At school, they had a fireman come in and he came home with a plastic fire hat and a coloring book.  He was really excited about it and has been talking about firemen ever since.  He has been spending mornings in the preschool class and he loves playing and learning with the older kids.  He's learning to trace letters.  In July, he will move to the preschool class full-time.  He will go from being the oldest on the daycare floor, to being the youngest on the school floor.  I'm sure it will be a bittersweet moment for me the day I drop him off in his new class for the first time.  I'll have to remember to bring my camera.

Thanks for reading!
Donna and Justin