Quote Answers and Give-A-Way...

It is good to know I am not the only fan of a good love story...

The answers are...

~Sweet Home Alabama...

McDreamy is perfect...

But her heart belongs to her first love...

~Runaway Bride...

A love story about finding yourself...

And who better to find it with than Richard Gere...

Can't wait until they pair up again...

~Serendipity...

This movie made me believe in soul mates...

And want to visit New York City...

John Cusack is unexpectedly adorable in this film...

~The Lake House...

On the edge of my seat...

Rooting for these two...

Who knew the movement of a mailbox flag could mean so much...

~You've Got Mail...

There will never be a movie with these two that I will NOT love...

Perfect together...

If he wasn't in one of the most successful Hollywood marriages...

~Sleepless in Seattle...

It isn't the relationship between Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan that I love here...

It is the glimpses of Tom's relationship with his deceased wife...

His relationship with his son...

And the one Meg has with her friends...

Who love her despite her quirks...

~The Notebook...

I read the book first...

And LOVED it...

The movie was initially disappointing...

But as I watch it over and over it has started to grow on me...

If you liked The Notebook...

You must read it's sequel...

The Wedding...

~Message In A Bottle...

My favorite character in this film...

Paul Newman's character Dodge...

LOVE HIM...

I love the relationship between father and son...

The sarcastic humor...

This is the only book of Nicholas Sparks' that I haven't read because while I will read books before the movie...

I do not read the book after the movie...

~Stepmom...

I cannot imagine someone else raising my children...

I can't imagine sharing them...

Sharing my husband...

But I do love this movie...

And regardless of how many times I watch it...

I always cry...

Not pretty little tears falling from my eyes...

But the real boo hoo kind...

Nose red...

Eyes puffy...

Snot running kind...

~Pretty Woman...

The first time I fell in love with Julia Roberts...

~When a Man Loves a Woman...

This is how a woman wants to be loved...

Nikki from The Kreative Knack...

Hope it was as fun for you as it was for me...

We might have to do this again...

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Now That I'm a Mommy...

Once you become a parent...

Life changes in big ways...

Obvious ways...

But there are also little, unexpected things...

The public restroom faux pas...

I ask {beg, threaten and bribe} my son NOT to open the stall door...

Crawl out of the stall and disappear...

{Leaving me to hurriedly pull up my pants and throw open the door hoping he has not wandered out of the restroom altogether...}

And finally...

Peer underneath into someone else's stall...

But at times he doesn't listen...

And I say silent prayers NO ONE walks in while I am pee peeing with a wide open stall door...

The public singing faux pas...

Since becoming a Mommy...

I find that I am often singing...

In my less than Carrie Underwood voice...

Various cartoon theme songs or well known classics like If You're Happy and You Know It and ABC's...

With no attention to where I am...

In the shower...

In the car...

At Wal-Mart...

At work...

If none of these songs come to mind...

I often find that Christmas Carols do...

I am not sure if the lack of a full nights sleep for two years has any relevance...

The discussion topic of Poop faux pas...

Since at one month old my first born was diagnosed with Hirschsprung's Disease...

Pooping, stooling, laxatives, enemas, consistency and frequency are daily conversations at our house...

Unfortunately I have become so comfortable with these topics...

I forget not everyone is...

So I find myself discussing the above items with friends...

Co-Workers...

Strangers...

Without so much as a pause...

When it comes to poop, modesty is out the window...

As are a lot of other things...

But in my opinion...

The gains of being a Mommy far outweigh the losses...

Don't forget...

Give-a-way ends at midnight...

Love is...

A pair of sparkly blue eyes that smile when they see me...

A two year old who jumps for joy when the garage door opens...

A pair of arms that know how to hold me just right...

A single dimple on a drool covered cheek...

An I wub you just because you read him a book...

The DVR set to record The Bachelor before I even ask...

A backwards wave as we say good-bye...

The request to be held when his belly hurts...

A soft kiss that still gives me chills 18 years later...

Four little teeth that hurt when they bite...

Playing Hot Wheels in the living room...

A text in the middle of the day letting me know he misses me...

Cuddling until he falls asleep...

Sleeping on a fourth of the bed as your toddler covers the rest...

Bringing me a cup of coffee with the perfect amount of cream and splenda...

Appreciating the little things...

Giving the best I have...

Loving until it hurts...

Kamden, Aidan and Keegan...

Enter my give-a-way before midnight Friday...

I Choose You...

I choose you when...

You make me laugh...

Pick up the house...

Surprise me with the perfect card...

I choose you when...

You wash my car...

Rub my back...

Tell me you love me...

I choose you when...

You sit close to me on date night...

Let me sleep in...

Put both boys to bed...

I choose you when...

You forget to call...

Money is tight...

The dishwasher isn't loaded...

I choose you when...

You fall asleep on the couch...

Lose receipts...

We argue...

It is a choice...

We make it day after day...

We choose to give our children...

Two parents living together...

Who love each other...

Imperfectly...

Who love them...

Unconditionally...

We choose to give each other...

The best we have...

A forever committment...

A choice we will never regret...

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Quotes AND A GIVEAWAY...

Melanie Carmichael: The truth is I gave my heart away a long time ago, my whole heart, and I never really got it back.

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Ike Graham: Look, I guarantee there'll be tough times. I guarantee that at some point, one or both of us is gonna want to get out of this thing. But I also guarantee that if I don't ask you to be mine, I'll regret it for the rest of my life, because I know, in my heart, you're the only one for me.

~~~

Sara: You don't have to understand. You just have to have faith.

Jonathan: Faith in what?

Sara: Destiny

~~~

Sara: Favorite moment?

Jonathan: This one is topping the charts right now.

~~~

Kate: It's kind of a long distance relationship.

~~~

Henry Wyler: Do you have a girlfriend?

Alex: Uh, you're going to think I'm crazy.

~~~

Joe Fox: You know, sometimes I wonder...

Kathleen Kelly: What?

Joe Fox: Well... if I hadn't been Fox Books and you hadn't been The Shop Around the Corner, and you and I had just, well... met...

Kathleen Kelly: I know.

Joe Fox: Yeah. I would have asked for your number, and I wouldn't have been able to wait twenty-four hours before calling you and saying, "Hey, how about... oh, how about some coffee or, you know, drinks or dinner or a movie... for as long as we both shall live?"

Kathleen Kelly: Joe...

Joe Fox: And you and I would have never been at war. And the only thing we'd fight about would be which video to rent on a Saturday night.

Kathleen Kelly: Well, who fights about that?

Joe Fox: Well, some people. Not us.

Kathleen Kelly: We would never.

Joe Fox: If only.
~~~
Sam Baldwin: Well, I'm gonna get out of bed every morning... breath in and out all day long. Then, after a while I won't have to remind myself to get out of bed every morning and breath in and out... and, then after a while, I won't have to think about how I had it great and perfect for a while.

Doctor Marcia Fieldstone: Tell me what was so special about your wife?

Sam Baldwin: Well, how long is your program? Well, it was a million tiny little things that, when you added them all up, they meant we were suppose to be together... and I knew it. I knew it the very first time I touched her. It was like coming home... only to no home I'd ever known... I was just taking her hand to help her out of a car and I knew. It was like... magic.
~~~
Noah: I am nothing special; just a common man with common thoughts, and I've led a common life. There are no monuments dedicated to me and my name will soon be forgotten. But in one respect I have succeeded as gloriously as anyone who's ever lived: I've loved another with all my heart and soul; and to me, this has always been enough.
~~~
Young Noah: So it's not gonna be easy. It's gonna be really hard. We're gonna have to work at this every day, but I want to do that because I want you. I want all of you, for ever, you and me, every day. Will you do something for me, please? Just picture your life for me? 30 years from now, 40 years from now? What's it look like? If it's with him, go. Go! I lost you once, I think I can do it again. If I thought that's what you really wanted. But don't you take the easy way out.

Young Allie: What easy way? There is no easy way, no matter what I do, somebody gets hurt.

Young Noah: Would you stop thinking about what everyone wants? Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do YOU want? What do you WANT?
~~~
Theresa Osborne: If some lives form a perfect circle, other take shape in ways we cannot predict or always understand. Loss has been part of my journey. But it has also shown me what is precious. So has love for which I can only be grateful.
~~~
Isabel: You know, I never wanted to be a mom. Sharing it with you... that's one thing. It's another to be looking over my shoulder for the next twenty years, knowing someone else would have done it better... someone else would have done it right.
Jackie Harrison: What do you have that I don't?
Isabel: You're Mother Earth, incarnate.
Jackie Harrison: You're... hip, and fresh.
Isabel: You ride with Anna.

Jackie Harrison: You'll learn.

Isabel: You know every story, every wound, every memory. Their whole life's happiness is wrapped up in you... every single second. Don't you get it? Look down the road to her wedding. I'm in a room alone with her, fixing her veil, fluffing her dress, telling her no woman has ever looked so beautiful. And my fear is she'll be thinking, "I wish my mom was here."

Jackie Harrison: And mine is... she won't.
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Vivian: I'm gonna treat you so nice, you're never gonna let me go.
~~~
Michael Green: My wife is an alcoholic. Best person I ever met. She has 600 different smiles. They can light up your life. They can make you laugh out loud, just like that. They can even make you cry, just like that. That's just with her smiles. You'd have to see her with her kids. You'd have to see how they look at her, when she's not looking. To think of all the things she lives through, and I couldn't help her.


Alice Green: Maybe helping wasn't your job.

Michael Green: Well, it wasn't. See I love her. And I tried everything, except really listening, really listening, and that's how I left her alone. I was so ashamed of that, and I couldn't even tell her. Maybe if I tell her she'd love me anyway.
Alice Green: Or more. She would have loved you even more. I think you should tell all this stuff to your wife.

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You made one little boy very happy...

 

ONE...

Thank You Letter from Kam...

Dearest...

Nama,

Thank you...

For my Mommy...

For being there the day I was born...

For coming to our house in the middle of the day or night when Mommy calls and is scared...

For helping my parents financially when needed...

For starting my college fund...

For picking me up and cuddling me...

For bragging about me...

For helping Mommy make my first birthday cake...
For asking Mommy every day how and what I'm doing...

For loving me so very much...

Dapa

Thank you...

For my Mommy...

For loving me from the moment our eyes met...

For giving me kisses and cuddling me...

For worrying about me...

For helping my parents financially when needed...

For starting my college fund...

For acting as if every milestone I reach is just as special as when brother reached it...

For being a part of my life...

Mema

Thank you...

For my Daddy...

For taking care of me while Mommy and Daddy work {to buy brother toys}...

For holding me while I nap...

For spoiling me with your love...

For 10 months worth of formula...

For taking me to the library...

For teaching me to clap...

For being strong even when you don't feel well...

Papa

Thank you...

For taking care of me while Mommy and Daddy work...

For changing my dirty diapers...

For reading me books...

For taking me to the library...

For picking me up and taking me home to make things easier on Mommy and Daddy...

For fixing Mommy's car at a fraction of the cost...

For making sure I am safe and secure in my car seat before we go home...

For sharing your egg sandwiches...

Brother

Thank you...

For playing...

For always waking me in the morning...

For saying hi and hugging me...

For coming to check on me when I cry...

For trying to cheer me up...

For sharing your toys {sometimes}...

For leaving your drink where I can reach it...

For leaving your snacks where I can reach them...

For all the cute clothes and great toys...

For breaking Mommy and Daddy in before I got here...

Daddy

Thank you...

For making ME...

For choosing Mommy...

For being patient with Mommy when she is difficult...

For loving Mommy and showing us how much you love her...

For letting me sleep in your arm pic...

For giving me baths and letting me splash...

For giving brother time out when he cackles me...

For singing "Ants Go Marching" until I fall asleep or stop crying...

For always letting me watch Mickey Mouse...

For all the kisses...

For holding me while you cook, clean or eat...

For getting up on your nights {sometimes Mommy's} to give me a bottle...

For sneaking real milk in my sippy before I was one...

For making sure my needs are met before your own...

For showing me unconditional love...

This has been the best year of my life...

Hugs and Kisses,

Kamden

Our Valentine's Weekend...

Valentine's Day for our little family fell on February 12th and 13th...

I refuse for anyone else in our home to receive presents on the 14th other than little Kam...

Birthday trumps Holiday...

On Friday...

KKS and I went to a local wine bar...

{I ate sushi for the first time}

And walked to a new restaurant...

Which to me is always so much fun...

When I enter a new restaurant...

I feel like I am on vacation...

While on vacation in our own town...

We talked and laughed...

Caught up...

Stuffed ourselves with blue cheese topped filet mignon and rack of lamb...

I gave KKS one of his gifts...

A new wedding ring...

Tungsten Carbide...

To replace a very scratched platinum and titanium one...

He loved it...

And I got a beautiful amethyst ring...

{Kam's birthstone}

Once home I gave KKS his other gifts...

A Jordan Howerton CD...

New cell phone {ebay}...

And put the boys' presents in Valentine sacks on the fireplace...

To be opened the next morning...

Aidan Kale of course got up before we did...

And I was awakened with shrieks of excitement over his new Woo-Woos...

Yack...

 

And Delfie...

 

{Close enough buddy}

And Kam's new touch and feel book...

 

He was a great sport when I asked him to put the book back in the bag so that Bubby could open it...

I used to have a very selfish idea of Valentine's Day...

Making it all about me...

About the right flowers...

{No babies breath}

The right candy...

{Caramels only}

Weekend get-a-ways...

Expensive restaurants...

The perfect gift...

And every year I was disappointed...

Except this year...

And that morning...

With sleep in my eyes...

Tissue strung all over the living room...

A smile on my face and my husband's...

I found the real meaning of Valentine's Day...

Even though the florist didn't deliver $100 flowers to my office...

We didn't celebrate on the 14th...

I ordered my own ring...

And Aidan opened both he and his brother's gifts...

It was wonderful...

And Saturday night when I walked into my bathroom to get ready for bed...

There was a card from my husband...

As it sang to me...

I read heartfelt words in familiar handwriting...

and I have NEVER felt more loved...

Happy Kam Day...Cake

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