Wednesday, April 28, 2010
Happy Baby Gets A Tooth
Look closely and you will see Maggie's first tooth. Caroline didn't get her first tooth until 14 months old...so we are excited about this. This precious child lights up our world. Her laugh is soo precious.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Good Grief
I'm sure you've heard me mention that I am "in school". I am a little over half way through with my Master's degree in counseling. Counseling is a BIG field as you can imagine (Marriage counseling, school counseling, career counseling, and so on) and I am happy to say that I have found my calling in this big world of the counseling career. Just the other day I asked a woman who is a practicing therapist right now if she did marriage counseling and her answer was "Hell no that's like jumping on a sinking ship"...now that's not how I feel about it just yet BUT that is not the area that I have been led to focus on...just though that was kinda funny:)
I know God led me to this field, that He set my inner spirit on a journey to find meaning in a career. The progression has gone something like this:
Liked teaching but LOVED talking with my kids...hmm, maybe I should be a school counselor.
Liked the idea of counseling but HATED the idea of being in the school system again...maybe I should do family and marriage counseling and get an office and have appts...
Sounded good to me so I set off to begin working on my Masters while staying at home with my babies.
Began school, loved the classwork, thought I would focus on counseling expecting parents but then...
my best friends husband dies...scarist thing that has ever happened to me.
I HAD to know more.
Attended grief counseling workshops and bought every book I could on grief counseling. I am facinated...I am passionate...about grief counseling. Through Candice's tragic ordeal and the loss of my VERY good friend Tello.. I have found an area that I think I could be helpful in. There is a need and God has placed a fire in my heart to work in this area. Tony and I have talked about my career path in the future and I recently told him I was going to open up a counseling center called "Good Grief"...we laughed but really there is a good (healthy) and bad (unhealthy) way to mourn and grieve. I'm still learning sooo much and I pray that I can raise these two girls, be a good mom AND a good student so that I will have a new career that I am passionate about when they enter school. Can you tell I've been reading one of my books today? :) They are all by Dr. Alan Wolfelt in case you are ever curious.
I know God led me to this field, that He set my inner spirit on a journey to find meaning in a career. The progression has gone something like this:
Liked teaching but LOVED talking with my kids...hmm, maybe I should be a school counselor.
Liked the idea of counseling but HATED the idea of being in the school system again...maybe I should do family and marriage counseling and get an office and have appts...
Sounded good to me so I set off to begin working on my Masters while staying at home with my babies.
Began school, loved the classwork, thought I would focus on counseling expecting parents but then...
my best friends husband dies...scarist thing that has ever happened to me.
I HAD to know more.
Attended grief counseling workshops and bought every book I could on grief counseling. I am facinated...I am passionate...about grief counseling. Through Candice's tragic ordeal and the loss of my VERY good friend Tello.. I have found an area that I think I could be helpful in. There is a need and God has placed a fire in my heart to work in this area. Tony and I have talked about my career path in the future and I recently told him I was going to open up a counseling center called "Good Grief"...we laughed but really there is a good (healthy) and bad (unhealthy) way to mourn and grieve. I'm still learning sooo much and I pray that I can raise these two girls, be a good mom AND a good student so that I will have a new career that I am passionate about when they enter school. Can you tell I've been reading one of my books today? :) They are all by Dr. Alan Wolfelt in case you are ever curious.
Thursday, April 8, 2010
Spring update
Maggie is almost 11 months and Caroline is 3 and 1/2. The sounds of laughter and squealing fills our house everyday. We could not be happier with these two little angels!
Easter 2010
The Perez Family
Caroline and Gram made the bunny cake...she's very proud!
Maggie's first Easter
Caroline is very happy that the Easter Bunny came!
BAMMM! There it is!
" C A R O L I N E BAMMM...There it is!" This child is so funny! I was a little scared that she would be in Kindergarten before she learned to spell her name...it's a long one! She's 3 going on 13 for sure! I tell her everyday "Caroline you make my heart sooo happy"...she really does. She has a great sense of humor, a beautiful smile, and her little 32 lb presence lights up our whole house! What a blessing she is!
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