Lopsided Emotions Anyone?

Has anyone ever had one of those days where you just wish you didn't have to worry about anything? Today wasn't too bad until I had been gone all day, hadn't had a chance to go to the grocery store for a last minute item for dinner, the grocery store took 1 1/2 hours (we went to 2), and it seemed like nothing was going right. I had a very sad day, where in the beginning where I got upset and had this puppy dog/child voice and really wanted things to start going my way. Then all I could do was cry. I think once in a while everyone needs to have a good cry, but today was rather sad, because I wanted to buy some really good pasta and with my coupons it would have been free and instead we bought about $4 worth and I apparantly wasn't aware we bought it. $4 you say? Well, we've been out of town for a while and money gets spent more and we drove more than 2,000 miles, and I happened to look at the budget yesterday, so I kind of was on edge. Don't get me wrong, we have more than enough money in the bank, but I guess I just had an emotional day. I hope you have a much better.....


WAIT!

Maybe I should just be glad. I am very thankful for all the things I have, a home, husband, child, food on my table, hot water, toothbrush, shampoo, and many other things. I even got to see my aunt who just moved back to the states from Kuwait (Hi Aunt Grace), my mom (Hi Mom), and an adopted family member (Hi Eva Lee). We also did some shopping for redecorating and it was so much fun! I do realize that lots of people in the world have a much more difficult time in living day to day than I do, but I do think that even if we are well off, we have a tendency to get down about things. Now that I've shared my boo hoo story...I hope everyone enjoys their weekend!! Happy Birthday to Holly on Saturday!!!

Little Yeds

by Teri

Our craziness of never being stationary for the next 20+ years has begun. Rachel is crawling everywhere and wants to get into anything that belongs to Mommy and Daddy. We have had some whirlwind couple of weeks. In the last 2 weeks we have been to and from Illinois visiting Jeff's extended family and were accompanied on the trip by Grandma Lehmann and Aunt Megan. We had our share of fun and even left her with a non-family member babysitter for the first time. Amazingly, we weren't very apprehensive. Of course when you realize how small the world really is, it's easy to leave your child(ren) with a stranger who's a friend of family friends, even if you're 1,500 miles from home!!

On a busy note, Rachel has learned to pull up. Not only to her knees, but all the way to standing. I turned my back earlier today and turned back around to find her like this.....

Well, the picture was actually of the second time she stood up on the bookcase. At some point during the day she also pulled up to hold onto the coffee table. She also decided to stand up in her crib this evening when we put her to bed so she cried for a while and we went to check on her thinking she might be hot (since our A/C doesn't work!!), but instead we found her standing there, so we promptly moved her crib down as low as it can go.

Since Rachel is a Lehmann, she has to learn to be a good traveler and we certainly put her to the test over the last 9 days. She met all kinds of new people and slept in strange places and did it with a mostly happy attitude. She's been a trooper.

On a side note, the adults also had fun on the trip to Illinois. We saw some cool clouds, I tried to take some cool pictures (though quite unsuccessfully), we made strawberry rhubarb jam(picture below for those who don't know what rhubarb is) , went to Jeff's cousin's wedding (isn't she beautiful?).....

We also ran across this RV that we had passed sometime before we stopped for lunch. He had a little car trouble so we managed to pass him again.

Well, I'm sure there's more excitement in our lives, but we'll post another update soon! Welcome to summer!!!

The Lehmanns