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I had an insanely horrible week. My brother-in-law passed away last Friday (which is why I didn't participate in the post last week or write one on Monday) and we buried him on Tuesday. He was 35 and had diabetes his whole life. He died from a complication of diabetes and leaves behind a family who will truly miss him . . . especially his 5 year old daughter. He always treated her like a princess and this was a really tough week for her - the start of a lot of tough times ahead. If anyone has any advice on how to deal with this kind of thing with a small child we would certainly LOVE to hear it! She has read the book I Miss You: A First Look At Death
several times with her mother and seems to be doing well but it is a day to day thing and will get harder, I'm sure.So . . . after the week we had I knew that we had to get out of the house and do something fun! That's exactly what we did yesterday with our trip to the zoo!
I packed up my 2 nieces and 3 nephews, along with Danika, and we headed to the Pittsburgh Zoo and Aquarium! We had a fantastic time and EVERYONE was SO well behaved! Honestly, I would take the 6 of them anywhere if they behaved this well every time!
I will share some of the pics I took while I was there - I can honestly say that one of the highlights for me was that I was able to leave the 2 year olds with my amazing, wonderful, loving, kind mother-in-law (and father-in-law) for the day. Why was that so great? Because it means I was able to take pictures!!!
This last picture is of me in the car headed home. We got SOAKED on the "run" back to the van. We thought we were going to miss the rain but we were about 5 minutes too late . . . and 5 minutes in a downpour is enough to soak everyone to the bone (which it did).
I looked at my nephew, Nick, as we were all scrambling to the van with water running down our faces and our shirts stuck to our bodies and I said, "At least we are making great memories!" and he smiled and replied, "Yep". Which I totally loved and will never forget!
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After my husband's week off and all the adventure we had, it was a lower key week at home. We got things going on some projects that we've been wanting to do since we moved in! We started working on our Master bedroom. When It's all done, I'll share what we've done.
I've also been wanting to dig into the hall closet. It's hard to believe I let it get so packed up with JUNK! It took me about thirty minutes to get it back to normal.
Also this week, Livi started dance camp: Magical Movie Camp to be exact. And I only forgot about picking her up one time! Go me!
The rain has slightly spoiled today's plan to head to the pool but I'm sure it will still be a good day. I am attending the Tea Party for Livi's camp,and then we will be spending some time with my Mom. My husband is heading away for the weekend (yearly golf outing) and so: Girls' Weekend! Woohoo? (Girls' weekend might be more fun if I didn't have to be the one planning it.)
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