Temple Bat Yahm

Every Friday you sing with the preschool and Mommy, Grandma and Zackary always love listening to you and watching you in your class with with your new friends Justin and Nicholas. 

First Antibiotics

You both endured your first ear infections together unrelated to each other.  Emme was recovering from a cold and Zackary you had the worst allergy attack that lasted for a couple weeks.  The picture above at 3.5 years old was Emme's first antibiotics and Zackary was 5 and mommy was very sad.

Happy St. Patricks Day means green pancakes for dinner

This year we made green pancakes for dinner...using spinach.  You guys couldn't even taste the spinach and it was so much fun eating them all!  This holiday is special for your Dad and me because of us meeting in Ireland.  I hope it will resonate in a special place in your hearts as well each year as you get older.

Love

Love Love Love

Oh Yeah This Is How We Bake

I think this picture explains itself...it's priceless.

Pink Pink Pink

You do the color pink well my dear!  So adorable! 

Spending Some Time With Our Favorite GG

You two had such a special connection with your Great Grandma.  She loved you tremendously.  In her last years you both brought her energy, laughter, happiness, ultimately so much joy! 

A couple facts about GG.  She loved the color purple.  She felt it represented peace, love and heaven.  She hated the colors red and black...thinking they meant hell and the devil.  She had a routine for each day of the week.  Monday was laundry day.  Friday was water the plants day.  She ate oatmeal with tons of supplements in it like lecithin, flax seed, oat, wheat bran, a liquid vitamin, and half and half.  She had vegetable soup for lunch (being a vegetarian since she was a teenager) with cheese toast, some nuts and some potato chips, always at noon.  She had a snack in the afternoon of fruits usually.  Dinner started with a small green iceberg salad mixed with avocado, shaved zucchini, cabbage and cut up carrots and tomatoes, topped with homemade ranch...yummy.  Some form of protein was next, usually spaghetti, vege patti, egg, etc.. with milk.  She had a big Tupperware cookie container that when I was little I used to get to pick cookies out of after my vege soup and dinners.  That is a favorite memory, not to mention the home made amazing vegetable soup she made.  She watched a lot of political shows and religious shows on tv.  She believed deeply in a religious group called "I AM" which her mother belonged to and she always felt a since of connection with her through her religion.

She had insane control of her mind.  She would tell her colds and aches and pains to "go away, get out of my body."  Her main focus in life was to learn to not criticize, condemn of judge.  That was hard for her and something she was still trying to master till the end.  She was such a hard worker always out in the garden tending to her must have tomato plants, or trying to fix something herself somewhere in her house or washing her windows or watering her lawn...always busy.  She was strong, so strong, both physically and mentally.  She was determined to financially take care of her family.  She never went out with friends, listened to music, or would drink alcohol, smoke or do any drugs.  She saved and froze everything.  She had a love hate relationship with food...liking it when others made it for her but hating making it herself which lead to not being to creative with meals.  She took me to see ET when it first came out in the theaters, and I went with her and Great Grandpa to see the first Jurassic Park in the movie theaters...it was so fun.  Most of my memories with her are so special and sweet.  How lucky you both lived with her for the first 6 years of your life Zackary and Emme the first 3.5.  She moved in with Grandma when she hurt her back for some extra help.  Look at the picture above...we are all in those moments now...but I am obviously writing this for the future.