Flashback Friday

My friend Bridget does Flashback Friday's on her blog, and this week, I loved her subject, so I'm borrowing her idea to post here.

Christmas presents. There is so much build up to all the gifts we receive every year at Christmas, but how long do we remember gifts that we have received? Surprisingly, I actually remember a lot of wonderful gifts I've received. Here are just a couple of the absolute most memorable.

LIFESAVERS: This was a stocking standard. In elementary school, they used to come in these collectible tins. Now they are the storybooks. My family would always cross country ski up to our grandparents cabin the day after Christmas and we would be snacking on lifesavers the whole time. These are perhaps my most treasured memories from my childhood, and to this day I have to take lifesavers with me anytime I go cross-country skiing or snowboarding. Everytime I taste a cherry lifesaver, It instantly feels like Christmas.















BARBIE DREAM HOUSE: 'Nuff said. With a family of 3 girls this was an essential toy for us, which we played with for years, even long after we were too old for barbies.






TRAMPOLINE: When I was in 4th grade, we had just moved into a new house 2 weeks before Christmas. We now had a living room, AND a family room, and therefore only furniture for one of the rooms. The living room was big and empty and had this big vaulted ceiling. When we ran downstairs Christmas morning, I ran full speed into a trampoline set up in the living room! I was knocked to the ground, but my excitement was far greater than the whiplash. The best part was the room was in the front of the house with this huge bay window. As people drove by our house, they could see these girls flying in the air, but they couldn't see the tramp. We spent all winter on that tramp in the living room. I think I slept on it every single night.















PHONE CALL FROM MY DAD: My dad called me yesterday, and he hasn't spoken to me in 9 years.

Jonah is growing up too quickly. Last week he stared pulling himself up and now he's doing it all the time. He keeps falling down and hitting his head. I'm going to have to wrap him in bubble wrap.

Yesterday I discovered a tooth! Finally! We have been waiting for teeth for months, but when it came I was inevitably sad. My baby is becoming a little boy.

Mowgli Jonah

Jonah is starting to pull himself up! He still won't crawl on his hands and knees, but he is super fast at his army/lizard crawling thing he does. He pulled himself up for the first time this week, and last night he started getting on his feet and hands. So cute!

Finally we have internet! I didn't realize how much I use it until I didn't have it for 3 weeks.


It's so nice to be back together again. Here we are in our back yard on Thanksgiving. We had a delicious meal at a local restaurant, FATZ cafe. Jerry had the traditional Thanksgiving dinner, which I would compare to elementary cafeteria school lunch. I had some delicious ribs and was very happy and very full :) Jerry had to work that day from 2 to midnight, so it wasn't much of a Thanksgiving, just another day, but the last month has made us all the more thankful to be together.


We've just been getting settled. Jerry took Jonah running in the jogging stroller. It was very cold, so it wasn't too long, but Jerry was really excited. He's been waiting to take him jogging since we found out I was pregnant with Jonah.




Here is Jonah just being his cool self. Don't you just love the cute little curl above his ear!!

We need a new name for our blog. I was thinking stuff like "Georgia on my mind" but something more original.

Does anyone have any ideas?