A Flood of Emotions

Well it's the 1st day of school in our small little town and my baby girl has become a big 2nd grader!! My oh my how the time flies before my eyes...I was just "Rock, Rocking" her while she sucked her on her Fat Paci (that's what she called it!). Anyhow, we all get our kids up bright & early feed them a nice hearty breakfast, they get themselves dressed & it's off you go to school. I try to be the strong one and tell her...no worries baby, you are going to have fun it'll be fine. Watch her as she rubs her belly nervously & looks at me with those scared little eyes. We walk to her classroom with her teacher who is probably all of 19...and here I am, the one who tears up!! Appearantly the pregnant emotional mom is not the best parent to be sending for the 1st day of school. And yes I boo-hoo'd on the way home at the thought of my baby girl growing so fast! And then the next thought was holy cow, I'll be doing this for a while with the new baby coming and being so far behind Kenzie in age!

So to all the mom's out there who dropped their kiddo's off at school...kudo's to you for being the strong one & wiping away all the tears & fear. And please have some sympathy for the pregnant lady dropping off her kid! haha

A quick intro...

Well as you can see I am obviously new to this whole blog scene but it gives me something to ramble on and if you're reading then you are somewhat interested...soooo read on! Anyhoot, a quick intro into my world, I am Natalie a woman in her late 20's living in a very small quiet town in Texas!! I have a beautiful 7 year old daughter (Kenzie) & a husband (Daniel) who loves us more than I can imagine! We recently found out that we are expecting a new bambino in February 2011...so the De Leon household is getting things ready (it's a slow process) for our new addition. Kenzie keeps us busy between school functions, softball practices, 4H and her general craziness. We have 2 big fat lazy dogs (Crackers & Bailey Jo) that Kenzie is oh so mean to and they pretty much rule our house! I work a normal 40 plus hour a work week and it's a race against the clock to squeeze everything else into the afternoon that we have to do! I started motherhood at a fairly young age (a lot quicker than I planned) but Kenzie has never wanted for anything & I work my rear-end off to never let it come to that! I've learned a lot of things in my adult life...don't sweat the small stuff, always stay positive...if not the negativity consumes you, family is most important & most definately don't live outside your means! So hang on...I'll keep you all posted on all the crazy things that happen in our day to day lives & how well I'm dealing with my work, my family & oh yeah growing a whole human inside me!