Midnight rambles

This is a special picture taken at my toddler shower in June 2009.  My Aunt (my Mom's oldest sister), my cousin and Godmother Christine and my other cousins and their children were all there to help us celebrate.  I love intergenerational events and with my Mom dying in September of 2004 the whole becoming a Mom thing was a little tougher.  She was such a great Mom -- of course as she got older and my siblings became wilder (hee, hee) she would yell a whole lot more.  Or maybe because one really shouldn't have teenagers and be going through menopause. Or maybe because by the time she got to children numbers 7, 8, and 9 she was just tired.  I totally understand now when I go to bed at 10 pm if Paul gets right to sleep...okay at 11 pm and then he wakes up once or twice... boy am I glad I am not breastfeeding!!!  Actually, he is finally sleeping all night again.  His surgery messed up his sleep schedule, along with the no no's.  Speaking of sleep I am going to bed!  I am rambling. night night