So I know it has been forever but with the move and my new business. Yep you heard it. Check out my website at www.rachelswellness.com.  It is called Rachels Wellness and I have been working so hard to get it up and running. I am sure it was also a great way for me to take my mind off the fact that we had just moved from Philadelphia to Boca Raton, Florida and I lost my core network: friends, family, acupuncturists, doctors, homeopaths etc. It was hard and easy. It was hard because I hate change but easy because I do love living here in Florida. we live on one floor and the kids love it. We have a pool in the back and we converted it to salt water and it is so nice. It has been hard for me to get used to not having my friends down the street, even if I did not see them everyday, I knew they were there.

I felt overwhelmed and just needed to take a break. I knew moving would be a lot but I did not know I would feel so tired and confused about all of it. I am happy we made the switch to Boca. We are all feeling great. Mu husband is doing much better..the kids are happy and healthy and I am doing good myself. It took a few weeks of feeling insane but as things started to get settled and we found a routine..well I began to feel normal again..whatever that means..

I do feel like the North was just go..go..go and down here is much more laid back. We live in a great community with really nice neighbors and finally the construction of the kitchen, bathroom and all that minor panting and stuff is over-although my husband told me last night we are doing crown molding on Tuesday. LOL. I swear it never ends. So I hope I will get back in the habit of posting again because I miss it and I miss having a place that I can write about the kids and out life.

So good bye for now and hopefully hello again as things have settled down and I only see a few boxes.

So this is the new and relaxed me..I guess Florida is good for me!

Dearest Sammy,

So much has happened and I have found this past month to be a whirlwind and I feel awful because you have changed so much but please forgive me as I am putting 2 months of birthday letters into one post. We did just move from Philadelphia to Florida and getting everyone settled has been a bigger job that I thought it would be. So much has changed for you-well not your saucy personality but your life here in Boca is full of all good stuff.

You started swim lessons with Sunshine Swimming and Miss Tracey is your teacher. We go to her house 2 or 3 times a week for lessons. You have learned to swim about 3 feet on your own. It has been amazing to watch. You started by first learning to put your head under and grab for the wall with two hands, then swim and now you are un-stoppable. Miss Tracey has you wear little flippers-which let me also say that you REFUSE to take these off and many days you were them around the house the whole day.

You also have started to talk it up. You can say three word sentences and you repeat everything. You love to call yourself Pretty and we this it is adorable. You still have an obsession with shoes and you can even walk in heels-of course your pretend little pink ones and my heels. You love to change your shoes at least 4 times a days and you get very upset if you do not decide which pair to wear for the day…very upset!!

You have created a game called SIT. This game consists of when we stop the car you want to go to your car seat and Max’s car seat and do the buckles and then play around in the car. Now if we do not have time to play SIT-well let the terrible TWO’s show their ugly side because it is bad. You go into a full screaming tantrum and then the minute you can play sit..well it all goes away. You are so strong willed. You actually clench your fists when you get angry and scream, NO!!!! SIT!!! I try and reason but it clearly does not work-but then sometimes I say..look at the bird and all of the sudden SIT is not so important..but this rarely works.

You do love life and I call you my little SPIT FIRE. You are full of spunk. You have so much spirit and so much will inside of that little body. You still love to eat pizza but now I make it at home called cheesy bread with sauce. And yes sauce or Ketchup on everything. I have a found a great gluten free one with agave nectar at whole foods and you love it. So you are eating apples, bananas and basically anything that anyone else is eating..we call you the food swiper!

All of the sudden you LOVE purses and dolls. We can play dress up with your dolls for hours and play with the doll house. Now of of course this does not mean that you have let go with your obsession with your brothers cars but you have expanded your love to dolls and purses now. You still love music and when ANY type of music comes on you break out in dance. You swing your hips back and forth and raise your hands up high. Adorable and yes, you have good moves!

My sweetest-you are sweet and spicy and even though, at times, it is hard to deal with the tantrums..i know deep down in my heart it is because you are so strong willed and I love it. I love that you have such a determined mind already and that you are fearless, which of course can a cause a problem when you are trying to jump off the couch, or jump into the pool by yourself or walk out of the house into the street, or go down the slide head first…these are just a few of the MANY that I could name that happen on a daily basis. I will leave you with this last picture of the two us because YES-your mom is fearless too! Don’t ever stop reaching for the STARS! I love you!

Love,

Mommy