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Weird Title, right? Well, its been 3 weeks since Ive written. Quite possibly the longest I've gone. Well, the reason is my life is not all about Toby. I know it might seem that way, ive got one blog totally dedicated to HIM, another blog dedicated to spina bifida and I make necklaces to help raise spina bifida awareness. But really, its not all about him. I have two other beautiful amazing just as talented, just as strong, just as brave children. I want to blog about them for once. In fact I might just have to changed the title of my blog.... : ) Grace, her birthday was on February 18th. She has only had one birthday without Toby in her life. In fact she was 15 months old when Toby was born. She was truly God's grace in my life during my pregnancy with Toby and his month long NICU stay. I didnt have a choice to get up out of bed or stay and get depressed. I had Grace who was still depending on me to be mommy. (the best job in the world may I add) She is a handful. She's fiv...

So, I was sulking one day about the lack of Friday night fun that my family has. I was extremely jealous of a friend who had movie night with her family and let the kids stay up late on Friday nights. I thought how wonderful that would be, but my husband's not so wonderful schedule means that he works on Saturdays. (Its actually his earliest morning of the week) So as I sat there engulfed in self-pity a thought hit me. Why not still have Friday night be Friday night? Yeah its a bummer that Nate works, but so what if the kids stay up late? So that is when I initiated Popcorn night. Now I have to admit Popcorn night is not an original "Kari thought". It's something my parents did for a while when I was growing up. We would have Popcorn (of course) watch a movie, and then sleep WHEREVER we wanted to in the house. I can remember on occasion trying to sleep in my closet just because I could. So now Popcorn night is in my household. Every Friday we rent a movie (we rent it ...