dear mom and dad......

thank you.

thank you for coming to help this past weekend.

when you're here, life seems easy.

mom cooks and cleans.

dad helps mr leif fix things.

we are lazy.

we are busy.

we eat.

we eat really good food.

and have rootbeer floats.

it's not that life is hard when you're gone.......

because mr leif takes pretty good care of me ;)

however,

it seems as though i can exort just that much more laziness from my ever-growing self......knowing you'll pick up the slack......and it won't all fall onto mr leif's plate.

so thank you for easing his load - by helping me.

dad, thank you for helping us price check the deep freeze a million times......now i have a place for my breastmilk to be stored :) well, not just that, but the 4 lasagnas you made us mom, and the corn.

and thank you for the future runzas that will also fill my new freezer.

mom, thank you for helping me, well....actually mr leif, hang the pom poms. even through my frustrations you persevered and the babe's room looks just so cute :)

and thank you for washing the baby's clothes.

for folding them

and for organizing them.......

and for cutting all the tags off them.

mom, i do understand your obsession to remove tags, just haven't taken it upon myself to indulge in such an important time-consuming task :)

i mean, you never know when you are going to take something back, ahemmmmm......target necklace???

thank you for telling me its ok that i haven't written any 'thank-you's' yet. i've been blessed with so many baby gifts......but have yet to sit and write thank-you's. thank you for agreeing that i could write the thank-you's on the back of the birth announcement if i'd like. so supportive of my laziness, and i love you for it :)

thank you for cleaning my bathroom floor, like, really goood. it was missing you. (i think you were the last one to clean it........oh ........about 6 weeks ago)

dad, thank you for helping mr leif put the baby gear together.

our front room is screaming 'baby' and i can't wait to start using it all :)

and thank you for coming up with all sorts of ideas for our out-of-control/tree-filled/crazy overgrown-river-side back yard. i'll be holding you to each of those projects dad. and i'll reward your work with more grandchildren. i promise!