First Post!

So life has whizzed by and the merry Malds are as happy as can be living life in beautiful sunny southern california. Baby girl is now a whopping 5 years old and the true light of our lives. Parenthood has been challenging to say the least full of lots of worries but an immeasurable amount of LOVE LOVE LOVE. Words can't describe our feelings toward baby girl so I won't even attempt it. She has just recently finished Transitional Kinder and will be starting Kinder in the fall! Where has time gone. She's absolutely silly, quirky, funny, sentimental, sensitive, has a huge heart, and wears it on her sleeve. She's one big ball of love and loves being around mommy and daddy 24/7. God has blessed us with many things but the one we are most grateful for is Mr. Malds job. Aside from the fact that he landed the job in NYC and it allowed his transfer to LA a year later (which in and of itself is a true miracle as this was LITERALLY our dream come true), he is actually really enjoying all aspects of his job. He is now in a leadership position (union stewart. holler! An homage to Mrs Malds career pre-baby?) Anyways, what we are most thankful for now is the fact he works from home pretty much full time unless he's out in an investigation out "in the field" doing field work. So the Merry Malds pretty much spend almost every free second together and we get to pop in and visit daddy in his office whenever we want. Its a godsend and we thank God daily for this blessing. Mrs. Mald attempted to return to work when we moved to Socal but that was quickly squashed as baby girl did not handle the transition well. She was three and three is a tough year for kiddos especially with our move, spending a month without daddy as he made the transition to the west coast, and mama starting to work? Oh heck no, what did we expect? Fast forward to the age of 5, once she started TK full time, Mrs. Mald was able to dabble into working again this time as a substitute teacher. It has been working out quite well actually and its so nice to be able to earn my own fun money! Soon it is now the first day of summer vacation for baby girl and she also had her first swim lesson of the summer. Last year she took 5 rounds of swim lessons and still didn't learn how to swim but we didn't care because she had a blast. She's a true fishy and water baby and lives for jumping in a pool. Hopefully this summer will be the summer she learns to swim. I have a good feeling! This summer we have a lot of fun things on the agenda. We will be taking a few weekend trips (Palms Springs, San Diego, and Central Coast/Cambria) and in September we will be taking a big trip to Hawaii/Aulani! Another dream come true for us! We'll fill in the gaps with lots of trips to the pool for fun with friends, swim classes, and karate classes (yes baby girl just started karate and LOVES it). Looking forward to a fun relaxing summer before school officially starts mid August!