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Adriane and I are determined to make 52 Smiles work this year but our kids and schedules are giving us a run for our money! Two weeks ago our whole family had colds that turned into bad ear infections for Gray and Bails so rather than go visit Grandma Berta like we wanted to we had the Muels over and the kids made bookmarks for the library. It was a SIMPLE project and hard for me not to step in and make it cuter but way harder. I always want things to be adorable even if it means more work for me so this time I stepped back and we let all 7 kids create the bookmarks themselves.

I find myself taking more pics of A’s kids because they aren’t photog-kids and don’t hate my camera like my own kids do… the shoemaker’s kids never had shoes right?

Ahren was so cute with his two missing teeth! A, I’ll email you this pic today!

So we felt good that we got that much accomplished for day #1 even though we should have made them and actually delivered them too. Whatever. Sick kids make going places hard. Then last Friday, which is our 52 Smile day each week, Adriane had to work so I ended up taking my two littles to the library in Kirkwood to deliver our bookmarks.

We took them in and the librarian in the children area was SO sweet. She really seemed touched that the kids spent their time making bookmarks for people! She gushed and gushed over them which I thought was really nice and she couldn’t believe I was willing to leave the jar with her!

She put them right by the checkout and then took our address to write the kids a thank you note. Of course it was too hard to explain our 52 Smiles project and that we had friends that helped us so I’ll just share the thank you note with the Muels when it comes!

I always forget how great going to the library is, Gray and PJ had so much fun picking out books to bring home!

Not sure what we’ll do this Friday but I love knowing we’re two weeks down and have our list compiled for so many other awesome projects. The hardest part is keeping the kids healthy and our schedules open!

If you forgot what 52 Smiles is, HERE is the creator of the idea and HERE is where I first blogged about it and HERE is Adriane’s latest blog!