Welcome!

To our new Rawley Family blog!
I have fretted for a long time on a new appropriate name for our blog and finally settled on this one-Smiles, Laughter, Tears. Those three words are the best descriptors for our daily life events!
No deep philosophical teachings here-just the often humorous, trying escapades of life as a Mom to three kids and a dog, wife to a cop, and friend to some of the most amazing people I know!

Today's Smile: Parker at Lake Viking with the Williams and tubing for the first time ever! Colette said he was holding on to the tube with a death-grip and a half-smile/half-panicked look on his face!

Today's Laughter: Taking Hailey and her two friends out to eat breakfast at I-Hop and listening to the conversation of three incredibly social 13 year olds:
"Umm did you like know that Taylor is dating Finn?"
"Seriously- OMG!" followed by rapid texting to those not 'in the know' of this newly acquired hot gossip
FYI-you may have thought they were discussing fellow school mates that the girls know personally-however the 'Taylor' is the Swift one and 'Finn' is the guy from GLEE, after which was followed by a diatribe about how hysterical Sue Sylvester is-these girls cracked me up!

Today's Tears: a dear friend's family lost her house and two vehicles in a house fire early Sunday morning. A tragedy yes-but no life was lost-only things. For that, I know they are very thankful-but it doesn't make starting over with nothing any easier.
The Smiles that come out of these tears: the amazing outpouring of offers of help and donations for this family have renewed my faith in the compassion and humanity of this community!

Happy Monday-have a great week! This will be my first week of full-time work since May 2008, so I'm sure to have lots of smiles, laughter and tears to share with you before week's end!