In n Out

Jared stuck an orange BB up his nose this morning.  He wanted to show me how he could shoot it out.  I of course told him that if he accidentally sniffed, it would fly up through his nasal cavity and get stuck in his brain. 

A 3-year old little girl locked herself in my bedroom while I was babysitting.  It was a lock that required a key.  A key I didn’t have.  And following instructions through a door was not this little girls strong suit. 

This afternoon Jared asked if I could help him get the orange BB out of his ear.  I told him to tilt his head sideways and gave his head a good whack.  Partly to get it out, and partly as reminder not to stick it there in the first place.  Two good whacks and no success.  I took my chances and stuck my finger in. 

Removal was successful on all accounts.  And it’s only noon.

Memorable Sisters weekend

I didn’t take any pictures of last weekend, but I will try and paint you one…

Meg, Shell and I started off on our journey Friday afternoon with our daughters in tow.  We headed out to Cali for the weekend to go to our sis-in-laws baby shower.  We piled into Meg’s van strategically placing each person to their best suited position for the drive.  8 hours isn’t too bad when you have 3 mommies, one 6 year old and two 1 year olds.  (It normally takes 6.5 hours) 

The baby shower was SO much fun.  Good food, good company, good times.  We played estimating M&M’s in a baby bottle, (mom tied for winner, but gave up the prize!)  matching baby socks in a basket within 30 seconds.  (I almost won that one, with 12 matching pairs)  And how fast can you suck down martinelli’s apple cider in a bottle?  Apparently I am very fast, since I won that one by a landslide. 

The evening was spent at mom and dad’s laughing and eating.  Lainy and I took the nice couch and all was well until….

2 am marked the beginning of the unforgetableness of this weekend.  She threw up.  And then again and  again every half hour for 12 hours. 

We packed up and headed out Sunday morning and the trip home was as you might imagine.  Only worse.  Not only was Lainy blahing in a seemingly constant fashion, my little dog Flapjack made himself comfy in Meg’s lap, and then made her uncomfortable by blahing all over the front of the van.  Mmm hmm, puking child and puking dog.  So fun trip.  The babies cried off and on just to fill in the gaps of peace. 

Before Jason even hugged me, he couldn’t stop the words from tumbling out of his mouth, “wow, you look like you’ve been hit by a bus”.

Busy Mother

By Jayce Age 8

One day me and my brother came to the bus stop, then the train, then the airport, after the house.  It took us 4 hours.  Hafe an hour later we came to are soccer game.  my brother had 6 sandwiches and 2 whole bags of dredos.  When we got in the car my mom is like look at the time we have to drop you off at the football game and your brother at his baseball game!  We have to bring your sister to the basketball game.  Then piano then-  YOU JUST SIND IN FOR A GOLF GAME!  My mother was so angry she exploded like crazy!  She was jumping off walles and yelling golf game! Golf game!  Golf game!  What time does it start?  5pm.  Ono right after the basketball game!  We are going to have a busy day. “Sigh”.  I hope are games cansul.  10 minutes later ya! ya! ya! ya! ya! all the games are canceled! 

***We don’t even do half of that stuff.  But apparently he is trying to tell his mother something. 

Project runaway

 

Made these little grocery bags for my mom and mom-in-law, they turned out super cute and once I got into the swing of them, super easy! 

 

This chandelier has proven to be quite stubborn in securing it’s place in this house.  So, I just went with it and covered the gross shades.  I swear it looks much better in real life. 

And my very most favorite item on my re-do list isn’t quite put back together yet.  But I am LOVING it so far! 

Preparation with a kick

Uh huh.  Those all belong to me.  All those wonderful growing things.  Hens, lemons, grapes, apples and not pictured, peaches.  All things that haven’t taken a whole lot of effort on my part.  And besides the hens which we brought with us, this house had everything else minus someone to water and prune them.  Feeling like I am on the receiving end of a little kick in the rear to get a move on with my journey to emergency preparedness.