MY RECENT POSTS
- So far summer vacation feels
like war.
May 25, 2012 09:31AM - We are in the single digits
now folks.
May 17, 2012 09:34PM - When Weeds are Good
May 15, 2012 12:50PM - To Gigi
May 13, 2012 09:11AM - SOS Mom Down! And other
things.
May 10, 2012 06:45PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thanks:)”
February 09, 2012 01:23PM - “Amen Unbreakable!
Scanner, light beer so as not
to gain back
all the weight
I'm w…”
February 03, 2012 05:46PM - “What do lady's like you
like?:)”
January 31, 2012 08:36AM - “That is a huge
compliment! Thank you:)”
January 16, 2012 05:54PM - “Thanks! I do love the
way they get lost in
projects.”
January 11, 2012 07:59AM
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MAY 25, 2012 9:31AM
So far summer vacation feels like war.
I will admit I was not prepared. I made no plans or schedules. Camps are too expensive times four. Everything is too expensive times four. I naively thought we would all somehow float along, sleep in, lunches no longer having to be packed meant that our noonday meal would just appear/…
MAY 17, 2012 9:34PM
We are in the single digits now folks.
Size 8 jeans. Despite the Ding Dongs I am suddenly now addicted too. I think it's my mothers fault for never giving us that crap as kids. It's like grown up guilty crack. So I am not doing any extreme diet. I am trying my very best to unwire the way/…
MAY 15, 2012 12:50PM
When Weeds are Good
We bought our house almost 7 years ago? I was pregnant with Ruby at the time and remember lumbering up and down the sidewalks with Sadie, her doll stroller, and her baby. Because of that pregnancy and then two more the backyard was declared no man's land while the front yard/…
MAY 13, 2012 9:11AM
To Gigi
Thank you for the pile of mulch delivered to our driveway every spring that lived there deep into the summer, our mountain. The spaghetti noodle fight where all of us screamed "Worms!" while laughing till we thought we would die. The encouragement to do what we loved, even go to art/…
MAY 10, 2012 6:45PM
SOS Mom Down! And other things.
Yesterday was some sort of crash for me. I just wanted to wave a
white flag and take to the bed. It started at the gym where no
matter what I do I hit a WALL at 30 minutes and have to stop
running. I am feeling beyond frustrated and discouraged…
MAY 2, 2012 11:15PM
I Am Learning You
We have slowly left behind the pointing and screaming/…
MAY 1, 2012 8:57PM
Then We Fight
There/…
APRIL 30, 2012 3:49PM
Needlework Debut!
The needlework has finally been completed!
Then at the suggestion of a friend I tried out a new design, a
three stranded necklace with one strand all sterling beads.
To check them out and more GO HERE! And don't' forget to
use code MOMDAY2012 for 10 percent off.
Tomorrow's topic, putting on the armor…
APRIL 25, 2012 2:28PM
Where I admit how judgmental and full of self doubt I can be
APRIL 24, 2012 5:03PM
Roads
There are roads in my town I drive every day. On autopilot I know the dips and the bumps, where to swerve and where to keep steady, where to slow for speed traps, where to speed up just a bit. These roads and adjoining scenery have seen me born, raised and/…
APRIL 23, 2012 11:12AM
New Work
Ada Necklace
Ada is the middle sister out of three. She is funny and insecure
and she sometimes, but not always fills up the room with her
laughter and funny stories wanting to be noticed. She loves
intensely and is loyal to the bone. Her greatest pleasure in life
is visiting the… Read full post »
APRIL 17, 2012 3:18PM
Mother's Day is right around the proverbial corner.....
As a mother there is nothing like receiving crayoned love letters or "sunshines" made from shredded cheese and old baby carrots from my children.
As a wife? I want a gift. I'm just being honest. Call me shallow because I totally am in some respects. I think Mother's Day was created so/…
APRIL 16, 2012 8:19PM
There is rum in my Coca-Cola Zero and other thoughts on existing with four children.
I am no good at housewifery on Mondays. Picture three daughters. Now picture three daughters worth of clothing strewn this way and that in a teeny stuffy dormered closet because wardrobe changes several times a day and even more when it's warm are just "what you do" when you are 8/…
APRIL 12, 2012 3:14PM
Keychains, one last hat and Miriam.
I have sparkle
headbands in the works but I needed to list these last few items
before getting to those. One last hat, one more necklace and two
silver key chains I found from my metalsmithing days before
children. I developed this weird paranoia after Sadie was born that
the oxygen… Read full post »
APRIL 10, 2012 9:15AM
And Then She Threw A Fit
This year has been our first ever attempt at the extracurricular. All three girls in swimming lessons and then I got over confident and signed up Ruby for softball. Well and fine until Sam has a work dinner and we have an hour long softball practice followed by swimming. Sam suggests/…
APRIL 9, 2012 2:16PM
Lackluster Parenting
I am just not a holiday sort of person. Expectations, mine and those of others make me nervous. I didn't want to do Easter baskets and then guilt took over and I whipped up some lame ones with toys that broke approximately 6 minutes after the first use and the cheapest/…
APRIL 6, 2012 3:20PM
Meet Blythe
and Yasmeen and Aurora and Daphne. Four of the my newest shop
members. Reading about
them will be almost as fun as wearing them, I promise.
Can you tell I am a bit obsessed with sterling silver charms?
To celebrate time finally spent on my own making these use coupon code NEWWORK for…
To celebrate time finally spent on my own making these use coupon code NEWWORK for…
APRIL 5, 2012 9:37AM
Teeth
I haven't brushed my teeth in 24 hours. Time sucked away in bits and pieces. A load of laundry then a meal then dishes, and repeat, repeat, repeat. I have purchased pretty bottles of cleaning spray in the past just to give myself something to look forward to during the cleaning/…
APRIL 3, 2012 2:31PM
Parenting Outside The Box 101
This morning there were multiple disagreements between my second daughter, Ruby, and myself. I got angry and frustrated because Ruby insisted on wearing very short shorts to school and then threw a loud crying fit (which woke up her sleeping brother) because Sadie used her special toothpaste from the/…
MARCH 31, 2012 9:38AM
Grade School Girls
MARCH 28, 2012 5:33PM
Weight Update
So, I am not morbidly obese anymore. I am just overweight. To give you an idea of the weight, picture me at five feet tall and then add a slightly anorexic me on top of that. That is how much I used to weigh. Two peoples worth. I now weigh approximately/…
MARCH 21, 2012 1:58PM
When I don't have anything left.
Sam and I spent two whole days by ourselves for the first time in I can't remember even a tiny bit the last time. We were overdue by years I think? Two precious days and then back home to the grit and twang of whining every which way.
Last night we were/…
MARCH 20, 2012 5:47PM
The necklace goes to Jill.
Which
is good because I always say she is going to be my future in-law
and it will go a little something like this:
We'll
call it the thrifty spectacular wedding day where all 8 kids are
married off with the minimum of fuss.
By
the way my sketching abilities rival most artists… Read full post »
MARCH 19, 2012 6:02PM
Apparently plush dolphins are now considered bath toys.
Life with children so far seems be a study on supreme hilarity with
moments of unicorn beauty.
And so spring break begins.
I happened to glance around the house and here is what I found:
And so spring break begins.
I happened to glance around the house and here is what I found:
A stranded plush dolphin in a
cereal bowl in the bath tub.
A perfectly poised unicorn.
The
detritus of approximately te… Read full post »
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