The bigger the mess, the more fun that was had, right?! We had some sweet friends join us for great food & great conversation. Nothing makes a Sunday better in my book than company for Sunday dinner…oh and add a little rain, thunder and lightning to the mix and really is was a great Sunday night.
I’m off to sew a button for Aaron and curl up with Dr. Pepper & Charles Dickens “Great Expectations”.
I stumbled upon a magazine by the above name- “seeing the everyday“, devoted to seeing the prosiacs of life.
I love this message!! I’ve always thought that if we stop and look, we can find beauty and joy in the daily minutia of our lives. Which is why I decided to take the camera on our morning walk yesterday…to capture the beauty.
I love the look of my oldest daughter with orange plastic sunglasses and shoes on the wrong feet! I loved that she stopped at every corner to do her “exercises”; and the sweet moment of her showing a toy squeaky mouse to her baby sister.
This is the stuff that I will remember and miss when they are all grown and I have all the free/quiet time I could possibly want. I may or may not remember the times we dressed them up fancy and took their pictures, but I do want to remember that:
What are some of the beauties of your everyday life?
Found out my husband gets to take a business trip to N. California next month. Green with envy. Spent all day yesterday telling him I want a trip- that maybe we should go to Hawaii with the baby this summer- only to have to listen to his million and three reasons why we can’t go. Decided maybe I just need a weekend in San Fransisco…without Mr. Stick-In-The-Mud…any travel companions out there?
Hope your friday proves to be more exciting than mine!
psst!- check out this sweet birthday banner I had the privilege of making for Ms. Jane Nielson!!
cleaning
being outside
budding ideas
she looked beautiful in her vintage white dress…she was calm and didn’t cry. I am so grateful that we were surrounded by family for the occasion.
This was just 1 of 2 shots that I took of babers. Sarah took a lot of beautiful shots, which I *might* share here with her permission.
Now we are off for a little more celebrating with family, I hope your Sunday was filled with those you love as well.
a day in my life.
6:39am- realize that the baby is not fussing but wants to eat.
7:24am- mop apple juice off counters, inside of drawer and floor (had to do this twice)
9:29am- drop daughter off at preschool
10:42am- get baby to sleep and take a shower
12:08pm- find myself here, agonizing over paper choices for a special commission
1:14pm- swing by Wild Flower Bread Co, spend 15min in car nursing baby
1:37pm-2:26pm spend a blissful hour with sleeping baby eating Roasted Garlic Tomato Soup (does anyone have a recipe for something like this?!) and reading “The Mother In Me“. Totally identified with this line of Darlene Young’s poem;
At night, upon my chest
you and all your children’s children rest.
2:55pm- pick daughter up from play date and wonder why she has sand stuck to her chin (ask her if she was eating it?!)
3:07pm- swing by Walgreens for candy. $5 to bring a little happiness to all the kids I will pick up for carpool.
3:27pm- line up in the drop off/pick up lane.
5:21pm- get a call from Aaron saying he doesn’t know when he’ll be home tonight. Tell kids were going to Sonic for dinner ($1.79 Wacky Pack Wednesday’s).
6:08pm- arrive at sonic, to find that babers has decided she needs to eat NOW.
7:12pm- encourage children to get ready for bed while I start laundry, clean up kitchen, and put baby to bed.
7:58pm- all children tucked warmly into their beds.
It’s 9:26 as I write this, and soon I’ll switch the laundry over, pull out clothes for the kids tomorrow, check the school lunch menu, feed babers and go to bed myself.
Valentine Printables, here, each image is 4×2, print them on cardstock for the special people in your life.
“The pediatrician checked her this saturday morning and said she looked better than 99% of the other RSV patients he was treating and that she was ready to go home. Her lungs are clear (as they have been the whole time we were there) and her mucus levels were better. He is confident that if we suction her at home before feedings she will do well. She will have a residual cough for about another 10 days he thinks and wants to see her in the office on Monday.
I am grateful to be home, a bit nervous, hope that I can keep her healthy and keep the big brother and sister germs away from her!
Thank you so much for all your prayers and well wishes, thank you for the meals and the phone calls. It is so humbling to have such wonderful friends and family, thank you again.”
That is the email I sent to family & friends yesterday after babers got home from the hospital. To say this weekend has been an emotional roller coaster would be an understatement. I fluctuate between giant tears running down my face to feeling competent and able to care for my family. Really, I am completely overwhelmed at the thought of caring for a sick newborn and two other kids.
She is doing well today, keeping her feedings down and eating a bit more than yesterday, I currently have an arsenal of milk in my freezer! This afternoon while the little one slept:
husband: “oh you are sewing”
me: “no, this is needle therapy”
It felt good to sit alone with my thoughts and to stitch. These are meant to be conversation heart cookies, I stitched them up as a special gift for a special friend. Here is my tutorial for basic felt sugar cookies, you can easily adapt it to hearts.
thank you again for all your prayers and concern…
Just a few things to share…things have been crazy around here…
They day started out so well, I woke for an early morning feeding to hear rain outside my window. I love the sound of a soft rain. The son got up and was completely ready for school by 7:30am (unheard of!!). After getting him off to school Aaron and I (he had the day off today) took the girls on a walk…
The day ended with me in tears, mopping spaghetti sauce of my dining room floor and feeling copious amounts of self pity. Not good.
BUT, the floors are now clean, the kids are in bed, the husband is home (he helped a family move this evening) and the mentalist is on tonight…perfect for the 3 laundry baskets of clean clothes I need to fold.
BTW- in need of some fun spring skirts, feel like I have looked EVERYWHERE and have found nothing. Anyone recommend a place where I can find cute colorful skirts for $30 or less?
There is not enough…
But, there is this….which makes up for all of it
noticing that when I feel out of control I clean. I guess it makes me feel like I have control over something; except I think I am spending way to much energy thinking out about the lack of order in the pantry and some cupboards. I mean really, I just had a baby, I’ve got to force myself to relax and let go or I think I’d be scrubbing the baseboards with a tooth brush!
Planning to not leave the house tomorrow…will stay in sweats all day…may have to make a chocolate run though…hooked on these.
