Runaway October

If you knew that every minute of the next 24 hours of your life would be recorded on cam­era is there any­thing you would change about your habits?

Well, I’d prob­a­bly stop pick­ing my nose… No just kid­ding. Maybe. I might try to kinda spice things up since my life is pretty bor­ing and rep­e­ti­tious. Maybe throw together a flambé’ for the kids’ break­fast and wear fish­nets? I’d be more con­cious about how frizzy my hair is. It’s got­ten kinda uncon­trol­lable lately. Oh and not so much cussing under my breath. Cam­eras catch that kinda stuff don’t they?

If you could take a one-month trip to any sin­gle des­ti­na­tion in the world and money is not a con­sid­er­a­tion, where would you go?

Wow, I really never planned that far ahead. There’s many sin­gle des­ti­na­tions I’d love to go, but for a month? Pos­si­bly Dublin or Prague or Madrid — ya know, the big­ger places that had a months worth of stuff to do. Or a nice lit­tle cot­tage in the mid­dle of nowhere with green as far as the eye can see and a median tem­per­a­ture of about 70.

What is the best exam­ple of “per­fec­tion” that you can think of?

Breast­milk and breast­feed­ing. Seri­ously. Name me one other sub­stance that is so incred­i­bly pow­er­ful that it alone can triple a person’s size, in a healthy way, while nour­ish­ing the brain and pro­mot­ing emo­tional growth and tac­tile stimulus.

Photo via [Rot­ten­Toma­toes]

So this last Mon­day was Mother’s Day and well… I didn’t do much of any­thing for any of the mother’s in my life. We’ve been so broke and I have no free time. We’re talk­ing not even a Hall­mark Card. My plan was to make plas­ter hand prints of the boys and hand them out. Then the sick­ness occurred. I’m just now get­ting around to it. I man­aged all of 1.5 hand prints before run­ning out of plas­ter when I was aim­ing for 5 total. Ugh. Some­days I feel like life wants me to go back to bed.

Matt and I had a small dis­agree­ment about his mother (because it was my fault I didn’t get her a card, I guess.). He said that he’s under the impres­sion that I didn’t want Ann com­ing over ofter because the house is never clean enough for com­pany. I was under the impres­sion that she’d rather stay at her house and enter­tain. Long story short Matt invited his parent’s over for din­ner this week­end. Now I have to get every­thing clean, look pre­sentable and make din­ner. I have no idea what to make.

Matt would like the nor­mal run-out of his favorite fat­ten­ing never-admit-you-make-it-for-your-family din­ners. I’d like to do some­thing spe­cial. Besides I picked up a cou­ple of cook­books from the library and have been itch­ing to test out some new recipes.

I noticed that cher­ries seem to be on sale cur­rently so I’m gonna head on down to the mar­ket and take a look. I’m think­ing about mak­ing a Cherry Clafoutis. Matt’s parent’s aren’t big dessert peo­ple but I never pass up the oppor­tu­nity to try some­thing new.

I don’t even know where I was going with this. Any ideas for din­ner? Maybe some barbecue?

Well, it looks like we’re pretty much in the clear. The boys are back to their old selves and thank­fully the sick­ness didn’t require any doc­tors vis­its and what­not. I pretty much over-reacted because the thought of vomit is dis­tress­ing to me.

Thank you to every­one with your kind words of encour­age­ment and advice. Grandma, I’m pretty sure they had some kind of Rotavirus. I never would have thought of that had you not men­tioned it. (Did you get my email?) Nicky, how’s Del doing? Back to her­self?

Hope­fully now that all of that is taken care of I’ll have more time to actu­ally post. Wait, I always say that. I have been work­ing on the blog lay­out. If you use an RSS Feeder click on over and give it a look. Tell me what you think. The ‘Run­away Octo­ber’ in the header image is dri­ving me nuts. I’m huge on typog­ra­phy, as a mat­ter of fact I lovelovelove typog­ra­phy. It just seems to clash up there. I have to fig­ure our how to change it because it’s not part of the sta­tic image.

In other news we made our first sale from our book­store! Yay! One of you kind read­ers was… kind, I already said that, nice enough to use our link and we made a lit­tle bit of change on it. If you haven’t seen our book­store check it out here.

Since Fri­day Declan has had what we thought was food poi­son­ing. That in and of it self is just a nasty stress­ful time. I think I’ve scrubbed vomit/poop out of the car­pet at least 6 times. Any­one who knows me well knows that I don’t do vomit. Period.

Unfor­tu­nately it seems that it’s not food poi­son­ing because now the lit­tlest guy is run­ning a huge fever and had a blowout in bed last night — on my side. This is the baby that poops once every week to two weeks. Poor guy.  All he wants to do is sleep on me and all I want is to not have a per­sonal heater while it’s 100 degrees out­side. It’s got to be some kind of stom­ach bug.

Just think about us and hope we come through this soon.

To just be happy with my blog lay­out. It seems like every­day I’m decid­ing some­thing is not wrong. I’m almost to the point where I want to pay some­one to do a cus­tom theme for me. I’m one a new color scheme kick and can’t even find any­thing with the right col­ors! Grr.

Any­way, I have stepup a book­store for myself, full of all the won­der­ful books I’d like to share. You can find it here until I fix my lay­out and incor­po­rate it into my blog. If you would also be so kind as to click this link before buy­ing any­thing from Ama­zon, you would be help­ing us out greatly, as we get a small — very small — per­cent­age of what you buy. So instead of all the profit going to Ama­zon a lit­tle bit goes to us! Woot!

In the mean­time, check out this great arti­cle about Spring Farmer’s Markets.