Runaway October

These lit­tle guys were will­ing to brave the Ari­zona rain to get at the pinecone bird feed­ers the boys and I made the other day. The first batch sat for a week or two before the birds found them, but now it’s like Tem­ple­ton at the Fair.

And this lit­tle boy was will­ing to brave the rain too!

Good thing Fable was keep­ing this spot warm for him.

Fin­ished this scarf today. Can’t decide if I like it nor not? It’s at least 8 foot long, and I’m not even going to men­tion what my brother said about it. Well, maybe. He com­pared it to parts of the female anatomy. What a butthead.

Made my first batch of Sour­dough Bread ever today. It’s so yummy. One of the least finnicky breads I’ve worked with, surprisingly.

I went to check my email and one of the loaves was hoovered down in sec­onds flat. Mostly by afore­men­tioned brother. Butthead.

There is NO Typo. :/

And last, but not least, I finally got around to pack­ag­ing up a Valentine’s Day Sur­prise for a cer­tain spe­cial some­one. Do you know who you are?

And this con­cludes our semi-rainy Wednes­day  stuck at home. Tell me about yours!

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Please don’t for­get to vote for me daily, if you would be so kind. Thank you!

My gor­geous boys

MOTHERS

Real Moth­ers don’t eat quiche;
They don’t have time to make it.

Real Moth­ers know that their kitchen uten­sils
Are prob­a­bly in the sandbox.

Real Moth­ers often have sticky floors,
Filthy ovens and happy kids.

Real Moth­ers know that dried play dough
Doesn’t come out of carpets.

Real Moth­ers don’t want to know what
The vac­uum just sucked up.

Real Moth­ers some­times ask ‘Why me?‘
And get their answer when a lit­tle
Voice says, ‘Because I love you best.’

Real Moth­ers know that a child’s growth
Is not mea­sured by height or years or grade…
It is marked by the pro­gres­sion of Mummy to Mum to Mother…

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My grandma sent this to me today, and I thought it was short, sweet and com­pletely on point. I just wanted to share with the rest of you who might need a lit­tle poem about now.

I hope all of you are hav­ing a won­der­ful day. I know I am!

My boys got me this:

Isn’t it cute?

Here’s a Mother’s Day Inter­view from my 3 year old, Declan:

My Mom

I really love it when my mom puts my clothes on.

My mom likes to wear underwear.

My mom always tells me, “Go to time­out.” (Yikes!)

The best thing she does is feed me breakfast.

It makes her happy when we get on our bikes, go bye bye and have breakfast.

My mom loves to relax by sit­ting in the chair and talk­ing to me.

I like it when she reads bed time stories.

The best thing she cooks is pancakes.

When my mom shops she likes to buy food and fabric.

My mom’s favorite house­hold chore is ironing.

My mom’s favorite TV show is Spongebob.

If she could go on a trip, she would go to the park.

I love my mom because she is a good, nice mama!

Thanks to Let’s Explore for the won­der­ful idea!

Rowan has always had what we affec­tion­ately called “Old Man Hair” — Really fine, wispy and eas­ily messed up. Recently it has got­ten too long for me to be eas­ily amused by spik­ing it up, so it was time for a hair­cut. Since it was to be his first hair­cut we were going to go to one of those salons for kids, but we arived to find that they had per­me­nantly closed their doors. Makes sense in this econ­omy, I guess. Declan was sad, he had talked about get­ting a hair­cut all morning.

So, we just fig­ured we’d do what we always do: Buzz ‘Em!

Declan Before:

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Dur­ing:

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After! So handsome!

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Rowan was quite unsure about the whole experience…

Before:

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He did really well.

I’m sure the buzzing feel­ing on his head felt funny at first. About halfway through we had to stop to let him nurse so that he’d hold still for the rest of the “styling”.

Dur­ing:

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After! Yay!

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Look at all that beau­ti­ful hair! Declan and I had a con­ver­sa­tion about what to do with it. He wanted to wad it all up and put it in his lit­tle tin lunch­box, but I won out by telling him that the birds needed it. He thought it was really cool that the birds could use his hair to make nests out of. Hope­fully I can find a nest full of hair so he can see how his gen­eros­ity is being put to good use.

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