Beach, May 2014

Beach, May 2014

Tuesday, June 29, 2010

Truthful Tuesday

My little buddy is sick, VERY sick... I went out to water and this is how I found him when I came back in yesterday.  And this morning after a late breakfast he looked at me and said "mama, I'm sleepy."  do you want to take a nap? I asked "yeah, I think so" and he excused himself, cleared his plate and went to bed. Just like that.  At 11 am.  Poor fella, at least he isn't puking any more and his fever is down. 

Truthful Tuesday

My confession is:  I have a 4 bedroom house, but everyone sleeps in one!

Thursday, June 24, 2010

Thakful Thursday

Things I am loving right now...

Summer Reading programs at the Library... yep he's juggling knives on a tight rope.
Finding new parks that feel like they are all ours
Showing the kids wildlife
Taking the dog for a swim, and she found a friend to swim with
these boys of mine (watching a helicopter)
My garden, no matter how small an un-productive (I do get a handful of strawberries a day)
a kind of organized fabric stash... (oh that's not all of it... )
my craft room...yeah, Aiden fixed the blind for me.. looks good huh?  It's messy but the rest of my house is clean, I get to have a messy place to create!
Natalie's new Kitchen Helper
my two little helpers
and... making strawberry jam with my family, at the beach.  We're off to Ryan's to make jam so please excuse our absence, we'll be Jamming!  Happy Weekend to you and yours.

Wednesday, June 23, 2010

WIP (work in progress) Wednesday



So my sister-in-law Brooke is always full of good blog ideas (or has the time, some how with 3 kids, to read other blogs and follow the blog trends) So she started a blog schedule.  Yeah, I can't even get my kids on a schedule and she has a blog schedule, but its' smart (she's a smart lady, what can I say) you don't have to be clever everyday and many of them are one or two pics, and pictures take me the most time.  So here's the schedule:

Truthful Tuesday: not sure if I'm comfortable with this yet, so we'll just keep that in mind
Work in Progress Wednesday: I have finally gotten things calmed down enough that I have started sewing again, so we'll do this for sure
Thankful Thursday: I always loved 10 things so we'll try to do this too
This Moment Friday: I can handle this one

and that's it, the rest is up to me... so we'll see how this goes.

So my current WIP is a quilt, and it has already been named "Ugly Quilt"  Not a good start I know.  But here's the story.  I got a bunch of fabric, sheets, and table cloths from my brothers linen closet (remember my brother bought my grandma and grandpa's house) so it was all of grandma's old stuff.  So I told him I'd make a quilt for him out of it.  Well I cut out a bunch of 12 inch squares thinking I'd make a quick quilt. Oh and did I mention that this 'grand idea' was hatched long ago when I had one kid who was maybe a year old. yeah... it's been a looong WIP.  SO I separated out the colors and found I had a blueish color pile, a red and a bunch of flowered ones.  So thinking I'd tone down the flowers I paired it with brown to match the brown stems.  And, well once you get started you just keep going hoping it will all come together.  Well I'm still hoping.  Here it is... What do you think?

Friday, June 18, 2010


{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see. ~Amanda Soule

Thursday, June 17, 2010

where does the time go?





















I really am trying, Okay? We went to Ryan's house a few weeks ago, and here are some pictures of our visit.

Wednesday, June 16, 2010

Friday, June 4, 2010

That's mama's girl!



She was cleaning everything but by the time I got the camera out and on video mode she was distracted by the birds.

We'll start slow... OK?


{this moment} - A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor and remember. If you're inspired to do the same, leave a link to your 'moment' in the comments for all to find and see. ~Amanda Soule