Have been a little absent this weekend because our friends from Chicago swung into town…
And even cold, cough and fever have not slowed these girls down…
We are off and running for the week, but we’ll try to check in from time to time. In the meantime, stop over to Tracey’s for some more BSMs to start the week off.
I love to watch you read.
I love listening to you read me bedtime stories.
I love that this is your favorite book from the library.
And I especially love that this is your favorite page, (that you have a favorite page!)
My “Someday” is every day with you. And I love it.
This is for those in my family who really still aren’t sure what it is I do.
(For those of you not in the family, and might truly not know -I’m a graphic/web designer.)
J. found this and I have to say it is spot on. Exactly what my day looks like when I’m “working,” and so funny, too.
Little bit of coffee, little bit more…too much snack food and still wondering why you haven’t updated your blogs! (So get to it, I need some inspiration here, people.) And I especially like #15 – “waiting for feedback”…with the wee martini glasses.
Hee.
I have been spending all of my free time in my craft room for the past two weeks.
Not that I have any crafts to show today…but I ask you to behold the awesome-ness that is my new and improved scrap/craft area. Clean, organized, ready and waiting.
It is a Type A’s dream, let me tell you.
A few months ago, we bought a more practical and useful desk, so my scrap cubes got condensed over into the corner and they have been languishing over there, ever so unhappily with my infrequent visits. Then I went in search of some ribbon to make a collar for a stuffed animal and realized – the amount of ribbon I have is…riDICuLOUS!
So, I broke down and bought the clip-it-up ribbon organizer. I figured there was no way I was going to get the time, supplies and gumption together all at the same time in order to fashion some sort of ribbon holder, so I spent the money, and just look at it there on the wall!
And once I had organized all the ribbon, it started a snowball effect. Now I had an empty drawer and an empty box, so I started organizing the other drawers and pretty soon…every brad, every piece of paper, every embellishment had a new home.
And I started finding little trays, jars, and cans and re-purposing them. The tall can here is from my mocha powder, and the shorter, fatter one used to have Zingerman’s macaroons in it. (Mmmm…Zingerman’s. Macaroons.) I just covered them with some pretty paper and now I have some cool new storage tins.
I am on a roll. If I were a closet or a drawer in my house, I would be a little scared right now – or maybe excited, I’m not sure which! One thing is for sure, it makes me so anxious to get in there and create something. Now!
Beautiful flowers, a bag of all green, peanut M&Ms, an extra day in the weekend, and an amazing day with all three of my funny Valentines -
Life is so good.
Visit Tracey for more great moments today.
Somebody (four somebodies to be exact!) is coming to visit us in six days! We could not be more excited!
Okay, so while I was writing the contest post, I figured that Miss GoLightly would figure it out – where we spent Valentine’s day – the moment she saw the photo. She and her little Harrison may get to visit the “Happiest place on Earth” even more than we do! (Thanks again for the help, Uncle Jeff!)
But, a lot of you knew where we were, and GL just happened to be a little quicker on the draw, so I gotta give it to her! (And one of these days we are going to get to actually meet up there, GL!)
So yes, we did spend the day at Disneyland. It was very, very fun. Em and Ad got to go on It’s a Small World for the first time (they had been on it before, but were just too little to remember it – or had slept through it!), and I think it is definitely Addie’s favorite. Of course, it didn’t hurt that when they just renovated it, they put in some of her favorite characters like Cinderella and…
Oh, yes. It is, to Addie’s pure delight, Ariel.
Don’t worry Small World purists – they did a wonderful job adding the new characters. It is truly well done, and doesn’t distract from the charming, retro feel of the ride, in the least. I’m not quite sure how they do it, but they did do it, yet again. It doesn’t matter how many times I visit, I still get giddy, and just…happy being there. It is so easy to just let all of your “adultness” go, and just be an awestruck kid.
Anyhow, on to the fun. We are working on riding every ride, so we tried to fit in ones we had never been on before. Of course we had to do some of the favorites again. There are some like Pirates and Space Mountain that we have to do every single time we go.
Last time we were there we realized that Addie was actually tall enough to ride the Matterhorn and she really wanted to try it. She liked the rollercoaster part, but when we got off she kept saying, “I just don’t like that scary monster (abominable snowman) part!”
But she wanted to go again this time, so we did. She still doesn’t like the “monster” part, but I think it has been added to the list of “must dos” when we return again.
It is the little rides that sometimes make the biggest hits, though. We did the Rocketships in Tomorrowland, which admittedly, we had never waited to do with the girls, and J. and I never did on our own. They are fun…
…especially if you can figure out how to get them to “fly,” right Em & Daddy?
All in all, it was a perfect Valentine’s day.
A (small!) prize to the first commenter who correctly guesses where we spent our Day of Love today.
Here is a hint…
And bonus points if you know where I was when I shot this photo!
