I am fully aware that I left you hanging for Crafty Tuesday. Again, not because we are not doing anything crafty, I am just not together enough to get it photo’d and blogged. It always seems that the work/projects/craziness all come raining down at once. I can go for weeks without really needing to do “work” for anyone, and then all of my clients contact me literally the same morning.

Unfortunately, the rainstorm also coincided with the first week back to school, so I’m still reeling just a little bit.

So a little vent/update. Or…how about a “Love Thursday” bullet list, since it is almost Thursday and I’m trying to find the silver lining on the dark cloud over here?

Things I am loving today:

• Being dangerously close to my breaking point, putting the girls to bed without books because they are beyond exhausted, and then working downstairs and listening to Addie sing herself to sleep. That girl.
• The fact that the girls are still happy to be sharing a room and bunkbeds, and Emma even let Addie borrow some of her jammies tonight.
• Facetime with Daddy when he is away.

(sorry, a post with nothing but crappy iphone photos again!)

• Daddy coming home today.
• Daddy promising to be “on kid duty” this weekend. (How heavenly does that sound right about now?)
• A surprise (or two!) in the garden when I tried to wrangle the overgrown vines this afternoon.

• Addie’s excited squeals when I showed her our garden surprise!
• Lentil salad. I’ve eaten it every day this week for lunch. So easy, so delicious, and not half bad for you either.

• Two little girls who notice when I don’t put notes in their lunchboxes, and ask that I make sure I remember to.

• Daddy coming home.

(Yes, it deserves two bullets on our Thursday Love list.)

Happy Thursday.