Our Kitty Friend

Ms. Kitty visited in the house yesterday, she must be lonely these days she was

in the garage when we came home from taking Carter and then as I made lunch I saw her on the back window and a little while later she was on the front porch clawing at the mat - can you say stalker kitty!

Growin' boys

Carter's current saying is "sure thing, mom" we cleaned out the garage yesterday and every time I asked him to do something it was "sure thing, mom" - cracks me up! Do notice he is wearing work gloves! We found out for certain that we have too many toys in the garage but did get the shuffle board table set up in there rather than letting it sit against the wall like it has for the past 4 years - maybe some day it will have a proper home.

We've been in cleaning mode and moved some business around - including putting the shelves in Linc's room with hopes that he'd play with his toys more & less with things like scissors, dental floss and lotion - so far I think it might be working, fingers crossed it stays that way!

Projects 2 & 3

Sewing class is over - Jen and I did it, we passed, got our licence to sew (really... our teacher is cutesy like that and gave us a licence to sew). On our last night we finished our pillows - well everyone but me finished, I finished and then realized I'd made a MONSTER mistake and had done it inside out so I spent some time ripping out the stitches and our teacher felt so badly she did most of them while teaching. I finished on Friday without incident (she was super worried because she'd had a student quit the class based on that mistake before!). We also made a cosmetic bag which was fun and easy, and I realized I have enough fabric to make 2 more so hoping that today I'll whip those up and maybe have enough time to finish the book I'm currently reading - Jodi Picoult's "House Rules" for those of you who read - love the book, but I love the author too.

Sewing Project #1 - COMPLETE

Yes, the long ago spoke of apron is now complete! Super excited about it - even attempting to take my own picture to show it off - super excited until my husband said "that is just fabric they gave you right?" Maybe even more exciting yesterday was that my Iowa necklace arrived - it was a Christmas gift from my parents and WAY back ordered but so worth the wait!

For Nata-wee

I got a message from another mom this week saying that the Wiener-mobile was at our local grocery store so Lincoln and I hustled over there after dropping Carter off at school. Why visit the wiener-mobile, you ask? Well, when your college roommate had a stuffed wiener-mobile and the mention of the words made her laugh, I thought, we must pose with the wiener-mobile for Natalie. And so we did - I will have to say, I didn't know what to expect but a basic mini-van (seating for 6, I believe) on the inside is not what I expected, I was thinking they would be roasting away inside or something - they were giving out little names for the kids for visiting- Lincoln's was "Little Links Lincoln" - pretty cute, I thought, although he wouldn't get near the wiener-mobile.

And with that I'll close with "I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener that is what I'd truly like to be and if I were an Oscar Mayer wiener everyone would be in love with me" everybody now....

Might be time for some real swim lessons for my littlest swimmer. He found this "deal" while I was getting the items in order for the Pass It On sale - it is the best example of buying something to try it - yep, it is kind of worthless, except if you are Lincoln and like to look like a goober and have your Coach Carter give you swim lessons in the tub - for that it works! It is very good, however, at making Sean and I laugh as he struts around in his "swim suit"! I was hoping to let this leave my house but I'm afraid that won't be happening after all!

Something that made me smile...

Carter's class makes these books that feature their homework assignments, today I was feeling kind of badly because I'd only had him do one of the pictures for this week (he made one and it was on the bulletin board & we got to keep it, but his friends' all had their 2nd one in the book and Carter didn't - we didn't do the 2nd because he'd decided to write it himself and it had taken about an hour & excessive amounts of my patience) anyway, when I read the book I found this inside and it made me smile.