You should come get one of these THIS WEEKEND

 It's your last chance to come and get one of these. I have some awesome magnetic chalkboards from my school and Q is going to haul them to the dump unless you want to pick them up.  We have three hung at our house and I love them!  This one is used to post photos and messages to each other.  We mounted one downstairs for the kids to color on and create funny sentences with word magnets.  They love it because we hung it an inch off the ground so they can totally reach it.  The other one is super long and we are going to use it for a score board in our back yard by hanging it on the fence.  You should come get one.  I have so many because I thought I would cut them up and frame then for fun gifts but after 5 years I guess Q is throwing the towel in on my lack of ambition or time to finish the project.  I'd hate to see these awesome opportunities for fun hauled to the dump.  Don't you at least want one for your garage?

...and how about THIS butterball of squishy cutness!

 Annie has discovered television and movies.  So tempting for both of us to waste our lives away now.

2013 baby

Welcome back bless-ed interent.

I started school and clogging and, it seems, a million other things that have left our lives in chaos.  Add to this the great injustice of consumer slights.  It seems everything we have bought over the past month has in some way broken.  I'm talking major stuff like the new fridge, the $$$ mamaroo, the TV, the internet.  Crazy life.  But we are 1/8 of the way to next summer 2013 baby!  Survival until then.  In the meantime: 

 My child needs constant stimulus.  She wants me to talk with her nonstop and won't play alone.  She is super social and incredibly active.  She wears everyone out who comes in contact with her within the hour.  So in the middle of chaos, I try to get her to run at the park a few times a week.  Could this be why I still have 138 essays to grade?

 I was a bit fed up with not getting to be a mom/wife because of busy busy busy things, so I decided to put everything on hold for one evening and cook an incredibly complicated German Morravian Chicken Pie with homemade sour cream crust and gravy.  It was incredible.

 Of course, we didn't eat until 10 pm and I managed to dirty every dish in the house.

 Here she is:  so squishy.  I race home every day after work to get my fill of this chubb-a-lova!  Never enough.

 And today I win the mom award.  I tossed out everything on my to do list in an act of rebellion and took the girls to the splash pad and lunch.  I am proud to announce Annie did not watch an ounce of television the whole day... but then (should I be worried) she jinxed it by becoming engrossed in Quinn and my viewing of the Hunger Games at nearly midnight.

 Well, I don't see why- if I am just meant to win the lottery anyway -why it can't be now so everyone can be put out of their misery?  Oh, did I say misery?  Really, it's not that bad.  Not yet.

Happy Anni to Us

 

• 1000 trips
• 1 condo sold
• 2 kids
• 1 house bought
• 0 $$$ in our bank account
• 9 years

Happy Anni to Us.

P.S.  We don't have internet and school and dance started.  So, we fell of the face off the earth for a while.