Saturday Night - Suburb Style

My kindergartner has taken to making puppets out of paper lunch sacks.


We have a King, a Queen, and their chef. Each one takes at least an hour. So between that and practicing her tap dancing, she keeps pretty busy.

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Day 14 with no faucet :
I've gone from one pitcher to a pitcher and two gallon jugs. What's scary is noticing how much water gets used. While filling the 9x13 dish currently soaking in the sink, all I could think was, I'm going to have to refill a jug for this.

Sad, but true.

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Friday, finally

I brought my plant in a couple weeks ago. Now, they're sitting on folded sheets in my entry way. I'm looking for a way to protect my hardwood floor that's slightly prettier. There aren't any saucers out there that I'm too fond of.
Thoughts?

All Better

My poor ruffled feathers have been smoothed. Field trip and a picnic lunch with a Kindergartner. What would be better?

Is 8 am too early to ask for a re-do on the day?

Some woman thought I bumped into her car in the school parking lot. I didn't.

She yelled at me. And later apologized.

But it was a crappy way to start the day.

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Today though? Today is the kindergartner's field trip. She has been talking about it for the last two weeks. Every day.

The camera battery is charged. I am pumping myself up, after all they could only take three parents and my name was drawn out of the proverbial hat.

Now, to let some of her unabashed enthusiasm rub off on me.

Take some time

I read somewhere that as adults we don't lose track of time often enough.

Remember being a kid and completely losing track of time? It might be playing outside, Legos, Barbies, reading a good book... Doesn't really matter, but the fact of it is that we lost track of time. We enjoyed ourselves.

As adults, we tend to be so plugged in to 'gotta do' that we forget what we like and want to do. This last week I've been indulging myself a bit. I tend to lose track of time when I make these:
Dresses for American Girl Dolls. Silly. But fun.

Sweet little buttons.

Carefully hand sewn snaps. Maybe a bit of ribbon.

I'm debating putting a few of these on etsy to see if they sell. Also, the school is having a craft fair, but I'm not sure I could get enough done to warrant a booth.

Today I'll be sorting through my fabric to see what others I can make. Maybe I'll fit in a bit of cleaning... Maybe...

Lucky 13

While dining at the neighborhood pizza place surrounded by our brood, I asked my husband:

If anyone had told you thirteen years ago we'd be sitting here, would you have believed them?
He replied he be hard pressed to.
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Happy Anniversay, Love. I just keeps getting better.

Thirteen down, a lifetime to go.

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Marriage words of wisdom: compassion, compromise, caring, and compliments.

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Room fit for a boy

When we decided to buy this house, we thought the bedroom situation out. I had it all planned out in my head.

Unfortunately, the boy did not agree. Upon inspecting the upstairs, he claimed the loft above the garage.


To get to his room he has to go through either the guest room or his sister's room and the bathroom. He doesn't seem to mind.



He's built a fort by his window seat more than once. That and it has a storage bin under the second section. That's for storing the blankets.

There's also this fantastic built in for his treasures. And his laundry. No closet though. Not much of a problem as how many hanging clothes does one seven year old boy need? He uses the guest closet.




I think he looks pretty happy.

Pioneer Girl

Though no comparison to the pioneers, I feel like one without running water at my kitchen sink. The part won't arrive for 4 to 10 days, so until then I'm bringing water in by the pitcher from the bathroom. We looked for a 'cheap' replacement faucet until the part arrives, but I can haul water for $39.95 + tax. That and the bathroom is 12, maybe 15 steps from the kitchen. So I guess it's a good think I don't have to walk down to the creek because the well ran dry.

Fortunately, my dishwasher still works. There would be mutiny if it didn't. Heh.

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Something fun for today: an American Girl dress - made by me!

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Early hockey tomorrow - out of state game starts at 7:50. Must get four adults and three kids + hockey gear out of the house by 6:45. Oy.

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