Weekend Glimpses

Warning: this weekend glimpses is Prince heavy.  Saturday I took the little Prince out alone while the Monkey spent the day with daddy.  It's been since I don't know when that we got any alone time with either, outside of sick days home from school that is...not quite the same.  The Prince and I spent the afternoon at the Children's Museum, by which I mean most of the afternoon in the play kitchen.  $20 spent to change the location of where he plays in the kitchen.  Awesome.

We played a little in the rain.  I always have this picture of fall in my head of sugar plum fairies and cozy sweaters and beautiful chilly days.  Then it comes and laughs at me.

Time to reshelf (reshelve?  WTH is the word??) the alcohol section?!? (Please disregard the state of disarray!  And yes, this is actually AFTER I cleaned it)

Side note:  I actually looked this up because I couldn't figure it out on my own.  Here is what I found:

It has to be "reshelve", reshelf is the appendant noun.
It goes like "to halve" and "half", "to prove" and "proof"... 

Ummm...yaaaa...thanks for nothing.  PSS - if I weren't so tired and under fed I would look up 'appendant noun' but this is becoming waaaaay more trouble than it is worth.  Time to MOVE the alcohol.  How's that for an English major?  God love a Texas education.

Checking out the growing pumpkin.  Too bad it isn't ours.

 HAMMER!  HAMMER!!

May I take your order?  Coffee?  You don't want coffee?  Have some!  Try it!  Just take a sip!  You like it??

Working the register.  Oh ya, I see some income potential coming in off this kid!

The Prince's New Artwork

I've been working on a canvas for the Prince's room for a while now.  Actually, it's the same canvas that originally was in his room that once looked like this... 

...until he tore it apart.  I will say it was put together quickly while I was HUGELY pregnant (you would think after two years I would forgive him for being 10 POUNDS(!!!) but alas, I am still working through that.  Anyhoo, the new artwork has come with surges of inspiration followed by surges of nothing.  I'm debating whether it's done though I don't feel that it isn't quite there yet.

The progression...

As it is today...

Some close ups...

Viola!

Around the Kitchen

I've been trying really hard lately to make dinners for the family.  In which the following usually pursues:

Me: Okay, time to eat!
Monkey: Yay!  Oh...what is this?  I don't like this!
Prince: No!  I want to plaaaaay!!
Me: Prince, it's time to eat.  Aren't you hungry?
Prince:  Okay...(insert looking at food)...I'm not hungry, I just go to bed.
Me: Awesome.
Daddy: Prince, we need to ea....(insert phone ringing, daddy answering, getting up from table and going upstairs)
Monkey:  I doooooon't waaaaaant thiiiiiiiis.
Prince:  I dooooon't waaaaant to eaaaaat.
Me:  F it. (insert opening adult beverage)

Oh joy.  I just LOVE dinner time.

I would like to take this time to say thank you to Laurelwood Pumpkin Ale for always being there for me when no one else is.  Well, at least from September until October when your ass sells out and I once again feel abandoned by your love.

Where did the time go? Happy Birthday Monkey!

Yesterday the monkey turned 5!  It seems like yesterday I was walking around with a sweet little baby in my arms.  Now I can barely lift the her.  And dealing with saaaaaassssssssssssss.  Good lord, sass has arrived folks!!  But it has also arrived with a sweet, kind hearted, love of a girl.  Who just started kindergarten.

Yesterday

Today

CRAZY!!!!!!!!

A better rounded blog

Why hello long lost friends!  Friend?  Anyone?  Helllllloooooo??  So it's been a while.  I've been away raising kids, cleaning to only have things uncleaned five seconds later and working yet always trying to catch up.  Normal life, am I right?  Well, in that time I've been pondering things (insert husband asking if that hurt).  While it would take days to write about all the random thoughts that go through my head, and the fact that no one should be exposed to that, I came up with the fact that I am going to change my blog.  And by change, I mean A) actually start writing on my blog B) make it a more well rounded blog about all aspects of my life and C) start living more creatively.  My imagination knows no bounds.  Like real life vs imaginary for example, but back to the task at hand.

Why change you may ask?  This is something I have been pondering for awhile but just haven't pursued.  I feel like there isn't a blog that I have found that I really relate to.  There are a lot of great blogs out there and don't get me wrong, I can get lost on them for HOURS.  But blogs of 40 something professionals with young kids?  Make that 40 something interested in fashion, part time artist raising a vegetarian family while losing her mind and I'm pretty sure it doesn't exist.  I haven't found it.  If you know of some email me! 

I hope you enjoy my blog. :)