From Craftzine
- A new lunch tote pattern from Clouds and Cotton
- Chez Beeper Bebe made some awesome birthday (reptile) goodie bags, and these fun kid gifts - must remember both and think of making these drawstring bags for gifts...
- Lovely Designs has a gift bag tutorial (as if you really need one, but ..) and she made some sweet home books. She has a beautiful blog and design aesthetic.
- Ric Rac posted a cute free PDF tutorial for one-hour softies. PDF here.
- Howtoons on making ice cream - no ice cream maker involved, but a lot of tossing.
- Tree shelves
- Bed idea, and check Gothic Cabinet Craft
- Great space party and blog to check
- Mothers Day Every Day - place to donate, somethign to look into. One woman dies in childbirth every minute.
- Feeding my desire for Frye boots, they are even mentioned on CMP.
- My coworker Kelly is going to do thirty minute circuit training in her living room using circuits from Sports Fitness Adviser
- Mommy Track'd lost its apostrophe and is now Mommy Tracked. A lawsuit??
- I love this coat rack from Second Drafts found via Sweet Sweet Life
- I love this post from Matsutake (had to post it below, short and so worth a laugh!). Check out too here Halloween craft #1 (wait for #2, and #3).
Halloween Ideas for meWednesday, August 26, 2009
Whew!
I thought that my butt was getting too big, but it turns out that I just have my shorts on backwards.
at 9:20 AM
- From Martha Stewart: Birds Nest, Woodland branches, and Bat headband
Yesterday at 7:45pm
had an up and down day with the boy - fun at the planetarium, cuddled napping, and fun in the fort we built, but also suffered accidental (?) head butts, a bite, and hair pulling.
Not mentioned, a trip to the very cool Relics ice cream shop. Ice cream and various bits of memorabilia like cars and Simpson characters. B might have also found a new mechanic for the Z and a place to sell it. Also not mentioned, walking through a 'river' to get back in the car during another down pour.
T and I had a nice time at the coffee shop after church. Pumpkin muffins for both of us. Then he came home and had another 1-egg spinach and cheese omelet. He had 1 3/4 1-egg spinach and cheese omelets On Friday. We think he might be about to 'spurt' again.Gorgeous day - too bad I was in church, napping with Tommy, at the Farmers Market, and cooking through most of it.
tonight I made vegetable lentil soup, FM-deli-grab-bag sandwiches, sour lemon biscotti, my breakfast and lunch for tomorrow (included making a batch of salad dressing), and I put together an Italian sausage lasagna. Why does it feel like I'll be doing 'all' of this again in two days?
When I returned from the Farmer's Market I almost immediately had to start cooking dinner. Up from nap, to FM, then to kitchen. Boo Hoo on SUCH a LOVELY day! The lentil soup and sandwiches were dinner. I got a grab bag of deli meat at the FM. They put scraps and ends in bags. If you ask about them you can buy them. Mine was $3 for about a pound I think, could be 2 pounds. Anyway, my sandwich consisted of a mystery bologna type thing, peppered turkey, and some pastrami. I think I managed to only put turkey on B and T's sandwiches. While kind of a good deal, I'm not sure I'll do it again.
T has been doling out his bedtime favors. He takes great delight in telling us what we can do for him. "Mommy you read books, and Daddy you can rock me." He says it with a big smile. We have more and more been calling T his royal highness or similar names. So after I was releived of my duty, I got on the computer a bit, then headed back to the kitchen.
I made my lunch and breakfast for work tomorrow. Mixed cereal with dried fruit and milk, a salad with a cracker, and fresh fruit. This entailed mixing up a batch of salad dressing, and cutting watermelon for the week. Then I made B some biscotti he had been loadly hinting at needing, and finished by preparing lasagna for dinner the next two nights. Course I'll be at book club on Tuesday, but B and T will need dinner...
In a nutsheell that was the weekend. Minus our trip to a consignment sale on Friday - $75 netting 6 books, 1 game, more Dupolos, 1 set of ABC 1930's esq flashcards, 2 pair pants (1 Hanna Anderson), 1 Blabla cotton/wool sweater, 2 fleece footed PJs, and 6 shirts that included some GAP, a Talbots, a Hilfiger, and a Garnet Hill.
Photos to come later...
I was at work until late and then had to stop by the drug store. While there B and T called me. "Tell mommy what you just said to me," B said to T over the phone. A very soft voice said "Mommy, I want you to come home, where are you mommy?" It so pulled at my heart strings.
When I walked in the door and said hello, I heard running feet and in an instant a little red head charged me, "Mommy!" He flew into my arms and hung on tight. "Mommy, I want you, I want... you can be where I was, you can play with me!" he beamed. ... after a bit we walked in the bedroom and he climbed on our bed. "Lets wrestle!
It's good to be home, it's good to be wanted!
From Craftzine
- The Long Thread Make It Monday Wrist Pincushion tutorial. See also the other Make It Monday tutorials.
- Recycled magazine business card holders from Jessica at How About Orange
- Sarah Mitts arm warmer pattern from ??
- Wee backpack tutorial
- Pumpkin spice latte recipe form The Kitchen
- Flexible Dreams posted about using Pandora for kids music - great idea. She also posted:
- Handwashing covering cough for H1N1
- Mommy I'm Home posted a no knead bread recipe that she got from A Bushel and Peck (check her fun style!)
- Via Parenthacks, Pain is good, from Science for Raising Happy Kids.
From the Associated Press:
As much as a foot of rain fell over parts of the Atlanta area Monday. The town of Dallas northwest of Atlanta had 16 inches in a 48-hour period, the Georgia Emergency Management Agency said.
From an email from one of the local commissioners last night:
County Flooding:
Nancy Creek: Flood Stage = 11’, Currently = 13’3”, Forecast = 13’5”
Peachtree Creek: Flood Stage = 17’, Currently = 20’6”, Forecast = 24’2”
Yellow River: Flood Stage = 11’, Currently = 11’9”, Forecast = 20’
Warning #1 - Expecting 4 inches of rain in the local area; however 6 inches or more is expected ....
From B's IM to me about drop off this morning:
Bill said (11:12 AM):
Fun on the way in. No traffic issues. (Lighter than normal.) Once there, I read Jack & the Beanstock at T's request. Other children listened.
Then, he told me I could go, as he played with [friends].
Bill said (11:12 AM):
That was it. Very easy. He seemed happy @ play
I'll hope to add some descriptions, but in the mean time photos from our long weekend in Wilmington visiting my Dad and Stepmom.
http://www.ajc.com/news/flooding-claims-lives-search-142739.html
"...Weather Service radar estimated that as much as 15 inches of rain had fallen since Friday, much of it beginning on Sunday afternoon, when a series of strong storms began training, or following one another, northward through the area.Those storms were still dumping rain across the western suburbs Monday.
"The Weather Service said 3 to 7 inches had fallen just since 9 p.m. Sunday..."
Luckily our basement only has puddles. The rain has been falling since Tuesday - 7 days ago.
I've had the following blogs and posts on my home computer for some time:
- Sutton Grace - craft, living, kids, and some design ideas
- Kelly + Olive - make a ruffled pillow tutorial
- Wholegrain Baby
- Two Straight Lines
- The artful Abode
T:: Is thousand 100 the biggest number there is?
M:: No, there are bigger numbers
T:: Like what?
M:: Two thousand 100.
T:: No, two isn't bigger
M:: Yes, two is bigger than one. One plus one is two. One thousand, two thousand...
T:: Two thousand 100 8 9 is bigger
M:: mmmm
T:: Two thousand 100 8 9 10 is bigger!
+++ +++ +++
M:: ...and Tommy lion and Justyn tiger were wrestling when along came a leopard named Cody.
T:: and that was three big cats
M::Yes. They started wrestling and playing and rolling in the grass. They rolled right into a cheetah named...
T::Tate! And that was four big cats.
M:: Tommy lion and Justyn tiger, and Cody leopard and Tate cheeta started wrestling and giggling and rolling in the grass. They rolled even further and rolled into a Cougar.
T:: Not a cougar, what's a cougar?
M:: Another big cat. How about a Jaguar?
T:: Yes a jaguar named Mia.
M:: So Tommy lion, Justyn tiger, Cody leopard, and Tate cheeta rolled into Mia Jaguar. They all started wrestling and rolling in the grass and giggling...
T:: That's five big cats.
M:: Yes! Good job. Well, they rolled into a another big cat!
T:: A cougar!
M:: yes, a cougar named...
T:Courtney! Six big cats!
M:: and they all giggled, and then they yawned and they all took a nap. Six big cats taking a nap together. The end.
T:: The end!
