Archive for April, 2008
April 30, 2008 at 10:00 pm
· Filed under misc
A pink flower cookie that Bubby brought home for me Arwyn. As I she was eating it I noticed it had become heart shaped. Okay, you got me. He brought home two cookies and I ate them both. But she hadn’t eaten hers and it was going stale! There’s nothing sadder than a super sweet sugary bakery cookie going stale in a lonely white paper bag on the kitchen counter. I had to put it out of it’s misery.
Arwyn and I are heading to Aunt Banana’s house for a few days. My hometown is in the midst of it’s annual Dogwood Festival and we are hoping to attend some festival activities while we are there. Carnie food! Carnies! Possibly dangerous rides! A parade!
I hope the sound of me constantly munching ice doesn’t annoy anyone while we are there. Well, except maybe that one particular nephew. He deserves some payback in the annoying department. Maybe I’ll do it right in his ear. While he’s sleeping. It’s some sort of strange pregnancy-related affliction or addiction. I remember doing the same thing when I was pregnant with Arwyn and hoping I wasn’t driving my office mate nuts. Maybe it will give them something to talk about when I’m gone. “I thought she’d never leave! The ice crunching was enough to make me want to gouge my ear drums with an ice pick!”
Happy weekends all around.
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April 29, 2008 at 6:44 pm
· Filed under polaroids
Huh. I put a new package of film in the camera and suddenly my weird lighting problem is solved. But now the pictures don’t have that retro-cool 70’s feel. I guess that’s what happens when you leave film in the camera for several years.
I always mean to write a post every day during the week. I usually do great on Monday and Tuesday and then … I don’t know, life happens? I get busy or I don’t feel like it and the next thing I know it’s been a week since I’ve written anything. Oops.
This is Arwyn’s bike. Those tires are some kind of cement-filled rubber or something, because this is the heaviest damn little bike I’ve ever seen. It’s about all I can currently do to hang it up on it’s designated hook in the garage. Arwyn loves her little bike. It was her daddy’s (I think) when he was just a little Bubby (minus the recently added flowery training wheels). I would love to get it repainted and jazzed up a little, but she doesn’t seem to mind one bit. She’s just excited that she can ride it all by herself. And I love to see her using and playing with something that meant something to one of us many years ago.
How long do you think we have before she wants a shiny new pink one with a basket, a bell and tassels?
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April 28, 2008 at 3:56 pm
· Filed under leta joy, misc
What we’ve been up to:
- Going through tissues, allergy medicine and eye drops like crazy
- Playing outside
- Birthday party planning
- Trying not to freak out about the lack of renovation-related work going on in the house and ever-shortening length of time left before baby arrives
- Wanting to buy one of these but probably will end up with one of these instead
- Trying to find manageable summer activities for Arwyn so we don’t drive each other nutty
- Making lots of lists
- Picking up baby-related bits and bobs
- Trying to stay one step ahead, but never feeling like I’m succeeding
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April 22, 2008 at 8:54 pm
· Filed under arwyn dae, polaroids
Swinging in the backyard this afternoon. Wondering why the lighting on the Polaroid is so weird. Not knowing how to fix it or caring enough to make an effort. Letting her shake the picture, hence the thumb print on the bottom corner. Saying hello to passing neighbors. Taking down lights and extension cords from the fence that have been there for two years. Letting her help, even though her tools are for gardening and cooking. Making deals involving the Passy Fairy and shark slip-n-slides. Talking about what kind of birthday cake she wants. Taking out the trash and recycling. Trying to let her sit on my lap, even though I don’t have much of a lap these days. Treasuring our last weeks together, alone, just the two of us. Knowing we’ll never have these days again.
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April 21, 2008 at 2:35 pm
· Filed under arwyn dae, introspective, leta joy
This is where we have been spending the vast majority of our time the past few days. If I could just let absolutely everything else go, we’d probably be out there all day every day. It’s not a bad place to hang out, especially with the great weather we’ve been having. But I do need to fix a meal or throw a load of laundry in every now and again. And it does need a good hosing down. Look at the left over plant muck from last year on the green table! Ewwwwwww. I can’t understand how things get so unbelievably dirty out there and there are pine needles everywhere, all the time, no matter how much you sweep. I would love it if the porch were screened and I could set it up as an outside “room”. Someday.
I feel like there are so many things I want to get done before this baby arrives. But then I think, in the grand scheme of things, do they matter all that much? Probably not. Is it important enough to drive myself crazy? Definitely not. So I am trying my best to just let it all be, let the chips fall where they may and roll with it. Anybody who knows me very well would know that I am not very good at this sort of thing (and that’s probably putting it mildly). I am not used to taking it easy, being this tired all the time, needing to take a break after every little thing I do. I normally make a list of things I want done, I do them, mark them off the list, and then I make another list! So these are uncharted waters for me, but I know that I am going to have to learn to let go or I will make myself insane, especially after baby comes. Maybe next summer I can do it all, you know when I have a one year old and a five year old and all that free time. Why are you laughing?
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April 17, 2008 at 3:30 pm
· Filed under leta joy
The only areas where I still have a modicum of control over my “cuteness factor”: my shoes and my hair.
The hair clip is from here. I think I have linked to her shop before. Love the clip. This is the second time I’ve worn it and it is perfect. It holds my hair back, isn’t so heavy that it falls out and doesn’t pull. I’ve got my eye on this one. I love the mushroom, but I don’t wear red all that much.
These are from Target and I really like them. I was a little bit afraid they would give me blisters, but I’ve worn them all day today and my tootsie toes are just fine and dandy. They also have them in a black and white stripe.
Yesterday I was told that I “looked miserable” so today I thought I would put a tad more effort into my appearance. We can’t have people thinking that a 32-week pregnant woman is miserable! How could that be possible? It’s not like I’m carrying around 30 extra pounds of weight or being kicked constantly or anything. Ludicrous!
Now back to my restoration project (a sneak peek is in the shoe photo).
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April 15, 2008 at 10:51 am
· Filed under crafty
This is what I like to call my Super Dee Duper Movie Filing System for all of those children’s “classics” we have piled up in the white envelopes. They were threatening to take over the living room, so I had to do something. And I had enough patience to last for about an hour, so this is what I came up with.
I took a little inspiration from this lovely creation. There is something about it that speaks to my creative side. I love it when things are in “rainbow order” (ROY G. BIV) and you can see all of the colors at once. Something about that grabs me every time, whether it is a shirt display, pillows, paper, whatever. I am very attracted to this phenomenon for some reason.
I am also all about the alphabetical order. If it were up to me, everything in the house would be alphabetized and rainbowtized. Wouldn’t that be pretty? And orderly?
But I am also a tad impatient and I like for any and all projects to GET DONE ALREADY, so I didn’t take the time to make this overly pretty. I grabbed a ruler, some Sharpies and my scissors and got to work. In between getting up every five minutes to get someone a drink or a yogurt or change the cartoon channel. What am I, a human remote? Um, the answer to that would be yes. Yes, I am. Just like when I was a kid and my brothers called me “Remote Control” because they were 10+ years older than me and they could force me to do just about anything, so they decided to always make me change the channel on the tv. They also called me MD which stood for Miss Disaster, but that’s a story for another time.
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April 10, 2008 at 3:17 pm
· Filed under leta joy
It’s my two year blogging birthday today. I’m rather shocked that I’ve been doing this for two years. Then again, sometimes I can’t believe that I haven’t had an actual paying full-time job for almost four years. I don’t know where the time goes. Then I look in the mirror and see all of those developing “stripes” on my forehead (Arwyn’s word for wrinkles) and suspicious sparkling in the strands of hair around my face (read: gray that I am in denial about and will disappear next week at the talented hands of my stylist) and I have a pretty good idea.
Thanks for reading, checking up on us, and leaving your comments. This blogging thing is still pretty fun.
Note: cupcakes are from Arwyn’s first birthday party, made by Super Juju. I did not make cupcakes for my blogging birthday. But now that I think of it, that is not a bad idea at all. Perhaps I shall.
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April 9, 2008 at 6:37 pm
· Filed under cookin' it up
This is a post about cooking. I have actually cooked breakfast two days this week so far, and it’s only Wednesday! Monday I cooked ALL THREE MEALS. Martha ain’t got nuthin’ on me. Of course, by the end of Monday I was sitting on the couch crying because I was so exhausted and felt like I’d been run over by a Mac truck, but that’s another story. Ahem. I’m not so good at the not doing a whole lot and I tend to disregard how easily and quickly I tire these days. Then I pay for it later.
These are the scones again, but today I decided to be brave and add some fresh strawberries to the mix. They made the dough very wet and sticky. Perhaps this is why the recipes says “if you use berries, make sure they are frozen”. Oops. They still turned out ok. I baked them a few minutes longer and sprinkled a little sugar on top.
These didn’t taste quite as good as I thought they would. Maybe because the strawberries probably aren’t in season yet? Maybe because I’ve made them with cinnamon chips and chocolate chips in the past? Still, not too shabby.
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April 8, 2008 at 11:16 am
· Filed under polaroids
Some purple tulips that I bought at the grocery on Sunday, just because. Because they were in buckets of water at the checkout and I’m a sucker. They are a little floppy and Arwyn said they were hanging over the edge of the vase like that because they are “lonely”. My tulips in the yard aren’t blooming yet, so I guess these will have to be lonely for a just little bit longer.
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