Sometimes you just need to…

 

curl your hair,

 

ask for some help,

 

bring every American Girl item into the front room of your house,

pose,

 

enjoy the blooming all around you,

 

join a co-op and get gobs of fresh fruit and vegetables for $23 every other week,

 

hop on a fire truck with your Mimo,

 

make your own sauce,

borrow your daughter’s headband,

 

run in the same grass your mom ran in fifteen years prior,

 

dance,

 

laugh out loud,

paint your girls’ nails five times a day,

 

run like your socks are on fire.

Hope you all have had a wonderful Spring so far!

Pity Party Alert

 

I’m in hiding.
Not by choice. 
The culprit?
A nasty, fast-spreading stomach bug.

At least I have these three “pumpkins” to make me laugh.
Along with…

good food…

 

good books…

good friends who post funny things on my Facebook wall….

 

new projects…..

Personalize funny videos and birthday eCards at JibJab!

Haus of Girls

and of course, the St. Louis Cardinals to cheer for in the World Series!!!

Hope you are having a happy and HEALTHY week!
Go Cards!

Lend Me Your Eyes.

 

Today, this little guy was hanging out on my laundry room door.
No, it’s not a Halloween decoration! It’s for real people. 
So what did I so? I screamed and then I smashed him with my flip flop, like any normal housewife would do.

However,  now my mom has me worried that it was perhaps a poisonous Brown Recluse.
I have 20/20 vision, but given the circumstances, I don’t want to be worrying that I have a creepy brown recluse spider family crawling around here.

I need your eyes.
Check out the chart below.

 

I think it looks more like the grass spider. 
What do you think?

Here’s hoping I won’t have to change the name of my blog to Haus of Spiders!

Thanks for your help!

You Are Good.

 

This is a little note I saved from Mia when she was just a tiny Kindergartner, still attempting to master the peace sign.

I have this note hanging up in my computer armoire and every time I look at it I smile.
It’s a little pep talk from my daughter.
“You are good.”
And coming from a five year old, that’s saying a lot.

So never forget to be good.
For yourself, but also for your children.

They are watching you.

Just in case it slipped your mind, they are watching your every move.
They want to be just like you, act like you, treat people like you do, say the things you do.
You are their first teacher. 
Remember this always.

I was happily reminded of this fact as I watched Gracie “reading” one afternoon…

 

I wonder where she learned this cool “turn the pages better” trick?

Insta-Friday: As Summer Fades

A little look into our happy week through the lens of my phone camera.

  

Mia’s first fall softball game.

After our Saturday trip to Walgreens to get Mia’s            A hat and braids (no time for shower) kind of day.
medicine (we must refill every ten days!) and their
special ”politeness jar” prizes.

The sky on our drive home from Sunday dinner at my parent’s house.

Gracie pulled these out of her closet on Monday to “dust ‘em off” so they’d be ready for her to wear on her first day of preschool.  Tears.  

 

 
On our drive up into our hilly subdivision returning home from Gracie’s preschool open house, Sophie glanced up and exclaimed, “Look Mom! It’s heaven!”

A night full of fun with a tube of Aquaphor = one greasy child in the morning.
It’s now three days later and her hair is still extra shiny.   Live and learn.

An alphabet computer game tutorial for Grace from her two big sisters.
Sophie managed to multi-task by simultaneously rocking out on the microphone to Taylor Swift’s “Sparks Fly.”.



My chair for a little pre-bedtime runway show.                                                    The runway.

A little glimpse at one of the (crazy duck loving) models.

A haus of girls is always entertaining.
Hope your weeks was great!








I am linking up over at Life Rearranged for InstaFriday!

Insta-Friday: Back to School Week

A peek into our crazy back to school week(s) via my Instagram phone pictures…..

A morning sunrise run. My hair dryer.

Learning something new…. craps! My free spirited third child’s fashion statement.

Dinner after the girl’s open house. First day of school!

True story. Ripped pants, a side ponytail and a protein shake.
Who’s jealous?

I love my days! Matchers.

Block party fun! A spooktacular craft.

Can you guess the new Superhero bucket in my shop? Sophie the artist.

Clients that bring me gifts are awesome. No smiles. Only tongue.

A glimpse at one of my runs. Guess what I was eating?

And finally, my fave this week: Gracie demonstrating her lasso technique in the backyard.
“Mom, I’m a cowgirl!” she yells.
She can’t wait for our annual trip to the rodeo coming up in October!

Now it’s your turn! Head over to Life Rearranged and link up your fun phone pictures.