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Saturday, 27 June 2009

  • A Lost Art



    I was so amazed and touched when we opened the box from Victor's grandma the other day (all the way from southern Mexico!)  It was full of beautiful hand-work, proof of *many* hours spent and probably an aching back and aching eyes!  I'm so excited for our little girl to be able to wear and use these amazing works of art...



    These are my all-time favorite "blankets" for our climate.  They're actually made out of something more like sheet fabric, very lightweight and soft.  Victor's grandma made two each for Gabriel and Zachary, and I've used them constantly.  (Zachary in particular is *very* attached--I am not letting him see these yet, because I'm sure he'll try to take possession...)   Below is a little bit closer up for detail of the hand-stitching and cutting to make the intricate designs...





    This blanket has a pretty basket-weave sort of pattern in two wide stripes above and below the embroidered flowers--from what I understand, she pulls the threads out by hand to make the "empty" spaces, then weaves threads around randomly to make the design (looks like vines on lattice to me)...





    (Above)--a lightweight "bedpsread" :) (crib-sized) or cover--it's the lightweight cotton on the bottom, then lace with ribbon woven throughout on top. 

    (Below) This one was not made by Victor's grandma, but I LOOOVE it!  (She did send it...)  I love the cheery red flowers and the bows on the shoulders!  (You may be noticing an odd angle to these pictures--yes, I cheated, took them while I was sitting on the couch WITH my feet up...  Gotta be comfy ya know!)





    This reminds me of a christening gown or something in that style, but cuter. :)  It's extra long, and at first I thought it was a big size, but I'm thinking maybe it's just the style of the dress.  It's made in the style that a lot of the traditional Mexican tops are, a very simple shape gathered in at the neck with smocking, open comfortable sleeves...  Great for hot weather!! 





    This one is something I think my own "mamaw" would have made.  She always loved this sunny color of yellow--always had curtains or chair covers or sheets or cabinets or SOMETHING in this shade!  I think it's so cute with the "jacket" look, which is actually attached, and the little old-fashioned puffy sleeves.  I like to have things like this, not purchased from a store, because then I feel like they look kind of silly, but the "genuine article," made by someone with loving, wrinkled, aching hands...   All of this hand-work really is becoming a lost art, and I certainly have done my part in losing it--can't tell you how many times I've "learned" to crochet (or whatever!) and made one thing and never touched a needle again!  Receiving such a special gift made me, just for a moment, want to learn how to make something so beautiful... 




    What do you think?  Is it important to know how to sew or embroider or crochet in today's culture?  Are there other options for us which are just as meaningful?  I want to raise my family to know and love and respect the older generations and what they have done and given for us...  Any thoughts or ideas?  Also, what are some things we can leave for future generations as works of love on our part?  (For example--we have several quilts made by my grandmothers--I do know how to quilt, but it's not an integral part of my life like it was for my mamaw especially.  What is something I can pass down that would be equally as special for my grandchildren and great-grandchildren?)

    Hoping to get some feedback here!  Please feel free to leave any thoughts!!







Thursday, 25 June 2009

  • SOOOOOOO.....



    I got on here to update the other day, uploaded some photos, got distracted, got busy...  and never came back!  You know how it is.  RIGHT?!  You KNOW you know.    But today I am determined to finally write about our weekend and some little tidbits about family and stuff...  All the little details that nobody really NEEDS to know but I like to write about! :) 

    So a couple weekends ago when we went to Fairhope (AL) for the day, we passed several signs that said there would be a hot air balloon festival in Foley (AL) the weekend of Father's Day.  We talked about coming, planned on coming, but then it has been SOOOOO hot that we didn't really think we wanted to be outside in that heat all day!  Anyway, Friday I looked it up online to get the schedule and stuff, and I think we had pretty much decided not to go b/c of the heat (which also tends to make me really tired--even more so than usual ).  But I saw that the festival was all day Friday through Sunday, and there would be fireworks Saturday night.  We tossed around a couple of options, and then Victor said, Why don't we just stay overnight and make it a mini-vacation?!  I was immediately SOOO excited--I can't even remember the last time we did something spontaneous! :)  (The last big thing that comes to mind was when we decided to go to N. Carolina for my sis-in-law's also-spontaneous wedding the day before we'd have to leave...  That of course was much bigger--but also much easier, being pre-children...)  ANYWAY, we left first thing Saturday morning and drove to Mobile, since we thought we'd spend the hotter parts (?) of the day in the a/c as much as possible. 



    My boys in front of the Museum of Mobile--not the one we'd originally intended to go to, but we ended up going in the wrong entrance (the two were in the same huge building) and paying admission at this one and finding the (small) children's area before realizing that it was a different museum... and so we went ahead and looked around quickly.  I did as much sitting as possible, b/c something about this museum made me feel like I was going to have a baby fall out of me at any moment.  So fun!! :) :) 



    Family-effort arch...  It was pretty hard to get it up!  Of course these two little girls came in after us and had it up in minutes...





    Had to tell Gabriel the story of Samson after this.  Some parts are hard to explain to a three year old. :)



    They had a little "fish market" with tons of play food that Zachary could have played in all day long.  He kept filling the baskets up... dumping them out... filling them up... dumping them out... :) 



    Love this wild child!  I didn't say I *understand* him all the time, but I love him! :)

    So next we headed on to the "Exploreum" which is where we had originally intended to go.  It's a museum made with children specifically in mind, and I knew there was a section intended for 0-5 year olds, which is what made me want to go in the first place.  Museums can be a LITTLE boring for 16 month olds, but I figured a section just for the little guys would be fun.  We watched an IMAX film called "The Living Sea"--I think I'd seen it before, but it was still beautiful, and their theater is a lot different from the one at the Naval Aviation Museum here.  It wraps up on the ceiling and everything, and the seats lean back slightly, so you're sort of underneath the movie.  Anyway, I was soooo happy that Gabriel absolutely LOVED it.  His little mouth ran non-stop throughout the entire show--he wasn't being loud, so I let him talk--and it was constantly questions and comparisons and exclamations about EVERYTHING he was seeing.  SO neat to see it through a child's eyes a little bit, and so exciting to see him taking everything in like a little sponge!  We did mention a FEW things after the show, like how *God* made the fish and the oceans. (Gabriel insisted that God didn't make the ones that we saw on the film b/c that was just a movie.  I guess he had a point.  A person made the movie.)



    LOVE this picture!!!  Not sure how well you'll be able to read it, but there was this display of "Human Body Noises"--of course "fart" had to be included, and it was just at Zachary's height.  He pushed that button OVER and OVER and thought it was the greatest thing!  He's looking up at the speakers here that the lovely sound effects came from...

    The next (lots of) photos are all from the "Wharf of Wonder"--the section for the little kiddoes.  I don't think I uploaded a wider angle one to show the whole thing, but they had a really neat wooden boat the kids could climb literally all over, surrounded by balls (for the water) w/ all kinds of plastic sea animals thrown all over... nets for "catching" the animals... Another little "food market" with more plastic food... Cars and trucks and puzzles and a slide and.... LOTS of fun stuff!





    I *think* he was a happy prisoner...???






    These pipes had air blowing up out of them that you could put the balls over and they would stay there "suspended" in air; if you covered up some of the pipes, the higher pressure would blow the balls up higher...  And then of course you can SMACK them and watch them fly across the room!! :)










    Zachary really liked "catching" the water more than the animals..










    I LOVED these windows!!

    We did walk around much of the rest of the museum too, but it was getting late and the boys and I were getting tired and HUNGRY.  We did take a few "belly pics" of sorts... :)



    Hehe... There was this room (can't remember what it was called) where you could do whatever and it would make you all psychedelic looking on the screen...  I know that's not a good explanation, but I don't know how else to explain it!  Because I was standing still here, there aren't any of the colors and crazy stuff.  But when you would wave your arms or walk or whatever, these crazy colors would sort of trail your reflection after you and it looked... wild... :) :)  OK ANYWAY.  So there's my humongo belly for you all who have been wanting to see it.  Don't know WHY but there you go! :)




    Leaving Mobile...  We were in such a beautiful section of the city.  I've never thought of Mobile like that, all quaint and colonial looking, with such gorgeous old architecture.  Wish we could have looked around more just to see all the lovely old buildings.


    SO then we moved on to Foley.  By the time we got into town the line at Lambert's was HUGE and I was soooo hungry, I didn't want to wait. :(  We were looking forward to our throwed rolls, but we enjoyed delicious shrimp at Applebee's instead. :)  Checked into our hotel, rested for a little bit, and then went to the actual original reason for our trip--the balloon festival.  It was after 8:00p by the time we got here, and it was still hot hot HOT.  It was just starting to get dark, and the balloon people :) were giving "tether rides" and making the balloons glow b/c of the flames they shoot up inside.  Soooo pretty! 



    We got the best pics of this balloon--but there were probably over 20 of them out there, all lighting up like giant fireflies randomly and unexpectedly...










    Jessica, Victor took this picture for you, so he said! :)  A band called "Cheyenne" singing "Sweet Home Alabama"...  I will say this much--they had their speakers on HI.  :)  No really, they sounded pretty good, but I thought my ears were going to explode!!  I could feel every note reverberating in my chest.  It was a weird feeling.  Felt a little "deef" after that! :)




    Zachary laughing b/c the ice in our water bottles kept crashing down onto his face when he'd tip the bottle up for a drink. :)



    Trying to keep cool!




    Is there a wocket in YOUR pocket??


    At last the long awaited fireworks came... behind the trees from where we had set up... :)  Of course!  We quickly moved and got some neato pics, I thought...  The kiddoes by this time were falling over tired, and I was getting close myself!  But since we have a good chance of NOT seeing fireworks on the 4th, we thought we'd better take advantage of these ones!! :)












    (Quick break to check on tonight's bean soup...  Soon I have to get the cornbread in, too...)

    So anyway, we had a BLAST on our weekend away!  We had hoped to sleep in Sunday morning, having ALL stayed up 'til 11:00 or so Saturday night (unheard of for children in this household) but HAHA no.  That was not to be.  Zachary and Gabriel both woke up right on time, ready to go and just a little crabby! :)  We had breakfast at our hotel, swam in the pool for a while, showered and checked out and drove to Orange Beach (also AL) specifically to go to Cosmo's--an amazing seafood that Victor read about online.  It was a big surprise to me--it was sort of a little hole-in-the-wall place, or meant to look like one.  It was in a sort of.... building complex... (??) with a lot of little shops and stuff, and the menu was not very extensive.  I was a little apprehensive when our appetizer (crab cakes) came and there were two--two!--of them on the plate.  They were good sized, maybe 4 inches across each, but still, I thought, TWO??  Anyway, once I bit into them I was in HEAVEN!!!!!  SOOOOOO good!  I decided that I didn't really care how much they cost, they were good enough to be worth it.  Really.  :)  Won't go into TOO many details on the rest of our meal except to say that I got blackened tuna (catch of the day) with mixed veggie side which was BEYOND amazing, and Victor got a fish taco (makes me sigh just thinking about it) with some sort of fresh asparagus as the side and the asparagus was good enough to eat just that for the whole meal.  We both decided at the same time that all of the vegetables were so good that they couldn't possibly still be good FOR us.    UNfortunately!  But we didn't mind eating them anyway!

    Went straight home after lunch--we were all exhausted and were hoping to take a nap in our lovely air-conditioned home, but alas... the a/c was broken when we arrived...  It was not as happy an arrival as I'd hoped for.  Thankfully, Barnes & Noble keeps their lovely establishment quite cool.  :)  We finished off our Father's Day celebration with molten lava cake or whatever it's called at Chili's (only they were OUT of the chocolate kind--can you BELIEVE it???--so I got chocolate chip and Victor got the white berry one) and then came home, packed up, and moved into the Campus House for the night.  I tell you, being on staff here does have it perks!  King size beds being one of them... :) 

    So today (Thursday) our a/c is (sort of) fixed (temporarily) and we are officially living at home once more...  I started "school" with Gabriel today.  We worked on the letter I and writing his name and some random skills like tracing.  :)  Took all of a half hour or so and he loved it!  He did manage to say "but I'm tired" several times anyway, which is his way of saying he'd rather being playing with his trains or something.  But he was excited with what he learned and happy to tell his daddy about it when he got home, and I think keeping the time limit SHORT will be good for everyone involved! 

    Yesterday I asked Gabriel what he wanted to get for a present for his baby sister when she is born.  He "hadn't decided yet" (his new answer for things that are sprung on him spur of the moment), so I suggested "a dolly or a blanket or a little teddy bear."  He immediately said, "A dolly!  I want to get her a dolly!  Little girls like dollies, but big girls only like cleaning."  *sigh*  I guess maybe he thinks I clean because I enjoy it so terribly much... :)  Victor wants me to specify that he has NEVER said anything like that, and Gabriel came up with that on his own!! :) 

    Zachary is suddenly starting to "talk" all sorts of random things!  It's so exciting and fun--he can say lots of animal noises, is getting pretty good at "Nononono" (all strung together as one word, and accompanied by the shaking finger--guess he hears that a lot?!), loves to say "ice" (hehe NO CLUE where he got that from), and a few other random things.  He and Gabriel are both at such fun (OK and frustrating) ages that I'm a little sad at the thought of mixing up the status quo so radically in just a couple weeks!  Or sooner!  (Or later...)  Mixed feelings definitely--I'm looking forward to meeting our little girl and getting to know her, DEFINITELY looking forward to a little more physical comfort as far as not getting jabbed and poked every time I turn over... :)  But not sure what to expect, of course, with such a big change coming our way.  Not to mention the fact that it just hit me the other day that I have no idea what to do with a GIRL baby. :) 

    ANYWAY, I have to go make cornbread and finish up the rest of dinner prep so I will bring this rather long post to an end.  Quick comment--we got a box today from Victor's grandma STUFFED full of baby things--sooooooooo beautiful!  She makes these blankets for her grandbabies--more like sheets, but they're hand-embroidered and stuff, I don't even know the terms for what she does to them, but they are EXQUISITE.  She also made a couple of adorable little dresses and a few more that she bought...  DEFINITELY going to be taking pics of these things to post because they are AMAZING. 

    Hope you all have a wonderful Thursday evening!!  Probably going out tonight to buy supplies for Victor's visuals for his education class... (Oh yes--summer classes have started!!  This first one is a DOOZIE.)

    Toodleoo!!






Friday, 05 June 2009



  • --yesterday, all the grand ideas and big plans...

    --today, NO ideas, NO plans, NO motivation...



    Is there such a thing a pre-partum depression?  If so I think I have it today.    OK nobody go looking it up because I already did and there *is* such a thing APPARENTLY but I am not really depressed--just lazy I think really!  I was thinking about making a thrift-store-dropoff run this morning, but Victor had taken the car to work (to be returned at 11:00 when he got off for lunch), so I had to wait until then; but waiting turned into sitting around, wishing I were sleeping, etc.  You know, I really wasn't just sitting around all morning, now that I think about it.  I cleaned up the kitchen, changed a diaper (go me), put music on, made/ate/cleaned up breakfast, UMMMMMMM supervised potty breaks and drinks and snacks and WHATEVER else... replied to emails...  broke up fights... enforced "quiet time" on the couch...  OK yeah not too much to show for that kind of activity. :) 

    Anyway, I did finally take my stuff to Goodwill, and we drove around and did some random shopping (I was looking for a 2nd hand store that I saw an ad for but didn't remember EXACTLY where it was--no luck there), enjoyed an 85 cent lemon-berry slush from Sonic (thank you, happy hour!), came home, boys in bed....  Now what to do?  I feel this terribly awful lethargy creeping around all my parts.  (Sounds sinister.)  I think I will put in a load of laundry and put yesterday's laundry away.  (Go me.)  Notice me trying to motivate myself.  Hehe. 

    OOH I know!  (A blast of--can it be--excitement??) 

    I will upload photos from last night's tall ship encounter.  THAT is productive. :)

    (I'm really sorry if you're reading this and couldn't care less about all my ramblings.  If that is the case, I encourage you to stop reading.  I'm writing to try to get myself out of my funk.)

    (So, I totally am Supergirl.  Pics are still uploading and I've already put in a load of laundry, taken trash out, tidied up the kitchen, AND used the restroom.  Haha!  OH AND checked and verified that yes, our new carseat fits PERFECTLY in the double stroller!  Score!!  Looks like it was made to go there, too.    Take THAT, odd-snapping-function-that-only-works-within-its-own-brand!)

    GAAAH!!  Shew.  That was scary.  Firefox closed and I thought I would have lost ALL of this IMPORTANT INFORMATION I had already written.  Thankfully, that is not the case.  So.  Following are a few () photos from yesterday evening.





    (I'm taking this picture from... maybe 1/3 of the way up the line (meaning 2/3 still behind me at least).  There were a lot of people.)


    (deceptive--you'd think the line stopped right there but NOPE.  Wrapped all the way up and around... But it was a really nice day!)


    (Originally I let Gabriel bring his little umbrella along as a sort of joke, like--hehe, "in case it rains"--but then of course it did rain on us.  And his umbrella was with the stroller, which we had to leave under this little pavilion b/c tall ships have you know, ladders and stuff...)


    (Zachary working off steam.  Little bodies can only sit in strollers for so long.  An hour and a half is a little much.)





    (I'm not really sure about regulations for flag-flying on ships in foreign ports or whatever, but the US flag was flying higher than Spain's flag on this ship.  ???)


    (My crazy, much-loved Gabriel--he didn't like the sun in his eyes)


    (Love this one that Victor took--checking out the water I guess?)


    (WONDER OF WONDERS, there was a FIRETRUCK on the way back to the car [yes those caps mean yelling--I'm trying to be like Gabriel when he saw the firetruck], and the very nice firemen, *somehow* noticing that Gabriel was excited about their truck, let him get it and even gave him a "fireman badge" sticker.  He wouldn't get on without Victor though. )


    With that, Victor returns from work, chaos erupts as two boys get up from naps, dinnertime panic commences, SO I am off!  I think we might play in the pool tonight.  And I think we might have fried squash for dinner.  Good evening!






Thursday, 04 June 2009

  • Hoping to (maybe?) *finish* a project today...



    ...instead of just making a little progress on the many messes of my house...

    In my last couple weeks of working (outside the house, that is), I had a few people ask me what I would do with all of my free time once I stopped working.  I would inwardly give a little chuckle, hehe, free time, but I honestly couldn't remember what all a mom does at home all day. 

    I remember now. :)

    The busy-ness is not so much in things you can make a list of to impress someone (like your husband) though, sadly!   HOWEVER, I'm pretty sure I haven't been this busy in a loooooong time.  *Yes,* a lot of it is because we just had a yard sale and are getting a baby's room ready and doing up extra laundry and just moved two little boys into a new bedroom and sold some furniture and set up an armoire for the computer, and so everything is still out of wack.  :)   I'm just hoping to actually get one thing completely done instead of a little here and a little there.  Little bits here and there add up, but at the end of the day it's difficult to see any progress made, which makes me feel like I was busy all day with nothing to show for it (and I'm sure makes Victor wonder what I do all day even more!)  

    Gabriel and Zachary are getting used to being home together all day every day.  I realized yesterday that they never really had to just play with each other for any length of time--I started going to work when Zachary was four months old, so he wasn't much of a playmate for anyone back then. :)  Now they have LOTS of time to fight with each other! :)  They're both squealers, too, just for different reasons.  Zachary shrieks when he gets angry; Gabriel shrieks if he's hurt or scared.  It's a noisy house!

    Friends from proofing are giving me a baby shower next weekend, and the invitation is quite possibly the cutest one I have ever seen!! :)   I don't think it's specifically a *baby shower* invitation, but it is sooooo exactly what I would have picked!!  Haha!!  OK I know it's ridiculous to be so excited about a little piece of paper!  :)  I want to blow it up and use it for Baby Girl Gutierrez room decor. 

    **side note--just noticed the clock and it's already 11:00!!!!  AAAHHHHH!!!**

    Insanity.  Instead of getting one complete project done, I'm getting NOTHING done.  My children are going wild and I need to get off the computer.  GOODBYE.  Hopefully the rest of the day will not go like this morning (as in--quickly)...

    Good news to report before closing:  I painted my toenails.  Quite pleased with myself!!  :)  They've been yucky chipped funky color for a loooooong time, and I finally got sick of it and contorted myself into the position necessary to reach them.  Now they're a lovely bright red, and Zachary is fascinated with them.  Keeps touching them and picking up my foot to see better. :)



    **edit**

    (sigh)  lofty dreams are not always a bad thing BUT in this case--they have not reached their full potential.  I haven't accomplished much besides getting tired! Right now I'm playing this game which is fun, addictive, frustrating, and.... a little bit of a time-waster, I'll admit!  Then it will be time for a shower, change/get ready/throw in a load of laundry/get boys up from nap/pick up Victor from work/go visit the tall ship Juan Sebastian de Elcano which is currently docked (? correct word?) at the Port of Pensacola.  It's a commissioned ship in the Royal Spanish navy, 82 years old, still used for training and "ambassadorial purposes" (hehe... sounds so official!), and it's making a stop here in Pensacola as yet another part of our 450th anniversary celebration.  They're giving tours tonight 'til 6:00p (as well as other times--if you live in the area, you can read more about it here) so we'll scoot over there after Victor's done working and hopefully get to see some cool stuff!  :) 

    'Kay!  I'm out!  Gotta go find me some more daily diff and then continue with my to-do list! :)  HA!  :)  Enjoy your Thursdays all over the world....







Friday, 15 May 2009

  • End of an Era...


    Hehe... not sure that "era" is the best word for it, but it's definitely the end of one phase of my life, moving on to "transition phase" and then to a *totally* new phase!  Today was my last day of work as a proofreader.  It was happy and sad for me both, of course; I'm excited to be staying home again, can't even DESCRIBE how much I enjoyed being home when my boys were conveniently sick one after the other but not feeling bad...  So I'm definitely looking forward to that part of it for me, and for them.  I'm sad though because I made some good friends at a time when I really needed some adult companionship :) and someone who could talk me to about something OTHER than helicopters or whatever, enjoyable though that is!  Haha!  And even if that other conversation happened to be about the correct way to punctuate a sentence or the proper grammar in a given situation!  NOT that I will promise to use proper grammar on this blog.  This is a proofing-free blog.  :)  Well, I do proof for OBVIOUS errors, but it ain't goin' through no 2 full proofs plus corrections, people...  Hehe OKAY enough about that!  I will miss my friends in publishing, the good times, corny inside jokes, little sticky-note faces peering over dividers, THE CANDY DRAWER (I mean... we had no food or drinks in our office of course), random visits from supervisors of other departments...  *sigh* good times, good times...  But I will VERY much enjoy getting this house in order!  And along those lines...





    Our long-awaited computer armoire arrives TOMORROW!!!  This means I can empty off the buried computer desk, take pictures, list it on craigslist, get it OUT of the house, and wonder of wonders, get the boys' room moved into the office where Gabriel will FINALLY be able to use his new bedding (planes--he's *very* excited...), and that means I'll be able to get Baby Girl Gutierrez's room set up and all of the MANY little girl items that we have been so generously given (hehe... or possibly purchased at one time or another...) put away....  *happy sigh*  I'm so tired of looking at Rubbermaid containers!  :) 

    Brain Freeze.

    Victor just got home and although I had tons of things I was going to write about, I really can't think of any of them right now!  Such a distracting husband... :) 

    The photography side of my life  has been going well. :)  Last Sunday's baby dedication portraits came out well--better than they could have, if not as glamorous as I had possibly hoped... :)  I was happy with the posing/expressions captured, fairly happy with the set-up, not 100% happy with the lighting (of course, this is coming from the girl who prefers to take every photograph outside when at all possible...)  My new flash diffuser did help a lot with the lighting situation, but I still definitely have a lot to learn when it comes to artificial lighting for portraits.  Part of what I wish were different (possibly not so interesting to those of you not "into photography") is that I was using a higher (smaller) aperture to make sure everyone was in sharp focus, but my backdrop is more in focus that I would have liked.  I didn't really have room to bring the families further forward away from the backdrop, so I guess that is something that will just take practice--learning what aperture will keep everyone sharp and the backdrop pleasantly not-so-sharp... :)  Don't think I'll post any sample portraits online since no one was advised of that possibility beforehand...  I will however post some new favorites from recent families shoots--although these have all already been posted on facebook, I think there are at least a couple who read this blog that aren't on fb, so here they will be repeated...:

     








    (this one privately makes me laugh because of the many MANY attempts we made to get everyone jumping all at the same time... and because of the [ashamed to say it] total lack of creative juices flowing in my brain that day, and the amazing way Michelle stepped up to the plate with tons of great ideas for her own family photo shoot...  You're the best!!  Thanks for a great time, guys!)

     
    And a couple of my own victims er I mean subjects or okay CHILDREN who suffer through my photography adventures as well:

       

    Not sure how well it shows up here, but Zachary's real little tear just under his left eye totally makes the picture for me.  Isn't it terrible the way mothers delight in their children's trials...??! 

    Seeing that picture of Zachary and his curls reminds me that both boys got haircuts on Monday--good old-fashioned buzzes.   They look old and mature now.  I didn't say they're ACTING old or mature; they just look it. :)

    OKAY enough rambling for one night.  My husband has blamed me for a mess that he made and I will submissively go pick it up :) MOSTLY because I know I'll step on it later and then I'll be mad!  Ha!  Plus I have to clean a path into our bedroom anyway.  Sorting for garage sales always makes more messes than it solves, at least at first. 

    Goodnight, world.  *yawn* looking forward to another BUSY day tomorrow!  Must sleep!






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  • I'm a full-time wife and mother, part-time proofreader, aspiring photographer/designer/organizer/coordinator/crafty-sewing-etc.person who usually tries to do too many things and therefore doesn't finish many of them. I'm going through a crisis of everything - self, life, image, belief, duties, perceptions... I'm not sure where I'm going, but I'll be happy to get off this crazy ride and arrive! Mostly I write about my husband and boys, but occasionally I delve a little deeper. You never know what you might find out!