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Wednesday, September 11, 2019
- Smells of September -
It doesn't quiiiiiite feel like fall yet [100-degree heat and horrible humidity, I'm so over you!]... But as we're nearly two weeks deep into September, I'm gonna take a [literal] hot minute today to enjoy the A/C and feed my autumn-loving soul! Scarlett and I have the diffuser turned to full blast, because there's so much goodness in these September diffuser recipes! Mmmmmmm, smells of September...
Monday, September 9, 2019
Wednesday, September 4, 2019
- Out of the mouth of babes: Back to School Edition -
After Preschool Open House:
Me: "What did you think of your new school?"
Harper: "Ummmmmm.....*long pause*.....really nice and friendly and it has a fun playground! But I don't really want to go there because I want to stay home with Grammy."
Me: "Well Grammy can only stay with you one day per week. Plus, everyone that turns 4 has to go to school..."
Harper: "Yes, and when I'm 5 I will go to school 5 days a week, and when I'm 7 I will go to high school! And then I will go to college after that, or maybe I will stay home, or whatever I decide."
The night before the first day of school:
Me: "Do you think you'll take your lunch to school tomorrow or eat what they have there?"
Harper: "I think I'll eat the food at preschool."
Me: "Ok. That's called hot lunch."
Harper: "I don't like hot lunch. I just like cold lunch."
After the first day of school:
Me: "Did you make any new friends today?"
Harper: "Yes! And someone asked me to be her new best friend and I said yes!"
Me: "Oh, that's nice! What was her name?"
Harper: "Welllll, I forgot. But let me dream about it and maybe I can tell you da-morrow."
While talking about the first day of school:
Me: "Did you see anyone you knew today at school?"
Harper: "Yes! I sawed Grace [babysitter] at lunch and Cameron [neighbor] at Reese's!"
Brian: "You mean recess?"
Harper: "Yes, Reese's!"
After going to bed suuuuper early and then waking up at 6:17am the next day:
"Mommy, me and you woke up early because our brains were enough big! But Scarlett is still little, and she sleeps a lot because her brain needs 'da grow!"
Randomly:
"Mommy, did you know that after the first day of school yesterday when Grammy picked me up, I got in the car and gived Sissy a BIG hug and a kiss because I missed her so much! And then all she did was push me! And I was so sad all day until Sissy gived me a big hug later at home, because I love Sissy and I know she loves me."
While driving to school on day #2:
Me: "So what do the kids eat that don't bring their lunch to school?"
Harper: "Welllllll, there's a baker there that gives food to the kids who forgot their lunch at home."
Walking in to day #2:
"Is this my last day?"
While driving away from school at 2:35pm:
Harper: "Mommy, isn't it so nice that after school I get to come home during the daytime and not just come home to sleep like I had 'da do after daycare?"
Me: ..... :'(
After finishing a long-winded story about [??]:
Me: "Yep, that's right... You've got it all figured out, don't you?"
Harper: "Yes. And that's because God gived me a smart brain, and it's so smart because I eat all my healthy vegetables. And know what my favorite one is? BROCCOLI!"
Randomly:
"You know what Ms. Leah says at naptime? She said, 'You can lay anywhere you want with your mat, except you can't put it right by this door 'case we have a 'mergency and someone has to run out because then they would step on you! Wouldn't that be terr-bull, Mommy?"
At dinner:
Brian: "Does Father Jeff come to your class at all?"
Harper: "Yes! Fah-ver Jeff comes to our class every day and teaches us stuff then leaves."
Brian: "What does he teach you?"
Harper: "Numbers, letters, shapes, reads books..... Then he teaches us how candles light and then he leaves. And then he comes again in the afternoon to see us for a little bit and read more stories and then he leaves again."
After learning about "red choices" and "green choices" at school:
Harper: "Let me ask you something. If I walked up and kicked your leg and said, 'I don't want you to be my friend,' would that be very nice?
Me: "Nooo, that's not nice at all!"
Harper: "Noooooo, and that would be a red choice! But if I helped you get your nap mat spread out and then gave you a hug, THAT would be a green choice!"
[Red choice vs. green choice scenarios go on and on and on and on...]
Thirty minutes after we'd moved on from above conversation, as Scarlett is red-faced grunting:
Harper: "Scarlett!!! That is a red choice to poop in your diaper!"
Scarlett: .....*continues red-faced grunting*
After school pickup, as we were driving through the local college campus:
Me: "Harper, do you think you'll go to school here some day?"
Harper: "No thanks, Mommy. I already learned everything at my school."
Me: ..... :)
**********
Ohhh, Harper! You have the first week of school tucked safely under your belt, and you are looking so forward to the rest of the year! We love seeing the smile on your face and hearing the excitement in your voice when you talk everything that Pre-K is. We are so excited for you, our Baby Bluejay, and are looking forward to watching you spread your baby birdie wings and fly this year!
Me: "What did you think of your new school?"
Harper: "Ummmmmm.....*long pause*.....really nice and friendly and it has a fun playground! But I don't really want to go there because I want to stay home with Grammy."
Me: "Well Grammy can only stay with you one day per week. Plus, everyone that turns 4 has to go to school..."
Harper: "Yes, and when I'm 5 I will go to school 5 days a week, and when I'm 7 I will go to high school! And then I will go to college after that, or maybe I will stay home, or whatever I decide."
The night before the first day of school:
Me: "Do you think you'll take your lunch to school tomorrow or eat what they have there?"
Harper: "I think I'll eat the food at preschool."
Me: "Ok. That's called hot lunch."
Harper: "I don't like hot lunch. I just like cold lunch."
After the first day of school:
Me: "Did you make any new friends today?"
Harper: "Yes! And someone asked me to be her new best friend and I said yes!"
Me: "Oh, that's nice! What was her name?"
Harper: "Welllll, I forgot. But let me dream about it and maybe I can tell you da-morrow."
While talking about the first day of school:
Me: "Did you see anyone you knew today at school?"
Harper: "Yes! I sawed Grace [babysitter] at lunch and Cameron [neighbor] at Reese's!"
Brian: "You mean recess?"
Harper: "Yes, Reese's!"
After going to bed suuuuper early and then waking up at 6:17am the next day:
"Mommy, me and you woke up early because our brains were enough big! But Scarlett is still little, and she sleeps a lot because her brain needs 'da grow!"
Randomly:
"Mommy, did you know that after the first day of school yesterday when Grammy picked me up, I got in the car and gived Sissy a BIG hug and a kiss because I missed her so much! And then all she did was push me! And I was so sad all day until Sissy gived me a big hug later at home, because I love Sissy and I know she loves me."
While driving to school on day #2:
Me: "So what do the kids eat that don't bring their lunch to school?"
Harper: "Welllllll, there's a baker there that gives food to the kids who forgot their lunch at home."
Walking in to day #2:
"Is this my last day?"
While driving away from school at 2:35pm:
Harper: "Mommy, isn't it so nice that after school I get to come home during the daytime and not just come home to sleep like I had 'da do after daycare?"
Me: ..... :'(
After finishing a long-winded story about [??]:
Me: "Yep, that's right... You've got it all figured out, don't you?"
Harper: "Yes. And that's because God gived me a smart brain, and it's so smart because I eat all my healthy vegetables. And know what my favorite one is? BROCCOLI!"
Randomly:
"You know what Ms. Leah says at naptime? She said, 'You can lay anywhere you want with your mat, except you can't put it right by this door 'case we have a 'mergency and someone has to run out because then they would step on you! Wouldn't that be terr-bull, Mommy?"
At dinner:
Brian: "Does Father Jeff come to your class at all?"
Harper: "Yes! Fah-ver Jeff comes to our class every day and teaches us stuff then leaves."
Brian: "What does he teach you?"
Harper: "Numbers, letters, shapes, reads books..... Then he teaches us how candles light and then he leaves. And then he comes again in the afternoon to see us for a little bit and read more stories and then he leaves again."
After learning about "red choices" and "green choices" at school:
Harper: "Let me ask you something. If I walked up and kicked your leg and said, 'I don't want you to be my friend,' would that be very nice?
Me: "Nooo, that's not nice at all!"
Harper: "Noooooo, and that would be a red choice! But if I helped you get your nap mat spread out and then gave you a hug, THAT would be a green choice!"
[Red choice vs. green choice scenarios go on and on and on and on...]
Thirty minutes after we'd moved on from above conversation, as Scarlett is red-faced grunting:
Harper: "Scarlett!!! That is a red choice to poop in your diaper!"
Scarlett: .....*continues red-faced grunting*
After school pickup, as we were driving through the local college campus:
Me: "Harper, do you think you'll go to school here some day?"
Harper: "No thanks, Mommy. I already learned everything at my school."
Me: ..... :)
**********
Ohhh, Harper! You have the first week of school tucked safely under your belt, and you are looking so forward to the rest of the year! We love seeing the smile on your face and hearing the excitement in your voice when you talk everything that Pre-K is. We are so excited for you, our Baby Bluejay, and are looking forward to watching you spread your baby birdie wings and fly this year!
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
- So looooong, summer! -
Not
to be crazy, but hoooooow is it that it's late AUGUST already and all
the kids are back in school??!!? Time is passing by in the blink of an
eye, and I'd be totally lying if I said I didn't have a bitty bit of a
guilty twinge about how this summer went down. NOT to nod you off with a
sob story, but I really had no idea what kind of time commitment came
with building a new house [which it's now a very clear blessing in
disguise that I took the leap blindly last summer!]. I know it will be
all worth it in the end -- at least it better be!! -- but Brian is
working more hours than ever and we are feeeeeeelin' the burn. This
general contractor game ain't a joke! The weekends have become longer
and more chaotic than the weekdays, and it feels like we are just
providing the bare minimum of fun required to keep our kids happy in
order to more importantly make sure everyone is fed and bathed
and slept! The poor kids are stuck with me as the solo parent more often
than not, and I just feel like my patience wears thin really quickly
and my energy runs low most of the time. Overall, I admit it: we're
totally in the trenches, and I feel guilty and sad that the kids have
missed out on a lot of fun "summer things" this year that we definitely
would've done as a normally-functioning family of four!
...In the same breath, I'm also notorious for being hard on myself, because looking back at pictures proves that we DID play hard this summer! And in Brian's absence, Harper and Scarlett have a whole menagerie of grammys and papas and cousins and aunts and uncles who love them and have stepped in to help without hesitation. Thank you! And at the end of the day -- without a shadow of a doubt -- these kids know they're treasured and loved beyond measure!
So long, summer 2019! You were exhausting, but we will remember you fondly!
...In the same breath, I'm also notorious for being hard on myself, because looking back at pictures proves that we DID play hard this summer! And in Brian's absence, Harper and Scarlett have a whole menagerie of grammys and papas and cousins and aunts and uncles who love them and have stepped in to help without hesitation. Thank you! And at the end of the day -- without a shadow of a doubt -- these kids know they're treasured and loved beyond measure!
So long, summer 2019! You were exhausting, but we will remember you fondly!
:) :) :)
Friday, August 23, 2019
- Simply Staining -
Shortly after painting came staining...
[August 2019]
[August 2019]
...and we finally gave Grammy Resa a break from entertaining the kids and put her to work with a rag! ;) :)
This totally looks like a #nbd project, but Brian spent severalllll [un-pictured] nights out at the house until between 12am-2am working working workingggg away. And then after all the staining was finished, he went over all the windows with clear coat/varnish. Lots of hours in these suckers, but totally worth it! I love the dark stain and and am getting really excited for dark hardwood floors followed by dark kitchen cabinets followed dark doors/trim.
DARK THINGS, you own my soul!
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