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May 25, 2011
April 28, 2011
love thursday
this week i'm loving:
-crafty boys: Little Man made these 'shoes' from cardboard and string!
-getting the giggles
-practicing yoga with new teachers....always leads to learning something new
-lovely friends who will watch the small men on short notice
-springtime weather: it's been beautiful here for the last few days
-silver spray paint (I'm addicted! If it stays still for more than 2 minutes, I spray it silver!)
-having a perfectly cleared kitchen counter (it never lasts, but it's nice once in a while)
-finding a sweet note from Little Man under my pillow ("I love you, momma!")
What are you loving this week?
April 25, 2011
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April 19, 2011
the paint...it spreads!
Current state of the living room:
current state of the Dearest, looking at the living room:
Poor guy....he has been super patient with me in the QUEST FOR THE PERFECT PAINT COLOR...
believe it or not, I might have found it!
See the circled swatch in the photo above? That's Behr's Graceful Gray, and it might just be the perfect greige neutral to complement our sofas and still let me go crazy with color here and there.
Graceful Gray
At first it looked too dark and 'putty-like' when I painted the swatch on the wall, but it's been a couple of days and now it's growing on me. The color changes a bit with sunlight to a softer gray-brown, and at night it lightens to a warm gray.
The Dearest has given his approval, too, so the maybe I can stop buying sample jars of color. They are multiplying in my garage like rabbits. I thought I only had five or so but yesterday I opened a cabinet and a whole bunch of them were hiding in there. Yikes!
April 18, 2011
calling chester drawers...
You can find almost anything on Craigslist, including a 'chester drawer'....
Looks good, right? just don't send the guy any TEX messages, cuz he won't reply!
April 17, 2011
sunday breakfast
"Mom is great! Gives us chocolate cake!"
Well, it wasn't actually chocolate cake, but it WAS cake for breakfast. We had our first annual school carnival on Friday and Monkey Boy won a cake in the cakewalk. There were dozens of beautiful homemade cakes and which one did he pick? The pink one with frosting so yellow that someone asked me if it was mustard! It didn't seem to matter to the small men- they asked if they could eat it for breakfast this morning so I said Yes.
That's what happens when momma walks a 5k, goes out to dinner with friends and wakes up at 8am on Sunday with no idea what to make for breakfast!
April 14, 2011
love thursday
“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” -Lao Tzu
I used to post every Thursday with a list of things I was loving that week. It was a good opportunity to stop and think about the many blessings I had in my life. I don't know why, but I stopped my 'love thursday' posts sometime back. However, I've recently decided to re-start these posts as a type of gratitude practice:
In that vein...
This week I am loving:
-staying up WAAAAAY too late on a weeknight with amazing friends...eating, laughing, and giggling
-how Little Man will randomly come up to me during the day and say, "Momma, you're the BEST"
-finding and catching 27 caterpillars with the small men
-hearing the Dearest read "Harry Potter" to the small men every night before bed
-the grounding and release of my yoga practice
-Monkey Boy's new tucking-in sequence before bedtime: I kiss his eyes, forehead, nose, cheeks, ears, and chin, then he kisses mine (has to be in that order!), and then he gives me a big 'squeezy' hug
-trying new yoga classes with friends
-homemade sweet tea over ice
-getting the chance to have dinner and catch-up with my sis and BIL
-spring photos:
What are you loving this week?
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