MommyCoddle

::finally taking advantage of our membership::

::catching clouds (and tasting them)::

::coming face to face with an oversized Blue Crab who spontaneously clicks his giant claws at you::

::all the bathtime fun, without the hair-washing. (and good seats for the mommies)::

::thinking back on summer nights in the patio::

::seeing God’s proof of the importance of a little pruning::

::the blessing of living in a place full of beautiful pictures::

::watching her tromp around in tall rubber boots, and sled in a dress and tights–minus the sled::

(the extended version)

As I type this, my children are fighting over their "privacy". (or "privatee" as Mary calls it.) If either one of them comes remotely close to entering the other’s space–they demand their privacy until the other moves on. Who knew that doing a puzzle or reading books to your dolls required so much personal space.
Anyhoo….
A little afternoon indulgence with the girls yesterday, pictured above–hot chocolate and marshmallows all around. Sometimes I need these little parties to make it from post-naps to when Dan gets home from work.

I was totally overwhelmed by so many of you who offered to hunt for wooden bowls for me. I will definitely get back to your emails. I’m really behind. I’m hoping to have a little email-fest this afternoon during naps.

I realized the other day, that I need to stop reading my bloglines in alphabetical order. I’m doing a great job of keeping up with those at the beginning of the alphabet, but P-Z? I need to work on that.

And the fabric is going to…..Dana. So Dana, email me with your mailing address and I’ll pop it in a package.

Okay, last thing in this completely distracted and random post. I found
this site through flickr the other day, and they have some pretty
interesting photo gifts. I love this and this
(although with my new bandsaw skills, and a little modpodge, I might be
able to do this myself!). They also send out a newsletter, which
I subscribed to, just to get more emails in my inbox. (no, not really.)
But the two I’ve gotten have had some great pointers and links.

Yay for Friday. Have a restful weekend everyone!

I was so in the mood for some good thrift store shopping yesterday. It’s been awhile since we’ve gone to our local thrifting haunt. But, I guess everyone and their sister and their children and their children’s classmates, had the same idea. The place was horribly picked over, most likely owing to the "50% off red,white and blue tags" President’s Day sale. Since my children aren’t school-age yet, I often forget these little holidays and the fact that the stores and restaurants will be swamped with shoppers.

What I  REALLY have my heart set on finding are some wooden bowls. I feel like that’s a simple enough request–nothing fancy, but wood, please. I zeroed in on some from across the store yesterday, thinking I had scored, but when I picked them up, I quickly realized my "wooden" bowls were actually plastic look-alikes.

I did manage to find this cute piece of fabric. It’s a nice heavy cotton, and the background is a really rich chocolate brown–this photo seems a little faded. But once I got it home, I decided it was more than I needed. The piece is table-cloth sized. I don’t know the exact measurements–but there’s probably a couple yards there. I’m going to keep half for myself and the other half is up for grabs.

You know the drill: leave a comment that let’s me know you’re interested in it. And I’ll draw a name in the next day or two. (and sorry, but I have to keep it in the US, not much room in my budget for overseas shipping….sorry.)