out of the mouth of eight...


"Hitler started war but not just Hitler...Hitler started war
but Bush started war, too."

this out of nowhere from a canadian kid whose parents do
not watch any news while the kids are up
{mainly because their mom is certified wimp
who was almost hospitalized in grade six
over the falkland islands thing
and was told then that she was no longer allowed
to watch the news
and has continued on in that fashion...
but i digress}

and tonight, when i scared him by coming out of a room
he thought was empty...
"ahhhh...you scared me...i shut that door...and then it opened
and i thought, it must be a really smart gorilla or it must be mom."

i mean really...where did the gorilla come from?
and a really smart one at that?

he cracks me up.

creative check-in {tally-up three} {and the life list}


i feel like creatively this week
i had a hard time...
with spring in the air, i'm trying hard
to tone up and slim down
and that has been my focus for this week.

i have gotten some new things started,
just nothing finished.

but a new list...
the beginning of my
"life list"
{with more to be added..it is my "life" list, after all}

  • go to italy
  • skydive
  • see the skydiggers
  • grow sunflowers
  • make my own salsa
  • reread all of margaret atwood's books
  • write a story
  • try to publish something someday somewhere
  • take a sewing class
  • declutter my house
  • put our photos into scrapbooks
  • get photos off the computer so they can be put into scrapbooks
  • teach the kids to play scrabble
  • have a lilac tree {with flowers i can reach}
  • go to disney world
  • drink more water, eat better, exercise more CONSISTENTLY
  • find a job that i love ALL the time
  • plant strawberries
  • make a quilt
  • go rock climbing
  • ride a real rollercoaster
to be continued....

wow.

this month is really kicking my ass...

between spring fever hitting making me
want my husband/exercise/healthy eating/clean house more
and work driving me crazy
and the kid's homework
and trying to fit in some reading
and starting a new knitting project...
{well...an old one that got put aside
in order to finish a newer one}

i am so behind in everything...
but can't wait for that extra hour of daylight...

creative check in {tally-up week two}





i have finished the sweater
that i have been laboring on for the past two months...
i am not an experienced knitter by any means
and i really struggled with this pattern
but i really, really, really wanted to make it.

and i am very happy with how it turned out.

i just have to add some buttons and she is done...
and just in time, since the baby shower was cancelled
yesterday due to yet another storm...

and that was my main creative activity
this week...i also did some drawing and some
journalling...

i wonder if i have time to make booties to go
with the sweater, before next sunday....
hmmmm.

5 really good things on a wednesday...

a new hair cut for me...

please excuse the mess...
and the pasty white skin...
i have been sick.
{who am i kidding..i am always this color}


mail for me of the happiest kind...swap mail!!!
my first cd to come in the top ten cd swap
by 62 cherry...
this one is from justine herself!
i can't wait to pop it in the car stereo on my way to work tomorrow!



and this video in which we try to surprise the kids
with rock band by telling them we have doughnuts
for them in the kitchen but 12 won't believe her
dad the trickster and thinks he just wants to steal
her spot on the couch...

watching this movie which just rocked my socks and
blew my mind and made me giggle like a schoolgirl...

being sweetly surprised by s. cleaning the snow off
my car this morning before he left for work...

now go see liz...she is waiting for your five...