week 16 in pictures

this week may be the start of something crazy. I discovered instagram on wednesday of this week and my picture taking went from orderly to off the charts crazy. I have had a hard time wrapping my head around what I’m going to do with all these pictures, and an even harder time wrapping my head around how this incorporates with project life, but somehow it will all work out. at any rate, there are a LOT of pictures this week, and few of them are cut and dry. the big kids were also on spring break, and then shane got sick half way through the week, so nothing is remotely ‘normal’.

sunday: I know I’ve posted pictures before of the kids chasing dave and the lawnmower. every time he mows, they chase him. have for years. not sure why, but it’s a tradition. following him around, back and forth, across the whole lawn. many grass stains have been the result of this. at any rate, I discovered on sunday, that ginger does it too. yet another reason she is perfect for our family.

monday: our neighbors across the street had some house guests for a few days. there was a little girl among them that layla quickly adopted and became BFFs with. she’s actually only 3, but layla is completely unconcerned with age…only gender!

tuesday: cheering herself on. “go me! give me a chance to win that trophy!”

wednesday: the kids had eye doctor appointments this morning, and that would have been a good thing to include in the book, but I forgot my camera AND my phone, so I was outa luck. instead, we have micah and his “tool belt”. he made a bunch of tools out of legos and stuck them in his pants, using the waist band as a tool belt. dave and I were rolling as he went around ‘fixing’ things and attempting to keep them from falling down his pant legs.

thursday: pt for layla.

friday: I had a busy day, trying to get a bunch of housekeeping stuff done. shane was also still running a temperature. I didn’t take any ‘normal’ photos, but a bunch of instagram shots that documented my progress through the day, so I just decided to stick them all on a collage and call it a day.

saturday: quite an eventful day, and hard to chose a pic. dave stole my phone and took this one of me. I decided to use it, 1) because I think it’s a decent picture of me, and 2) because there are seldom pictures of me in this book since I’m the one who is taking all the pictures. the rest of the day consists of being outside in the gorgeous sunshine, micah swimming in a puddle, layla bringing me dandelion bouquets, climbing trees, digging in dirt, and finally micah trying to rip off his toenail by shutting his foot in the door. all the fun kind of came to a crashing (bloody) halt at that point.

I have a few verticals that I will stick in the center slots…

and then the instagrams. I found these pocket pages that are intended for coin collecting, but would work for photos. it’s a page with 20 2x2 slots. I have more than 40 here, so I’ll have to choose a couple to toss, but that should be okay. I’m printing them, 6 on a 4x6 print, and then I’ll just cut them apart to put them in the slots. hopefully it’ll be awesome!

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what’s in my closet? installment #2– “nicer” shirts

these are generally the shirts that I don’t wear so much on a daily basis, for one reason or another… they seem too good to wear around the house? I don’t know. dumb reason. first picture: red/orange babydoll(?) top (forever 21 – via thrift store): I LOVE this top. the ruffles on the top, the eyelet flowers and scallops on the bottom. LOVE it. yes, it looks a tad like a maternity shirt, but I try not to let that bother me. oh, and it’s really long, so that’s a cool something different. I don’t wear it as often as I should because it needs to be ironed. blue vertical stripe western shirt (gap – via thrift store): I like this. it has cool snaps, and nifty lines. same story as the one above as far as why I don’t wear it often. charcoal pleated blouse (the limited – via thrift store): I like this shirt, but it’s seen better days and the pleats don’t stay flat, even with ironing. maybe I’ll try line drying it and see if it helps. if not, it’s going. second picture: pink 3/4 sleeve b

hopes and dreams… or fantasies, perhaps

we all have dreams. things we ponder when we’re doing mundane tasks… things that pop into our minds when we’re doing something, or eating something, or partaking in something that just doesn’t seem quite right. i probably have more of these than most people, because it seems i analyze things more than most people. i don’t know. maybe other people just don’t talk about it as much as i do. i’m always thinking, researching, checking out books or googling things. there are things that bug me about life, and so i try to figure out how i can change them. i had a whole big long rant on here, that i just deleted because these are my things. my issues. i think by putting them out there, it’s just spewing negativity into the world and there’s too much of that already. it doesn’t matter WHY i feel drawn to these things, it doesn’t even really matter that i am. but this is my blog and i can write about what i want. you can read or not read. you can agree or disagree. you can comment or not comment

My favorite holiday

Back in the spring, I posted something somewhere about "clothesline day" being my favorite "holiday". In fact, here's a picture of me on Easter a few years ago, celebrating clothesline day (yes, with a mimosa - it was Easter). Basically, clothesline day is whatever day of the year happens to be the first day that the weather is warm, dry, and breezy enough to allow me to hang out my inaugural load of laundry. It makes me very happy, since, if you have read even a few posts on this blog you know that I am pretty well bonkers about line-dried laundry. I do, very much, love clothesline day. But it's not exactly a REAL holiday. And if I'm honest, I can't really even say that it's my favorite day of the year. That is something totally different: The Day After Thanksgiving. Some would call this day "Black Friday". Not me. Black Friday implies that I like the day because I enjoy getting up at ungodly hours of the night to stand in long lines i

christmas morning

so, I had a few technical difficulties w/ my pictures from christmas. turns out, my iphone camera is not quite as fabulous as I first thought. it still takes great pictures in the church, and will definitely do better in a pinch, but from now on, I’ll be sticking with my point and shoot (until I get my REAL camera!) for daily stuff. first of all, a lot of the pictures came out blurry or grainy without the flash, and with it, there’s like this light aura thing going on that totally washes out the picture. (but don’t worry, I still love my phone!) then, when uploading and attempting to edit the pictures from my phone, I discovered that my computer or the picture files themselves, or both, don’t like each other. more than half of them were unable to be edited because of something to do with the file (I’m so techie!). so I did all the editing in picassa, but now I can’t figure out how to put them in this post FROM picassa, and since I really don’t care that much and don’t want to spend all

vacation hangover GO AWAY!!!!

okay, well i got some of my list done yesterday, (and a little more of it done today). i did manage to get showered and dressed – although, now i need to do it again. the dishwasher got unloaded, reloaded, and run – twice! unfortunately, it now needs to be done AGAIN (sensing a theme here). i went to the meeting, i uploaded the pictures and posted them to facebook… still need to do a post here about the weekend. i went to the grocery store today and did some shopping. unfortunately i didn’t get the menu plan done or the list first, so i spent more than i probably would have otherwise, and i will have to piece together meals from what i bought and what we have. grrr. i’m really kicking myself about this now, but i was OUT, we needed stuff, and i figured i’d better do it then cuz i didn’t want to have to do it later. i picked up some of layla’s room but there is so much more to do and i did 4 loads of laundry yesterday (so i’m pretty sure dave is wearing clean underwear today) but t

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