Picture Imperfect

I just digitally scrapped our recent “photo shoot” and thought I’d share some of the outtakes.  It’s always fun to see what goofballs they can be!  The one of my oldest daughter (in the upper left corner) isn’t really *bad*, but you can see just the faintest hint of “I can’t believe you’re making me do this!” in her eyes.

Credits go to Summer at Summertime Designs for her “Vintage Oreos” digital scrapbooking kit.  She has some AMAZING work available on her site for free!   This kit had so many adorable elements that I didn’t end up using this time around.  I’ll be looking for other pictures that fit the theme, though, because I don’t want to waste one iota of her talent.

Qualifying the To-Do’s (**Updated**)

Today’s To-Do list has some interesting qualifiers. Items are marked with one of these phrases:

BIG (help daughter M11 sculpt a 3-headed dragon for her book report due tomorrow)

Consider (clean the desk in the kitchen area, otherwise known as “Command Central”)

Would Be Nice (clean the kitchen and the downstairs) Done..and it does look nice!

Really Should (oh, you know, things like laundry) Gathered, sorted, and started…I’ll give myself until late tonight to finish!

Sometime This Week (re-establish allowance system, now that the economy is all stimulated)

Probably Will (go shopping) Bought myself some new (and much needed!) tennis shoes.

And I’d like extra credit for…returning some phone calls, arranging to pick up my daughter’s new flute, and being in-tune enough with Eli to see when he needed a nap.  I didn’t miss the “window” and he’s been sleeping for 1 1/2hrs now!  Woo hoo!

Define “Recap”

I love that the first Google search result for the phrase “define recap“  comes back with this:

another term for a retreaded tire

Amen.  ‘Cause I’m thinking that’s how I feel while ruminating over the past several days: a retreaded tire.

Saturday was full of household chores, a much-too-long trip to the mall in search of the ever-elusive modest dress for the 8th grade dance (no, we didn’t find one), and a really nice date with my dear husband.

Sunday - Mother’s Day - was good.  Relaxing, low-key.   Our church ward (congregation) gave all the women a CD of beautiful piano music.  Very inspirational stuff.

Daughter A9 had a fever all weekend, so she stayed home from school on Monday so I could make sure she had gone a full 24 hours without a fever (or medicine to control a fever).  Eli’s sleep has been VERY off, and Monday was not such a fun time with him.

Today wasn’t AS rocky with the baby, but still overwhelming with his non-stop activity and now his squeels and squeeks and screams.  You could say he has found his voice.  And it seems to be aimed at dangerously high decibels.

Speaking of “dangerously high,” I think the hormone and estrogen levels in my house qualify, too.  It takes all my will power some days to not grab a particular hyper-hormonal individual and pump her shoulders back and forth with a “snap out of it” bursting from my lips.  I don’t do that, though.  I just grit my teeth and mutter under my breath.

Like a retreaded tire, today I’m not new and deep and ready for rough road.  I’m just patched and thrown together in order to get through another day.   But check back tomorrow.  Maybe I’ll be all-terrain by then.

I Knew He’d Notice Them Sooner or Later

There Goes His Diet

Seriously…does anyone actually feed their baby 65 of these puppies at a time???

ps:  he does love them!!