Good bye, faithful Grand Prix...

Off with the old, on with the new. We are now your typical middle class young family with a mini van. Oh well, it was bound to happen. I am excited about more space and whatnot.

Stationery card

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Christmas pictures

K, I need a little advice on which picture to use for our Christmas pictures. I think River looks happier :) in the bottom picture, but I like the brick wall in the top one. And I know that they are very similar so it probably doesn't really matter. But I still need to eliminate one. I think I'm going to cry uncle on taking any more pictures since both Jeremy and River were equally terrible about getting pictures done. Sigh.

Well I tried to upload this video of River playing with his blocks and his little quirk about having to have the colored side of them facing up but alas, it was taking a decade to load so I gave the internet a break.

Not much going on here that's new and exciting. Saw sales are slow. River is taking his nap. I'm working on shutterfly stuff. Things like that.

So I guess I'll get back to my super thrilling life. :) Although I am going to pick up Jen tonight at the airport with Wendy which should be fun.

Latest Reader's Digest Quotable Quotes

At last! Another person who sees the evils of balloons as I do:
"Many terrible things begin with B: bears, blindness, boilers, bats, bridges, and brain tumors. But no one brings any of those to a party to up the fun quotient. When I look at a balloon, all I see is an imminent explosion. Where's the fun in that?"
Roz Chast, What I Hate from A to Z

Another Winston Churchill gem:
When Lady Astor became annoyed with a soused Winston Churchill, she blurted out, "Winston, if you were my husband, I'd put poison in your coffee." Churchill replied, "If you were my wife, I'd drink it."

Oscar Wilde:
sarcasm: the lowest form of wit, but the highest form of intelligence.

That is US!

Alan Jackson - Remember When

This song made me cry the first time I heard it. It's such a touching summary of life. Maybe it's because I heard that line about the sound of little feet and I was missing River. :) And then at the end when he says that we won't be sad, we'll be glad for all the life we've had, I couldn't agree more.
Good grief, I'm ready to cry again.

OK, Lisa, I'm updating just for you...River is still sleeping right now. I think I'm going to have to change his nap schedule since he's not settling down very well at night and is waking up 1 to 2 times. He goes back to sleep but I can't always. Which is annoying.

Anyhoo just posting a few pictures so you can see what he's up to. He crawled into that drawer by himself and was having a grand old time with all his dishes. As for the bottom picture, here's to another generation of Archie comic readers!

Birthday party

My little one year old woke up out of sorts this morning. I'd forgotten what that was like since he hasn't been sick since he was like 8 months old. Anyway a little painkiller in his system and he's acting much happier. I put him with his walker this morning - too much work for him I think.

I'm shipping 4 sawzall cases out this am - such a wonderful thing, clearing them out of the basement. :)

Not much else is new since I last saw you all.

Father's Day

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Mother's Day

This day, thus far, could not be more perfect. River went to sleep on his own after I put him in the pack n play last night and he didn't wake up until about 6. Then he had a bottle and went back to sleep until 7:30 which left me to do some stuff in peace, as it were. He was a happy kid after he woke up too. Then he went back to sleep at 9:30 (again by his little self) and slept for 2 hours so I got the garden planted and some delicious caramel brownies made for tonight. He is currently entertaining himself in the kitchen - probably eating found crumbs off the floor but hey, he's happy! And did I mention that the weather is awesome?!?!?! I feel like swimming somewhere...

A few pictures for your enjoyment - love the one of the rednecks with the lawnmower and "chariot".

Furniture as promised

He wants to read!

Our refurbished end tables and my doctored magazine cabinet. :)

Life is good.

Ode to Joy

This is what my fair young child has been up to the last couple of weeks. Crazy busy, he is.

I've been trying to reorganize/purge/clean my studio. Jeremy told me it always looks like a mess - but I generally have works in progress up there so that would be why. I have my mags safely tucked away, a box of mags destined for the trash, and my closet is organized. :) Container for gift bags and wrap and all my sewing projects are tucked away, to be hauled out again and this time finished!

I checked on River after he cried himself to sleep for his afternoon nap to make sure he was OK. He sleeping in his crib, minus his socks and his pants and there were cheddar whale parts all over the crib. Musta been saving them for later!

Easter

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Easter

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Happy Easter

Here are more pictures, thanks to your requests.

The lamb pictures were somewhat difficult as I may have mentioned to some of you.

I actually am in the mood to spring clean. Well, maybe not the mood but I want a clean house. River is napping right now so maybe that's why I'm ready to get to work.

He's still wheezing and hacking around but he slept OK last night all things considered.

I'm making an avocado chicken dish for supper - I will probably have to do some grocery shopping soonish. :( Grocery shopping seems like such a chore sometimes.

My life is SO exciting! Isn't it?

Life is Good

Speaking of feeling melancholy...I was putting River to sleep the other day and I was feeling some depressing feelings. He deserves a better mother. In all honesty, he deserves a better father. At times anyway. I have no idea what I'm doing - will he survive my parenting with his sanity intact? The only real thing I have to console myself with is that there isn't a perfect woman out there to raise this little boy. And I read the other morning in the Gospels where Jesus said that He knows what we need. I took so much comfort from that verse - came at just the right moment.

I'm in this frame of mind right now where I remember reading something from a Chicken Soup for the Soul book about a valentine from a wife to a husband. She penned in her poem about how did he ever find the time? So true. In the midst of child rearing and working and all the other things we have to get done in a lifetime, it's a little hard to reserve a time for your marriage. We were listening to 102.5 the other day on the Song of Solomon and the speaker was saying that marriage was like any other thing that we do with purpose. We have to put effort into it to make it work. I've made a short story quite long - but this is exactly why I think that anyone under the age of 21 probably shouldn't want to get married. Probably shouldn't get married.

This weather is the pits. Maybe that's why I feel in a funk. Plus Jeremy doesn't feel that great and River probably doesn't either and I woke up this morning with a sore throat. Ready to see the sun!

Now is the time to apply the words of Sweet Rose: "remember nothing's quite as bad as it seems when you're so sad..." And cherish the time that River likes me to sing songs to him!

Riv Dog

Some things never change - hello, Danny Dinkle! I thought his little smirk made him kinda like his mother. :)

Yummy fresh rolls.

And could a kid be any cuter in little leg warmers? Even though I was thinking about a girl when I bought them...

Anyone else see the super cool slippers on Betsy Hany's blog? Kinda want a pair but I'm not sure I want to pay $65 for them.

Looking forward to a stay at the Fernwood Suite in Forrest tonight. And a catered meal at Karl & Bethany's.

I thought I should maybe post some pictures of the offspring for Jen's sake, if nothing else. He's reverting to his old (and bad) going to sleep habit as of late. He actually doesn't do too bad during the night but I just tell myself that it won't be that way forever. Might as well enjoy all the things that comes with having an almost 8 month old (!) while it is here.

Yesterday I gave him a wooden spoon to play with to keep him occupied for like 30 seconds and he was whacking it around on his high chair tray and intermittently would whack himself on the head. I could tell he didn't really like that but when he saw me watching him, he put on the most pitiful face and acted like it really hurt. It was hysterical.

Did anyone else read the Limbaugh Letter that had Julian Assange and Hillary Clinton on the back? I almost died laughing reading about the WikiWaif and the Arkansas Broadbeam going at it.

My house should probably get a Dutch cleaning here pretty soon. Except that I really don't feel like it - I feel like it in mind but physically I don't want to scrub and clean. Does that make sense?

I'm going to try to get some food made for Tami Aberle and Michelle Schaffer today.

And alas that it is like freezing outside. I really don't want to go to the turkey farm...

And I have 3 measly pictures to make a scrapbook page for Clint and LeAnne for Alexander the Great. He is going to owe me. :)