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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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.