Don't judge a book by its cover

I picked this up the other day at the Salvation Army. (I love that place, half price clothing on Wednesdays makes my heart happy because this OCD mother doesn't care when her toddler completely ruins a $3.50 outfit. Okay, I still care but I care less which is good for Pumpkin. Wow - tangent.) You can imagine hubs face when he pulled it out of the car. He asked how much I paid for it. I'm not sure it would have mattered what I said, I could have said that they gave it to me and he still would have thought it was a waste of space taken up in our garage.

But I'm hopeful that I can make it look great. I've been searching Craigslist for months and months trying to find something to put in my dining room to store all Pumpkins craft stuff and some other stuff of my own and this thing is perfect. Well it's perfect minus the bright red doors and psychedelic tape squares. Can't wait to post pictures of the finished product. Here's a hint..........2 colors or less.

Motherhood: Enter at your own risk!

Although birthing two children and taking care of them on a daily basis is enough proof that I am, in fact a mother, sometimes you have those experiences that make you really stop and realize. I had two of them this week.

I took my 2 1/2 year old to the ER and ended up spending a week sifting through her stool. Sifting may not be the right word here. More like smashing I guess. You know when you are trying to get those lumps out of the brownie batter so you smash it up against the side of the bowl? Yeah, this experience was similar except that the aroma wasn't quite as sweet and the lumps weren't made of flour. Oh yeah, and I was looking for a dime.....that she had swallowed. TMI? Yeah I thought so but sometimes the truth is poopy.

The other thing that made me really remember that I am a mother? Well when I took her to the ER, I was driving this:

Some of you may know it as the "Swaggerwagon." To me it's a minivan, the kind of car I swore as a teenager that I would never drive. But I'm eating my words. And you know what? They taste great! This thing is awesome. I'll totally trade any cool points I may have earned from sporting some cool SUV for all the convenience that comes with this baby. I realize that this confession makes me an even bigger dork than what I would have been just driving the above but deep down there's a dork in all of us and I've just decided to let mine shine. And it's shining a beautiful red, with seating for 8, and a DVD player, and this really cool cupholder/table thing that moves out of the way when you need to buckle your todderl, and and and...okay I'll stop now. But just for the record, I'm a mom.

Random Things That I Love

I was thinking the other day about some of the odd things that I get a kick out of and then I figured we probably all have them. So since I am thinking about it, I thought I'd share them with you.

I love the smell of Scotch tape (talking about it makes me want a sniff right now)

I love exclamation points !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (My old boss was an English professor and told me that people did not know the real use of an exclamation point and that a person should use maybe a total of three in their entire lifetime. I say you don't know my life, it's very exciting!)

I love Crazy Core Skittles (I eat handfuls of them daily. It keeps me skinny. :)

I love closed captioning/subtitles (I make my husband watch every movie/television show with them on. I'm addicted. You'd be surprised at the things you miss without them.)

I love houses that smell good. (Like mine - it smells like Black Raspberry Vanilla - yum!)

I love free babysitting (Enough said - who doesn't?)

I love making handmade gifts for other people (well, people that I like at least!)

What are some random things that you love?

My balanced diet

So a friend of mine recently told me that she was missing my posts on here. Which is funny because I didn't realize anyone actually read the posts on here. Besides me, of course. But since I've been enlightened I thought maybe I'd put a little Sunday goodness on here. This is for your Marie. Unless of course you're disappointed by the content and don't at all enjoy reading it and in that case, it's just a random post and the next awesome one is for you.

I guess I haven't been blogging on here because there hasn't been a lot that's "blog-worthy" going on with me. Although, I think I may have a new Laundry Chronicles edition for this week. Right now I'm sitting here trying to figure out how to get myself to stop eating these little bad boys. I had one when I made them, one as a pre-dinner snack, one as a post-dinner treat (a compensation if you will for eating all those vegetables in my salad), another one to reward myself for putting Pumpkin to bed successfully (sometimes I wonder why I don't weigh 300 lbs), and two more because................................hmmmmm when you run out of reasons maybe it's time to stop eating them. Although if you can come up with 4 reasons, maybe you're in trouble to begin with. And yet here I am, wondering how I could justify one more. Although it's just now occurring to me that I need to back away, back far away. Because there's only two left.

If I don't stop soon, what will I eat for breakfast?

I'm just sayin...................

If you're going to buy a 10-pack of Baby Ruth's and you don't want to eat all of them, you probably shouldn't hide them in a secret place that only you know about. I'm just sayin..........

The words of a child

Out of the blue words from the 2 year old I am babysitting today:

2yrold: My mom says we don't eat diarrhea
me: What?
2yrold: We don't eat diarrhea, we don't eat poop and we don't drink pee.
me: Okay. What do we eat?
2yrold: Food.
me: (being facetious) What about boogers? Do we eat those?
2yrold: No.......but just a taste.
me: Just a taste?
2yrold: Yeah cuz boogers is tasty.

And now you know.

Proof is in the Pudding Pictures

I have been a blog slacker, I admit it. The last time I posted was, well I can't even remember with looking it up. But, in my defense, I haven't been just sitting around twiddling my thumbs. I have been BUSY. And I have pictures to prove it. So hopefully I'll be forgiven for not being around for awhile. Here's the story. A friend of mine is having twin baby girls and my friend Tracey and I decided to make her some cute hooded towels and one thing turned to another and pretty soon it was way more than hooded towels (though we did those too). It was a good thing I didn't get into it by myself because I seriously couldn't have done all that sewing without Tracey around to chase after Ava quite a bit. So without further ado, here ya go:

The Booties...............why is everything cuter when it's tiny and in pairs?


I posted these before but had to include them again as part of the whole package.

The onesie dress

And the culprit that started the whole project - the hooded towels! It's hard to tell from this picture but they are very shabby chic.......it even said so on the tag.

And then you put it all together and it looks like this: Or this:

So now that that's over I should be back with some regularity at least. And at the request of Marie, in the next week or so I will post the instructions for how I make the hooded towels, even though it's nothing fancy.