PreK says

Monday:

5 year old girl: "My tummy hurts."

Me: "We are going home very soon (10 minutes). Make sure you tell Mommy when you get home."

5 year old boy: "My mommy says your tummy hurts when you poop is hard."

Me: "....................."

Today:

After a crazy first half of our morning it was time for snack. We were having a special extra sugary birthday cupcake snack, when the fire alarm goes off.

Me: "Boys and Girls put everything down and get your coat. We need to quietly walk outside." (or something like that)

Most of the class: "What about my snack? I'm not done with it."

Me: "We will finish it later."

[kids try to put their coats on with cupcakes in hand]

BIG.SUGAR.MESS

I suppose when emergencies arise, grab the sugar and the sweets!

Daydream

I took this picture while we were in Atlantic City for a half marathon. I loved the curves of the building not to mention the variations in color. :) 

Christmas can't be very far away...

One thing about my husband that you may not know is that he has 4 brothers. 3 older and 1 younger so that makes him #4. This past year the oldest brother and his wife (married for 10 years with my 2 nieces) came up with an idea for a family Christmas present. Genius right? Each brother (& wife) compiled pictures of the events from their past year and had it printed into a book from Shutterfly. It's a great family yearbook to look back at the past year.

We could have even turned it into a calendar.

The other great thing about Christmas?
...lights? (love them, but no)
...family? (love them too, but no)
...food?  (yumm-o!, but no)


Cards. Who doesn't love receiving all the extra mail for a month?!? Now I combine my love of photography and the excitement of Christmas cards all at the same time!! Usually it takes me forever to choose just one design . I'm the kind of person that would choose variety. Luckily Shutterfly offers tons of choices to pick from. When doing some initial browsing, here are my criteria:


-Say Merry Christmas because I'm traditional like that
-1-3 pictures
-something that tickles my fancy :) 


like this one:

Now if you want to get in on the Christmas fun you can!

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Who new a drawer could be so beautiful?

For months, my spices were randomly sitting on a drawer/shelf and we would have to search through them all to find the bottle we were looking for.

Now after cleaning out very expired bottles that we never used my spice drawer/shelf looks like this.

and a close-up you say??

It's a drawer of beauty.
Organized.
Clean.
Semi-categorized/semi-color coded.
Space to grow.
Ahhh, I'm ready for more cooking and baking. :)