Happy Mother's Day!

We have had a wondermous weekend - tired, tired, tired, but happy, happy, happy now.

Happy Mother's Day to the mothers in my life from me and these kiddos that spent the weekend with me.

Carpet

How I love new carpet! Except this time, the dust made Lila and I both a little crazy. But we got over it after a couple days of ventilating. We decided to carpet the stairs down to Nate's room so that it would feel more like an extension of our house. Score. It already does!

While we were getting this done, we decided to go ahead and re-carpet Lila's room and my office (the only other places we have carpet). We would need to do it anyway before we moved (no, I don't know when this will be) so we decide to do it now so that we could enjoy it. I'm a tight berber kind a girl, because it just looks cleaner to me.

That's me in the shadow on the crib. Guess I need to take a photography class.

I'm so glad this project is finished. We've only been talking about it since before Lila was born. Projects take forever when you have young chidren. It's a season. It's a season. I keep telling myself.

Happy Weekend!

Floods, Tornadoes, Sick Kids

I'm thankful that my family has a soft place to sleep, when so many people have been devastated by floods and tornadoes in the past week. Even though we aren't sleeping much because Lila is sick AGAIN. But I'm still thankful that we have beds to fall into at night and that I can keep my family safe for another day. Even if the doctor contemplated testing her for whooping cough yesterday. Hon-est-ly.

Please continue to keep all the flood and tornado victims in your thoughts. We are all tempted to put it behind us since the news stations are starting to sprinkle in other topics. But the people affected can't put it behind them just yet. So let's think about them today.

Inside My Head

Do you all have random thoughts running around in your head?? Well, I do. At all times. Most of which I do not share. But today you are lucky.

• Pollen-less flowers & trees would be an awesome invention.


• Daycares are germ infested necessities.


• House builders in the early 1900's did not forecast the need for big enough garages / driveways to hold SUVs.


• The first year of life goes so fast until you start thinking of it in terms of how many more months you have to bottle feed.


• Will Nate saying "Sister Lou in the Hooooouse" always crack me up even though he says it 22 times a day? Yes.


• Mothers are a gift from God. Do I tell the mothers in my life I love them enough?


• Anything with the name Star Wars on it has a minimum of 138 small parts. Which are all on my coffee table.


• Did we really have to run the heat in May?


• I think I could survive on Diet Coke, Special-K Red Berries, and Reduced Fat Cheez-its. Whoops. Left out an adult beverage or two. Or maybe 3 after this week.


• What is the higher meaning of a flood? Interesting thought to ponder...

Well there you go folks. Inside my head. You're welcome.

Big thanks to everyone for their thoughts and prayers about my dear Mississippi County. Here's to hoping the water recedes quickly!

Unreal

[The levee being blasted last night]

Please join me in sending many positive thoughts and prayers to the communities affected by the flood in Mississippi County (as well as many other surrounding counties in MO & IL). The project to blast the levee began at 9:00 PM last night and should hopefully conclude later this morning. I'm extremely thankful that my family is safe but my heart breaks for everyone that is losing homes and farm land. The losses will be devastating. It's all just a little too much. And alot unreal. If you would like more information about the flood, go here.

Weekend Review

It seems my pictures from the weekends get more and more random as time goes on. Hopefully that means I'm more in the moment than behind the camera :) Here are a few from our weekend. Lila staring the Kitty Paus down and vice versa...

I was putting away laundry one night and came back to my bedroom to find this. He barely fits. And he's wearing his Christmas shirt. And drinking milk.

Nate asked for some sunglasses one night in the car. I could only find Scott's in my purse so I handed them back. Doesn't he look so grown up? And yes, he does have his Braves shirt on. His precious Mimi got it for him and he loves to wear it. Although when I told him the Cardinals were playing the Braves this weekend and asked him who he wanted to win, he said the Cardinals. I mean. We live here, Mom. Yes we do sweet child, yes we do.

On Saturday, we headed to Columbia for a baseball game with the Bakers because we had new carpet installed (pics to come!) Nate was hyper as usual but the kids had a great time - he does love Myra!

About 2.2 seconds after I took this picture, Nate's face turned to pure fear. Scott told him he would hold onto him the whole time. But, alas, he didn't. Nate was none too happy. And honestly I couldn't blame him - sorry dear!

Big week for us and some very important visitors!!

Recipe Monday

I got this recipe from my good friends Robert & Lea-Anne Peach. They had the Big Oven (http://bigoven.com) app on their iPad when I visited Florida last September. L.O.V.E. it!!

Creamy Ranch Potatoes & Chicken

20 oz potatoes

1/2 package dry ranch salad dressing mix

1 lb boneless chicken breasts

1 10 oz can cream of chicken soup

1/4 cup sour cream

1/4 cup onion (I omit)

salt & pepper to taste

Spray crockpot with non-stick cooking spray (or use a crockpot liner!) Mix all ingredients together and place in crockpot. Cook on low for 6-8 hours or high for 4-6 hours.

Enjoy!