summer

Summer Summer! Mile is 3.5 and is so smart, inquisitive, and imaginative. He's still pretty un-interested in the alphabet, despite my attempts...

Likes: talking to strangers, any and all kids at the play ground, DONUTs, the zoo, PBS shows, pretending to hunt animals at home with Daddy or Mason

 

Mason 1.5: is very quick these days! picking up words so fast and mimicking everyone, especially Miles, so effortlessly! He loves "mi mi" for Miles a lot! their playfulness is *finally* fun and cute and NOT life threatening (to mason's life that is:). He also says hi to everyone on the play ground and chats endlessly (babbles, really) to strangers frequently.

Likes: the PARK, cakers (crackers) BATH time

 

I'm oh-so-tired starting my 3rd trimester. I'm excited to one day experience California in a non-pregnant way again...ever since we bought a car with AIR conditioning, I've been all the sudden aware of all the beautiful places there are nearby to us. But, in the exciting weeks ahead, I get to head home to TX for an injection of Tex Mex and Hope Chapel time. Followed by a weekend in Tahoe! Yay!! thank goodness for some 3rd trimester distractions:)

 

 

what i wore wednesday

The What I wore Wednesday idea is from the Pleated Poppy...

I was in peril of not getting dressed today. It looked like Matt was taking the truck and the only thing i could think of to do was organize some closets, maybe make some granola bars, try to do a reading lesson with Miles and maybe watch a cooking show. So, it was looking bleak on the outfit horizon. But! Guess who should appear?! Grandpa Paul parked outside offering to take Matt to work. PTL! I jumped on the chance to not have to load the boys up immediately after breakfast (as is required if I want to have a vehicle..) and quickly formulated a plan. First, to get dressed! yay!
This is my new Liz Lange target tank that I got last night with mother's day money. After two babies, I'm seriously annoyed with my maternity clothes:)

Tank: liz lange, target, Maternity pencil skirt: Gap, necklace: Noonday Collection (I WON this on a Facebook giveaway!), now to find a clean sweater as it's freezing!! (well, not really, but like 54 degrees till the sun comes up more, in Texas that is technically freezing for late May).

happy Wednesday!

no mother left behind

I think my dream of being a stay-at-home-mom is somehow couched in a pioneer version of the lifestyle. Where friends work together on canning, gardening, drinking tea and chatting...so: FRIENDS! All at home and nearby each other.

But today as we took a random morning walk around the neighborhood, and I watched all the women and men heading off for the morning commute...I felt almost jealous! Ridiculous, I know. But, I'm realizing the reality, that there aren't that many stay at home moms around me!! So, though I'm staying home and hoping to home school and all that, sometimes it's so strange, because I feel left behind by all the folks driving off to have a career, or sit on their computer and drink tea and read blogs, or whatever people do at their 'real' jobs:)

Anyway, it's just a strange thing to be a stay at home mom these days. I still don't really feel like a stay at home mom, since all my lofty ideals of what 'stay at home moms' do all day have pretty much been deflated: between the realities of cross country relocation and first trimester...i haven't gotten around to many of the home stuff I envisioned...
I guess no matter is going on, the blog version and pinterst grandeur of home school-stay at home mom world, is a lot more ordinary and everyday that I had hoped;0

well, i can't say i miss blogging, but i will say I want to write more and since Dinosaur Train is entertaining Miles, I thought I'd scribble something out.

Hello MONDAY!
Hello messy house...
Hello day after Pentecost celebration!
Hello week that I find out the gender of this baby!:0

happy Monday!

pretty, happy, funny, real

This is one of my very favorite blogs!! She has great practical advice on lots of stuff: child rearing, homeschooling, cooking dinner [every night!] and quilting/crafting...
I guess I'm recently into the blogs that have predictable routines/posts (as in Lisa leonards Monday, wed, and Friday posts and this one with every Thursday practicing contentment in the things around us).

What i wore Wednesday...

I started this on the bus this morning...so funny! or more, witty, but really really sad facts actually. [it's delightful when you laugh out loud on a cap metro bus, how ALL the little UT students stare;)]
I was going to post my outfit today (alas, no iphone, so maybe not a realistic goal), along with Lisa's blog and this fun one. BECAUSE, i really like the motivation to dress cute! Which I want to do. But, not at the expense of sacrificing my soul to fashion...chasing a moving target that changes every month. "The US now makes 2% of the clothing it's costumers purchase, down from about 50% in 1990." ahh! = decline in middle class wages, loss of middle class, and more unemployment...She explains that the costs of clothing is plummeting, so you have lots of cheap clothes or really, really expensive, but few in between.

I think there is way to dress well, fashionable and stay within a budget, wear clothes out, and buy high quality...Or at least that's what I'm hoping this book will reveal more about...


Here are two of Heathers highlighted products that are 1. cute and 2. recycled goods:
beautiful necklaces
locally made skirts

hello monday!

hello Monday!
hello Mason sleeping 12hrs two nights in a row (hence the return to my long lost blog)
hello darker mornings!
hello bus stop...i was on time today:)
hello Jesus calling....
hello bags under my eyes (chronic sleep deprivation for 11mo now...)
hello clean house. I love! Austin All Maids!

This is the day that the lord has made! I'll rejoice and be glad in it--Ps118:24

Thanks Lisa  Leonard for blog format inspiration & fashion ideas...
Thanks Mandy and Christine and Laura for blogs to read:)

hello turning 30!

10 wks + 17th months!

Miles is almost 17 months old! He loves playing in his pool and reading stories and eating and saying the few words he's got down: dadda, momma, papa, nana, chichi, and lots of animal noises:) HeLOVES to dance! and sing. He will spin in a circle till he's dizzy and falls over while any music is playing. He has a big personality already! Yesterday while Alicia and I tried to carry on a conversation, he kept busting in between us with his arms spread wide shouting about something!

And, I am 10wks pregnant. Mostly it exhausts me, but my nauseau comes in waves...which I guess is better than the constant feeling I had a few weeks ago. Already, I feel much more peaceful about having a newborn. Maybe because I've done it before, but mostly because we have a house, so we're not house hunting and I kinda know how to clean the house and nothing will be in boxes as I figure out breastfeeing wtih baby #2. Ah! what a dreamy way to start this kids' life:)

I've had lots of dreams: twins, a girl, a boy. So, who knows what I'm having! Next appt is Mon and we'll get to hear a hearbeat!!