My week according to Facebook
I swear I have never heard Clover say "stick 'em up" before today, and don't even know where she learned it. It so happens that the first time she said it was in the Trader Joe's parking lot this morning. Loudly. Right next to an ARMORED CAR. 0_0
It's always nice when you are nearly done painting the cabinets and walls in a room and once you look at it, you realize you might hate it.
What's more embarrassing than having your three year old grab some women's underwear you are buying at Target and wearing them on her head? Having her wrap her arms through the leg holes at checkout and shout "I'M WEARING A BACKPACK! HAHAHA" as you try in vain to wrestle them off of her while holding the baby.
I have some thrifty finds to share. These pretty little pyrex dishes were found at a garage sale a couple of weekends ago. My eye was immediately drawn to them, but there was no price tag. Knowing that pyrex is sought after, and that this might justify a hefty price, I decided to feel out the situation by caaaasually asking how much she was asking for them. Not that I was drooling over them or anything......
"oh, a dollar a piece I guess? they are really old.....I think my parents got them for a wedding gift or something"
*internal happy dance - ha-cha-cha!*
I grabbed this stoneware dish at the thrift store this week while I was cruising for a tackle box to put my sewing crap in. No tackle box. But I love this Japanese stoneware.
It's a happy Friday here. Violet let me sleep a little later than usual today, and Clover was in a chipper mood for most of the morning. We ran to Jo-Anns to grab a rotary blade and for the first time ever the kids didn't misbehave very much, loudly declare embarrassing things, or otherwise call unnecessary attention to ourselves.
I needed that extra sleep because for the past week I have had ZERO coffee. Not that I'm totally on the caffeine wagon, because I'm slugging tea to make up for some of it. A dead mommy helps nobody. But I was wondering if Violet's inability to sleep lately was at all to do with my morning coffee. Nothing has changed since quitting the coffee, but I figured I would keep at it since I do like to loosen the death grip that coffee has on me every once in a while. Violet is so crazy when I'm trying to get her to nap or go to sleep at night. Moving a million miles and hour, bouncing off the walls. Leaving her to work it out herself doesn't work. We've tried it. So for the past couple of weeks she has just ended up with me and Tim in the living room in the evenings. Eventually she falls asleep in my arms and I take her to bed. I was spending half the evening upstairs with her before and just getting fed up. So this is my worn down mommy solution.
This week I discovered the broadway channel on our satellite radio in the car (LOVE my satellite radio). Clover likes show tunes so we have fun jamming to them shamelessly at stoplights with our windows down. I also discovered the bluegrass station, which is bursting with banjo. I love me some banjo.
Happy weekending!
In England we have 'supernanny' and her technique for getting kids in bed Is: first time child is out of bed put them back saying 'it's bedtime darling'. Second time put them back and say 'it's bedtime'. Third time out them back and say nothing. And then every time they're out of bed you put them straight back and say nothing. Some parents do this 95-100 times the first night but within 3 nights it's worked and the kids go to bed nicely. And it's super important that you don't get involved in any conversation. You say nothing after the second time and that means nothing! (I have no children so I am literally just repeating something I've seen on tv a lot!) I so love your blog :-)
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