Our good friends are coming in from Texas for Thanksgiving. They arrive Tuesday evening. They have two boys, ages 8 and 3. It’s going to be a crazy, fun, loud 5 days. I ran 9 miles on Saturday morning in about an hour and 35 minutes (woot!) I ran from my house to a shopping…
Falling
SO much going on this week in my head, my heart, my life. So… just pictures. All pics taken with my new iPhone 4S, which I think is pretty darn awesome.
Some days…
Some days I am so full of words and pictures and thoughts and I have to get them out. But today I sit here with the cursor blinking as my head pounds and not much is coming to me. I did think of the all the cute kids at the birthday party we went to…
Snippets
“STOOOOPID!!!!” That’s what my 2-year old was running around saying over and OVER tonight before I left for church choir practice. Her older brother (the younger, older brother, that is) was also liberally using that word and so she decided that it was her new favorite one. She’s like a little echo. AND a broken record….
Nicknames I promise your kids don’t have…
All of our children have nicknames. Since Ben is Benjamin I call him “Benja” a lot. I also call him, Benja Wenja and Spenjamin. When he was a baby he was “The Biggest”. He was not particularly big, at all. I think I it was partly because he was so small at first, that I…
Another living thing…
Sometimes I wonder what it would be like to be another living thing. Like a tree where the birds nest, and the squirrels use for their climbing post and source of food. An umbrella protecting them from the rain, as it watches the world around it and holds the big job of keeping us supplied…
The Sickies (also known as “us”) – Miss Elaine-ous Monday
Someone has been sick in this house since last Thursday morning. It started with me. I’ll spare you the details but let’s just say a stomach bug found us. Tim and The B Man left for work and school as usual, but by 9:15 or so that morning I was calling him to come rescue…
Pretty Pipes (I know, weird title)
I drove to the part of town today where I know they have industrial type stuff. And I found these. They are BIG. I could have laid down in one, you know, if I’d wanted to. I didn’t. I was wearing a dress. And I’m pretty sure someone like the dudes walking around in hard…
Blogging Particulars: Comments & Replies
So, last week I posed a question on twitter, asking people if they would rather have bloggers reply to their comments that they left on blogs or if they would rather have a comment from that blogger on their own blog as a return “favor”. In other words, would you rather continue the conversation with…
Sometimes life hands you apples…
I was out and about on my own yesterday for a little while. It was nice. I had in mind the assignment for You Capture this week and specifically planned a trip to the local outdoor fruit and vegetable market just to take pictures of apples. I took my good camera and was going to…