Ya know that aweful habit of picking at dry cuticles?  pick pick pick The neatest thing ever is that vaseline -ya know, that cheap greasy stuff, cures it almost instantly!  I am looooooooving this!

And some of you will recognize this old blog design.  I just reeeeeeally didn’t like that last one - way too impersonal.   So, I’m working on my very first wordpress theme!  I am loving it, but am getting frustrated with Internet Explorer.  What I didn’t know until recently is that it is not compliant with the standards of web languages for design and writing.  I use Mozilla Firefox which does actually follow the rules.  There are so many people around the world all using the same internet that the w3c came up with standards.  It is great, but IE doesn’t follow the rules!!  So my design works great on all the standards compliant browsers.  But I’m still tweaking it, and writing a new style sheet for those of you who still use IE.  If you do, stop it!

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Have a great Monday too!

Cathy

Yesterday, in the middle of the afternoon there was a ruckus upstairs and I was ‘paged’ by my eldest daughter.  When I got to the top floor I was greeted by my older two informing me of Megan’s activities - on the toilet, in the bathroom, they didn’t do it.  Things like that.  In front of me, standing on the toilet lid, is my 2 year old, huge smile on her face, my foundation in one hand, and gobs of it on her left cheek.  “I cream!” she says proudly.  I took a picture - and I will post it when I can figure out how to get it off this camera card!

I need to remember these cute times.  deep breath.  Some moments are just medicine for my heart.

Take care Mommies!

Cathy

Ever notice how a long chat with a girlfriend is just the thing, some days? I’m so sad to see my friend go home (12 hours by car) after this wonderful Easter weekend together. My two year old sat on the stairs when they all left, stuck her lip out, and said, “I sad.” Somehow those two words just encompassed the whole of my feelings at the time. I opened a book of poetry this morning, and found this. I had to scrap it. I can’t wait to share this with you all!

Credits:Pineapple Plantation Designs’s Sunshine Sweets kit. An overlay by Flergs Studio, and the corners by Sugarplum Paperie.

This afternoon at lunch, my Emma (3 yrs old) volunteered to say grace. It is always so cute when she does it. Now Megan (2 yrs) wants to do it too, but gets frustrated because she can’t say the words yet! Here’s our traditional grace that we teach them while they’re young:

“Come Lord Jesus,
be our guest,
and let this food
to us be blessed.
Amen.”

It’s Tuesday! My favorite posting day. I love thinking about what I’m going to tidy next - I know, it’s an illness.

Magazines: lying everwhere - the bathroom, the coffee table, floor, bookshelves. The kids ‘read’ them, tear them, bend them, and break them. And then there’s the bathroom magazines. Imagine the little buggers that fall off the hands of potty-users onto the pages - ewwwwww! I keep ours distributed like this:

1. potty reads: disposable mag’s in a little basket (reader’s digest, brainiac types, and Stooples)
2. couch reads: only the newest issue of Discipleship Journal, National Geographic, and the library books on the coffee table.
3. bed reads: inspirational books and catalogues in my bedside table drawer.

The Culling process! (Ya know, like the ‘Wraith’! teehee)

1. Tossing: old reader’s digest, catalog’s, and brainiac types (I can’t find the title right now, we have this mind-bending, brain-teasing mag sometimes.)
2. Should-be-tossing: those I just can’t get rid of yet, go into a box in storage (like my college texts)
3. Keeping: Scrapbooking mag’s go in a neat stack in my craft room. DJ’s are organized in magazine holders with my ‘writing inspirations’ by the computer.
4. Returning: old library books go into a bag by the door for the next trip to the library.