Quote of the Week

"Let me try one first ... Oh yes!  Definitely!!"

West

A little someting to Play!

 (Life can be hard sometimes.  Sometimes what we need is to slow down and realize the simple pleasures around us.)

• I am loving this one and can't seem to stop singing along with it
• This one tends to not only get sung, but sung at the top of our lungs
• I was originally turned onto this group from this blog and I will have to say I am glad I checked them out!  This is one of those albums that must be listened to at HIGH volume. 
• The video for this song is enough to make me laugh every time I see it, and don't forget to check out the song too.
• And one more to send you off with a BANG!!

First Picnic of the Year

Guess what we did the other day!!!  We had our first picnic in the park.  The weather wasn't perfect but it was perfect enough to take the new bike and head across town to the City Park and take our lunch and lounge in the sun and read my book and watch the kids play.  I think we could have stayed all afternoon if we had not had things to do at home!

Who else loves picnic?!

New Shorts

You know when you have an idea for something great in your head and you go to put it to paper or fabric or whatever your element might be and it comes out all wrong?!  Ya, that describes these shorts to at "T"

I will say this about them though, they sure turned out well for being one big giant screw-up!

Letters

One of the things about being in separate places from the people you love for a long period of times is the communication barrier.  When you are used to having someone around on a regular basis, whether it be every night after work or every third week for a week at a time, you are still used to that and knowing that they will be there when you expect them to be. 

Once that person leaves and is not home when he or she is expected you have to find fun and inventive ways of keeping up the communication with them.  Now-a-days we have great resources such as the telephone which is no longer just a phone to pick up and hear the other person's voice.  Now we can use them for talking, texting, and even this great new thing called FaceTime!  We also have great things like email and Skype and any other number of ways of communication.

However, when you have small children those things only go so far.  The phone is great sometimes, if they are willing to talk or can even talk yet, texting and emailing is out of the question unless your child is old enough to read, all these inventive over the internet things are great but also only if the child is willing and sometimes the internet fails us on that one as well.  And of course all of these forms of communication only work if the child is not busy doing something else or just can't seem to stop acting silly when they see themselves talking on the computer (they can be easily distracted you know).

So in this house we have decided all those things are great, if West and Ruby are in the mood, but what we really enjoy here is putting our craft skills to work and then taking it down to the post office and letting our communication travel via the US Post Office!  How much fun for these two to put something together with paper and glue and paint and things, and put it in the envelope, and put the stamp on in just the right place, and then taking a trip down to the post office and putting it in that oh so mysterious slot in the wall. 
We only hope The Rooster likes getting mail as much as we like sending it!

Quote of the Week

"I like corn bread!  It is good for my tummy."

Ruby

Spring Cleaning

It is that time of year again when I get the hankering to get the yard cleaned up and ready for all the playing that is to be done out there as the days slowly start to get warmer and actually stay warm.  As I looked out over the yard I saw a few branches and a few leaves in the bushes and things of that nature.  I thought this would not be too hard.  Man alive, apparently they were all hiding until I went out to get the rake because before I knew it we had a line of leaves and small twigs clear across the back yard that needed to be cleaned up and my arms were beginning to ache.  Luckily I had West, the man who has to work, I think he worked as hard as I did loading up leaves and things into their little wheel-barrow and wheeling it over to where we were making the pile outside of the fence for removal (The Rooster has his truck down in Texas with him so I either have to borrow one or leave the pile here when we leave, that is to be determined at a later date). 
Ruby had started out helping but I think she gave up about 5 minutes into it to go swing.  She randomly came over to see if she could put her raking skills to work but never lasted very long.

Who else has gotten out there to start their Spring Cleaning?!