Tuesday, October 28, 2008

It's nice to feel appreciated


The kids asked me for water because I was busy and forgot to give them a drink with dinner. I found this message on the table. I laughed... though I felt just a bit like a scroogy jailer. If they were that excited about water, what would they do if I gave them a crust of bread, I wonder?

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

How cool!


If you know me at all, then you know I cloth diaper. I am also a baby-wearing, non-vaxxing, breastfeeding, sewing, knitting, crocheting, home baking, homeschooling mom. Yeah, I know, crazy, right? Anyway, back to diapers. My youngest, 11 months old now, has outgrown his diapers and my older boys... either in cahoots or on the sly broke my only working sewing machine. I have two more broken ones in the pit of no return.... er, the garage and a serger who's manual had been spirited off by those self-same boys. As this isn't enough, toss in having only $7 to last the week before payday and then spice it up with a dead fridge. Bam. You have a good mess.
Basically, I was boned.
I got the sweetest thing in the mail... a wonderful and very very thoughtful friend knew I was broke and the machine was broke and the darn inconsiderate child kept GROWING as if I was made of diapers... so when she saw a deal on some pre-loved diapers in his size, she got them and sent them to me!!!! Oh, happy day!
It's enough for an entire stash, unless he develops Super Poo and it dissolves the diapers, we're set. And even cooler, they all have snaps. He has recently discovered velcro and that bites because I made allllll of his diapers with velcro fasteners and most of his covers.
Look at that backside. I'm so happy!

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

AWWWWWWWW

Some days, kids make the awful week just disappear. My 5 year old just "delivered" this to me after lunch.





The cute sketch is actually a drawing of said lunch, chicken nuggets and fries. He was unsure of how to spell the word "are", he crossed it out... uh, hmmm. so let me help you a little.
The envelope says For Mommy, the front of the card say Mommy love, the inside reads "Mommy, the chicken nuggets and fries are good. Love Mommy" No I didn't address it to myself, I think he means he loves me. And the back of the card says Good Day! I can't tell if he's being British, Australian, or just telling me off. I said Good Day!

There is a matching envelope and card waiting on the shelf for Daddy when he arrives home. I'm not touching it, I swear. Not even thinking about it.