Wednesday, August 26, 2009

Epic Fail + morning addition

Some days I question my sanity, ok MOST days I question my sanity... however every once in awhile there is a day that must be classified as
EPIC FAIL
...............
Sure I'll make 40 amazingly beautiful AND delicious cookies for our Young Womens meeting tonight (from a recipe I have never tried, but looks & tastes delicious in my mind)
Of course I'll make a "you are beautiful" sign to hang at the meeting (which I had planned on sewing {yes, out of fabric} but ended up being scrapbook paper on poster board...bleh)
and it's a early release day for school?
Well why wouldn't we invite
half the neighborhood over...

when the house is
unreasonably (and atypically) clean?

...............
So here I am
baking cookies, tweaking recipe, baking more cookies, tweaking recipe again, baking cookies, telling kids to get their paws off the cookies,
borrowing cream cheese from
Karen & Kristin, (seriously, thanks!)
breaking out in a cold sweat, tweaking recipe...

BREAKING
MY
BOSCH
(actually, just the beaters, but it still hurt)
...............
crying & cussing
(on the inside)

the cookies were finally made...
I thought,
"Hey! It's going to be ok."

until I took a stroll around my house and found
THIS
...............


And
THIS
...............

And actually, something like
THAT

in every room of my house


EPIC FAIL
by the way, Brooke, you're a gem and I heart you
...............
And, oh, did I mention that I rushed the cookies & sign over to the church at 8:05 with my 3 youngest, barefoot, half-naked, not-yet-fed children in tow (husband working late) for a meeting that started at 7:00 that I was supposed to be attending?
...........

**Morning After Addition... i woke up this morning with a realization
In my weary, dreary, beaten-down state last light, I failed to acknowledge the fact that the children (and me... there MAY have been some mid-cookie disaster dancing to some very catchy tunes) had a glorious day.
And... for the record, cleaning up the aftermath was nothing short of therapeutic. There's just something about picking up, sorting, distributing & re-organizing that gives me oooohhhhhhm.

Monday, August 24, 2009

Living Off The Land

The girls first attempt at gardening...

Pretty impressive, eh?

Bet you wish you had an eggplant, tomato, avocado, kiwi, broccoli tree...


Friday, August 21, 2009

Friday Flashback

February 2003
Courtney Love

Could you just melt?

Thursday, August 20, 2009

Bros

Good Quality Bro Time =
a riveting episode of Teen Cribs
matching white t-shirts
a good back scratch

Oh yeah, it's good to be a BRO.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Summer Lovin'

Love Is All You Need
Price cousins
Sisters

Little Bro
Papa Bear
And even a little bit of
Puppy Love