my fluzzy hair . . . even fluzzier in real lifeJust kidding because I am not. But really, my big Of Good Report announcement is that I am going to officially add a Of Good Report feature to my blog. This way I get to cultivate my opinion (I totally respect and love my opinion) and keep readers a(chicken)breast of the best. In the future, I'd like to also report on these other products: the new i-phone, cookies and whatever you sell in your Etsy shop.
As a grande finale, I am listing a whole slew of items to add to my Of Good Report. In no particular order, here they are:
Shortbread chocolate chip cookies from Flour Girls and Dough Boys.
Fluzzy hair
Your bishop
A summer thundershower
Using the large button on my font sizer every time I write Of Good Report.
Helsinki, Finland
Remembering my pre-pregnancy shape
The Mary Murphy facebook group The Hot Tamale Train
BYU Creamery Cookies and Cream
Tom's of Maine toothpaste
A hard earned compliment
More Than A Feeling on Rock Band
Being in my thirties
A baby who sleeps through the night (I've got one . . . for now . . . wood, knocking)
Babies, in general
But enough about me, now is the time that I get to hear from you. What is Of Good Report in your life?
(psst that is your cue to start commenting . . . )
92 comments:
Here's my Of Good Report...
To be honest, with the week I had this was kind of hard to find something happy. Thanks for making me think of happier things.
1. 70-degree weather all week.
2. My baby learned how to giggle and does it often.
3. Large tubs of yogurt.
4. The first good run I've had since giving birth.
5. My word verification is ccjn--how cool is that.
Things of good report in my life:
1. Going on 7-day cruise in October
2. A bag of M&M's in my cupboard
3. The tickets I have to see Dark Knight on the IMAX screen this weekend
4. My awesome friends who make life so much fun and make me feel loved when I'm away from my family
Yay! I've been getting ready for this all week:
baby giggles (a crazy lady at the grocery store told me our bodies respond to baby giggles the same way they do to crack)
zucchini bread (I just made my 5th batch in as many weeks. I'm eating vegetables!)
cute shoes that don't eat your feet (I own two pairs.)
Amelie (oh to be French! With cute hair! And a Vespa!)
cooking blogs (without which I would not have known that it is acceptable to put a blackberry sauce on rosemary chicken.)
amen!
1. my husband did the dishes tonight
2. dreaming about owning my very-own retro house, and driving around town this morning looking for it
3. monsoon season is here in AZ, so it always smells like fresh mountain rain
4. first paycheck post grad school comes TOMORROW!!!!
Thanks, I needed that :)
I could really go on for a bit here but lets just list a few important ones:
• Archer Farm's Organic Pomegranate Fruit Leathers
• STELLA by Stella McCartney Perfume
• Wolfgang Puck's Frozen Pizzas
• Fall is just around the corner (meaning school supplies, jackets, jeans and soups)
In no particular order:
1. Chocolate
2. Swimming
3. A long awaited baby kicking me from inside... such a joy!
4. 10 weeks til the baby comes!!!
5. A good husband
6. A church calling I love
7. Warm summer nights
8. Mamma Mia coming to the big screen!
9. Fresh produce from my neighbors garden!
10. Winning a blog contest. I never win!!
1. Blaine when the babe cries: "Don't be sad, Baby Rog!"
2. Baby Rog's chubalicious thighs
3. Ace of Cakes. Have you watched that? Those people are the funniest dang pastry chefs ever.
4. The ginormous bag of choc. chips in my freezer for baking and snitching
5. Living 15 min. from my mom
I had to wait for my news until Wednesday, and it's good! My husband passed the NCLEX (nursing license exam)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! One year of HARD HARD work in nursing school, and he's now officially a nurse and he starts working on Monday. I couldn't me more proud of him. I love this idea CJane, thank you!
Honestly, I have had an awesome week with my pack at cub scout day camp. And yes I know that may sound crazy.
This week has also been crazy spiritual...Completely overwhelming answers to prayers at Temple. Continual confirmation from scriptures and such all week. Its always a good thing when its obvious your Heavenly Father is there for you! Especially when life throws you for a loop.
I have more than can be listed here! My Top 5 will have to do...
1. sharing dinner with some fun ladies I go to church with.
2. having a mostly obedient 2 year-old.
3. reading a good book
4. preparing for a coming 2 week vacation.
5. good air conditioning (in over 100 degree weather)
There it is! Happy Friday!
My Of Good Report?
The Snake River Stampede. I had fun. That's all I'm going to say.
I really liked this little feature...
1. The Sisters Sherwin
(Hi Sue!)
2. Greek yogurt with fruit
3. Haagen-Daz Fleur de Sel Caramel
which is divine, so divine that it regularly sells out. If you even find a pint, you'd better buy it, because it won't stay on the shelf for long. Other people know the secret, now you do too.
4. Babies learning to talk, hesitantly repeating the words you say.
5. Strawberry pink toenails.
1. Access to a swimming pool in July
2. Singing the Who's "My Generation" at the top of my lungs, even though it's much too late to "...die before I get old."
3. C.Jane hearts my art and has proclaimed it to the blog-reading public.
Summer school! Not the remedial variety! We have it here in CA for everybody and the time spent apart is helping us have more fun when we are together.
Weather in the 80's versus the 100+ we had a week ago
Kisses on the mouth from my two year old
Starting to run again for the first time since college (and that was a really long time ago!)
Thanks for making us think of good things!
1. Freshly made 50% whole wheat, 50% white bread coming out of my oven. From start to finish, I have 3 loaves in 1 HOUR. And it is dang good, if I must say.
2. Freshly made raspberry jam to slather on fresh bread.
3. Picking raspberries with my kids. And laughing when my 6 year old said he needed to take a break...after 5 minutes.
4. Seeing the excited look on my 8 year old daughter's face yesterday as she came off the roller coaster with her dad. She LOVED every second of it!
5. Playing the "No, I love YOU" game with my four year old.
6. Having the sweetest farmer tan ever, although I'm no farmer! But I am lovin this golden skin.
7. So You Think You Can Dance
8. Corn on the cob
9. The smell of BBQ in the air every evening.
10. My new Scentsy "flavor" (I don't know why I always call them flavors, you can't taste them!) melting in my warmer...Grapefruit Pomegranate...Mmmm
a pair of pricey capris that the gal at the Buckle swore would stretch enough to be comfortable...and she was right.
a good tan goin' on from the morning 'run' (I use that term lightly)
What a great idea I'm even de-lurking for this.
1. Playdates with great friends who have great kids
2. Singsong sighs from my new baby
3. A new battery in my car hallelujah
4. The sight of our cat lazing in the sunshine
5. Parents who have agreed to take 3 of my 4 overnight so the handy man and I can go out of town for and evening at the IMAX to see the new Batman flick
6. The sound of my kids laughing, playing and planning adventures together.
7. Tavel baby swing
8. Sidewalk chalk
9. Sonic ice
10. The three dollars I found in the dryer. LOVE it.
I'm in love with this new feature.
1. It's summer in Minnesota.
2. Watching the city's fireworks from our little apartment's balcony.
3. Our two-year-old boy is sweet and polite: "May I have some manners please?" he asks. Yes, you certainly may.
4. My husband and I just celebrated our 10th wedding anniversary.
5. I'm taking a class this summer...it's great to feel smart again.
6. Going to see Grannie and Grandpa today.
7. Plotting and planning a wonderful future while living a happy and content now.
I'm de-lurking too! :)
LOVE (& needed) this -
1) Hubby taking us all out to dinner last night just cuz.
2) Dreyers Mint-Chocolate Dibs
3) Watching my son pass the sacrament for the 1st time last Sunday
4) Stormy summer skies & their sunsets
5) Squirt bottle wars with my kids
6) Sleeping in on Sunday morning cuz they moved our meetings to 11:00am - AAHHH!!
7) The smell of my best friend's new baby girl
8) Only 5 months exactly 'til we leave for California (read as: HOME)
Ohh I'm so excited!
1 - T-minus 10 days to the US/Utah and family! Woo
2 - New hospital is awesome, and found out I'm getting another boy.
3 - I get to comment here
4 - Found a vegan blog to help me deal with my meat induced perpetual morning sickness.
5 - the heat and humidity, sucks, but dang my plants are growing great.
Thanks, I was so excited to comment all week!
So with you on Helsinki...
1. Jane and Olga taking my boys to Havasupai.
2. Reservations next week at Mack's Inn at Island Park.
3. One last family vacation before Luke leaves for the U.K.
4. My daughter's plan to protest her school's new dress code while having a back-up plan to eventually comply.
5. Cuddling with my nine-year-old.
6. The first summer squash from my little garden.
7. Just thinking about the tomatoes and corn on the cob.
8. Being the first one up in the morning.
1. My husband surprizing me by coming home at 5:30 (after working 15 hour shifts for the past week and a half) and spending time with him
2. Swimming in a pool where nobody is smoking
3. Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough ice cream
4. The Steamroller is coming in about 7 weeks
A promotion for me and a great board score for my husband. All in one week!
1. Going to Happy Hour at Sonic with my kids where my daughter always orders a "buggle gum" slush.
2. My kids can get themselves in and out of the car by themselves now---and buckle up!
Of Good Report...
Love. Ours, our friends' and our family's.
Ice cream. Ben & Jerry's on sale lately.
Chips & Salsa. There's always an easy option for dinner.
Patience. Not always successful putting it into practice, but I've got to be patient about that too, right?
Movies. Haven't been to the movies in eons. Hubby and I have a double-feature date this weekend. :)
Flowers. There have been flowers on my table a lot lately. That's nice.
Of Good Report:
* One week from yesterday I will trade the big belly, swollen ankles and shortness of breath for a brand new baby, less sleep and more crazy. Can't wait!
* Henry's face when he suctions his new goggles to his eyes.
* Sun-streaked hair. Sun-kissed cheeks.
* Fantastic sales on delicious fruit this summer.
* My new bundt pan.
* Your baby (so cute!) and so wonderful that he's sleeping through the night!
My house. I love my house way too much, even with the ants infesting everything.
My ice cream maker. I am now a homemade ice cream snob.
Avocados. Add a little kosher salt and wah-lah, perfect food.
My own food blog. I know, a little self-centered.
Food in general. It fasinates me.
Soy Joy bars. Better than I thought they would be.
Kids who inspire me through what they've overcome.
A camera which takes amazing photos me.
Stories like this which leave you thinking.
Parents whom I love dearly.
1. Vaseline Intensive Care Moisturising Bath Beads
2. Downy Wrinkle Release
3. Skinny Cow mint ice cream sandwiches
4. Dinner with lovely friends and their delicious babies.
5. Having my husband sing to me "Ain't no sunshine when she's gone" when I walked back in the door.
6. Ace of Cakes on The Food Network (mrs. cropper totally stole that one).
7. Summer, epecially THIS Summer.
8. Sitting on the deck every evening, tiki and garden lamps lit, waterfall running...time to relax.
8. My BBQ grill
9. Being able to work with my mom.
10. My Savior, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and the atonement. All of which I need on a daily basis.
P.S. Have I told you look hawt! in that dress?
*My baby girl...
*A good bike ride
*Good friends who let things roll off their back
*My bishop (amen)
*Obedient children
*A clean house
*A pool in my backyard
*A yummy lunch out with friends...
*Spending quality time with my hubby.
My list of things of Good Report:
1. Being *almost* completely packed for our move tomorrow.
2. My wonderful husband who has come home from work every night this week only to work more (as in packing).
3. Friends and family who are going to help us move.
4. Friends coming to help pack, and really just to hang out to make packing less of a chore.
5. Target. I just bought some REALLY cute bedding for my 2 girls who will be sharing a room in the new house!
6. Moving to a new house TOMORROW!!!
7. Staying in touch with people I've come to love in our neghiborhood. I'll miss them so much!
1. A random call from neighborhood women to join them at the park. I'm a loner, Dottie.
2. New running shoes!
3. Baby #3 learning to sit up.
4. My oldest child leaves to visit Nana for 10 days. I'll miss her, but oh the silence! It is golden. :)
1. A blog devoted to "of good report" that makes me cry. Well done, Cjane.
2. An obnoxious little brother that was just made a bishop.
3. Finding shoes to fit my Cinderella girl after five hours and eight different stores.
4. Summer heat.
5. A five-year-old that still cuddles with me.
6. A character named Birdie that is bringing my novel to life in ways that I can't. (does that make sense?)
7. A writer's group that I love.
8. Lagoon passes.
9. A self-less husband who is pulling all nighters for extra income.
10. Live baby bunnies for my 12 year old after three previous "batches" died.
*yay for yoga this week
*So You Think You Can Dance
*watching the cute quail family that lives in my yard
*my 3 year old saying "mom, you look very cute today, like my very favorite dog" (I'll take it)
1. Seeing the grandson for a week last week.
2. Coming to Provo next week to welcome a new granddaughter. Hopefully she'll decide to join us soon!
3. Having 2 fab sisters.
4. Carlock's Bakery in Los Osos Calif.
5. Living near, if you count 80 miles away near, the beach.
6. CJane's request for Good Reports.
7.My husband, that if he didn't work, I couldn't be a part of any of the above. (well except the sisters)
Perhaps I should 'de-lurk' myself...
1. Brain surgery that saved my life.
2. Doctors who spend 12 years going to school so they can save lives.
3. Chocolate milk.
4. Infertility support groups.
5. Music.
6. Games now available for the itouch.
7. It's FRIDAY.
I am on the up and up from my second bout of strep throat in 3 months.
I'm finally de-lurking because I love this idea! (and I love your blog!)
1. My 4-year-old is finally sleeping. in his bed. by himself. all night!
2. My wonderful kids who help so much even though it's summer vacation.
4. Knowing I'm in my last trimester and it won't be long before I get to hold my new little guy.
5. A hubby who tells me I'm the most beautiful pregnant woman, even though I feel very huge, uncomfortable and swollen.
6.Getting closer to hubby's December graduation.
7. Flip flops that allow my ever growing feet plenty of room.
8. Cookies and Cream Ice Cream and Big Stick popsicles.
9. Sonic Happy Hour
10. Tickets to see Dark Night tonight with hubby- alone!
You are awesome CJane, keep up the good work!!
~funky tan lines
~plans next weekend for our family getaway
~wedding announcements on my refrigerator
~my son says a few words, my daughters say many
~air conditioning, so i can turn my house into a refrigerator
~reconnecting with a dear friend after nearly a decade of no communication (thanks, facebook!)
~trips with my brother
~stepbrother is engaged
~having to type this one-handed
Cook-ing a Hurd of Swans changed my life. For.Ever.
My new mp3 player.
Discovering/learning something new.
My boy comes home from scout camp tomorrow!!
Talented people with beautiful souls.
It's Friday
1. feist w/ethan
2. playing with my kids outside
3. summer in general
4. upcoming trip to NC
5. a hot husband
me likey this topic... here's my top 5
1. baby, of course. 4 weeks and counting.
2. tithing. we have reaped the rewards greatly.
3. sleeping in
4. walks at night with the dog off the leash
5. orange juice with calciYUM.
My Of Good Report:
1. Wonderful new music discovered this week...this and this
2. Some very friendly e-mails lifting me up!
3. Spending time with a dear friend who will undergo brain surgery very soon.
4. My kids hardly fighting at all this week...that definitely qualifies for Of Good Report.
5. Big, fat, juicy blueberries.
6. My loving husband who always says just the right things when I'm feeling stressed.
7. Spending every day at my mom's beautiful garden watching my kids splash in the pool with cousins and friends.
8. My very handy brother who fixed my car in exchange for...blueberries.
9. An upcoming vacation.
10. Lovely C Jane. That's right, you! You and your Of Good Report posts made for a great week of blog reading. Thanks, and I'm thrilled that this will become a regular installment.
Of Good Report,
*a baby girl that says 'maaa maaa'
*Human Bean Coffee
*canteloupe orange walls in the office!
*surviving graduate school (so far) with a one year old, a husband and 2 dogs
*music coming in the window from the concert in the park out back
*my own herb garden
*the prospect of tomatoes
*Dreft baby laundry detergent
Thanks CJane
• Getting reacquainted with dumbbells (the weight training kind)
• Pretty green frog tape that keeps primer and paint off the window panes while I work
• Almond meal pancakes with goat cheese
• Our new Canon Vixia HV30
• A freshly-charged iPod
• Thistles in the canyon
• Anticipating tonight's full moon lift ride at Sundance and celebrating Rob's birthday with friends
• Great music by a generous, talented guy
• Sunshine = seratonin
• Doing vs. watching
1. Girl Scout Thin Mint Blizzard at Dairy Queen! (only thru the month of July, get 'em while they're...uh...cold)
2. Every last one of the Top 5 guys (Now top 4. Gev! I think I'll miss you most of all!) on SYTYCD, but especially Will, who is a work of pure art.
3. Three Cups of Tea, by Mortensen/Relin.
4. Going to see the ABBA tribute band at the SCERA shell on Pioneer Day.
5. Cjane.
To put this in context, I'm on assignment in India (been here 3 months, 4 to go):
1 - Skype - free calls home
2 - iPod/iTunes - music to walk in the park with
3 - My blogging family - family members who take the time to write about their lives and post pictures so I don't feel so far away
4 - Guitar Hero for DS - small enough to travel with and a great distraction from work
5 - and most importantly, learning to appreciate how much I have been given - nothing puts life into perspective faster that seeing real poverty on a daily basis
limes
I'm de-lurking. Hi!
1. The cold weather coming back to SF. hooray! (Having no AC in the heat is not fun)
2. Today at Starbucks, I got my drink for free - just because the guy likes me.
3. I have a good life and a good family - what more could a girl ask for?
4. Tomorrow is Saturday and I can sleep in!
I'm in love with sleep.
And being in the swimming pool every day.
I finally bought a Wii! Huzzahs to the nation! Huzzahs to the world! :-)
1. 1 week of not getting out of bed due to foot surgery. Would seem like a negative but has actually been a nice break from my hectic life.
2. Cracker nuts from the Philipines. I crave them constantly, thankfully I have several bags.
3. Not doing my hair after a shower last night and letting it exist in all its fluzzy glory (see # 1).
4. A great view from my bedroom window that makes me love nature but allows me to see how hot it is and feel grateful I'm inside.
So fun- I'll de-lurk to chime in-
- Birdy's chubby bubby legs
- Finding and enrolling my oldest in a good preschool this week.
- A fresh, spankin' new hair cut.
- a clean house!
My good report:
1. I'm de-lurking!
2. Flowy shirts that are in style to make me feel cute, despite my post-pregnancy body.
3. Tonight, I will have Sub Zero ice cream (in Provo).
Thanks for the Mary Murphy shout-out!
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!YES, you DID! YES, you DIIIIID!
YES IT WAS, YES IT WAS!
1. Having a child old enough, responsible enough and willing enough to babysit for you.
2. Knitting at the Wool Cabin on 3300 S. in SLC
3.Good Kids/Good Husband
* 2 darling grandsons
* my bishop, who also happens to be my husband, who also happens to have started a blog himself
* the Six O'Clock Scramble menus that show up in my inbox each week so I know what to buy and cook, and it's SO delicious
* Starting "Couch to 5K" this week w/my 13 yr. old, and finding a 5K to run in at the end of our 9 week training program
* The first fat tomato off the vine this morning
* Cold watermelon
* Plane tickets to Ohio to see the first entry above
* A balanced budget I can live with
* Giggling children from the new daycare next door
1. my first plate-sized dahlia in bloom.
2. dinner tomorrow night at THE Tree Room!
3.long walks in the tree streets
4. Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
5. my orange dansko salad=comfortable feet on those long walks mentioned in #3.
Of Good Report [in my life]
1. My babe is crawling!
2. 3 older children who think doing dishes is fun.
3. Will on SYTYCD. He's amazing!
4. This! My children have been coloring away all morning!
5. Junior Mints. The perfect after dinner treat.
Of Good Report:
1. If I pass my classes this semester (which will take a lot of prayer) I will have completed my undergrad. Finally.
2. Next week I'm going to a writers workshop, where I'll get one-on-one time with a prof from one of the top Creative Writing programs in the country.
3. To go to this workshop, I will get to go to Portland for the first time ever.
4. I'm a little scared for the next phase of my life, but I'm oh so excited at the same time.
1. It's Friday! enough said!
2. a good book that I am enjoying reading.
3. a calling in YW's that I love!
4. voicemail.
5. Looking forward to some crafting this weekend.
fluzzy is the way to be. i'm going to stop calling mine frizzy.
* daydreaming of the end of residency and the future that is coming fast
* my children and every day I've been blessed to spend in their company
* in-utero baby movements ... the only part of pregnancy I love
* my garden ready to give fruit
* my husband
My new home and red living room furniture.
Anything chocolate, but lately dark chocolate plain M&Ms.
Goat cheese on/with anything.
The bright moon outside my bedroom window.
Friends.
Finally a day to sleep in (tomorrow).
1. My freshly colored & trimmed, uber-shiney hair.
2. Date with my best friend tonight. (dinner & mamma mia-loved the play)
3. 7 weeks left of pregnancy.
4. Air conditioning.
5. Topher's blog. Love it.
6. A finished nursery & baby's clothes all freshly washed.
7. My boys playing together so nicely.
8. Haagen Daz chocolate/almond ice cream bars in my freezer.
Of Good Report
Capitol Reef
Turning 31
Spin Classes
Puddin on the Rice
My 5 year old riding her bike with no training wheels
My son going to his first week long scout camp
1. A very caring husband who took both little boys camping tonight, the first time I've been alone overnight in years!
2. My husband and little boys who I already miss and it's only dinner time.
3. Turkey-dogs on Whole Wheat buns with Organic sourkraut. mmm!
4. Family coming to visit soon.
5. Watching my 4yr old play T-ball, I think he's in Heaven!
Hooray!
of good report here:
-Meggie is trying the potty-we could be entering diaper-less life after 7 years!
-One week until summer vacation where I get to visit the lovely mountainous mecca (I know most of you are done with summer and ours is still going strong)
-visiting uncle Seven painting the Plano Presby children's wing with my budding little artist
-cousins who are willing to let our tribe crash at short notice
-family reunions (even though mine is heading up the canyon without us this year)
-happy blogs that inspire me to be better, do better, and think better!
-oh and all the comments listing other people's good reports
Thanks!! this is MY report!
I'm seriously intrigued--why do you and Compulsive Writer BOTH include Helsinki as part of your lists?!
I mean, it's TOTALLY part of mine (I get to go soon! Can you SEE me doing the Snoopy happy dance? Haven't been there in--litearally--decades! Talk about Good Report-worthy). Now I'm insanely curious as to what YOUR connection is to the land of the midnight sun.
Aside from Fazer chocolate, of course. That's a given.
Annette, my brother went to Finland on his mission and I was able to go fetch him (with my parents and grandmother). Last night as I was making my list I remembered how beautiful Helsinki was in the August glow. It is a magical place and I'd like to go back.
As for CW, her husband went on a mission there and they both went back for the temple dedication. By all accounts, they had a lovely time too.
Why are you going?
my mission call will {hopefully} arrive tomorrow!
the sun is peaking through the three day alaska rain clouds :)
I just bought the cutest dress
You of course Cjane! This topic really made me think, so I had to do my own little post. You can read it if you want...androsfam.blogspot.com. Thanks for the inspiration. Oh, and I've been meaning to say...my brother was your dad's intern at the legislature this past winter. He had nothing but glowing things to say about your dad and your lovely family. I was jealous he got to meet some of you. :)
Here's my "Of Good Report"
My mom is dying of cancer. That's not the good part. The good part is she feels well enough to take one final trip to Yellowstone with my dad. It is their most favorite place in the world. Honestly, this brings me more joy than even the birth of my children. Okay, maybe it's a close second. But if you want to read all about her struggles with Pancreatic Cancer, and how our family is trying to focus on the small miracles that trials send our way, only in a light-hearted, slightly perverted, super entertaining way, check out her blog at www.paulanoorda.blogspot.com
1. living & breathing
2. green grass, swayin trees and lots of flowers
3. posterity
4. sunshine
5. grace
6. good works
7. chick nite
8. USA
9. flip flops
10.Having a reaason to order a yummy white cake from a baker lady that made the most divine wedding cake for a nephews wedding last summer. I have dreamed of this moment for a year. And yes, it really was that good (even if it does make me ill - somethings are just good enough to suffer for.)
Holy hundred and fifty comments... I just have to 2nd your good report of the shortbread chocolate chip cookie from Flour Girls and Dough Boys. It's my new favorite.
CJane, I lived in Finland for three years when my parents presided over the mission there (mid-80s).
I also visited for the summer when I was really little. Mom's a Finn by birth. Dad served there on his mission.
Currently they're temple president and matron, so we're visiting not only see them but the temple (finally!) and show my hubby around all my old stomping grounds that I haven't seen since I was 13. I hope to catch up with my one friend I'm still in touch with from our elementary school days.
It'll be like going home; can't wait! It won't be quite as pretty as going during the Juhannus (midsummer night)
celebrations, but I'm not complaining--it also won't be in the dead of the freezing cold, DARK winter.
1. Naps
2. Simple meals (hello uncooked tortillas!)
3. Low key summer activities.
4. A baby wiggling inside me.
5. Super-de-duper chocolate milkshake.
I told my 15 month old to go get his shoes AND HE DID.
De-lurking alert! Thanks for a week of smiles. My favorite things include (in no particular order):
1. My husband who bakes homemade bread weekly
2. Gooey chocolate chip cookies my three-year-old requests every time for FHE treats
3. The same three-year-old running full speed into my arms for hugs
4. My five-year-old's booty shake
5. Tummy raspberries eliciting major belly laughs
6. Did I mention chocolate chip cookies yet...?
7. All good books
Percocet after giving birth or having dental work done. Kidding!! (no I'm not)
Only two more months of heat.
In September church will be at 1pm holla! I love to sleep in.
Mama Mia! Oh ok it had some seriously corny and overacted moments but all-in-all "OF GOOD REPORT" and lots of fun.
cjane's blog!! (can't believe no one has said it yet, and you are looking very skinny btw young lady)
PS I just stumbled accross some u tube vids last night of real chupacabres and oh my goodness wow. Didn't even know they were a real thing, hope yours is nicer and more attractive.
My oldest daughter. Love 'em all, but she has been especially delightful this week (same as your blog)
I read often but never commented but your blog rawks.
1. 5 Kids that keep me busy and learning
2. English muffins
3. Making oatmeal chocolate chip cookies
4.Having the crafting bug
5. Getting inspired from other people
6.Feeling called back the your religion
i finally got divorced!
Crystallized Ginger.....
...the ONLY thing getting me through my extreme pregnancy nausea.
Seriously...it's da BOMB!
Food Stamps!
Coming home from a lovely week at YW camp to catch up on blogs and email! Fun!
Thanks everyone for the good reports. I enjoyed reading them all.
1. You of course, where have you been all my life? (Oh that could be a little creepy if you didn't know me).
2. A/C...can't live without it...no wonder I wasn't one of those heroic pioneer women.
3. Sonic's strawberry limeade on Sunday after two hours at the urgent care and pharmacy.
4. Sleeping babes
5. I have so much good in my life I could go on and on.
Girlfriend, I need your number...we must catch up soon!
Hugging you in all your fluzzy-hair splendor [period]
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