Kid Cuteness, November 10, 2015
Zo: "Mommy, don't talk to us, just keep your mouth shut!" (Where did she learn this?)
Luke: "Mommy, what's the part of the sky with the broken bits of stars called?
Me: "Um, the Milky Way?"
Luke: "Yeah."
Zo: "I'm an artist. Don't bother me while I'm painting!"
Luke: "There are no roads at the rodeo."
Luke and Zo, racing around the house when they should be getting ready for bed, laughing like crazy: "Mommy! We're running amok!!"
Zo at the playground: "I just have to go go go go go go go!"
Luke at the library cafe: "Mom, can we check out these fruit snacks?"
Luke anytime I ask him to do something he doesn't want to do, eg, leave the playground, go down for a nap: "No mom, negotiate! We have to negotiate!"
Zo: "I like hot pink. And cold pink."
XO
Grace in Small Things, November 7, 2015
- Sis on the porch under the electric blanket at 25 degrees out this morning..."snug as a bug in a rug," she says...
- And, rocking on her rocking horse, at the tail end of her and Luke playing beautifully together and letting Mommy get some housework done
- Sledding for the first time in front of Daddy's hotel with Mommy pushing them from the top and Daddy catching them at the bottom...the kids loved it....
- A day completely off work...work has lately been seeping into all sorts of nooks and crannies...trying to draw some better boundaries...
- A big big big bright bright bright shooting star seen from the deck last night after the kids went down...I can't decide if the night sky has always been this cool and now with us sitting on the porch each night I'm just noticing it, or if you can really see more up here, so far away from cities...
- 17" snow mid-mountain the past 48 hours...and just 2 1/2 weeks 'til ski season begins...
XO
Making soup at Daddy's hotel
The manager at one of the restaurants at Daddy's hotel brought out a wild assortment of ingredients (fruit loops, mustard, basil, grape jelly, etc) for the kids to make soup for Daddy to try when he joined us. So sweet. Daddy's still trying to come up with a good way to get back at her. :)
XO
Pumpkin patch
I included this last pic because you can see the ski runs with snow in the background...so exciting...
XO
Halloween costume preview
ALL the credit goes to my fabulous mother-in-law for these amazing costumes...
Grace in small things, October 19, 2015
- Sis spending a looooooong time today at the breakfast bar, making sure her rainbows for Grammy and Papa were just perfect
- Rain...lots of it...love it...
- Spagetti with homemade meat sauce for dinner...always feels good when I can get it together enough to get dinner from scratch on the table...more prep over the weekend like I did this past weekend seems to make a difference...
- The kids building "nests" with pillows and blankets in the living room chairs and on the stairs this morning...and the fact that we don't need to be anywhere, so there can be nest-building in PJs until 10:30 or 11:00 if we want...
- No nap = early-ish bedtime tonight (I hope!)
XOXO
Grace in small things: weekend edition (October 18, 2015)
- I won tickets to see Todo Mundo Friday night, and took the kids, who were mesmerized (although we did have to leave early, they couldn't quite make it through the whole show). Great show. And before the show we saw a beautiful red fox up close and personal, he was just waltzing down the sidewalk. And, I found a sweet little grove where we let the kids run around and get some energy out...I want to take pictures of the kids in their Halloween costumes there next week...stay tuned...
- My husband taking the kids out and about while I worked...hate working on the weekend, but so appreciate that he helps...
- Fried oysters by the river at Sunpies...so warm yesterday, once again...and speaking of wildlife, our server said there was a bear in the bushes on the other side of the river that morning
- A great night's sleep last night...and finally feeling somewhat caught up in terms of my endless lists...
- An out-the-back-door hike with Sis this morning to Picnic Rock where the above picture was taken...many of the aspens look like this now...bare or with just a few leaves hanging on. It's raining this afternoon and I have french onion soup bubbling on the stove for dinner...love fall...life is good...
XOXO
Grace in small things, October 15, 2015
- Late afternoon errands with these cuties
- Sitting on the porch at Back Door Burgers for dinner this evening...it must be the last time we'll be able to do that before fall really hits...lol...
- The church bells ringing deep and melodic across the street
- A text from an ABQ friend that meant a lot...
- Sis and Bubs sliding down the fireman pole at the playground for the first time ever
- And speaking of athletic accomplishments...me ringing the bell at the top of the rope at Crossfit this morning...first time I've ever done it...
XO
"The beach," fall edition
Every time we're at "the beach" (aka the creek in front of Daddy's hotel) I think it must be the last trip of the season...we've had such a glorious Indian summer...
A day in the life: October, 2015 edition
Thursday, October 8th, 2015
5:30 AM: Alarm goes off for Crossfit, Mommy decides to go tomorrow instead (and I do go the next day)
6:00: Mommy works
7:45: Kids up. Sis watches Bubble Guppies with Daddy, Luke watches the cement mixer pouring cement at the construction site
8:00: Watch Bubble Guppies, watch construction site antics, Sis gets dressed, Newton goes for a walk, Mommy works
9:00: Bagels with butter (untoasted), grapes, blueberries, avocado, juice, whining, building of a lego tower as a castle for Elsa and Anna dolls, brush dog, wash dog (with Luke in the shower helping me and Zo holding the towel), Luke dressed, laundry
10:00: Right-side-up superhero matching game on the stairs, laundry, dishes, music, legos, making chicken salad with Zo helping with cooking and Luke helping with dishes, Zo saying: "I don't like trucks, I like princesses...they're my best. I like dinosaurs too."
11:00: Fight over who gets to sit in blue breakfast bar chair (there is only one), tears, coloring pictures for Daddy. Zo: "Rainbows are my best." Both kids covering their pictures with shooting stars
11:15: Luke and Zo play "restaurant"
11:30: Bagels left over from breakfast, bread with honey (just honey because Mommy ran out of peanut butter by mistake), cheese, apples, carrot sticks. Kids took turns pretending to be wild dogs with the kid who was the dog eating lunch fed to him/her by the other kid
11:45: Mommy makes errand-y calls, tries to take care of some paperwork, kids play upstairs
12:00: Mommy checks on kids then work call diverts Mommy's attention, kids play upstairs
12:15: Mommy discovers bathroom is covered in water run into the kid's play teapot and then poured on the floor. Yelling, clean up, time outs
12:25: Kids and Mommy walk dog, kids climb on brick wall, we all watch as the trash truck empties trash
1:00: Work call for Mommy, dishes, laundry, make bed, pick up. Kids play
1:30: Mommy works (kind of...it's hard with awake kids) on the blue couch upstairs, kids fight taking a nap, upstairs gets trashed...toys everywhere...
2:30: Naps. Mommy works
4:30: Outing to Daddy's hotel to give him his pictures that the kids drew that morning, beach time (pictured above), butter noodles and milk for dinner at Daddy's hotel, overlooking the mountain as the sun sets...
7:45: Halloween cookies at home
8:00: Bath
8:30: Exhausted mommy asks for help, Daddy gets kids into PJs while Mommy brushes teeth. Kids watch "What does the fox say" music video on Daddy's ipad
9:00: Goodnight to Me-Ma and Daddy, bedtime, which involves being carried up the stairs (Zo must be carried sideways), warmed-up duckie for Luke, back scratchies and songs for both kids (Zo the "fixer upper" troll song from "Frozen," Luke "Man in the moon" by John Denver). Daddy walks the dog
9:15: Mommy has a glass of wine on the porch, watches the stars (Daddy almost always joins in, but not tonight)
9:40: Luke still awake. Says he can't sleep without someone with him (he misses sharing a room with Zo sometimes). Cuddles and love from Mommy
10:00: Bedtime for Mommy
And I wonder why I'm so exhausted at the end of each day, LOL...
XO
