It's Time

My mother used to say, "The days are long, but the years move fast".  I didn't grasp what she was saying until I was a mother myself.  Some days and weeks can be extremely long.  Months even, but years....... they go by so fast............

Note the lips trying hard not to smile.  What ever you do...... don't smile and show teeth.  Even when your whacked out mom is trying to make you laugh.

Steady!  Steady!  HA!  Can't do it!  Not when you've a freak like me for a mum.

Sorry.  Got caught up in the moment.  Back to time passing all too quickly.  For 19 years I have been adding little ones to my nest.  Seven of them.  Adding, adding, adding, not really believing that someday they'd actually start leaving.  A week ago yesterday Mr. B moved out.  He is living closer to the University where he is going to college.  I can not believe the nerve!  That a college age boy would rather live away from home with his best friend enjoying the life of a college student than live at home with his mother!  Didn't I just bring him home from the hospital?  Oh yeah.......  that was 19 very short and fast years ago.......

Time.  It never stops or waits for anyone.  Make the most of time..............

Pink

This morning when I got up, I could see a pink hue around all of the blinds that weren't open yet.  The Natives noticed that everything looked pink too.  We opened the blinds, looked outside, and everything was pink!

You know what this means don't you.................

Me thinks we had some visitors up to no good....................

Either the Cat in the Hat came to visit or the smog in the air is getting bad.  I'm going to pretend the pink is from the Cat in the Hat and go back to bed.  Hopefully when I wake up the 'mess' will be cleaned up and we can all breathe a nice sigh of clean air relief!

Something Is Missing

This has got to be one of my most favorite stages a child goes through.  Those two front teeth missing.  So darling.  So adorable.  So lispy.  

The ability to stick objects between your teeth, and the ability to spit lovely liquids between your teeth.

I still stand on my opinion that who ever came up with the idea of the Tooth Fairy is nuts though.  No amount of adorability is going to change my opinion on that...........  

Winter. Cold. Dark. Lego's. Magic.

Block City

by Robert Louis Stevenson

What are you able to build with your blocks?

Castles and palaces, temples and docks.

Rain may keep raining, and others go roam,

But I can be happy and building at home.

Let the sofa be mountains, the carpet a sea,

There I'll establish a city for me:

A Kirk and a mill and a palace beside,

And a harbour as well where my vessels may ride.

Great is the palace with pillar and wall,

A sort of a tower on the top of it all,

And steps coming down in an orderly way

To where my toy vessels lie safe in the bay.

This one is sailing and that one one is moored:

Hark to the song of the sailors on board!

And see on the steps of my palace, the kings

Coming and going with presents and things!

Now I have done with it, down let it go!

All in a moment the town is laid low.

Block upon block lying scattered and free,

What is there left of my town by the sea?

Yet as I saw it, I see it again,

The Kirk and the palace, the ships and the men,

And as long as I live and where'er I may be,

I'll always remember my town by the sea.  

Angel Kisses

A Good Boy

By Robert Louis Stevenson

I woke up before the morning, I was happy all the day,

I never said an ugly word, but smiled and stuck to play.

And now at last the sun is going down behind the wood,

And I am very happy, for I know that I've been good.

My bed is waiting cool and fresh, with linen smooth and fair,

And I must off to sleepsin-by, and not forget my prayer.

I know that, till to-morrow I shall see the sun arise,

No ugly dream shall fright my mind, no ugly sight my eyes.

But slumber hold me tightly till I waken in the dawn,

And hear the thrushes singing in the lilacs round the lawn.

Happy Dance

Levi got one of these...........

Because he has kept one of these dry for almost a week now!!!

There are happy dances........ and then there are HAPPY DANCES!!!

Aww Poop

This morning I opened up my blinds and saw this loverly on my window.

And then I looked down and saw this...........

I think today would be a good day to look up and beyond what is front of my nose.

Like the fact that I am almost done with this project so I can finally get my baby sis' family Christmas gift off in the mail to her before the weather is too warm for what I've knit for them.

I was instructed as Mr. J went out the door for school to take care of Mr. Giraffe.  Mr. Giraffe can keep me company while I finish up my knitting project.  We'll think happy positive thoughts together.  Things like, how grateful I am that Mr. Giraffe is stuffed with stuffing and doesn't poop and how when Levi got up this morning his diaper was dry!!  One can hope..............