This weekend we had some of the best weather, or at least the best we have had in a LONG time. Spent Saturday hiking Bradbury Mountain.

To all my "peeps"..

Happy Easter

artwork

I was presented with this beautiful piece of artwork today, the work of my 8 year old in his second grade art class. Per his explanation it is a dinosaur drinking hot lava out of a volcano, below it is a baby dinosaur and that's a broken tree behind them. I was beaming with pride up until he joyfully told me "mom but that's not the best or funniest part", he then pointed to the detail of dinosaur dung he had also made sure to include. Yup.........mom sure is proud?

The cat stole my nose

8 year old antics are the best on April fools, I woke up this morning fully expecting fake spiders and crazy stories. As the saying goes a "the best defense is a good offense". I woke excited this morning to put on these crazy glasses and a big clown nose go in and kiss my son good morning however I awoke to find only the glasses, big mystery where was my nose?? Disappointed I scraped my plan and later in the day was telling my son about what I had planned to do. He started laughing all excited "that's the funny red ball the cat was playing with last night". Needless to say I have looked in all the cats haunts and my red nose is MIA but at least the mystery is solved.
Have a good April Fools!

Prince Charming

I have been irritable and cranky the last week, I have been unable to shake a cold that's taken up residence in my body. There also have been a number of personal things taking place. That being said I have not been any easy person to live with. Its funny how in our worst moments we take it out on those closest, I guess maybe believing that they will overlook our temporary moments of insanity. In this case I would have to say my victim would be my dear husband, the innocent bystander of my crabbiness.
I have often thought by no means did I pick the most romantic man in the world. I don't receive flowers on a regular basis, he once brought home balloons but from the car to the house they escaped floating off into the air, he has forgotten my birthday, I get last minute drug store valentines day cards and the list goes on.... Like many women I keep score of all his short comings it comes in handy when I need to lay on a good guilt trip.
This week however the smallest gesture reminded me that I am married to a good man, that in his own unique/creative way is indeed a prince charming. He is not good with words, and knowing my rough week and feeling down in the dumps he came home with a big two liter bottle of Diet Dr Pepper. My favorite! He brought it home set it on the counter and just said thought you could use this he then went off to do his own thing.
So we wont be ridding off into the sunset instead we will be curled up on the couch watching Goonies with our son drinking Diet Dr Pepper .... that's a happy ending.

I love this video received it in an email. Evidently T-mobile payed so many dancers to start dancing in the middle of Liverpool station, and as you can see it just caught on. I have personally tried this in the grocery store- I just start dancing to whatever music is playing but all I get is strange looks and my son burring his head in shame--- oh well would be cool to get caught in the middle of something like this. (just follow the link to see video)


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQ3d3KigPQM&eurl=http://rednights.blogspot.com/

8 year old logic

upon seeing a flock of geese today flying in a V formation my son says.........
"I know why they fly in a V.... Its because V stands for vacation and they are just getting back from vacation down south".
You gotta love the innocence in child logic.