Printing, Printing.

Isn't it FABULOUS that we can do things like print pictures right from our computers? Ink supply be damned, I'm printing an 8x10 for the hallway and I can hang it right away! Perfection. I love, love, love framed photos. I wish I weren't such a nerd.

Sweet as sugar.

I'll tell you what. This Lucy is about at charming as they get. She is just sweet as sugar and so, so darling. She just came out from her room because she forgot her baby. On her was back to bed she said, "I sure love daddy! I really love it when he says, 'hi woocy,' and gives me a big kiss. I love him. He makes-a me so happy! Well, nighty-night!"

So. Darned. Cute.

Today she came up to me and said, "Hey mommy, let's plant apple pie trees today!"

Yes. Let's do!

Gorgeous Day!

Don't you just love the way chalk looks lying around? I do.

I also adore all the soft, new grass coming in! Just wonderful for bare feet and babies!

And speaking of babies, I finally got their hospital stuff into shadow boxes! I'd been meaning to do it absolutely forever, but you know how those things go. I found these on sale at Michael's and boy do they look cute with all those footprints and tiny shirts in them. Brought back so many memories of holding my tiny girls. I need more babies! I think this wood color is what I'm looking for as far as getting their new room together. I think I'm going to try to talk Andrew into buying the bunk bed set up for Lucy's birthday, you know, the ones that can be twin beds or bunk beds. Lucy's room will have two beds in it until we're ready to move Mo in with a little rail on hers. That'll be so soon in the scheme of things! They just grow so fast, don't they??

Just a hiccup or two.

So, they slept well for me last night and we had a terribly productive morning. I cleaned the fridge and the pantry, did the dishes, showered, dressed them both, got us out the door to church, made a return at Target, bought lunch for a picnic and bought shadow boxes at Michael's. I also decided on Lucy's birthday gift and put them both down for naps. Yeah, I'm just that good. I mostly just had to clear our schedule for the afternoon so that we can lay out and get some sun without the house and errands nagging at us. I plan to lay out and watch the girls play until....Thursday.

If you've never thought of moving to a place where you're plan-free, family-free and friend-free, I suggest it. Our weekends are completely blank, our days are lazy and our house is less-than-perfect. No company = no fuss! Not that I fussed much before, but moving to a place where we could disappear into the commotion without a backward glance has been so peaceful. The world just sort of spins around us as we live in our tiny world in our corner lot. Maybe we just deal very well with anonymity and "loneliness?" It's not so much an experience of loneliness, but of solitude. Moving away has been like a very big, long retreat for me. It really does feel like one big vacation down here in Texas. So much so that trying to make plans and stick with them is actually my biggest challenge, where I used to have every minute planned to the last detail. Since moving, my only real plan is....well...who am I kidding? I don't even have one plan. I almost wish I were joking. Molly has a well baby visit next week...yep. That's just about it!

Well, I'm off to fill shadow boxes with sentimental baby items!

Baptism Day!

It's so hard to drag yourself out of the house to go to Church when your spouse is out of town. But today is Benjamin's baptism and I realized that as his baptism is starting, it'll be Communion time here in TX, so we're going and we're going big! We're going to get all gussied up and Lucy and I will attend Mass and pray as Ben is being baptized, since we can't be there in person.
After that, we have a little Target trip and then we'll be here working on our spring cleaning. With the possibility of a move on the very near horizon, we really do need to think about Goodwill trips, eating up the food in the pantry and streamlining some of our routines. I love moving for the sheer fact that it's a great chance to start fresh, get the old stuff out and find a new groove. Bliss.
We already did the pantry and the fridge this morning, and this afternoon we're going to tackle the bathroom closets and Lucy's bedroom. After that, it'll be on to the garage, but I might wait until Andrew is home to help with that, as it requires more talking. So maybe we'll move on to the "holiday closet" next and work through our decorations and the girls' keepsake boxes. I need to update some baby books anyway, so today would be a good day for that.