3!!!

We made our own cupcakes!

Cupcakes! We love cupcakes!










Presents! Yay!

We bowled! She loves bowling.

She won!

Starting Over

It has been a lifetime since I've posted to this blog. I am now expecting Chief Jr. who is due to make his appearance any day. We are insanely excited and I am insanely exhausted. I have been putting all of my energy into making special times with Little Miss before Chief Jr. arrives. Today we went to her Little Sprouts class, spent lunch with Maw & Paw, scrounged around the thrift store for anything white and then made it home to tie dye. This was our first time tie dying together and needless to say that tie dying with a toddler is...interesting. after we sprayed and splashed the whole drive way with color Little Miss covered herself in wet sand and played with the hose. Things had become very messy when she announced she was itchy (a mosquito bit her) and she was "going in to take a bath". Thank goodness for small favors. My swollen feet are covered in dye and my fingers are blueish green, if fate has it I will go into labor looking like a smurf.

Great thrift store finds today: white pillowcases and cloth napkins (for tie dying of course), two Winnie the Pooh books (.60/ea) and a Curious George book (.80), a book titled "The Princess and the Potty" which LM loved, an orange child's construction hat and a lovely jewelry box for LM that I neglected to take a real before shot of but I will take a mid-way and post. Total $13.00

UgghhhhhArrrrggghhhh Really?

I have a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. My husband was laid off in May and now my part-time job (10-15 hours per week) that sustained us has reorganized. They would like me to work 30 hours a week. I can't I just can't. When asked if I would like to pick up "a few" hours I thought maybe so but now I want to barf.

I don't want to lose the few hours I do work but I have a picture of the most beautiful girl in the world on my desk and I just can't let her grow up with other people. I love our days at the zoo when all of the other kids are in school, our interesting nature walks and our days with no plans at all.

I am feeling an extreme amount of pressure with Chief out of work. I also feel sick that I will alienate people in a place that I intend to return to work full-time someday. So trust me folks, I know how hard it can be to stay home as much as possible.

I would like to thank Clover Lane for reminding me "What Not to Regret". I have referred to that post time and time again. I can only hope that it will not cause any difficulties for me in the future. If it does, I'm sure I'll survive...after all, no one gets out of life alive.

I am Not a Guinea Pig-Healthy Child Healthy World

Yoga for Toddlers

Last night I attended a Yoga for Toddlers workshop. Little Miss is a super active lady and she already loves doing some yoga poses. I have to say that I loved the class. I loved the whole concept of the non-profit studio. The work that this person does is amazing. Working in inner city schools, with children with disabilites, with hyperactive children, etc. She obtains grants and does amazing work. I think I have found something amazing, something I may like to do. I truly believe that Gandhi was correct when he said "If we wish to create lasting peace, we must start with the children". I have been searching for something that would fill my desire for holistic living, be a business but also benefit society (through community service) and help children. I love it! Not only that but there is no location for this in our area, the nearest location is the place I went to last night and it is over 25 miles away. I am so excited!

How to Simplify Give Away

Head on over to How to Simplify to take a chance to win a Calphalon tube pan and Calphalon bakeware set. While you're there grab up her yummy pound cake recipe. Good luck!

All I Can Do Is Write About It

This song reminds me about what is important, it takes me right back to the country with my relatives. I'm really feeling it right now. My crochet is coming along nicely, I'll post some photos soon.

All I Can Do Is Write About It
Lynyrd Skynyrd

Well this life that I've lead has took me everywhere
There ain't no place I ain't never gone
But its kind of like the saying that you heard so many times
Well there just ain't no place like home
Did you ever see a she-gator protect her young
Or a fish in a river swimming free
Did you ever see the beauty of the hills of Carolina
Or the sweetness of the grass in Tennessee
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

Do you like to see a mountain stream a-flowin'
Do you like to see a youngun with his dog
Did you ever stop to think about, well, the air your breathin'
Well you better listen to my song
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes

I'm not tryin' to put down no big cities
But the things they write about us is just a bore
Well you can take a boy out of ol' Dixieland
But you'll never take ol' Dixie from a boy
And Lord I can't make any changes
All I can do is write 'em in a song
I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes
'Cause I can see the concrete slowly creepin'
Lord take me and mine before that comes