Week in the Life 2014: Thursday

Today was such a low key day; just the two youngest, the itchy dog and I. The little's played card games of all sorts and carved pumpkins and I made bread, tried to remember to drink my water and cleaned the kitchen. I loved listening to the little's conversations as they played and made lunch together. I loved listening to the rain pound the roof and spatter the windows. I did not love hearing the dog snort, grunt and chew her hot spots all day. I loved listening to my Spotify playlist. (These are the current favorite tunes at our house: The boy likes "Zombie" by Family Force Five, daddy likes "Ten years gone" by Led Zepplin, Fidget's favorite is "All about that Bass" 40's version, Fern likes "Rivers and Roads" by The Head and The Heart and I am singing along to "Wayfaring Stranger" by the Nashville Cast.)
At the end of the day we all ate fresh warm bread with butter, drank tea and daddy shared funny videos with the kids. I loved hearing all the laughter.

Calm days are my favorite days to remember.

Week in the Life 2014: Wednesday

I started today with the intent to remember where our days take us. I tried to notice places: the places we occupy, the roads we travel on. Most of the places we traveled today were not our normal everyday places.

The story of today involved waking in the dark and traveling the scary road to Big Town. We had the dreary task of shopping, running several errands and an orthodontist appointment in the works for our day. It was a dark and stormy day but we managed to squeeze in a trip to Dutch Bros (always a highlight), St.Vinnie's (our favorite book store), the health food store, the pun'kin patch, Dollar Tree (to fill Christmas Shoe Boxes), The Walmarts and Taco Bell. We were caught photographing signs by Daddy and had the rare treat of a brief visit with him during his work day.


When we returned home I was determined to take pictures of different places around the house, things I don't normally photograph. Case in point the ball of my own hair left on the side of the sink as we rushed out this morning. I love our weird sink with its worried "face" in the background. I am very conscious about my hair loss of late. It really freaks me out how much hair I'm loosing in this phase of my life; it's worse than after childbirth hair loss. To add insult, the regrowth of hair is all WHITE!

Making homemade toothpaste is a new development for me. Trying hard to eliminate toxins by making some of my own products. The toothpaste is less than tasty and the kids beg me to buy the old stuff.

Wednesday night kids church...I love these kiddo's.

My BFF Joy made me one of her secret recipe cupcakes. She has that special touch with baked goodies and this beauty was splendid. This was a lovely way to end a long dark day.

Week in the Life 2014: Tuesday

Ah, Tuesday.

THIS! was the first thing I saw this a.m. The dog hair!! arrrrgh! All night long the beloved pooch paced the hall outside my room, scratching and getting into the bathroom garbage...NASTY dude. I will spare you the photo evidence of that little episode.

Today my youngest daughter is sick with what we are calling the tuberculoid chest funk. When she coughs it sounds like a death rattle, it is disturbing. She (and her devoted sibling) spent the day here in front of the T.V. napping/coughing/snoozing/watching/whimpering.

 The flop house. Where school books lay abandoned in favor of Ben Ten.

Tea with a special message for the sick one.  And coffee for me.

The lunch dilemma. It happens every day.  Has to be my least favorite meal of the day.
Thus we had Oatmeal cookies and milk for a starter then we split up some leftover Chinese from our most beloved Chinese Restaurant.

Ironically, Ali and I had the same idea today: we both took shots of our outside life. With a sick kid (and very supportive sibling) sacked out in front of the T.V. all day, I wandered out after lunch and between rain showers to see what I could see. Mostly I saw rot, bugs and rot, moldy rot, sludgy rot and slugs and rain; such is life in the Pacific Northwest.

 My husband gifted me this tree on our 20th Anniversary this year past summer. I am so excited to have lemons on the lemon tree. I sing to this little lemon tree when I'm outside, I love it so much.Grow lemons, grow!

The darkness of these stormy days...I am already over it. I love fall but I am feeling so blah this year.

SO grateful for our wood-stove that keeps us cozy and warm. I am thankful for my hard working husband and kids who procure our winter's worth of wood.

Thankful for this dishwasher, a total score at the local Goodwill and for the mad mechanical skillz of my husband who made it work. I am thankful too for an end to such a long season of hand washing.

My youngest boy-child is 10 and lives by the boy code that showers kill your super powers. His clothes pile on the floor of the bathroom makes me smile.

Stove popped corn is our current favorite snack. We each doctor it up differently. Daddy and Fidget like it best German style (sugar and salt), the boy likes his with Taco Seasoning and Fern and I like it Alfredo style (garlic, butter, parm+ salt and pepper).

Fern doing her school after returning home from work. Such a good girl!

Hubby taking a minute to plan lessons and check up on Facebook land.

I made breakfast for dinner and was heralded as the Coolest/Bestest/Most divine mom on the planet. It was food magic, as my cooking has come to be called.

My man sacked out with a full belly and his favorite book.