made & crafted

do you ever wish you could do this?

me either.

12 inch voices

hey, random lady who just walked in, who probably thinks that this store is actually the store next door, please stop humming. i am almost 100% positive that you have never really heard little black submarines by the black keys. humming something imaginary and random, thinking that it goes along/sounds like/is complementary to the actual song is not only a delusion, it is annoying.

when the going gets tough

last week was a little rough.

esther margaret ran a very high fever for three days. the only times she would get up was if she saw me eating cheese or the little einstein's theme song came on.

claire got into another fight and had her third brush with death in a year.

amid the chaos, i didn't realize that our house was getting so filthy it looked and smelled like a barn. by the end (they are both fine), our dining table was covered in unfinished projects, tools, bicycle parts, syringes and medicine for claire, and everything that our very cranky and sick child would want to grab and put in her mouth. the floors, after not being swept for a week living with four dogs and constant in and out traffic, looked like a dusty bacterial carpet was starting to form over the wood. the washer was full of things either stained by urine or vomit. it was so dirty that it kind of looked like either you were in the house of someone really insane and old or you were in the projects.

now that things are back to normal, the house is clean again and esther margaret no longer looks like a miniature woolly mammoth after she's been walking around the house.

recycle

joining in one of our family's favorite activities...

for lesley, forever ago

happy birthday ben

putting up of the dukes

today a kid bit esther margaret at miss pattie's. i guess i'm not the only one who thinks her cheeks are irresistible.