fat and happy...

i hope

your weekend is filled with sun that shines in your face

opportunities to scratch what itches

and 

hours of just laying around in the outdoors

*

{this is our neighbor's fat cat that acts like a dog and makes me laugh}

little house on the prairie.....

it's not really a little house. it's a log cabin.

it's not really on a prairie. it's on a huge lot with overgrown pine trees.

and

it's for sale

we don't want the log cabin

but the land would be amazing

it sits far off the beaten path

so every now and then we stop by

just to visit

the cabin really needs to be pushed over and made into firewood

but 

the handmade porch with the tree growing in the middle of it is pretty sweet

even with our miserable spring

life is growing at the neglected cabin

{does anyone else see a heart in the flowers above}

funny isn't it

how plants grow and make us feel alive

even when deep down 

we feel a bit stunted 

from what winters left behind

*

waiting....

waiting

for

 my energy to come back

tank tops and flip flops to be worn on this beaten down by winter body

something grilled for dinner every night especially salmon

something exciting in my life to happen

a new house

sophie to stop throwing her full water dish around

at least one night a week where i sleep like a log

my migraines to get under control

the heat to stop kicking on

my overly plucked eyebrows to grow back in

my legs to magically look tanned

next weeks "the voice" since i totally fell in love with the episode that aired tuesday night

all the stuff in the basement for our garage sale to magically price itself

just a smidgen of inspiration to make me feel alive

~

what are you waiting for

*

a bit brisk.....

it's been raining here and much cooler than what it should be.

 they said this is the coldest spring we've had in the past 15 years. as puny as we've all been feeling around here because of the weather, i'm not sure it was necessary to tell us that. 

~

how about telling us something along the lines 

of how this cool weather is making all the mosquitos move south to breed and there won't be any left here to chew up our bodies come summer. now that's news.

today

i have

a u-haul to rent for my son

a package to mail

a trip to verizon so they can hopefully fix my phone that doesn't get emails anymore

a butt to kick at walgreens for a prescription screw-up

and

a jacket to buy for my daughter who's running her first race this weekend

~

happy hump day to you

all about the kids.....

and 

off they went 

on what turned out to be a fantastic sunny spring day

 my hubby and my brother-in-law hid the eggs

~

some of them were in broad daylight

 some of them weren't

 there were special spotted eggs in which the kids could only get one of and they weren't supposed to look inside them until the very end. T you are so busted.

 i think my sister's chickens heard the word eggs and got a bit nervous

 toby actually got in on the action and found an egg underneath a rock before the kids did

~

for linner {that's lunch and dinner in case you didn't you know} we had ham and mashed potatoes and sweet potatoes and cheesy broccoli with french fried onions and grape salad and deviled eggs and home baked bread and and and....shoot, i know i'm forgetting something. let's just say we ate really well like we always do. for dessert we literally inhaled my sister's frosted cut out cookies that are out of this world.

~

like i knew there would be, a loud and outrageous ping pong tournament took place. my hubby kicked butt. there were also games of pool, trampoline jumping and flipping, a bit of stick ball and frisbee throwing and even some dancing.

~

it was pretty much a perfect easter

*

and

now i have to share what was on the front of an easter card my sister had

::

"susie, where did you hide the easter eggs at?"

"mary, how many time have i told you not to end a sentence with a preposition?"

"susie, where did you hide the easter eggs at bitch?"

*

*

how was your easter

?

happy easter

as you go....

may the roads you travel this weekend be far and wide

with love

finding you around every corner

~

may your loved ones make you laugh and fill you up

and

may your nights bring you star filled skies to get lost in

*

happy easter

a little of this....

a little of that

~

this lamb, or is it a sheep, is a photo i took last year

~

this year i'm turning it into a greeting card

i found this on a tumblr site i love

~

personally

i think it should be blown up and made into a canvas

and

hung in all of our homes

~

i have had easter at my house the past four years, but this year my little sister who hosts everything is having it and i am grateful for that. you see, when our kids moved out, everything in our finished basement went with them and now we have nothing

left to entertain her kids or mine.

we just recently gave to my sister the only thing left behind. the ping pong table. and i know without question, after we are stuffed full of ham and potatoes, there will be a knock down drag out ping pong tournament and i will place my bet now

that my hubby will whoop everyone's butt. he always does.

~

here's "hopping" you all have an amazing easter weekend

{get it...hopping instead of hoping}

~

now i'm off to fill 72 eggs with goodies

~

wow

that's a job i pretty much love

*

hippity hoppity easter's on its way.....

did anyone else cringe last night when steven tyler swore

~

now granted

i can swear with the best of them and throw an f bomb like there's no tomorrow

but

all i could picture were the innocent nine year old girls

sitting all excited in the audience

wondering why all of sudden the adult sized hands attached to the arms of their parents

had grabbed them into a death grip while trying to cover up their ears

~

even randy was mortified. did you see him on his feet motioning a time out with his hands.

come on steven. grow up. we've come to love you. don't ruin it now.

did anyone watch oprah tuesday

with the 61 year old grandmother who gave birth to her own grandson

~

all i can say

is that i would done the exact same thing

but

now to be a bit snarky

did anyone notice the son-in-law and how when he laughed

his entire body shook and made him look kind of goofy

[maybe it was just me]

~

oh

and

then did you see oprah yesterday

all i can say

is that i plan on seeing

"I AM"

as soon as it comes to town

~

by any chance have you been following this blog

a really really bad broken leg. traction. a non-stop 19 month old.

this mother deserves a reward

~

i just can't help myself....

i love my turtles

and

when i looked at this photo from last week

[that i took prior to the %#*^&@^ snow storm that blew in here yesterday]

it made me smile

~

and

then it reminded me of all of you

of all of us

and

how in this crazy world of blogging

we hang in there 

together

how we're there for each other

through the good and the bad

the ugly and the sad

and

i just wanted to say

thank you

*

but why mom....

why is it snowing again

~

you said spring was here

you said your bad ass self found it and that you'd kicked winter to the curb

for good

i'm not sure if i can trust you or the weatherman ever again

what. a treat. did you say treat. 

did you say a treat will make everything better or are you pulling my leg

"little miss spring is here oh lah di dah"

maybe i'll just go back to bed and sleep until june

my bad ass self....

anyone who knows me 

will tell you that it's next to impossible for me to not smile

so

when i decided yesterday 

that i was going off in search of spring

since it's not coming to me

i had to dress for the role

no smile

{as i was in work mode with a job in front of me}

boots

scarf

aviators

all add up to and equal

my bad ass self

immediately i found a yard full of these dancing blue flowers

and 

i smiled 

then there was this purple bud

and

this totally cool bud

standing proud like the olympic torch

these little white flowers caught my eye

since there were hundreds of them

and

this fuzzy wuzzy was a bear

bud

was waving at me

fungi

or whatever you call this 

{it looks like seashells hanging on for dear life to me}

isn't necessarily springy

but

i loved it

and

to find tulips someplace other than the flower section at whole foods

well

let me tell you what a treat that was

this bud looks similar to the purple one above

but

it was different

~

maybe they're relatives

and

now i want to go back and steal this planter

~

i pretty much love her

~

and

look

she's not smiling

~

i guess she's a bad ass planter 

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there you have it...

after talking about what my day yesterday would look like

~all while being effusive~ 

one of you asked me to take my camera along

and

i did

{from this angle my close set eyes make me look cross eyed. thanks hubby. love you}

so

here i am

at

the glitter workshop

making my bracelet

~

stamping

painting 

sanding

the room lighting wasn't enough for me at this point

and

i had to wander over to the lamp to see my jump rings

{old age setting in}

and

wha-la

all of that
for
$8.00
~
sweet
right
~
i, for the life of me, could not get the link for the glitter workshop to work correctly
so
if you want more information about the store and the workshops or make and takes
which is what this was
just google her
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