So I haven't kept up with everyday, but I have been thinking about blogging much more often than usual. I will take that as a step in the right direction of getting back into the swing of things.
I've been lots of places... even bringing the camera along... only to remember that I took the SD card out to download pictures. UGH! Do you KNOW how frustrating that is?!? VERY, VERY frustrating.
THURSDAY: I do have a picture on my phone of my feet... at the midnight showing of Harry Potter (taken around 2345 -- that would be 11:45pm for my non-military friends). That's right. I left Rob and 5 kids (JP is here visiting -- yay!) to go to the movies. Awesome!
FRIDAY: We went back to Johnson Shut Ins for a day in the river. Awesome, again. Super bummed that I forgot the camera. Though, sometimes it is nice not to have it. Then I'm not always worried about it getting wet and I'm able to completely enjoy where I am. I actually got all the way in the river! I got Bones and Bubba to come out with me and float (with their lifevests). Fun, fun! Those are the times, though, that I wish there were people taking pictures everywhere. Like those camera people at Disney who know where to be and just scan your card so you can get your pictures when you're done for the day... yeah, I like those guys :-)
TODAY: Who knows where my feet will go. They are about to go outside and give my little Bones a haircut. Fresh mohawk, here we come :-)
Where are YOUR feet taking you today?!?
Saturday, July 16, 2011
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
Catch up... but no pictures :-(
Sunday, my feet really only went to church. I took my camera... but forgot my SD card, so couldn't take any.
Monday, my feet stayed home all day... quite a boring day for pictures. I made watermelon rind pickles (jury's still out on whether they are good or not -- but they are definitely NOT Grandma Harris's pickles!) and pizza dough.
Today, we also stayed home all day. I guess that's just what happens when it is 98 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees. You just stay put. I was mean today, though... and made my kids have a TV free day! I am amazed at how upset they get. It just makes me want to have more TV free days. I was also very quickly impressed at their imaginations. Today, there were aliens, robots, T-rexs and all sorts of things in my house! And I loved it!
Tonight, I am thankful for:
1) yummy salad for dinner. Ever had one of those wedge salads? You know, iceburg lettuce, bacon bits, blue cheese crumbles, boiled egg and red onion with ranch dressing? Delicious -- even made at home :-)
2) Slowly, but surely, the playroom is getting cleaned out -- bags filled with goodies for Goodwill are ready to go (just don't tell the kids, deal?)
3) Audiobooks that I can listen to over and over again while I clean (Harry Potter series, Twilight series, etc). It really is nice to be read to while you're doing something you don't really want to do!
4) A neighborhood where kids come out at 8pm because that's the only time it is cool enough to play outside.
5) Rob doing his hydrology homework... it means I get to do math! And I really, really like math :-)
Monday, my feet stayed home all day... quite a boring day for pictures. I made watermelon rind pickles (jury's still out on whether they are good or not -- but they are definitely NOT Grandma Harris's pickles!) and pizza dough.
Today, we also stayed home all day. I guess that's just what happens when it is 98 degrees with a heat index of 110 degrees. You just stay put. I was mean today, though... and made my kids have a TV free day! I am amazed at how upset they get. It just makes me want to have more TV free days. I was also very quickly impressed at their imaginations. Today, there were aliens, robots, T-rexs and all sorts of things in my house! And I loved it!
Tonight, I am thankful for:
1) yummy salad for dinner. Ever had one of those wedge salads? You know, iceburg lettuce, bacon bits, blue cheese crumbles, boiled egg and red onion with ranch dressing? Delicious -- even made at home :-)
2) Slowly, but surely, the playroom is getting cleaned out -- bags filled with goodies for Goodwill are ready to go (just don't tell the kids, deal?)
3) Audiobooks that I can listen to over and over again while I clean (Harry Potter series, Twilight series, etc). It really is nice to be read to while you're doing something you don't really want to do!
4) A neighborhood where kids come out at 8pm because that's the only time it is cool enough to play outside.
5) Rob doing his hydrology homework... it means I get to do math! And I really, really like math :-)
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Saturday's feet
My feet went all over today! And boy are they tired :-)
My girls and I joined two neighbors (plus their girls) in going to visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder home and museum today. Mine are the feet in the brown sandals at about 6 o'clock!
All of the girls (ranging from 7-10yr old) have read at least two books (okay... my girls have only read two of the seven books. The other girls -- all 10 yrs old -- have read all seven), so we thought it was a great girls' trip since we are so close to Mansfield, Missouri. Quite a crooked trip, complete with car sickness, but worth it!
Here are some of my favorite pictures from today:
At the farmhouse
I just loved this outside light
At the Rock House
My girls
After the fun of a girls' day out, we didn't stop! After dinner, I walked with my favorite 8 year old (and the rest of the family, but their feet aren't in the picture) to a park about a mile from home.
Most of us ran... including this guy! He was great (until on the way back... about 1/4 mile from the house, he had meltdown and wanted to be picked up, but that's okay. He was great.
Said meltdown...
While at the park, my feet got some much needed time in the swing :-)
Tonight I am thankful for:
1) Rob, who doesn't think twice when I tell him I want to leave at 8am on a Saturday with the girls and leave him (with the boys) -- just because.
2) Finding some yummy marinades on sale at the commissary. Gives Rob's favorite (insert sarcasm here...) chicken quite a variety. He may even like it now :-) Sometimes...
3) Wonderful neighbors (who may think I'm weird for taking a picture of their feet, but go along with it anyway)
4) A night with nice weather and not too many bugs at the park!
5) Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family... and only five more days until I {once again} stay up WAY too late to watch a midnight showing of the new and final Harry Potter movie :-) I know... I'm a dork :-)
My girls and I joined two neighbors (plus their girls) in going to visit the Laura Ingalls Wilder home and museum today. Mine are the feet in the brown sandals at about 6 o'clock!
All of the girls (ranging from 7-10yr old) have read at least two books (okay... my girls have only read two of the seven books. The other girls -- all 10 yrs old -- have read all seven), so we thought it was a great girls' trip since we are so close to Mansfield, Missouri. Quite a crooked trip, complete with car sickness, but worth it!
Here are some of my favorite pictures from today:
At the farmhouse
I just loved this outside light
At the Rock House
My girls
After the fun of a girls' day out, we didn't stop! After dinner, I walked with my favorite 8 year old (and the rest of the family, but their feet aren't in the picture) to a park about a mile from home.
Most of us ran... including this guy! He was great (until on the way back... about 1/4 mile from the house, he had meltdown and wanted to be picked up, but that's okay. He was great.
Said meltdown...
While at the park, my feet got some much needed time in the swing :-)
Tonight I am thankful for:
1) Rob, who doesn't think twice when I tell him I want to leave at 8am on a Saturday with the girls and leave him (with the boys) -- just because.
2) Finding some yummy marinades on sale at the commissary. Gives Rob's favorite (insert sarcasm here...) chicken quite a variety. He may even like it now :-) Sometimes...
3) Wonderful neighbors (who may think I'm weird for taking a picture of their feet, but go along with it anyway)
4) A night with nice weather and not too many bugs at the park!
5) Harry Potter weekend on ABC Family... and only five more days until I {once again} stay up WAY too late to watch a midnight showing of the new and final Harry Potter movie :-) I know... I'm a dork :-)
Last night's feet
Last night, my feet and Rob's feet took a walk up the street...
Then my feet kissed Rob's feet :-)
But this was all after my feet found Bubba hiding in a pile of mess on the floor behind the chair...
Then my feet kissed Rob's feet :-)
But this was all after my feet found Bubba hiding in a pile of mess on the floor behind the chair...
Thursday, July 7, 2011
Hmm... no feet, but thankfuls!
I don't have any feet pictures today... mainly because my feet didn't take me out of the house today (other than watering the plants and walking the dog). I did make a new friend on one of my short trips outside:
He was really booking around the table trying to get away from me. I wouldn't get too close because I had an image in my head of it jumping onto my lens.
I got every bit of linoleum in our house scrubbed, though. Scrubbed... as in, hands and knees, bucket of bleach water scrubbed :-)
Tomorrow will be another feet not going anywhere kind of day. That's right. I'm vacuuming tomorrow. Oh the life...
Seriously, though, i don't mind days like this. Days that are semi-productive but that don't feel rushed. My kids all played (relatively) nicely together. Yes, there were dolls, blankets and every kind of ball imaginable on the floor by noon, but I'll take that over screaming at each other any day!
On another note... our church started a new sermon series a couple of weeks ago. I'm behind. Last week, we were supposed to start keeping a continuous list of things we are grateful for. Sounds like my Thankfuls will come back! Now that I'm trying to post a picture a day, hopefully I'll stick with it better than last time!
So... tonight's thankfuls
1) We caught up on So You Think You Can Dance. We missed last week's results, yesterday's competition and tonight's results. Makes me want to take a dance class, I tell you!
2) I made cupcakes for something... oh, dinner with friends the other night. Then I made a second batch for our end-of-season baseball party. I also made two different types of icing... strawberry cream cheese that is AWESOME (and i don't know if I can reproduce, since I kind of just did the little of this/little of that thing) and an almond butter cream (my all time favorite). Why is this a thankful? Because I made too much icing... both kinds! So, we have two small Tupperware containers of icing that make everything better! Toast? Sure, have some strawberry cream cheese on there!
3) Bathrooms, kitchen, and dining room all have clean floors and baseboards!
4) The house smells like Clorox. Which, if you grew up in our house, you know is the smell of clean :-)
5) Finished listening to another book. I really am addicted to audio books. My sister started me reading Tracy Chevalier... this was the third book of hers that I've read/heard. This one was Burning Bright. Good book, but like many Chevalier's books, ends a bit abruptly with me wanting to know more. I guess that's a measure of good character development -- wanting to find out more about their lives.
He was really booking around the table trying to get away from me. I wouldn't get too close because I had an image in my head of it jumping onto my lens.
I got every bit of linoleum in our house scrubbed, though. Scrubbed... as in, hands and knees, bucket of bleach water scrubbed :-)
Tomorrow will be another feet not going anywhere kind of day. That's right. I'm vacuuming tomorrow. Oh the life...
Seriously, though, i don't mind days like this. Days that are semi-productive but that don't feel rushed. My kids all played (relatively) nicely together. Yes, there were dolls, blankets and every kind of ball imaginable on the floor by noon, but I'll take that over screaming at each other any day!
On another note... our church started a new sermon series a couple of weeks ago. I'm behind. Last week, we were supposed to start keeping a continuous list of things we are grateful for. Sounds like my Thankfuls will come back! Now that I'm trying to post a picture a day, hopefully I'll stick with it better than last time!
So... tonight's thankfuls
1) We caught up on So You Think You Can Dance. We missed last week's results, yesterday's competition and tonight's results. Makes me want to take a dance class, I tell you!
2) I made cupcakes for something... oh, dinner with friends the other night. Then I made a second batch for our end-of-season baseball party. I also made two different types of icing... strawberry cream cheese that is AWESOME (and i don't know if I can reproduce, since I kind of just did the little of this/little of that thing) and an almond butter cream (my all time favorite). Why is this a thankful? Because I made too much icing... both kinds! So, we have two small Tupperware containers of icing that make everything better! Toast? Sure, have some strawberry cream cheese on there!
3) Bathrooms, kitchen, and dining room all have clean floors and baseboards!
4) The house smells like Clorox. Which, if you grew up in our house, you know is the smell of clean :-)
5) Finished listening to another book. I really am addicted to audio books. My sister started me reading Tracy Chevalier... this was the third book of hers that I've read/heard. This one was Burning Bright. Good book, but like many Chevalier's books, ends a bit abruptly with me wanting to know more. I guess that's a measure of good character development -- wanting to find out more about their lives.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Where my feet went today...
On the treadmill -- ugh
To our little garden... with our one red tomato
though we have lots and lots of little green ones... they're just not ready yet :-)
To our little garden... with our one red tomato
though we have lots and lots of little green ones... they're just not ready yet :-)
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Where do your feet go?
I've decided (in an effort to start blogging again), that I'm going to start a new series on here. Where my feet go. So, I'm going to start with this one...
from this weekend. Johnson's Shut Ins, MO
Maybe this will keep my camera close too ;-)
from this weekend. Johnson's Shut Ins, MO
Maybe this will keep my camera close too ;-)
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