So it was a good Christmas and New Year, but busy. Back and forth to the Rio Grande Valley before and after Christmas, house guests for the holiday itself, some sick kids who got better before too much vacation got eaten up by it, a trip to Mexico, a dog who somehow ripped an entire …
...the busy season! And toss a couple of birthdays in the mix too, while we're at it! So real quick blast through this today: Had the youngest's 4th birthday earlier today. I even baked the cake and the husband made homemade beans for the chalupas. Balloons were blown up. The party was from 11am to 1pm then …
Okay, where to start. Maybe Thanksgiving makes sense. We went out of town for Thanksgiving, which was fun- but a definite high point was getting to go to Mexico for an afternoon with my husband and his brother and my sister in law. (brother and sister in law? Husband's brother and wife? How to freaking …
Continue reading Crafts and Mexico Visit and the Garden in December
(Also words that rhyme w/ bundt cake that I wish I had worked into the title somehow: pepper steak, milk snake, heartache, daybreak and disc break.) Forgive your punch-drunk tired blogger over here- I was up with an inexplicably awake toddler almost all night. She wasn't sick (though she had been earlier in the week, …
Happy to report there have been no more dead possum incidents, though the dog has started digging in the garden... so couple solid weeks of "that's a bad dog" around here. It isn't too bad- he's picked spots that needed to be turned over, so if he would just stop kicking the dirt into the …
Continue reading The Texas Garden in November, Mostly Citrus Edition
...you make lemonade. Now, when life gives you explosive 90lb dog diarrhea at 6 am all over the kitchen... the best you can do is say that at least the rest of the day has to all be up from there. Be an optimist about it- yeah! But the next morning, when you find the …
I am resolved to stop with beginning blog posts with "It's been a busy couple of weeks..." Considering we have three kids, multiple house projects, two full time jobs, and holidays and visitors moving through the calendar and house that is obviously a "no shit, it'll be like that till ya die" statement. So like, …
