Long winded

What does your family do for entertainment? Mine, well, we wash clothes. Simple pleasures. I always like washing and folding the clothes before, I just hate putting clothes away. I know there is a previous post about how I love unfinished projects. Anywhoooo..... Washing clothes is so much more entertaining now, especially since the windows are the perfect height for little boys. Don't you just love these things. You can find me sitting in a chair in the laundry room just washing the clothes tumble. LOVE IT! Like I said, simple pleaures.







So the boys are at the perfect age to begin chores. Today Hunter learned to sort the laundry, and we loaded the washer together. Woo Hoo! It was a good time. He had a lot of fun tossing clothes in to piles. I have forgotten how even a menial task can actually be made fun. Austin was busy with dad rinsing out soda cans and milk and juice containers to put in the recycling buckets. Not that there was a lot, but enough for a little be good to your planet talk. He was more intrigued with the idea that we get to make money off our garbage.

I've been a terrible recycler. It has always made me feel guilty that I threw the stuff away. Cans we always recycled, but bottles and plastic and paper just made it's way to the big trash bin. It was hard with the boys when they were little, when I had little time to even clean myself, let alone properly clean my home. So if it was done, it was in the trash. Many a guilty days. Now, the boys are in recycle training and so excited because they get the cash, and when they're psyched about a getting a nickle, this is like hitting the lotto for them.


And speaking of recycled paper, I've been having some guilt about all the scrap stuff that just sits in my room. At least a rainforest full of paper sits there unused. Audrey's PTA is holding a fair at the school, and one thing they are raffling is a scrapbooking basket. So, on National Scrapbook Day (yes, there really is a day for us) while so many obsessed scrappers are out there making use of their goods, I will be cleaning up my scraproom, and finding stuff to donate to Audrey's PTA group. Lucky me, I should see her for lunch tomorrow because she is in Sac at a PTA conference, but returns to LA tomorrow. I was supposed to meet for dinner yesterday, but I have an allergy induced sinus infection.


One thing is for sure I'm not getting rid of my Bam Pop paper. It's making it's way on so many of my layouts! I did this one of Hunter for IDOS. Yes, I know, another terrible scan. I think I just need a larger scanner so I don't have to do the whole photomerge stich deal. I just suck at it. Anyway, I just love the BamPop paper, and just cut away and use little pieces on about every layout I do. So obsessed. Even the label strip makes it on my layouts. I think this is the second time I used the little strip under a picture instead of tossing it.

Hunter is such a dreamer. So cool to have captured that look in a picture.

Little man is about to lose his 1st tooth. Bottom left tooth is loose as a goose (whatever that means-do geese have loose bowel habits or are they an easy catch for a little sexy fowl play?). The other front bottom tooth is getting lose as well. He's so excited about the prospect of a tooth fairy visit and being able to to turn in his teeth for money. They're growing up ===fast. (those equal signs were supposed to remind you of speedy smoke trails behind a fast moving object. I guess if I had to explain it, I'm assuming others are not quite the match for my dorkiness).


By now you're thinking "No kidding about the long winded!" But that wasn't really my point with the title of the post. Well, sorta, because I haven't blogged in a while and had a lot to say. But really it was a clue to where I just came back from. I'll give you a hint:




or even a better hint is:



Love the do's in the wind. The only things keeping my hair from looking like the bride of frankenstein is all the wax I put in my hair, and that little blue felt barrett. Did you get it already? THE WINDY CITY????? Chicago, Baby! Absolutley loved it. Loved the cleanliness, the friendliness, and the floweriness, and the foodliness, and drinkliness, architechtureness and the story of Elliott Ness with all the mobster heiness of Al Caponess. Very cool city. Gained 4 pounds in 4 days, with non-stop walking. Ofcourse a lot of non-stop drinking and eating, but you know. Gotta go back some day. So much to do, see and eat. If I had to move anywhere, that is where I would move. LOVED IT!

So, what have you been up to?