the (boys actually in their costumes) photo. :)
10.31.2012
10.28.2012
i know it seems like i'm not doing anything but making a cloud costume
i was happily immersed in creating these halloween costumes for my boys for the last few days.
a prop plane for joseph.
you know, like they go together? guess how long they wore them at tonight's trunk or treat? joseph would not put the plane on at all. and jude was a sad cloud turned grumpy cloud turned so squirmy cloud that we stepped out of the hot dog line to take off the cloud and abandon it in a corner. it's okay that it had cloud elbow patches. and that the prop plane had horizontal stabilizers.
actually it's kind of awesome when i think about it because this afternoon i caught myself facebook photo daydreaming about these costumes and how cute the boys were going to look and how i was going to take a pretty cute picture of them together, probably in the grass, in their prop plane puffy cloud cuteness. anyone with me here? annnnd that didn't happen. which makes me laugh at my facebook daydreaming confession. i've noticed my mind thinking in these types of images often, and then i think about thinking in images and what i even think about images, but that's another post. :)
there's always actual halloween for that photo op, right? it was pretty fun to zone in so much on a cloud costume that i said to jeremy this afternoon, "i know it seems like i'm not doing anything but making a cloud costume.." because it was the third time he'd come home to me working on it, to which he replied, "nothing else matters." and i agreed.
in other news, we might be able to take a halloween picture on the front porch of our new home. i know, like this week! jeremy was told on friday that the form he had to initial and fax (and re-initial and re-fax) was the last bit of paperwork before closing, so we're hoping that we hear monday that a closing date is scheduled for tuesday and that would make us owners of our new home for wednesday when we're planning to trick-or-treat on our new street and hand out candy from the front porch of our otherwise empty home. oh, i hope.
happy halloween, friends. :)
a prop plane for joseph.
and a puffy cloud for jude.
you know, like they go together? guess how long they wore them at tonight's trunk or treat? joseph would not put the plane on at all. and jude was a sad cloud turned grumpy cloud turned so squirmy cloud that we stepped out of the hot dog line to take off the cloud and abandon it in a corner. it's okay that it had cloud elbow patches. and that the prop plane had horizontal stabilizers.
actually it's kind of awesome when i think about it because this afternoon i caught myself facebook photo daydreaming about these costumes and how cute the boys were going to look and how i was going to take a pretty cute picture of them together, probably in the grass, in their prop plane puffy cloud cuteness. anyone with me here? annnnd that didn't happen. which makes me laugh at my facebook daydreaming confession. i've noticed my mind thinking in these types of images often, and then i think about thinking in images and what i even think about images, but that's another post. :)
there's always actual halloween for that photo op, right? it was pretty fun to zone in so much on a cloud costume that i said to jeremy this afternoon, "i know it seems like i'm not doing anything but making a cloud costume.." because it was the third time he'd come home to me working on it, to which he replied, "nothing else matters." and i agreed.
in other news, we might be able to take a halloween picture on the front porch of our new home. i know, like this week! jeremy was told on friday that the form he had to initial and fax (and re-initial and re-fax) was the last bit of paperwork before closing, so we're hoping that we hear monday that a closing date is scheduled for tuesday and that would make us owners of our new home for wednesday when we're planning to trick-or-treat on our new street and hand out candy from the front porch of our otherwise empty home. oh, i hope.
happy halloween, friends. :)
10.14.2012
a good morning & a steady hope
the boys and i headed to cherokee park this morning -- jude was up with a fever last night and we didn't want anyone else repeating the week we've had from our germs, so sojourn it wasn't and hiking it was. it has been a hard week {insert sounds of jude's new shrieking and jeremy coughing and toys crashing and joseph's angry "i'm gonna run away"}, and i've been (a tiny bit) weary. this morning was such a quiet gift -- just a good morning with little reminders of the Lord's grace and how near He is even/especially in this season.
"You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
are they not in your book?
then my enemies will turn back
in the day when i call.
this i know, that God is for me.
in God, whose word i praise,
in the LORD, whose word i praise,
in God i trust; i shall not be afraid.
what can man do to me?" psalm 56:8-11
there was alleluia playing from the car next to us and the changing leaves and the wide sky and psalm 56. there was a content babe in the carrier and instead of mama and son at odds, we were exploring the woods together and climbing/crawling up the giant hill and playing at two playgrounds. there was running into a mom i met weeks ago describing a week almost exactly like ours and her encouragement to me when i thought i'd be encouraging her. there was a picnic table lunch and driving through the park to thy mercy my God and stopping by the little airport on our way home. there was the successful conversation with my neighbor about our noise (yikes) and the excited anticipation and relief of moving into a house (so soon!) and flowers from jeremy and worn-out joseph napping.
i'm learning a lot through these kinds of weeks, and one thing i'm seeing is God growing us/me in a steady hope in Him that is different from the hope i have in a perfect day of little difficulty. it's a thought that stretches my heart and mind -- this can be hard AND God is good. our son can be spontaneously furious and our baby can be sick and i can't meal plan for anything AND my hope is in Him. and He's with me! He reminded me this morning.
"You have kept count of my tossings;
put my tears in your bottle.
are they not in your book?
then my enemies will turn back
in the day when i call.
this i know, that God is for me.
in God, whose word i praise,
in the LORD, whose word i praise,
in God i trust; i shall not be afraid.
what can man do to me?" psalm 56:8-11
10.05.2012
amazing things joseph has said this week -- jet plane edition
to state that joseph has been obsessed with jet planes since our trip to colorado would be ... an understatement.
some of what we have heard around these parts this week:
"wow, look at all those other jet planes taking off down the runway." (in the car, sorry, jet plane, on the way to target)
"i hope that i dream about jet planes all night long."
"let's talk about things that are cool about jet planes." (opening up the conversation at our second breakfast)
"you like prop planes, jude?"
"how about your name can be pilot-in-training instead of mama?" (after i suggested jet plane for his new name)
"jophes. maybe like prop-plane-jophes." (telling his new friend, miss abby, his name)
"what's that place where the planes go up and down? take off and land? oh, the cell phone lot. maybe we should go to the cell phone lot." (jeremy took the boys to both louisville airports. amazing.)
"hey, mama, i have a secret for you. let's watch jet plane videooooooss.." (whispered in my ear at approximately 7:12 am)
"it roars down the runway. faster and faster, then up in the air. they are on their way..."(direct quote from airport)(also around 7:12 am)
"i love you to the end of the flight." (sigh. thank you, prop-plane-joseph.)
"it's a good day in the country, pilot." (my favorite. joseph's expression of joy and contentment and good feelings all around is "it's a good day in the country.")
my next post is going to be entitled "objects around our home that are not jet planes that have been made into jet planes that i cannot get a non-blurry photo of as jet planes because the pilot is always moving and narrating the jet plane taking off and flying and landing." although, after this incident, we made three jet planes out of a shoebox and have since visited once upon a child to find the jet plane puzzle we went looking for and a toy prop plane.
"mama, can you believe this garbage truck is also a jet plane?" yes. yes, i can. :)
some of what we have heard around these parts this week:
"wow, look at all those other jet planes taking off down the runway." (in the car, sorry, jet plane, on the way to target)
"i hope that i dream about jet planes all night long."
"let's talk about things that are cool about jet planes." (opening up the conversation at our second breakfast)
"you like prop planes, jude?"
"how about your name can be pilot-in-training instead of mama?" (after i suggested jet plane for his new name)
"jophes. maybe like prop-plane-jophes." (telling his new friend, miss abby, his name)
"hey, mama, i have a secret for you. let's watch jet plane videooooooss.." (whispered in my ear at approximately 7:12 am)
"it roars down the runway. faster and faster, then up in the air. they are on their way..."(direct quote from airport)(also around 7:12 am)
"i love you to the end of the flight." (sigh. thank you, prop-plane-joseph.)
"it's a good day in the country, pilot." (my favorite. joseph's expression of joy and contentment and good feelings all around is "it's a good day in the country.")
my next post is going to be entitled "objects around our home that are not jet planes that have been made into jet planes that i cannot get a non-blurry photo of as jet planes because the pilot is always moving and narrating the jet plane taking off and flying and landing." although, after this incident, we made three jet planes out of a shoebox and have since visited once upon a child to find the jet plane puzzle we went looking for and a toy prop plane.
"mama, can you believe this garbage truck is also a jet plane?" yes. yes, i can. :)
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