anyone? dumb and dumber? i actually really love that movie. guess how many times jeremy and i have considered renting it only to remember that we used to own it but sold it for $1 in a garage sale and for some reason then we just can't bring ourselves rent it.. a few. :)
but anyway, this week has no pictures and no crafts to show for it. and i don't have a pet, unless you count our downstairs neighbors' weimaraner (also known as the kind of dog on sesame street that got to wear clown hats?), and i certainly wouldn't given that our relationship is limited to the moments i try to get him into his crate and he tries to tackle me.
but annnyway, regardless of non-photo/craft evidence, this week was really good. i think we were social or something. yep, a good week. lots of time spent with friends old and new. there was a severe daugherty withdrawal from our two weeks of sickness, so we made up with it multiple joseph-ian mama-miss ann hangouts. and a two-families-in-the-minivan-for-ice-cream date to boot. we also did dinners and walks with a bunch of new friends from our recently new church location, which was really fun. oh, getting to know new people. :)
in other news, reading this post this morning was really encouraging as we're two months (give or take) from our little one joining our family. i'm pondering her thoughts on the beautiful work that motherhood is, not denying that it's hard work. lately i've found that i've been able to embrace and (sometimes more than others) enjoy the everyday tasks around my home (ie. folding laundry, spritzing down the bathroom in wonderful tea tree oil/vinegar cleaning goodness, actually cleaning up after breakfast after breakfast, etc.) with an awareness that yes, it is work, and it is good work. does that make sense? man, and what's more nonstop than mothering in my life right now? we're talking nonstop (yet good!) work. it's been so good for me to think through and come to these realizations.
additionally, from the same website, i've made this meal twice in the past few weeks. it's delicious. and pretty easy. and it uses cabbage. i think it's the first meal i've ever made with cabbage. there, i said it. it's the kind of meal where jeremy says "mmm...this is really good" more than halfway through, which tells me that he's not simply answering the "do you like it??" look i give him after the first bite is done. a good sign.
so, yeah, that's been my week. how was yours? happy tuesday, friends!
7.12.2011
unique predicament
we're experiencing a challenging combination of heat advisory and boil water advisory here in louisville. it's 100 degrees right now with a (feels like) heat index of 112. oi. and there was a major water main break yesterday that is now resulting in surrounding residents being advised to boil water prior to using it for drinking or cooking. the combination is unbearably hot mixed with kitchens throughout the city with pots of boiling water on the stove. oi, again.
annnd, we were fortunate enough to have our maintenance guy reseal our yucky bathtub after months of chipping scary white stuff in the shower. the only problem is that this repair occurred yesterday, preventing use of the bathtub for 48 hours. i hope we don't become known as the stinky family around these parts. the bright side: we're stocked on limeade and bomb pops, our air conditioning is working beautifully, i just purchased two pregnancy-friendly tank tops, and joseph's hair is amazing wacky curls all over the place. so we're good. :)
in other news, hooray! joseph is two! we celebrated sweet boy's birthday on friday with a small gathering of friends. joseph spent the day saying "hooooray! jophes ihtooo!" and singing happy birthday to himself. i made some cupcakes, jeremy grilled, and buddy boy and friends played in hogan's fountain at cherokee park. when it came time for singing to the birthday boy, joseph smiled excitedly in anticipation of the part of the song when everybody says "to joseph," and loved it. we've been singing happy birthday as a part of night-night for months now and singing it to everybody including kobe the bear and helicopter jones, so i know he was ready for it to be really his birthday and really the time when the song was just for him.
another exciting bit of news, my good friend, ann, is gearing up for the arrival of their second son, elliott. i'm so honored to get to be there for his birth as their doula. i've been reading up on labor stages and birth and supporting the mama throughout, and it's been so fun to enter back into birth-thinking. i guess it happened a lot more when i was pregnant with joseph, probably because i didn't have a two-year-old joseph to distract me from thinking about it. and because it all was so unknown at that point. joseph's birth was such a life-changing event for jeremy and me in so many ways. it's amazing to still be uncovering bits of thoughts and emotions from this experience two years later, and i know i'll have very vivid memories of his birth for the rest of my life. i saw so much of God in such a unique and new way when i had joseph. i'm very very excited for luke and ann to experience all of this again with baby elliott. and eventually in far away (but not that far) september to experience the birth of our little boy or girl. fun fact: did you know the uterus is the strongest muscle in the human body? yep. pretty amazing.
alright, this laptop is getting hot. the last thing i need is another heat source. :) i hope you have a wonderful tuesday, friends!
annnd, we were fortunate enough to have our maintenance guy reseal our yucky bathtub after months of chipping scary white stuff in the shower. the only problem is that this repair occurred yesterday, preventing use of the bathtub for 48 hours. i hope we don't become known as the stinky family around these parts. the bright side: we're stocked on limeade and bomb pops, our air conditioning is working beautifully, i just purchased two pregnancy-friendly tank tops, and joseph's hair is amazing wacky curls all over the place. so we're good. :)
in other news, hooray! joseph is two! we celebrated sweet boy's birthday on friday with a small gathering of friends. joseph spent the day saying "hooooray! jophes ihtooo!" and singing happy birthday to himself. i made some cupcakes, jeremy grilled, and buddy boy and friends played in hogan's fountain at cherokee park. when it came time for singing to the birthday boy, joseph smiled excitedly in anticipation of the part of the song when everybody says "to joseph," and loved it. we've been singing happy birthday as a part of night-night for months now and singing it to everybody including kobe the bear and helicopter jones, so i know he was ready for it to be really his birthday and really the time when the song was just for him.
another exciting bit of news, my good friend, ann, is gearing up for the arrival of their second son, elliott. i'm so honored to get to be there for his birth as their doula. i've been reading up on labor stages and birth and supporting the mama throughout, and it's been so fun to enter back into birth-thinking. i guess it happened a lot more when i was pregnant with joseph, probably because i didn't have a two-year-old joseph to distract me from thinking about it. and because it all was so unknown at that point. joseph's birth was such a life-changing event for jeremy and me in so many ways. it's amazing to still be uncovering bits of thoughts and emotions from this experience two years later, and i know i'll have very vivid memories of his birth for the rest of my life. i saw so much of God in such a unique and new way when i had joseph. i'm very very excited for luke and ann to experience all of this again with baby elliott. and eventually in far away (but not that far) september to experience the birth of our little boy or girl. fun fact: did you know the uterus is the strongest muscle in the human body? yep. pretty amazing.
alright, this laptop is getting hot. the last thing i need is another heat source. :) i hope you have a wonderful tuesday, friends!
7.06.2011
summmmertiiiiime
we take staycations seriously around here. as in, i am totally typing this post before folding two, three, okay -- realistically, four baskets of laundry. it's true.
jeremy is off work this whole week, although it's sort of felt like vacation since last wednesday. grammie came to town that night, followed by papa, aunt sarah, and uncle drew on friday. we spent a few days together filled with date nights of grandparent-provided freedom, very brave big-tall-fast-jumps into the hotel pool in thomas shorts, delicious family meals, and the occasional bomb pop/ice cream cone/ummm cheesecake factory 3 rich birthday dessert selections that are still being finished. and now we get to have more time off to enjoy more of louisville in the summer! sigh. staycation. :)
here are some photos from the last few days. surprise! they're all of joseph.. hope you don't mind. :)
[best buds]
[eyes on the prize]
[icecreamcone -- sorry, strawberryicecreamcone]
hope you're having a great wednesday!
6.28.2011
on the mend
a challenging week seems to be looking up with handsomes on the mend. not that i have to be so optimistic. we've had a tough last few days that began with that feverish little guy i mentioned in the last post and what came of the fever, a sickness usually in kids ages 1-5 that causes sores on the hands, feet, and mouth. the boy was a trooper with a couple of hard days and kicking nights, but he's much better now. and somehow it seems that joseph and i really bonded during our week+ at home, evidence of God's grace in the midst of the craziness for sure.
toward the end of joseph's sick week, jeremy camehome early from work, met by my exclamation/realization, "dada's home early! yay! oh..wait. oh no." after a few days of sleeping, medicine, allergic reaction to medicine, better medicine, and more resting, we now have popcorn-a-popping and a movie for tonight, so i'd say he's feeling at least a little better, too.
in other news, i baked scones for the first time. if you have never baked scones, or even if you have i suppose, i suggest this recipe. it took me from oh-i-could-never to oh-i-should-probably-purchase-cool-canisters-for-all-of-the-baking-i'm-going-to-do-from-now-on in about 45 minutes. so good. jeremy ate one and promptly fell asleep. success.
also other news, our little babe is in his (big-time boy vibes these days)third and final trimester. and moving so much! it's crazy to think about this little person and in a way, maybe i've said this on here before.. sorry, so much more tangible to envision a baby coming from all this pregnancy. is that weird? maybe because i've seen that a real-life new-smelling baby named joseph was born a few months after the last time i remember feeling like this. and by feeling like this i might mean feeling like the tell-tale pregnant walk is taking over again.. oh, boy. or girl.
final news, um... my son speaks in sentences. and i can understand them. this is so so so much fun. i love that he will run into kitchen from his room, exclaim "something-something-something-tall-garbage-truck-guy-fall-down-see-mama!" and i'll follow him into his room to find the lego guy has in fact fallen out of the big garbage truck. he gets an almost unnoticeable smile on his face when we communicate really effectively and i suspect it's as much fun for him as it is for me. probably more because i've been talking to him for quite some time.
how was your week?
6.21.2011
my home feels still
i'm enjoying a quiet day around our home with sweet boy recovering from a feverish night and morning. it's funny how i feel almost as if i have to give in to these kind of days, and once i do, the normalcy of unloading the dishwasher, playing with trains, preparing and eating lunch, even (gasp) folding laundry becomes pretty enjoyable. also, this morning's addition of a mama-initiated finding nemo date wasn't too bad for on-the-mend joseph or me. :)
here's what we've been up to the rest of the week:
[father's day ice cream -- free ice cream for dada after a really odd request for a receipt by the cashier when we asked if the father's day deal was still happening.. like a receipt proving joseph is his son? somehow we still managed to get the no-charge cup of bourbon ball ice cream without this mysterious receipt.]
[big-tall-fast-swinging at the park grammie dawn discovered just at the end of our street -- joseph describes a lot of things (garbage truck, quesadilla slice, lego tower, etc.) with "big-tall" these days.]
[two of my first-draft creations -- i've found myself spending a lot of (too much?) time on very little things, namely tiny pieces of fabric cut into intricate shapes and sewn onto paper in little getting-more-even-with-practice stiches. so far, quite unsustainable greeting cards businesswise, but quite enjoyable pasttime wise.]
also, what i did and what i thought about while doing it attempt #1 -- i discovered that all but two of my son's shirts are red or blue or a combination of these shades while folding laundry this afternoon and then remembered being told during my freshman year of college by a guy on my floor that he knew me as red-tshirt girl. i suppose this makes joseph red-blue-or-both-tshirt boy. :)
i hope you're enjoying your tuesday!
here's what we've been up to the rest of the week:
[father's day ice cream -- free ice cream for dada after a really odd request for a receipt by the cashier when we asked if the father's day deal was still happening.. like a receipt proving joseph is his son? somehow we still managed to get the no-charge cup of bourbon ball ice cream without this mysterious receipt.]
[big-tall-fast-swinging at the park grammie dawn discovered just at the end of our street -- joseph describes a lot of things (garbage truck, quesadilla slice, lego tower, etc.) with "big-tall" these days.]
[two of my first-draft creations -- i've found myself spending a lot of (too much?) time on very little things, namely tiny pieces of fabric cut into intricate shapes and sewn onto paper in little getting-more-even-with-practice stiches. so far, quite unsustainable greeting cards businesswise, but quite enjoyable pasttime wise.]
also, what i did and what i thought about while doing it attempt #1 -- i discovered that all but two of my son's shirts are red or blue or a combination of these shades while folding laundry this afternoon and then remembered being told during my freshman year of college by a guy on my floor that he knew me as red-tshirt girl. i suppose this makes joseph red-blue-or-both-tshirt boy. :)
i hope you're enjoying your tuesday!
6.17.2011
6.07.2011
morning mulching
i'd write more, but i have an in-development project that i'm really (really) excited about, so tuesday hour is going to be spent developing this in-development project to further development. :)
i do, however, want to share a story of playgroup adventure from earlier today. joseph's been pretty into mulch for some time -- once i caught jeremy and joseph putting pretend mulch on a little car ramp for the lego guys to slide into -- but this morning was his ultimate in mulching. he and ian were playing in what i hadn't noticed until today is a pretend car at the playground, and i looked over just in time to see joseph release two giant handfuls of mulch onto his head, into his face & ears & nose, and down to the sticky scalp with the pieces of mulch that didn't stick falling onto the rest of him and into his shoes. when he looked up, his face was almost completely brown with mulch residue. i should have taken a picture of that moment, but at the time, removing mulch from his eyeballs took priority. i tried to shake as much off of him as possible and took him to the bathroom to splash water on his dirt-caked face, but he was pretty mulchy until his post-playground bath. these are the feet of this mulch-covered and mulch-celebrating boy right before mulch-removal:
and here's his exhausted in a good way about to fall asleep in the bathtub face watching the tub fill up:
the kid likes mulch.
happy tuesday!
i do, however, want to share a story of playgroup adventure from earlier today. joseph's been pretty into mulch for some time -- once i caught jeremy and joseph putting pretend mulch on a little car ramp for the lego guys to slide into -- but this morning was his ultimate in mulching. he and ian were playing in what i hadn't noticed until today is a pretend car at the playground, and i looked over just in time to see joseph release two giant handfuls of mulch onto his head, into his face & ears & nose, and down to the sticky scalp with the pieces of mulch that didn't stick falling onto the rest of him and into his shoes. when he looked up, his face was almost completely brown with mulch residue. i should have taken a picture of that moment, but at the time, removing mulch from his eyeballs took priority. i tried to shake as much off of him as possible and took him to the bathroom to splash water on his dirt-caked face, but he was pretty mulchy until his post-playground bath. these are the feet of this mulch-covered and mulch-celebrating boy right before mulch-removal:
and here's his exhausted in a good way about to fall asleep in the bathtub face watching the tub fill up:
the kid likes mulch.
happy tuesday!
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