I’m not a very good blogger lately. I’ll give you some photographic odds and ends to chew on while I work on a real post.
First of all a few weeks ago when it was summer (rather then whatever this 60 degrees and rainy in June thing is) the kids were bored. Not just my kids- but ALL the neighborhood kids that weren’t old enough to be in school all day. Megan came in and asked if she could play playdough. Feeling generous I said yes. She said, ‘YAY!’ and turned around and opened the front door and says, ‘my mom said we could play playdough!!’ In walks about 10 kids give or take a few.
That was not what I’d bargained for so I offered to let them ‘paint’ the driveway with water. They were all for it. Then they got board about 15 minutes later and began do just pour the water everywhere so that it could all be painted at once. It was pretty funny how coordinated their effort was.
About that same time I had a genius idea. When my babies were small my toddlers liked to carry their babies in slings like mommy. So to avoid this:
I made them little ‘dolly’ slings. Well- I don’t have a baby to carry around like that anymore- so they don’t do it anymore either. The slings have been tossed aside. Ashley’s friend Aubrey has a bunny named Olive that she carries around constantly. I bribed her into doing this**:
She and Olive were both thrilled.
**No bunnies were harmed in the taking of this photo!
It’s been raining a lot here. A lot a lot. My body doesn’t handle rain well. I like to say I’ve got the joints of an 80 year old. Anyway- that aside my grass has decided it’s to wet as well and has started to grow umbrellas. Or as you might better know them- giant mushrooms.
To give you an idea of the size of that sucker:
Anyway- I’ll be back with more. I promise. Hopefully within hours or days rather than weeks…
since i am a true friend, this post satisfies me. (Z has taken over my arm and isn’t giving it back. it’s a “i need cuddles” day for her.
Those mushrooms give me the willies. Sorry and good luck.
I had friends over for my boys to play with yesterday and am embarrassed to admit that I hope the experience is rarely repeated this summer. Other kids are hard.
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Let go of the guilt. Blogging comes in waves, I think. Or should. Life first and all that, right? =)
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I was beginning to wonder if you had given up on blogging-seems everyone is in the same position-must have something to do with summer or something. I have to say that the giant mushrooms kind of freak me out!!
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Holy cow. I thought OUR mushroom farm was bad - but we don’t have any the size of a [insert two pound living thing of your choice] like you do.
we, too, have mushrooms ALL OVER. but none even close to that size.
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That is one cute girl in that picture with a baby doll stuffed down her shirt
Check out the cute bunny carrier! You should market them! And the pics of the mushrooms are well done. It was wet in SD too.
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we should whip you with wet noodles…
Again you mad me giggle!
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