10 Blessings as of Late
1. As a surprise, Auntie Datenut made my girls a gorgeous dress-up dress from the prairie times. My girls have always been fans of Little House on the Prairie-thanks to the influence of their grandma.
Auntie made the dress for them to share.
Here is Sweet Pea modeling it.
2. Bonus! Auntie thought this year it would only fit Sweet Pea.
It fits Daisy Mae, too.
The girls love it and will treasure it forever. They are already concerned about how they should share it with their own future daughters. And, as if life could not be even more exciting-the dress has a petticoat. And all this time, the girls thought a petticoat was, like, a coat.
So, there you go. Homeschool. Fashion History. Check.
The girls refused to hang it up in their own closet. Apparently, their closet is, and I quote, “too messy.” And they couldn’t be more correct. So the dress is hanging in my closet.
3. They hung it in David’s Carhartt workpants section. Awesome. These are the things that make me laugh. I’m odd.
Don’t lose heart!
I really don’t have my closets organized. Just David’s.
I don’t know why.
4. We went to town yesterday to run some errands. We had to stop and get glasses fixed. But this time, we were getting Sweet Pea’s glasses adjusted.
We have not had to take Handsome Dude in since he got his new spaceman glasses in May.
Yes. These glasses are ridiculous. However! The boy can see and I no longer have stress.
Holla, Space Man glasses!
Holla!
5. Actually, I do have stress. Just not with glasses anymore.
6. While we were in town, we had to stop and get something done on the van. I was nervous about it and David took the time to meet me there and take care of it for me. This is hard for him to do with his job, so it was really nice to have his help with that.
7. After our errands, we stopped to hang out at my parents’ house. The girls were doing some school work and I could not find Handsome Dude.
Because I am an attentive mother. Obviously.
He was sweeping for PopPop.
Precious, is it not?
8. The other day, I was feeling guilty about the homeschool. As I am wont to do. I am not very good at remembering to include “P.E.” in our schedule.
As I was fretting, I looked out the window and saw this:
The kids were running around the lands with nets and trying to catch rabbits. For like an hour.
Bam! Homeschool. PE. Check.
9. Handsome Dude is an awesome rabbit catcher. I could not believe my own eyes. He gets them in a net with one swift move and carries them carefully over to their pen.
He has ninja-like rabbit catching skills.
I wonder if he can put that on a college application? Thoughts?
10. My blog is not transferred and I still don’t know what color to paint my walls.
But the stomach bug is over, I finally scrubbed my shower, and I am all caught up on laundry.
So, there’s that.
Happy Thursday!
(Someone asked recently how old I am-I turned 31 in June)
(I don’t know what that has to do with the price of cheese, but there you go)
LOVE those glasses. Sure hope you can figure out a good color for your walls. Your life will be so much better when the peach is gone. Thanks for making me LAUGH and appreciate my husband even more. He does not bring home live animals to me (except for the one gerbil and the one cat). Well, no chickens or rabbits….
Holla Auntie Datenut! That dress would be a dream come true in this house too!
Wow! What a dress! That is so fun!
Look at you with your bad-to-the-bone homeschool self…check! Check! Check! You’ve got me beat any day. 🙂
The space man glasses are the cutest things ever. I love them. How do you get him to wear them? I have hordes of kids in my class who will not wear their glasses. The squint at me all day long. Why must I remind them not to squint but to see clearly with the glasses? Perhaps if I wore my own glasses more often I’d be a better example. Hmm….
LOL! Ha! I thought it was the price of eggs, but whatever.
Way to go Auntie Datenut! What a treasure made with love!
If your girls are happily sharing such a treasure and NOT fighting tooth and nail over it then that would be a blessing too!
Those pictures of your girls in the prairie dress made me smile. My girls loved to play ‘prairie’. My inlaws are big antique-ers and one year my daughter asked my mother in law to find her a butter churn for Christmas : ) She couldn’t, but she did get them a washboard which was also very exciting. Enjoy your weekend!
You scrubbed your shower? Wow! YOu are amazing! I dn’t think I’ve ever done that. On purpose that is.
Hows about painting the walls that muted navy color of the girl’s new dress-up dress. I don’t find it odd at all that you laughed at seeing the dress bumped up against the manly clothes. Yay for Ninja-like rabbit catching skills – that should be it’s own “sport” for P.E., no?
I was going to suggest a neutral off white or white …..but it looks like the walls behind
the girls is white or off white.
What is your favorite color? Maybe a light shade of whatever that is?
Didn’t you know rabbit catching was P.E.? Obviously it is a great sport.
Rabbit catching = Lacrosse scholarship
Girls, thank you for sharing. You look lovely in the dress – both of you. Thank you for the photos. Sorry I couldn’t make two, it was too much work for me.