i have too much to do before tomorrow. when i am stressed about getting stuff done….my natural instinct is…..to do something unrelated. like sew four pillows for my couch.
i just HAD too.
is that circley colorful fabric not THE most amazing?!! i bought a ton of it because i love it so much! (it's by alexander henry…it's called Boule.)
i have issues.
i am sure it has a name and a therapist or a doctor could talk to me about it….prescribe me something perhaps?
so many things to get done but instead i take pictures of my coffee cup.
isn't it fun?
so graphic.
instead of using my time while annie is playing….i stop and take pictures of her playing! this is definitely a problem.
just a quick lamp makeover with spray paint and a vintage tablecloth and hot glue. you know….cause i don't have a page long to-do list.
oh wait….i DO!
I.S.S.U.E.S.
ok….i have to get stuff done today.
things like……pack for my trip. feed my family. clothe my family. clean my home. make cupcakes. put clothes away. make arrangements. fill in schedules. make phone calls. watch parenthood. sew four more pillows…..just kidding.
if you have emailed me….i hope to get back to you. i am super behind on email response. because i am very busy.
Lisa Palmese-Love the Pillows But I adore that lamp.
It is Gorgeous
thanks Lisa
Luciane-Hi Karin,I wish I could splurge on cutosm Alluminaire lighting and matching throw pillows (which I love)! I happen to have a “Heartfelt Award” for you at my blog, since you were one of the blogs that inspired me to start my own. You can pick it up .
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andiejaye-i love love love the idea of arranging books by color!!! i tried it and loved it!!! thanks for sharing the idea with us! i put 4 links of your picture and blog on my blog post about it. (it’s little i have 8 followers) i hope that’s ok. if not, let me know and i’ll remove them. i just think you’re fabulous! blessings, andie
Lisa Currie-Gurney-I TEND TO DO THE SAME THING… I’VE REALIZED IT HELPS ME TO FOCUS ON WHAT I NEEDED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.
HUGS FROM MY HEART
Sarah-I am also a crazy color junkie and I love love love those color-coordinated kids books!
Heather aka moreygirl-I’m the same way about not doing what’s on my list and sewing something fun instead! Love this blog!
Kristin S-Annie’s facial expressions are absolutely classic. You’ll be so glad someday when that sweet baby face morphs to teenager that you have so many great photos.
Lolli -wait, can you paint brass?
amy jupin-the lamps look FAB.
all capitals.
the pillows are so you.
love them.
i suffer from the same problem–procrastination!
hate it.
one more thing, i hope you have a great time on your trip!
🙂
Lorie S. -You seriously just made me laugh out loud. Such is my day, everyday. The list of things I need to do and the list of things that I want to do. Feel so much better on the days that I do the things I want to do. So since today is a rainy day, I think I will read, sew, play, and make cupcakes!!! =)
Kat -Meg, you are SOOOO inspiring! Thank you! LOVE the lamp and the pillows. Okay, i am a beginning sew-er, seamstress, whatever…i know this is a DUMB question. But would you mind telling me…do you use pillow inserts for your pillows, or just stuffing?
Would you mind telling me what size you make them (20×20?)…i love the size of yours? I am DYING to sew but FEAR is overwhelming me…fear of messing up. But you have inspired me. Thank you! 🙂
Katie -I would buy a print copy of the orange photo! Just saying!
Leah-Those are great photos. I don’t think you’re wasting any time. By the way, do you really arrange your books in the order of rainbow colors? I’m impressed!
Katy Frame-Because I am very busy.
(Taking pictures of oranges)
LOL! You are hilarious, Meg! 🙂 I hope you have a fun time on your trip! You so deserve it. And for me complimenting you I deserve a cupcake, right?? It was worth a shot! But seriously, have fun!
Crystal Swoverland -I can’t find Alexander Henry anywhere in my area! I LOVE that fabric! I need some of those pillows, no, not want…NEED!!! I am remodeling and those are my colors!!! HOW can I get this fabric??? THanks for the wonderful post, you always brighten my day!
Flower Patch Farmgirl-1. Hey – is today Annie’s birthday? 😉
2. Did I miss the part where you told us where on earth you’re headed?
3. I have the very same affliction.
4. Must know how you did that tablecloth lampshade thing. I’m way impressed.
Tracy Fisher -fabulous fabric… and great use of time… i think many of us relate… i was outside today taking photos of my kids snowboarding (because it snowed today… and my son insisted on wearing his creapy hat he got in Mexico… that scares the neighborhood little kids)… all the while avoiding the same list as you have apparently.. minus the cupcakes..hehe.
Tracy Fisher
Marcella-I so know the feeling!
And there must be a lot of people like me commenting on this post! Which it is a relief that I’m not the only one out there that operates like this.
I bet it does have something to do with being a creative person….
Nicole-I am the SAME exact way! The longer my list is, the more I can find to do that is NOT on the list it seems. Procrastination is my forte!
And I LOVE your new pillows! Color Color COLOR! Happy 🙂
Good Luck with your list!
Lin -Haha. I feel so much better about myself after reading this post and the comments. I am NOT alone. Yay! I will go so far out of my to avoid “chores” it’s crazy. When I run out of time to get things done, and am tired I tell myself I’ll get up early and do it in the morning. I even go so far as to set my alarm early, but then the snooze button always win.
Lisa -I want one of your pillows! I need someone to teach me to sew. I’m so lame when it comes to that stuff. Love that you were avoiding your long to do list. I do that occasionally too! 🙂
Penny-I am glad Parenthood is on your list. I love that show, I always feel a little let down when it ends though. I also love your blog and get excited when you have a new post. Makes my day! Love the photos. One Easter I was having 25 family members for dinner and I sat down with my girls and colored 2 hours before dinner. It relaxed me and everything turned out fine!
Tanya H-that’s what I’m doing reading your blog right now. Ignoring my enormous list. drat.
jenna -I couldn’t help notice the bicycle runner on the table.
I have to have that fabric! Or I would love a pillow!
Where did you find it?
Jen -You DO have to watch Parenthood! Whew… it’s loaded.
shauna reed-lampshade=ahhhhmazing.
email me if you need anything in socal.
i will be like 45 min away if you need anything 😉
like a bell or some marshmallow milk….whateves
ps i am gonna be shopping with julie while you are soaking up photography brilliance on sat.
if you get mad at the class and ditch (ha ha) you can come with us…..
xoxox
FeFe -I hope you moved watching Parenthood to the top. It was good!
Tanya-I just showed my sister this post and said “See, there ARE people like us”. Then I asked her “And who looks at a white lampshade and SEES THAT final outcome?” To which she responded “I do”. And I said “Oh yah”. It’s me who sucks.
I love your pillows.
Georgia-The first photo makes me so happy, them pillows are so bright and cheery, so summertime! woo love them!! 🙂
When i need to be busy i just cant do it. i read somewhere once that if you dont feel like doing something then DONT, only do it when you feel like it…
Happy middle of the week day!
Kelley-Excellent pillows! They absolutely needed to be made. Needed.
Safe travels tomorrow
Vanessa at He Gives Hope-have you done a post on your coffee table? did you make it? b/c i am in LOVE.
Keli Cook -I love your new pillows and the makeover of your new lamp!
Anna-I love that picture of Annie and the pets. Super cute.
becky@oursweetpeas-Ahh, I think we are long lost sisters. I am blog reading instead of: cleaning my house, unloading the dishwasher, etc., etc., I did take all 3 kids to the dr.’s and McD’s AND library today so I think I’ve earned a little Parenthood on Hulu too. 🙂 Thanks for the idea.
yeah, I have a problem too.
Stefanie Arnold-someday I hope to say I was so distracted because I was sewing new pillows for my couch. Someday… for now, my creativity is confined to drawing stick figures and cutting out snow flakes 🙂
Shana-I have diagnosed you with ‘Procrastination’ – not otherwise specified.
I would give you therapeutic advice but I have blogs to stare at, books to read, and coffee to drink.
Sorry.
Cute mug.
Kari-You are hilarious.
Seriously.
My in-laws are scheduled to be here in less than two hours for the weekend and I have a HUGE list of things to do, girls are both napping soundly… but instead I updated my facebook status (is says: “Please keep me in your thoughts … I have lost my TO DO LIST!”) and decided it was imperative I check your blog before getting back to looking for my to do list.
Michelle-haha, this is awesome. i so feel ya! i have a super long to-do list as well, and i’m sooo procrastinating! you’ve inspired me! maybe i will go take pictures of oranges too! ha! by the way, i LOVE those pillows! where do you get the fabric???
Karina -Lovely lamp, lovely kitchen, lovely bathroom, lovely pictures…
At least you are not eating to make up for the stress…you are taking pictures instead and that HAS to be less fattening than what I usually do when I feel paralyzed by my to-do list…I have been known to eat sweetened condensed milk from the can…and finish the can in one sitting!! Maybe I should buy myself a camera…
julie h -this made me laugh, that is so very much myself…can you explain that i am not the only one that does this to my hub?
Jenny B. -OH WOW!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new couch pillows!!! And the little chairs at the coffee table!? AWESOME!!! Those may have been there the whole time, and I just now noticed them, but still… SO cute! Thank you for helping me get over my fear of decorating my home with primary colors. I’m serious. For the past 11 years, I have looked longingly at deocrative items with lots of bright colors, and thought, “oh, I like that, but it just wouldn’t go in my house.” Now, I have a brightly painted alphabet canvas that was destined to be on the wall of a little boy’s room as the centerpiece on my mantel, and it’s my favorite thing to look at every day. I can’t wait to do more! Whee!! 🙂 You inspire me!
Aimee-Oh my, I think I have the same syndrome. Miles-long to do list = do something nowhere near ANYthing on said list.
I like to call it Head-In-the-Sand-itis.
Kori-apparently your condition is a nation-wide epidemic! i have it too and i’m in washington.
love the pillows (more for the pom-poms than the fabric, although it is great!) and the lamp…too cute!
Dawn-Love the pillows and the prints are awesome. Your rooms are so colorful I love it.
Kirsten P -I love how the aqua in the’circley colorful fabric’ makes the aqua mirror just pop!
I love the children’s books arranged by color!
Parenthood was great last night. And the previews for next week – can’t wait.
Will you get a chance to go to the ocean and listen to the music of the waves? Enjoy it for me, too.(if you do)
Esther Dee -don’t know about your to-do-list but I do know that those pillows are to-die-for!!!! so pretty and happy 😉
Mrs. Wonder-I do the same thing! Therefore, I’m several days behind on my list. LOVE the lamp, marking this for ideas, we’re house hunting and I’m excited to decorate!
wendy, NJ -OMG! I love you! You are so funny and such an inspiration! Whenever I’m feeling a bit blue I look to your blog as I know it will always be colorful (literally) and in content!
And can I just say I love the fact that you are able to leave markers out in an open bin on your white table…My 3 yo would have a field day if I do that!
Thanks again for such inspiration! Keep it coming!
Kara-love it all but especially your lamp makeover! if you are still wanting to put off your to-do list you should post a tutorial 🙂 lamp shades scare me a little bit, yours looks awesome!
Rach-Yeah. I do the same thing. I’ll find myself mid project and be like “how did I get here? wasn’t I supposed to be doing something else. Must stop…. can’t stop.” But hey, life’s short right!
gina f. -fun photos! Now that you have a happy heart i am sure you will fly thru your to do list! love how your books are arranged in rainbow order and the lamp makeover is super!! have a great trip!
Courtney Walsh-Good lord, I am sooo behind too and yet here I sit doing important things like reading blogs!!! lol
I agree with the person above me. soooo many houses are showing a neutral palette these days, but COLOR is soooo inspiring. Love that you arranged your dang books in rainbow form!! lol awesome.
Elizabeth Walters-I LOVE how colorful your house is! I always stick with neutral… b/c I am boring like that. 🙂
Anne @ Baking Me-I love that lamp, very cute. I have issues with lamps. I am always on the hunt for a great lamp at a great price, no such luck yet but I keep trying 🙂
Trina McNeilly-Love this… love all the pictures. The lamp and pillows are fab. sometimes distractions are good 🙂
xo
Jen Brandt -You rock.
jennifer-Oh good! I thought I was the only one with this issue. So glad to know I’m not alone!
Ana-Meg, I can totally relate. I have like 20 things to do and yet I get into a catatonic state of denial hoping they will all go away. However, that strategy never works out… 🙁
Leah -How did you make that lamp shade?!? Please share! It looks amazing!
blu -…or if you are me you are in front of the computer while the laundry, children, dishes, and bathrooms are calling for you 🙂 I’ll get to all of them immediately, just let me post a comment first…Meg you are way cool please keep doing ALL that you do!!
Jessica Johnson-the colors in this post? FAB to the ULOUS. seriously. the books? arranged by color??! genius.
asnipofgoodness-I soooooo get this, I do the very same exact thing, for some reason the need to get something done, causes me to get other things done….I just don’t get it! I mean I get that you do it, cuz I do too, but I don’t get the why, cuz it just never makes much sense!
I LOVE the pillows, and the lamp, OMGoodness, so extraespecially colorful!I just LOVE the glimpses of your style that turn up on your blog!
I have a HUGE lamp shade that I picked up at restore, and that is just the perfect solution to a less than desirable funky stained cover! Now I need an oversized lamp base to hold it up!
Oh, and I read “your story” just the other day, and I really loved your unapologetic honesty! What a wonderful picture of God’s redemption! Thank you for that!
I almost never comment, but I ALWAYS read, thanks!
Joy-You and I, we were seperated at birth. I call it piddling…and I love that the books on the bookshelf are arranged by color. It made my heart smile.
Lindsey-Alexander Henry has some of the most amazing fabrics ever!
Maeva -Where can I find the bicycle fabric in the last photo?!
Mindy Harris-your pillows and buntings are going to sell out on etsy in 5 seconds. i can’t get anyone to even LOOK at my stuff. hehe. i’m not complaining, i promise. etsy’s FUN! i hope you get everything done you need to. it’s okay to take photo or craft breaks. i do all the time.
and, safe travels!
Andrea -Just read comment above mine. Yea, I was intrigued by the color coordinated bookshelf too. Made me smile – was totally you.
Andrea -LOL!! I do that too. My husband says I only operate on crisis mode! Have many, many projects that need finished – need to set my own deadline.
ajdked -Ehh, I have a huge to do list today. Instead I’m still in my pj’s drinking coffee, blog hopping, totally intrigued by your color coordinated book shelf. I have a pile of laundry looming over me. I think I will stay in my pj’s for a half hour longer, then get moving!
Shannon-it’s okay to waste time taking pictures because we all love coming to your blog to see them so really you are just doing it for us which makes you so thoughtful 🙂
deborah@applesinwonderland-i have no idea what you are talking about here. how can you not make pillows with that kind of *look at me* fabric poking at you? and how can you not take adorable pictures of annie in the tub? i say, you have to do those things. xoxo–a partner in crime:)
Trish-ha 🙂 my list is a mile long too, but here I am reading your blog about the stuff you are doing… i believe we have what is called a mix between procrastination and ADD 🙂
can’t wait to meet you tomorrow 🙂
purejoy-dude. if you have issues, i have I.S.S.U.E.S!!
love the fabric. the cup. love bathtime fun. great coffee mug. love your kid’s books are arranged by color.
you complete me.
lists be damned!
Sara @ Happy Brown House-I just love how bright and happy your house is! I love that you embrace color!
Kelly -Did you put the tablecloth over the existing shade? Love the lamp and pillow fabric!
Cory-I have a TON to do today as well. Clearly I’m just reading your blog instead. Thanks for the distraction! Love all your pretty pics 🙂
Jenn Shock-I should be studying for my first Survey of Fashion test that is tonight, yet somehow I ended up here. When I stress about getting something done, I always tend to find something else to do, even if it means cleaning! Weird.
Michelle Whitlow-oh my gosh, I’m the EXACT same way!!! hehe We’re moving from GA to WA in just a couple months. There is SO much around the house to do. Oh, and did I mention that I’m 5 mos pregnant?? Yeah, I have a list a mile long. And what am I doing?? Reading blogs…and maybe I’ll go scrapbook something after that 🙂
Courtney Henson-I have the same affliction! It is hard, very hard for me to do something like clean the house for company or a party when I have a chalkboard wall to paint in my kitchen or pillows to sew for my couch! (All this I did last week getting ready for family to come stay for a few days..!) Oh, how I relate! But I love your pillows and really love, love that lamp makeover! And you rainbow hued kid’s books all organized by color! So, so pretty!
Vicki-Loved this! Those pillows are to-die-for! And your happy, colorful pictures are the best. Good luck with that to-do list!
Molly-I have things to do too….but you know what I am doing tonight…re-arranging the books in the bookshelf so they make a rainbow! Love that!
Jessica -I’m new to your blog… so I’m not really sure of your kids ages but I have a 4 yr old and there is NO way I could have a white table, an white-ish sofa, and a JAR OF MARKERS all within arm distance of each other! How do you keep those from getting marker on them?
I’m asking bc I’m jealous :/
Dana @ Bungalow'56-Megan,
I am in complete denial…absolute denial, that I will be on a plane tomorrow. Nothing packed, nothing ready. It’s how I deal with stress, ignore the situation. Which of course leads to copious amounts of stress over a very short few hours when I have to do whatever I’ve been putting off.
There will be lot’s of excitement at our house this evening. It makes for an roller coaster life : )
Dana
Amanda -I love how “watch parenthood” is on your to-do list. It’s on mine too!
AshleyAnn-I love that lamp so much!!!
Have fun on your trip…
Carrie -I am like you, except I start the to do list but on the way to the bedroom to put away laundry I stop in the kitchen to put dishes and then end up in the living dusting. So while it may seem productive, everything ends up only half finished. Ugh!
Have fun this weekend. I am JEALOUS!!! (in a nice healthy way though. lol)
Kathi -LOL! This is why I check in everyday, love your attitude! Have a great day.
Keri-If I were to be a stay at home wife and we had our own house, I’m sure I would be the exact same way… Do everything else that is not on the list…Those are great pics though!
Heather-i have that same disorder! and lamp envy. that lamp and lampshade you worked your magic on are a-mazing!
Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails-Oh my gosh you’re not the only one! Whenever I have custom orders to get done, I end up “rebelling” and making a different bag for no one in particular. Its almost like I cant do the things I need to until I do something I dont need to. Maybe its something about being creative. Yes, we’ll blame it on that.
BTW, when will your shop open? (No pressure, Im just curious)
XO,
Sarah
Janie Fox -Love your pics … mine are so bad I should just post stick figures with my text. Blathering is my claim to fame. Picture taking I want to learn, but I am too busy talking! Safe travels!! xoxo
Laura Phelps-you need TISSUES for parenthood. I cried for HOURS.
I LOVE YOU
I LOVE this post
the colors
and sunshine
and brightness
and all of it…
it makes me HAPPY
so if you put “make Laure happy” on your list,
it is like you DID do something you were supposed to do
and now, even better, you can cross it off of your list!
see how much you got done today?
happygirl-I LOVE your pictures. PLEASE don’t change. Then your blog will be boring, like mine. (my blog isn’t really boring, I just don’t have all the beautiful pictures) Your children won’t go to college and your daughters will be single the rest of their lives. PLEASE don’t change. I think the circle fabric is GORGEOUS. Have a GREAT trip.
candace-watch parenthood first. and don’t stop taking pictures – looking at them is MY distraction from the impending “get-to-do” list! ha!
Sugar Mama-When I have a long to do list I get anxious. First, I’ll bite my fingernails. Then I’ll have a panic feeling wash over me. Then I distract myself with something completely unrelated (usually that involves eating)…. and ONLY then do I try to work on the list.
Those pillows I must have.
Stephanie@Geezees-OMG! All of that color is making me giddy 🙂 Love those throw pillows.
Hope you have a good day Meg 🙂
Kimberly Dial -If I took pictures as lovely as yours, I’d have a hard time stopping too! Your pillows are ‘fantabulous’! You never fail to make me smile — thank you! Now …. get busy girl 😉
Kimberly Dial -If I took pictures as lovely as yours, I’d have a hard time stopping too! Your pillows are ‘fantabulous’! You never fail to make me smile — thank you! Now …. get busy girl 😉
Heather -There is nothing that paralyzes me like a long to-do list. What is up with that?
Gemma @ Musings of a gem-Heehee! Loving your cushions : )
The sight of your kitchen makes me giddy…so jealous!
Gemma x
rachel / cr.e.at.e-i just laughed out loud with each new funny close up photo & your coordinating comment. AND THE LAMP! 😀 absolutely hysterical [but it looks awesome, i’m not laughing at IT]. we have the exact same ‘problem’ so if you get help, a diagnosis or some meds, just let me know so i can help myself. randomness & procrastination central, here [going 34 years strong]. hopefully now that you got ‘other things’ out of the way, you can be productive! [that’s always my hope at least] 🙂 GOOD LUCK!
Katy-I love your house! That first picture of your beautiful pillows in your living room with your kitchen in the background, perfection!
PS – Oh, and I am the same way. My eldest is at preschool, my youngest is napping, my bed is unmade, my kitchen is a mess, and I have a ton of laundry. What am I doing? Checking your blog while waiting for the pictures that I just edited to upload for my blog. I am losing it…
Jen W. -Laughing so hard! I love that you are busy taking pictures of oranges. That’s awesome!
Candy-we were just talking at MOPS yesterday about how important it is to take pictures, even of the normal everyday life, because you can’t get those years back when life was hectic and your kids were little, but at least you will have the pictures!
Ana M -love ya….
your posts make me happy…
Kim -I do the exact same thing. I had a giant list of things to do yesterday-but not before I decoupaged book pages to the top of my coffee table. That is a must-do before preparing dinner and getting ready for a gathering at my home last night-don’t you think! I think it’s called “avoidance”.
Beth-GREAT lamp! good luck getting stuff done today!
Nicole Q.-That is exactly how I handle my to do list!!! LOVE those pillows!!! Have a great trip!
tracy dickinson-ha! i just finished watching parenthood this morning! i have a TON of things to do, but couldn’t wait any longer. it was SO good. good luck getting everything done!
alyssa-that’s hilarious. I do the same exact thing when I’m busy. I have a long to-do list and I just keep finding other things to do! I feel your pain.
katie-i am exactly the same way. i drive myself crazy like that: when i’m stressed about things to be done, i always catch myself doing other things that don’t need to be done…creative or fun things alot of the time. as i’m doing the not-necessary, probably fun thing, i’m thinking: “what the heck am i doing right now?!”
Tracy-LOL I LOVE LOVE LOVE your pillows AND the graphics on your coffee cup – TOO CUTE! I love all things circles and polkadot type stuff anyway! 🙂 Good luck with your to do list and have fun on your trip! Thanks for sharing your goodies today. Also, one more thing – could you add to the “bottom” of your to do list perhaps – to do a tutorial for your fabulous lamp makeover (not the spray paint part obviously), but the fabric part with the hot glue – I have a lamp in my daughter’s room that I want to do the same thing to. You’re so awesome and I always love coming to see what you and the family are up to each day. Have a great day, Meg! xoxoxo
Miranda-hahaha funny stuff – I get most of my list done when I am in a time crunch then run around like a mad woman!
ashley jensen-Ha! My daugter does the same thing with her little toys, takes them into the bath tub and lines them up. But there is nothing wrong with getting distracted with the things that make you happy!
Shivaun -If you’re crazy, then I’m crazy! That’s helpful now, isn’t it?
You make me laugh…and I need to because my 2-yr.old has the stomach flu and I have 6 others who I know will start any second. Laughter is good 😉
I’m busy, too. Reading blogs.
it's been a good week. had a great day yesterday with a friend who taught me lots of computer stuff cause she's a jedi in that field.
i enjoyed listening to her children talk….i miss baby talk. she said to one "you're too big for that rocking horse" and he said "no i not…i 'mall" sigh. melts my heart.
i had 6 hours alone in the car of quiet time.
SIX.
that is a good thing. driving by yourself you can think and pray and think….and sing U2 songs REALLY LOUD!
i did all those. and i get to stop for the bathroom when i want and how often i want. and i get to get drinks for just me…no guilt….even a Mcflurry if i want….and i wanted….. i do like driving alone.
my phone was near dead so i couldn't talk to anyone….a blessing in disguise.
and my gps was in the other car so i had to pay attention to where i was going while driving. another gift to me. i could make the trip again easily…but when i use the gps i go on autopilot….don't notice anything.
then i got home….wrapped in a big bear hug from craig…..he said my love story was really good. and i teared up. then read all the comments from yesterday. THANK YOU for reading my story. i felt/feel vulnerable. it's silly. it was soooo long ago. it was a different person. but not. so thank you for liking me yesterday…and still liking me today even after you know more details of me.
(ps…go read all of them in the series…with kleenex…they are each so beautiful)
and i know that John Rambo was spam but it was such a unique and funny spam that i had to keep it. i took out his link so there would not be any whatever readers poisoned by his weirdness….you're welcome. your comments were a riot!
and today…i am exhausted by parenting. it is so dang hard. every day.
some days are amazing and it's the best thing you could imagine and you are so happy it hurts. but many days…. they beat you down.
if it's not the banging on the door when you are trying to go to the bathroom leaving you with not a second to yourself….it's the terrible choices they make when left to their own devices. give them 3 hours of free time….often they choose badly….no matter how well we "parent". and it's very tiring to have to be picking up those pieces….day after day.
and to be yelled at for it by them.
debbie downer returns….waaa-waaaaaaah.
but it is true. somedays this job
WEARS
ME
OUT.
so i will bring it to God again. and again. and He will make it good…in His way…and his time. but i am still tired.
none of these pictures have anything to do with each other. they are strays.
fillers.
and i may have even shared this one already.
i need some more coffee.
ok.
since i was a went all sad and mopey on you….let's end on something funny. "i'm the oldest jonas."
Trysha-I went home for the weekend a couple of weeks ago and I was allllll alone. By the time I made it, my voice was hoarse and my throat was sore from singing along to Lisa Loeb.
Loved your Love Story.
Kelly-I get to ride around now and turn up U2 really really loud now too… it’s a good thing… except when my husband uses my car… not a fan… boy, it’s hard to type when it’s past your bedtime and you’ve had two glassses of wine… see, I spelled glasses wrong 🙂
love your blog.
steph-aw meg… i’ve been gone all weekend and haven’t had time to read up.
it’s SO awesome to read your love story. i can totally understand feeling vulnerable. it’s so hard sometimes to really tell the truth but i think we all love you the more for it. and it gives wings to all of our stories too that we sometimes don’t always want to share. so thank you for that! i love to read how God just works and works and works on that tapestry we call our lives. you couldn’t have seen it back then at 18 but now, in hindsight, you can see everything imperfect thing that God has used to make a beautiful picture. how amazing is His love? wow… mind blowing! hearing other’s stories and other’s struggles in marriage and life and how they’ve overcome is always so uplifting. going through some tough stuff right now with my marriage but knowing that God is always good and faithful. He really is.
soooooo…. your girls weekend sounded like a blast too!!! man, oh man! how i love to dance! would have loved to see some pics of that too!!! hee hee! if only i could dance every weekend… oh yeah, i guess i’d have to be 18 to do that. duh! ok, i’m fine being in my 30’s! but a good dance time is always needed for me too! glad you had a blast!!
xo
Emily-Thanks for sharing your love story. I really needed to read that. Will you and your husband mentor me and mine? We live in WA state, but I bet we could make it work. 🙂 Marriage can be SO. HARD. Thanks for the reminder that God brings beauty from ashes.
Beth-Omgoodness I still love ya even after the love story…it was a romance, maybe not the typical that many have but still it was a beautiful love story that has lasted…so many don’t.
Mine didn’t…same happened to me and then to my daughter, but thankgoodness hers is still going after ten years of hard work and GOD in her life…her faith has kept it going…and they have three beautiful children…so in my eyes true romance is all types!
Love seeing all the stray pics…I would love to hear some tip[s you learned about the computer from your friend.
Also loved reading about your girls weekend and the fun you had with your sister and friend out dancing! Sounded like a fun time…no pics of that?
Happy week! You still rock with your blog!
Kelly-I love that you went to Ashley’s! As soon as I saw that little apron hanging on the wall, I thought, “uh uh, she went to Ashley’s!” very fun. I am glad that you had a good girls’ day over the weekend. Sometimes I’m convinced that parenting just needs to be shared with the extended family (and I’ve only got one!) Have a great week. oh and I was secretly disappointed that today’s post wasn’t titled monday. Kelly
p.s. LOVE the mustache picture.
Brooke-You went to hang out with Ashley Ann….so, so fun!!
I want to go too 🙂
When you had your craft weekend, I was thinking that my friends all hung out without me 🙂 hahaha….maybe I am more a mental friend than a real friend!
I love reading your love story. Let’s be honest….even with a beautiful beginning, EVERY story has lots of UNPRETTY parts. I am so thankful that you are willing to share and be transparent.
Amanda Angert -Your love story was great 🙂 Thank you for sharing! And thanks for sharing all that you do on your blog. Your craft Thursdays have been a huge inspiration to me and I’ve even attempted some of the crafts with my girls. I love that you keep everything real and honest; it’s a lot easier to relate to.
As for being exhausted by parenting……girl, don’t even get me started! I can only imagine what it’s like having 5 children because I have 2 girls (ages 4 and 7) and some days it’s all I can do get through the next 5 minutes without yelling or crying (or both). Yesterday I had my own pity party. I felt unappreciated and invisible. I hate to admit it but it *might* have been a little bit hormone induced (ahem). Anyway, today is another day. Keep being awesome Meg!!!! xo
Katy-hello! i just wanted you to know that i loved your story. i kept meaning to come back and tell you. i also have the sunshine print! 🙂
Jacqui-Hi Meg, just wanted to say thanks for the great craft ideas! check out my blog to see my two wee ones doing one of your craft ideas!!
Tracie-Your story is a wonderful example of how God can redeem our messes. He can use them to refine and grow us! I’m glad you shared your story!
karen -Greetings from Toronto, Canada.
Hey…that’s Ashley Ann’s home! So cool!
My boy used to say ‘mall’ too. L’s and S’s were difficult…Lipstick would be Riptick.
Cool story Meg…love your blog.
jeana-I just read your story. I cried and cried. I have the same story, only I was 17. We have now been married almost 9 years and have 3 boys. I used to feel sorry for myself at times for not having a prom, or super romantic story, but God is showing me the romance in it as I pray daily for him to reveal it to me. You’re right. It is love when our husbands chose to stay and create a family. True love. Thank you.
Georgia-The good thing about your love story is that its ‘real life’ and its lovely to hear how you got together, and how the people you are now became that way. 🙂
Erin -You are an mother and woman of God. I feel so blessed to “know” you.
As far as the parenting goes. I feel you. My motto sometimes: remember… bedtime does eventually come!
Karen -I love this. This stuff really is HARD. I think we are not supposed to say that?
I also think your love story is beautiful.
Emma -Thank you for sharing your love story. So honest…so beautiful and so real…..
Lori -We are in the process of adopting a young sibling group of 4. We have 2 children already. Your honesty is very helpful to me. It gives me a glimpse into the future. Blessed & joyous, hard and tedious. Thank you.
kathy Eller-Parenting is sooo hard and yet we fel guilty to acknowledge it. WHY? I agree whloleheartedly: we contine to bring it to Him and He continues to do something beautiful in his time and I am still tired:)
Heather R. -Six hours alone…how do I do that? Motherhood is the hardest job I’ve ever had. I hope your weekend picks up. 🙂 Need to go read your love story.
Carol S -Meg, I’ll second that parenting is hard! I’ve been thinking about you with a teen now…if you’re like me, comparing their teens to our teens. My son is a junior in hs and texts a freshman girl he met on vacation A LOT, and it’s driving me crazy. We do the best we know how, make touch decisions that are unpopular, and let some things slide. Finding the right balance of them is the tricky part. I’ll pray for you, please pray for me. Wisdom and patience. Love the SNL skits, keep ’em coming!
Heather-Meg. Love your story. Isn’t life ironic. We all arrive in our futures and look back on our pasts and say what if. I am the polar opposite of you, in some ways, in that I spent my entire 20’s partying and traveling and living it up. And, while I don’t regret a second of it I sometimes sit and think that it would have been nice to find my love early, to have had more children and to have been done having them by 35, instead of just starting.
Thanks you so much for your story. For trusting in sharing it. For being you. For warming my cold winter day.
shannon-Meg…I love you! Oh how I wish you were my friend in person to talk to, to get advice from, to point me to the scriptures when I have troubles and questions. I LOVE your blog….I love how you are so open and honest about every day life. I just read your love story and it did make me teary eyed and I can relate with a lot of it. I can relate with how tired the job of being a mom makes you….i can just relate, it’s why I wish you were my friend in person. 🙁 You inspire me to be a better child of God, wife, mother, friend, woman! 😀
Sarah Wolfe-Love your blog. Thanks for telling us your story.
Andrea Boone -Meg!
Your love story was so great because it was very much like mine… it made me look at things kinda different!! I am sad sometimes that I missed all the romance and got babies instead!! I love babies and God new that even then.. So your story rocked in my eyes!
on another note so weird looking at the basketball Pics I see boys from VC that i know!!!
small world.
Tracey @7294cottageway.blogspot -Your random..yet intentional writting is so refreshing! Hey-did you ever get my e-mail?? I sent you an idea…any thoughts?
christine -Oh, I totally loved your love story. And, honestly, it made me admire you all the more. Thank you for being so real and honest. It’s one of the many things that I treasure about reading your blog. I cried reading your story – the love that you have for Craig is so evident, and is just beautiful. I was so encouraged to see how God has worked in your lives. Thank you for sharing it that with us.
I tell ya, Thursday was my day to struggle with this whole motherhood thing. Somedays it’s just really hard. At times I forget that everyone goes through some version of these difficulties, you know? I get filled with doubt and get completely overwhelmed. It’s nice to be reminded that this is part of the journey for everyone.
Jessica Johnson-I loved your story. Redemption. A tangible reminder of God’s love in sending His Son. Through a broken story. Stories we ALL have. Thank you for your transparency and honesty. It is a gift.
Celia-Oh my… I just read your story… and was brought to tears! I loved your honesty and seeing how the Lord blessed your lives and brought you through tough times…. and continues to bless you all. Thank you for sharing with us!!
marci-THANK YOU for saying that it’s hard. this last year being a mom has kicked my trash. it is so nice to hear that i am not alone. i have a 19 yr old and her choices are killing me slowly but i have to let her make them. it is excruciating….seriously. thanks for reminding me that god is there for me. i forget that time and time again. i love that you are so strong in your faith and always remind me to be the same.:D
Lisa -I hear you… on everything! Parenting is so hard. I am always praying that God would stand in the gaps. But Galations 6:9 is a good reminder to me. “Do not become weary in doing good. For at the proper time you will reap a harvest if you do not give up”. We will see the harvest one day! 🙂 Thanks for sharing the real stuff.
Andrea -You are a beautiful story – all seven of you.
I leave tomorrow for a girls week at the beach. I can do this because my husband is a wonderful man that when I say “I need this” he trusts that I do. So my mom has the kids and off I go.
I wanted to tell you that as I think ahead to sunsets on the beach and grownup drinks and only being responsible for me, I also think of stuff I’ll miss. I add a week without this blog to the list!
Jeannine -Hi Meg!
I’m not sure exactly *how* I stumbled across your blog, but I’m so thankful that I did.
I’ve been a reader for quite some time now, but I rarely comment.
I just wanted to tell you that I love your love story… it’s so honest and real and beautiful.
I’ve been in a funk all day and that definitely put me back into my normally cheery mood.
You constantly inspire me. Thank you for that =)
Jenn -My two very favorite, read them everyday, know and love their kids (even though I don’t really know their kids!), bloggers spent the day together! I saw those pictures and said, “that is so Ashley’s house”! What fun!!!
Bethany {3SonsPlus1}-Amen sister! Parenting has worn me out lately too!
Anyhoo.
Loved your love story. Hiccups, warts and all. We’ve all got them, but I do know what you mean about feeling sad over hearing other people’s stories. I’m so glad God can make our stories beautiful, and yours is beautiful!
The Cottage Chick-I love your story. I love your honesty and how you are real about your emotions. I just had coffee with Jenny from Jenny On The Spot this morning and she and I were chatting about blogs we love. I had just started following you about a month ago, and then she was telling me I needed to read your blog, because you are a Christian and a creative gal like me! So happy to get to know you through your blog I hope we meet some day! Thanks for sharing your heart.
God Bless You
Denise
Jeri-Anne Giesbrecht -Hi Meg,
I am so glad I looked at your blog today. I have had a full day with the kids – which was one of the hardest in the past while. I realized part way through the day that I was not trusting God or bringing all my concerns to HIM. Thank you for your words… to bring all of this to God.
BLessings from the Canadian Girl,
Jeri-Anne
sam-i was feeling just the same way today. and feeling bad about it. thank you for your blog and for your honesty. it really helped a lot!
Jen-Meg, your love story is wonderful! So sweet and real, there is nothing better than real love!! Thank you for sharing it!
Wendy -Meg,
I loved your “love story”. Your take on the whole, “missing out on the proposal” thing is spot on. I had about the same scenario myself to the start of my married life as you. I like to think that many marriages start with those romantic proposals, some make it and and some don’t. Either way, I got the man of my dreams and the children to go with it. Doesn’t matter how I got them, just that they’re mine. 🙂 Keep on blogging!
Heather-Thanks so much for being so real. It encourages and inspires. It takes a brave woman to be real.
Lisa -I check your blog and Ashley Ann’s everyday – that’s so cool that you both are good friends!
Dawn-Meg,
I thought I would tell you how much I love your blog. Your crafts are creative, your humor is hilarious and I love your realness. i read your blog everyday but some days I don’t have time to comment so tonight I thought I would.
Amber Pamper-Looks like Lauren is gonna be a mini-you. 🙂
sandy toe-I love your honesty.thank you.
sandy toe
Tracey Garcia-Oh I so know what you mean. I love my boys so much but there are so many days when they just beat me down and wear me out. Other days I feel completly used up but then one of them will say something funny or say “mom I love you” and somehow I drag myself back up the hill. I teach school and I am with little ones all day, but without a doubt, parenting is THE hardest job EVER!!!
Lisa -Meg – beautiful story. I remember you as a cheerleader in highschool! I was much younger but thought you were (and still are) the coolest. 🙂
Courtney Walsh-I can’t wait to read your love story. 🙂
You should know that around this time every day I start to get jittery. Not with excitement like I should knowing that my kids will be home in twenty minutes, but really nervous that they’re going to instantly start fighting and my mood will be shot for the rest of the night.
And I’m not proud of it, but that first half hour when they get home sets the tone for the rest of the day. And I DREAD that half hour.
I’m exhausted. Loved this post today. I can’t wait to read more about your love story. 🙂
Stephanie-I’m not sure where I found your blog. Not sure how long I’ve been following it. But I read because you have lots of kids. And I have lots of kids. And your life is crazy. And my life is crazy. And because you’re crafty. And I’m crafty. And because we have those things in common, I read your blog. I hadn’t read your love story until just now. And I don’t cry when I read blog posts. Not usually. Because usually there is chaos in the background of my computer time which doesn’t make for a very cryable atmosphere. Just now when I read your story I got a bit teary, which is fairly amazing. The tears came because I saw that we have more in common then I thought. We don’t know each other and we’ll probably never meet. But I feel a bit more connected to you now. And I’m inspired by the life that you’re living. Thanks for that.
Rach-Something no one tells you about before you become a parent is that you will have some days where you just don’t want to be a parent. Just for the day… no more. They tell you it’s hard, but they don’t say how it’s hard because it’s different for everyone. They say you will be tired, but no one tells you just how tired and for how long. I only have a toddler and a baby on the way… you have 5 children, a dog, a husband and a blog career. You can define tired way better than I will ever be able to. 🙂
Tracy Fisher -Your LOVE story made me tear up… and smile. I love your perfect imperfect life. It’s so real. When the rest of the world makes me feel like an inferior wife, mom, daughter, sister, artist, blogger, you name it…. it’s nice to hear real people and real stories. I guess it makes me feel better… so, thanks for sharing.
Sincerely,
not-so-cinderella Tracy Fisher
meaghan-oh my gosh. i just read the love story. thank you for writing and sharing. i L_O_V_E your blog so much!!! love your post today. i’ve read your blog for so long now. are you my friend? hahaha that was creepy 😉
jennifer-Loved your love story. Thank you for sharing it with us.
And being a mommy wears me out too. How can something so great be so exhausting sometimes?
Gale -Oh, thank YOU for being so transparent and for reminding me once again that there are “friends” and “gal pals” out in blogland that DO get it – that have a heart for God in spite of our past and that HE FORGIVES and FORGETS, which we so often cannot do. You bless me every day and I SO enjoy your blog! 🙂
My youngest is now 17 and although I love the freedom that comes with it, there’s not a day that goes by that I don’t also miss them being young and needing me more. Never forget that what you’re doing – no matter how frustrating – is SO very important! 🙂 You’re making great little people into great BIG people!!
I need a Jedi…. sigh. I gotta figure out this blogging thing… LOL!!
Have a great weekend 🙂
Karina -I can never watch the videos you post (I can see the advert but not the video), but I love the photos. And the commentary. And the randomness. And, of course, the “realness” – I am a mother of three and often wish for a margarita right after breakfast.
Valerie@Chateaualamode.typepad.com-Meg, I love you! (not in a creepy way, but a friend way). I’m older than you and my kids are older than yours, but I still relate to all of it. Parenting isn’t always easy or fun…alot of the time it’s the opposite. I love your realness (probably not a real word). Keep it up and your love story was the best, because it was real. I’m glad you had 6 hours to yourself. Sometimes we need that recharging time. Thanks for ending with a funny Jonas clip…very cute!
AshleyAnn-You called me a jedi. Pretty sure in this house that is the highest form of a compliment one person can give another.
Thanks for spending the day with me. You reminded me to slow down and pay attention to the little ‘baby talk’. It is so normal here, I forget how quickly it will change. Thank you.
shea -Thank you for this. I only have two kiddos, but they have been beating me up the last week. They’re only 2.5 years and 5.5 months! It’s just been one of those weeks where I’m struggling to come up for air. Thanks for reminding me that I’m not alone.
I so enjoyed reading your love story too. Thank you so much for sharing with us.
And, I’m super jealous you are friends with Ashley Ann and got to spend the day with her and her babies.
Emily Zimmerman -Meg!!!! I love your story!!! And I love how your husband gave you a big hug and told you your story was really good. SO SWEET!!! Thank you for sharing yourself with us!!! Love it and love how God has just blessed and blessed your life and family. Thank you for letting God use you! You are a blessing to me!
cindy -Meg…so touching and honest! Thanks for sharing your love story. Just shows you can never judge people. Your life seems so great, I just assumed you had that “picture perfect” courtship, wedding, ect.and you guys are some of the lucky ones that things just come easily for. Naive of me I know but I did and not in jealous or petty way. Just happy for you guys. This reminded me that we all have our stories. You are even more real to me and I respect you and your husband even more now because of how you have chosen to live your lives dedicated to God when it wasn’t always so easy. My Dad always tells me a ball has to hit bottom before it can bounce up…sometimes those rock bottom places give us what we need to stop and listen and feel God pointing us in the direction he wants us to go. Has been the case for me anyways. I have been experiencing some hard times the past few years…some self inflicted…some out of my control…some very public and out there for others to see…and some deeply personal. I can’t describe why your blog touches me but I think it has helped me feel like my life has color in it again or that it can if I choose to let it come in my life. It just makes me happy. I know the Lord is in all things…even blogs if we choose to see Him there and listen to promptings for our personal lives. I can’t believe I’m commenting…I’m usually just a lurker. Just felt like I had to today. All I can say is thank you, and just know it’s for so many great reasons!
Jenny B. -Oh, wow, Meg. I was choking up through your whole love story. Amazing.
I haven’t taken a road trip by myself in a long time. To get a milkshake without guilt… (Usually, I’m thinking, “Would it be possible to buy it and drink it in stealth mode so that I don’t have to provide one for everyone else in the car who will inevitably spill it and then cry?)… that would be NICE! And to spend the day at Ashley’s house… nice also! 🙂
ashley jensen-The bathroom thing is crazy! On a daily basis my daughter, dog AND cat come in to visit me. Sometimes my husband happens to be in there too (I will blame that on our closets being in the master bathroom). They can all be ignoring me but the second I need to go pee they are all there. Hello can I not have 20 seconds to myself for that? That would be a no. Maybe I should start locking my bedroom door…
Tanya H-I agree with the parenting comment. We’ve had a LOT of discussions lately with our oldest on making better choices and dealing with the consequences that come with any choice and its hard and he’s only eight!!!!
Loved your story. Love your thoughts. THanks for being willing to share. 🙂
lauren-love this post. the good the bad and the ugly. is this how GOd feels about us sometimes? how he can love us so wildy and completely and yet be like– seriously? i give you three hours and THIS is whaat you do with it?? come on now. 🙂 thanks meg. 🙂
sara @ it's good to be queen-well i agree, parenting is dang hard. and that clip was awesome. and i loved your love story…that’s real stuff right there. i like you!
Lisa-Your story was great. Thank you for sharing that with us! It is amazing what strength we can find when we look beyond ourselves. I just wrote a blog post about that, too – we had a very scary ultrasound and start to this pregnancy (baby #3) and it has taught me so much. Enjoy your weekend and your beautiful family.
Karen H. -Hi Meg
I have days like that with my kids. Some times I think I CAN NOT do THIS for another 15 years!!!! And if one more person living in MY house calls me MEAN!!!! grrrrrr And your love story was so moving and inspirational. You are just lovely, inside and out! Have a BEAUTIFUL weekend. 🙂
Astrid-Love your posts! You always make me smile. 🙂
Heather-Meg, Your honesty is truly a gift. You so often write what many of us feel but are too scared or anxious to say. You have a unique way of making the realities of life a little easier to bare. Life isn’t easy, parenting is certainly not easy but God never said it would be, He did say that he will use all things for good and I regularly see Him make good on that. You are great at putting a smile on my face and reminding me that I am not alone and not to take myself so seriously. Thanks for being so transparent.
Blessings,
Heather
Toni :O) -Meg, what a beautiful love story…sorry I missed it yesterday! I will always, always, always love your blog…it truly makes me happy and smile and that dog of yours is awesome! Your dog makes me appreciate the one I rescued last year even more. Have a great weekend and thanks for sharing your fun and sometimes crazy life with us…so cool to be along for the ride! :O)
Charlotte-thank you for today’s post…your honestly… and linking your love story post from danielle’s blog….i miss baby talk too..♥
hope you have a restful weekend..
xo
heidi @ wonder woman wannabe-parenting IS hard – i hear ya!
from one worn out mama to another waaa -waaaa. 😉
it’s hard not to be a debbie downer when you’re not exactly surrounded by a bunch of pollyanna’s. emotions are contagious – i’ve been working on immunity building ideas ’round my parts these days…i’ll let you know if i have any big revleations in that department.
cheers!
~h
Shivaun -Your love story is beautiful! And you are so right… parenting is exhausting and wonderful and it requires prayer. I think that’s all part of His plan! Blessings to you, lovely soul!
amanda -thanks for sharing all of it!!
Deb -meg, I am reading Grace based parenting right now by Dr. TIm Kimmel, and How to have a new kid by Friday by Dr. Kevin Leman.
I have had them on my bookshelf for years, but it was all in God’s timing that I am reading them now. I also have teens, and know what you are going through. Be Blessed! DEB
Aimee-I gotta tell ya, Meg, yours has quickly become one of my favorite blogs. It is real. I don’t leave here feeling badly about my life because yours is all beauty and smiles. I leave feeling like life is hard and we get through it…and then we smile…until it’s hard again. The good and the bad are all okay and you aren’t afraid to put it out there– or maybe you are and you suck it up and do it anyway. Thank you!
flowerpowermomma-God is using you mightily. Keep sharing your story, encouragement and the real-ness of life.
Parenting is tough. My oldest will be 31 in June. My husband has been pastoring for… ( wait, I gotta do the math) 27 yrs. People often say, “I could never be a pastors wife. It’s gotta be hard.”
Well…my response is..” the hardest thing I do is parenting.”
(In reality both those jobs kind of overlap.)
Life is about people. Keep on loving and correcting. Hang on it’s all worth it and you’re doing a great job. Yes, you really are.
So happy you got a break, that’s a necessity in high stress jobs. I was given a poster in high school, (centuries ago). It had a girl walking through a field by herself. Written in the sky was “sometimes you need to be alone with yourself to put yourself back together again.”
true then, true now.
Cory-1. I LOVED your story. It’s HIS story & that’s what makes it so wonderful.
2. Umm hanging out with you & Ashley Ann..treat! Come on, you both are way to cool to be friends.
3. I love reading your blog & hearing your thoughts on parenting. I only have a little babe & I love reading the unique difference between parenting a baby & older kids.
Cori Barney-you make all my days better. you are so funny! (and real)
Flower Patch Farmgirl-1. I’ve got a mad crush on Alec Baldwin. (Not the one you’re thinking of.)
2. Don’t stop. Don’t stop the titles.
Danielle H. -You went to Ashley Ann’s. Sigh – so jealous!!!! Loved your love story. Love your blog. I love the post you did of your house. Really made me feel like I wasn’t alone in that battle!!!
Staci -Not sure if I commented on your love story or not…I’ve had a sickie at my house allll week….plus, only three days of school in two weeks…this week, sunshiney and beautiful…and he’s sick 🙁 BIG.OLE.BUMMER 🙁 BUT, I don’t want to be ungrateful, I am happy that I wasn’t at work and got a call from the school and then have to cancel patients…blah blah blah….I was just saying allll that because my days have ran together and I canNOT remember if I left a comment…I read that beautiful story of yours….made me very happy to know that two high school sweethearts made it work….makes me a little sad….that I was that couple too (minus the baby) and we just didn’t make it happen 🙁 Ah well….I wouldn’t trade a thing….my hubby is truly my soulmate and perfect for me 🙂 Amazing how God’s love is always there….during the bad and the good 🙂 Happy Weekend!!!
Ana M -I spend part of my days waiting on your posts…
Thank you for one lovely more.
I’m a mom of 4 and many times feel just like you do…
It’s a full time job that never, ever ends…No vacation or even a tiny break..
It is hard but also joyfull and delightful..
Pleeeease, do not skip monday, I’ll be waiting anxiously for your words…
Love
Ana M
jes-i miss baby talk too…..oh no. here comes the baby itch…
haha have a happy happy day :))
happygirl-THANK YOU!!! I’ve been a Debbie Downer on my blog the past few days too. I’m going to have to CHEER UP. Maybe a six hour car ride would help me too. I’m so glad Craig hugged you well. I often wonder about things we’ve left behind and moved on from. Do the still sting? Maybe. I don’t know. LOVE your attitude. LOVE your consistency. LOVE your truth. thanks.
danielle-MEG! your love story makes me cry every time i read it. and let’s be honest i’ve read it a few times cause its on my own blog. by sharing your story you have made HIS story known. you are a beautiful child of the KING and i am so happy you shared! love to you.
Jen Joy-I can relate to every single word of this post. I have four children. It’s crazy hard. I often wonder what I was thinking (usually when I find half a tube of toothpaste squeezed out on the bathroom countertop or an entire can of soda is spilled on the carpet.) And, when it’s good, it’s downright magical. But for today, I’m giving it up to God, too. *sigh*
karen -Thanks so much for your honesty. Your love story is beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
angela-I totally agree with you on parenting! I do it Mon – Thurs every week on my own essentially. From breakfast to bed. The minute they are snuggled down, I crash….or read blogs. 🙂
I too loved your love story. My own parents had a similar story (there babe turned out not to be at that time), and almost 36 years later still together and loving each other. On top of it they only knew one another 6 weeks. love. is. incredible.
thank you for being real.
freckled hen-That feeling you get singing in the car really loud is kind of like the same feeling I get reading your blog-inspired and happy. I just read your love post and felt a little weird as it is very similar to mine…including the suprise pregnancy after high school and marriage and five kids really quick. And you’re right on both counts–it is a great life and yeah it wears me out, too!
Thanks for all you share, your pictures are the best!
Lorie S. -Amen to that. Some days you just have to get up…dust yourself off…and start over again(the life of a mom). Good to know that there are others out there that feel the same as I do.
deborah@applesinwonderland-i loved reading your story. life is hardly ever how we had imagined….sometimes, it is even better. i think that is how your story unfolds–even on the hard days. i get that. oh, do i ever. parenting 10 and 16 year old boys will keep a momma humble, that’s for sure. we also have so. much. basketball. 🙂 have a wonderful weekend!!!!
nicole @ deliajude-hearing your love story and all the others reminds us that we are all in this together and that life is messy but God is our Redeemer.
purejoy-mmmm. love it when you keep it real. and use adorable filler. thank you for that.
love your heart. thanks for being open and honest. and road trips are simply the best.
Dana D@BoysMyJoys-Oh, Meg- how could we not still love you?
If anything, it helped me identify with you even more!
It was like reading a chapter of my own story.
It stinks that it’s so hard for us, as people, to completely let go of our sins from years and years ago, yet God has already wiped those records away!
Hope you have a supercalifragilisticexpialidocious weekend!
🙂
i have been cleaning every room in this house for a week now. DEEP clean. you know….vacuuming baseboards….moving furniture…trash bags of trash….trash bags of donations.
today is another challenge. the dirtiest room in our house. and then all three bathrooms.
i know….yuck.
so since that is boring and i am only one cup of coffee into my morning i thought i would pull random pictures from my old computer's iPhoto. i am scrolling iPhoto….trying to be random and choose but not go through and choose the best one. it's fun.
here goes.
scott leaving for his first time to camp. 2009
um yeah….i look skinny….and young. 2007
i don't like this game.
for ashley.
when did he stop being so little and toothless?? 2007
this game is mean! 2008
who thought this was a good idea?!
yummy. 2009
i love this man.
(you win….you always do)
sweet babies. 2007
jenny and i pretending we are on mad men. 2008
tiny newborn baby waffle. 2008 i want to kiss his tiny puppy face.
auwwwww. 2008
her writing skills are so different now. 2008 she is very precise now. i miss wonky letters.
now i miss my babies….AND my flowers….and the SUNSHINE!!! 2007
ok…one last pic.
party like a rockstar.
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ok…i have now had three cups of coffee.
and my heart is filled.
i am off to crank up the music LOUD and clean for the next 5 hours straight no stopping.
i will destroy any dust bunny that gets in my way.
racheldenbow-Oh wow. This makes me want a bigger house so I can have at least three more kids and two dogs and lots of laundry! I’ll take the extra laundry!! Thanks for a little perspective there. It makes me want to be more intentional about time with my kids today as we’re snowed in.
I hope your weekend with all that fabulous company was the best!!!
danyele-i have got to mop this house, do the laundry and clean clean clean. i’m seriously in need of motivation. this was a great start, but need 4 more cups of java first.
Lisa-LOvE the pictures, so fun to look at oldies of the kids, sad too though 🙁
danielle-my favorite is the madman picture 😉
happy day, friend!
Holly-I am on a similar mission tomorrow. I cant wait. Actually I thought of you when I bought a “whatever” shirt yesterday at the Lifeway store. If I can find it online Ill send you a link.
donna -i am so glad that you decided to start this blog – because you don’t know how it uplifts me when i am having a not so great day! thanks again meg.
julia-Please tell me you were a good blogger and took before and after cleaning pictures. I love make over stories!
Courtney Walsh-Toothless looks like my Ethan now. Thank you for pointing out that he won’t stay that way forever…because today I could’ve wrung his little neck!! lol
That last pic…priceless!
Gina-Thanks for the reminder to treasure wonky letters-I only have more little person making those anymore, and they’re getting less wonky by the day. I know I’ll miss that too!
Holly-If I could press REWIND and freeze my babies into one stage of life, it would definately be during the toothless grin stage. Soo Sweet!!!!
Kristen-i love waffle! what breed of dog is he?? (sorry if you’ve answered this already…)
xo
kristen
amy jupin-meg,
the pic of you and chicago jenny made me spit out my coffee. literally!
all the others made me feel so happy and smiley.
i know i’ve said it before, but you have a beautiful family!
a sweet, lovable, goofy big ol’ family.
you lucky duck.
🙂
Tara pakosta -Your blog is my happy place!!!
Great and fun shots!!!
Tara
crystal beutler-Can you just follow me around and snap pictures of the little moments in my life?? You capture it so well. You have such an eye for the details, and that my friend, is what makes you an artist.
Hey, funny you wrote about this. I wrote about the same thing!
Heather R. -Love the flowers, miss the sunshine, love the pic of Annie after “Partying like a rockstar”. Too cute. You go get those bunnies! 🙂
Juli -TOWANDA!
happygirl-I enjoyed this blog so much. Thanks for sharing your family pics and sharing your DEEP cleaning story. And thanks for your commitment to blogging. It encourages me.
Tonya-Fun post, Meg! It’s a good reminder to occassionally go through old pix…your babies are adorable!
Tracy-Awwwwww……. I love these pictures and miss my “babies” too. The sunflowers are beautiful and since I currently live in the Northeast and am under a snowstorm and am really miss the sun and the warm temps! Xoxoxo
Karen Gerstenberger-What a lovely posting. Your family is so precious.
I don’t mean to pry, but between the baby pictures (including Waffle) & the heavy-duty cleaning – you couldn’t be expecting, could you? =)
kat-Love these pictures!!! Great post! I hate cleaning too, not one of my strong points, but you better believe I bust a move when I’m doing it.
Sonia-Ha! I love the Mad Men photo. I just finished Season One and thought to myself they really go overboard with the smoking. And it’s funny to see how they were so at ease over parenting…(smoking while pregnant, plastic bags over kids heads, no seat belts!) Your kids have grown up so much! Love it all!!
Shayne-Hope you had a super-productive day! And loved the pictures, especially the falling asleep on the feet. 🙂
Ky-AWESOME post Meg! I felt your nostalgia and you made me giggle…more than once.
Happy cleaning! I HATE cleaning, but loud music sure helps make it fun.
Ky from Melbourne x
Toni :O) -Okay, you had me at Waffle’s ADORABLE photo and then Annie shows up last and I busted out laughing. Gosh, I absolutely LOVE, LOVE, LOVE your blog…it’s just one of the best out there EVA!! Now I feel guilty that it’s been too long since my own house was cleaned…sheesh, thanks a lot! LOL!
erlfisher -“KA-POW- Really?” Do you love that QT commercial as much as I do? And those flowers — awesome!
Rachel / cREaTe-awwwww! that is a sad, but sweet little game. happens to me every time i go through my iphotos, too. 🙁 by the way, that pic of annie sleeping standing up – i think i remember that from your new years a couple years ago after i 1st found your blog! so adorable. have fun cleaning! 🙂 i admire your gusto!
Tanya H-This post was loads of fun for me, and I loved your commentary. That last pic of Annie is fabulous! My brothers and sisters have hilarious sleeping photos and my kids never do that. maybe I don’t work them hard enough… LOL! or party liek a rockstar enough!
Good luck with the cleaning!
Mary-Mad Men
Gotta love it.
I grew up in that world and marvel at it every time I see an episode. We had that TV
I had that wallpaper
We drove that car
Those were our kitchen cupboards
My mom had a dress like that
That was my favorite doll (Patty Playpal)
etc . . . .
Sheri -I love love love your blog. You totally rock! Just thought I should tell you that 🙂
Jen Brandt -Love this post. Thank you! Hope cleaning was a success.
Lisa -That picture of Talby hanging upside down is just perfect. Such beautiful color…and her little flip-flopped feet. All of these are precious. Thanks for sharing!
Jessica-That last picture cracks me up! I have a pic of my middle son when he was about 3 in a similar position. He fell asleep on the stairs at my parent’s house. Thinking about that makes me miss the baby stage!
Staci -You go girl!!!!! Loved the pics down memory lane 🙂
Dawn-That is too cute and such a great idea to just pull out those random photos and remember all those time.
Denissa -I’m on the same mission!! 1 bathroom down, 2 to go..needed more coffee and made the mistake of stiing down! Then realized I missed a few days of posts!! 🙁 now back to scrubbing..ugh..
sarah -i love the deep clean! and purging…it feels so good. you feel clean and wonderful and somehow SIMPLIFIED! you go girl!
Joy-I feel guilty now about my dirt and pictures. Maybe that will inspire me as well.
AshleyAnn-So I saw the frog and thought “Meg! Not another frog. You are killing me.” Then I saw it was for me. I am not sure if I should say “thank you”.
Cleaning baseboards….a week of cleaning…you should stop and go read a magazine or something. Clean houses are overrated.
Tara-LOVE this…
need to pull some old photos and stroll down memory lane….
traci in virginia -That last picture is priceless! Sometimes you just gotta take a nap!! 🙂
angela-I should be destroying my bunnies too…but……….
Londen @ Sixty-Fifth Avenue-I will be joining you today! I’ve been saying that all week to myself so maybe it will happen if I tell you. My super cleaning will be a little slower since I have a 4 year old helper wanting to play insead of watching me clean.
becky@oursweetpeas-Love it. Thanks for a smile this morning. I love a women that loves her husband and kids. 🙂 Here’s to you for doing the worst room AND all 3 bathrooms. I am just aiming for the 2 grossest bathrooms. Twin 3 yr old boys = the MOST DISGUSTING BATHROOM FLOORS EVER!!!!!!
Lori -I am deep cleaning today too! I can’t believe that we can all breathe given the amount of dust I am finding! Good luck!
Tara M.-I decided to deep clean my bedroom yesterday. My heavy blackout curtains hadn’t been washed EVER. Read the label, it said dry on low heat. I guess they were serious! They came out all stuck together. Guess I’ll be buying new ones!
shauna reed-i just really love this game.
especially with dramatic Legends of the Fall music on while i look at the pictures of your babies.
don’t try it.
if you want to clean or do anything besides turn into a crying mass on the floor in front of your computer, don’t try it.
Kelly-KA POW! Have fun! You can do it. I’ll bet you are all kinds of awesome today! This was a fun post! The pic of Talby (right?) hanging upside down in front of that field is just beautiful! Greeting card material. I also like the frog. 🙂 How is it that frogs can look cute? Kelly
lifeasamomma@hotmail.com -I LOVE to clean!! I used to beg my mom to let me clean our bathrooms. I even like to clean other’s houses. I think I should have started my own cleaning business!
Amy
(I have been reading your blog for a few months now and you have inspired me to create my own blog. I started a couple days ago and so far I really enjoy it!)
Dani-When you are done, my house is only a flight away and I know for sure I have some dust bunnies that need your KA POW!
Love the pictures. Makes me want some spring weather!
sandy toe-Wish you lived close..you could do mine! Maybe the music helps???
sandy toe
amber-Awesome last picture. The frog made me laugh out loud. And I LOVE deep cleaning. It feels so good when it’s all done. Happy cleaning!
Heather-that picture of the girls with the flowers is making me miss the spring sunshine and little feet in flip flops.
happy cleaning day!!
T.O. -Great post! When I saw your Mad Men picture – I thought Hmmm…I never pictured Meg as a smoker….ha ha!!
Becky Bridge -I don’t remember how I came upon your site a couple of weeks ago, but I’m glad I did. You are so funny and adorable and relatable and make me wish I lived near you so I could hang out with you!!
Thanks for posting and for being so real!
Deb Meyers -wow, i started reading you when Annie was a little thing. I’m going back to my cleaning, too, cause I don’t wanna feel older anymore either ; )
deb meyers
Krista -AWWWW they’re not even MY kids and I am loving seeing them so small, I guess I’ve been reading your blog for a long time. Love seeing how everyone has changed over the years – how does Craig manage to look exactly the same?
Good luck to you on your cleaning, you’ll be so happy when it’s done!
sarah @ Perpetual Blind Date-Party like a rockstar, that caption sums up a fabulous picture! Isnt it crazy to see how much time changes things? great pictures.
BriBedell-Hilarious! I need to be doing this too, but my third pregnancy is killing me right now. Off to ride the couch I go!
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang-Hi! Oh, I was just checking my reader for some get up and smiles from you and you popped in!
Ka-POW!!!
Just what I needed 🙂
Holly Rhodes-You go girl!!!! I love deep cleaning! I do it after Christmas and in the Spring!! My mom always did it when I was growing up and I always helped and we jammed out to Madonna and I still do that!!!
Jen Joy-Party like a rockstar, indeed! I love that photo. Adore it, actually.
And YAY for cleaning! If we do our spring cleaning early, does that mean spring will come sooner?! I sure hope so! 🙂
i am convinced that the writers for Parenthood have hidden cameras in my home and they are recording everything that goes on and they are making our life into a show.
it simply must be!
it is too real NOT to be the only answer.
i can't even show you a clip because it's too obvious what is so similar.
i promised cinnamon rolls over the weekend….it didn't happen.
i finally decided to make them on sunday night. craig ran to put gas in my car and i asked him to get the whole milk i needed. he came home and sat in the kitchen with me while i was making them. i poured in the first three ingredients. then realized i had no flour. HA.
9 cups is kind of a lot to ask your neighbor for….at 9 PM. :)
i have vacuumed a total of 25 hours over the past two weeks…give or take. my vacuum broke in october. i got another one (eureka smart boss…i just looked around amazon and clicked buy and that was that…i'm not a researcher….) and now i have been vacuuming everything that was neglected for so long.
we have a day off of school today because of ice. my husband said it's totally fine out there on the roads….so that means that it's all for nothing. lame.
but i did get to sleep until 9:00….that rocks. talby and i are cuddled up in our super soft robes. and i made a FULL pot of coffee today and i am gearing up for….shall i say….a loooong day.
they are currently watching Meerkat Manor on Netflix.
elisa had this on her blog. this song is always on our Coldplay/Kings of Leon/Mumford & Sons station we made on Pandora. (HOW did we LIVE before PANDORA!????)
i love it. and now i love it even more that i can picture this adorable little girl singing with her daddy. (i assume)
************************************************************************************************ and lastly…. i am going to pretend i am not sad i am not attending ALT Summit. i just want to be there to see what it's like….and listen…and be invisible….so i could take it all in with CONFIDENCE!
ha.
that is the truth. if i was there i would be so nervous and feel so out of place…..but i want to be there.
someday.
and by the way….lots of you asked me if i felt scared about the blue lily workshop….OF COURSE!! yes. i am always nervous to be somewhere that i feel unqualified. or to be around people i don't know. or to be far away from my family. or or or…..
but if fear is holding you back from blue lily…DON'T LET IT!! if you come to san diego…i will be there with you. there is nothing to fear about me. i promise. i will fill the room with nervous laughter and hold your hand.
Debbie-Hi Meg, I’m over here peaking around your blog. Hi, I’m Debbie. I’ve been here for years actually. No you don’t know me because I’m shy that way. Anyway, I decided to come back to this post and thank you.
Yes, thank you MEG for posting this back in January. Since I love your photos, blog and respect your recommendations…I ended up signing up for this class the very day you posted this and introduced me to blue lily. I’m so impressed with blue lily blog and find them to be such a burst of sunshine and laughter.
Thanks again, I’m so excited and finding it hard to contain my joy. I look forward meeting you too.
Blessings – Debbie
Heidi Jo the Artist-Just got Meerkat Manor for the kids yesterday, they love it! Thanks for writing what’s on your mind, fun to get new ideas for me/the kiddos. 😉
Brooke-Love your new header! And my hubby and I watched this video together and it is so cute!! In fact, I might go watch it again! I love it!
alyssa-my heart goes pitter patter for parenthood. I LOVE that show. It is pretty much the only thing I watch anymore. so good.
Jennie-oh PW. her shredded pork might be the best thing i ever ate. i haven’t made the cinnamon rolls yet, but they are next on my list.
Jen -I agree with the others, I wish you were my friend. 🙂 Love your blog
stacie-i’m a quiet reader of you blog. you are my favorite though!! i don’t ever think i’ll be a professional photographer but i wanted to sign up for the blue lilly weekend just to meet you, and hang with you and learn with you and laugh with you. i love that you are so real. you write straight from your heart … i’m learning to travel from my head to my heart more often.
it’s four to one at my house today. oh my!
nicole i-ok. i don’t really know you but i sure do like you. wait that sounds stalker crazy like but it’s not. you say things i think but don’t say….and you like parenthood, madmen, kids, Jesus, africa and so on.
karen -I made your ‘lunch’ for dinner tonight. My husband and son loved it! Thanks!! I love your recipies!
Renae -I think you feel about PW the way I feel about you! I’ve not been reading for too long but you’re me, I can tell. I don’t know what that says for you unfortunately! 😉 I love me some Parenthood, Pandora (I have a Jack Johnson station), and my 6 year old son and I just made PW’s cinnamon rolls a couple of weekends ago and I hear you. I seriously have been telling everyone I know that my rolls turned out so great…so proud of myself. Thanks for the daily laughs! Hugs, Renae
Emily-I am new to your blog, I have loved being part of your world. I have to say that this crazy post was really funny! I could tell by the end of the blog post you were more than one cup of coffee in…hehe. I hope you had a great day, and your kidos surprised you! BTW, love the red coffee cup! : )
Lisa Currie-Gurney-PARENTHOOD IS MY FAVORITE SHOW. IT IS SOOOOO REAL. I FEEL LIKE SOMEONE OUT THERE GETS IT. LIFE. REAL LIFE.
I AM SO EXCITED FOR YOU TO GO TO THE WORKSHOP. YOU WILL LEARN SO MUCH…
HUGS FROM MY HEART.
MGF-love lOVE LOVE THIS SONG. tHANK YOU SO MUCH FOR SHaRING.
nOT SURE why i was in caps.
Also, parenthood rocks.
elma riedstra -Lov love LOVE the video!!! The little girl is sooo cute. We have no school tomorrow so it is be withthe seven:) have a wonderful day!!!
Kristin S-You want to be friends with PDub like we want to be friends with you.
Seriously, your random posts are my fave.
Leigh-Now I’m totally curious about your Parenthood similarities! I love that show.
Tonya-We LOVE Parenthood too! I love that the show can make you laugh like crazy and bawl your eyes out all in the same episode.
Tara-LOVE parenthood.
my husband and I laughed so hard last night that we nearly cried.
Maria-PW cinnamon rolls are the best! I never have whole milk, but always have skim and half and half. I just fill up the cup almost all the way with skim, then top it off with half and half.works in a pinch if you’re ever stuck. I cannot tell the difference.
Kate @ Songs Kate Sang-Hi! I LOVE this video… especially when she kinda yawns at the endish (I think)… A.dor.able.
Hope your snow day was good. 🙂
Margo-Mr. Duerksen was right – the roads were fine. I left town 45 minutes earlier than normal to make sure I had plenty of time to get to Wichita. I got there so early! Lucky for my department I was feeling kind and I stopped at Lamars for donuts and still got to work 30 minutes early! Hope you enjoyed your day at home with the kids!
Jessica J-I love PW and just made her cinnamon bread the other night! So YUM!
If my vacuum broke down it would be 24 hours before we were walking through animal hair ankle deep (we have 4 cats and 2 dogs!) so thank you Dyson for making an amazing animal hair vacuum.
I love your blog and have been a long time lurker — so, Hi! 🙂
Jennifer -ahah! Wish I could feel more sorry for you but I am a teacher and LOVE snow days more than my students do. Now a snow day without my kids….??? that would be insane wonderful. I can’t remember the last time I was in my house alone for even an hour.
I absolutely adore Parenthood. Such a great snow.
andrea -
meg, please consider putting a link for joannes blog, she needs our prayers.
candace-Parenthood – I watched every episode of Season 2 last week on OnDemand. Then, I ordered the first season from Netflix – DVD 1 came today. I just told my husband I haven’t enjoyed t.v. this much in a very long time. Yay for maternity leave time to watch all of it!
If you need more dirt to suck up, you are free to follow that snow/ice and come vacuum my house to your heart’s content!
heather-Love Parenthood.. love cinnamon rolls…need a new vacuum…love that song. perhaps I should move in?
fav part of that video? “one day i’m gonna whistle?” too cute!
Carol S. -super cute video, can’t say I know the band but I definitely know and like the song. Good luck today…it’s almost over. I’m bummed, everyone is having snow days but Chicago!!
kristine-LOVE that video. for as many times as we’ve played that song at our house i’m surprised my daughter can’t sing it herself! we saw edward sharpe and the magnetic zeroes last summer. made me want to be a hippy real bad 🙂
also LOVE those cinnamon rolls. wish i could come over and help you devour them. so craving a sweet now!
Laura Phelps-if you were my neighbor I would TOTALLY give you 9 cups of flour
Nick and I once asked our neighbor for two glasses of WINE
HAHAHAHA
I am laughing remembering this…
we had already had a bottle
but wanted a little more
and we were drunk enough to go and knock on our neighbors door!!!!
HAHAHAHAHA
they gave us a bottle 🙂
I miss you
Alisa -i wish pioneer woman was my friend too…. see, that is the sad thing about blogs… you get so close to people that you’ve never met. i love your thoughts…always refreshing.
melissa-every post. it’s like we were seperated at birth…only you inherited all the style.
my vacuum is currently broken. how does a family of 6 (mine) live without a vacuum??? i guess i need to head over to amazon myslef. i’m not a researcher either…except for on price. i want cheap but, it needs to work!
Amanda-I’m pretty sure I started watching Parenthood because of you – thank you! I love it! But now I’m gonna have a hard time watching it and not SEEING your family in it. HA!
And why on EARTH did they call a snow day today??! Well, I’m glad for my teacher friends, because I remember when I was a teacher and I longed for snow days and we never got them. But seriously, how dumb to call it TODAY and not last week! Go figure.
Hope you survived the day.
RLG-I think Parenthood is the BEST show on tv.
Why isn’t it nominated at the Emmys???
xoxo
angela-you know what i love most about blogland – that it is truly much smaller than it appears – after reading your blog as i ate my lunch today, i called my dad b/c he is a teacher at the high school there, and i just wanted to see if he was really off today (not that i didn’t believe you, but this can all seem a bit surreal) – a lo and behold, he was home! so – because i read your blog – i got to have a wonderful conversation with my dad (i’m in buffalo, ny now and continue to marvel at all the snow days i read about and we just have to keep plodding along because we have things like snow plows here)AND over the course of the conversation i found out that my dad is lauren’s geometry teacher! see – small world!! hope your day was tolerable and know that you brought a smile to another 2 faces today!!
Amanda-Those cinnamon rolls look awesome-maybe I’ll be brave enough to try her recipe now…
I’ve been looking for a new funky robe and I’m all about black w/ white polka dots!! Where did you find that? It’s so cute!!
Try to stay sane today…;)
Kelley-Then there will be two of us nervously laughing as we are surrounded by no one we know next month at this workshop.
I LOVE the closeness between that little girl and her dad while they’re singing and her arm is draped over his or the guitar. Too sweet.
stacie jameson -I’m sitting in ICU with my son Noah and this video put a smile on my face today Thanks its just what I needed.
Kimberly-Fear…yes it does get to us one way or another. I am stepping more boldly out of the shadows and just beginning to comment on your blog and others that I follow. I have been scared to do even that. Scared that nobody will visit my blog. Scared that I don’t have a good enough camera. Scared that it isn’t as full or fancy as other blogs. 2011 is going to be about believing that we all have something authentic to offer…including me! Thanks for always sharing the truth as you see it…it is so comforting and sooo inspiring.
dawn -I pretty much have the same thing to say as Trish (a couple posts ^^^^ up there)… I love your blog, you really do make me smile. And yesterday I was soooo super duper grumpy — so this is a great way to start the day. Thank you. 🙂
amy jupin-parenthood rocks me deeply. and i have to say, i think of you quite often when i see the teenage drama stuff. that is so HARD.
i love that song, home, by the way. everytime i hear it, i STOMP around like a little kid and it feels great! 🙂
we were out of school for the ENTIRE week last week. and monday too for the holiday. i was going crazy. but i made it, i survived. you will too.
Heather R. -We are in Leavenworth…living the snowday dream, too. Love the video you shared. So sweet. Coffee mug, clink.
Janelle -Parenthood is just delightful. Didn’t you just love Craig T. Nelson when they were talking about who wears the pants in the family and then he said how that sounds awful or something like that? Just cracked me up.
Alli-Oh my word…I have the same vacuum as a famous person :-).
Amanda-Parenthood is soooo good! On so many levels. totally afraid to be the parent of teenagers one day.
tinycandi-I would definitely go if I could afford it! I hope you have a great time! I’m jealous! 🙂
annie-i manage to get a little teary-eyed during every episode of Parenthood. Love it, and the music? Perfection!
heidi @ wonder woman wannabe-Oh how I heart PARENTHOOD – such a great show!
Wouldn’t it be great if ALL us bloggers could be real life friends even just for a day? 🙂
Hope your day flies by without too much drama, mama!
Kori-O.M.Gosh. That video is just about the cutest thing I’ve seen!! I love when she comments about herself whistling one day….
Adorable.
Stacia-🙂
I love Parenthood too.
I was just thinking yesterday that I could maybe be okay with the kids growing up a little bit (and sleeping!) and having conversations with them.
Then I watched that episode (a day late) and I am back to “Please stop growing up!” I dread having a situation like Hattie’s w/ my daughter. Just dread it.
I too (like another commenter) wish it was longer every week.
I wish you were friends with PW in real life too. And then I would be friends with you (in a dream world) and you could introduce us. 🙂 🙂 🙂
And MommaH’s comment is awesome!
merlin -Could you do a review of the vacuum? Bag/bagless, effectiveness on dog hair both on the floor and on the furniture, and then the usual stuff, comfort and ease of use blah blah. I NEED something that WORKS, that is not going to bankrupt me with fancy bags, or exhaust me as I drag attachments and heavy equipment around.
OK, that would be much appreciated. Maybe you could persuade the Eureka company to offer up a give away….that is how sad my life is, I would LOVE to win a vacuum 🙂
elisabeth (bovagoods)-LOVE parenthood. i have always wanted to make those cinnamon rolls. they look soooo good. lots of colorful rainbow goodness on my blog the past two days. totally thought of you as i wrote them. 😉 can not wait to hear all about blue lily. so fun!
becky -i was thinking about you & your sweet family while i watched parenthood with my hubby on tuesday… because you’ve said before it’s very REAL. i loved when hattie said “i don’t get why you’re taking my door off – i didn’t do anything wrong” right after she LIED to her parents multiple times.
i looked at the hubbs {MY high school sweetheart} and said, ‘does she NOT realize why they don’t trust her?’
he replied ‘we did the EXACT same thing’.
too bad he’s right. ugh. i hate it when that happens.
Melanie-I love Parenthood. I am so thankful that I have a 16 yr. old BOY and not a girl:)
Candy-Your awesome! I feel like YOU have cameras hidden at my house! We have a snow day today as well, and I have made those cinnamon rolls and done the exact thing, but it was sugar for me, the sugar is pretty important. I too, wish you were my friend!
Heather-You must have a big fan base in Olathe! I came across your blog at The Lettered Cottage a few weeks ago, so I was tickled to see where you live (I grew up in Hutch). Anyway, the video is too cute!
Pamela-Love Mumford and Sons. Love Pandora. Love those cinn. rolls. Enjoy your ice day!
Dana @ Bungalow'56-You have a gift… I feel as though I just sat down and had a chat with a good friend. As does every single person who will comment here today. You have what PW’s got. A je ne said quoi, I’m sure you two would be fast friends. The coolness in the room would be tangible.
I really like MommH too : )
Dana
lauren -You rock.
I wish you were my friend.
Kate -Sometimes Parenthood stresses me out. I get so tense about Hattie and Alex and Adam and the thought of my 6 and 2 year old girls! Eeek! Everytime it is over I say, “I wish it was a bit longer.” It is starting to make my husband insane. 🙂
MommaH-Megan, I just have to tell you right here and now: YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BE NERVOUS ABOUT!!! Take it from a woman older than your mother (probably),who always felt out of place and self conscious everywhere, at your age – there is really nothing to be all uptight about. Nobody else has it together either.
I see you young Mothers at church who are 25 – 45 and older, and I think, “I don’t think I was ever that cool when I was that age.”
When I see YOU at church you always look so cute, as do your kids, and even if Annie and Sean are fighting over a chair, and you are exasperated, you are fine. NORMAL.
I see what you create on your blog – with your house, your fabrics and your camera and I am awestruck. You are incredibly talented, and you don’t need to be afraid or back up from anyone!
There. That is my mommy sermon for the day.
You are loved, dear Meg. By people you don’t even know for sure. Be blessed!
Alicia-Hi Meg! Parenthood is also one of my favorites. I am often surprised how many times I get teary-eyed while watching…signs of a great show!
My 12 yr. old is not quite there but I see signs of future sassiness! I hope your day goes smooth and school is back to normal tomorrow…we moms need all the days we can get!
Penny-Love Parenthood. Glad I am not the only one who cries during the show. And I did cry during Alex and Adam’s conversation. It is very real.
shannon-I love pandora too but we hardly listen to it anymore since we have sirius. We are home today because of snow though and probably tomorrow b/c it will probably freeze tonight…not good. I am supposed to go to a concert tomorrow and my momma is flying in from arizona on saturday….not cool. (no pun intended). Anywho…got any craft ideas for our long day at home too for children 4 and under? 😀
Deb Meyers -hey…that is an adorable little girl! On Youtube there is a link to an Alexa T=shirt @ http://www.gonnawhistle.com, apparently to help a college fund.
Teresa-I am not married, nor do I have children but I cry at some point during every single episode of Parenthood. Every single one. This past week it was during Alex and Adam’s conversation. Love that show!
Heather -I am a regular reader, never really a commenter, but I had to say that your last line about the 5 against 1 not being a fair fight was so cute, clever, and hilarious. I so enjoy your attitude and blog.
Casey-I have never seen parenthood but have heard such good things about it. I guess I need to start watching it!
I promised my kids cinnamon rolls too but STILL haven’t made them. I have to clean the kitchen first. Boo.
How adorable and sweet is that video! I loved it!
Toni-I LOVE parenthood!! That show is so realistic. Seriously, Tuesday night is my favorite night of the week!
Amber-You will be amazing at the photo conference. I’m so happy for you
Jodi-Pandora Rocks… enough said… not sure if this guy is on Pandora yet or not, but you must google Jadon Lavick. simply.amazing.
Enjoy your day!! :o)
Karen -Hey Meg~
We are snowed in in Olathe today too; 6 inches and I need to clear a path from the garage to the street to get the trash out.
I laughed out loud at your Parenthood comment! I am with you there on that one. My 18 year old daughter and I watch it together and for the last episode I just kept looking at her and asking “is that what daddy and I sound like”? What about Modern Family; do you watch it? Last nights eposide was hilarious! Thankfully that “situation” hasn’t happened to us, but just the thought of it gives me hives!!!
Enjoy the coffee and your kiddos today!
Alisa-I’m not liking the news that your kids are off due to ice today. My 17year old is traveling from KC to Wichita today on a big tour bus for a thespian conference….eeek! I hate bad weather, especially when someone else is in charge of the driving.
I♥Parenthood too. It does seem a bit too real sometimes when I’m watching it.
I love that video too, watched it this morning on Miz Booshay’s blog and it just made me smile.
Blessings for a happy day~
Alisa
tami-I havent had a hot bath in so long, quick showers usually. I think i will do just that today!
Anne Good-Where did you get the pug shirt? I LOVE it! I have a dog blog and I would love to get my hands on one!
Courtney-It is everyday pictures of life that makes me happy! Your blog makes me HAPPY!! In my time of despair this is a fabulous reminder of what I am surrounded by, thanks for that!!
allison-the pumpkin muffins look and sound amazing!!
can you please maybe post the recipe? 🙂
Paula Montalvo-I have recently found your blog and Love it! Agreed……A Christmas Story! My favorite Christmas Movie EVER!!
Looks like you made the most of a VERY cold day! You are a girl after my own heart…….Bath, candles, wine and Mad Men!! I think we are cut from the same cloth! Blessings <3 Paula
Rach-Spoiled dog for sure, but smart too. I’ll send you guys some warm weather. It’s down right balmy out here right now.
Happy for your good day. I love days like that.
Linda -Love Love Love this kind of post. So bright and colorful yet simple and real. It’s what I love most about your blog. Thanks for brightening my day!
Jen-so glad my kids aren’t the only ones who can down a dozen pumpkin muffins like there’s no tomorrow!
Mary-I am intrigued by your sewing project with that fun fabric and look forward to seeing what you are making.
Jill Tracy -Seriously LOVE this blog Meg! I love seeing your day to day with your family. I love how open and honest you are. And all the color, yep love that too 🙂
Dandy-Love it- I might try that tomorrow.
It was 76 at the beach today- I’ll try to send some warmth your way 🙂
Liz Prince -LOVE your blog. I only read three daily and yours is always first 🙂 Can you PUHLEASE email me or post in your comments where you got that multi-colored cream fabric w/ polka dots? I NEED IT! Thank you so much!
Liz princeposse@gmail.com
karen -i’m glad you had a good day.
Jaimie-I just love how real you are. I love that you don’t “stage” your life for photos. You show a coffee mug on a paper towel, not delicately placed in a totally white background on a nice little plate. It’s so real and comforting and I think that’s a big part of why people love you so much. : )
Lisa -Please share the pumpkin muffin recipe!! Thanks for always brightening my day.
Julie -I never knew pb and apples was weird?? now pb and pickles… not too sure about that!
sarah-Oh you had me with the space heater AND the hot bath! Is it spring yet?
kat-Fun, Fun, FUN! Whad’ya get from Piperlime? Also, where do you buy your fabric from? Do you order it online?
Kimberlee J.-Nice movie quote. 🙂
Happiness is Waffle in front of that heater. I have been freezing today. I am about to join him.
Happy Mail rocks.
Valerie @ Chateau a La Mode-That is some great fabric you have there. I can’t wait to see how you are using it.
sarah-Wow that’s some serious cold weather.
I love the pictures of your day 🙂
deedee -loved the post! loved the header! loved the pics! i love your blog… 🙂
those muffins look good.. would you be willing to share the recipe? i’ve got this great recipe book that i want to fill for the little ones. 🙂
amy jupin-love the new header.
all that fresh new fabric…yummy!
amber-cute new header. i can’t wait to see what “project” you are talking about.
Tracy Fisher -Had the rainbow cake at my daughter’s 13th bday… glazed apple bars at a friends house… and just made the Mexican chicken the other night… All were delicious!!! Can you please post the pumpkin muffin recipe? Pretty please???
Tracy Fisher
ps.. loved the Be Happy shirt with chocolate on the face… I love youth!
Dana @ Bungalow'56-If you want to feel warmer, just pop over to see what real cold is. And now, even though I’ve stopped drinking coffee at home, I am about to get up and go make myself a cup. Your happy cup of java did me in.
Dana
Sam Miller Gott-A Christmas Story!! Yeah for hot baths and wine. x
Gina-Love that movie! Stay warm, looks like it was a great day for a hot bath too!
gina f. -cute pix! Can’t wait to see what you are making with that beautiful fabric! Have fun!!
Lindsay-apples and peanut butter = greatest snack EVER.
I wish so badly that I had an awesome bathtub. We’re in an apt now with a shower/bath and I don’t do baths in shower/baths. Is that weird? I’m grossed out by the walls. And that it’s an apt. Ew. Can’t wait to have a home with a NEW tub. I will soak forever.
karen -You can put your arms down when you get to school!!!
My family spent Christmas in NYC and our hotel did not have the channel that showed A Christmas Story all day. My family really missed that.
We love Waffle
Maria -mmm…you just reminded me that I was going to try to convert my pumpkin bread recipe to a chocolate chip pumpkin bread recipe…this weekend might be perfect for it!
patti-Love your new header!!! Where do you find such beautiful fabric?
Lisa Currie-Gurney-I SO NEED TO MOVE IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
HUGS FROM MY HEART
jennifer--love your new header
– A Christmas Story?
-It was 10 below here yesterday when I dropped the kids off. SO wrong!
-PiperLime always makes for happy mail.
-what are you going to make?
-I really, super duper need your recipe for those muffins! 🙂
-have you tried apples and almond butter? That’s my favorite.
margo sexton -You wrote about this a few posts back but I wanted to comment on it. You wrote that you love movies with Vince Vaughn PLEASE tell me I am not the first person to tell you your husband looks very very much like him. I have thought it for as long as I have read your blog. Just wanted to share and would be curious to hear if you have been told that
Carrie Kiser -Perfect day indeed.
Especially if there was no “you know what” out in the hallway on your only clean towels while you were in the bathtub! LOL
april-love this post!!! -2 degrees is way to cold!! Waffle may be the samrtest dog ever to lay in front of the heater…I would do that too!!! lol
Jenny Joy-I can’t wait to see what you do with all that adorable fabric! Pillows? Something else? I’m sure it will be great! 🙂
Beth-Love the last picture especially if it is that cold where you are at.
Yeah I agree can’t wait to see what you make!
Shannon-A Christmas Story! I love that movie so much and I love coming here to lurk at your blog 🙂 Your pictures are the best, your family is adorable and I want your house!
Thank you for always sharing your life with all of us.
ashley jensen-I love heart shaped things and a rock like that would be on display in my house if I found one! Our dog likes to lay in front of our space heater (in our computer room) too.
Ryanne -Love the new header. And envious of your bathtub!
Stacy -oh ya hot baths are my new obsession. I have to run in icy snow packed Wichita so you know what i’m dealing with. I can’t seem to warm up so i find myself soaking up some warmth in the bath. & I need your pumpkin muffin recipe!! They look wonderful!
nancy beach -so where do you get all your wonderful fabric? I LOVE all the colors.
Don’t you love the Piperlime boxes? I turned mine inside out and reused it that way.
Cari -Well, I thought 7 degrees was cold this morning. I’ve got nothing on your -2! Ha! 😉 And there’s nothing like a handwritten note in the mail. It truly is a lost art! Stay warm today! 🙂
Janie Fox -AWW I adore Mad Men. I have just started watching How I Met Your Mother….loving it. I might steal that Waffle!! And Talby and Annie- too cute!!
Keri @ Keri's Korner-And I thought my family was the only one with spoiled rotten dogs! LOL. My mom has a chihuahua that will scratch at her house coat until she open it and lets him in to snuggle. If she is sitting down, he is right there tucked under her arm. It doesn’t matter if it is winter or summer. That’s his spot.
Laura-That last picture just made me relax… I realized I was sitting at my laptop all tensed up.
And, as always, I adore your dog.
(and I adore the fabric and Piperlime box)
chasity-a christmas story???
love this one too~
fragile….must be italian
🙂
great photos!
happygirl-I think one may have had to live under a rock for 20 years to not ID the movie. I LOVE your day, all but the -2 degrees. I could live without that forever. Please stop by my blog some time. You have inspired me.
sarah @ Perpetual Blind Date-My favorite is apples and fat free caramel. Yummy! Looks like you had a fantastic day.
Amanda-ThriceBlessed-Line from A Christmas Story, ha!
I love peanut butter and apples too.
After your house tour photos, these are my favorite kind of posts! 🙂 Stay warm!
katie-i LOVE apples & peanutbutter!! I think it’s hillarious when people say it sounds weird!! and your dog is soooo stinkin cute!! He’s getting fluffy again!!!
Sarah -Oh those muffins sounds so good, would you be able to share the recipe?
Tammy-Great pictures!! Love the one of the puppy by the heater. That is hilarious. =) Beautiful girl in the pictures too!
kasey-starting season 3 of mad men myself today.
with a glass of wine.
in the afternoon.
as soon as Fin gets on the bus at noon.
hooyaw.
Christy -Can’t wait to see what your going to create!
Kimberly-Hi Meg….I have been following your blog for over a year and here is my first public appearance! What made me finally speak you ask???? Peanut butter and apples…I have been eating that since I was a little girl…..so glad to know I’m not the only one. Other friends thought it was strange but it tastes oh so good!!! I love your home, your family, your blog, your photos…the way you see life and share with all of us. You are a blessing to this world. keep sharing! xoxoxoxo
Elisabeth-This cracks me up because we had 6 inches of snow in Atlanta and are on day four of school being closed! We have cabin fever–wish we were as snow hardy as you all! What are you planning to make with all the gorgeous fabric?
danielle-looks like a wonderful day, indeed.
love your header…and that fabric… can’t wait to see what you’re making!
and i could use some of those muffins. for reals.
Jess Mead-Adorable pics, as usual!!! The last one is my favorite too. Glad to see you shop Piperlime. I can barely find anyone that even knows the store exists. Love it!!
Gemma-Hi Meg!
Looking forward to seeing what you make!
Gemma x
you asked if i liked TRUE GRIT….i did. it was a classic western…with matt damon in a ginormous moustache. but i liked it. i am glad it wasn't clooney though. i don't know if i could watch it with that….i am not a fan of the moustache.
everyone said to watch. everyone said it was great. i didn't get it.
we tried it once and i was irritated. then another night we tried it again and i was hooked.
we watched season 4 first and then started back at the beginning with the help of netflix. we are half way through season 2….it comes in the mail today and i can't wait! i am LOVING it. all of it. thank you chicago jen for telling me to try it again.
i have a craft in the cabinet….and another if that is not enough….i hope they will watch a movie….and not fight…..i am hoping for the thank you cards to get finished….i am needing some peace……i am just so ready for the regular routine again tomorrow…
i had a dream last night that i was watching a newborn baby for a friend. it was so real. i didn't have the right sized diapers. i just kept looking at him and i could feel him in my hands….it was such a vivid dream. so familiar. i was sad to wake up.
i am looking for some things in my HAPPY THINGS list. (on the right sidebar) instead of going through link by link and copying & pasting i decided to just show them all on the side. almost all. i put 500 of the past 800 links i have shared on my happy things list…..for ME.
i thought you might like it too.
it won't stay that way forever. i know that probably some of the links don't work anymore….and most of the etsy stuff would be sold… but now if you have an extra three or four hours you can just click through there.
Vera-I’m SO glad you expanded your Happy Things list… your Happy Things make ME happy, and there were some from months and months ago that I had wanted to bookmark and never got around to, so today I spent like two hours on your blog clicking through all of them again and bookmarking what I wanted. Thanks for making me HAPPY 🙂
Cathy M~-I am a Mad Men junkie, too! luv your blog!! hugs, cathy
Julie -Just wanted to tell you that we made RAINBOW CAKE for NYE!! We ate it at midnight after we toasted with our sparkling cider. Such a fun way to bring in the new year!
Tracey Garcia-Never did get the Christmas cards mailed. I think I am going to just go with Valentine cards this year instead. It makes it more special if it is unexpected, I think. 🙂
Started reading Crazy Love last night on your recommendation.
I am passing the “stylish blogger” award on to you. I love your blog and look forward to visiting each day.
Blessings,
Tracey
PS–you can grab the award button at my blog http://garciamania.blogspot.com I got so excited I forgot to mention that!
Breeanna-I think I watched Mad Men for 10 minutes and was so lost that I never looked back. Now that you’ve reminded me of it, I might get it on Netflix. Oh how I love Netflix. We use that instead of having cable.
Jody-Megan,
I had a dream last night that you invited me to come look at something in your house (I think it might have actually been boots, or some art??). I remember thinking you were so generous, and kind. And then, I asked if I could just buy something from you, and you got real serious and said, “No. You’ll have to buy my stuff through Amy.” (your neighbor with the kids- [smile]) I got mad and as I walked through your house with a sour taste in my mouth, you were sweet and kind. And then I left, walked through the snow to get to my house which was behind your’s, and decided to only have a business relationship with you.
I know you are a good person.
Not sure why I had that dream.
Thought it was funny when I woke up.
🙂 JC
Krystina Montemurro-i remember wanting to see madmen when it first started, but don’t have cable. still want to watch it!!!!
Ky-Love, love, love, love, love Mad Men!!! Cannot wait til season 6 starts.
Janie Fox -I am a Mad Men lover since the beginning. Hate to see each season end! Loved True Grit too. I’ll be working on your happy list! THX
Shairee -THANK YOU THANK YOU MEG!! for posting your HAPPY THINGS list! Also, thank you for being here every day – you’re the best!!
Kimberly-HAHA! I am slow to join the Mad Men train, too. I watched it once and didn’t get it – but I WILL rent the series and try again.
I also just ordered a canvas from the Canvas People. I am so excited to get it!!!
Lora-Thanks for the tip about Mad Men. We watched 2 episodes today….and waiting for the kids to go to bed to watch more!! Pretty sure I’m hooked……..
Robin -Meg, your blog is a real blessing to me and I just wanted you to know that! All of the color, the love of family, the honesty, and your desire to glorify God are truly refreshing! Thanks!
Valerie @ Chateau a La Mode-I totally relate to being late to the party for Mad Men. Loving it now too. My daughter got me hooked and we’ re still on the first season…but loving it.
Sugar Mama-All I wanted to say is my heart is breaking that the regular schedule is about to kick in. I’m not ready to go back to work, but more than that, I’m not ready for my kids to go back to school. Our days filled with pancakes and board games have been awesome.
Counting down until summer vacation!!!
crystal beutler-Loved your post,
Loved True Grit!!
Love your happy list
Love that photo you ordered.
I just love you!! You are one amazing woman.
I’m so with you, I just want normal.
Mindy Harris-Shawn and I saw True Grit NY Eve and really liked it. Just an all around good story.
kristen-I will have bags under my eyes tomorrow, but after the kids are asleep, I will click through your amazing Happy Things List! Thanks for posting it!
se7en-HAY… Can you comment twice on a post? I was wandering through your awesome list… click sigh, click – wow, click wonderful… click, click, click… and there we were!!! How weird is that!!! How weird is that!!! Thanks for the thumbs up!!!
RLG-My MIL gave us a fill-in-the-blank $100 check for the charity of our choice this year. We gave to charity:water. Great cause, Meg. I’m so happy 100% goes to people in need. xoxo
melissa stover-i love mad men. i also started with season 4 and am just now going back to the beginning. i’m on season 3 which saddens me because it’s over too quickly. i’ll have to wait patiently for season 5. it is the best show on television right now. love it.
Liz M -Excellent choice for a canvas. I don’t want to forget that, either. Thanks for taking us along.
Leah-I hear you on being glad the kids go back. My little one went back today. Needless to say, we were both thrilled. Next year, I’m scheduling my work vacation after she goes back to school so I can have a few days of breathing room and alone time.
Angie -We just started watching Mad Men, too. We are finishing up season 3 tonight! We started in late Nov and have watched 2-3 episodes each free night that we have. That’s a lot of martinis and lucky strikes at once!;) We love love love it, though! My new favorite for sure.
Jessie-Thank You THaNK YoU! for the Happy List. I think it is my favorite part of your site!!
Heather -I am a failure at Mad Men. Started at the beginning and lost interest early in season two. I kept hoping, every episode, that Pete Campbell would die or be fired- I hate him so much!! But hearing from you that the rest is good might help me push through being stuck. 🙂
nicole i-mad men is my new addiction too…i have one more episode left in season 3 and then i am caught up. brilliant writing and a perfect time suck.
happy new year.
Tiffany-A Happy Things list…I LOVE IT!! I am going to add that to my “to-do” list for myself for 2011.
And I am totally hearing you on being ready for the kids to go back to school. My crew is going stir crazy, nit-picking at each other to no end…ugh! I love being a mom – but I seriously love the quiet when they all are at school. 😀
Michelle Rotner -SOOOOOO glad you posted all of your “like” things. Just last night, I said to my hubby, “I wish she archived all this this. Her favorite things are my favorite things.” Fun stuff. And today, volia…you posted 500.
Thank you.
Kirsten J-Ha! I noticed your sidebar first thing – girl, I do not need any time wasters today!!!
amber-i need to find somewhere to put my favorite things….good idea Jen. I am sure I will have several hours to look through your links today. reality starts for me tomorrow too
katie-soo…you had a dream you were holding a newborn baby and it felt super real. i had a dream that you and i were super good friends in real life and it felt real. like so real that i had to talk myself out of it when i woke up. 🙂 i felt like such a dork for dreaming about you, much less for dreaming that we were super great friends instead of strangers meeting for the first time or something like that. and now i’m even more of a dork because i just told you all of that. 🙂
Amanda-ThriceBlessed-Another Mad Men lover here! If you have AMC you can also watch the episodes On Demand. My sweet hubby bought me the DVDs for Christmas so I can get my Don Draper fix whenever I want. I know I’m in the minority here but I also love Betty Draper, her mothering skills are seriously lacking but she is so darn pretty to watch!
kasey-omg…i’m on mad men as well. just finished season one last night.
now all i need is a ciggie to smoke;-)
Betsy -Mad Men is absolutely wonderful. In a tv funk now as it is over (but may rewatch the seasons via Netflix-thx for idea.) I guess the box set of the seasons was really cheap on Amazon awhile ago–a friend told me after the fact! Watch Boardwalk Empire (it will be available soon on DVD). It is fab as well! THX Meg for a great blog!!!
Staci -I’ve never even heard of Mad Men….guess I am missing out!! Gotta try it!!! In case I haven’t told you today….I love your blog soooo much!!!!! My kids are on their way out the door for school today….I am ready for some normal too! Happiest of New Years Megan!!!!
Bliss-Hello Meg!
Wow. I have been looking for your blog for the longest time >> like all of 2010. Lol. & I found it tonight. I used to subscribe in mac mail but lost all of my rss feeds! I occassionally googled *random* words i could think of (annie, dog, rainbow, mom, photography, home, cushions etc 😉 in an attempt to find you & I have no idea what i added tonight but somehow it worked. Big YAY!
I can’t wait to follow your adventures again & see your beautiful photos. have you blogged about which camera & lenses you use? I’m a mama who is returning to photography roots & diving into the purchase of my first digital SLR. Eeeeek. I’d love to know what you use 🙂
x
Karen -LOVE your random posts!
regina -totally random question (which i think i may know the answer to???): do you have a kindle or the nook? i think you may be one of those people that loves books and the way that they feel but on one of your posts where yall were traveling you had these gadgets pulled up in your car so I was toatlly and completly curious:)
tami-The wardrobe stylist deserves a round of applause on Mad Men.I love the styling on that show!
traci -Pretty much hate the show mad men to the core.
se7en-I simply love and adore your canvas art… it feels like yesterday you blogged it… but time does indeed pass!!! And I mailed my Christmas cards on Friday… beat ya!!! Well except for the three I haven’t written that I squashed under my laptop in the hopes that they will write themselves and post themselves!!!
Kat -Enjoy your return to school tomorrow Meg. What do you have planned (other than laundry) to celebrate some “me time?”
We have 8 weeks of summer holidays here in Australia.
Thank goodness I am married to a teacher who is also on holidays or I do not know how I would survive/fill in those 8 weeks on my own!
Love your random thoughts.
Mary Beth-I call the first day back to school in January the “Best Day Of the Year” and I have a private little party. Just Me. I STILL do. Because the holidaze are TERRIBLE on the Moms.
So, declare A BEST DAY OF THE YEAR and make it YOUR day.
(I usually sit on the couch and watch movies and eat Campbell’s Soup and Crackers.) 🙂
PaisleyJade-Love the picture – soooo good. Can’t wait to see that movie too!
thanks for reading this little blog. thanks for your kind words of encouragement this year. thanks for a wonderful year. i can't wait to see what 2011 brings…..are you ready?
Leslie -Love your colage pics and I so enjoy checking out your blog everyday. Happy New Year!
Laura Phelps-I MADE IT AS ONE OF YOUR FAVORITES!?????????????????????????
that just brought tears to my eyes…
I love you
you are one of my favorites too 🙂
Cari -What a FUN recap of 2010! Does Lauren even realize how gorgeous and photogenic she is?! Good grief!! Happy New Year!! 🙂
Susan @ Living with Punks-Love the colage. Beautiful! Thanks for including in your favorites list. Im honored.
crystal beutler-I think you should blow your photo college up big and frame it. In fact, I think you should make it a yearly tradition. 🙂
How’s that for opinion. 🙂
elliottsurf-Just such gorgeous photos of your life and family. You are such a positive inspiration for me. Can you tell us how you make the photo collage? And how does your blog allow you to post the collage so large?
Thebeadgirl-i love your pictures…thank you for sharing your life with your readers!
happy 2011!
marta-such a beautiful collage of 2010. i love the painted pedicure and other such little details that round up a good year. wishing you a happy new year and thanks for the sidebar shout out. xo. marta
Amy jupin-meg, you sure make me happy. and this big ol’ collage about sent me over the moon! it’s so you, so full of color and so happy! hope you all had a happy new year too!
Kelley -I think this post recaps your year beautifully! Thanks for sharing your life with all of us. Your blog has been a ray of sunshine in my life which happened to be a little more on the challenging side. Thanks for encouraging, sharing and convicting through your words and pictures in 2010!
Shelly Primm -i love your blog. just ask my husband and kids? i am always saying, “meg does this and we are doing this craft because i read it on meg’s blog”! you inspire me to be a better mom and wife. happy new year!
tami-I have really enjoyed reading your blog. Its my top blog. Happy New Year!
Lemonade Makin Mama-I’ve been a little lurker over the past month, thanks to my buddy Becky, (Farmgirl Paints) who ranted and raved about how wonderful you were for the past year… I finally decided I needed to see for myself, and she was right. You are wonderful!! 🙂
Decided to quit lurking and comment to tell you that, as well as wish you Happy new Year.
Blessings,
SAsha
staci amy -Thank YOU!!!! Don’t know what I would do without your “little” blog =) you encourage me and I have never even met you! Crazy, huh! Happy New Year!
Janelle -Thank YOU for your delightful blog. Happy New Year!
Lisa-Happy New Year, thank you for always giving us something to look forward to (:
Dawn-Great collage. I really enjoy reading your blog. Happy New Year.
Kimberlee J.-The format for these pictures is one of my favorites. What app. did you use???
Amy Lynne-Great pictures! I love all the color you capture in your life! I hope you have an amazing 2011!
lovethosecupcakes-Yes, so ready. A happy and healthy New Year to you all.
a brilliant melody-Happy New Year! I’m a new reader and I really love your blog! I’ll be coming back!
~Breeanna
Jenni Carlisle-I LOVE this photo montage and it proves once again that you live a happy, joy filled life and I am so thankful you share it with us!
Amy zeller-LOVE your blog Meg! I feel like I know you and your sweet family. Thank you for your positivity, honesty, and awesome ideas. Wish I was your neighbor!
Katy-And by stone, I meant the marbles, etc. that you put in the cement!
Katy-Happy New Year, Meg and family! 🙂
Where did you find the stones for the stepping stone? I can’t find them anywhere!
Judy Johnson-Pictures of all the reasons I LOVE <3 your blog. Happy 2011!!!
Kirsten J-AHHHHH!!! Meg! You just gave me my word. Ready. Thank YOU 🙂
Deb Meyers -happy New Year, Meg! Love your blog, you are a gift.
Waffle CRACKS ME UP!!!!!!
deb meyers
Heather R. -Happy New Year, Meg! Thank you for sharing “Whatever” with us…it has been a great pick me up everyday. 🙂
Mary Ann-Happy New Year to you as well! I found your blog this year and find myself checking it daily to see what you and your family are up to! You’re an inspiration. Thank you for sharing.
Michele-Happy New Year, Meg! So glad I found your blog in 2010. I look forward to seeing what you have in store for us this new year.
Valerie @ Chateau a La Mode-Hi Meg, what fun to see you and your family throughout the year. I found your blog later in the year, so it was fun to see things I missed. Your blog is so fun, keep it going!
Rebecca Kriner -Happy New Year, Meg! Your blog brings me so much happiness! Love to you and your family!!! XOXOXO
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints-Happy New year to you friend. Love all those fabulous shots!!! Keep ’em coming:)
laurenjean-Thanks for sharing with us. You bless me on a almost daily basis.
kimmy-Oh you are WAY fun! Just found your blog… can’t wait to read more… ~Kimmy
laura @ theshorehouse-I don’t post often enough how much your pictures make me smile but the new year seems like the perfect time to start. That, and your new year card photo just literally made me LOL. 🙂
Ashley-Happy new year my favorite blogger!!
Here’s what we are focusing on this year:
“Keep your eyes towards heaven in 2011”
Focusing on serving this year.
xoxo
elizabeth highsmith-your colors make me happy! i like to think of people as colors, it’s official you’re the rainbow! may your year be merry and bright with plenty of rainbows and pots of gold on each end!
Jen -Wonderful pictures on a wonderful blog owned by a wonderful person! If I could only read one blog Meg, it would be your’s. Happy New Year…blessings to you and your family!
Mindy Harris-your year in review using pictures is just awesome. you are a cute family and are a blessing in so many ways.
i said the same thing about ’11: bring. it.
xoxo
Courtney-Your blog is still my fav and I am so thankful you share with us. I always enjoy reading what you have to say and seeing your beautiful pictures. Thanks so much!
Alicia-I always love checking in with your blog Meg…such great pics and fun stories! Many blessing and Happy New Year!
Julie-I LOVE Annie in the last photo ~ so funny! Totally reminds me of something our #5 would do! Happy New Year Meg! I look forward to reading you lovely blog this year and seeing all our Lord brings to you and your wonderful family this year.
🙂
Tara M.-You inspire me! I have three daughters and we do a lot of the crafts that you post. Thank you!
Gemma-Love all of your pictures!!! They are so summery and bright : )
Gemma x
Nikki-Beautiful photos Meg.
Happy New Year…. Many blessing for 2011! Nikki xx
Holly-Love all your photos! If you have a chance I would love to learn how to do a collage. I got Photoshop for Christmas (!!!) but do not see how to do it, the only one I saw did overlapping photos. I am really trying to learn more about my camera and you inspire me so much to photograph the everyday things of our life.
purejoy-wow. that’s a nice compilation! beautiful pics from the whole year. wouldn’t miss a day without you either. thanks for sharing your skillz!
Lisa Palmese - Love the Pillows But I adore that lamp.
It is Gorgeous
thanks Lisa
Luciane - Hi Karin,I wish I could splurge on cutosm Alluminaire lighting and matching throw pillows (which I love)! I happen to have a “Heartfelt Award” for you at my blog, since you were one of the blogs that inspired me to start my own. You can pick it up .
Shahd - Oh wow, that would be awesome if you were on the hunt for sotnehimg you’ve already got pictured in your mind.But then again, this is why I wouldn’t want a custom house built. What if they build/make it EXACTLY like I asked and then I hate it?! Ack. I am much better at tweaking and remodeling. :)Can’t wait to see what you come up with though!
Naomy - spa owner, did you know that there are so many different and fun gadgtes you can get to compliment your spa experience? did you know that there are many little gadgtes out there on the pool and spa market that make your soak a little more excellent? not
Vanessa - your business opoitaren hours by using productive use of your order-taking answering services. while you and your own employees are still asleep, your answering service staff can still be taking orders-getting more sales and boosting your earnings! your order-taking answering service would give you th
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Ruth Baumgartner - I L.O.V.E. this, because when the pressure is on this is exactly how I roll. I could have authored this post. So glad to know I am in WONDERFUL company.
Stacey - You are too funny! I just have to follow you! Love your style and your humor! Have a blessed day!
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andiejaye - i love love love the idea of arranging books by color!!! i tried it and loved it!!! thanks for sharing the idea with us! i put 4 links of your picture and blog on my blog post about it. (it’s little i have 8 followers) i hope that’s ok. if not, let me know and i’ll remove them. i just think you’re fabulous! blessings, andie
Lisa Currie-Gurney - I TEND TO DO THE SAME THING… I’VE REALIZED IT HELPS ME TO FOCUS ON WHAT I NEEDED TO DO IN THE FIRST PLACE.
HUGS FROM MY HEART
Sarah - I am also a crazy color junkie and I love love love those color-coordinated kids books!
Heather aka moreygirl - I’m the same way about not doing what’s on my list and sewing something fun instead! Love this blog!
Kristin S - Annie’s facial expressions are absolutely classic. You’ll be so glad someday when that sweet baby face morphs to teenager that you have so many great photos.
Lolli - wait, can you paint brass?
amy jupin - the lamps look FAB.
all capitals.
the pillows are so you.
love them.
i suffer from the same problem–procrastination!
hate it.
one more thing, i hope you have a great time on your trip!
🙂
Lorie S. - You seriously just made me laugh out loud. Such is my day, everyday. The list of things I need to do and the list of things that I want to do. Feel so much better on the days that I do the things I want to do. So since today is a rainy day, I think I will read, sew, play, and make cupcakes!!! =)
Kat - Meg, you are SOOOO inspiring! Thank you! LOVE the lamp and the pillows. Okay, i am a beginning sew-er, seamstress, whatever…i know this is a DUMB question. But would you mind telling me…do you use pillow inserts for your pillows, or just stuffing?
Would you mind telling me what size you make them (20×20?)…i love the size of yours? I am DYING to sew but FEAR is overwhelming me…fear of messing up. But you have inspired me. Thank you! 🙂
Katie - I would buy a print copy of the orange photo! Just saying!
Corinne - Love the pillows, love your blog, love your spirit.
I was on another site http://www.designmom.com/
and saw these http://www.designmom.com/2011/02/a-few-things-51/
and thought of you…thought you might enjoy.
Have a great day!
Leah - Those are great photos. I don’t think you’re wasting any time. By the way, do you really arrange your books in the order of rainbow colors? I’m impressed!
Katy Frame - Because I am very busy.
(Taking pictures of oranges)
LOL! You are hilarious, Meg! 🙂 I hope you have a fun time on your trip! You so deserve it. And for me complimenting you I deserve a cupcake, right?? It was worth a shot! But seriously, have fun!
Crystal Swoverland - I can’t find Alexander Henry anywhere in my area! I LOVE that fabric! I need some of those pillows, no, not want…NEED!!! I am remodeling and those are my colors!!! HOW can I get this fabric??? THanks for the wonderful post, you always brighten my day!
Flower Patch Farmgirl - 1. Hey – is today Annie’s birthday? 😉
2. Did I miss the part where you told us where on earth you’re headed?
3. I have the very same affliction.
4. Must know how you did that tablecloth lampshade thing. I’m way impressed.
Tracy Fisher - fabulous fabric… and great use of time… i think many of us relate… i was outside today taking photos of my kids snowboarding (because it snowed today… and my son insisted on wearing his creapy hat he got in Mexico… that scares the neighborhood little kids)… all the while avoiding the same list as you have apparently.. minus the cupcakes..hehe.
Tracy Fisher
Marcella - I so know the feeling!
And there must be a lot of people like me commenting on this post! Which it is a relief that I’m not the only one out there that operates like this.
I bet it does have something to do with being a creative person….
Nicole - I am the SAME exact way! The longer my list is, the more I can find to do that is NOT on the list it seems. Procrastination is my forte!
And I LOVE your new pillows! Color Color COLOR! Happy 🙂
Good Luck with your list!
Lin - Haha. I feel so much better about myself after reading this post and the comments. I am NOT alone. Yay! I will go so far out of my to avoid “chores” it’s crazy. When I run out of time to get things done, and am tired I tell myself I’ll get up early and do it in the morning. I even go so far as to set my alarm early, but then the snooze button always win.
Lisa - I want one of your pillows! I need someone to teach me to sew. I’m so lame when it comes to that stuff. Love that you were avoiding your long to do list. I do that occasionally too! 🙂
Penny - I am glad Parenthood is on your list. I love that show, I always feel a little let down when it ends though. I also love your blog and get excited when you have a new post. Makes my day! Love the photos. One Easter I was having 25 family members for dinner and I sat down with my girls and colored 2 hours before dinner. It relaxed me and everything turned out fine!
Tanya H - that’s what I’m doing reading your blog right now. Ignoring my enormous list. drat.
jenna - I couldn’t help notice the bicycle runner on the table.
I have to have that fabric! Or I would love a pillow!
Where did you find it?
Jen - You DO have to watch Parenthood! Whew… it’s loaded.
Gretchen DeMoss - You make me smile.
shauna reed - lampshade=ahhhhmazing.
email me if you need anything in socal.
i will be like 45 min away if you need anything 😉
like a bell or some marshmallow milk….whateves
ps i am gonna be shopping with julie while you are soaking up photography brilliance on sat.
if you get mad at the class and ditch (ha ha) you can come with us…..
xoxox
FeFe - I hope you moved watching Parenthood to the top. It was good!
Tanya - I just showed my sister this post and said “See, there ARE people like us”. Then I asked her “And who looks at a white lampshade and SEES THAT final outcome?” To which she responded “I do”. And I said “Oh yah”. It’s me who sucks.
I love your pillows.
Georgia - The first photo makes me so happy, them pillows are so bright and cheery, so summertime! woo love them!! 🙂
When i need to be busy i just cant do it. i read somewhere once that if you dont feel like doing something then DONT, only do it when you feel like it…
Happy middle of the week day!
Kelley - Excellent pillows! They absolutely needed to be made. Needed.
Safe travels tomorrow
Vanessa at He Gives Hope - have you done a post on your coffee table? did you make it? b/c i am in LOVE.
Keli Cook - I love your new pillows and the makeover of your new lamp!
Anna - I love that picture of Annie and the pets. Super cute.
becky@oursweetpeas - Ahh, I think we are long lost sisters. I am blog reading instead of: cleaning my house, unloading the dishwasher, etc., etc., I did take all 3 kids to the dr.’s and McD’s AND library today so I think I’ve earned a little Parenthood on Hulu too. 🙂 Thanks for the idea.
yeah, I have a problem too.
Stefanie Arnold - someday I hope to say I was so distracted because I was sewing new pillows for my couch. Someday… for now, my creativity is confined to drawing stick figures and cutting out snow flakes 🙂
Shana - I have diagnosed you with ‘Procrastination’ – not otherwise specified.
I would give you therapeutic advice but I have blogs to stare at, books to read, and coffee to drink.
Sorry.
Cute mug.
Kari - You are hilarious.
Seriously.
My in-laws are scheduled to be here in less than two hours for the weekend and I have a HUGE list of things to do, girls are both napping soundly… but instead I updated my facebook status (is says: “Please keep me in your thoughts … I have lost my TO DO LIST!”) and decided it was imperative I check your blog before getting back to looking for my to do list.
Michelle - haha, this is awesome. i so feel ya! i have a super long to-do list as well, and i’m sooo procrastinating! you’ve inspired me! maybe i will go take pictures of oranges too! ha! by the way, i LOVE those pillows! where do you get the fabric???
Karina - Lovely lamp, lovely kitchen, lovely bathroom, lovely pictures…
At least you are not eating to make up for the stress…you are taking pictures instead and that HAS to be less fattening than what I usually do when I feel paralyzed by my to-do list…I have been known to eat sweetened condensed milk from the can…and finish the can in one sitting!! Maybe I should buy myself a camera…
julie h - this made me laugh, that is so very much myself…can you explain that i am not the only one that does this to my hub?
Jenny B. - OH WOW!!! I LOVE LOVE LOVE the new couch pillows!!! And the little chairs at the coffee table!? AWESOME!!! Those may have been there the whole time, and I just now noticed them, but still… SO cute! Thank you for helping me get over my fear of decorating my home with primary colors. I’m serious. For the past 11 years, I have looked longingly at deocrative items with lots of bright colors, and thought, “oh, I like that, but it just wouldn’t go in my house.” Now, I have a brightly painted alphabet canvas that was destined to be on the wall of a little boy’s room as the centerpiece on my mantel, and it’s my favorite thing to look at every day. I can’t wait to do more! Whee!! 🙂 You inspire me!
Aimee - Oh my, I think I have the same syndrome. Miles-long to do list = do something nowhere near ANYthing on said list.
I like to call it Head-In-the-Sand-itis.
Kori - apparently your condition is a nation-wide epidemic! i have it too and i’m in washington.
love the pillows (more for the pom-poms than the fabric, although it is great!) and the lamp…too cute!
Dawn - Love the pillows and the prints are awesome. Your rooms are so colorful I love it.
Kirsten P - I love how the aqua in the’circley colorful fabric’ makes the aqua mirror just pop!
I love the children’s books arranged by color!
Parenthood was great last night. And the previews for next week – can’t wait.
Will you get a chance to go to the ocean and listen to the music of the waves? Enjoy it for me, too.(if you do)
Esther Dee - don’t know about your to-do-list but I do know that those pillows are to-die-for!!!! so pretty and happy 😉
Mrs. Wonder - I do the same thing! Therefore, I’m several days behind on my list. LOVE the lamp, marking this for ideas, we’re house hunting and I’m excited to decorate!
wendy, NJ - OMG! I love you! You are so funny and such an inspiration! Whenever I’m feeling a bit blue I look to your blog as I know it will always be colorful (literally) and in content!
And can I just say I love the fact that you are able to leave markers out in an open bin on your white table…My 3 yo would have a field day if I do that!
Thanks again for such inspiration! Keep it coming!
Kara - love it all but especially your lamp makeover! if you are still wanting to put off your to-do list you should post a tutorial 🙂 lamp shades scare me a little bit, yours looks awesome!
Rach - Yeah. I do the same thing. I’ll find myself mid project and be like “how did I get here? wasn’t I supposed to be doing something else. Must stop…. can’t stop.” But hey, life’s short right!
gina f. - fun photos! Now that you have a happy heart i am sure you will fly thru your to do list! love how your books are arranged in rainbow order and the lamp makeover is super!! have a great trip!
Courtney Walsh - Good lord, I am sooo behind too and yet here I sit doing important things like reading blogs!!! lol
I agree with the person above me. soooo many houses are showing a neutral palette these days, but COLOR is soooo inspiring. Love that you arranged your dang books in rainbow form!! lol awesome.
Valerie @ Chateau A La Mode - You are doing NOTHING wrong, but everything RIGHT!
Elizabeth Walters - I LOVE how colorful your house is! I always stick with neutral… b/c I am boring like that. 🙂
Anne @ Baking Me - I love that lamp, very cute. I have issues with lamps. I am always on the hunt for a great lamp at a great price, no such luck yet but I keep trying 🙂
Trina McNeilly - Love this… love all the pictures. The lamp and pillows are fab. sometimes distractions are good 🙂
xo
Jen Brandt - You rock.
jennifer - Oh good! I thought I was the only one with this issue. So glad to know I’m not alone!
Ana - Meg, I can totally relate. I have like 20 things to do and yet I get into a catatonic state of denial hoping they will all go away. However, that strategy never works out… 🙁
Leah - How did you make that lamp shade?!? Please share! It looks amazing!
blu - …or if you are me you are in front of the computer while the laundry, children, dishes, and bathrooms are calling for you 🙂 I’ll get to all of them immediately, just let me post a comment first…Meg you are way cool please keep doing ALL that you do!!
Jocelyn Stott - LOVE the lamp! It looks great!
Jessica Johnson - the colors in this post? FAB to the ULOUS. seriously. the books? arranged by color??! genius.
asnipofgoodness - I soooooo get this, I do the very same exact thing, for some reason the need to get something done, causes me to get other things done….I just don’t get it! I mean I get that you do it, cuz I do too, but I don’t get the why, cuz it just never makes much sense!
I LOVE the pillows, and the lamp, OMGoodness, so extraespecially colorful!I just LOVE the glimpses of your style that turn up on your blog!
I have a HUGE lamp shade that I picked up at restore, and that is just the perfect solution to a less than desirable funky stained cover! Now I need an oversized lamp base to hold it up!
Oh, and I read “your story” just the other day, and I really loved your unapologetic honesty! What a wonderful picture of God’s redemption! Thank you for that!
I almost never comment, but I ALWAYS read, thanks!
Joy - You and I, we were seperated at birth. I call it piddling…and I love that the books on the bookshelf are arranged by color. It made my heart smile.
Lindsey - Alexander Henry has some of the most amazing fabrics ever!
Maeva - Where can I find the bicycle fabric in the last photo?!
Mindy Harris - your pillows and buntings are going to sell out on etsy in 5 seconds. i can’t get anyone to even LOOK at my stuff. hehe. i’m not complaining, i promise. etsy’s FUN! i hope you get everything done you need to. it’s okay to take photo or craft breaks. i do all the time.
and, safe travels!
Andrea - Just read comment above mine. Yea, I was intrigued by the color coordinated bookshelf too. Made me smile – was totally you.
Andrea - LOL!! I do that too. My husband says I only operate on crisis mode! Have many, many projects that need finished – need to set my own deadline.
ajdked - Ehh, I have a huge to do list today. Instead I’m still in my pj’s drinking coffee, blog hopping, totally intrigued by your color coordinated book shelf. I have a pile of laundry looming over me. I think I will stay in my pj’s for a half hour longer, then get moving!
Shannon - it’s okay to waste time taking pictures because we all love coming to your blog to see them so really you are just doing it for us which makes you so thoughtful 🙂
deborah@applesinwonderland - i have no idea what you are talking about here. how can you not make pillows with that kind of *look at me* fabric poking at you? and how can you not take adorable pictures of annie in the tub? i say, you have to do those things. xoxo–a partner in crime:)
Trish - ha 🙂 my list is a mile long too, but here I am reading your blog about the stuff you are doing… i believe we have what is called a mix between procrastination and ADD 🙂
can’t wait to meet you tomorrow 🙂
purejoy - dude. if you have issues, i have I.S.S.U.E.S!!
love the fabric. the cup. love bathtime fun. great coffee mug. love your kid’s books are arranged by color.
you complete me.
lists be damned!
Sara @ Happy Brown House - I just love how bright and happy your house is! I love that you embrace color!
sara @ it's good to be queen - love all these fun pictures. LOVE that lamp!!
Kelly - Did you put the tablecloth over the existing shade? Love the lamp and pillow fabric!
Cory - I have a TON to do today as well. Clearly I’m just reading your blog instead. Thanks for the distraction! Love all your pretty pics 🙂
Jenn Shock - I should be studying for my first Survey of Fashion test that is tonight, yet somehow I ended up here. When I stress about getting something done, I always tend to find something else to do, even if it means cleaning! Weird.
Michelle Whitlow - btw, LOVE the pillows!!
Michelle Whitlow - oh my gosh, I’m the EXACT same way!!! hehe We’re moving from GA to WA in just a couple months. There is SO much around the house to do. Oh, and did I mention that I’m 5 mos pregnant?? Yeah, I have a list a mile long. And what am I doing?? Reading blogs…and maybe I’ll go scrapbook something after that 🙂
Courtney Henson - I have the same affliction! It is hard, very hard for me to do something like clean the house for company or a party when I have a chalkboard wall to paint in my kitchen or pillows to sew for my couch! (All this I did last week getting ready for family to come stay for a few days..!) Oh, how I relate! But I love your pillows and really love, love that lamp makeover! And you rainbow hued kid’s books all organized by color! So, so pretty!
Vicki - Loved this! Those pillows are to-die-for! And your happy, colorful pictures are the best. Good luck with that to-do list!
Molly - I have things to do too….but you know what I am doing tonight…re-arranging the books in the bookshelf so they make a rainbow! Love that!
Jessica - I’m new to your blog… so I’m not really sure of your kids ages but I have a 4 yr old and there is NO way I could have a white table, an white-ish sofa, and a JAR OF MARKERS all within arm distance of each other! How do you keep those from getting marker on them?
I’m asking bc I’m jealous :/
Dana @ Bungalow'56 - Megan,
I am in complete denial…absolute denial, that I will be on a plane tomorrow. Nothing packed, nothing ready. It’s how I deal with stress, ignore the situation. Which of course leads to copious amounts of stress over a very short few hours when I have to do whatever I’ve been putting off.
There will be lot’s of excitement at our house this evening. It makes for an roller coaster life : )
Dana
Amanda - I love how “watch parenthood” is on your to-do list. It’s on mine too!
AshleyAnn - I love that lamp so much!!!
Have fun on your trip…
Carrie - I am like you, except I start the to do list but on the way to the bedroom to put away laundry I stop in the kitchen to put dishes and then end up in the living dusting. So while it may seem productive, everything ends up only half finished. Ugh!
Have fun this weekend. I am JEALOUS!!! (in a nice healthy way though. lol)
Kathi - LOL! This is why I check in everyday, love your attitude! Have a great day.
Keri - If I were to be a stay at home wife and we had our own house, I’m sure I would be the exact same way… Do everything else that is not on the list…Those are great pics though!
Heather - i have that same disorder! and lamp envy. that lamp and lampshade you worked your magic on are a-mazing!
Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - Oh my gosh you’re not the only one! Whenever I have custom orders to get done, I end up “rebelling” and making a different bag for no one in particular. Its almost like I cant do the things I need to until I do something I dont need to. Maybe its something about being creative. Yes, we’ll blame it on that.
BTW, when will your shop open? (No pressure, Im just curious)
XO,
Sarah
Janie Fox - Love your pics … mine are so bad I should just post stick figures with my text. Blathering is my claim to fame. Picture taking I want to learn, but I am too busy talking! Safe travels!! xoxo
Laura Phelps - you need TISSUES for parenthood. I cried for HOURS.
I LOVE YOU
I LOVE this post
the colors
and sunshine
and brightness
and all of it…
it makes me HAPPY
so if you put “make Laure happy” on your list,
it is like you DID do something you were supposed to do
and now, even better, you can cross it off of your list!
see how much you got done today?
happygirl - I LOVE your pictures. PLEASE don’t change. Then your blog will be boring, like mine. (my blog isn’t really boring, I just don’t have all the beautiful pictures) Your children won’t go to college and your daughters will be single the rest of their lives. PLEASE don’t change. I think the circle fabric is GORGEOUS. Have a GREAT trip.
candace - watch parenthood first. and don’t stop taking pictures – looking at them is MY distraction from the impending “get-to-do” list! ha!
Sugar Mama - When I have a long to do list I get anxious. First, I’ll bite my fingernails. Then I’ll have a panic feeling wash over me. Then I distract myself with something completely unrelated (usually that involves eating)…. and ONLY then do I try to work on the list.
Those pillows I must have.
Stephanie@Geezees - OMG! All of that color is making me giddy 🙂 Love those throw pillows.
Hope you have a good day Meg 🙂
Kimberly Dial - If I took pictures as lovely as yours, I’d have a hard time stopping too! Your pillows are ‘fantabulous’! You never fail to make me smile — thank you! Now …. get busy girl 😉
Kimberly Dial - If I took pictures as lovely as yours, I’d have a hard time stopping too! Your pillows are ‘fantabulous’! You never fail to make me smile — thank you! Now …. get busy girl 😉
Heather - There is nothing that paralyzes me like a long to-do list. What is up with that?
Gemma @ Musings of a gem - Heehee! Loving your cushions : )
The sight of your kitchen makes me giddy…so jealous!
Gemma x
rachel / cr.e.at.e - i just laughed out loud with each new funny close up photo & your coordinating comment. AND THE LAMP! 😀 absolutely hysterical [but it looks awesome, i’m not laughing at IT]. we have the exact same ‘problem’ so if you get help, a diagnosis or some meds, just let me know so i can help myself. randomness & procrastination central, here [going 34 years strong]. hopefully now that you got ‘other things’ out of the way, you can be productive! [that’s always my hope at least] 🙂 GOOD LUCK!
Katy - I love your house! That first picture of your beautiful pillows in your living room with your kitchen in the background, perfection!
PS – Oh, and I am the same way. My eldest is at preschool, my youngest is napping, my bed is unmade, my kitchen is a mess, and I have a ton of laundry. What am I doing? Checking your blog while waiting for the pictures that I just edited to upload for my blog. I am losing it…
Jen W. - Laughing so hard! I love that you are busy taking pictures of oranges. That’s awesome!
Candy - we were just talking at MOPS yesterday about how important it is to take pictures, even of the normal everyday life, because you can’t get those years back when life was hectic and your kids were little, but at least you will have the pictures!
Ana M - love ya….
your posts make me happy…
Kim - I do the exact same thing. I had a giant list of things to do yesterday-but not before I decoupaged book pages to the top of my coffee table. That is a must-do before preparing dinner and getting ready for a gathering at my home last night-don’t you think! I think it’s called “avoidance”.
Beth - GREAT lamp! good luck getting stuff done today!
Nicole Q. - That is exactly how I handle my to do list!!! LOVE those pillows!!! Have a great trip!
tracy dickinson - ha! i just finished watching parenthood this morning! i have a TON of things to do, but couldn’t wait any longer. it was SO good. good luck getting everything done!
alyssa - that’s hilarious. I do the same exact thing when I’m busy. I have a long to-do list and I just keep finding other things to do! I feel your pain.
katie - i am exactly the same way. i drive myself crazy like that: when i’m stressed about things to be done, i always catch myself doing other things that don’t need to be done…creative or fun things alot of the time. as i’m doing the not-necessary, probably fun thing, i’m thinking: “what the heck am i doing right now?!”
Tracy - LOL I LOVE LOVE LOVE your pillows AND the graphics on your coffee cup – TOO CUTE! I love all things circles and polkadot type stuff anyway! 🙂 Good luck with your to do list and have fun on your trip! Thanks for sharing your goodies today. Also, one more thing – could you add to the “bottom” of your to do list perhaps – to do a tutorial for your fabulous lamp makeover (not the spray paint part obviously), but the fabric part with the hot glue – I have a lamp in my daughter’s room that I want to do the same thing to. You’re so awesome and I always love coming to see what you and the family are up to each day. Have a great day, Meg! xoxoxo
Miranda - hahaha funny stuff – I get most of my list done when I am in a time crunch then run around like a mad woman!
ashley jensen - Ha! My daugter does the same thing with her little toys, takes them into the bath tub and lines them up. But there is nothing wrong with getting distracted with the things that make you happy!
Shivaun - If you’re crazy, then I’m crazy! That’s helpful now, isn’t it?
You make me laugh…and I need to because my 2-yr.old has the stomach flu and I have 6 others who I know will start any second. Laughter is good 😉
I’m busy, too. Reading blogs.
kimberly - love those pillows! i mean LOVE!
Amy - I think you have mastered smelling the roses…don’t change a thing;)) Happy Wednesday!