oh annie was so naughty yesterday.
this was only one of the sneaky things i caught her doing.
our poor kitty.
you can see more naughty baby here or here or here or here.
there are so many more…but i can’t always be calm with the camera.
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this was one of sean’s homemade valentine’s.
annie loved being at sean’s party. to make dinner special
and this is me today… ******************************************** back to the laundry. Oh Oh! That laundry reminds me of a big leaf pile. You should just throw it into a big heap and let the kids jump into it! I bet it would keep them busy for all of 3.75 minutes…then maybe you would have time to make some decent frosting, which I’m hoping you’ll have perfected by the time I arrive on your doorstep with my two kids, my big fat tabby cat, and my beaded bikini…until then ~ XO XO XO XO Oh my gosh, your laundry pile is worse than mine. You have two more people in your family though. Laundry is the bane of my existence, how nice to know it makes others crazy too. I recently spent one cold, wet Saturday watching the entire 1st season of October Road while folding & putting away(during commercials) my family’s laundry. If you haven’t watched October Rd. Mondays 9pm, I think you would love it. Great music, good story, thus it probably won’t get renewed for 3rd season. Oh my gosh, that is hilarious about the kid and the frosting. Kids can be so honest. I beg my kids to not embarrass me like that. Don’t you just hate the washing pile!! One of my least favourite jobs. ah–children! so honest! speaking of manners, one of my 6th grade students today looks at me with a funny face and says, “what is wrong with your hair today? It looks crazy.” Thaaaaanks. I actually spent time on it this morning, but good to know that it looks “Crazy”. 🙂 Amy sent me a link to your blog. How fun! I could look at your amazing pictures for hours!!! You have tremendous artistic talent. Have a great weekend! -Susan I Have a question regarding your bedroom color, I have been toying with doing a deep brown instead of the pale blue I have had for 5 years, my guess is it is forgiving light at “night” no? as it is now even in full darkness the room with pale walls seems light . who doesn’t love homemade frosting? It’s still funny….what kids say. I love that you were watching a movie while doing laundry. Maybe someday I’ll be able to do that. It actually sounds heavenly….as heavenly as laundry can be. OH MY GOSH…I just laughed out loud so hard at that frosting question.. As I was reading it at first I thought she was going to say something nice and WHAM…RUDE. oooo i should be doing laundry. Why is laundry so dreadful? I love love love the manners lesson! Hope you have a very happy weekend! A good manners lesson. I love it! Good luck with the clothes, you should rent Chocolat. It just seems like that kind of day..
sean has had a very creative week.
apparently i signed up for treats in talby’s class
talby’s sweet valentine. and how totally appropriate for valentine’s day…..
this has to come today? ugh. i threw it away. Great Post! Yes…they don’t make cupcakes!!!!!!!! Oh my, Meg! I’d throw it away too. And my husband would ask me to throw it away (good husband!) if he knew it was coming. He makes me throw away my Victoria Secret catalogs too. Good good man. And really would you want that around for your son to see? I think not. Good for you. Dad says you can send the magazine to him! Yay!!! Good for you…I bet they can’t decorate like you, and they’d probably make lousy mums!! homeade valentines are just the best. what a sweetie. the cupcakes look awesome. and the magazine, will he miss it? too funny! Those little valentines are so cute! Tell little ones GREAT JOB! The cupcakes look so pretty. The women do not. You’ve got to go to iwanexstudio.com and check out the insane amount of photoshopping they do. I guarantee those women look nothing like that in real life. And I’d throw ’em away too :). Happy Valentines Day! LOL! I am with you on the mag. thing! Darling valentines and cupcakes, your blog is constantly making me hungry. Thanks for the url for the tea images. I’ll let you know how ours turns out. Thank you for all the wonderful “color shots” this week! You are definitely a SUPERMOM! All those cupcakes !! And i just want to say kudos to you meg, you put into words what every woman thinks and the way our brains work, when something like the SI shows up at the house!! And I LOVE how you worded the last two sentences! Amen sista!! Thank you for all the wonderful “color shots” this week! You are definitely a SUPERMOM! All those cupcakes !! And i just want to say kudos to you meg, you put into words what every woman thinks and the way our brains work, when something like the SI shows up at the house!! And I LOVE how you worded the last two sentences! Amen sista!! sean reminds me of my 2 kids….they make valentines on their own and make them special for each friend!! I WISH I had taught them that but they came up with it alone. this is for jana.
ahhhhhhhhh…..soak it in. LOVE this post about color! mom….that is ME! How can anyone not get happy after looking at all that color? Is that you under that hat–if so–what lovely eyes you have! Ahhh…that’s feels good on my eyes! By the way, what kind of camera do you have? Wow! Thanks for that pop of color! Wow! Thanks for that pop of color! These are very nice. So who is under that hat. I’ve starred and starred and can’t figure it out! Wow, gorgeous pics! First time on your blog, your photos are like eye candy. thanks for the bright cheer! i feel like skipping! For me??? Thank you sweet friend. You are good medicine… Love your photos, love your eyes under your hat, love you!! I LOVE your photo posts. They always make me want to grab my camera. You’ve got such an eye for what to take photos of though. I’d just walk around holding mine wondering what to capture. LOL so lovely and cheerful! great way to start the day! thanks! beautiful color. yum, fruity pebbles. i haven’t had those in ages. love your hat!!! the sun is shining here today and the snow is really bright, so it feels good. yeah! im so tired of being cold, and gray! Thank you! I needed that! Yesterday while I was driving to work with the snow flurries swirling around, I actually thought, maybe I will feel better if I look at Meg’s blog! Everything is much too gray. So glad I can count on you for what I need.
baby london finally got her shower.
my neighbors helped me host this pink party.
mmmmmmm…..
all of her presents waiting to be opened.
jen….london’s mama.
she woke up.
baby stuff is always so fun to open.
i got to hold her too!
pink everywhere.
jen i am so glad we could celebrate london with you. hi ladies. So pretty, I loved the wands in the champagne bucket! So pretty, I loved the wands in the champagne bucket! I just found your blog today and I must say I LOVE your style! I bookmarked it for baby shower reference!!! Would you mind posting a list of all your goodies? like others mentioned I’d love to know where you got pink marshmallows, and what’s on the dish underneath the little chocolate brownies? What did you do with the wands? were they just for decoration? I LOVE all of your serving pieces too!! the flowers in the vase of marshmallows was too cute!!! I just found your blog today and I must say I LOVE your style! I bookmarked it for baby shower reference!!! Would you mind posting a list of all your goodies? like others mentioned I’d love to know where you got pink marshmallows, and what’s on the dish underneath the little chocolate brownies? What did you do with the wands? were they just for decoration? I LOVE all of your serving pieces too!! the flowers in the vase of marshmallows was too cute!!! I just found your blog today and I must say I LOVE your style! I bookmarked it for baby shower reference!!! Would you mind posting a list of all your goodies? like others mentioned I’d love to know where you got pink marshmallows, and what’s on the dish underneath the little chocolate brownies? What did you do with the wands? were they just for decoration? I LOVE all of your serving pieces too!! the flowers in the vase of marshmallows was too cute!!! Hi. I found your blog today and you have a great blog! I love this post,bcause you are showing everybody that party can be healthy! Thank you for that.Have a nice weekend and sorry for my bad english.. 🙂 What a beautiful shower! Very pretty and London is a beautiful baby. Thanks for participating in the pink challenge! I love the cake and all the pink. Would you please humor me on a side note, I am noticing the mouldings above either a window or door to the left of the kitchen run, it reaches to the ceiling , would you take a full picture of that area for me to get a good look at , I have two windows in my family room that are screaming for something more , and you may hold the answer. Chocolate peanut butter ice cream with bananas and chocolate syrup? Now I love you even more, Jenn! 🙂 What a beautiful baby shower! Everything looks so yummy! Okay Amy, yes there were only 4 items at that moment when the picture was taken but you did miss the big bowl of chocolate peanut butter icecream with bananas and chocolate syrup I had last night right before bed. I love all the pink. I’m usually more of a red person–but all that pink mixed with a baby girl was perfect! I think all the big white lanterns hanging up were divine. I would have another baby if you’d come throw my shower :)! So I’m figuring out why Jenn is so amazingly skinny already… she’s got 4 things on her plate. Seriously, Jenn. C’mon. WOW…what a delightful display of ‘pinkness’. That must have been the best fun to organise that party. My daughter’s fifth birthday party was a ‘Pink Party’ and it was my favourite of all her parties…eighteen little girls all dressed in pink, pink fizzy drink, pink food, pink decorations. You did a wonderful job here…especially with the decorations. this is incredibly sweet. very, very pinky sweet. what an adorable little baby girl. your decorations for the shower are just beautiful. the marshmallows in the vases with the flowers – wow. you have a wonderful style sense. i wanna be you. What a lovely shower, lucky girls. Where DID you get pink marshmallows? what a cutie! I must say she is the most beautiful baby I have ever seen! I am bias being her mother. Thank you so much for the shower, it was so girlie, beautiful, just like out of a magazine! And all those pictures for her scrapbook! What wonderful neighbors/family and friends to have in my life. Thanks again for all you have done. I LOVE the name London for a girl! Tried to get my sister to namer her daughter London but since she already had a Britan she declined..lol i had a hot date last night
nice blurry picture. we were at a dinner with craig’s co-workers, his boss and their spouses. the waitress came to take our order and tell us the specials. ********************************************************
talby’s make-up. ******************************************************** at the sonic drive-thru at 8:30 AM I’m happy you had a fun date with your husband. Whenever I go to dinner parties they are always either blah or a blast. There never seems to be an in-between! Glad this one was fun. And I’m sure Talby felt quite ‘stylin’ at the store with her makeup on! 🙂 Oh, boy do I ever need a date night! And somewhere to wear a dress? What fun that would be! Talby is looking fine. She can come do my makeup. something must have been in the air, we had a hot date last night too. In Atlanta there is outdoor dining even in february. Granted, there were heat lamps aimed down at us and we WERE wearing jackets. So we decided it was a good time for frozen margaritas! ha ha. glad you had fun on your date. i think we -as parents – need way more of those. Wow…Four children and a date night!!! Good for you guys! We get in a few “dates” here and there and I love every second of them! A burrito!!!! HA! i can’t even think of the last time i wore a dress…(church around here is pretty casual) ahhh, you look soooo pretty for your date night!! I love that you let annie wear the makeup to the video store. Im SO TRYING to be that mom,,,,my first instinct would be to let them leave it on but when running errands it must come off…I know, no fun. Working on that one. i suck at typing! ugg i meant planet instead of plant. yak!! Woo hoo! You’re looking awfully spiffy there! And what a good mom to let her keep her makeup on! I use to let my kids wear a tiger costume everywhere–even when it was 100 degrees outside. You’re only young once, right?
what to do on a snow day?
3. wake up slowly by reading email and checking blogs.
7. clean out the bath toys (throw away half)….
14. run my bath and discover my daughter has used all my bubble bath.
17. take a long time getting dressed & drying hair…
19. remember the valentines i bought 2 weeks ago.
22. continue day with same old stuff…washing loads laundry in my note: i am not complaining about this crazy life. today the plumber had to come and work on the drain. now i have to clean the tub again. ***************************************************************** Too cute! I am excited to look more at your site- absolutely love the pictures! Thanks for stopping by my blog… I love new visitors! How funny….. I was just having lunch with a friend and we were talking about how when I was in college and my aunt was caring for her two young granddaughters….anyway, one day she was a bit frustrated and said, in a grumbly voice (and my aunt never uses a grumbly voice) someday I would just like to pee by myself! I thought geeez, what is her problem. Now that I have two children and a dog like her, I understand!!!!!!!!! Wow…LOVE your blog..your house is pretty!! So much to relate to! I am notorious for bleaching everything, and what better outfit to deal with all that bleaching power than your bra and underwear, right :)?! Good to hear from you. Love reading your blog! I can’t believe how big Lauren is. And Annie. She seems really tall to me. I’m glad you guys are doing so good. I hear Jenny is coming or maybe she is already headed there. Good for you guys. Have fun. I want to see lots of pictures! 🙂 i couldnt find an email on here anywhere so i just thought i would leave it in a comment for you. Hi – Ran across your blog a few weeks ago – to cute. that was the best post!! loved it! Being a mom is a great job isn’t it? I love to scrub tubs in my undey-pants. I am glad I am not the only one that lets my children watch a little too much TV sometimes… thank you! hey, thanks for the comment, i was just reading you blog, clicked back to check my email and saw your comment, thanks. Oh goodness! That post cracked me up. It sounded much like my own day yesteday. Only mine involved a toilet. Hope you get more relaxation in today. Oh Meg, too funny! Sounds like you took a day out of my life. (I too clean the shower in my undies – no bleach splotches that way :D) So much for going straight to a relaxing bath, huh? And yes, the other day in the middle of all the craziness, i chose to stay holed up in my bathroom after my shower and painted my toenails, and plucked my brows – anything to stall going back to “reality” that day! LOL It’s a wonderful way of coping, isn’t it? 😛 what a day!! don’t they make you smile. my days are kind of quiet now – even when the do have a snow day – and i miss the little kid stuff. and valentines – i really miss doing that with them. i can relate with the old house and plumbing issues – ick, i hope that does the trick for a long time. thanks for the peek into your day. love it! I love it! Mums are the same the world over. (Except we don’t have the snow!) Glad to see Scott likes the Life is Good shirt. I guess anything basketball would be fine for him — would make Hunter proud. noggin… sprout… disney? i’m a bra and underwear shower cleaning kinda girl too! glad to know there is another… would love to have some snow here it is only gray at the moment 🙂 Love your red boots 😀 that’s how we used to clean in college. Bathtub interruptions. Oh,the days. Valentine’s cards are a thing of the past too. I am really missing little kids thanks to you. that ended with a nice double negative… I really do love reading about your days… Okay. My bags are packed and I’m coming to live at your house (you don’t mind if I bring my two boys along do you?). I love a girl who can find time to paint her toenails while gracefully free falling into the looney bin…fantastic shade of pink by the way! p.s. – I clean the shower naked, you’re one step higher up on the civilization chain than I am. Snow day sounds good !, but since I run a daycare my two little ladies would make me crazy by now, I really love your desk area how nice, love the door/desk ,off to walk in 2 ft deep snow to pick up 6 kids from school while the other two (yep that’s 8 seems normal to me)stay in with my snowed in hubby. oh Canada! Tell her the cleaning lady would play memory with her! |
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alyssa - I love that you call her naughty baby. So cute. My daughter is in sunday school with her. I’ve been spending some time backtracking on your blog (a suggestion of another reader) and I have to say, you have quite the family. A very interesting and fabulous bunch, you are! And your house is amazing.
Mrs. Fox - Glitter-Cat! That’s brilliant! Actually, I once did the same (although) not quite to the same extent to a Persian cat I had in college. He left pixie dust in his wake for days.
Jenn - I love it! Next time Nixon or Truman need a makeover I will send them down the street. Oh,what I have to look forward with London. Thanks the smile on a Monday morning.
floorplan - Just delurking this a.m.,
i so appreciate your blog, so so lively, and the fact that you post huge pics…came here via The Nester.
Your Annie’s toilet decoration was cute and not unlike some of your own art : ) Thank you for sharing her exploits.
I have an Annie and she is now 10. Her naughtiness has become MUCH more constructive, while retaining the sparkle.
deb meyers
amy d - secretly, i bet Emily asked for the pretty glitter 🙂 It looks fabulous! I agree she now needs a cool kitty wig to complete the outfit!
Jennifer P. - Kitty got a glamorous makeover! Now he needs one of those kitty wigs to go with it! Annie will get what’s coming to her one day with her own kids–I know I did ;)!
melissa @ the inspired room - HAAA! Reminds me of our dog who is often sporting some sort of ridiculous outfit.
Silly!
chris - Funny.
kristin - THIS is why she and e are such good friends.
Pattie - Ha Ha!!! My husband used to say that we need velcro jackets on the kids and we could just hang them on the wall to keep them out of trouble.
emily loria - Ooooooooooo, nice kitty!
I love it! It’s so artsy! I use to have a cat that looked just like that! But I love the glitter… did you have to give him (or her) a bath?? Not so fun!