tuesday february 16, 2010.
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well….that was a good weekend. i am sending in for my visa in the morning. i was running/walking on the treadmill this morning and everything felt like it's soooo heavy.
Meg, you’re awesome! I just checked out your Whatever Shop and had to buy the typewriter print. I also featured it on my blog http://www.simple-e-design.com in hopes to drive more traffic to your blog and etsy shop. Hope it helps w/ funds for your Africa trip, but more likely you’ll be the one helping whoever is reading, like you do for me! Can’t wait for my print 🙂 It’s soooo cool. Thanks for keeping me sane everyday! xoxo, Lisa I am LOVING your blog! So freakin’ cute! :^D my 4 year old, Autumn Grace, and i were checking out your pictures this morning. she loves to look with me. anyways, she had a little something to say here and there… like things we have that are similar. when we got the the picture of your son she said “well i dont know who he is, but he’s REALLY cracking my out”… that means cracking me up around here ;). thanks for all your beautiful pictures, you totally inspire me!!! hoping one day to have a good camera and take beautiful pics like you 🙂 i always love your randomness…. fruit loops have never looked so good I love all the pictures. I wish I had your creative eye. Why is it when one woman speaks “mom” (my kids would rather have a frozen dinner than me cook, or the laundry pile is so high I can’t see over it) we all can give a collective, “UMMMMM, HUMMMM.” The human expereince is really more the same than we think I suspect… Love, Love the sock monkey tee! Monkey with a bow? Too cute!! my favorite picture was the one of your daughter and her ‘baby’sweetly sleeping under her blanket:) You wanna know why I love you? Why I so totally enjoy looking at pictures of fabric, and yogurt, and children I do not even know? Your laundry pile is about as big as mine. I just can’t keep up with it & I only have 2 kids. I can’t imagine how out of control it would be if I had 5 kids! did you make Annie’s sock monkey shirt? LOVE it! My Kate would LOVE that! You should list those in your shop! Thanks for showing your laundry pile. It makes me feel better. Is that your picture that just made it into the first group finalists on Pioneer Woman? The cheerios picture up above is awfully similar to one in today selection. Great photos, Lauren looks so grown up., That awesome that your shop sold out Congrats, hope you get the $ you need towards your trip! ooh and love the fabric shot Okay, so you wash my pile that high, and I’ll fold them! Laundry’s everywhere. what great photos, i could relate to the pile of laundry 🙂 and a few others. we have a basketball player too! have a great week! susan Meg – Your pictures are so pretty! The bowl of fruit loops look really good at 1 am. BTW I just awarded you the Sunshine Blog Award. You can check it out at http://www.smallburst.com. Just add it to your umpteen awards! LOVE your honesty.. LOVE your heart. Glad to know a few other gals space out every so often. haha two thoughts…that you don’t have to reply to. 🙂 the mountain of laundry made me sigh. now that it’s just the hubster and i, i STILL look at my paltry little pile and avoid it. Is that your “cool new phone with texting”? Ha! 😉 Okay, now I have to go get chalk paint and paint a wall. I love that!! I love your random photos. Now THAT is real life! Some of them are just plain ART. And your kids are adorable. what parallel lives we lead! Looking at pictures of your kids makes me want to drop out of college and have a BABY!… but then I realize I only have one semester left and though babies are SO cute… the responsible thing is to just wait a few months… ah! You’re kiddo’s are cute though… that was the main thought. 😉 Meg, Love the posts where you just ramble and show random pics. Feels like I’m a fly on your wall:) Those were great! That one with your oldest and your sweet dog…just beautiful. She should go into modeling…gasp:o Cute pics, cute post…ugh I hate those laundry piles and “skin goggles” totally made me smile 🙂 Your photos are great!! Your mountain of laundry made me laugh out loud. I’ve been right there. {grin} Love all the pics! Skin goggles! Baaaaaahahahahah! Love the pics. We live in Kansas now…so question: Why do they say Rock Chalk Jayhawk? Thanks, Heather R. Love that pic with the tucked-in stuffed animal in the foreground and Annie in the background. Precious! You certainly are a BUSY woman! And going to Africa, too…aMaZiNg!!!! I love that your everyday life pictures are worth sharing….we love them as much as you do! love this post…we could be friends in real life. Favorite pic….Annie in the background coloring and her little kitty cat (?) all tucked in nice and cozy 🙂 HOW sweet is that????? love the everything pictures. just life – so great : ) Just discovered your blog via TaDa Creations… Thankyou thankyou for showing your laundry. I have a huge mountain in my house. Yours looks prettier somehow. I have a dream of someday having every bit of wash put away every sock matched, every bin empty. A crazy dream, maybe unatainable but it gets me through the day! Laundry totally multipies doesn’t it!!! Lope the pics… those all the fun colors you always have going in your house. Annie is adorable… love how she tucks in Micha… my girls do that too 🙂 Lauren is VERY beautiful 🙂 I love her hair, she is a total cutie! i love the glimpses you give of your life…..it’s so real! Seeing a little “ROCK CHALK” helps too! 😉 lauren is absolutely gorgeous. & i love hearing the tidbits of annie’s conversation. ha, sounds and looks familiar – i think i washed 7 laods of laundry this weekend and i am avoiding folding the last three loads cause i am worn out. i checked out the shop on saturday afternoon and it was almost gone even by then – how awesome that it sold out! i went to honduras last year all by myself – left the kiddos and husband at home – and it was so amazing. crazy hard and life changing. i pray that your africa prep continues to go smoothly. I love that you shared a pic of your laundry pile!! Mine looks the same way after a day of washing! Oh to be a fly on the wall when Annie is engaged in conversation – how cute it would be! I could look at pictures of your kids all day long! (Is that creepy? I don’t mean for it to be!) The picture of your oldest daughter is beautiful – the one with the dog. Look at those eye lashes! All of your kids are just adorable. Loved this post! Thanks for sharing a bit of your lovely & colorful life!! I can’t believe how much Waffle looks like our sheered-back Old English Sheepdog Gideon. Makes my heart melt looking at these two fellas. and you dropped your hat in the parking lot, it’s hanging behind the desk at the WC. Love your pictures!! Where is sweet Talby at? I love Annie’s tie-dyed dress…very cute. If I ever have a daughter I will make her a tie-dye dress 🙂 Thanks for giving us a snapshot of your weekend – I love the chalkboard wall! what a precious family!! Such a beautiful family you have, Meg. Such great pictures. The random everyday ones are the best. rock chalk, jayhawk. Um, those red and white curtains??? Did you make them? I am in love. How about posting some of those lovelies in your shop? 🙂 If you bought them, please tell me where they are from. I love your blog send ticket = someone to fold your laundry Skin goggles – love it! I have to ask again, because I’m a stalker like that. What kind of camera is it you have? I sooo need a new camera.
annie swallowed a round cell battery yesterday like for a watch…. i called the dr. and got voice mail. then i called back 20 min. later and they said "call poison control". so i get out the phone book and i feel nervous because i have to call poison control. i call the number in the phone book….ring ring ring…. are you kidding me?! i try again. yep….more sex. then i call the number under it. a woman answers "hello?" i said "uhhh….is this poison control?" "no…their number is close to ours…its' 5376 not 5476 or is it? is it 0000 or 8000? try that. don't give up." click. what the what?! so now i have started to cry. i call 911. i said "my daughter swallowed a battery. she's fine. my dr. said to call poison control but i can't because it is not poison control, it's a sex line. "yes….1800 332 6633….do you need an ambulance?" "not that i know of…thank you." i call the number she gave me. dead line. no dial tone. then i hang up and try again. "beep beep beep…we're sorry this number is not availble in your calling area" WHAT?! i call the dr. back and tell the poor recptionist all my problems. finally they let me talk to a nurse. and she says "just watch and make sure she passes it."
and that sums up my day. and early release from school. and the furnace is being repaired. and i have to drive an hour to get a yellow fever shot.
i am trying to keep it together…and get sleep…and exercise…and not eat every sweet thing in my kitchen. then i listened to one of frances chan's sermons to pull me out of my pity party. Hilarious!! The sex line, not her swallowing the battery! Awww, sweet crazy life. My son almost had surgery for this last year!!!!!!!!!! This is VERY SERIOUS and has to be removed surgically if she can’t pass it within 4 days!!!! Please advocate for you child!!!!!! Did she pass it? oh no, it sounds like you had a nutty day! if it makes you feel better, the national line number is a porn number for me too — from a 310, 424, 949 and 202 area code. yes, we have too many cell phones in our house with two people. in our defense, one is a land line, one is shutting down at the end of the month and one is for work. hang in there! i think a rainbow cake might be in order!!!! Oh, my! What a crazy and stressful day! But now that you’ve put 800-FREE-SEX on your blog, you’re probably going to get some wild spammers! Oh, no! 🙂 I used to work at a mental health insitution where the teens swallowed batteries of all sizes on purpose. As long as they pass- no problem and I’m sure with that size she’ll be fine. You just have the fun of sifting for a while. 😉 hahaha! oh, the life of a mommy is never boring! Frustrating. Glad she is ok. I am glad she’s okay! We had a Vick’s vapor rub eating incident last year and our poison control made us go and sit in the ER for 4 hours. It’s so scary! Please take her to the ER and get an x-ray done!!! I keep checking back to see if you decided to follow up on the suggestions here to have x-rays or go to ER. A leaking battery can be very dangerous. Please keep us posted. Ugh! I thought I was having a rough day, but yours…yours takes the cake. (Oops! Sorry to bring up cake.) Hope everything smooths out soon. Hang in there! Oh Meg! Don’t worry about the shop and hang in there girl! I loved the person’s comment about Satan attacking when we do something for God’s glory. What good perspective. Kelly I am so sorry about your day, every Mom has em. Please let us know how Annie is doing, she is such a cute kid. My daughter and I can’t wait to see what she wears next. Such and individual sense of style. We went to Target and I bought myself some Annie socks. When I held them up my daughter knew exactly who I meant when I said “Annie Socks!” Rough day! Glad Annie’s ok. How totally weird about Poison Control! I’ll have to check the number we have on our fridge… My childhood best friend swallowed the inside workings of a digital watch. (It had gotten wet so she opened it up to breathe on the insides to dry them. Breathed in too hard I guess.) I’m pretty sure she had to go to the the emergency room to get her stomach pumped. Well, at least you know how to get through to the sex line when you need it. Have fun waiting for the battery… oh no…i hope she is okay…the story did have me laughing…the sex line is just to funny! yOu aRe BeAutiFul!*!*! I don’t know anything about swallowing batteries, so I hope what the nurse told you is correct. What a horrible day. I hope everything gets better! You and your family are in my prayers! So sorry to hear about your bad day. it is a little funny though… just think when she is 18 and you are remembering the time Annie swallowed a battery and all you could get was a sex line… Happy Birthday Lauren. Poor Annie… hope you find the battery. Hope today goes better… good luck with the Yellow Fever shot ouch! i am a Pediatric ER/ICU nurse. I work in one of the largest Childrens hospitals in the country. Been there 25 yrs. You need to get an xray. It has to be confirmed that it has passed through to the stomach. It sometimes gets stuck in the esophagus and then she can end up needing surgery. (A Scope to retrieve it) My son swallowed a dime and they xrayed immed for that. Dont want to scare you but you never know how much experience the person on the other end of the phone line has. That was fun to read…although I know it was NOT fun for you! But you wrote it in a way to make the rest of us laugh! i had that number memorized when lucy was littler. one week we called it 5 times. but never for sex. 🙂 Oh my goodness. That is a lot of stress to deal with for sure! Try not to put too much pressure on yourself, the shop will eventually get opened, even if it doesn’t happen until sometime next week, that is OK!!! You’ll still sell all your wonderful things and keep your sanity in tact too. Have a great weekend, I hope you can relax a bit and enjoy it. 🙂 Meg, the exact same thing happened to me about 2 years ago. A friend swallowed a lot of tylenol and another friend called me asking what to do. I googled the number and gave it to her. 1 minute later she calls back yelling “THAT IS A SEX LINE!” we tried it multiple times, same thing. Forgot to say last night… HAPPY BIRTHDAY, LAUREN!! Hope you have a FANTABULOUS HAPPY DAY!! Dude. That sucks. Oh Meg Today is my bday, too! I’m honored to share it with such a fanastic and beautiful young lady! Hi I am new to blogging. I just sent around a email alert, just last week to all my friends. It was about a little girl that swallowed a small TV remote control battery. The battery was stuck in her esophagus and was corsive. Yikes . . she is fine now, thank goodness. oh my dear friend, what a time you’ve been having. take comfort in knowing that everyone is here for you, all these kind ladies who comment and watch for you. we are all sending you lots of love and prayers for annie to get that battery through her system, for you to get through these complicated and busy days, and for life to settle back into it’s normal rhythm. i hope lauren has a happy bday! I would take her to the hospital. I just read a story on CNN, I think last week where a little boy died from the same thing. The acid leaked into him. SO sad. I don’t mean to scare you, but better safe than sorry! Oh my goodness. My prayers are with you and your little one! I can’t believe they told you to wait for it to pass. I’ve heard it can be VERY dangerous to swollow those kind of batteries. Please, Meg get another opinion, or take her to the ER. wow. I’ve heard about close numbers and how that can be annoying, but that’s downright dangerous! I hope it passes quickly so you all can put it behind you. scary! Holy Crow! What a wild ride. “That which does not kill us makes us stronger” right? My son had a similar incident, but it was a dime that he swallowed. I did the doctor call and the ER. The doc in the ER handed me a “toilet hat” and a bundle of tongue depressors and said I had to wait for it to pass. Thanks a lot kid. Why me? http://www.poison.org/prevent/battery.asp Deep breaths, this to shall pass. I hate the swallowing thing. There was one week when I felt like I called poison control 3 times. Enjoy Lauren’s birthday! DO NOT wait for it to pass. My nephew put one up his nose and the acid leaked and he had damage and had to have surgeries. It can be Highly dangerous if the batteries leak Oh my gosh! That is too hilarious. Poor baby…my Big Chick, when she was a toddler got a hold of an Ibuprofen bottle and drank half of it. The safety lid wasn’t on tight enough. I about freaked out. I called the poison line and they told me to just give her lots of water and watch her for lethargy etc… Amazing how you can drink the practically the whole bottle and that’s all they tell you. To this day I have never told my mom. I didn’t want to hear disapproval in her voice. You know how being a new mom you are just so hard on yourself. How is that watching for the passing of the battery going? Motherhood is so glamorous isn’t it? sounds like a very bad dream where you are trying to make a call and just can’t!! I have also had to call poison control and had trouble too! One wrong number, I didn’t get a sex line though, then when I finally did get through to posion control I got a totally unprofessional gal who could care less about what I was calling about. It is ridiculous! you poor thing! but, thank you for making me laugh this morning… at your expense. xoxo I hope your daughter is OK. Kids do crazy things, don’t they! Hope life settles down for you soon. I think you deserve a spa day … Perfection. that is something crazy! i would be in tears too! you are a trooper. Crazy… with a capital c. Meg, Happy Birthday Lauren! I think Poison Control should change their phone number. To one that is not so similar to the sex line. Sounds like a terrible ordeal – hope today is better. you’re braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. I work in a pediatricians office and the phone # for POISON CONTROL is 1-800-222-1222 for future referrence. Hope you will not need it though. Wow, that is A. LOT. Isn’t crazy love so good? It will change your life that’s for sure. One day you will laugh…I know though, NOT NOW! Oh NO! Ohhhh MEG 🙁 I’m sooo sorry for the craziness…just what you needed when you are trying sooo hard to give up sugar 🙁 All those things don’t help one bit!!! You’ll be in my prayers today!!!!! And, of course, I hope Sweet Little Annie is okay 🙂 i hope your day is better today! i would have cried as well. oh my goodness megan, i am so sorry! what a day!!! Horrible feeling! I have to tell you my story. My little ones and I were disolving those little tablets where the out side coating dissolves and they turn into a big sponge animal. Well, all of a sudden my 1 yr old eats one. I freak. We just moved to Texas and didn’t have a doctor yet. I call my mom. She says call the hospital, so I do and she LAUGHS! Seriously?! I felt two inches tall and scared. She tells me to call poison control. I have counted the little pills probably 15 times at this point and there are only nine, she ate the 10th. Several minutes have passed so I’m really freaking thinking it’s expanding in her throat. As I’m talking to Poison Control she’s reaching up to hold me and I see #10 stuck to her sleeve. I felt like an idiot, but so relieved. Please keep us posted about little Annie!!! Oh no! When Skye opened a bottle of children’s tylenol and popped a few (???not sure how many)I got poison control right away. So sorry it was such a hassel for you….that is an awful mommy moment!! Gotta love those kind of days, huh? When I was a kid, and my sister was a baby, she swallowed a a small gold locket that had her picture in it. It was mine. I remember my parents waiting for it to pass. Every time I see it in my jewelry box, I can’t stand to touch it. Blech. Glad Annie’s ok! Breathe in … breathe out … repeat. 🙂 o.k.- I couldn’t resist the irony- the POISON control number leading to a sex line??? think there should be a little more “controlling” of that “poison”!… Oh my goodness! I THOUGHT I had, had a day! But, you WAY topped mine! Hope sweet Annie is all better!… and Happy Birthday Lauren!!! Arnt us kids great fun! 🙂 Poison Control is 1-800-222-1222. I have them on speed dial. Pathetic, I know, but Meredith ate hand sanitizer once, and then a week later did something else that warranted a call to Poison Control. I forget what it was. other than the battery/poison control incident, you could have written my blog. hope your day is better today and you get the things accomplished that you need. Poor Meg, and t 1AM too. Put on your list…Get some sleep! Here is a website that might prove helpful. I don’t mean to worry you, but I’m surprised your doctor’s office didn’t tell you to get an x-ray immediately. My sister thought my niece swallowed one once and that was the first thing she did. Burns from the battery liquid can happen fast if it gets stuck. Good luck and I hope you “find it” today. POISON HELP 1-800-222-1222 Oh my you poor thing.. Write this down..or put it in your cell phone.. 1-800-222-1222 this is the number we use.. Oh no! Hope all is ok. http://www.poison.org/prevent/battery.asp Oh my oh my! Your poor thing!! You POOR THING! I can’t even imagine….. Oh my goodness, so scary!! Wow. That is intense. Just when I think I have crazy days… Is Annie ok? when it looks like this outside…
it’s time to go slitching.
it’s not real safe but it’s pretty fun.
on the last turn we didn’t make it and we let go of the hose.
i really think that tomorrow will be the day my shop is up and running. Looks like you guys had so much fun with that sledding thing huh? Even the kids would just want to join you for a ride! I can still remember when I was still living with my parents, my friends and I would go sledding during the winter season. But it just stopped when our neighbor had been into a tragic accident. His wife called up the Oakland accident lawyer and inquired on his benefits with his case. Then this Oakland auto accident lawyer helped her all the way through the whole process, and now she got her husband’s benefits. Wow- brings back memories! Thanks for keeping it alive. I had to laugh so hard at this post! We call this Skeetching… I don’t know where the name came from either… lol its funny to see that other people do crazy stuff like this! Your pics are so funny! Thanks for the sharing…I sure wish we had that snow and cold weather down our way…in South Texas it has been in the 70’s lately! 🙁 Looks like fun! Hope your bruise doesn’t hurt too much. Can’t wait to see your shop! Lauren so looks like Natalie Portman in that pic – so prety and so happy! Can you please give us some kind of “warning” before you open so we can be sure to be ready? Cuz I know it is all going to go fast. Would appreciate it! Thanks!!! We call it hookey-bobbing! : ) oh my, I cant stop laughing. Thanks for sharing. my husband and his brothers did this sort of thing when they were young. looks like lots of fun. Looks like FUN! Obviously it is “sledding” with a “hitch” to make “slitching”. 🙂 We do this in my parents back pasture, pulled by a tractor going very slowly. I totally hear you with your frozen rear end, my thighs had to clear the path last winter! ..of course, both my kids were on wtih me… making it an extra wide load… LOL Looks fun but police in our area of eastern Virginia stopped tons of people from doing this recently. It made the local news because of how dangerous it is and how many people get seriously hurt! I’m glad you all were safe! makes good copy,(great pics) but yikes! do you really want to encourage this? it’s like a loaded gun. eventually, somebody gets hurt. think role model . . . It looks quite fun but it also looks quite dangerous. But hey we all do crazy things. The kids look like they are having a blast. I thought slitching = sledding while attached to the hitch. Looks like lots of fun!! I can’t wait for you shop to open – hurry up, wouldya?!! xo I’m sorry to be the downer, but my nephew died (died. As in dead. Horrible) in an accident involving exactly this activity. Slid under the car wheels as the car was sliding too, etc… I know it’s fun, but really, really…just don’t do it. Please. oh that totally sounds like stuff we do here! Love it! That’s how we sled here in NC!!! We got th 4 wqheelers out and id it that way. Is the first we have had snow in forever. We do have “traditional hill” that has been sledded for generations!!! I had never gotten to sled there before till this weekend. Was great! They used to take barrels there and make fires , but that didn’t happen … but we did make smores with neighbors before heading to the hill 🙂 FUN!!!! Your family makes everything look like so much fun. You seem to be the greatest mom out there. I really hope that I can be as creative and fun a mother as you are when I get to become one. i hate to be a party pooper but this scares me…especially since i’m sitting here with a broken arm and tailbone from a regular sledding accident. That looks so dangerous yet SO FUN!! Will you adopt me? We rarely ever get snow, so when it snowed last weekend, we were in need of sled. Since we don’t have a sled, we used random objects that we found around the house: the turkey pan, a cardboard box, trashcan lid, etc. Hey- you gotta do what you gotta do!!!! hahahaha awwww tired annie How FUN! Sooo, this looks like a TON of fun!! I just looked at the pictures again, and my youngest has the same sweater and the same purple, chewed up, Gerber sippie cup. It sure does feel like a small world sometimes. We did the same thing as kids, behind my Dads ’67 mustang. My sister was always crying sitting in the middle. It was a blast. So nice to see others continue the tradition. Our street would be too busy, but I’m thinking we will try it the next time we’re at the farm. Thanks for the walk down memory lane. We use to do this all the time when I was little! But here in Idaho we call it Hookey Bobbing, (not sure why though! ) But its SO much fun! Wow, that looks about as safe as kneeboarding in a creek being pulled by a 4-wheeler! My son came home with some lovely sand burns!! I love it!LOL !! My sister and I are 12 yrs. apart and when I was home from college(many, many moons ago) my parents were out of town and I taught her “stair sledding!” We took a large cardboard box, flattened it and sledded down the stairs to our basement!!! WE HAD A BLAST!!! That is too funny…”not safe, but it’s fun” haha We totally did this with my church youth group when I was a kid…some incredible memories with that. we could totally be friends. 🙂 I love it! We did that as kids in Idaho. Your post brought back memories; Thanks! Unless Lauren has a new bo, am I seeing some neighbourly set-up jobs with a cutie? Hahahhaha, looked like a really fun night 🙂 Lauren IS smiling!!! I take it he is the boyfriend. How does Mama feel about that? That looks like too much fun!!! And yummo hotchoc with whipped cream!!!!! haha I love how a lot of people are asking about the boy with Lauren…I came to ask that too! We’re all nosy I guess 🙂 We called it skeetching (sp?) and used the tow rope for water skiing. Have you tried ice blocking??? Fun in the summer. Find a hill, buy blocks of ice, sit on them (sometimes on a small towel) and then slide down the hill. REALLY FUN after the sprinklers have been on or after a light rain. Hahah! How fun! That’s what we used to do when we went to Tahoe for New Year’s…brings back memories! We use intertubes and pull them with 4 wheelers! It’s so much fun and such good memories for the kids! looks like fun. we do that behind the john deere gator or 4 wheeler. i was hoping annie was crying cuz she was terrified to go next. is that a boyfriend with lauren? just wondering. That’s so fun! Just the other night I was staying up late and from my living room I could hear these girls just laughing their heads off. We don’t exactly live in a ‘partying’ neighborhood so I looked out the window – saw nothing. It kept going on. I decided to go upstairs and go to bed. I happened to look out the upstairs window and caught them! — Were you in our neighborhood the other night??? 🙂 You guys are crazy…crazy fun in a good way:) Love it! Now that looks like my kind of fun. We’re off to Galena in a few weeks for a ski night. HOW FUN!!! totally not safe, but totally something we would do too…well that is if we got enough snow for it 🙁 That looks like a BLAST..except for the whole bruise and all. The hot cocoa looks pretty yummy too! Can’t wait to see what you are working on for your shop. Looks like fun!! Can you call me when your shop opens? Ha Illegal in our area. Just sayin’ Oh my gosh! I do this with my kiddos too. I don’t call it slitching though. Good word at any rate. Maybe it’s a cross between sledding and hitching a ride. What a fun time. i remember doing the same thing as a kid. so much fun! i know i’m not the first to notice, but you’re going to have to address the cute boy with lauren and her big smile!!! so excited for your shop. i’ve been saving up! Meagan, I absolutely love your blog! Slitching looks so fun and the hot chocolate looks even better. ahhhhhh…who cares about safety when there is fun to be had, right? That looks like so fun! Hilarious!! I wish it snowed here in FL so we can do that too! Lauren is smiling??!?!? who is the dude behind Lauren?? we used to do this too! one year my dad got an old car hood from a junk yard and then he pulled us behind the four wheelers and the tractor! terrifying…but fun. hilarious. I so need to try this except I am a total baby about the snow!! That post made me laugh so hard. That was my first date with my husband in college. In West Texas we get so little snow so we were using a trash can lid pulled by a rope. After about an hour we were feeling very daring and doing circles and acting crazy… Needless to say the night ended with the pickup making a circle and our rope and trash can lid sliding sideways smashing into the bumper. haha I still have a little scar on my head. Hate to say it though I think I’d do it again (without the circles).. Man it was fun !!! SLEDDING + in the DITCH = SLITCHING. Looks like fun!! What a great post! We used to do this when we were little. If there wasn’t anyone available to drive a truck, my big brother would pull us with his 3-wheeler. Looks like you all had a great time! ~Lanie Oooh Galena!!! I’ve been there a few times. It’s only about 4 hours from the town I’m from in Minnesota. Sorry, just got so excited when I saw you mention it. What a beautiful place! so fun! love the photos! Looks like fun! The sad look in Annie’s eyes in the first shot is heartbreaking! 🙂 Is that Lauren’s boyfriend?! She looks so happy! Is that the car that had and “incident” with a deer? sledding + hitch = slitching? My husband used to do this when he was younger with his brothers…except they’d just hitch on passing motorists who had no clue! Looks like you had a blast! Sooooo cool!!!! Great pics!!! And man….once again, I just love your sweet Annie 🙂 That looks like SO much fun! that is so cool!! seems really fun. sorry about the bruise though!!! it took me a year and half to get it done…not the actual work but just DOING it. talby's dresser was from a thrift shop when lauren was a baby. *painting made by talby 2 years ago. *heart duvet covers from ikea. *name print from penny people. *tutu from the thrift shop. :) *polka dot sheets from walmart. *deer print mounted on blue & orange paper from k.bartinski. Great job. Where did you get your blackout material? Is it cotton type fabric or is it like vinyl/rubbery stuff? I really need your help on this one…please 😀 I went to Target and bought those sheets. Then I came home from college and my mom had bought them for my bed at home. Guess she knows me. (: LOVE LOVE LOVE it! This makes me want to have a girl just to decorate her room!!! For awhile, I’ve been collecting pictures that inspire me. Sometimes it’s just pictures that I like, but usually it’s pictures of things I want to try – decorating ideas etc. Reading your blog over the last few months, I realized at least three of my inspiraion photos are from your blog. Reading this post, I recognized a picture I found months ago is of your daughter’s room. This pink color is so sweet. I love the flower garland, now I have to steal your tent idea for my daughter’s room. She would love it. Thanks for blogging. I really enjoy reading it. Good Luck on the Africa trip. WOW! Great bedroom with excellent features. Each photo was so beautiful in a wonderful and unique way. LOVE it! And I love all of the bright and happy colors and things that fill their room. 🙂 What a beautiful room they have!! Absolutely precious! That is the most sugar-coated room I’ve ever seen… It’s better than the one from “The Holiday!” Meg.. you are truly the coolest! I have been loving that tent forevah! I’m so inspired but you always inspire me! I can’t remember if I commented on Africa yet either but how awesome. I got to go before I was married and it was scary and exciting and amazing. I’ll be praying for you! Psalm 91 is a great chapter to pray for protection etc. etc. one of my favs. I know the trip will change your life! It looks great! I loveeeee pink! 🙂 oh, i love this. I love that – I want one for my room!! Well, maybe for my craft/office…LOL!! Yes… that is a LOT of pink. LOL! But it is absolutely BEAUTIFUL. You really are so creative, Meg… you did a GREAT job. That princess tent is AWESOME! What a FANTASTIC place for two lovely princesses! What color is the pink in their room? My little girl just asked tonight to have pink walls in her new bedroom when we move. 🙂 That is totally amazing. Mostly because you did it, and what love you have shown them! So precious. I love everything about that room! I long to give my kids that kind of fun space, but don’t know where to start. It’s a good thing you’re not nearby, because I would have to make you help me! 🙂 What a beautiful “pw-incess” bed! Thanks for posting this. I want to make one for my daughter using mosquito netting when she outgrows her baby bed. It will be a win-win. She’ll think it’s so princess-y and fun, and I’ll know she’s protected from malaria (we live in Asia). Meg, YOU are beautiful and inspirational 🙂 awh, its just perfect. because of you i watched the holiday. now, one of my most favorite movies for sure. love their room. i eyes stopped when i saw how dreamy the window was. yep, just the window was all i needed. the tent is awesome. love it, and everything else in the room too. just a great girlie space :O) This is AMAZING. That scene from the Holiday is one of my favorites ever- what a dream com true! Great work! Beautiful! Just what a little girls bedroom should be! SO beautiful. Did you make the green butterfly? It’s amazing! aWesoMe!!!! xo meg! that turned out fabulously! the tent is so very magical!! what lucky girls you have = ) The dark pink velvety color in the inside back really makes this tent. It’s so rich and royal looking. What a wonderful place for make-believe, day-dreaming and play-time! ALL that pink, so pretty! This post made me smile. Awesome as always, Meg! You are one talented lady my friend! Big hugs! :o) Looks like the “pink of perfection” to me. Seriously. So, so, SO adorable. This is definitely going in my inspiration file. 🙂 it turned out great. this has been on my list for a while too now that chloe & camden share a bed and are OBSESSED with tents. I love the butterfly too. Your windows are so big. What a great home. I love this. Love that the room is pink, pink, pink. And I know that my little sassy sue would live in that tent. For days on end. Perfect little girls’ room. My favorites are the tutus and Talby’s art! 🙂 Super cute stuff going on there!! Great job – perfect little girls room! I love the tent. Very pretty room! Where can you get the gerbera daisies? Thanks! I LOVE it! Such a great mom! What a fabulous room! I want to move in myself. I love the butterfly picture, I am sure you made it yourself. I’d love to make one for my daughter’s room, any tips. Thanks Kim So cute! I love it! that is THE perfect little girls room. i want one!!! Perfect!! I LOVE IT! Cute that your girlies share a bed, they must love each other so much. I wish my daughters got along so well! Love your blog for inspiration! CUTE CUTE CUTE! it reminds me of The Holiday….what a special place to hang out and be a princess. It’s not as grand as what you had in mind? It’s grander than anything I’ve ever had in MY mind! It’s look beautiful…and totally YOU! I love all of that pink – it is completely Pinkalicious! 🙂 Beautiful Meg! This is a picture of pink perfection. Imagine the memories that this room will hold for your beautiful girls when they’re older….a room to nurture their imaginations and their dreams…Meredy xo. Love ALL the pink! The room looks fabulous and I love how you made the tent! I never would have guessed it was made with hula hoops. I might just have to make one in my son’s room, no pink for him though. 😉 A redo is scheduled for his room soon, I’m sooooo excited! Thanks for sharing Meg! You know it would be cute as a circus tent or camo fabric for boys. Sorry, I’ve only got boys and just kept thinking about this tent! lol Love it. I wanted to do something like this for Katie. I was planning to re-do her room with her, before she got sick. It’s wonderful to see your version of the hula-hoop canopy, making your girls happy. Thank you for sharing. I would have LOVED this when I was a little girl. And this makes me want to make something like this for my little girl. Well done. That room is SO gorgeous! what a fun room!! 🙂 Oh my gosh – it’s simply MAGICAL! It’s the most wonderfully creative, fairy-tale room I could imagine! You are so talented. (And clearly you’ve passed on that talent to your kids!) WOW. I love it! What lucky little girls! What an incredible, wonderful creation.. AND an absolute amazing room.. Makes me wish I could force my “big” girl to be young and love pink again.. So precious… Oh so very fantastic! I want one, myself. I don’t think Hubby would like it very much, though. love it! that was one of my favorite scenes in the movie, and i got a screenshot of the tent to remember to make it for my daughter when she’s out of the crib. too adorable! really cute…i know my girls would love one! Great job. What lucky girls! I’m going to have to try this for the little princesses in my life. I so love your blog and all the ideas. What a beautiful room!! I have goven you an award over at my blog 🙂 Fantastic job on the tent! I think it’s time for you to come and decorate my home now…. 🙂 To die for CUTE!!!!! Looooovvvvveee it! You did a great job on the tent! I’ve been trying to figure out for years(ever since I saw that movie) how to replicate it. Great idea with the hula hoops! I just found a neat blog a few days ago that has tons of pics of cool movie houses and I found great pictures of that Holiday tent (shots outside and inside)- so I couldn’t believe it when I saw your post today! My husband just walked into the room and said, “GAH, that’s pink!” twice! I think your girls’ room is beautiful, and eclectic, and perfect! We too have the bed on the floor. It makes rolling off and jumping off much safer! I just bought those polka dot sheets about a week ago. Love them. They are all the colors of Kates room. I’m going to buy another set next weeks to make curtains with! It is perfect!!! I want to move in with you please!!! lucky, lucky girls!! It’s so dreamy Meg, this is SO dreamy, to say the least. I can see how any and all little girls would feel like princesses in there. Absolutely beautiful! I love it! A pink bedroom was my dream until I was, oh I don’t know, 21. Then I decided to be more mature and like purple. 😉 must i comment on every single post you make?? oh~so~sweet! i want one too…. Oh Meg I loved that part of the movie. It was just magical. What a fun room. I think it’s sweet they share a room and super fun that the floor is on the bed. I don’t let my girls jump on their beds because they would break the old bed frames for sure. But if it doesn’t have one…problem solved. The pink is perfect:) Oh man, I CANNOT show these pics to my daughter… I’ll never hear the end of it! 🙂 SO. VERY. PRETTY!!!!!!!!!! very cute! Adorable and very pr-wincessy! What a perfect girls room…your girls are blessed! i love the pink tent! what fun for your girls… cute ideas. It’s awesome ~ and it makes perfect sense! And it’s perfect for a princess! Is there really such a thing as too much pink?? Oh man!!!! IIIIIII want one!!!! No girls for me 🙁 Wonder if I could get my boys to go for it??? hee hee 🙂 Yet another super great thing from the Rockstar Blogger herself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Hey, I know, this would be a perfect place to run and hide when you feel like alllll eyes are on you!!!! But then, you’d probably have to run Talby and Annie out of it…and that wouldn’t be so good 🙁 Oh geesh am I rambling…gotta go cook up some pizza rolls for dinner 🙂 Mom of the Year….RIGHT HERE!!!!!!!! OMG. Is it sad that I want to be your BFF and I’ve never met you? that is WONDERFUL! SOOOO adorable. So dreamy, Meg! This is definitely one of those great ideas that I’ll file away to refer back to when I have a daughter. love it, love it, love it! So cute! How great for your two girls. Doesn’t it make your heart happy to hear Talby say that she feels like a princess? How sweet. Great job. I am so glad that I am not the only mother out there that has used white bed sheets as curtains! Love the tent, Meg! I love it!!! I LOVE the tent from The Holiday too! Your tent is “seriously cool” as well!!! How fun! I would have loved to have something like this as a kid. What a good mom 🙂 what a fabulous room!!! my 5 and 6 year old girls (who share a room)are enviously checking out all the pictures. =) Awesome room THAT IS SO FUN!!!!! You are one talented lady! ADORABLE! That is so so cute. SO CUTE! I can’t imagine how heavy that tent is! I LOVE the butterfly painting above Annie’s dresser. It looks like a collage of materials – really cool. You are a decorating goddess. 🙂 I love that they share a bed and it has that fabulous tent hanging over it. It is alot of pink, but in a really, really good way!! I love the pink!!! It is so girly & adorable. My girls would love every inch of that room!!! Love it!!! Love the tent. I think the one in The Holiday had Christmas lights? makes PERFECT sense…I am so doing this for my 3 year old…she will FLIP!!! looks great! my daughter was sitting on my lap looking at the pics with me and she said, “i want to go there. i want to play with that little girl. i’ll take my toys and play with her toys too.” (since there were no pics of A or T she had to assuuuuume a little girl lived there!) and good thing natalie is two or i’m sure she’d be begging me to do her room like that! great job! you’re hired if you want to come to KC to do it 🙂 I absolutely love it!!! Love it! I tucked away a few ideas for Tatum’s room. She has the heart sheets from ikea too, hers are the white ones!! You are so talented and I love how you mix so many things that just scream LIFE!! It came out so pretty! I bet they do love it, what little girl wouldn’t? What size is that duvet cover from Ikea? I looked at it on the site, but it didn’t show what size it was. It’s really cute. I love it so much!!! My daughter saw it and said, “MOMMY, BUY IT, BUY IT!!!” awesome job that is too cute. you never cease to amaze me! I love it!! Bet my little boy wouldn’t… hm. Maybe in blue? without the flowers? so ah.dor.able. i wanna be a pwincess too! So darling and fun at the same time! Having girls I completely understand about the “pink” thing! Meg! This is ADORABLE! Talby and Annie are very lucky girls! All princesses deserve a room like theirs!
i decided to post this because…i have heard more than one woman say “i have never made lasagna.” cook the noodles according to the box. in a 9×13 pan put a spoonful of sauce on the bottom of the pan to keep anything from sticking. then a layer of sauce….and then a layer of cheese mixture. and repeat those layers again. yum yum yum. and this is a great dish to bring to new mom or friends that need a night off from cooking dinner. ************************************************ |
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Morning T - This post is incredible- I love it! Just stalking your blog thanks to “between you and me’s” post on you today. Your family is precious as is your home and your blog. I’ll be back…
T
karol - love this post. it is simply beautiful. can’t believe no one asked where those super cute sunglasses were purchased. you have fabulous style. always enjoy your blog.
Katie4Life - I just started checking out your blog. I have to say I love your randomness. (Hence your title, right!?)
Love your old quilts! Strawberries in our neck of the woods have been great too – fairly cheap – and I live in the middle of coldness prairie land!
Nan - (((sigh))) I live this post.
That was an accidental but true typo. So I kept it.
rebecca - dear lauren:
you’re pretty, and that locket is fantastic.
🙂
(thanks for sharing your day with us, meg!)
Pat - This is real, this is typical, this is fun, laughter and treasured memories.
Thank you for sharing!
xoxo
Pat
melissa - i’m tired just looking at all of these!!!! it looks like you had a fabulous day!
melissa
stef - this was a fun post! you’ve given me a great idea 🙂
Vera - Love your family!
Gemma - What recipe do you use for your cookies? They look so lovely!!!
melissa @ the inspired room - Seems like only yesterday you were just MY friend. 🙂
Now I have to wait in line for Miss Popular here to say I love your day in the life. Happy happy moments. My son and I laughed our head off over the photo with your dog and his foot by your daughters. Precious.
xoxo
Melanie - This was a great post. You see everything so creatively. Looking at the pictures (which I loved by the way) made me tired. Was that all in just ONE day? No wonder why you are tired.
jen - I love this.
tara pollard pakosta - I just absolutely LOVE “day in the life” type pix! my fave kind! these are awesome!!!!!!!!!!
these would be fun to scrap in a mini albuM!
I am going to be doing A PHOTO A DAY for the month of March and probably a day next week, I will be doing A DAY IN THE LIFE again! I do this every so often and they are my fave pix ever!
thanks for sharing!
tara
pambuller - it’s like a story book. 🙂
your family is awesome, meggie. but my favorite is still you know who.
Rachel / cREaTe - so so so cool. love it! great idea. 🙂 reminds me of this awesome artwork i saw on etsy the other day: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38579404 i just love “the basics” of the every day. 🙂 it’s what makes life OURS. it’s what is cozy & familiar NOW. but it’ll look different all too soon. thanks for sharing!
Newborn Clothing - What a sweet family. Love how you posted pictures of your family!!! The dinner option list is just to cute!
elma - I just LOVE your blog!! What wonderful pictures. I love the butterfly quilt on your couch. You know have you tried the market place pantry cereal at target?? My kids love it and it saves a lot of money:)
Love all the cookies how long did they last??:)
Laundry never ending isn’t it?? I do at least four to five loads a day and with nine beds I try to do a couple extra loads every couple of days for bed sheets:) Busy but so worth it. Thanks for the wonderful pictures. I never get tiried of looking at your family:)
jennifer - Looks like a busy, fun, perfect day!
gina - and what a life!
is that your husband tickling the kids? i did a double take- it looked like Matt Damon – you lucky girl. 🙂
Melissa - looks life fun! You will miss all this when you go to Africa.
Mirjam - Loved looking at the pictures! Do you have a recipe for these cookies!? 😀
donna good - loved how you share your family life!
Christina - Your Talby reminds me of my Michaela. She even has that same fleece, and wore hers today (the 18th). 🙂 I love that you captured all the moments…sweet family.
Tanya - I LOVE this! And what a neat idea!!
Erin - This is a fabulous idea for a post! What a busy, but joyful day! Inspiring without saying a word!
Have you read Crazy Love or are you working on it? I have heard it was good – just curious!
kindred spirit - Hi, will you adopt me? 🙂
what great photos of your family! thanks for sharing….
Kelly - I like the butterfly quilt! And I’d like to eat the straweberries please. Kelly
DreamGirlLisa - Great day!
candace - an absolutely beautiful day in a beautiful life
Amy R. - This is an awesome post! I don’t know how you do it with 5 kids! Looks like you enjoy your action packed life with your family! The dinner idea is great!
Amy
Julie - a sweet life!
The Bookworm - I absolutely love doing ADITL’s! We try to do one at least once a year.
Here is our last one:
http://ourimperfectlife.blogspot.com/2009/09/day-in-life.html
Kirsten - You are golden. And I want my son to marry your daughter. She wants to move to Seattle, right? Then we’d be related 🙂
Jen Christians - I love this..I really really LOVE this… It has taken a little time, but I must say that I am REALLY enjoying my ordinary days so much! I am so happy to know that you are too!
the inadvertent farmer - We play on the bed before bedtime too…well daddy and kids do while I watch! Great snapshot of your life, Kim
Juli Jones - my four year old was watching me scroll through your pictures and as I pasted the close-up of talby he said,’whoa, stop. go back up. that girl is cute,no…she is bootiful!’ too funny, i had to share. love the photos btw. what a crazy blessed life you lead:)
Genevieve - A lovely day, a lovely life! Great post!!
Marie Tere - Really….it resembles a day in the CK house.
Marisa@make*happy - I love this! I’m definitely going to do this soon.
Dina - Can I come live with you? …. 🙂
Miranda - This is such a beautiful post! You have such a gift for mothering + documenting. And Talby’s handwriting? My goodness it should be a font!
Laura - I am reading Crazy Love with our small group and I am really loving it. The author has video clips that really bring the book to life.
Amber - the photos of the back of annie’s head could so be my daughter’s. in fact, my husband caught a glimpse and said “is that abigail?” um, no! wrong blog. 🙂 though i’m sure her and annie would hit it off!
love the photos…inspires me to take more of our daily happenings. and love the “old” blankets on the couch! so cozy!
Rach - I totally have to do this! Mind if I nap the idea? I’ll let you know if I post it.
julie - Lauren’s bangs are adorable.
I love them!
Random question… didn’t you used to have a blue washer and dryer? Or is that just me imagining that I have them?
Deanna - LOVE it! My little boys favorite thing to do is wrestly onour bed too…with me or my husband! My husband usually ends up getting hurt! 🙂 Thanks for sharing!
http://www.deannablogs.blogspot.com
princess lasertron - aww this made me so happy.
getting the mail was MY favorite.
Julie Wriston - Love this! What a beautiful family!
Ruth - love this!
particularly the shot of annie’s feet with waffle’s paw!
fabulous sunglasses too.
mel - love seeing your “a day in the life”.
what a fun filled house you have!
your polka dot sunglasses are too cute!
Elisa - Love 🙂
Bec - Ugh- I’ve spent the past two days with a stomach bug. But, it has given me the time to finally get this up and running:
http://www.theiheartblog.com
You are in the inspiration list!
meaghan - awesome post! i think i’ll do it and link up to you ; ) what a great day, what a great life ; )
Erika - Oh my goodness, I so LOVE that quilt and quilt-top pillow on your beige couch!! Handmade? Antique? New?
tasha roe - these pictures make me want to move it! 🙂
i need to do this once a month!! great idea! oh and the bottom cabinet knobs on your kitchen cabinets are super rad!! and the spindly-legged buffet/server with the TV on it – to die for!!
Tara - love this! It’s inspired me to do one of a typical day at our house. …might be scary!
Tiffany - I have one of these planned for next week…don’t think I’m copying if you would ever check out my blog!! Sometimes we bloggers are on the same wave length.
Love your blog!!
Julianne - Awesome post! I love it. I feel like that’s my life (without the extra 4 kids…just one over here), and I push “Replay” every.single.day. But that’s (usually) a good thing.
Tricia - Ah, it looks so much like my days. Including the very same coffee jar (would not make it w/o that coffee ;), the Dora on TV (far too often for us), and the wrestling. Yeah, except my kids aren’t so good with the dishes getting into (much less out of) the dishwasher. 😉
Looks like a great way to spend a day to me!
Tegan and Tage - I love “day in the life” posts. I do one each month on my little guy’s birthday day. So important to capture the “day to day” life. Mel from the Larson Lingo turned me on to 10-on-10 and it’s the same idea. If you haven’t checked out her posts on the 10th of each month I highly recommend them. 🙂
sara's art house - I LOVE your day in the life pics! Every single time you post I think- “now why didn’t I do a post like that? Such a good idea!”
Gina - great post! I love love love the picture of annie and waffles’ feet!!!!
Sarah @ For the Love of Naps - Love this post. I might copy it and do something similar…if I can think to pull ou tmy camera and capture the little moments. The things you captured are things that your children will love remembering because they are the everyday little things that make your family life unique.
Katie - That was sweet to see. I love seeing other people’s “real life”.
Julie - Love these shots! Great job of capturing the every day at the real levels too!
Julie
Michelle Whitlow - how funny, we had spaghetti for dinner yesterday too 🙂 Minus the meatballs…Lent 🙂
Tammy R - Love it!! Especially the feet and dog paw!
Shari Barnes - LOVE this… just PERFECT! I think I am going to challenge myself to capture a day in our life real soon!
MaryAZ - Awesome post! I am trying so hard to remember to value the everyday things & not just let the day get away from me…this a great reminder! (my favorite picture is your daughter & the dog “holding hands”!)
Toni :O) - You have a beautiful home and a beautiful family. Such blessings and this post made me so happy. I LOVE Waffle…wanna squeeze him he’s so cute!
Elise - “plain macaroni and with cheese” That’s my favorite too. 🙂
lucy - loved your pictures and was inspired to do it at my house and scrapbook it someday…..when all my 4 girls still at home are grown and gone……:)
AmyB - I seriously want to clone Waffle!! So cute!
Courtney Walsh - I am totally going to do this one day… more for myself than anything, to see all that I actually do! (I’ll make sure to plan it on a day when I’m not lounging around drinking coffee and reading magazines like I am today!)
ha
keely - This was great. I love seeing daddies and their kids. Just when my boys have had ENOUGH of their mommma (and vice versa), daddy walks through the door and everyone gets a second wind.
Lovely post.
Micah - You got a package in the mail!! Was it something fun???
Wendi - That was fun 🙂
purejoy - what a great memory to have. enjoyed hanging out with you today. love the pillows. love waffles. LOVE a long way gone. love that talby has good taste (mmmm ramen noodles!) love little girl and doggie toes. love that boys like to read. love me some daddy time. and audience participation after a meal?? i LOVE that!!
basically, love you, your blog, your photos, your joie de vivre. thanks for inviting me in for the day!
april walker - can i come live with you? i love all this family & fun! what awesome pictures of true home life 🙂 …and i would LOVE to hang out on the couch with waffle. he is just the cutest thing ever! lucky annie 🙂
Becky @ Farmgirl Paints - Great peek into your daily life. Looks like a life full of love:) Cute sunglasses!! I can’t believe you have the will power to make chocolate chip cookies and not eat any…you my dear are super woman:)
kbonikowsky - Is that a moth quilt on your couch? It is beautiful! If someone made it for you (or you did) I’d love to learn more!
a thorn among roses - love this…and now i dont feel so crazy!!
Sandy - Love it. Your days seem so peaceful and happy. You are creating wonderful childhood memories for your children. God bless you and your husband….and your children. 🙂
Dianne Avery - I loved this! Thanks for sharing your day with us. 🙂
CarrieBeth James - love love LOVE this. so beautiful 🙂
kelli - love it megan! thanks for the inspiration to catch an ordinary day around here in pictures too. i just saw a great video this week about this very thing… watch this with a couple of kleenex and then bookmark it for those rough days of mommy hood! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olSyCLJU3O0
jamie - REAL! Love it..No Words needed..
hattie - What a beautiful, loving family you have! You’re such a lucky lady!!!
amy jupin - one of my most favorite posts of all time.
Barb - What a perfectly wonderful snapshot of your life. Someday your kids will look back on this and thank you for recording it. Because they will forget what it was like in February 2010.
And now I want a cookie…
Tara @ the cinnamon post - FAB-U-LOUS. But missed your pretty face which is clearly behind the camera! Love this so much.
~Tara
katy - Love it! Have a colorful day Meg, I’m off to make myself do LOTS of housework. *smiles*
Dani - You and your family amaze me. Y’all seem so together. I love seeing the smiles on your kids face.
Krista - I enjoyed experiencing a “day in your life” through pictures. Thanks for putting a smile on my face today, I love love love your blog!
jeanne - Love this!!! Sweet day with all your gorgeous children!!!
Amber Zimmerman - I love this!! What happy memories. =)
Rebekah - Ah, those precious “everydays.” 🙂
paige - i love how you have the gift of making the simple ordinary moments of the day seem even more magical & grand!!
i know there are days when we all have to deal with stress & yuckies, but i love seeing all the smiles, hugs, messy heads of hair & sweet puppies in your day
xo
rhonda - It’s amazing how many times we load the disherwasher at our house. I glad we’re not alone. Thanks for sharing. Loved it.
Lisa - Wow that’s one day? I got tired just looking at the photos. How do you do it all?
Take care,
Lisa
Debra - That’s great post! What a happy, joyful, family!
Danielle @ Transforming Home - Beautiful photos, as always. Love this post.
Danielle
chelsea - I loved this! What a great idea. Your family seems like such a fun loving classic american crew! and don’t even get me started on your beautiful teenage daughter… yikes for you.
Kimberly - Ok you have crossed the line… you have polka dot sunglasses too! You didn’t even put those in your post about polka dots… but that’s ok I still loved seeing them this morning. There is just something about polka dots; I even love saying polka dots…. I tried on a pair of prescription glasses that had polka dots on them and I thought does Meg own a pair of these too?
Danielle - Love this post! What a great idea – it’s the simple things that make up a great life! Thanks!
Holly - so my kids are not the only ones that dont put the cap back on the toothpaste! Love it!
Nancy - it shows it all. lots of love and fun. what a great life. what a blessing.
Dana D@BoysMyJoys - Talby’s list made me want to reach right thru the screen and squeeze her. Especially the part about mashed “potadoes”- like you can hear her saying it or sounding it out. Sweetest thing ever! 🙂
Tonya - a day in a beautiful life…i need to do this…:)
Staci - Whew Girl 🙂 I’m tired just LOOKING at these pictures 😉 Loved this post 😉 and of course I loved Annie with her big smile bringing in the mail 🙂
Jules - That’s it right there! Those pictures shout happiness and love…something to be thankful for! I LOVE your blog! Have a fantabulous day!