Valentine Making

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Thank you to all the cool ladies that joined creative forces and produced beautiful, quirky, heartfelt valentines. "RUSH me to the {hotel} room" "Will you be my monkey?" and "Tickle Tim the Talking Pickle" were some of the fine sentiments shared. Now I'm working with the boys on valentines for their classroom party. They are supposed to be left without names, no "for" only "from". But Max has one gal in mind...Maeve. He wants her to get the one with "kissy lips" and hot lava. MEOW. I heart young love...

I C U ! DO U C ME?

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These super rad sunglasses came courtesy of the eye doctor, in their first visit, which lasted a record 2 h. 20 min. in an afternoon without a nap. Oh yeah, and they had their eyes dilated. I have bruises on my shins from Beck's massive physical resistance to the drops. The visit was a referrel from their physical last spring. Yes, I put it off that long...sorry? I didn't really want to deal with the possibility of glasses during summer and new school. I know that's lame, but whatev. So finally we went. And. They have crazy awesome perfect little healthy eyeballs. Pray it keeps, because my vision sucks!

Final Gem: When the Dr. asked Beck if he goes by any other name or would like to be called something else, he took a great pause, and said "Bumblebee".

What I Didn't Buy Today


I don't believe I've mentioned Simply Lovely, a gem of a site that I discovered in some of my blog wandering. Again, on the theme of consumption, author/hostess Joslyn has this little thing going called "The Spending Hiatus." I've joined the support group, so now I can post things like "What I Didn't Buy" which will still serve my consumption drive (in a virtual sense) and inspire me to spend some time reflecting on all the things I'm doing, instead of buying. Like experiencing the WiiFit while my whole family sits there and watches me...doing a tree pose...getting soccer balls and shoes thrown at me...crashing on a ski slope. Yeah, that's quality family time baby. Welcome to unprecedented times.

But dammit, Paper Voodoo would have come in really handy today...