Another one...

Here is the second crayon rainbow project. I used a slightly different technique...I think I like it even more than the first one.

After

I love the way this turned out! Now, I have to decide which direction to hang it...

Before

Art project I started today...while home with a sick Owen...after pic coming later today. so fun!

Breakfast for dinner!

Homemade, from scratch, pancakes
Fruit cocktail
Bacon on the grill
Eggs with cheese and pico de gallo

Yum!

Homework with a twist

Killed some trees today...

Holy copies Batman! These came in 18 overstuffed boxes today. Math mixed with science-sixth mixed with kinder... A mess for sure. But, now it's sorted & ready to go to the teachers. :)

Bobcat pin!

Lookie who just earned his first (tiger) boy scout pin! It's called the bobcat pin & he earned it by reciting the boy scout promise, motto, law of the pack, learning the boy scout handshake and sign & the meaning behind all of that. :) We are so proud of him!

Counting

Owen: Mom, help me count my balls!
...sorry! My inner 7th grade boy escaped... ;-) Lol!

Heartbroken

My sister wrote this beautiful poem.

She and her husband have been trying to have a baby (with assistance from the doctor's office). They were pregnant (twice now), but has since lost both babies. This second time, she even got to see a heartbeat ... and then, a week later... the baby was called home to Jesus. She goes in tomorrow for a d & c. By the way - her husband has been in Afghanistan this entire time... She's in Las Vegas... ALONE, dealing with this.  Please have your tissues ready while you read...

Not Yet Time (third/first person because that is how it feels)
by Rachel Karr (9-26-2011)

 Little Hope, Little Dream,
First Little One in my heart.
A little sorrow, a little pain,
Baby is a work of art.*
**
"Too soon," said the Painter.
"Too soon," said the Muse.
There's a time for receiving,
And a time to lose.*
**
"Come back to the fold!
Open the pearly gates!"
She's broken, She's torn;
She cries and she waits.*
**
An Angel in heaven
Thanks her daughter below,
The joy of Baby
Is for Grandma to know.*
**
"We'll hold this one for now;
We'll laugh and we'll play!
When baby is perfect
We'll send him your way."
**
Keep growing, keep laughing
My Dreams and my Hope.
I am waiting, I am grieving;
I'm learning to cope.*
**
"It's time!" will say Grandma
"It's time!" will say God.
Someday I'll meet Baby,
I'll be blessed, I'll be awed.*
**
"So dream little sleeper,"
She prays, she sings...
My Baby is in heaven
Growing his wings.*

Waiting on sleep and stuff from space

I had already been asleep for several hours when I suddenly woke up at 12:13. My first thought was, "really, body?! not going to stay asleep all night, AGAIN?!"

Then, I thought, "Hey! isn't that one satellite thing supposed to be visible about now, reentering the atmosphere?"

So, I got up and moseyed over to the computer and started doing research.

Which led me down that infernal rabbit hole...

Which is why I'm up and blogging at 3am.

Instead of sleeping.

I like sleep.

think I'll try again...

night!