Queen of Rambles

Five years of marriage! Aren’t we romantic? We celebrated by going to a farm themed birthday party and ended up getting utterly soaked on a hay ride.
I really wanted to put a compare/contrast photo up from the actual wedding, but five years of technology has not been kind. I had [...]

We just got the news that the seller accepted our contract!!!!
Hold the cake and ice cream, though.
Turns out it is not a bank owned property like we’d been led to believe. We’ve now entered short sale hell, a hell we were hoping against hope to avoid.
For those non-real estate buying types, it [...]

My heart sometimes breaks into tiny little pieces when I read a story over at Margie’s blog about sweet little Fae being picked on by the older kids. She’s a year older than Erik, so she has a little more freedom to run around.
Today, though, my heart broke into tiny little pieces right there [...]

I guess I’m going to have to start doing my nightly update in middle of the afternoon. I hate that, but I hate missing my small window of sewing time even more. Erik was up at 6 this morning, which is better than yesterday but in no way good. I know there [...]

These 5 am wake-up calls just aren’t working for me. I managed to make Erik lie down until 6, but that hour was not spent peacefully snoozing away. Instead, it was spent saying “hold still, go to sleep, it’s not morning” every five seconds while taking a kick to the kidneys. THIS [...]

If you ever get the chance to meet an internet friend after 6+ years of knowing each other, DO IT! I can’t recommend it highly enough! You know those awkward social situations where everyone is uncomfortable and you don’t know what to say and you just want to disappear? That doesn’t happen [...]

Dawn, T and Max arrived yesterday! As expected, we’ve been having a fabulous time chit chatting and watching the boys play together. This is going to be a very short entry because we’re about to go on a walk, but I had to give you a little picture tease.

We’re so bad, T [...]

I bought a web cam for myself for Mother’s Day. It was really a gift for my own mother, since I bought her one as well. The plan is for her to get to see Erik in real time and for Erik to get to know his Oregon family a little better. [...]

We’re having company this weekend and I’m using it as a liscense to eat sugar.
I want to make something with so much chocolatey goodness we all die from the overload and go to chocolate heaven. I can do a cheesecake, or brownies or cookies. But! Cake! My brain is [...]

I am going to be in bed in exactly 52 minutes. I’m not sure how I will accomplish such a feat, but it needs to be done. I’m just glad I remembered that there’s no Lost tonight! Now I can lay awake thinking of the plot instead of laying awake kicking myself [...]