Sometimes I am to busy to wonder if I am crazy...

The living room is covered in clean laundry which needs to be put away, there is another load in the dryer needing to be folded. The kitchen is still a mess from lunch because I forgot I had a lab and had to dash off in the middle of things. Ella is "calling" to me from her crib where I have confined her till she will take a nap. I have not started dinner and I just remembered I have a paper due in my English class tomorrow.

Going to school and having a family. I don't know how women with more than one kid do it. I don't even know how I do it. Not to complain, well, maybe I am complaining a bit.

Sigh.

On the flip side. My wonderful husband has folded half of the laundry for while I was at my lab even though he has a migraine.

I love that man.

New Do

I have highlights!



You cant really see them in these pictures but they are there and they look GOOD! At least Charles thinks so and that's all that's what matters to me. :)

Wait...what?

So, usually when things cool down and it starts to snow I turn on some Christmas tunes. I just cant help myself, December is to far away to wait. Charles usually makes a face or says some pert comment on how it isn't even Halloween. Whatever. But guess who turned it on today...













Charles.


Yeah I know, WEIRD.

In aww of nature

Either that or she is wondering who painted the lawn white.

Welcome to winter

This is what we woke up to this morning.

Flakes were still drifting from down when I took Charles to school. As I took Ella out of the car at the library she looked up in wonder. She has never seen anything like this before. As much as I complain about cold weather, there is something magical about the first snowfall. When you stand under the sky the flakes wrap you in a blanket of white, the world seems to stand still listening to the whisper of the snow landing on the tree branches.

I really do love it.

Fall and all its joys

Things have been a bit busy here in the north(pole). I keep taking pictures of things I want to blog about, but I never seem to have the time to put them up. So this is kind of a concentrate post of what we have done this fall. I say that like fall is almost over. Why? Because we have a snowstorm on the way, the wind is trying to knock the house over right now, and I am bundled up in a thick comforter because my house is freezing cold.
Ella is keeping us on our toes by getting into everything possible. She certainly has a mind of her own and sometimes doesn't understand why we wont do things her way. For example, we went to Walmart to get a ceramic space heater (did I mention it has been cold?) Ella did not want to ride in the shopping cart. Instead she wanted me to help her walk around the store. Cute? well, yes, it was cute to see her big step around the aisle, but I wasn't about to break my back bending over to help her walk just then. I do it at home but there is something about crazy college kids careening around with shopping carts that make me nervous.
She also has decided that she loves to eat dirt. We spent the last few warm days outside drinking in the sunshine. I was weeding and Ella was crawling around stuffing various twigs, leaves and dirt clods into her little mouth. Don't you just love simple pleasures of life?

Let me just tell you

it is a LOT harder to work out in the cold and rain.

We shall see how long I last, I think I am going to start using the school gym.