Adventures with Dragons

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Books, Jasper Fforde, Prayers

It’s a muggy, rainy, hot spring evening and the TV and the Facebook and all sources of outside information are filled with bad news and sadness and worry. My prayers are going out for all the people in the areas of those tornadoes in Oklahoma City and Texas.

With a heavy heart, I’m heading to bed and escaping into this book:
Jasper Fforde is great at creating worlds that one can visit just by reading. In fact, his Thursday Next series depends on that! I highly recommend any of his books.

What are you reading tonight?

Adventures with Cars

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Connor, nap, cars, DIY

Connor got some Chuck and Friends cars and tracks for his birthday and he is obsessed. “Wanna play cars?”

It was a rainy, sleepy day of rest, but all he wanted to do was play cars. So we did.

Also, wanted to show you my bathroom update!

Now I just need to get some things on the walls. Happy Sunday!

Adventures at the Zoo

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Toddler, Connor, grace, Family, Zoo

We took a little trip to visit the Franklin Park Zoo today! It was our first visit to this zoo and Connors first visit to any zoo – it was a success! We were very happy with the zoo. If you are in the Boston area, and want to do something kid-friendly, I recommend it. It’s not too big, so you can see everything without getting footsore and exhausted. There is a huge, huge playground that seemed to be a big hit with every kid, including Connor. There’s a good variety of animals – we liked the kangaroos, ostriches, zebras, gorillas, leopard, tigers, ocelot, peacock, and giraffe. There were so many more, too. Even the little snack bar had decent food.

It was a perfect day. Nice weather, fun adventure. Lots of happy smiles. My word for today (like many days) is grace. I just am breathing grace into my innermost being. Accepting the gift from Him, despite my imperfectness, brokenness, flaws, etc. Grace. That’s what it’s for. I can’t fix me, but he’s already provided that grace.

Adventures on a Half Day

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Toddler, Connor, Family, Zoo

Friday! Half day! I must have missed the memo for skip day since it seemed like there was less than half staff at work today. Whipped out of there like a shot as soon as I could and joined half the family at the mall for lunch and a little shopping. The other half was working on housey buildy type stuff. They were still working when we got back.

Connor’s crib has been converted to a big boy bed! He loves it and sleeps so well in it!
He is growing up so quickly! I guess that’s how it works. He is just so much fun and makes life more fun! His favorite word is “yup!” He is ready for almost anything.

We are going to the zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow, zoo tomorrow. We are going to the zoo tomorrow and we can stay all day.
We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo. How about you, you, you? You can come too, too, too. We’re going to the zoo, zoo, zoo.

It’s not often that we can sing that song and its true! It is!

Adventures with the Office

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Goodbye, The Office

Said goodbye to the office tonight. Oh I shed a few tears and lots of chuckles. I’ve really enjoyed the series. I was watching the characters say goodbye to one another, and I couldn’t help but think of my own office mates. The sad thing is I’ve already said goodbye to so many. I find myself wishing I was not there more often lately, but like Andy reminded me, we don’t know we’re living in the good old days until we leave them. I don’t know what’s going to happen with my job, but I may as well learn to enjoy the days I’ve got!

Adventures with Butterflies

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Toddler, Connor, Butterfly, Museum

We took Connor to a butterfly conservatory today. It was wonderful! I was a tiny bit nervous – not because I’m afraid of butterflies, but because all the flitting and flying make me flinch and twitch. But I got used to it right away. There were thousands of butterflies flying around in a tropical-like greenhouse. They also had fish, turtles, birds, lizards, and other reptiles.

Adventures at a Mickey Birthday Party

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Birthday, Connor, Mickey, Toddler, Two Years

Meeska, mooska, Mickey Mouse!

Chocolate cake, vanillas frosting, chocolate cookie crumbs! Delicious with ice cream! We also had Mickey’s Hot Diggity Dogs, Minnie’s Minniestronie Soup, Pluto’s (Not Dog) Biscuits, Donald’s Gooey Fish, Goofy’s Baloney Sandwiches, and Daisy’s Duck Food. Everything was a big hit, especially Erin’s homemade soup and the cake (I made it, with help from Meemaw and Nana). Connor loved everything! He got a bike, a table and chairs, toys, clothes, movies, snacks! It was so fun!

I can’t believe he is two years old!

Adventures in Party Prep

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Toddler, Connor, Family, Party, Slide

Tomorrow is Connor’s birthday! The whole family is in town to celebrate. We crammed around the table for some take out burgers.

Connor invented a Meemaw slide.

Two days off work now to party and hang with the fam! I’m excited!

Adventures with Mothers

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Toddler, Connor, Mother's Day

Someone has been in my closet! Must be the toddler.
Happy Mothers Day!

A few shots of our Mother’s Day brunch. It was a lovely day. I wish I didn’t feel so crappy and full of snot!

P.S. Aunt’s Day is July 26th!

Adventures in Green Paint

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Bathroom, Painting, Primer

Still coughing and hacking, and speaking more than a few sentences in a row leaves me breathless, but it won’t keep me down. Meemaw and Gimpy are in town! Gimpy went full steam ahead on the bathroom project. We painted with a tinted primer first then the dark olive green color. The color I picked looked awful against the bright color of the primer. But once that clashing color was covered up, the dark olive looks nice. I’ll get more shots tomorrow of the finished project. We also laid down some tile (the quick adhesive vinyl kind) and took out the old toilet. New toilet goes in tomorrow! So excited. The old one was at the point of having to reach into the tank to make it stop running every time it was flushed.

Connor sure was excited to have Gimpy here!