Sunday, August 28, 2011

Story Time



Coleman reading to his brothers.  Oh how I wish I could have been there to see this.  I love these cute little boys!!!

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Random Stuff....

Just ordered the vinyl to make these cute clipboards for my grandsons.  Jack's will be green and Lincoln's will be blue... I am excited to get started!!!
It is so fun seeing my boy with his boy!  At least in pictures.  I wish I could see it first-hand but you gotta take what you can get.  Thanks Kristine for posting so many cute  pictures of Owen on Twitter.  I hope you don't mind that I steal them.  I love this one!!  He looks so big.  By the time I see him again he will be 5 months old.
These two things I want and need for my bike.  I am still riding about 3x a week and loving it.  I want a pack to put my keys and phone in and some ID and also an odometer to tell how many miles I am riding and how many calories I am burning.


This is such a great idea to organize your ribbon.  Mine is thrown in a drawer so I am going to use this little organizer so there will be no more messy unrolled ribbon and I will have easy access to the colors I need for all my projects.  So simple and so cheap.  I love it!

It seems that I blog about cookies often.  What can I say - I love cookies, especially chocolate chip cookies.  I gave most of them away for thank you gifts to all my co-workers who helped me out during my stressful, crisis at work!!  I did eat a few myself and enjoyed every morsel dipped in a glass of ice cold milk...

I had dinner at my dear friend's Tim and Kathleen's this week.  She is such a good cook and I always love going to their house for dinner.  We had BBQ pork tenderloin that was so tender and juicy you could cut it with a fork, fresh baby green beans, delicious potato salad (different than any I had ever tasted) and fresh peaches.  Everything was  wonderful the food and the company.  Thanks Kath and Tim.  We always have some good laughs and they always pick me up when I am down.

Tuesday, August 16, 2011

Sunday, August 14, 2011

Just call me....


This past week at work has been a real challenge for me.  I don't know if I am just getting too old,  too slow or just plain burned out.  I don't think I have ever been so stressed at work in my life!  Everything had a Friday deadline and it seemed that there was no light at the end of a very dark tunnel.  By the end of the day I was so spent and so over it all that I went home and literally collapsed (except for the baby shower I had to go to and movie night with my friends) I was too tired to eat or think!  I had a headache every day and my neck and back were killing me.  I am so ready for this all to be over so I can retire and live the life of leisure.  One more fair season and I am done!  I just hope I make it through one more!  I feel like I am going to be the employee who gets up on the desk and starts throwing things and starts screaming and going ballistic and they have to carry me off in a strait jacket!  Soooo Wonder Woman I am not and I am okay with that believe me........

 
This will be me in 14-16 months!  Wish me luck I hope I make it that long. 

Friday, August 12, 2011

OWEN

He is getting so big.  I think I need to go visit him soon so we can snuggle!


Monday, August 1, 2011

I love my LBD

Little black dress

    
Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little black dress to the 1920s designs of Coco Chanel, intended to be long-lasting, versatile, affordable, accessible to the widest market possible and in a neutral color. Its ubiquity is such that it is often simply referred to as the "LBD."[
The "little black dress" is considered essential to a complete wardrobe by many women and fashion observers, who believe it a "rule of fashion" that every woman should own a simple, elegant black dress that can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion: for example, worn with a jacket and heels for daytime business wear or with more ornate jewelry and accessories for evening. Because it is meant to be a staple of the wardrobe for a number of years, the style of the little black dress ideally should be as simple as possible: a short black dress that is too clearly part of a trend would not qualify because it would soon appear dated.

 


Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in Breakfast at Tiffany's dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy
epitomized the standard for wearing little black dresses, accessorized with pearls, as was
frequently seen throughout the early 1960's.
This is the little black dress I bought a long time ago and it has never gone out of style.  I am happy that I can get into again.  I wore it to church Sunday with pearls and a pink cardigan.  In the winter I wear it with a white blouse and it turns into a jumper.  I love this dress.  It is so practical and can be worn with jackets, sweaters, pearls, pins, etc.  The possibilities are endless!  Everyone needs a LBD!!