Back to Normal (whatever that means)

Play-do, a new play vacuum cleaner (which she intensly pushes while frowning and saying

oh NO, vewwwy diwty. no no sadie), dress up, singing and dancing,

arts and crafts, phone conversations with my sweet friend Sarah, whose husband Nick

left too..Hey Sarah, you blog stalker you! hehhhe

Learning to make our beds, water the flowers,

inspecting the birds nest in the fern on the front porch,

these are all the things keeping us busy.

And wine and scrapbooking help after the wee ones are in bed,

I won’t lie.

Harper keeps saying “Harper go Afghanistan?”

which sounds like “hahpah go ahh gann ih sannnn?”

And that kind of breaks my heart, but it’s okay b/c I’m pretty sure she thinks

Whataburger is Afghanistan. 

We stopped there to pick up a burger on the way to drop J off and she said

“OH!! ahh gann ih sannn!!!”

Okay harper, yes, that is Afghanistan.

Heee. I kind of wish I  thought that’s where he was.

Much less scary.

But he might come back with a major belly in that case.

The way J works though? He eats bad every once in a while, 

wakes up and runs like a zillion miles,

and his belly is gone.

Makes me sick. Hmmmph.

Anyway…

Things are okay. Got an email from him last night from wherever he is…

On the way to wherever exactly it is he’s going.

He sounded tired but good.

You know that 2nd picture in the last post?

The one where he looks like he is about to cry?

Well, I went back to look at that “roll” to try to figure out what he was thinking about…

and this was the photo before that one:

ACK! Talk about lump in the throat.

I can’t even believe I accidentally captured such a real, private moment.

See, this is what I love about this hobby.

It has made me look at things in a new light.

This is on the girls’ ceiling:

We made it the other day…a link for each month he is gone.

Harper loves it.

I, on the other hand will love it when it’s about 14 links shorther.

THEN it will be fun.

J recorded some of the girls’ favorite bed time stories

before he left and the chickies watched them for the first time last night:

Harper cracks me up in that first one. She’s like 

“WHAT THE????” she was so excited and kept kissing the screen.

Sadie, as always, was baffled.

I snapped these quickly and promptly left the room.

As Harper says “No Mommy CRY!! Face MESSY!!!”.

So, that’s about it.

I do want to share some crafty randomness…

I bought some Real Simple goodies at Target the other day,

they were on sale so I got the address book and agenda…

I’ve been wanting them forever.

Of course I had to embellish them…

I’m obsessed with the Basic Grey Sultry Chip Stickers

I’ve been using them on everything since I got them months ago.

Here’s the simple way I dressed the books up:

 

I’ve also done a couple of layouts. I have a feeling I’ll do a TON of layouts over the next 15 months.

There’s nothing else for me to do after the girls go to bed and i don’t want to 

sit still for one moment. 

 

Hope you all have a beautiful weekend.

I want to tell you again how much your words of encouragement have meant to me,

here, at 2peas, and at Studio Calico.

I’ve printed all of your sweet comments and I will look at them often.

Thank you. That’s not even close to being enough, those two words,

but still.

xoxoxo

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