Doing it all, while reading The Book Thief

It was a busy week around here, on Monday I wondered it how I was going to get through it.
***A Small Detail***
- CJL has been in Europe since Saturday

He is the guy who gets us out the door on time for church, because he irons all the kids clothes Saturday night. And he doesn't take any crap on Sunday mornings. I am the girl who waits until Sunday morning to iron, and then it's too late.
p.s. He ironed all the clothes before he left for the airport and we were still late... but just a little.

***The Book Thief is on my brain***
- I read it in 2 days for Book Group
(thanks Jill though I don't think you read this blog very much)
- It is written with alot of bolded groups of info like this

Instead I slept by a sock rice bag this week. Do you have one of those?? Mine is a white sock full of rice, with the top of the sock tied in a knot. It is a little stained up because I put it in the microwave once when the tray was dirty in the sink, so the rice inside didn't rotate and got a little scorched, and left some yellow stuff on the sock. It looks like sweat, but it isn't. My feet rarely sweat, because they are usually cold (except now that I have some really warm shearling boots from costco, they are so toasty).

I was laying with my little rice bag last night giggling because I was imagining a video montage with me and the rice bag. I am too tired, and don't know how, to create a video montage, but it tickled my funny bone to think of pictures of me and my little friend, doing things together... like making dinner, giving the kids a bath, it riding in the front seat while I take the kids to school, and then especially laying by me on CJL's pillow. I don't have a good song yet, but it will come to me, I'm sure it will.

***How do some people do everything??***

-I think they never sleep.


Joni, I made your crock pot brownie cake and it was warm and melty and delicious with vanilla ice cream, and I also doubled the recipe so there is plenty for breakfast tomorrow.

***A small announcement***
- I am going to bed, after I eat a little more
brownie cake. goodnight.

Pretty Much the Cutest Thing I've Ever Seen

...Except for piggy tails!

Berry Hill Farm

The weekend before we got sick we drove up to Berry Hill Farm in Ramsey. Ethan had a fever the day we went, but with motrin he perked up, so we went anyway. Little did we know what was in store for us, and I wonder how Ethan made it through this day, he is such a good sport. If we had any idea what was brewing we would have stayed home all weekend, if anything just to avoid spreading what we had! Hindsight is 20/20 I guess. I am still learning how to use my new camera, and most of the pictures I took were really blurry. Looking at them now, I think it was an aperature/fine focus problem. I have ALOT to learn, but it is exciting to get even a few good shots out of the many I have been taking. I am not saying that these are good shots, they are just the best of the worst! My shadow is in most of them! Augh!

On these last two I was panning Eli as he ran. Kind of fun to see the differences in focus.