How Much Is Too Much?

1 bowl of Heart to Heart with large handful of blueberries + 1 stawberry / banana smoothie + 1 fruit and nut granola bar + 2 slice of veggie pizza + 1 package of honey mustard pretzel nuggets finally ='s one satiated belly. And it is only 12:00.

Reminds of that time I was home in TX and I had a couple of friends visiting in the same day at different times. That day I consumed a stack of Dad's applesauce pancakes, Grandmom's Sunday dinner (roast, okra, rolls, fruit salad), AND a monster burrito from Freebirds! Makes me want to relive that day and take a nap at the same time.

Wonder what Matt is cookin' up for dinner?

Raise Your Hand

If you've ever messed up instant pudding? Anyone with me? Anyone?

Glad to report that 3 hours of soaking, 30 minutes of scrubbing, and 2 SOS pads later, the pot has been restored to its original shine and lustre. Phew.

Aahhh.

I am digging the new blog template feature. Or maybe it isn't new but just newly discovered by me. A breath of fresh air it is.

Now

I love this time of day on a Saturday - Brantley is napping peacefully, Matt is at the farm getting some pent up stir craziness out, and I get me time. Thanks to my neighbor Abby I now have *i*Tunes* to keep me happy during me time. I have had an *i*Pod* for years now with a whopping 7 songs on it - 7 songs that we played over and over again. Now a whole new world has opened up and I am lovin' it! Abby left me with a stack of CDs to download - most of the music I would never purchase on my own but I am so happy to get to add it to my growing collection. Currently getting mushy listening to Marc Cohn's True Companion - ahhhh.

My other newly discovered love are books on CD- at least this book on CD: The Help. I cannot wait to get in the car by myself so I can listen to it. Bliss.

With the weather hot as blazes, about the only thing we can do outside is eat popsicles on the front porch. We were using popsicles as a reward for pooping on the potty but I swear she started creating poop from nothing just to get one. And now that I am fully addicted to them myself, the only thing she has to do to get one is pass a bathroom. Oh, B walked by a potty? Popsicles all around!! I seriously love this time on the front porch with the dogs running around and B constantly asking me to make her more juice. Bare feet, sweating, the pure joy on her face. Sometimes we get lucky and a massive thunderstorm will roll through. Then we get the added bonus of screaming every time a big boomer roars. Yesterday I literally jumped 2 feet in the air - kind of like that time with Doug and the armadillo...

Now is good.

These Faces

These little people...

reminded us all of what this man...

helped create. And spread a little joy when our hearts were breaking from having to say good-bye to him too soon.

I've learned that some of my best memories are made during the saddest times of my life. Maybe because that is one of the two circumstances when my whole family gathers together. This picture, for instance, is one of my all time favorites - taken on the playground of Houston Hospice.

Nammy really needed that kiss right then. I'm glad B was there to give it to her.

Easter

Glorious weather, glorious time with family, glorious time sowing some seeds, glory be to God.

The Beautiful and The EEEEKK!!

The Beautiful:

The EEEEKKK!

Brantley found this guy enjoying his dinner on our front walk. I am trying to find my big girl panties but am not having much luck.