{Marshmallows}

are you a marshmallow person?

me? 

never...ever...

not even in hot chocolate and not even on a s'more.

i'll take the graham cracker and hershey bar solo any day.

melted in a rice krispie is about it for me.

 this is pretty much my only reason for keepin 'em in the house.

the best part is listening to her narrate as she builds.

i think she's heard her big sister making too many pretend rainbow loom and hair-do tutorials!:)

have a happy day,

cindy

{Weekending}

so how was your weekend?
saturday dave took janey on a grocery shopping date, then i took riley on a little shopping date.
we don't really buy anything, but looking at pretty things and trying things on with my girl is still the most fun. we are in such this crazy place with the girls and clothes.
things that fit are too young....and things they want don't fit.
will someone please start a better clothing line for tweens that isn't all glittery and sparkly.
cause glittery and sparkly we are not!:)

sunday dave left for a business trip.
the girls and i went out to breakfast at...wait for it...panera, then we popped into...wait for it...target for a few things.
yes we live in those two places.
they know us by name.:)

we came home for lunch then got busy with love day loveliness.
we never even decorated this year.
feeling pretty lame about that.
but still loving and snuggling and building these girls up daily.
feeling pretty great about that.

riley has three tests this week.
when it was time to sit down and study she wanted a few friends to come over and study with her.
when did she get so grown up?
studying with friends?
crazy.
but she asked them all to bring a doll to play with after so that made me feel better.:)


remember those 20's we had saturday?
gone!

another bone chilling day.
but the sun is out.
i'm laughing out loud and relating hard to this.
i'm listening to this.
and dreaming of this.

and feeling just fine.

have a warm, sunshiny day friends,

cindy

{Friday}

happy friday friends.

our drive to school today was a beautiful one.

crystal blue skies and that picture perfect covering of shiny bright snow.

but don't let those sunny skies fool ya...the van thermostat said -7.

yep.

you read that right.

but the sun was shining and to me that's all that matters.

got a call from a friends this am who needed to vent a little.

she's been having trouble with her tween daughter who is just a year older then riley.

boys.

emotions 

yes i said boys (!)

anger

unhappiness

tempers

ugh

this conversation made me sad and grateful all at the same time. sad certainly, for the pain they are going through. all of them. but so grateful that we are not in this place. now, i'm smart enough to know that we could be. very easily we could be. but it was such an eye opener to how easily things can change and a little reminder to continue every day to love and love and love and to keep those connections strong. read to them and snuggle them and pray for them and tuck them in every. single. night. even when you don't feel like it. cause someday, they may just grow tired of it. and oh how i'd miss it and long for it then.

mocha friday was good and this little one was a bundle of snuggly love.
as usual.
we talked about her day.
what made her happy.
what made her not so happy.
happy =  when i came to pick her up. :) oh and playing with rachel in housekeeping
sad =  rachel didn't let her napkin be "on top" at snack time again like she promised. ok...here's a perfect example of 4 year old issues...apparently her and rachel sit very close together at snack time and when they spread out their napkins they both keep lifting them up and up and up so that theirs can be the one on top when they lay them down on the table...are you still with me?  aubrey never gets to have her napkin on top. never. :) my offered suggestion of just keeping your napkin small and unfolded was quickly dismissed. what do i know?!:)

janey is off to a birthday party for twins in her class.
it's a sleepover and of course our little homebody wants nothing to do with that.
she's worried about being the only one who isn't sleeping over.
so of course that makes me worried too.
riley came with me to drop her off and leave it to my ever practical ever sensible 11 year old to reply in response to my worries and fears..."mom, that's just life...she'll be fine!" again. what do i know!:)

we ran into walgreens after dropping janey off to grab a few things and stumbled upon these.

if you ever see them in the store run.

run very fast.

and don't look back!:)

the weekend ahead looks beautiful.
warming up a bit.
that means like 20!
ha

have a happy weekend,

cindy