Playdate???

Did I hear that there is a Pladate at the Pixie Palace???

 Oh Yeh! I LOVE Playdates!!!

Oh look at all the FUN things in there -- Ooh - I can't wait!!!

 Hello -- anyone home???  I wonder where everyone is????

 Did I hear someone coming???

Oh -- maybe they are over here.....

Oh -- were playing UNDER the playhouse???  Ok....

It sure is dark under here...

Thanks for the fun game of Hide and Seek! 

See you NEXT time!!

So, squirrels aren't necessarily my favorite animals, but I really don't mind the 4 or 5 grey squirrels that we have hanging out at our house. They run around and play -- eat the bird seed - and drive the dogs WILD -- but they are pretty fun to watch!  As I was stalking my favorite blogs this morning, I happened to look out at the playhouse and saw this squirrel just sitting there looking in.  He/she sat there for a long time, just looking -- I though for sure that it was going to go inside.  It never did, but it sure looked curious.  I thought it was the cutest thing!  I'm actually REALLY glad that it didn't go inside.  Like I said -- I think that they are fun to watch, but they really are dirty little things and I really don't want them to think the Pixie Palace is their home and settle in!

We had a very productive weekend....  Bobby worked more on his shed turned sauna -- it's coming along great -- there is even a place to sit now.  One more seat to go, a little trim and then the entry area and we will have a sauna...Yey -- then he can concentrate on Bode's tree house -- he is SOOO EXCITED! (Me too!)  He also got the dock in yesterday.  It's been so nice here (an ACTUAL SPRING -- I am over the moon!) we are excited to get on the lake!  My goal is to finish the boat house this summer.  I wonder if THIS is the year?????  I sure hope so!  We'll see how it goes!  Bobby even got to take the kids fishing on the dock yesterday -- they picked worms and headed down there --but according to Bode "we got skunked!"  Oh well - there will be plenty more opportunities.  Watch out fish!!  I worked on the basement most of the weekend.  I am so excited to have my craft room finished!  I am getting closer every day.  Most of the basement looks trashed -- but I am getting there -- I have about 9 big bags to go to Goodwill so far and I have tons to go.  It feels soooo good to declutter!  AND...I can't wait to walk into by nice clean, organized craft room -- ooh -- I get goosebumps just thinking about it!

Well - I'm off to finish some laundry and spiff up our abode.

love.....Mona

New Beginnings

That is a funny title... New Beginnings - are there OLD beginnings?  I'm not sure.  I guess you can THINK you are starting new but really just be doing the same thing again and again.  Who knows -- that's not really what this post is about - just what goes through my mind... no wonder it's hard to get anything done!


Anyhoo - who says anyhoo?  Oh boy... it's probably good I haven't written anything for so long....


I know that it's the MIDDLE of the 1st month of the new year, but I FINALLY have some resolutions... goals...aspirations....whatever you want to call them.... here goes....in no particular order.

REDO THE HOUSE

I really like this house -- even though Bobby built it to be a rental and it has NO closet space -- I'm good with that and now that we have our brand new garage and STORAGE space in the loft of the brand new garage - yipee -- I have somewhere to store all of our junk treasures.  HOWEVER, it's time to give our little house in the woods some charm.  LOTS of charm.  Oh, I have so many ideas - where to start.... maybe the kitchen!

ORGANIZE - DECLUTTER

This is a BIGGIE but it's going to be done...goodwill and ebay - here. I. come!  And hey, the dumpster will be full up!  This one is going to be a doosie.  I can't believe that I have saved EVERYTHING.
Every. Single. Thing.

Since Bode was born -- all their clothes, toys, magazines, artwork, e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g! SO SAD!

So very very sad.

NO MORE YELLING

Seriously...

who yells at their kids for yelling? 

who has lived her life incredibly scared of being yelled at but yet yells at her own children? 

ME

and let me tell you -- I am smarter than that!  I really am.

starting now -- RIGHT NOW -- let's all take a breath.  BREATHING is GOOD!

namaste (or whatever you say at yoga class -- I failed yoga class)

So there you have it.  I'll start with 3.... more might put me over the edge.  I have to start somewhere.

Even though I have these "resolutions" I really just wanted to have a mantra this year - a word to sum up everything (I hear it's the thing to do this year -- and I'm all about following the cool people). I'm WAY to wordy, chatty, etc. to have ONE word, but I pick BREATHE.  Breathing is good. Breathing can keep you calm.  Breathing means you are alive...that you are thriving. So I pick Breathe.

So, I am going to follow suit with my not so on time self and start now, the MIDDLE of the 1st month of the new year.

Oh - and I really do want to make every moment cout and enjoy life's simple pleasures and take more pictures and really play with the kids more and give and get more kisses (I'm pretty good at this already, but you really can't get enough kisses!) and keep up with the paperwork better and excercise and lose a bunch of weight and eat healthier and read more books and go on more dates with my mister and.....

 Wish me luck!

Here's a picture of the lovely Avery in front of our little home in the woods when she was about 3 years old.

just because.

love.....Mona