What the world needs now....

• is MORE cuddling on the couch for as long as we want INSTEAD of doing homework or laundry or anything responsible.

• is MORE nights of eating cold pizza while walking around the house (milo) or an english muffin with pb (me) for dinner.
• is more spontaneous dance parties.
  
• is more random bouts of sun streaming in my bedroom window at just the right time
• is more friends who will correct you when you incorrectly label trees as Cherry Blossom instead of Magnolia :) thanks sarah.
  
• is fewer cats. seriously. they're bad for my health.
  
• and MANY MORE beautiful posts from this beautiful soul.
  

What a day.

And on the agenda for tonight: watching the rest of Bolt with milo and (maybe) doing some work and (maybe) folding some laundry. And lots of blowing my nose. and sneezing.

ahhhhhhhh--- CHOOOOO!!

I like this picture so you're seeing it again.

I have been without my SD card adapter for a long time. We finally found it, in the washing machine :-/
But, lo! and behold! The thing still works!! So I bring you....
PICTURES! LOTS OF THEM!! AND MANY EXCLAMATION MARKS TO SHOW MY GENUINE EXCITEMENT!!!!!!!!! :-)

e-man and m-dawg. impossibly cute.

new 'do. (seriously? its been this long???)

I found his "people" like this. Clearly, a birthday party.

Easter morning, oh nine.

There are more, but I have laundry to fold, a sick baby to console and Dancing with the Stars to watch. so part two will have to be tomorrow. I still have to post Easter pictures. crikey. He was dapper, though, I'll tell you that ;-)

I have a habit of "blog-stalking". often, I can waste hours simply reading about other people's lives, gathering ideas, looking at pictures, crying and laughing with people i've never met.

some of my favorites:
nie nie (duh ;-) )
c*jane - nienie's sister - amazing, inspirational, theatrical, hilarious :)
Profoundly Seth
and accidently, kle helped me find this....

This woman gave me goosebumps :) - (have you seen her?!?)

am i a creep or what?? ;-)

most definitely delicious

I just texted the phrase "most definitely delicious" to a friend.

today was most definitely delicious.

school was....rough today. I'm quite certain my students had either
a) lost their minds completely or
b) been replaced by aliens from jupiter.

i'm actually quite certain it was the latter.

they. were. insane.

by lunchtime, 4 kids had been in 2 different fights (this is a NICE class, mind you, with NO fighting ever before), 2 kids were staying in for not doing their homework (both very smart, very "with-it" kids...usually. both informed me they "couldn't find it".) and 3 kids had been in tears. I was close.

boyohboy.

but my afternoon was absolutely delightful. milo and i spent TWO HOURS at the park with katie and kylie. he discovered sand. the sand discovered crevices I didn't even know existed.

then we came home

and grilled chicken. on the grill. outside. YUMMM-Oh!

and took a MUCH NEEDED shower. milo learned the word "beach" from our bathroom floor. yikes.

and now, I have a very soundly sleeping baby, a full tummy, a ready laptop, and a science book and social studies book open and ready for me to delve into and create some most delicious lesson plans.

oh yeah. and a brownie sundae.

most definitely delicious.

Color my world...

Spring has Sprung, indeed!

clockwise, from top left:
random tulip growing on the corner of our house
my favorite shell-turned-daisy necklace
our neighbor's beautiful cherry blossom tree

hyacinth! in my yard!
rolling, rolling, rolling down the hill
"colors"
grass. artist at work
easter basket brimming
rainbow of more tulips

better luck next time

i had something witty.

all ready, written in my head in snippets and fragments, ready to be melded and mushed into a witty little blog.

darn you, witty blog...you fickle little fiend.

it's gone. slipped back into my subconscious.....

darn.

better luck tomorrow ?