Wit and Wisdom from a 2 year old

Here is a bit of wisdom from the wilderness explorer to you. She is pictured here with a large icicle before they all melted away. It was a sword and a unicorn horn. Oh the imagination!

Lylah: Mommy, I don't like rats.
Me: You don't? Why not?
Lylah: Because they have stinky, smelly bottoms.

Lylah: Did you know there's a baby in my tummy?
Me: Really?
Lylah: oh, yes! It is growing and growing and I can't wait to show it to you. And I am so excited for you to love it too. I will change the poopy diapers and feed her bottles, too.
Me: Oh, well I can't wait to see it. Does your baby have a name?
Lylah: Oh yes! It is Orange Blossom. She is pink and tiny. Daddy has a baby in his tummy too. His baby is black. Watch how I drink my chocolate mink and my baby drank it too.

We ate at Arby's for supper the other night. After dinner she said...
Lylah: Did we eat roast beef?
Glen: Yes we did. Wasn't it yummy?
Lylah: Oh yes! And Daddy, do the piggies eat roast beef?
Glen: Yes. And then they cry "weee, wee, weee" all the way home.
Lylah: Oh. Daddy, you're a pig.
(then we all laughed--Lylah because she made a funny joke and us because it really was pretty funny)


Lylah: Mommy, do you know how babies come out of their mommy's tummy?
Me: (yes I do but what is she going to say) How?
Lylah: They climb out with a ladder and jump onto a pillow and then jump to their mommies. Just like that!
Babies are her favorite topic right now. She does some fancy mothering around here. Sweet. She read her baby all of the Mother Goose rhymes from a book at the top of her voice today. Babies love that, I understand.


Good times at our house. There are so many other funnies...but you really have to see them happen to appreciate them. And then there's the the 'bore them to tears' factor that will keep me from telling too many more. Sometimes "enough is as good as a feast," as Mary Poppins would say.

I posted today after saying I was taking a break. But, really I will be taking a small break. See you soon.

My Little Cuppy-Cakes

I bought my own thing at UCP's silent auction. Some thought I just could not let my little cakes go, but that was not wholly the case.

It was for a good cause. And I thought I might try to see if I could sell them on ETSY.

I was not about to let my little cupcakes, that I never got a picture of, go for only $17 dollars.

So I am now the proud owner of the cupcakes... again. I figured they could could be my first items for sale.

Wanna see them?!!

I want to show them to you.



Hear they are as a set in the box.













And there you have it. I made 4 cupcakes with 4 mix-and-match icing tops.

But I don't know what to do. I need some advice. Should I sell them as a set? Set of 2? Set of 4? Or should I try to sell them individually? They are all able to stand alone and are stuffed very firmly with reinforced sides. So they are structurally sound.

What about the pictures? Are they OK looking to you? Help me folks! I am too close to see it.

I got a business card (idea)together too. I will show you when I perfect it for the shop banner and product tags. I am on the verge of really getting this thing going! Yippee!

Please give me advice on what to do. I promise I will make my own choices in the future rather than bug you with details...I am tentative because I am a "newbie." Help the newbie.

Workin'

I have been working like a dog the past week getting ready for my work's #1 fund raiser of the year.  We have a chili cook-off and silent auction.  I chose to donate handmade, felt cup cakes. I worked and worked on them, going through several icing styles and perfecting the cupcake shape.  I even made a box to store them in.  I used Mod Podge for the first time.  (Where has it been all my life?!!)  It all turned out well and I was pleased with the final product.

Wanna see it?


Too bad.

  I was in such a rush to get them completed and wrapped up for the silent auction that I forgot to take even one picture.  I seriously can't believe it did that. 

Oh well.  I will have to make more, I guess.  I will be putting them in my ETSY shop...coming within the next month.  I have some things to put in it now and a gigantic backlog of ideas that I have been holding on to. 

I can't seem to be able to fit in all that I want to do crafty-wise and blog-wise and just living day to day and make it all work.

It has been a tough week too.  Doing a lot of thinking.  Making some hard choices.  Changing my plans and trying to follow the words I read in Phillipians this week.  I am trying to pray rather than be anxious.  I think things and then I have to make the effort to pray them out rather than worry.  I think that is what the verse is trying to tell me to do. 

I thought I would check in.  But I am not sure how often I will post in the next week or two.  I really do have  a lot to work through and several projects that need attention around the house.  So, if you made it to the end of this boring post, thanks, and I will be back in a few weeks.  Toot-a-loo!

Intentional Tuesday

I am going to make a regular post for Intentional Tuesday. Maybe I will get crafty and create a button for the blog...but for now, I just intent to be intentional. 

I have recently gotten back from the big party.  I've been there before.  Maybe you have too. Which one, you ask?  Were you invited, you say?  It was the big pity party, and yes, if you were around me, you were invited to join.  Sorry to those who have been a part of the festivities.  Really.

But I am no longer there.  I am here.  Here where I have been many, many times before.  Here where I say that I am making some changes in my life.  But today there is a huge difference.  Huge.

You see, in the past, when I say I am going to make changes I may say one or two out loud to people and I may write down a few, but that is not what I really mean.  What I really mean is that I am not changing one, or even a few, things.  I mean that I must change everything about who I am...right now, today.   From this day forth I will be completely different in all the ways that matter.  I will pray more, read my Bible more, eat less, eat better, be better to my husband, be a better mom, be a better friend, be a better teacher, exercise, get up early, clean the house daily, like a champ, journal, craft, blog....  You get the picture.

Not this time.  Nope.  This time I am going to be intentional about one thing.  I am going to read my Bible and I am going to pray...every day.

I spoke to a friend tonight that I have not spoken to in a few years.  She is one of the most wonderful people I know, and a true friend. You know, the kind that can tell you like it is with great love and you can hear it.  She encouraged me to just do the one thing.  Read and Pray daily.  There was a whole lot more to the conversation, but the point is that I don't have to change everything all at once.  I don't have to change any of it at all.    In fact, I can't.   I can't.   The only one who can is Jesus.  He will do the changing little by little.  From glory to glory for his sake.  I am only making a choice to be willing to do the one thing and to be honest.

How is this for honesty?  Truth is...I lost my Bible...a long time ago.  Well I was not the one who lost it, but it got lost. (He will say otherwise-but he is telling fibs if he does.)  And so I do not have one.  There is one (or maybe two) around here somewhere, though.  I will find one and use it.      One more thing...I really have no hunger for the word.  But I have a desire for a hunger, and I will be praying that it will be answered.  And I know it will.

I have been a believer for most of my life.  I know the things that I have written are not new ideas nor are they new to me or even, in part, to this blog.  I have been told these things by people who love me and whom I love.  I have chosen not to live intentionally up until now.  But tonight it is real and it is alive in me.   I cannot do it in my own strength.  I need to pray and believe that God can do all things.  I know God is real and I know he loves me.  I also know that I cannot stay, I cannot live, where I have been living. 

Intentional Tuesday #1:  Read my (or any) Bible and Pray.     No more tomorrows.  Only one thing.  Just the one thing.  Join me?

Wish Granted!

I am doing the no school dance (since they called it off tonight instead of waiting for tomorrow morning) and getting ready to watch Emma since I have no NEED to go to bed.  We have no school and we HAVE power in spite of snow and a little ice.  I love snow days!  Yippee!!

 

Our little snowman got a bit more snow.  If you look back at the post where he was pictured for the first time you can see that he has about a foot of drifted snow all around his bottom half.  

It looks like something is looking at me from the porch with glowing eyes...do you see it.  I was almost wigged out,  but then I remembered that Glen's tennis shoes are on the porch and my flash was hitting the reflectors.  Whew!! 

On to Emma...Don't you just love Masterpiece Theater!? Thanks PBS on line and my dear friend Amy for telling me I could see it that way.  I am happy not to have cable, but some things I really don't want to miss.  Glad to have friends in the know.  Emma, here I come.

Coming Soon

I have a list of project to accomplish.  I will give you a few sneak peeks of some befores.  I am even thinking of possibly showing you my pit of a craft room.  Don't hold your breath on that one though.  I am too ashamed of the mess right now.  I know everyone's craft room is a mess at times...but you have NO IDEA.  Maybe if I play it so much as a horror, then you will say it's not so bad IF you see it.  But then again you may say, "Whew!  She wasn't joking about the pit." I'm stil thinking.  But the craft room is a biggie I am working on.  

I will show you one project I am pretty excited about.

 

Here is Lylah's big girl bed.  

 

Here is a close up of the headboard.

I saw it at an antique mall in town and mentioned to Glen's parents that I thought this might just be the bed I was looking for.  They said they would help us out with it, but then Grandpa changed his mind and bought it for us.  You will have to see the previous post about Lylah and the grandparents.  She would have the world if our parents could somehow get it for her.  We are very thankful.  It will be so pretty.  

I could not get a really good picture because it's very late and we have only "mood lighting" around here (and my flash is crazy).  But if I had a better picture to show you, you would see that the finish is not so stellar and is a little streaked and glopy.  But the bed is VERY solid and very sturdy with wooden side rails, high headboard, and low footboard.  I love the carving and I think it will be darling in white..or maybe pink or yellow.  I will say white will win, but you never can tell.

So there you have the before pictures.  The after pictures will include fun sheets, mommy-made bed spread and pillows, and a grown up preschool bedroom with a retro feel.  My goal is to have it done by her birthday.  She is fine in the crib, but by three she should be in a big bed, I guess.  

It will be fun and I am dreaming of her new space every waking moment.  I am obsessed.  Can't help it.

Now I feel like I better make a list and sketch some stuff.  If the mood strikes, I gotta go with it. 

Light Dusting of Snow...

Friday's forecast said a light dusting of snow was expected.  After about an hour of sleet and big snow flakes and then almost white-out conditions and a lot of snow accumulation, the forecast was changed...Winter Weather Advisory.  School was called off early for the day and the roads were slick. I drove a lot in them.  Skidded right past the entrance to work in slow motion.    But the snow was BEAUTIFUL.  It was fluffy and covered everything like a cotton batting.  By the time I got home, the temp was rising and the 5 to 6 inches of snow on the ground was perfect for snowman building.

  We live on a very busy street and they plow it well, eventually, but they always plow our driveway closed.  Since we drive  a car with no ground clearance and cannot power over the mountain of snow, there is no way to get in unless I shovel the snow wall away. (Lylah helped do the top of the drive with a spoon.  Very excited to be so grown up.)

After I shoveled the drive so I could pull the car in, we made a snowman.

 

He had shrub clippings for hair, Lylah's broken sunglasses for eyes, a carrot nose(of course), and a stylish scarf ( tied on the way Oprah told us all to do)

 

I stuck the nose in and she got a nibble (2 really) stinker!

 

She shook its hand

 

She kissed it.

 

She stood by it for 1/4 second

 

She finally chose to allow the frozen strawberries we brought outside for the mouth to be placed on the snowman.

 

Then she thought she better eat the berries instead.

This is how the snowman looked on Saturday.  A little bit tired.

I wish I had pictures of all the snowmen around town.  There seemed to be one in every other yard.

We are now getting ready for a snow and ice storm to begin late tonight and get worse as the day goes on tomorrow.  I am hoping for it to be bad enough to call off school on Monday but not bad enough to loose power.  

Fingers crossed!!

Beautiful Fairy Princess

We now live with a beautiful fairy princess. Lylah has been obsessed  with my make up and always wants to try a little.  She has also been delighted in nail polish.  We knew she would love a little make up kit of her own.  The other night I found one.  A Barbie make up kit with a huge amount of little girl beautification enhancers.  She was so thrilled to get it.  The lady at the check out said, "Have a good night," and Lylah said, "oh, I will. Thank you."  She thanked me about 100 times on the drive home too.  She tried it out as soon as we walked in the door.

There were hair pieces with beads, 4 little bottles of glitter glue posing as nail polish, tiny purple and orange lipsticks, glittery fragrances, eye shadows, lip glosses, stick on ear rings, stick on nails, 2 hair clips, 2 bracelets, a pink star ring, and the best thing ever, a pink necklace with a heart locket.  All of it smelled like an old lady and she was IN LOVE with it all.  She wore it all at once that first night and has played with it carefully and faithfully every waking moment since.

She said she would be married now because she had a ring.

She said she was a beautiful princess.

She has demonstrated how she can put the nail polish on all by herself and then blows on her hands and feet.  She has applied it about 400 times.

She can put the lovelies on Daddy and he is beautiful too. She even offered to let daddy wear the hair pieces and purple sparkle body glitter for work.  He told her that he was not allowed to look so beautiful at work.  She was happy enough for Daddy to be beautiful at home.  Good Daddy. 

Her lipstick application is a sight.  Her top lip only gets the color.  It is applied from the lip all the way up to the nose and then across the face to about mid-cheek. 

It's "real nice". 

Here is a picture of my Pretty Princess in her fist moments of glory. 

 

better shot of her purple glitter cheek and sitting with Daddy

 

Her make up is waiting for her even now.  She has placed it in a very special and safe spot on the door knob of her closet door.  I am sure she will go for it first thing tomorrow morning.  "Don't you just love to be beautiful in glitter, Mommy?"

 

 Notice the hint of eye shadow on her forehead and the shimmer around her cheeks?  You can't miss the joy on her face.  Love it.

Crazy Baker

Today Lylah got to go over to Grammy and Papa Jones' house for the night while Glen and I went out on a real date.  She was so excited over the prospect of going to their house that she was a silly thing all morning.  All of Glen's family (pretty much) have birthdays clustered in the Winter months, so we have been  having a Birthday celebration pretty much every time we go for a visit lately.  When Lylah heard she would be going to Grammy and Papa's house with Aunt Lori,  she thought party.  Party means cake!  So this morning she chose clothes to wear around the house and got dressed.  Then she ran to her kitchen and got all the things she needed to make a cake for the party.  She was having a fun time baking and singing "Pat-A-Cake".  Glen and I laughed and laughed at her get up.

 

front view:  Too small sweater, winter hat, painted nails, 

red apron, and cake supplies ( juice, a pot, and a spoon)

 

 Back view:  Too small sweater, winter hat, apron,

princess undies, and knee high socks

Crazy, No!?

PS  When Grandpa Jones was out getting the shopping done, he came across a tiny two layered cake with pink icing and roses.  He bought it.  So Lylah got cake. Her wish is their command.   It all comes from being too cute.  Grandma and Grandpa stand no chance. 

Mommy's Party Animal

We had all of our Valentine's Day party hoopla this past week for school.   The parties (all four) went well and the friends all had fun.  My morning class was only a little disappointed to decorate cookies for our party instead of having cake.  I heard more than one of the 2 year olds telling their friends that we were having a Valentine's Birthday Party.  To all two year olds a party means...cake!  But they ate the cookies like champs.  After the cookies, they were quite happy to keep pretty close to our normal daily routine, so we went to the music area to dance.  All the mommies loved seeing the class dance to our favorite songs.  They get to hear their child say they danced and even hear the title of the songs, but they don't get the full effect unless they see the cuteness for themselves.  I was happy they did.  Cameras were snapping pictures nonstop, like good first time preschool kids' moms should.  It was a blast.
 
One of the moms said to me that she remembered how Lylah stole about 3 or 5 cookies when the class was supposed to be singing during the Christmas party.  We giggled about it (I was mortified at Christmas--but I realize the humor of the situation now).  You'll never guess who the only child to lick all the icing spoons after the cookies were finished could be!?  Oh, you  guessed Lylah?  Ding, Ding, ding!!  She came away from the serving table with pink icing ALL over her face.  She said, "Oh, mmmm, yumm, yumm, Mommy, I sure love that icing.  Isn't it so very good and pink!?" and smacked her lips.  What a  nut! At least she likes all food and not ONLY "sweeties".

 

2 second fake smile for me after the party

she was way more interested in her goodie bag

a picture in her Valentine's Day shirt I stitched

while watching Northanger Abbey

my first attempt at hand-sewing on a tee-shirt.

Next time I will use a hoop.  I thought it turned out OK.  I made a fun covered 

button hair clip to go with it too. I liked the clip better than the shirt...but no good picture 

Cookies were yummy.  Games were fun.  Candy bag was full enough.  Happy party girl.