Mom made it through her hip surgery just fine. Now we’re going to cheer her on in her recovery.

I turned 34 – it’s all a blur really. Bea was completely entranced by buttons. We went swimming. We ate lots of dessert. Brian has been making some terribly sinful desserts lately. And then he got a death by chocolate birthday cake for me. Uhg. Have you ever served the other person a gigantic piece…

Why didn’t I find these before – just what I have been looking for – old sewing patterns. Now if I could just find some time to sit down and actually complete a sewing project. I found a few sites that sell patterns: http://momspatterns.com/home http://www.lanetzliving.net/ http://www.oldpatterns.com/

Thinking that that Obama and Palin photo is funny but not that funny. I need to get something else up at the top of my blog. We got out the How the Grinch Stole Christmas! book last night. It has such a nice sentiment but then in the next moment I’m going over the remaining…

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Okay – so we did have a little fun over the weekend:

So the weather today is matching my mood. We had a bad night with Bea. She is not the best sleeper. I feel like she’s so inconsistent that I can’t even figure out what to do about it or what might be causing it.  We woke up and I fed Bea some breakfast and soon…

Well – I decided to attempt (again) to do something about Bea’s mop of a hairdo on Friday. This is what we ended up with. I bribed her with candy and her favorite yogurt drink. And I let her hold some useless kids scissors. In my haste to cut it quickly while she calmly wolfed…

Bea and I went for a walk along Lake Michigan this morning. The area that is part of the Northwestern University campus has a bunch of these paintings on old pieces of concrete. I like to look at them.  Makes me wonder if those girls said yes to marriage and prom.