{Bits and Pieces}

I have several different posts swimming around in my head and every time I think of what I want

 to write I change my mind. So, instead I will just share with you some bits and pieces from our week.

My heart has been so heavy this week for a co-worker (old co-worker, I worked with her at 

school, she is still there and obviously I am not) this week. 

She has lost a child in the most tragic way possible I think.

I have not been able to stop thinking about it and the family....and wondering... why?

One of those questions that will never be answered and makes me question everything.

Me and my girl had a date at Starbucks the other morning.

We ate vanilla bean scones, drank coffee and milk and talked about all the big, exciting things 

coming up in the next week.

Her new baby elephants had to come with us.

We stopped at the park, snuck into the woods and came home with some flowers...

you keep scissors in your glove compartment for this reason alone too, right?

Our dining room table was instantly cheered up...and so was I.

Thursday was filled with dentist appointments for both kids (ugh), collecting birth certificates, 

medical forms and attending the preschool orientation for Miss Charlotte.

How is it possible that my baby is going to preschool? 

Next week. Wednesday.

{Sigh}

The funny thing is, just like her brother she is older and just going to preschool for one year...and 

still, I am not quite ready for it. It's a big change, it's going to be an even bigger change when she

 is in kindergarten next year and it has gotten me to thinking a lot about what I will be doing next year.

Working? Where? What in the hell am I going to be doing with my days exactly?

There is a lot to think about and it is a bit overwhelming at times.

Yesterday at Wyatt's appointment the dentist pulled out a loose tooth and sent it with him in a little plastic tooth case on a string. That was the 7th tooth he has lost.  He was excited to show his class and 

mark it off on their chart but as soon as we got out of the car in the school parking lot he lost it. 

We searched and searched but finding a little tiny tooth in a parking lot is impossible.

He wrote the tooth fairy a note and luckily she didn't actually need the tooth and still left him $1.50.

He was happy.

I might be a little crazy for this but I am going to get Wyatt early from school today, before lunch.

It is supposed to be 100* again today with a possible heat index of 105-110*. 

His school is an old, old building with no air and he is on the second floor, it was miserable yesterday.

So, I made the executive decision to pick him up before lunch so he can spend the afternoon
 in the sprinkler instead of zoned out in a classroom where they aren't really doing any
work because no one can even think due to the heat. 

I love making executive decisions, definitely one of the perks of being the parent.

I just finished The Distant Hours and highly recommend it,
I loved this book
and could not put it down.  Don't you love when a book is that good?

oh, and A Reliable Wife, another good one.

Next up, Jane Eyre...that one is for you, Shauna Reed ; )

You know you are old when...

 a prefect Friday night consists of a new stack of magazines, 

a favorite old movie (You've Got Mail?) ans a glass of wine on the couch. 

Ahhhh, I love Friday nights... and holiday weekends.

{picture by Wyatt... sunflowers, mama's favorite}

And just one more thing, my favorite new toy.

Don't you just love all the cool things you can find online? Seriously, check it out. 

You just have to have a web cam on your computer...so much fun.

Not the best pictures of us, but that's okay.

Happy, happy Friday, y'all!!!

Have  a great day and an even better weekend.