tea & berries

looks like the makings of a perfect morning, doesn't it?
let's hope this means the rest of the day will be just as lovely.
i will be hanging with three little girls today...busy, busy day.
happy monday, friends.
hope it's a good one for you.
join me here tomorrow morning for coffee, won'tcha?

Virtual Coffee

 If we were having real coffee  together this morning I would tell you......

If I don't get the spare bedroom cleaned out soon I'm scared I'm going to be turned in to Hoarders. Seriously. It's a mess and I just can't face it. So I don't.

I'm going to attempt to make vanilla bean scones today for my man. He brought me home the vanilla beans and sent me the recipe....wish me luck.

I cannot wait for this Friday. It is the much anticipated return of FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS.. Go Dylan Panthers! Does anyone else watch? I am not a football fan at all but I looooove this show. Love it.

We are trying to decide on whether or not we are going to have a privacy fence put in at our house. A privacy fence would seriously change my life, a dream come true....more on that later though.

My boy is looking way too big and old and I just don't like it at all. Where did the last five years go?

Can't believe Mother's Day is this weekend..wow. Wyatt told me last week he made me something at school but could not tell me what it was...he really wanted to give me a hint though, really bad. It was sweet.

I have an emotionally draining on-going situation with a friend, I am worn out. I just want to say...I quit.

My friend Maegan just opened up a Print Shop on Etsy; she is an amazing photographer and I am trying to decide what to order myself for my freshly-painted bedroom. Check it out here.


 *Here's my question...If we were meeting for real coffee...What would you order? What's your favorite and how do you take it?
Me: Grande mocha, skim milk, light whip cream with cinnamon powder, thankyouverymuch. And yes, I know the skim milk doesn't really count out the whip cream but it is my coffee. Happy Tuesday!

a STARBUCKS Kind of Morning.

Yesterday morning while I was barking orders at the kids to get their shoes on, grab their coats, hurry, Wyatt's gonna be late for school, you can finish your cinnamon toast as soon as we get home, please put the Legos down and put your shoes on now...Eric headed out to leave for work but stuck his head back in to say I left the car window down last night. All night. And it rained pretty hard. Great. We make it out the door right on time, get to the car and ~OH WAIT~ I left all the windows down, all the way down. The whole car was soaked, the kids' seats too wet to sit in and now we're really going to be late for preschool. I ran back inside grabbed a few towels and an extra shirt, jeans and jacket for Wyatt, just in case. We make the super short (5 minutes?) drive to school and by the time we get there Wyatt's clothes are too wet to wear. Great. Now I have to have him change his clothes quickly in the car, without everyone seeing. Now, if I had showered or been dressed appropriately I would have taken him inside to change but since I was not and neither was his sister, we could not go in and further humiliate him. *And let me add right here that for drop off you pull up and the teachers come get the children and walk them in.* So I pull into the parking lot next to the school,away from everyone, had Wyatt climb up front and helped him get out of his wet clothes which was pretty tricky. Then I have to pull out of the parking lot into the drop-off line with him up front, balancing himself since he can't sit down on the wet passenger seat. Good lord, what a morning. Luckily I remembered we were out of coffee before we got home, so straight to Starbucks it was for a venti-mocha-skim-milk-light-whipped-cream-and-cinnamon-powder-on-top, thank you very much.
It wasn't even 9:00 yet.

edited to add: not sure why my picture disappeared, but it's back for now.