{Virtual Coffee}

Wow, it's Tuesday again.

Time for coffee.

 First,  I want to say that I love seeing so many people linking up for coffee. 

It's really a lot of fun to see what everyone has to share and to find new places to visit.

I love it. 

Thanks so much!  

And the linky-thing stays up for one week so link up anytime during 

the week, it does not have to be on Tuesday.

So if we were really meeting for coffee this morning...

I would tell you to place your order with me because I am running out to Starbucks
 after school drop-off and I will pick up coffee for you along with petite
vanilla bean scones for my little lady.
  She loves them.

I would ask you to come here for coffee and when you got to my house I would drag
 you into the kitchen to look at my paint samples and beg (beg!) you to help me choose a paint color.
I would tell you that I have never, ever had this much trouble choosing a color...ever.
I am not one to obsess over details (normally) I just pick something and go with it.
Please, please help me!

If we were really meeting for coffee this morning I would tell you that I dropped of
SIX big bags of clothes at Catholic Charities. Ahhh, what a relief.
It feels so good to get rid of some stuff around here and makes me feel
better knowing others will benefit from it.
I also go through a little guilt seeing all the stuff we have, all that my kids have
and what others do not have.

If we were really meeting for coffee this morning I would tell you that we are
getting ready to go on our annual trip to a beautiful State Park in Indiana soon.
This is one of my favorite weekends of the year and it is one reason I am not sad
to see Summer go,  this trip comes soon after.
We stay in cabins, hang out with family, go on a hay ride, see a waterfall,
walk lots of trails....we are really looking forward to this little get-away.

Tomorrow evening I am doing a little photo shoot with my Uncle and his wife.
I am nervous about this.
Kids are one thing but adults...hmmmm...this is a first for me.
I am hoping for nice weather and good sunlight.
Wish me luck!

Thanks so much for joining me this morning.
Happy Tuesday!

Making My List

 This will be me tomorrow morning except I will have a hot cup of coffee from Starbucks in my  hand and I will be playing the music really loud:

Tomorrow a friend has offered to watch the kids for the day so I could do some Christmas shopping ALONE. Did you hear me? ALONE. Now, I did go out the day after Thanksgiving alone and I ran out yesterday to do a couple quick things too but this is for the day, folks. I'm so excited, I'm thinking I may actually make a little progress tomorrow. I am really hoping to be done earlier than usual this year because I want time to bake and make other gifts closer to the holidays and I don't want to stress about shopping at the last minute like I usually do. Tonight after the kids go to bed I'm going to work on my list and see what all I still need and where I should go tomorrow.
Oh, and what's on my own list? How about acne medicine for someone in their 30's who should not still be getting pimples like this anymore?  The other day when I was in the bathroom getting ready Charlotte got my make-up brush and said; "Don't worry mommy, I'll cover up all your nipples. " She meant pimples. And it was pretty funny so I couldn't even be offended. Wish me luck tomorrow!

I'm Dreaming...

Of an entire day to laze around in bed with this huge stack of Christmas magazines (and there's more-I know, it's a bit of a problem), a peppermint mocha from Starbucks (delivery?) and watch tv. I'm thinking either The Holiday or Love Actually, or just plain trash tv, depending on my mood. Doesn't that sound like a good day? I would also love four full days to do only the following: shop, wrap, bake, craft. But, I think I would like my magazine day first, just to get myself more in the spirit to do the rest.

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.