posts tagged ‘jj’

The Best Day of the Year

Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

jj-mouseMy mom hasn’t always been a marathon runner.  It’s fairly new.  I should have seen it coming. When we were kids she would give Sarah and I pillowcases and we would not return home until they were full.  Not just almost full, or close to the top.  I mean pull-on-your-shoulder heavy, 2-week sugar high stash, lose a glass slipper late at night.  She was a trooper. A marathoner. Sarah and I would go home and lay out all of our loot.  We’d trade peanut butter cups for lollipops (1:3) and nerds for hershey’s bars (even then I liked dark chocolate).  So, it is this that I attribute my manical trick-or-treating skills.  Thanks for the marathon genes mom, I love you.  BOO!

summer projects

Wednesday, July 16th, 2008

I recently taught Little J how to sew based on suggestions from The Creative Family.

Here is his first  project.  When I asked him about it he said,  “I like it ’cause I use Mama’s knitting, there’s no paper, it’s a blanket.”

jj_s-1st-sewing-project

This is what summer is about for me, having the energy to get out projects beyond paper and markers.  Hope you are enjoying summer in your own special way.  Cheers!