how it will end
So i’m loving the digital scrapbooking, and the best classes I’ve taken have been at jessicasprague.com. Jessica is offering a free class this fall called Holidays in Hand. Your time on this class won’t be wasted! cruise to jessicasprague.com tomorrow to register!
I know that may be hard for some of you to take. But they are insidious, evil little things that act all cute and small and everything.
last night i made some golden buttermilk cupcakes with cream cheese icing. The batter looked great and they baked up quite well, but I think they’re a tad bit dry personally. How does one fix that? I think it has something to do with the flour as well as wet ingrediants. but it’s not like they don’t taste good! thankfully, rob is able to take them to his office to get rid of them…and I also have a six year old boy who can put them away as well!
and it has come true! so, there’s a company in Nashville called ModerNash that takes your Ikea order, goes to Atlanta (once a week) and will bring it to you. That’s not all they do, either. They’ll put it together for you and also help you design your kitchen.
so i’ve been tweeting, twittering, spurting forth thoughts in 140 characters or less and i wonder if i can even expound on thoughts in a longer format.
so summer is now almost over? at least according to the school calendar. the boy goes back to school on the 13th of August. The date is circled in red on my virtual calendar.
i’m heading to a favorite haunt this weekend: Chicago! Jennie was going (pre-cancer) and then wanted a companion, and I couldn’t say no. I <3 Chicago so much. I could move there in an instant, but Rob doesn’t like the cold 
speaking of chicago, i found the coolest hand-made shoes evah!!! check out www.mohop.com and tell me those aren’t cool! I ordered a pair of the middle heel shoes made out of birch. I cannot wait. I don’t care when I get them or how cold it is outside, I will wear them. oh yes i will. (the above-referenced trip happened-separate chicago post to come…)
sitting on the pack porch at night gives me such a different perspective of my backyard. that’s exactly what i need right now…a new perspective!
yep…it’s commencement time. i don’t sleep too well, really don’t eat too well either. for instance-for dinner i’m now at the moment eating a cold and hard leftover bagel from about 7am this morning. and i can tell i didn’t get enough coffee today!
commencement kicks-off two weeks from tomorrow!
on Monday, i’ll not have had a coke in three weeks. just sayin.
since my grandma died on monday, i’ve been trying to think of my very first memory of her. so far i haven’t been able to single it out. she was just always there. i can’t remember a time that she wasn’t-sometimes she felt as much my mom as my own mother.
she knitted me things. and made my clothes, even when i was a baby. i have sweaters put away from when i little. a sweater that tells the story of the three little kitten who lost their mittens. another that’s got little red riding hood and the big bad wolf. she would still make me clothes as i got older too. she used to make me long dresses to wear to church on sunday with my grandfather. she was always there when i got home from school because my mom worked two jobs to send me to private school. i got to have a snack and then had to do my homework before anything else. no matter what.
i remember the day she reconnected with her brother after 30+ years. i was the first one to get home and the only other one who spoke or read any French. that was something special that we shared since i was in college and really started learning the language. she would correct my pronunciation and read my written work sometimes.
i used to talk to her a lot on the phone when i was in college. that was one of the hardest parts of the last year or two is that i didn’t get to talk to her very much about things. she grew to dislike talking on the phone, because she had problems hearing, holding the phone and sometimes had a hard time being understood on the phone. we often didn’t exchange much more than i love you’s, but it was enough.
the boy: mommy, what can I have for dessert?
me: did you have something particular in mind?
the boy: hmm…how about PANCAKES!!!!
i just shook my head.
and we got a few inches. so in honor of the white outside today, i’ve dug out a few of my favorite quotes about snow (leave me alone, you know i love quotations)
The sun’s out now and so i’m sure the snow will be gone soon. the ground is just not warm enough to keep it around, no matter how cold it is outside. evan thinks he’s getting a snow day tomorrow. ha!
