Friday night:
After a couple hours at school scoring assessments, I treated myself to a trip to Staples for a few supplies. Our "to be filed" stack was getting rather large and I wasn't satisfied with the current organizational system we had going in the file drawer. A few hours later, voila!
We've got a color-coded, hierarchical filing system.
Saturday:
It was an early wake-up so I could get everything clean and ironed and de-linted for our first official photo session. Through our realtor, we heard about a ridiculously good deal on photos. So we went for it and had Evelyn's three-month shoot. She was one smiley little girl and I think she did quite well.
Immediately upon arriving home, I decided I'd just run out and get a pole saw to do some tree-trimming. I envisioned a pole saw kinda like this:
And I promised Jonathan that I'd do the work and not make him go out in the heat to cut down branches. It's a good thing he didn't really believe me, because as it turns out the only pole saw I could track down to rent was more like this:
A chainsaw on a stick! Whose idea was this? I think it has "Emergency Room" written all over it. But it did make tree-trimming quite quick and easy... For Jonathan. Since he did most of the trimming while I fed the hungry mouse and then took pictures of his work.
And it was fine work. See? This is The Tree That Ate the Yard, before (left) and after (right)*:
Which brings us to Saturday night. After we put little E to bed, we enjoyed a delicious meal of grilled steak, baked potatoes, salad, fresh watermelon, and some Blue Moon Honeymoon.
Could there be a more perfect summer day?
Sunday:
The diapers are on the line, laundry is in the wash, floors are vacuumed. Animals have played and napped. Evelyn has had round 1 of Tummy Time. We've watched an episode of Firefly (it's growing on me, much to my anti-sci-fi chagrin). We're thinking about swimming, mowing the lawn, washing the car...
Life. Is. Good.
*Trimming said tree really opened up the backyard... and our view to our neighbors' backyards. And the fact that our "yard" is basically pine needles and dirt. These things will have to be remedied another day.
Oh, and I got a little link-happy today. I guess I'm supposed to say something about not being paid or anything to link you around like that, but did you really think I was getting paid for this? Okay good.
After a couple hours at school scoring assessments, I treated myself to a trip to Staples for a few supplies. Our "to be filed" stack was getting rather large and I wasn't satisfied with the current organizational system we had going in the file drawer. A few hours later, voila!
We've got a color-coded, hierarchical filing system.
Saturday:
It was an early wake-up so I could get everything clean and ironed and de-linted for our first official photo session. Through our realtor, we heard about a ridiculously good deal on photos. So we went for it and had Evelyn's three-month shoot. She was one smiley little girl and I think she did quite well.
Immediately upon arriving home, I decided I'd just run out and get a pole saw to do some tree-trimming. I envisioned a pole saw kinda like this:
And I promised Jonathan that I'd do the work and not make him go out in the heat to cut down branches. It's a good thing he didn't really believe me, because as it turns out the only pole saw I could track down to rent was more like this:
A chainsaw on a stick! Whose idea was this? I think it has "Emergency Room" written all over it. But it did make tree-trimming quite quick and easy... For Jonathan. Since he did most of the trimming while I fed the hungry mouse and then took pictures of his work.
And it was fine work. See? This is The Tree That Ate the Yard, before (left) and after (right)*:
Which brings us to Saturday night. After we put little E to bed, we enjoyed a delicious meal of grilled steak, baked potatoes, salad, fresh watermelon, and some Blue Moon Honeymoon.
Could there be a more perfect summer day?
Sunday:
The diapers are on the line, laundry is in the wash, floors are vacuumed. Animals have played and napped. Evelyn has had round 1 of Tummy Time. We've watched an episode of Firefly (it's growing on me, much to my anti-sci-fi chagrin). We're thinking about swimming, mowing the lawn, washing the car...
Life. Is. Good.
*Trimming said tree really opened up the backyard... and our view to our neighbors' backyards. And the fact that our "yard" is basically pine needles and dirt. These things will have to be remedied another day.
Oh, and I got a little link-happy today. I guess I'm supposed to say something about not being paid or anything to link you around like that, but did you really think I was getting paid for this? Okay good.
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