Day 25: frame

A group of frames in my living room

Day 23: before bed

We get silly before bed

Day 26: near

Cookies. They were near my mouth within seconds

Day 27: love/hate

Little man loves the train going by (8 minutes). I do not love the train traffic.

Day 24: 3 things

3 of little man's favorite CDs! Not currently in rotation, although a blue singing song book is always good!

Day 22: up

Look up, the seasons are changing here :)

Day 21: sometimes

Sometimes his naughty antics are so cute

Day 20: man-made

I am most proud of these two boys that I helped make

Day 19: underneath

Underneath the peach trees and apple branches. Such beauty in the afternoon

Day 18: price

Diapers are expensive. These are some of our favorites, but at $17.95 each we mainly have used ones.

Day 17: in my fridge

Here's my fridge today. Top left corner is my gluten free area. Bottom right shelf on door is all my flours that need to be refridgerated. Sigh. Not enough veggies. But lots of fruits ( and chocolate). :)

Day 16: strange

The strange new road that our town is calling normal. Apparently it is chip & tar. We think it's awful. Little man hurt his face on it and he was barely moving on his scooter. The neighborhood is going to fight it. Here's hoping for something better

Day 15: first thing I see

My pile of books. Some of which I've started. One that was not a favorite "shepherding a child's heart". The rest are decent so far.

Day 14: favorite

My favorite sign of spring

Day 13: table

I asked my father in law to build a Lego table for the toy room
This is the awesome table the boys received.

Day 12: together

This puzzle is almost together. It's also one of little mans favorites.

Day 11: hero

Yes I hate the wreath, but my only other flag was away due to storms.
And a hero is anyone who will lay their life down for this country.

Day 10: black & white

Look at this photo. The contents of this envelope the plastic bag and the screw. What? It cost a $1.64 to send a screw?? Do you know how much that screw would cost at my local lumber store....maybe $0.25? So, thank you to electrolux for the screw to my fridge, especially since I requested a door handle for my fridge (it had broken) and not a solitary screw. I had no need of this...Now all I can say is this is, by far, the worst fridge ever. (Fridgidaire gallery)

Day 9: something you do most weekends

Pancakes. Enough said.

Day 8: at night

Here are my herbs at night. They've grown quite large this summer, this one is pineapple sage. It tastes great when put on top of grilled pineapple.

Day 7: natural

Apples in their natural state. Or before they become yummy deliciousness.

Pinterest project: cleaning berries

There are many pins about how to clean your fruits and veggies to ensure all the yucks and other stuff come off before you eat them. The easiest recipe I found was to fill the sink and add a cup of vinegar. Let the produce swim for 10 minutes rinse dry and enjoy. Behold ten minutes later I had clean fruit! The interesting thing was the claim that the fruit would last longer... Not sure tha was the case. I have found the store produce wilts and tots pretty quickly. Farm stand stuff tens to last longer. Who knows.

Day 6: everyday

Don't get me wrong, I love my new kitchen. I do not love the reorganization that I have to do daily to this one drawer. Baby bro has made it his mission to sit in this drawer as often as possible and take out of this drawer as much as possible before I stop him. He also likes to bang the spoons and throw the bowls around. Good times baby bro, good times. Shortly after I took the after picture baby bro had dismantled the drawer again.

Day 5: bright

Let's take another trip to the one flourishing garden near my house. These beauties grow near my zinnea tree (it is no longer a plant or a bush...it's huge, my neighbor dubbed it a tree). I have no idea what these particular plants are... I planted them this spring and know that they are annuals. (and they're pretty) I planted these in orange and in red. Apparently, I don't feel the need to read the little stick these plants come with because I planted them too close together. Thus the look of a ton of them in itty-bitty space Unfortunately the reds did not fare well. Especially the one near my zinneas.

Day 4: in my mailbox

Today we received a lot of junk. And a cool vest, handmade by an auntie for baby bro, a magazine about overpriced dolls for our family (which has no little girls) and a new book for mommy's book club!! Pic is the magazine and the vest, because really, the magazine made me laugh....someone's confused about who lives here :)

Day 3: far away

Baby bro has been taking 2-4 steps for a month now. He has absolutely no interest in walking. He'd rather crawl. Here he is far away from our friend refusing to walk to him. Oh and there is a picture of our new tent! You can actually stand up in it, even Kevin! It also fits us all with room to spare! Anyone want a 6 year old tent that sometimes leaks and has a broke. zipper on one of the doors??

Day two: father

This is a pic of my awesome husband and father of my children. He is doing the fatherly job of minding the camp fire, cooking dinner (for a huge crowd...look at all that food!), for the 4 adults and 4 children camping. This picture demonstrates the fine technique of cooking over hot coals.

Day 1: you, now

Me, now? Really? Well, day 1 of september started with beautiful skies and a plan to hike Mt Monadnock. Monadnock (a little over 3,000 ft) is a great mountain to hike and generally you can do the whole hike in 4 hrs. We got to the mountain a little later than expected and stopped for lunch halfway up the mountain for longer than we should have (the stopping place was named the halfway house). We summited 2 hrs after lunch and after a quick snack we moseyed back on down. We, the adults, determined to take a different route down due to the sheer faces and rock climbing we did on the way up, near the peak (Kevin and I climbed a good portion of this side 2 years ago but didn't summit due to wind and fatigue. We didn't realize some of the incredible steepness of this side) {this side is also not the "popular" side that everyone takes...we figured it would be better than some of the steepness of that side...figured wrong.}
  The hike back down took some time due to two cranky four year olds. Not to mention, the brand new to us, trail. We only felt lost and scared once, due to very poor signage along a smaller trail that was very steep and not easy to follow.  We were somewhere near the middle of the mountain in thick trees, steep rocks, and then came the rain....oh, the rain.  All of the weather reports said, "GORGEOUS weekend, maybe a  10% chance of a passing shower", he omitted the tropical downpour that would last for 30 minutes...the last 30 minutes of the hike, which was mostly on an exposed dirt road. Ugh!

When it was all said and done, we all earned our ice creams and hot showers!  The whole hike took us 6 hours, I have never been on Monadnock that long... We also decided not to take 4 year olds or 1 year olds up the mountain again. Wait until they're older.   Oh, so this picture is me, now, sweaty and hot at the top of the mountain, (should've noted the somewhat menacing clouds behind me).

Pinterest project: microwave cake

I'm usually not a microwave cooker however I wanted a sugary snack ( familiar tune in my story, eh?). Thus the cake in a cup recipe. Easy to make needed almost two minutes in the microwave.
Pretty easy to make.  Mix dry ingredients than wet in your cup.   Put in the micro and then enjoy.  I obviously made it in a bowl, I also doubled the recipe so that hubby could enjoy too.

Not super tasty, but with some extras it hit the spot.