Another Misty Morning

The boys and I headed outside today and Liam gasped about the fog. I assured him the school would have called already had there been a delay, and we attempted to watch for the bus through the mist. 

Once they were on the bus, I returned to the house for the camera because I certainly couldn't resist these colors.

In fact, everything was so irresistible that I headed around back to take more pictures. 

"Come ON, Mom, let's go in. I'm hungry!"

Morning Light. Yes. Again.

As always, feel free to skip the nature posts if they're not your thing. Now that school has begun, I'm tweaking schedules and missing my early morning time with my birdies and morning light as I'm now making lunches, rousing kids, double checking paperwork, setting my coffee down again, you get the idea.

I tried to sneak a donut with my coffee one of those last mornings of summer:

Haha, as you can see, that didn't work well at all. So I looked around and stealthily swiped the camera lens with my shirt like you're never supposed to do and then took this:

I was delighted with the streaky sunbeams and took the rest of these.

And some other ones, but I'll only show you these last two of the noisy geese landing in the field across the street:

Is it naptime now?

Whew, I don't know where this month year has gone, but today is Monday already, again. This weekend was busy. 

We took the kids to karate on Friday night and then they stayed for Nerf Night while Dada and I had a date. Grandmama has been here for the weekend, so we had extra hands and eyes to help corral kids, get early homework out of the way, hang out clothes, etc. She's headed home today and will visit Nana en route.

Saturday was the homework, put away laundry, run around with the toads and frogs after the rain, resweep the deck because the rain brought down tons of leaves, kind of day. 

                            We're still doing this:

I remembered to take the camera with me to the bus stop since I wanted a mid-month picture of the kids each month to see changes over time. These were Friday morning:

And Friday after school looked like this:

However, Monday morning looks like this:

Well, as I mentioned, it is Monday. I guess I should cut them some slack.

At least there's this:

Anyway, Sunday we did church and I snuggled babies in the nursery and then we tried to find somewhere to buy tires for Pepe (because it's about that time) and all the tire shops were closed because it was Sunday. Oh well. So we got out the tractor, watched mice in the shed, mowed and picked up apples and sticks and walnuts and buckeyes, ate leftovers and got school clothes out and read books and enjoyed Grandmama being here...

Now our sheets are blowing in the breeze on the clotheslines, the poor dog has been brushed and de-matted half to death, and the kids are all at school. 

It's time for important stuff. Like, where are the bon bons?

Bracing myself

I'm crossing my fingers that this will actually post after two weeks of trying it, but I'm also bracing myself for the inevitable flak I'm about to get from my mother: it is so dangerous to let him sit like that with a lollipop in his mouth! Is he SLEEPING with a lollipop in his mouth!? I sit down to catch up on the blog after nothing from you for almost two weeks and the first thing I see is my youngest grandchild upside down with a lollipop in his mouth!?

*sigh*
 

We DID get him turned around and he woke up enough to finish said lollipop. Further proof that with the third child, one runs first for the camera...

Just teasing, Mommee. ;) Kind of.

Christmas come again

 

Somebody got a new hat from Grandmama and we made him do Y-M-C-A, naturally. It doesn't stay on well, but he likes wearing it all over the house anyway.
 

Carrie got the camera, so these were taken by her.
 

 

 

I love how Damon snuggles in with his thumb when you read to him. He and Grandmama read wotsa books. ;)