Thanks, everyone, for your fabulous questions!  I’m thinking I won’t be able to answer them all because maybe that would be pretty boring for you, right?

I hate to bore you.

I’m still not in the blogging/writing groove but I plan to pop in here a little bit everyday just to let you know that I’m here and to also answer some questions.

This week I am working on my garden outside and the weather is going to be picture perfect.  Stepping away from the computer seems like just the right thing to do.

Remember last year, when my Mom and I spent an entire day planting our new flower beds?  That day being her birthday and James and Jake’s due date, man, what a powerful day.  Because now, most of the stuff we planted is thriving and loves being here.  I can tell.  I have lots more to plant and lots to weed, but what a fun, therapeutic process.  I’ll share pictures later.

One of my favorite things to do this weekend was going to my Mom’s house yesterday and being able to take some of her perennials and adding them to my garden.  She’s a very good sharer.  We did that at my last house, it was very special.

She gave me some cut spirea from her garden.  The glass is from Anthropologie, I had been itching to fill this glass with some simple flowers, it did not disappoint.

spirea

This past weekend,Erin, Stephanie, Arianne, Crooked Eyebrow, Sarah and I all went out to celebrate Erin’s birthday.  We went to our favorite burger place and then I topped it off with a double scoop waffle cone, which means it was pretty much the best night of food EVER.

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The birthday girl and her burger.

e-dog with her burger

Even my Miller Lite was super fabulous.  And being around my girls made it even better.

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They’re a crazy bunch.

Here’s some Asher love for you.  (and Sarah, too…)

Sarah and Asher 05-2009

Oh, Arianne.  Why you so pretty?

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I could show like a million more pictures, but I’ll stop now.  If you’d like more, you can go here.

Okay, since this post is already strangely long (strangely because I sat down and stared at my screen for ten minutes and now I can’t shutup) I’m just going to answer one question:

And it’s from Kira, she says:

I know in the past you have said you were a picky eater….have you always been that way? Is you husband picky as well? Do you feel that your kids aren’t exposed to different foods because you don’t like them?

Yes, Kira.  I have always, always been that way.  I think I just tend to lean towards more of the “American cuisine” then anything else.  (although Mexican and Italian are pretty close to being better than American.)  I am also very picky when it comes to textures in food.  Brian?  Is not picky at all. I could make spaghetti and mix with it mud and I would be like “honey, we were all out of sauce but I found this mud and it was free” and he would be like “free?  I bet it will be better than sauce.”  Seriously, I get so jealous of him and his ability to eat ANYTHING that when we go to buffets or anything like that, I go and get his food for him because that is fun for me,  then I go and get my food which would be like pizza and a chocolate cupcake.

I think we do a great job of exposing new foods to our kids.  Everyone knows our kids as the fruit and veggie kids.  They’ll eat any fruit and any vegetable and they’ll usually eat their vegetables first.  With every meal, since they were babies, we have given them fruit and with every lunch and dinner, we have given them a vegetable.  If we don’t, they get upset.

I love that.

I have some flowers to plant…

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