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.
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.
The birthday girl and her burger.
Even my Miller Lite was super fabulous. And being around my girls made it even better.
They’re a crazy bunch.
Here’s some Asher love for you. (and Sarah, too…)
Oh, Arianne. Why you so pretty?
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…
Thanks for answering!
Your dh and the mud made me laugh.
I used to think that picky eaters were created by their parents….that if you just exposed children to lots of different foods they will learn to eat different things. I had my first baby, and it worked out just as I had planned….he will try anything (loves calamari!). Then I had my second baby. You know how all those parenting philosophies you had before you had kids go….yeah, it came back to bite me in the ass. My 2nd kid eats nothing. Literally could live on peanut butter sandwiches and cheese pizza. DRIVES ME CRAZY!! Maybe he’ll outgrow it, maybe he won’t. Who knows. I’m just always intrigued and grilling adults who say they are picky eaters to find out if they were this way from birth.
Love the Anthropologie glass….I was there this weekend and told my husband he could buy me a set if he wanted (he didn’t want. Go figure.)
That burger looks sooooo good!
And my brother is like you. Except he will not even TOUCH fruit. Even as a baby, he would not eat any baby food that had fruit in it. Needless to say, when we discovered in Marine boot camp he actually ate an apple, we almost died. My parents and I seriously almost had a heart attack.
But yay for passing on veggies and fruits.
Ahhh, I could go for a burger right now.
I love the pics…seriously, you’re awesome and Arianne is one of the prettiest girls ever!
was checking out your pics from girls night out for bday and I have a quick question…WHAT KIND OF SHAMPOO DO YOU USE??? Your new hairstyle is stunning and the shine on your hair is AWESOME!!!! You all look so great!!!! Keep smilin’!!
Hello, giant nursing nipple! You can go away now. Thank you.
I seriously love you girls.
You could never bore us. That burger looks delish. I need one, but with weigh in in two days, I better not. When you get done with your gardens, would you like to work on mine? Are you coming to preschool olympics?
Nursing nipple!? Would not have noticed it if Sarah hadn’t pointed it out. Geez.
I heart this post.
Steph
Man, I can’t imagine what it would be like to have a husband that will eat anything!
My husband is picky like that but I don’t really think it’s “picky” so much as it is that his taste buds are just totally different than mine. They are SENSITIVE. He thinks things like lettuce are bitter. And textures all mixing together? He’d rather starve. I, on the other hand, eat more like your hubby and the mud sauce. I love that you girls hang out at Redamaks. I am actually from NWI (I was born in LaPorte hospital!) and have eaten there all my life.
Even though it’s not yet 8AM, that burger looks SO GOOD. I love you girls, giant nursing nipples and all.
That burger looks YUM! I’m also swinging by to drop off an award for ya! You can pick it up here: http://nmgills.blogspot.com/2009/05/yeah-i-got-another-award.html
OMG to giant nursing nipples! I heart Sarah so much!!
HOLY REDAMAK’S BURGER. Can you buy one and pack it in dry ice and send it to me now? Thanks.
I wish I could have been there for the girls night out! Looks and sounds like y’all had a blast! And yes, Arianne is quite lovely. I miss her and Erin and Steph and Sarah and YOU so much. It’s quite unfair that we live so far apart.
LOVE!!!!
Oh, I miss Donya, too! How could I forget dear Crooked Eyebrow? I think it’s because I was so distracted by the damn burger. You’re so mean!
How sweet : ). I love the pictures of your girls (and babies?) night out. The burger looked DELISH! I laughed so hard about the spaghetti and mud. At our house it is a different story! My husband is SO picky it would make you cry. It does, in fact, make me cry ALL the time : )
Jumping out of my comfort zone- aka google reader- to say that I LOVED The Time Traveler’s Wife. Seriously. Best book ever.
Oh my, I was all ready to stop reading comments and leave one myself when I saw this one that said soomething about a nursing nipple…how distracting. Then I had to scroll back up and look for this nursing nipple people were speaking of….I never would have noticed either!! lol
I have to say, it’s oh so true what she says about her kids. You could give them a cupcake, brownie, cookie, bowl of frosting, a whole cake…anything along with ANY kind of veggie…peas, broccoli, beans, corn, carrots…anyting …and they will always eat the veggies first. It’s SO baffling. But so good. What a good habit.
AmyA