possible career??

Adam gave me a landscape design book for Christmas. I've been thinking about it for awhile now, this is actually my longest sticking career possibility since I left school with no idea of what to do! This book made me so excited I bought a bunch more and decided to give it a try this spring with my own yard. If I HATE it...I'll know not to spend time, energy and money on school for it! If not, maybe I'll finally have found something I can enjoy doing for at least a few years! RIGHT??!!!

Marc helped me measure the entire house and yard so I can make a (sort of) real plan! I'm just so excited! I'm a little worried about going too crazy though, and since Marc knows how excited I am, I don't think he'll be keeping me down to earth. That'll be a bummer to our savings! You know, we really need a pond in our garden!

I just love the idea of it. It's creative. I can help save the world...green and natual. I can help make people's houses homes. All right. That's a little too cheesy and optimistic, I know. I'm pretty sure my head will come back down as soon as my feet hit the mud! I'm too much of a pessimist anyway. It feels good right now to be silly-naive! Now, start thinking of melting snow!

a silly Nora day

Nora's personality has been coming out more every day. It's so fantastic to be there to watch it! Sorry, that wasn't what I meant to write about! Anyway, we had another snowy day here (another 10 inches!) so Marc was home when the girls got up from nap. Usually, when Dad pulls into the driveway we start jumping around singing "dad's home! dad's home!" So, I brought Nora downstairs and her face lit up when she saw her dad and she said "hi Dad's Home!" And over the last few days she's called him Dad's Home several times. Hmm, maybe that's not so much funny as sad! Not really, anyone who knows anything about us knows Marc's at least as busy with the kids as he is with work.

Another one...girls getting out of bath and having some run-around-crazy-naked time. Who doesn't need some of that?! Avery had created a new game and Nora was trying to follow. All of a sudden she peed. And that was sort of expected even though she had just been on the toilet, that's really just another way to be like her sister...there's still no control. Then she said, "uh oh, drop...drop pee" as she went to get a towel to wipe it up! I cried I laughed so hard.

Hope these make you laugh too!

happy new year!