Creative Friday--Insanely Productive Edition

Michelle and I had to get together on Wednesday for Creative Friday (the name still stands, no matter what day we meet) due to more Friday busyness going on. I like getting together on Wednesdays because it feels like such a bonus to the middle of the week. Also, I'm not rushing home to host game night, so it feels much freer than normal.


To back up a bit, Landon and Whitney both had sleepovers with cousins on Monday night, so that meant I had Tuesday all to myself (glorious!). I ended up being super productive and spent the whole day and the whole evening (even after picking Landon up) working in my studio-office-no longer scrapbook room-room. I finished watching disc 2 of Little Dorrit (oh how I love BBC and Masterpiece Theater) and watched Best in Show through Netflix' Watch Instantly. The time just flew by.

The reason I mention Tuesday is because it meant I was super prepared and had primed the pump (so to speak) for Creative Friday on Wednesday (say that 3 times fast). I had a bunch of pictures printed for cards and picked them up at Walmart on the way to Michelle's house so within a minute of walking in her newly painted door I was down to business. That's right, within the minute! I was a girl with a mission and I accomplished it.


I always feel guilty when I sit down and start working while Michelle gets busy making our lunch, but she tells me not to, so I listen. This time she grilled burgers for us, and they were deeeelicious (one "e" just wasn't enough). We have finally figured out (after so many years) that we work best when we eat first.


Eva decided to eat only 1/4 of this tiny waffle for lunch. How would it be to have no appetite? Also, in this picture she was holding up the waffle to warm herself, what the?.


I paused from my productivity only long enough to eat, then got right back down to business. Michelle did too, and suffered only minor interruptions from Eva. Landon and Lucas played elsewhere for quite awhile, and with Whitney gone (she was still with the cousins) our day felt easy breezy.


Max often plays games on the computer nearby, but he also played video games with the boys and went to practice his tennis serve as well.


We had peanut butter m&ms and m&m cookies to help us keep our strength up, and it worked because we both had very pleasing stacks of mail by the end of the day.


We really need to get back in the habit of taking our self-portrait at the beginning of the day when we're in better form; clearly that did not happen this time.

**Would you have guilt about being served lunch?
Do you love Peanut Butter M&Ms?
How about that stack of mail?
Have you been insanely productive lately?**