1. We have had some delightfully spring-like weather this week that has sent my soul soaring. I never realize how affected I am by the grey skies of winter until things start warming up and I can open the windows again. I love a good breeze and billowing curtains so much!
I also love seeing tulip leaves start poking through the ground. It happens every year, but always surprises me. This spring will be even more delightful than our previous springs because the "weed fairy" (aka Michelle) planted a bunch of tulip bulbs back in October when she cleared the entire bed as a surprise while I was in Michigan. It's the gift that keeps on giving.
2. Landon has been aging right before my eyes lately and is approaching teenager-hood a tad too quickly for my taste. He's only 10.5 so I should still have a few years of boyhood right? One of the things he's been doing lately is playing games on the computer while listening to music. We've made 5 "Wahoo" mix cds together over the past couple of years, so he has his own music he likes to listen to. It's just that he knows most of that music through playing Guitar Hero and Sing Star so he likes to rock out to The White Strips, Guns and Roses and the like. It's kind of surreal.
3. Speaking of aging, take a look at all this grey hair I'm sporting! What's that about? I'm only 37, that doesn't seem old. Shouldn't hair care be part of a good health insurance plan? Oh right, we don't have a health insurance plan.
4. Whitney has been inspired by Austin's new found cooking skills so I taught her how to make Macaroni & Cheese this week. Upon getting out the pan she immediately put it on her head (what the?) and then did the same thing with the colander. Silly me, I hadn't realized I'd need to specify that we don't wear pots as fashion as part of this lesson.
5. This Whitneyism left me feeling like quite a chump. Our old house has really crappy, condensation-covered windows that Whitney loves to draw on. So the other morning I saw her standing in the curtains and said, "Oh Whitney, why must you do this over and over again" but then saw that she had written "I love you dad!!" while Randy stood outside and watched her as he left for work. Oh the humanity! Why must I ruin everything?
6. I'm adding a 6th item to this Friday's Five because I want to follow-up on last week's pencil jar gone wrong. I cleaned out my container and found a dusty crayon (what the?) several red pencils that were too short to be seen, a couple dried up highlighters and some blue pens (which I hate). I took everything out and restocked it with 3 full highlighters, sharpened pencils with erasers, and a bunch of new black pens, ahhhh.
**Are you having spring-like weather?
Do you love an open window?
Have you documented your greys?
Ever put a colander on your head?
Is Landon looking older to you?
Did you replenish your pencil jar?**
Do you love an open window?
Have you documented your greys?
Ever put a colander on your head?
Is Landon looking older to you?
Did you replenish your pencil jar?**
23 comments:
I am loving this weather so much! And yes, I do love an open window, especially one with cafe curtains fluttering...
Whitney is so funny. How great that she is inspired to learn to cook by her cousin!
Landon is totally looking older to me, it's like a strange glimpse into the future. How does that happen?
I did NOT replenish any pencil jars, and now I'm a wee bit jealous.
Your pencil jar in enviable! And freshly stocked is a happy thought.
Megan is our chef but for all her high fashion tendencies- I haven't seen her sporting a colander. Funny.
I hope you closed those windows last night- the wind was insane! My house always seems cold so I haven't thought to open windows. Sad- because I love open windows mid winter to take away all the germs and stale air...
I can't believe you have your tulips already coming through. We woke up to 2 inches of snow and it is still coming down!! Jason said Orem has nothing. Didn't get hit just us in the south. I was LOVING the warm weather.
Blake turns 13 one month from today. It happens so fast. I am sad.
I, too, feel a new spring in my step (no pun intended) when the first signs of spring start popping up...
Your little cafe curtains look so cute blowing in the wind like that!
Landon is quite handsome! Does he know this yet?
I wore a collander on my head once as part of a Halloween costume. (I went as spaghetti and meatballs)
I haven't ever really documented my gray hair...(I'll make a point to do that before I go in for highlights next)
I recently cleaned out my pencil jar, too, and noticed some of the same things that you found in yours...It bugs me that those things end up cluttering "my" pen jar! The nerve of these kids!
It snowed here this morning and I was so sad b/c I have been loving the weather this week. Those tulips would bring a big smile to my face too!
I love Whitney with the colander on her head! And her note to dad on the window is priceless.
I don't document my grey... oh no.
Landon totally looks like a pre-teen and it's crazy.
Pencil jars stocked with black pens, newly sharpened pencils, and a Sharpee or two make me very happy.
We are definitely having spring like weather where I live (Las Vegas). Today it will be 71 degrees and my windows are now always open. I couldn't be happier.
I just bought hair dye today to take care of the worst case of outgrowth I have ever had.
My pencil jar is in the same sad state of affairs it has been in for months.
no spring time weather here.
ak seems to spend a lot of time on the computer as well. good thing we got a laptop or I would have no time. what does he play? she plays this poptropica game, it does not have any sound so maybe i should have her turn on itunes as well.
It is freezing here right now. But I have billowy curtain which I know we both love!
I like 5 for Friday.
Today is sunny, but the wind is far too cold to open any windows. I'm missing those 50s.
I probably did put a colander or two on my head, and probably got a lesson out of it also.
Landon's looking much older. It's shocking when one day you suddenly realize it.
My pencil jar has become a work in progress. It's now down to three sharp pencils. I'm considering just migrating all the writing instruments to a drawer organizer.
Wow Landon really looks like a teenager in that picture- and a cute one. :)
I could use some warm breezes around here. I'm really tired of being chilled all day. Hopefully it won't be much longer.
I could document my greys. I haven't, but I have plenty to share. The curse of dark hair!
Restocked office supplies in the pencil sounds so satisfying.
I need to teach my kids to cook too. I too have been inspired by Austin's cooking skills. Ned to get on that! Whitney is such a cute & loving little lady!
Hello, ducky!
We have dwarf narcissi in FLOWER here! Only just this week, I have to add, but it really made our spirits SOAR!
I did get a thrill the other day when I had both the back and front doors open at the same time and felt a rush of air through the entire downstairs of the house.
You greys are NOTHING!!
No colander on my head, but I stuck a necklace bead down my ear when I was small and had to have it removed in hospital :-(
Landon is looking like a geezer!
I have a pencil drawer.
Hey, doesn't Whitney do the little feet marks on the windows with her hand?? That's the BEST. You put your hand into a fist and press the fat side against the glass so it looks like the sole of a foot, then you use your thumb and finger prints to make the toe-prints. You must try it with her. It looks like a tiny person's been walking up your window!
The only sign of spring her in the northeast is that it's raining. I am dying for some sunshine. I notice a physcial difference in my mood when it's out.
I am constantly replenishing my pencil jar now that we bought a new handy dandy fancy electric pencil sharpener. I sharpen our pencils and colored pencils like mad because they just look so darn nice in there.
We had almost 60 degrees today but it's supposed to snow again on Sunday.
I can't WAIT to open the windows!!!
Grey?? What grey??
My Colander wouldn't fit.
He looks gorgeous and not a day over 11.3
I don't have a pencil jar. They're all in the junk drawer.
So funny because I quickly glanced through the pictures before reading your words and stopped for a few seconds on Landon's because..um, that doesn't look like Jill's "little" guy. He IS looking far older! So, so bittersweet.
#6 is funny to me because it is striking me as a universal blogging truth. All I have to do is blog about something like this and then somehow that is the catalyst to making a change.
We had two random daffodils sprout in our yard this week and it was quite pleasing! I remember how particularly wonderful the dawning of spring felt in Utah.
I decided Landon looked older before you even mentioned it when I saw that picture. He's a cute kid.
I liked your topics today.
As for spring, we have already been running our A/C because it's warm and muggy. Not sweet and springy.
Landon does look a bit older in that shot. It's so surprising how one day change just hits and we notice it.
Spring is my favorite season. It is so green where I live, and wild flowers are growing everywhere. It is beautiful, I only wish it lasted longer.
Landon is looking older! Why does it have to go so fast??
You don't like blue pens?? that is all I like to use! Brandon only likes black, and I think he wishes I would conform and go with black as well so that he wasn't always searching through my blue pens to find a black one!
I open my windows daily - even if for a few moments! Much to the dislike of my little and Jason! I can't believe that Spring is around the corner...then school will be out. I am torn.
I haven't documented my greys because that would take too much of my time! (*#&$(*&@)
Yes - Landon is looking more like a young man than a boy! Look out. He will be going to college before you know it (sob)
I need my pens and pencils to STAY in my pencil jar! They tend to be borrowed and never returned!
you have TULIPS blooming?! i'm staring at a blizzard outside!!!
landon totally looks older- it's not right and it frightens me for my 5 going on 16 year old. :) it happens too fast!
the colander look is classic. :)
no pencil jar- a catch all jar- that needs to be cleaned out.
I loved the warm days but they give me less tolerance for the cold ones... I was grouchy even walking to my car on Friday.
Landon does look old all of the sudden... sad and cute.
We've had a few warmer days this week, but alas back to cold and snow today! :(
I do love open windows, but we have really ancient windows, and some don't have screens, so no open windows for us.
I don't think I have any greys, yet...unless I can't see them. Ben does though. I think it looks good on him though.
Don't think I've ever put a colander on my head. That I recall anyway.
Landon does look older and younger at the same time. Is that weird?
You know, everytime I replenish a pencil jar at this house, everything disappears within a day! What is up with that?
We had beautifully warm weather for a couple of days. now we are awaiting a snow storm. Hmph. I love spring and can't wait. Open windows are my favorite. On my mission they opened windows in the house everyday, no matter the temperature, I like it to be a little warmer, but open just the same. :-)
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