Doodles, Dogs and Bees

My Man

He looks peaceful, being the father of five, doesn't he?

A Lovely Lunch Date

On one side of the table we had these folks...  (My Mom and Dad and Dood)

 

 

 

 

And on the other side of the table were these folks:  My gorgeous husband, me and Bee-bop.

Monster puppy waited in the car and took a nice doggie nap in the warm sunshine.

 

(tootsie-pop and KC stayed home and had the first peace and quiet they've enjoyed since monster puppy joined our family, almost two weeks ago.)

Fridays are Awesome Again!

So one week after he lost that first front tooth, he was playing with a football and knocked out the other front tooth.  Thank God it was another baby tooth!  And looks like Mommy was right about this being the year that the Christmas portraits would show Bee with no front teeth!  (we're having pictures made this weekend...)  Still have to decide what the boys are going to wear, which suddenly is a pretty major task since I'm never home anymore...  Makes me appreciate my weekends and time off and Fridays are awesome again!

On another note, she has another new nick name.

Ready?

Giant, Crazy Monster Puppy!

Potty training is going very well and we love her more everyday...  but yes, she's a little monster!

Daybook

 

FOR TODAY...October 30^th from Tina's Daybook

 

Outside my window... a cold day, after a near blizzard. Fresh snow everywhere and no school or work today.

I am thinking... I have some mommy responsibilities that I can catch up on today... and maybe do some knitting.

I am thankful for... this day off with my boys and my sweet puppies.

I am wearing... jeans, black long-sleeve shirt, socks, slippers.

I am remembering... Jo... everytime I look at Boo.

I am going... to enjoy the moment and soak up every minute of today.

I am reading... Book #2 of the Black Dagger Brotherhood Series.  (almost done.  I hope #3 gets here today.  I ordered it on Amazon, with 2 day delivery four days ago...)

I am hoping... to stay away from the Halloween candy today

On my mind... everything's good!

From the learning rooms... trying out preschool crafts with the boys

Noticing that... trick or treating is going to be cold this year...
I'm glad I'm the one who stays home and passes out candy!

From the kitchen... good old ramen for lunch and shrimp and veggies for dinner. Might get some of the cookie dough out of the freezer for the boys today.

Around the house... everything is messy, in need of a wipe down and disorganized. But worth it to have a new puppy in the house.

One of my favorite things~ SNOW DAYS!

From my picture journal...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'm Completely and Totally Smitten

And she has her first nickname...  Are you ready?  Wait for it.  It's...

 

 

Boo-berry.

Guess What...

Her name is Boo!  She's 10 weeks old, she's a Golden-Doodle and she's ours!

They Said I Did Great

Carving pumpkins is normally a "Daddy" thing.  I was never wild about getting my hands all in that yucky pumpkin stuff...  But now?  I work at a preschool and yucky stuff that previously grossed me out???  No longer does!

The boys said I did great for my first time carving our pumpkins!  (Daddy taught me well!)

Speaking of our Daddy, he'll be home tomorrow.  We're all ready for Daddy to come home!  (even Bee!)

Creative Cards Homeschool Kit and some other stuff...

I've subscribed to many card and scrapbooking kits over the years.  But this one beats them all!  I've been buying this one since July.  I believe I learned about it, via Ali Edwards blog. 

So I had 4 months worth of kits piled up.  Hadn't made the time to put them together...  until last week. 

Deena has put together some really pretty cards, with every little detail that you can imagine.  They're very special and I'm excited to start sending them out to friends and family.  The kits are so easy to put together, so quick!  Everything's already cut and printed.  It's awesome!  It's completely brought the joy back to cardmaking for me!

If you'd like to check it out, here's her address:  http://deenaziegler.typepad.com/my_weblog/ .   That huge picture of cards that I made last week?  Most of those were previous kits from Deena.  And it really didn't take a whole lot of time to put them all together.  AND IT WAS FUN!!!  Thanks again, Deena!!

On another fun note, the stamp club girls and I made these cute lil guys last time we got together.  My boys loved them and they're so easy to make.  There's a little chocolate mint in between the punched circles.  So I'm thinking, "How can you go wrong, giving these little spiders to kids for Halloween?"  I'm going to make them for my preschool kids.  And my little resident artist (Scotty) has already volunteered to help me!  (Should be  a fun project for Bee and I and the preschoolers will get a kick out of them too, I'm sure!) 

On the knitting front, I'm done with Clue #2 on my mystery sock.  Planning to do the heal (clue #3) today.  I had sworn off sock knitting, but this project has really gotten me excited about it again! 

I took these to work last week, thinking that I might like to knit on my lunch break...  Just can't get into the groove that quickly, though.  I've always had 30 minutes or so every afternoon too, while waiting in my car for boys to get out of school to knit.  Don't have that anymore either.  So now's the time to practice what I preach!  I've always believed that people make time to do the things that they REALLY WANT TO DO.  Even if you work all the time, if it's important to you, you'll find a way to do it.  We'll see if my theory is true...

We spent most of the afternoon at Hazel's Pumpkin Patch yesterday.  Daddy is out of town on a business trip, but Guh, Umpa, Ron and Noreen joined us.  The boys made a new friend and they had a ball doing all the activities with Noah, who we learned has the same first grade teacher as Bee had last year.  So they really hit if off and Noah stuck with us most of the day.  (His mother works at the pumpkin patch.)

I'm a little nervous about what this coming week holds for us.  Not only am I a new working mom, but I'm a single mom this week also.  With extra activites planned every single day after work and school, it's going to be a very busy week!

Monday- Cub Scout errands and little boy haircuts

Tuesday- babysitter and party at Mandy's house

Wednesday- Parent/teacher conferences

Thursday and Friday- Scouting for food (big, big time committment) and Cub Scout committee meeting...  Scott will be home late Thursday.  The boys and I are off from work and school on Friday, which I think we'll need by then... Scott has a chest CT on Friday. 

And finally Saturday-I'm going on a full day eating-out/shopping trip with friends to Fort Collins, Colorado.  I'll need this too!  lol

Told ya'.  Big, full week ahead!   

My Favorites #3

The first hour, after the boys get home from school is one of my favorite times of the day.  It's busy and a little chaotic, but exciting.  The boys are telling me all the cool stuff that happened at school that day, they're getting a snack and watching some t.v. and this day they decided to make art.  I usually unpack their homework folders and unload their lunchboxes.   

(little tootsie-pop has decided, in the last couple of weeks, that this is also the time that I should make doggie dinner.) 

I used to bake cookies pretty regularly, for an after-school treat.  But now that the boys are bigger and they will eat the whole plate of cookies, I don't do it nearly as often.  

Bee and I played Bakugan today, in the middle of his creating art.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Dood decided to go outside and run and play.  I don't know if you can see it, but I can:  he has chocolate all the way around his mouth in this shot, having just finished the chocolate chip cookies...  lol

And look who we found in the backyard while playing.  Bee was already in the bath by now, but quickly jumped out, dried off and threw on his robe when he heard there was a "poisonous bunny" in the backyard.  (Apparently a little friend of ours had told Scotty about rabies and Scotty kind-of misunderstood and now thinks all wild rabbits are poisonous.  And as much as I tried to explain, he kept to his version of the story as the gospel...  alrighty...  Poisonous bunnies.  I get it.)   

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