Supermom Chronicles
Tuesday, February 12, 2008
Late night grocery shoppin'
I went to a meeting after work tonight. I made it home in record time, so I decided to hit the grocery store. I'd already been away from home for 14 hours, what's another 30-45 min?
It's interesting to see who visits the grocery store at 10pm on a weeknight. I was surprised at the number of families with their elementary school-age children in the store. No wonder school is difficult for some kids. My kids were in bed 2 hours ago, and there's some days I think they could benefit from even more sleep. Those poor kids up late shopping w/ their parents are completely the victims of bad parenting.
Then there was the family dressed to the nines...there was a mom in a very fancy dress and extremely high heels, the dad in a nice suit, and what looked to be a 3-yr old little girl w/ her fancy dress, tights and patton leather shoes.
The rest of the crowd was pretty random. It was actually nice shopping since the aisles were relatively empty and there were no lines at checkout. I might consider shopping late at night more often. Beats dragging 3 kids along and trying to convince them how exciting and fun the racecar shopping cart can be.
It's interesting to see who visits the grocery store at 10pm on a weeknight. I was surprised at the number of families with their elementary school-age children in the store. No wonder school is difficult for some kids. My kids were in bed 2 hours ago, and there's some days I think they could benefit from even more sleep. Those poor kids up late shopping w/ their parents are completely the victims of bad parenting.
Then there was the family dressed to the nines...there was a mom in a very fancy dress and extremely high heels, the dad in a nice suit, and what looked to be a 3-yr old little girl w/ her fancy dress, tights and patton leather shoes.
The rest of the crowd was pretty random. It was actually nice shopping since the aisles were relatively empty and there were no lines at checkout. I might consider shopping late at night more often. Beats dragging 3 kids along and trying to convince them how exciting and fun the racecar shopping cart can be.
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
A Little Taste 'O Spring
The weather was just fantastic today. The high barely reached 80 degrees...in the first week of FEBRUARY!! As long as I can remember, February seemed to always bring the coldest temps of the year. It seems like the few times we got snow/sleet/frost growing up was always during the month of February. Today, though, it felt like spring had sprung.
We spent a lot of the day outdoors with the kids. The spring-like weather got us dreaming about landscaping...flowers and trees and water features, oh my! We couldn't resist, so we started measuring and marking the backyard. By 10am we were at a great nursery in southwest Austin, It's About Thyme, and found all we wanted and more. They have a fantastic selection. Kurt, the guy that helped us, just happened to be the expert there in water features. That is a particular weakness for John & I. He showed us several of his creations. He said he also holds classes once monthly for the do-it-yourselfers, which probably includes us. We would like to do a lot of our own labor, but coordinating around the schedule of 3 little ones is the big challenge. Anyway, we purchased 3 trees: a Monterey Oak (fast growing shade tree for the southwest side of our house), a Shantung maple and a 4-in-1 apple tree, both for the backyard. The apple tree is actually 4 species of apples grafted together, each with 1-2 branches that will produce each variety...I can't wait!! Kurt got me so excited about fruit trees that I think we're going to add peach and plum trees to the lineup. John is going tomorrow to pick them all up. Unfortunately, I have to work the rest of the week. John is going to try to have them all in the ground by the time I get home tomorrow.
Now that we've started on trees, I can't help but start dreaming about the stone pathway, the water features, the flower garden in the back corner....
We spent a lot of the day outdoors with the kids. The spring-like weather got us dreaming about landscaping...flowers and trees and water features, oh my! We couldn't resist, so we started measuring and marking the backyard. By 10am we were at a great nursery in southwest Austin, It's About Thyme, and found all we wanted and more. They have a fantastic selection. Kurt, the guy that helped us, just happened to be the expert there in water features. That is a particular weakness for John & I. He showed us several of his creations. He said he also holds classes once monthly for the do-it-yourselfers, which probably includes us. We would like to do a lot of our own labor, but coordinating around the schedule of 3 little ones is the big challenge. Anyway, we purchased 3 trees: a Monterey Oak (fast growing shade tree for the southwest side of our house), a Shantung maple and a 4-in-1 apple tree, both for the backyard. The apple tree is actually 4 species of apples grafted together, each with 1-2 branches that will produce each variety...I can't wait!! Kurt got me so excited about fruit trees that I think we're going to add peach and plum trees to the lineup. John is going tomorrow to pick them all up. Unfortunately, I have to work the rest of the week. John is going to try to have them all in the ground by the time I get home tomorrow.
Now that we've started on trees, I can't help but start dreaming about the stone pathway, the water features, the flower garden in the back corner....
Monday, February 04, 2008
Where's Nutmeg?
Can you spot the beagle?
I think I see her...
Found!What I didn't get a picture of was James crawling in later and sharing that little bed w/ Nutmeg. It was so cute. She's such a good dog.
