ugly shoes

ever wonder who buys the "ugly" shoes?

it's me!

i own it, i admit it, i love "ugly" shoes...

these sweet merrells are my latest purchase. mine are blue where the white is and white where the blue is - think opposite.

guaranteed, my hubby can walk into a shoe store, scan the merchandise, and immediately know which shoes i am going to pick up. really. it is one of his favorite pastimes.

sometimes i worry i'm picking out "ugly" shoes for my kids. m is old enough to make that face, the same one my friends usually make when i point to the shoes i like. very similar to the one my mother makes as well...

anybody else have a soft spot for "ugly" shoes?

sweet emotion

after thirteen (almost fourteen) years of marriage - yes - to the same guy, i thought our moments of learning new things about each other were over...

that's why i was completely dumbfounded when - over labor day - mm picked up the guitar and ROCKED! i don't mean a little bit, i mean TOTALLY! he hardly missed any notes! for real! it was bizarre, i was speechless.

needless to say, now that i know i am married to a real guitar hero, and not just a normal engineer, i've been feeling a little woozy... i am major groupie material. i have been waiting my whole life for this!

*note to mm* - aerosmith was pretty good, but ac/dc would be even better...

a successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person. ~mignon mclaughlin

grow old with me! the best is yet to be. ~robert browning

candy 101

with fall and halloween fast approaching, i figure you might need some candy guidance.

i am, as most of you already know, a candy connoisseur.

i eat a lot of it, chocolate or gummies, no matter.
for breakfast, for lunch, you get the idea.

anytime, anywhere, candy. i think it is genetic. in fact, i KNOW it is.

fall candy recipe, just trust me...
candy corn
salted peanuts

together, in a bowl, for your guests, for yourself.

you won't regret it.

wicked

WICKED = WORTH EVERY PENNY!

clever

the tooth fairy brought these in exchange for the cow teeth...

"cow tales" candy.
clever.

cow tooth fairy

my mother-in-law gave m some cow teeth to "fool" the tooth fairy.

she is putting them under her pillow tonight...

does anyone know what the tooth fairy leaves for cow teeth?

so far we are thinking she might bring -

an apple
an ear of corn
hay
candy corn

have you ever tried to fool the tooth fairy?

labor of love

as we returned from our wonderful labor day weekend in dc... (more on that in another post)

we stopped to eat and let the kids play. k pooped in her pull-up, m carried her to me, with poop everywhere! all over both of them. m went to the bathroom to wash her hands.

i carried k out to the car where mm was getting pajamas for everyone.

he said, "what are you doing here?"
i said, "she s**t everywhere!"

k said, "it's not s**t, mommy, it's poop."

oh, sorry...

p.s. i did borrow their sanitizing bottle to spray down the steps where she was standing and wipe them pretty well - i didn't see anything, but i wanted to make sure. they may even be cleaner than they were before we got there.

p.s.s. we were traveling with another family who kept an eye on everyone while this was going on - i don't know what we would have done otherwise.