Runaway October

So this last Monday was Mother’s Day and well… I didn’t do much of anything for any of the mother’s in my life. We’ve been so broke and I have no free time. We’re talking not even a Hallmark Card. My plan was to make plaster hand prints of the boys and hand them out. Then the sickness occurred. I’m just now getting around to it. I managed all of 1.5 hand prints before running out of plaster when I was aiming for 5 total. Ugh. Somedays I feel like life wants me to go back to bed.

Matt and I had a small disagreement about his mother (because it was my fault I didn’t get her a card, I guess.). He said that he’s under the impression that I didn’t want Ann coming over ofter because the house is never clean enough for company. I was under the impression that she’d rather stay at her house and entertain. Long story short Matt invited his parent’s over for dinner this weekend. Now I have to get everything clean, look presentable and make dinner. I have no idea what to make.

Matt would like the normal run-out of his favorite fattening never-admit-you-make-it-for-your-family dinners. I’d like to do something special. Besides I picked up a couple of cookbooks from the library and have been itching to test out some new recipes.

I noticed that cherries seem to be on sale currently so I’m gonna head on down to the market and take a look. I’m thinking about making a Cherry Clafoutis. Matt’s parent’s aren’t big dessert people but I never pass up the opportunity to try something new.

I don’t even know where I was going with this. Any ideas for dinner? Maybe some barbecue?

Well, it looks like we’re pretty much in the clear. The boys are back to their old selves and thankfully the sickness didn’t require any doctors visits and whatnot. I pretty much over-reacted because the thought of vomit is distressing to me.

Thank you to everyone with your kind words of encouragement and advice. Grandma, I’m pretty sure they had some kind of Rotavirus. I never would have thought of that had you not mentioned it. (Did you get my email?) Nicky, how’s Del doing? Back to herself?

Hopefully now that all of that is taken care of I’ll have more time to actually post. Wait, I always say that. I have been working on the blog layout. If you use an RSS Feeder click on over and give it a look. Tell me what you think. The ‘Runaway October’ in the header image is driving me nuts. I’m huge on typography, as a matter of fact I lovelovelove typography. It just seems to clash up there. I have to figure our how to change it because it’s not part of the static image.

In other news we made our first sale from our bookstore! Yay! One of you kind readers was… kind, I already said that, nice enough to use our link and we made a little bit of change on it. If you haven’t seen our bookstore check it out here.

Since Friday Declan has had what we thought was food poisoning. That in and of it self is just a nasty stressful time. I think I’ve scrubbed vomit/poop out of the carpet at least 6 times. Anyone who knows me well knows that I don’t do vomit. Period.

Unfortunately it seems that it’s not food poisoning because now the littlest guy is running a huge fever and had a blowout in bed last night - on my side. This is the baby that poops once every week to two weeks. Poor guy.  All he wants to do is sleep on me and all I want is to not have a personal heater while it’s 100 degrees outside. It’s got to be some kind of stomach bug.

Just think about us and hope we come through this soon.

To just be happy with my blog layout. It seems like everyday I’m deciding something is not wrong. I’m almost to the point where I want to pay someone to do a custom theme for me. I’m one a new color scheme kick and can’t even find anything with the right colors! Grr.

Anyway, I have stepup a bookstore for myself, full of all the wonderful books I’d like to share. You can find it here until I fix my layout and incorporate it into my blog. If you would also be so kind as to click this link before buying anything from Amazon, you would be helping us out greatly, as we get a small - very small - percentage of what you buy. So instead of all the profit going to Amazon a little bit goes to us! Woot!

In the meantime, check out this great article about Spring Farmer’s Markets.

So I totally spaced on the Etsy sale this past Sunday. I had it in my planner, I reminded my mom a million times, but still forgot. Instead I’m borrowing this idea from Kristen of Cheeky Beaks. Looks like we have some fabulous local Etsy talent around here.

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