Thursday, June 13, 2013

Life lately

Went to visit this birthday girl at her middle school! 


Then went to see this guy at work! I had never been and it was fun to meet his cube-mates. (Also, in honor of summer he buzzed his hair. I miss the swoosh.)

I've been hanging out with my friend Carrie D. (!) and her cutie who likes my boots which happen to be like 1/3 of her body height.

Summer is when you...

...sit on the porch and watch the storm roll in.

 National donut day.

Blood, sweat, & tears went into that banner... ok not really, but it makes me happy that it can be used for so many birthdays!

Two!

That ridiculous mac & cheese.
 

Ok, so maybe I spend a lot of time on the porch.

Saturday, June 8, 2013

Fairies

Well you can't really see it here, but trust me, there are fairies in our backyard. Actually, it's just airborne fluff flying in the air from a cottonwood tree but I pretend it's fairies flying all around. Last night I was making this crazy good (but not good for you) recipe for a 2 y/o birthday party we have today and I looked out the kitchen window and all I could see was the wind blowing the fluff from the tree. Fairies! Best part of my day. I love a new season at Rozzie.




Thursday, June 6, 2013

Throwback Thursday

My mom posted this picture of her and her horse, Cocoa Dixon, this morning on FB. It makes me so happy! I think what I love about it is that my mom has always loved horses. I mean really... it's love. I sometimes wish I had the same affection towards them just because I grew up with a horse... but I definitely don't share the same passion for them as my mom has. I love this about her.


We went to see the broadway show War Horse this past weekend with some friends and while it was a little dark with lots of war scenes which made me want to go home and look at pictures of puppies and rainbows, the most impressive aspect of the play was the horse puppets. No, not hand puppets... life size horse puppets with three puppeteers. Very impressive. 

Also, my mama has a new business: Horsin Around Services. Check it out here!

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Milk & Cookies Party

Monday I had B&L over for a few hours and I put them to work decorating cows for our milk & cookies party. (because cows give us milk)


Voila! 
I also used the string handles from all the Anthropologie bags I have to tie the cows together.

 Milk, of course.


Baby P came... 3 weeks old!

Baby P came as well! 5 days old! This was his first party.

So glad we haven't furnished this room yet. Perfect for all the little ones to run around and play.

I was talking to a few friends about when to have the party. I asked, "what about 7pm?". They were like, "um, kids are in bed by 7. You should have it at 5:30." Earliest party ever...  but I think it was fun for the grown-ups to have dessert before dinner. Plus I was able to give children sugar and send them home. ;) I really do think one child ate 7 cookies. 

Monday, June 3, 2013

Summertime

It was a great ending to our year at preschool. I helped a few of the children spell the letters for the invitation and they all wrote their names on the back.


Towards the last part of school, we put out a long roll of white paper that they could draw on. I then used it to wrap their end-of-year gift from us.

One of the gifts from the parents. Be still my heart!

We had a teacher party that night and I made this cake. So yummy.

 Now that school is over, let's welcome summer!! 

Florida!!

Memorial Day picnic in the 'Hood.

Farmer's Market salad.

A beautiful day in the country.

Riding down Rozzelles Ferry.

Summer is the best. I'm so thankful for this season!

Tuesday, May 21, 2013

Correction

I got this email from Ginna today:

"I think maybe someone hacked your blog... looks like something on North Korea?"

I was like, say whaaaat? So I forwarded Gin's email to Andrew and asked him to look into it since I was out running errands and the blog looked fine to me. He responded by saying he accidentally posted one of his Japanese blog posts (one of his side jobs is to translate articles for a Japanese blog) but after realizing what he'd done, he deleted it. So funny.

So, that's why CCD in CLT looked a bit different this morning. :)

And here's an excerpt if you can read Japanese. 

北朝鮮、拿捕した中 国漁船を解放 外交 問題化避ける
【北京=林望】
中国外務省の洪磊副報道 局長は21日の定例会見で、北朝鮮当局に 拿捕(だほ)されていた中国漁船が同日未 明、解放されたことを明らかにした。北朝 鮮側が要求した60万元(約1千万円)は 支払われなかったという。中朝双方が外交 問題化するのを避け、決着を図ったとみら れる。 すべての船員が解放され、漁船はすでに 中国側の海域に戻り、操業を再開したとい う。洪副局長は「北朝鮮側が事件について 全面的な調査を行い、説明することを望 む」と述べ、再発防止を求めた。
漁船は5日、操業中に北朝鮮の巡視船に 拿捕された。現場は漁業権などを巡って中 朝間で争いのある海域とみられ、北朝鮮側 は「罰金」の支払いを要求。10日、船主 からの連絡を受けた中国外務省が北朝鮮政 府に解放を求めていた。
北朝鮮のミサイル発射や核開発を巡る緊 張が続く中、中朝が新たな火種を抱えるこ とを避けることで一致したとの見方が強 い。
http://www.asahi.com/international/update/0521/TKY201305210422.html
North Korea releases seized Chinese fishing boat –avoids issue becoming an diplomatic incident....


Friday, May 10, 2013

Funnies

Ok, I realize that this might only be funny to me, but I'll blog about it anyway.

Two weeks ago during Chapel at preschool:
Child {very serious the whole time}: "Mrs. Day, did you know that {insert sister's name} likes to toot?"
Me: "No. No I didn't know that."

On Wednesday we had Muffins for Moms at preschool and we've been practicing singing this Mother's Day song for weeks. A mom came up to me that morning and said she found her daughter in the corner of the room with her two hands over her mouth whispering the song quietly before school. She was getting ready but didn't want her mom to hear. So sweet.

Our fish, Nemo, died a month ago. He was actually Nemo III but we didn't tell the children about the other two Nemos for various reasons. We finally decided we were poor fish keepers and they were old enough for us to talk about death. The day we found him, we told them that Nemo went to fish heaven. During lunch, they asked how he got there and I told them I didn't know. A few children discussed that he 1. went up in a helicopter 2. arose to heaven {this was around Easter} and 3. he just didn't like preschool so he died.

For a Mother's Day gift we interviewed the children. One question we asked was, 'My mommy is really good at _____' and one child said, "going to Target". :)

Maybe the funniest thing of all to me is this Valentine's balloon that's been around since the first week in February. We had to tie it upstairs so it wouldn't set off our alarm system. Lately it's been looking a little deflated...