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Feb 28, 2012

Birthdays and Busy-ness!

After this post today you can call me the Queen of Rambling...this one is all over the place!

I keep wanting to post about my seedlings, you know - what has sprouted, the varieties that I planted, etc. but I have all these random photos from the past few days lurking on my computer desktop.  Since I want my seed variety post to be "clean" so to speak, for my future garden reference all this other stuff is getting lumped together - this is not an indication of any less importance of course, because....


...yesterday was Loch's birthday!  My little "Miracle of Modern Medicine" baby turned 9 years old!


Can you believe I don't have any special post or photo montage this year for him?  Bad mommy...

oh, alright... maybe a quick one -


he hated the hat, hated balloons, hated my cake... I'm not much for cake baking :)


But below is probably one of the "baddest" mommy moments...


oh yes, that's a tire-sized bag of Dunkin' Donuts for his class, bad, bad mommy...

I was so busy yesterday between baking him a real cake for home, Garden Club shuttling, Swim Team, and having to be "out of the house" for a realtor showing it I just didn't have time to make anything for his class.  Shame, shame... I actually was pretty mortified carrying this thing into school, especially since I've never even been to a Dunkin' Donuts until then LOL.  To be fair though, Loch thought it was fantastic since "all the other moms" do the donut thing.  It's never even occurred to me until he said something!  Forgive me O Gardeners and Healthy Eating People - this will not happen again, I promise.

I did see some cool stuff at his school yesterday, look at this art project one of the students made, imprisoned by money - genius!!!  I love the guy holding the sign "help!".


Loch's Garden Club got some new t-shirts yesterday donated by one of the parents, pretty cool design!


Quote on the back...


A photo of Loch's Garden Club board, it's right inside the school's front door and has lots of info for other students to pick up and take home, hopefully the other students and parents stop and get thinking!



So proud of him, they were starting seeds and planning out their spring plantings when I picked him up.  

This past weekend it was time for maintenance on my Subaru, luckily I only needed regular maintenance, and she rolled over 50K miles last week.  Not too shabby for having her since 2007, if you include a few 2400 mile Minnesota round trips she has done, that's hardly any miles I drive here at home!


Seriously... he polished the insides of my rims before putting the wheel covers back on and rotating my tires LOL...


Today it's a bit chilly so I spent all day getting some household paperwork done and bills paid, exciting stuff.  I was able to make a library trip earlier today, sense a theme here?



I don't know about you, but it's hard to have a financially induced meltdown if you occasionally take a break to look at bug houses LOL!

Seed post to come soon!

17 comments:

  1. I love your ramblings posts . . . I feel like you've caught us up on everything by the end! (Well, 'cept for the seed starting.) Keep 'em up.

    Maybe the party that came to see your house today will be the magic one! We'd love to see you sell the house and move in the financial direction you want. I don't know of anyone who can handle finances better than you, so hang in there, Girl! It will get better soon, I'm a'hopin'!

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    1. Mama Pea, you give me wayyyyy to much credit, I'm just good at juggling!

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  2. Don't worry too much about the Dunkin Donuts! My son would love to bring donuts for his class. I hope the showing went well.

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    1. Christy, welcome! I got a quick peek and see you are a military gal too - girl power! :)

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  3. I enjoyed your rambling post, you let us have a peek at your busy week. :-) Happy Birthday to Loch, I hope he had lots of fun yesterday.

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    1. Anke, haha I'm good at these beginning of the week miss mash posts :)

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  4. oh boy he grew in a year ,from high chair to big chair lol oh wait ,that will really make you think time flew and soon he will be off to collage. love the tee shirts [ whoops, almost left out the "R"out of shirt. Happy Birthday Loch [ LOVE Those Names you picked for the boys ] BY ANY CHANCE ARE YOU IRISH?

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    1. ah yes, it's no secret with names like Erin, Lochlann and Finnegan :)

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  5. Happy Birthday Loch! It's OK for the occasional bad mommy thing! I'm sure that the kids enjoyed those donuts.

    I really love those T-Shirts

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    1. Robin, those donuts were a pretty humbling experience for me LOL!

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  6. Happy Birthday to Loch!
    Actually- I can think of WAAAAY worse things than donuts. And I do love the t-shirts- and the Money Takes over thing- who knew kids were so insightful.
    Great rambles- I've been doing it myself recently.
    Judy

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  7. Happy birthday, Loch!

    Hmmm, I wonder why lately I sometimes get your banner in the comment box and can't post. It's working again, so just wanted to say I'll trade you a Jack in the Box for a Dunkin' Donut.

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  8. Happy Birthday Loch, and Erin you are forgiven. A girl has to do what she has to do. If that is your first ever trip to Duncan Donuts then you should get an award for that. In college I had a huge addiction to their chocolate filled donuts...bad! Just bad!
    Hope you have some prospects on the house soon.

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  9. Thanks everyone for Loch's birthday wishes! Lorie, I don't even like donuts much so it's easy for me to overlook that place :)

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