my may list

so here are some things that i've got on my list this month:

• eat breakfast here with someone i like
• get in my suit and lounge at this lovely place with the bubbles for some nice pre-summer sun
• keep listening to catherine
• be a better mom (details not included)
• buy and plant those beauties 
• spring cleaning, particularly making it possible that we see through our windows
• continue to apply this to my skin 24~7 so that i don't get eaten alive.  i guess i can't help that i'm that likeable!
• prepare to run that again.  oh my.
• save up my money so that i will start wearing jewelry again, but only if it's hers.

yes, it's a small, but quaint list.  i hope you enjoy it!


who wants breakfast?

perspective

(picture taken from design mom)

i just read the most incredible story by a woman who made the extremely gut-wrenching decision to give her baby up for adoption.  whether you're a mother or not, you'll feel it as i did...you might even cry like i did.

read it.

por fin...an update!

a few weeks ago the girls and i meandered on over to the poor, deprived garden.  i really didn't expect to see anything good.  stephen had dropped by on his way home from school one day and informed me that all was dead.  we just had so much rain (for san diego, that is) over the past few months, and we didn't have a chance to go and manage all that had happened.  the thing is...husband's just don't "look" very good.  they don't.  it drives me nuts.  i could write a book about it, really.  maybe some day!

anyway...we entered the garden to see two lettuce plants that were as tall as chloe and dead corn plants.  buuuuuut......we did find some friends!  including one beautiful green onion plant, two carrots, three large zucchini plants and a small pumpkin....all of which we brought home with us that day.  i was very pleased.  our garden resident, mr. gopher, had a few nibbles of the pumpkin, but overall it still grew perfectly and was beautiful.  it's motivating me to plant more, since i'm having success at all.

things are finally blooming around my front door too.  my jasmine plant will smell heavenly this summer each time i walk up to my door.  i'm so excited.  it helps relieve my stresses when i smell something so lovely. 

my sweet peas looked like this only 5 days ago...

dfd

...and yesterday, like this!  things are looking promising!

lack thereof

the title of the post clearly explains everything.  everything regarding the lack on this here blog, of crafty, beautiful, interesting things.  and i'm sorry!  really, i am.  i vow that this summer there will be a plethora of things...but until then, it will be hit and miss.

in the meantime, i will share a few things that i have done recently.  but you'll have to patiently wait until tomorrow, when i have time to photograph them and share them. 

xoxo,
me