Pickin’ Wildflowers

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So after not going to church (in person) for almost three months, this past week, I was there three times in five days. I was back early this morning, for early rehearsal, and two worship services on the praise team. It was a gorgeous sunrise this morning, and nice cool, fall weather, and it was just glorious!

And this pumpkin spice iced coffee definitely added to the lovely fall-ish-ness of the morning!

 

 

Emmie and Daddy had lots of good snuggle times together at home this morning, even though Emerson had a meltdown about changing out of her jammies to run an errand with Daddy, so she didn’t change, and they didn’t go. Which was fine, and they were content at home.

Daddy even made her a homemade uncrustable PB&J for lunch, with our fancy little Pampered Chef edge press tool thingy… whatever it’s called 😉

I grabbed some pizza and cheesey bread on the way home from church, and Emerson decided she needed second lunch with us.

 

We did books and naptime after lunch, and then Jeff and I also hopped in bed and I napped hard. I usually say I don’t nap very well (meaning it’s super short, or I wake up every 10 minutes), but I slept like the dead for about two hours, barely even moving, and it was a a goooood nap.

 

 

Emerson even woke up before I did, so Jeff got up with her and let me sleep about 30 minutes longer, while they snuggled and played.

And apparently I got a few more Amazon prime day packages delivered today…

After I woke up, Jeff pulled our cars out of the carport, and Emmie went out and scooted around for a long time. Then she started running around the front yard, and picking all the little wildflower weeds to bring back for me. It was so incredibly sweet and precious, and made me so happy.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Then she started adorning her scooter with the little flowers (the idea was completely her own), and I was loving it!

She wanted me to keep the tiny flowers she picked me, so I found a tiny mason jar, and put them in the kitchen window. And they’re precious!

We finally got around to potting this plant in the new pot I got a couple of weeks ago. I had just set the grow pot down inside the new one, so today we put about an inch or two of river pebbles in the bottom, since it didn’t have a drainage hole, and added new soil. It was so stuck inside the grow pot, that Jeff had to cut it out and the poor thing was already very root-bound. Hopefully it will become healthier and thrive in it’s new, much bigger pot!

 

 

Emmie rocked her little puppy, while I made dinner.

 

 

I ordered these turkey burgers for the first time in my Walmart order, and they were super good! I sliced up a whole onion and caramelized them in a skillet while the burgers cooked, and it all turned out delicious. All three of us loved the burgers, and I’m glad we have a few leftover for lunches this upcoming week.

 

Emerson ended up wanting her burger patty cut into bites, and to sit in Daddy’s lap, while he fork-fed her bites dipped in ketchup. But she ended up eating almost the entire thing that way, and loved the black eyed peas.

 

We got this little kids’ travel air mattress to use on our camping trip this coming weekend, and Emmie needed to test it out tonight. So jeff blew it up, and Emerson loved it. She thought it was the greatest thing ever. Now, I’m just hoping she will actually sleep on it for the weekend!

 

 

We had a video call with Nana, and then Grammy, Papa & Grandmommie, and did our bedtime routine with books and lullabies.

 

 

She was so super sweet again at bedtime tonight. For lullabies, she laid down in her bed, and I leaned over the side. Instead of her hold my fingers with her tiny hands like usual, she was hugging my arm & my hand, and just smiling up at me with the biggest, sweetest smile on her little face. She was so cute, and I was smiling so big back at her, and we were just having the best moment. Towards the end, she said, “Why are you so happy, Mommy?” I laughed and said, “Because YOU make me so happy, my girl.” She leaned up and put her tiny arms around my neck, and I almost melted with the sweetness. UGH, she just kills me!!! She’s the very best girl and I love her so much.

I hope she grows up to remember a sweet, fun, magical childhood, full of memories like afternoons spent riding her scooter in the carport, while still wearing jammies from the night before, and picking wildflower weeks growing in our front yard.

 

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Bagels, Chores and New Lights

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(This post is for Saturday, 10/17.)

Emerson was up at 6:15am this morning (as usual really), and dressed before it was even 7am. Since she didn’t have her sleepover with Nana, she still wanted to spend the day with Nana, and was ready to go before Nana was even awake! She wanted to go out and check the weather, and did a little lap around the yard in her “new” shoes we bought at the One Week Boutique consignment last year, that finally fit her.

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The Laziest Saturday

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Tater Tot woke up around 6am, ready to get going for the day, so we headed to the living room to cuddle on the couch and watch Frozen II. She sat still with me for a while (and I dozed on & off), then she grabbed her lunch box can filter full of snacks, and proceeded to eat a granola bar. I was mostly awake for the second half of the movie, and actually cried a little bit towards the end of the movie, so I was all emotional and worked up crying over a movie at 8:00 a.m. like a crazy person!

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Fire Jacket

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(This should have been the post for Thursday, 10/8. I wrote the whole thing that might, but wasn’t able to upload photos into the post. So here we go now!)

Well, we did not have a good drop-off today, and both Emmie and Mommy were crying when I left. Ms. Renee was holding her, and they were gonna watch for the triplets to get there, but as I turned to leave, through sobs she said, “Will you come back for me later, Mommy?” And as I said, “Of course I will baby, I promise,” I started crying then. (Typing it now makes me tear up again, it was so pitiful.)


But by the time Megan & Bo and the babies got there about 15 minutes later, Meg said Emmie was in much better spirits, and greeted them at the door to help get the girls to class!



For lunch today, I prepped a ton of veggies, grabbed a fresh pita from home, and brought the last bits of our Sahara leftovers. I used all that to make a super yummy chicken pita, and I dipped the veggies in the hummus, and everything was so good!


When Meg & Bo got there again at the end of the day, Emmie’s class was about to head out to the playground (which she’s still not supposed to okay on for another week), so she was kind of upset about that. So instead, Ms. Renee let Emmie help get everyone out to the can, and Emmie got to see their “magic doors,” which just close with the touch of a button 😆




From her report, it looked like she had a good day. You can see her doing some painting there for arts and crafts time, and when I picked her up after work, she came out to me wearing this, which she said was her “fire jacket!”






And since she was such a sad girl this morning and I didn’t get good pics of her dress, I snapped a few at the end of the day, because it was new and so cute and she was happy!



While I worked on getting dinner ready at home, Jeff happened to find this old hat of his, so Emerson wanted to wear it around the house for a few minutes.



Once I got the chicken fajitas in the oven to bake, I came and snuggled with her on the couch for a few minutes. She leaned in to give me a hug and kept sniffing the front of my dress. I asked her “What do I smell like?” And she said, “Mmmmm, like Mommy and fruit vegetables!”

After after my friend from church Kathryn brought us chicken oven fajitas a couple weeks ago, I decided I want to try it myself. I looked up a few recipes, and figured they were all about the same, so then I kind of just winged it on my own. they turned out good, but honestly not quite as good as Kathryn’s so apparently I’m going to need to get her exact recipe! And yes I’m still using her dish, since we haven’t been back to church to give it to her yet 😉





After dinner, Jeff was working on rearranging his computer and desk, so he would have more space to continue working from home. He was drilling some holes in the walls to run some cables, and Emerson didn’t like the noise, so we grabbed her tablet and headphones and headed back to her room to play back there for a while.


We didn’t have long there before bedtime, so we got her in her jammies, and she meant to pick it up bedtime snack, and of course chose another bag of Cheetos. She only ate about half the bag tonight, and asked to save the rest for the morning, so I guess she’s having cheetahs for her pre-breakfast appetizer snack before school tomorrow, haha. 😊




She did good with bad time and didn’t put up too much of a fight, although she did try to call me in there about 10 minutes after I had laid her down, to tell me she wasn’t sleep and she needed one more lullaby. I gave her lots of kisses and rubbed her back, and told her she was fine, and she did just roll back over and quiet down.

Since we ate off paper plates and used plastic forks, really dishes we had were the ones I cooked in. I had rinsed those out earlier, so they’re at least rinsed and just sitting in the sink, and I’ll deal with them later… Maybe… Or maybe just tomorrow.

For now, I’m going to eat my little dessert snack, that I stole from my uncle Keith. He posted last week about making this, and I tried it myself, and added a couple things. It’s basically like individual little pumpkin pie sandwiches! spread pumpkin and whipped cream on graham crackers, add a few shakes of cinnamon and pumpkin pie spice, and put in the freezer for a little while, then eat! And they’re super yummy!

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Pink Pajamas

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Today was pajama day at school, and they had little “breast cancer awareness month” parties this afternoon with pink lemonade and cookies. So we chose to wear pink jammies specifically, for breast cancer pink. (Since I haven’t mentioned it on here recently, and just in case you don’t know, both my Mama and Aunt Suzanne are breast cancer survivors, so it means a lot in our family!)

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Sleep Loose

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Little Emmie didn’t have a great drop-off again today, but it was at least a little better than yesterday. Yesterday, they had to peel her off of me crying (which was terrible, and I cried to leave her), but today, even though she was upset, she did walk straight into Ms. Renee’s arms, and let her pick her up. She was still upset and sniveling a little, but it was at least smoother today.

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