Archives for December 2012

Well the Kelleys are dropping like flies.  Harper is still sick and now I have the croup too.  I’ve slept almost the entire day and in the words of Brea…I feel like death on a cracker.  It is not pretty.  Amon now has a suspiciously croupy sounding couch and I’m just praying he doesn’t get it.  And Huddy started complaining about his throat tonight and had to take 3 hits off his inhaler.  Big time ugh.  Praying it all passes quickly.

Harper and I have been full on down.  It’s miserable.  I’m laying on the couch right now thinking about going back to bed as soon as I finish typing this post.  Josh has been our nurse and for the most part the boys have been…well, the boys.

We were going to mail happy packages today.  The wee Kelleys decided we should mail surprises to all their cousins.  They picked out all the treats last week and they helped me package everything up.

And now they’re still sitting by our back door.  I have a good feeling Josh Kelley will be knocking out two kindness deeds tomorrow…alone…while we sleep and movie watch…again…the day away.

Now I think I’m going back to bed.  This has been a record breaking sleep day for me.  The croup is no friend of mine.

Happy sickly Sunday.

Today’s kindness seemed small and so very insignificant when realizing what happened in Connecticut yesterday.  We were so out of the loop yesterday.  I didn’t find out what had happened until last night and was just floored.  God’s sweet children…and their families…just heartbreaking.  God quickly brought to my mind that this world is not our home.  We are in this world, but not of it.  And no matter how small the deed, kindness most definitely still matters.

Due to Harper being sick and Josh having a prior early morning commitment I was unable to go to my cross fit class this morning, so I took the Gatorade to our friend Jonathan and he handed them out this morning for me.  It’s okay to call for back up.

Tomorrow we will be using the friendly post office machine…it’s my favorite.  No lines and no wait.  Joy.

We stayed home all day.  Harper did a lot of this.

And a whole lot of laying around…again.  She has been struggling with her breathing.  She most definitely has the croup, so in the freezer she goes to open up those little lungs.

I also got busy decorating the cookies we’ll be delivering to Harper’s school on Monday.  They deserve some big love on Monday.

Pressing on with kindness tomorrow and praying bold prayers for our nation tonight.  Praying for the brokenhearted.  Thanking Jesus this is not our home.

He will wipe every tear from their eyes.  There will be no more death or mourning or crying or pain, for the old order of things has passed away.  Revelations 21:4

Today we were suppose to be passing out sheets of stickers to kiddos shopping with their parents, but today ‘suppose’ is the key word.  Life happens some days and that is something I have had to learn to be okay with.  Harper starts school at 7:15 and before 8 she was back in the car with a fever.  I had to pick her up in the nurses’ office…9 kiddos were out in her class.  She even walked to the nurses office with 2 other classmates who were going home also.  Sick kids are sad.

I’m a big, “let’s keep germs to ourselves” kind of person, so there was no passing out stickers today.  Instead it was a full on lay-on-the-couch-and-watch-movies-all-day kind of day.

I’m usually the mom who waits way too long to take her kids to the doctors office, but her class has flu and strep cases, and since we have a little heart baby in the house, we hit up the doctors office.  Super relieved she was negative for both.

Since we were home the entire day and everyone was a bit on the lazy side, I kind of took advantage of the time and got a head start on some of our kindness for next week.  Cookie delivery.

My most favorite Christmas tree cookie cutter ever.  Too fun.

And for tomorrow’s kindness I called in some back-up.  Josh has a big day with his baseball team starting way early and now Harper is sick, so I won’t be able to make my class in the morning.  It’s okay to call in for back-up…kindness will still be shared.

I’ve got a big night planned…I won’t lie…it’s gonna get pretty crazy.  It involves our couch and a movie.  I’m tired and glad the weekend is here.  I think it will be just right.

Have a grand weekend.  Happy Friday!

I am a visual person.  I need visual reminders for just about everything.  I am constantly writing on the outside of my hand with a Sharpie to remind me of things to do and pick up at the store and appointment times.  It’s just what I do.

This morning when I got up, I was a bit out of it.  It was super early, Amon hadn’t had the best night and frankly, I’m currently pretty much completely exhausted.  Zonked.  So when I looked in the mirror and saw a red blotchy message on the side of my face at first I thought, “I must have a rash” and then I realized that yes in fact, it was the red Sharpie reminder I had written on my hand the night before about meeting Brooke today.  I was then almost late meeting my running peeps due to trying to scrub it off…I bailed on the idea and tugged on my toboggan to cover the dorky faced mess I was sporting.  It was dark…no one noticed.

I wish I would have taken a better picture, but alas 4:45am isn’t my best time of the day.  Ha.

When I got back all the kids were up and we headed out to do our kindness advent for the day.  One of the best things you can do is bless a teacher.  There are amazing teachers out there who work extremely hard and pour their time, energy and money into their kiddos.  They deserve to be thanked and shown crazy appreciation.  I had Mrs. Tanner send us a list of things she was needing for her class and then the wee Kelleys and I did some shopping.  Today we delivered all the goodies.  We just adore Mrs. Tanner.

And yep…Harper looks like she belongs to Mrs. Tanner.

Tomorrow we’re going to be blessings some random kiddos shopping with their parents.

And I will leave you with some “Amon really wants to crawl and is a pretty stinkin’ cute baby” pictures.

Aaaand….you’re welcome.

Happy Thursday!

We were going to send flowers today, but when I told the kids who we were sending flowers to Huddy insisted we take them ourselves, “Why are we sending them when we know where she lives?”  Cute boy.  I was down with that.  Harper has plans for after school, so the boys and I went solo this time.  Huddy wanted to carry the flowers.  This was a risky move.  In my head I saw a shattered mason jar with flowers scattered everywhere all over the floor of the post office, but he hugged them tightly and handed them over with pure success.  Ms. Sandra, the recipient, is so good to our family and completely deserved a little extra loving today.

Tomorrow will be fun.  We’ll be spreading some kindness to Harper’s classroom.

After our flower drop off we hit up Target.  Pretty sure the Kelley family could keep Target in business all by ourselves.  And oh their popcorn…dreamy Target popcorn…don’t even get me started…The.Best.

And after the wee Kelleys rummaged through the key fobs I made yesterday and decided on which ones they wanted to give each of their teachers, I had a few leftover.  These are up for grabs as a set. $36.  Send me an email or use the “Contact Laura” button at the top if you are interested in the set.  I’ll ship them out asap.

**Update:  The set has already sold.  Thanks.**

Happy Wednesday.

Our goodies for our trash guy did not get dumped into the back of his truck.  It’s always a real nail biter waiting to see what happens.  I did however forget that the top of our trash can had gone missing…have no clue about that one…so I had to balance the treat just right on the edge of the trash can.  I felt like a risk taker.  Success.

Our dude was a little late today so Harper missed out on seeing the excitement.  The boys however were on it.  He just smiled and waved at them and the boys loved it.

And tomorrow will be a good day for kindness.  I just know it.

Today has been one of those days.  It started with tears from me about one of my baking pans getting rusty…I am clearly crazy…the first part of recovery is recognizing you have a problem…right?  The holidays are just that way for me now.  And mix in having to do some more work at my Mom’s house and listing her house for sale and I am liable to cry over just about anything.  It’s just how things are currently.  And that’s okay.  I kind of feel like this guy looks.  Anybody else still have rotting pumpkins laying around their yard?  No?  Just us?

Spending the day with this little man made today a whole lot better.

I can’t wait for him to take off.  It’s going to be any day now, I just know it.

I had the best of intentions for opening more order spots before Christmas, but alas, here we are.  It always goes down this way.  There are just too many things I want to make for presents and friends and family, so my time fills up with personal crafty goodness.  It was some fine medicine for today though.

Hope your day has been good.  Hope it has been rotten like our old pumpkins.  Did you do anything fun?  Did you spread any kindness?  I would love to hear about it.

Happy Tuesday.