9:12 am

It’s 9:12 am at the Kelley house and I’m rambling today…rambling like a fool.

*I may have, just maybe, fallen asleep on our couch for approximately 3 minutes and 14 seconds.  The boys were all sitting at our kitchen table playing play-doh…including Amon, who really just stands in a chair and looks around while throwing the cookie cutters all on the floor.  Huddy and Sol have been given strict instructions not to give him play-doh.  When I woke up startled like someone was about to murder me I quickly realized Amon had been eating this said play-doh.  How did I come to this conclusion, well A) I saw him shoveling the play-doh in his mouth, B) There was evidence on his face, particularly the corners of his mouth and C) Huddy said, “He’s been eating play-doh.”  Guilty.  Seriously guilty.  Apparently teal play-doh is super yummers.

It only took me 15 horribly blurry and fuzzy pictures to get these two.  I gave up.

*I keep forgetting to show you guys my new business card.  Dana over at Lifelines Designs does all my digital artwork for me…business and personal.  She’s done every one of my many business card designs, return labels, Facebook and blog buttons, gift card designs, etc  and she’s done tons of Christmas cards, birthday invites, Gotcha Day announcements, thank you notes, etc as well.  She is seriously the best…my total fave.  I trust her judgement and she makes things awesome and she’s fast.  Please check out her SHOP HERE and her FACEBOOK PAGE HERE.

Thank you Dana…as always, you are simply greatness.

*Last night I searched Etsy for waaaaay too long looking for Amon a cute banana shirt.  It’s lame, I know, but he digs bananas so very very much.  No luck.  Still searching.

*I bought ingredients for Bunny’s Cake.  Unfortunately it’s for a family and not us.  I kind of want to make one now for us and then re-buy the ingredients and make another one for next Friday.  Bunny’s Cake is magical and it makes me think of Mom and all my aunts. You should really just go ahead and make it…then proceed to send me email after email after email telling me how happy you are I shared this recipe with you and how it changed your life and how you think it’s kind of like manna from heaven.  Although my brother Chris would argue and say manna is really more like angel food cake, but I digress.  Make Bunny’s Cake and you can just thank me later.

*Speaking of cooking…even though I am normally really terrible at it…baking and cooking are different in my personal opionion…I made this Slow-Baked Mac & Cheese and yeah, ummmm, it’s totally delicious.  Amon ate it like he eats bananas.  We are actually not a big mac & cheese family…not for any particular reason, just none of us have ever been big fans…some of us have texture issues…but this stuff was amazing.

*I’m preparing to leave for Swaziland soon.  I am insanely excited/kind of freaked.  I’m traveling alone…and that makes me a tad nervous.  The team I’m meeting up with I do not know and I just found out I’m the only girl on the trip.  Just little things, but I’m excited and I know this is where God has put me and lead my heart.  I know it.  Several of you have asked about sending donations with me which is incredibly sweet.  I have quite the list, but the major thing our carepoint needs right now as far as supplies is pencils.  Lots and lots of pencils.  When it was asked how many to bring, they said as many as you can.  So if you would like to send something to Swaziland for these amazing kiddos, pencils are a grand idea.  Shoot me a message and I’ll let you know where to send them.

Oriental Trading got quite the hit up…not all pencils, but bubble wands and wooden Christmas ornaments and bead necklace kits too.  My agenda for the trip is literally to meet families and hang out with the carepoint kids all day long.  I’ll also be learning new ways to come along side these incredible brothers and sisters in Christ.  I’m over the moon about what God may have in store.

And now it’s 10 am.  Why yes it did take me 48 minutes to right this little post.  It quite possibly could be because I have had to stop a million times and pull Amon down from the table, stop him from turning the bathwater on (a new little lovely trick which I loathe), out of the toilet, out of the laundry room and get him out of the laundry basket which he got himself trapped in.  So maybe it wasn’t a million, but somedays it sure does feel like it.  Glad it’s Friday.  Peace out.