December 8

Today for our kindness advent we bought up lots of toiletries to stuff stockings for some sweet young adults.  We love being a part of the extension of foster care here in Tennessee which assists really amazing 18-21 year olds.

Tomorrow we are leaving treats for our trash guy.  Cookies, thank you notes and a Starbucks card because he’s awesome!

A few random things:

*You know how there are always those few random lonely bananas in the banana produce area at the grocery store???  The ones that have either fallen off or someone has pulled off because they wanted a smaller number of bananas.  If I see them, I have to buy them.  It’s a serious problem.  I don’t know why…they just kind of call to me.  “Take me home Laura.”  “I’m a lonely banana.”  So I do.  And then Amon eats them.  He eats approximately 37 bananas a week.

And before I get asked, why yes, yes we do have rabbit ears for our t.v.

*I have received a hilarious amount of emails and comments about my house slippers…the ones I turned into outside the house house shoes.  My friends Eric and Chelsea gave them to me when Josh was in Nepal and Amon was puking his guts out.  Anyways, I saw Chelsea last night and she said she got them at Target.  Now everyone go forth and purchase a pair.

*Have you heard of Dressember?  Well it’s awesome.  Click on the link and watch the video.  I absolutely love this quote:

Don’t ever underestimate the importance you can have, because history has shown us that courage can be contagious and hope can take on a life of its own.” -Michelle Obama

  Women are raising money for the International Justice Mission this year.  It simply makes my heart want to burst and my friend Jessica is going after 10K for the IJM.  She’s over half way there and we can help her reach this goal and further the incredible work the IJM is doing.  Head over to Jessica’s PAGE and donate today!

*Josh Kelley snapped these while I was away and it made me want to melt into a big drippy puddle.  One of Hudson’s chores is taking out the trash and recyclables and Solomon offered to help him.  I love being their mom.  It’s a total honor.

 *Today is the last day to place an order to ensure your order arrives by Christmas because I’m a tad slammed.  You can still place orders after today, but I just can’t guarentee them by Christmas if they are gifts.  Email me at pitterpatterart at gmail dot com if you have any questions.

*And Amon and I are both getting a crown on a tooth this month.  A) My teeth totally went to crap after having Harper.  I had impeccable teeth for 25 years.  Alas.  B) Poor Amon has an undeveloped 2 year molar and that sucker is hurting him something awful.  It’s the weirdest looking thing too.  So his dentist is putting a crown on it because it has zero enamel and he won’t lose it until around age 12.  They won’t sedate him and he’s totally going to scream his head off so they scheduled us for super early in the morning while no one else is there.  This cracked me up.  Kid dentist’s surely will have extra jewels in their crowns.

Now I’m off to work like crazy.  And I might fix myself a little sea salt caramel hot chocolate because hey, it’s Monday!

5 Comments

  1. I had hot chocolate during Wyatt’s nap time, and my excuse was Monday as well 🙂

  2. Jen McGowan says:

    We are looking for a kids dentist…do you mind me asking where y’all go?

    • Well all my big kids go to another dentist, but they wouldn’t see Amon since he’s only 2. I took Amon to Mary Beth Tabor at Kid City Smiles in Hendersonville…crazy nice lady!!!

  3. Charlie herndon says:

    You are drawn to bananas because you ARE bananas! LOL

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