Tuesday Treats!

One cute picture from yesterday... Cayden and his Daddy reading a fabulous book together!! Cayden really had to get a better look at the monkey in the picture!!

Of course, I must mention that one of Tuesdays Treats is the great way I feel after Monday Yoga class with Dagmara!  Class is every Monday at Meigan's, where we have the beautiful Lake Erie as a backdrop, at 6 pm.  Join us!! Cost is $10 per person.  Dagmara is just the best instructor!
We have been practicing with her for months now and we are all impressed with how we have improved!  
Well, until she had us "FLIP OUR DOG"  WHAT???

We had some special guests join us for the end of our class... Danny Warkin and his sister Emily!   Here is Aunt Katie, the bride to be, helping Danny strike a pose with his grandma Meigan!

Have a lovely Tuesday... find some treats for yourself!

Monday's Big News!

We had a pretty eventful Sunday around here!! It started off with Cyle bringing Cayden to my house at 6am so that he could go do a roofing job.  Bridget worked Saturday night to Sunday at 7 am.  She wanted me to bring Cayden to Fairview Hospital to have the blood work his pediatrician ordered done.  So we packed up and headed there at about 6:15.  The doctor and nurses working were all just smitten with this boy!  Of course he was all smiles until it was time for the needles and tubes!  He did a good job...  but that was only the first traumatic event of the day.  Have you seen Bridget's Blog?  Check it out here. 
This is a picture of Cayden, looking excited at the Snip-it shop!  Many fun things to look at and many bright colors!  They called his name and...

the crying began, again!  No sucker or animal cracker could stop him... he had had enough for one day!  Well he did calm down to take a good look at Danielle.  He probably just wants to remember her face so he can be more prepared next time!  Seriously, this girl cut hair so fast it would make your head swim!  She was so sweet to Cayden, trying to hurry the haircut up so he would stop crying!

Just look at how he checked her out!   When he was finished, the smiles came right back!  Cayden just looks so grown up with his new haircut! Mommy looks pretty proud, doesn't she?

We headed off to lunch and home, where Cayden took a long, long, long, nap!

Hope you had a fun weekend!

Big Day is finally here...

The day is here... moving day!  Things are looking good, everything in its properly marked box... New Jersey, Tulsa, Camp or Florida.  Items stored at the warehouse to move later to its final home ~ items sent to good will ~ items dispersed to friends, to friends children, anyone who might want or need them.  Roxi and Rick are so generous!  Even left the ferns for the new owners!!
Rick, me and Roxi... after we worked to clean and clear!  They are just exhausted!  To sell your house and close in 3 weeks is a bit much, I'd say.  They would never agree to it again!!  So much to do and so little time, but they did it!!

I did my best, then, just to hug and kiss each of them, say see ya, and be on my merry (teary) way.  After all... they are just off to PA!!  Safe Travels!

Peace....

This week's challenge ... Peace.  I hope I interpreted this correctly... I shot things I find Peace-Full!  Thanks Beth from I should be folding laundry for hosting these weekly challenges!

Here are my submissions...
Nothing like reading a good book on my Kindle, while in bed! Peace and Quiet!  Currently reading The Help.

Everyone will snap one of these... here's mine!!   Molly in her slumber, so very precious and peaceful!
A wonderful tub of bubbles, candles, and again that great book, one you just can't put down!  

And lastly...

             "PEACE OUT EVERYBODY"!

Check out more PEACE here!

Road Trip to Dan and Dag's house!

We loaded into the car this morning for a quick run over to Dan and Dag's to see the new bathroom flooring Papa and Cousin Larry installed!  Dan and Dag are so lucky to have family that loves to help with remodeling projects!  Family, and FRIENDS, I should say!!  I love to peek at the girls with my rear view mirror, so I grabbed my camera and took a shot!  I love how it turned out!

Molly singing... " I want to move it, move it!"

Dagmara greeting us at the side door, paint bucket in hand!  This girl has done more painting in the last month than Van Gogh did in a life time!!!  She even plans to paint the living room next.  Today's project was the master bath.  It is all looking fabulous!

Molly and Sarah love to curl up in Dag's "tilting chair"!!  We had a quick visit today but the girls can't wait to go back and play in Dagmara's big basement again!!

Tuesday Treats!

Little feet...
Sarah Rose ~ the ballerina
Molly Carolyn ~ the fashion icon!

Townsend Cayden ~ taking a stand!

Murts

My good friends, standing in their backyard, smiling.  I can see what's behind the smiles.  Thoughts of a lifetime spent here, memories that will last forever, feelings of togetherness ~one last time~  here in ... the one place called HOME.  Aren't they just the sweetest looking family?  Rick, Roxi, Chad, Selena, Melissa, Jason and of course Mason.  I will hunt them down, where ever they are...where ever they go... It doesn't matter to me... I will find them!!!

Something I overheard...

While out to lunch this weekend with Beckie, Don, Bridget, Sarah, Molly, and Cayden, we were seated at a table near a big screen tv.  On the tv was a football game... no idea who or where, but this is what I overheard from across the table.

Sarah: Hey Daddy... LOOK!  Your favorite cartoon is on!

So Excited... we could just MELT!

Are they?  I love the musical WICKED!  I have seen it twice now and have been very obsessed with the music.  Melissa and Tim bought me the Wicked ~The Grimmerie~A Behind The Scenes Look At The Hit Broadway Musical as a gift and my little Sarah got her hands on it one day last year.  So I let her look at the pictures and listen to the CD and soon enough she was belting out the songs right along with me!!
"Please play "The Baby's Coming" part Meme... "Like a froggy, ferny, cabbage... The Baby is unnaturally  ~   G R E E N !"
So I could not wait for the musical to come back to Cleveland and guess what... and guess who's going?  You got it ~ me and my little theater partner, Sarah Rose!  She once watched the making of some musicals on tv and saw that in New York, children would dress like witches~green faces and all, so that is her intention too!  I was able to get seats early since I am a season ticked holder and I got really great seats!  I am so excited, can you tell?  This will mark her 4th experience at Playhouse Square and she is such a good little patron at the theater!  It is my pleasure to have her with me and I love that we have these special excursions to share together.  I am hoping that we are making memories that will last her a lifetime and that she will always want to go with her Meme to the theater!
Sarah and Me on our last date to the theater when we saw Mary Poppins!  Isn't she darling?

Mrs Walton's First Grade

Beckie was busy setting up her classroom with her girls when Cayden and I got there today!  Check out her colroful classroom!  Beckie is just the BEST teacher!  She is so great with children and those who end up in her class just love her!!  

This board show Phonic Dance... a really exciting way to teach phonic through song... You know I just love that!

Cayden and Molly enjoying some class time together!
Fun signs teach us some lessons!  Sarah especially loves the courage one, of course, she is the one smiling and doing the "right things"!!


Hey Mrs. Walton,

    You make me incredibly proud!  Your classroom is always amazing, a place where children love to spend their days in, a place with a teacher who always shows them how valuable they are and teaches them to grow everyday into great little people!!  I love you!