Has It Been That Long?

One might say I have been asleep at the wheel of my blog and needed to pull over for a power nap and get back ON IT!!

Well, 218 days later here I am!! YAY!! I have been oh so busy....

Let me count the ways...

1. Children

2. Home

7. Garden

12. Dog

35. Church

44. Family

59. Trips

78. Yard sales

234. Fending off killer ninjas

698. Trying to change my food intake

1,099. Meals

2,900. Remodeling a room in my barn for my Vintage shop (4th AVENUE)

3,200. Face painting at the Western Washington State Fair

5,500. School ending and starting

6,300. on

112,000. and

459,00. on

760,000. and

1,999,999. on!

Well, aren't we all busy?

Ahhhhhhhhh

It took me 40 minutes, scratch that.....1 hour to try and figure out how to change my playlist!

I am soooooo slow at these things!

Listen to margeemays Playlist

Its a new year

I am here...Ready for the new year!

Just after this next nap I take...

What is new for this year, my predictions, my hopes and wants/needs?

Well three big things checked off my list this year already are:

1. Parley is in the double digits now! My 10 year old boy!

2. We returned successfully from a 2 1/2 week fun Christmas vacation

in Cheyenne, WY with Dan's family!

And 3. My littlest brother was married to a wonderful girl, Kim!

I hope to have more fun sales with 4th Avenue Gals,

Laugh more, Love deeper,

keep on working on the house and garden,

be a better person for my family, friends, and country,

get more organized

and just enjoy life more!!

The weight of the domestic life...

Sometimes do you feel like this poor household faerie?

With the weight of the world of cleaning on you?

WELL...check out this blog, have some fun, and don't worry

because cleaning can wait this time!!

http://graphicsfairymylife.blogspot.com

I love this site!!!!

Loving the North West

There is just something magical to me when

in November

flowers can still bloom.

I grew up in the western states in the north for the most part of my life except for 5 months in Georgia and 4 in Florida.

So to see a daisy blooming amongst all the dead and rotted ones,

(because I have been too lazy and busy to get outside and clean up!)

and a rose bud ready to burst, my simple pleasure-o-meter always pops off the charts!!

Ahhhhhhhh! Sweet bliss!

So Happy November.

FIND THE BEAUTY!

No matter where your are or in the situation you are in.

Tender mercies are everywhere!

A time for Birthdays

Preston's Birthday is 4 days before Dan's.

We headed over to Spokane to visit my sister and her family for Preston's big day.

He wanted to celebrate #7 it over there.

We had lots of fun!!

Then time for Dan's birthday...no matter how old you get, (#37)

indeed you should have that many candles to blow out!!

What a flame on that baby!

I made it easy for him and put them all

together though so he wouldn't get so winded!!

His favorite present of all was inspired

from a phrase our sweet, quick-witted daughter calls her father.

(Especially when he asks her to behave or

to do something contrary to what she wants to do.)

Thus.....the "Benevolent Dictator" was born.

Isn't that an oxymoron?

You got to love parenthood, or at least find the

moments to laugh at it before you crack!

Especially when you wonder what alien form

took control of your child's mind and attitude,

praying someday you can bring them back to earth.