look at this will ya
Our tomatoes last week -
our tomatoes this week -
Can you SEE how much they've grown?
K has had a few days off and kept busy.
He's making a new side walk.
Which I MUST be involved in.
I like to sit off to the side and direct while he and Middle move stones that weigh as much as my car.
K doesn't respond well to my direction and Middle tends to do a lot of this:
a gesture which means: just shut UP and let DAD do whatever HE wants to do WITH THE DAMN ROCKS.
I'm not so good at the shutting up.
Anyway, it's going pretty well.
Do you know what else I have to show you?
These toys.
These toys which were stored all over my house but which made a harmonic convergence last week when I straightened up the basement.
I cannot part with them.
I'm not sure my children even PLAYED with them.
I think I just bought them because I LIKED THEM.
Though I did purchase them when my children were little - so it's not like I'm crazy or anything.
And, bear in mind, these are just FUN collectible toys. I have SERIOUS collectible toys too -
From when I used to attend garage sales and flea markets.
The Hermes Rocket is not a toy at all.
But it matches the Tonka truck so well that it is displayed with the toys.
And then there's this.
Where did I buy it?
I have no idea.
Why did I buy it?
No clue.
I discovered it last week and remembered that though I am not a Disney kind of gal I do appreciate Mickey. I love his little face, his expressions, his four fingers in gloves. I think Mickey is a cutie pie.
What's for dinner?
Jambalaya.
See you tomorrow.
our tomatoes this week -
Can you SEE how much they've grown?
K has had a few days off and kept busy.
He's making a new side walk.
Which I MUST be involved in.
I like to sit off to the side and direct while he and Middle move stones that weigh as much as my car.
K doesn't respond well to my direction and Middle tends to do a lot of this:
a gesture which means: just shut UP and let DAD do whatever HE wants to do WITH THE DAMN ROCKS.
I'm not so good at the shutting up.
Anyway, it's going pretty well.
Do you know what else I have to show you?
These toys.
These toys which were stored all over my house but which made a harmonic convergence last week when I straightened up the basement.
I cannot part with them.
I'm not sure my children even PLAYED with them.
I think I just bought them because I LIKED THEM.
Though I did purchase them when my children were little - so it's not like I'm crazy or anything.
And, bear in mind, these are just FUN collectible toys. I have SERIOUS collectible toys too -
From when I used to attend garage sales and flea markets.
The Hermes Rocket is not a toy at all.
But it matches the Tonka truck so well that it is displayed with the toys.
And then there's this.
Where did I buy it?
I have no idea.
Why did I buy it?
No clue.
I discovered it last week and remembered that though I am not a Disney kind of gal I do appreciate Mickey. I love his little face, his expressions, his four fingers in gloves. I think Mickey is a cutie pie.
What's for dinner?
Jambalaya.
See you tomorrow.
Comments
No?
I have a similar toy-collecting thing which, in my case, is the result of having parents who were too cheap to buy me all the ones I wanted.
Now I scour eBay for all the stuff I wanted.
Remind me to tell you of the View Master saga.
-J.
I've taken before and after pics of the plants, too. If I remember that I have a blog some day, maybe I'll post them.
LOVE the new stone walk. That K is a good egg. Well, he must be if he cam manage to get a 16 year old to help out. :) Oh, and I totally stupid-vise all of dh's projects. Someone has to point out all of his mistakes, right?
Even I here on the other side of the ocean had those toys only a couple of years ago.
paola
I had each and every one of those toys when I was little. My kids played with them when they were little, too.
I still have a lot of my old toys somewhere in a storage place in Texas, along with tons of other things that never made it to Germany.
Oh, and hello.
I'm back, making myself comfortable in the nest again.
Chop food/carry rock
Lucky You!
We had the same toys when we were kids.
If I sat outside while my husband was building a sidewalk (not that he ever would), and I commented on anything, he would throw one of the big stones in my direction.
What did you DO to those tomatoes? Add worm poop? Or do you just have the blessed soil? I am in awe.
How come nobody has noticed that you've put toys w/wheels on the stairs? YO Crazy Lady, are you trying to kill somebody?
Hey, my secret password thingy starts with BB!
And guess what? They still sell some of them (updated versions of course). I bought my lil-man the phone and he got the dog as a gift. I MUST post about it :)