wednesday chit chat

I have stuff to say, but nothing worth it's own post, so it's chit chat time...

first, let's talk about my mental state (insert me laughing insanely).

Jack's little cold has spread now to everyone except Noah (he's always the last man standing.) We're all stuffy, coughing, icky...real cool, Jack. Real cool.

To make things more interesting, I'm still pulling double duty while Jarrod is crazy busy with work right now. Deeeep sigh.....

So let's talk about happier things, shall we?

This past weekend, we went to check out some waterfalls.

There's lots of waterfalls where we live, did you know that? I know, pretty cool.

Check out Noah in this picture above...he was SO excited he climbed so high.

I personally was uncomfortable with it...

the other two were crying as I held onto their arms because they couldn't climb it.

I promise it was more fun than I'm making it sound, it's just that wet slippery rocks that could lead to a painful death makes me nervous with little ones.

I ordered my Christmas card on Saturday.

And I got them yesterday! Wow, huh??

I'm so happy with how they turned out too...I kinda sorta "designed" it myself, which was basically just add our names and a piece of digital tape stuff, but I still wasn't sure how it would look printed.

I'm happy....

I'll show you the hold card later...yes, there's an inside.

Now I have to get them addressed and ready to go...maybe I'll be FIRST this year!!

(there is a secret competition to get your cards out first.)

I made this for breakfast this morning.

It's basically a dessert. Whoops.

I used raspberries rather than blackberries.

I liked it, Noah liked it, the little two didn't...oh well.

Can't win 'em all.

Source: laurenslatest.com via Alicia on Pinterest

I've been trying to implement a few organizational things around the house.
There's things that are not running as smoothly as I'd like...
more on that later.

I stayed up till 2:30am finishing THIS book. I just couldn't stop. I was hooked!

It was soooo good. I am drawn to WWII stories for some reason. This was so good, about a soldier's wife on the French island of Guernsey. While her husband is away fighting, the Germans occupy her island and some of them move into the house next door. And yes, she falls in love with one of them. It is so good. I get so sucked into good books, I think about them for days. Now I need another book....

Did you see my last post about The Jesse Tree?

If not, you should go read it.

I'm SO excited that several of you are going to be doing this tradition this year with your families! SO excited! There are still a couple left, so email Robin if you want one! (moslander123@gmail.com).

Post about it! I wanna see pics of the Jesse Tree at your house too!

As for my Christmas stuff, I'm feeling generous today...

want free shipping off everything in my SHOP today?

Awww, that's so sweet right?

I know...just use the code ALICIASNICE till Friday and you can have free shipping!

Yeah!

I better go. I need to do something today...like iron.

Boo.

Random pic to finish off my random post....