It's the Little Things...

that make every day wonderful. We have been crazy busy over the summer which you, I am sure, noticed by my lack of blogging. It has nothing to do with a lack of material, just time. Anyway, last week Jacob went back to school. This is his first year to be gone all day. I was worried that the adjustment would be hard (for me; him, not so much). Anyway, I was also excited about the prospect of having more time alone with Ethan and the opportunity to do some things that quite frankly just don't get done when there are two little boys and one big boy hanging around the house. I love them all to distraction, I think that is the problem.

On Monday, my dear friend Rachel came over with her little girl. While Ethan and Hope played (very well I might add) Rachel and I scrapped our little hearts out. I was amazed at the amount of scrapbooking I got done in such a short time. And, when she left for an hour to run an errand, I did a few chores. It was amazing. (Am I tooting my own horn a little?).



As a side note, Rachel and I put both Ethan and Hope down for a nap while we did a little more scrappin', and they both slept really good. Poor Ethan was so worn out that I had to wake him up to go and get Jacob. When I went in to get him and saw how precious he looked I had to grab the camera. Even the flash didn't wake him up.


On Tuesday, I was able to drop Jacob off at school and then go into town to meet with the ladies from our Mom's group at our church. It was wonderful to get together with these ladies again. It is a chaotic hour and a half, but so much fun. Afterwards, Ethan and I went to Sam's Club to get some goodies and then came home and had lunch. When I put him down for his nap I came back upstairs to my scrapbook desk and decided to reorganize (again!). But, this time I made labels!!

Today I decided that Ethan and I were going to make some treats. I found a recipe on a website that I frequent and it looked almost too easy. (Isn't there a saying about that somewhere?) Anyway, Ethan and I decided to make pretzel hugs. I didn't have any Hershey's Hugs, but I had Kisses -- "Surely they will work". Uhh, no. I thought that maybe they were just old because I had dug them out of the candy jar. I still had an unopened package so I thought I'd try those. No again. Ok, is it because they are Kisses and not Hugs? Is there a big difference (besides the stripes, of course) that I am unaware of?? HHMMMM. So, Ethan and I hop into the van and drive up to Felpausch. "Surely they will have some Hugs". No. Seriously?? Ok, so I also heard that you could also use Rolo's. We gave it a try and it finally worked. Wow, I thought it looked too easy. At least we were successful and I guess it was a lesson to Ethan on persistence (or stubbornness, whichever way you want to look at it).

Don't they make your mouth water??