'Round Here

I have a half dozen unfinished posts and a few more in my head that I may or may not get to in the near future. 'Round here we've been busy doing this:

The packing and planning is going well, I feel confident and capable and my back is holding (yay for good health!) But I feel like in order to get it all done with two kids underfoot, I have to spend all my free time working on it, and then some. So I've been neglecting this blog, and friends, among other things.

So far I have 24 boxes packed and some pretty clean closets. I've lost count but we have taken at least 3 dozen of bags to the thrift store (about 7 or so loads to Goodwill in our little Focus). But my house is usually in disarray since I'm always in the middle of packing something and that is getting old. D-day for me and the girls is April 14, which is 2 1/2 weeks away.

Hopefully by then, all of this (photo taken yesterday)

will be melted and gone, gone away. A little crazy that I can't pack up the winter stuff yes? Well, that's Minnesota! And here we are trying to love it! It was a nice day, into the 40s, so we went for a walk.
And the real reason for squeezing this post today? Photo Shoot!

My daughter finally has enough hair to put in foam curlers and she let me do it last night. It was a bit of a whim and it was strange how excited and nostalgic I was to do it (my mom put is in curlers all the time for church. And a good portion of the time I hated sleeping in them, but still. It felt really cool to be doing something with my daughter that my mom did with me SO many times. (And yeah, all the words to describe it for ya are "really cool.")

So after our bonding experience (so cute how she played with the curlers while I was doing it, reminded me of Becca how she pretended they were little people and had them talking to each other and playing with each other and doing their voices and everything):


We were able to get these sweet shots today after church:





Those were for you, Mom!