Daaydreaming

1. Seeing my children smile

2. Hearing my kids laugh

3. Seeing a rainbow

4. Sitting in the grass on a nice spring day

5. Being held

6. Knowing I can drive a manual

7. Having a finished knitting project

8. Finding a geocache

9. Doing a raok

10. Seeing things that remind me of my mom

11. Hearing my dad’s voice

12. Going someplace where I never thought I would go (Dallas, the Taj Mahal, VA, Scotland)

13. Making A’s (that’s the geek in me)

14. Walking around the church across the street where I grew up

15. Hearing marching band music

16. Sitting outside and having dinner with someone special

17. Taking a good photograph

18. Watching someone you can tell is in love

19. Being in love … cause yum

20. Knowing that I don’t have to fill the quiet with talk, and knowing it’s ok

21. Sunshine

22. Hearing my beagle howl when I come home

23. Good night kisses and hugs

24. Holidays with my family

25. Knowing I’ve brought that magic into my kids life

26. Seeing my kids accomplish something they struggled with

27.Painting

28. Knitting

29. Road Trips with a GREAT friend

30. Red Shoes

31. Curling up on the couch with a lot of covers and watching movies with my boys

32. Babies

33. Listening to the ocean

34. Watching an amazing sunset

35. Cold watermelon in summer

36. Hearing a song with lyrics that remind me of someone

37. Sadly… Gadgets

38. Finding that perfect gift

39. Crossing something off my 100 things to do list

40. Watching a good movie

41. Reading a good book

42. Fresh flowers

43. Bluebonnets

44. Tulips

45. The beagle brigade

46. Freshly painted toe nails

47. The Big Bang Theory

48. Polka Dots

49. Finding a great deal

50. Going to a farmers market

51. Getting snail mail

52. Dave Matthews

53. Giving hard clues to birthday presents

54. A good nights sleep

55. Volunteering

56. The person I’m becoming

57. HUGS

58. Days off

59. The smell of jasmine flowers

60. My niece and nephew

61. Clean sheets

62. Living in Texas

63. Buffaloes

64. DDR

65. Dragonflies

66. Butterflies

67. Turquoise

68. Pumpkin Pie

69. Stephen Colbert

70. Brisket (not really, but the laugh that I know I’ll get cause it’s here.)

71. A hot bath

72. Pink Duct Tape

73. GOOD yarn!

74.Warm Towels from the dryer

75. Forced quiet

76. A new journal

77. A good pen

78. 80’s movies

79. Christmas lights

80. Hot baths

81. A clean house

82. Podcasts

83. Guys in kilts!

84. Drumlines

85. Palatas

86.  Babies laughing

87. Temple Bells

88. Ringing church bells

89. Cupcakes

90. Knitting at the yarn store

91. Listening to my kids when they don’t know I’m listening

92. Seeing all of the stars on a clear night when camping

93. A good haircut

94. Someone who takes the time to walk my slow pace

95. Postcards

96. A pen that writes well

97. Collecting shells with my boys

98.  Pay Day

99. Pretty Rocks

100. Developing my own film

a REALLY good friend from Kansas City might be coming to Texas. She’ll be driving to Houston for a graduation and wants to stay with me! YAY.Relation vacations. I’ve done my fair share of those, and will probably do more.  I’m so excited, tho. I can’t even contain myself. I’m really looking forward to some time with her and her family. Her kids are so much a part of my life, almost as close as mine. I miss them A LOT.

I’m chaperoning a band trip this Saturday. Schlitterbahn! America’s #1 water park! I’m looking forward to a day in the sun. The youngest will be hanging out to since the park is open to the public that day.  Not a bad birthday.

Finished VT hat.

Very basic hat, but it’ll be cute on a baby.

The youngest is getting ready to have a birthday. It’s hard to believe he is going to be 8!

While we were watching tv today, I asked him what he wanted for his birthday.

“I want to go to the Great Wall (the one in China) and see it for REAL!”

At least he dreams big.

I love going to baseball games! Really. I enjoy going to almost any kind of stadium, and getting lost in the energy of the crowd. I love people watching. I DO love watching the game, also, even tho there are some who read this blog who think baseball is boring. You know who you are!

The boys started off in the seats just fine. It’s one of the few times we’ve had seats at this stadium. Actually, it is the only time because I’m cheap, and they enjoy being able to get up when needed.  Notice who entranced they are with the game. Their amazing ability to focus on what’s going …..

My mom loved yellow roses. When she lived in Virginia, she used to talk to me about yellow rose trinkets that she had found up there. They reminded her of home, which was Texas. I think she really missed Texas after she moved. She had a rock garden in her yard the shape of Texas.

On my list of 100 things I need to do before I go, I have that I want to plant yellow roses for my mom. I think that would be a great reminder for me. A good way to connect with my memories, and maybe remind myself how much she loved me.

This is a very poor picture taken of the one room school house at the Zilker Botanical Gardens. The Docent, who was too gentle of a man to be leading 12 hyper boys and 4 girls, asked if the kids would rather have class here. There were two responses that I loved…

1. Yeah, George Washington would have learned us lots of interesting things.

2. YES! Cool! It looks like a jail.

The day was not dull.

There are somethings that I do, even tho I do not like them. One of them is going on class field trips. I do this because my boys ask me to go. They seem to happy, and even a little proud.

Today, we went to the Zilker Botanical Gardens. (Pictures to follow) I was amazed at the things that captured their attention the most. Caterpillars! The beautiful flowers could have been non-existent, OMG there was a caterpillar - FOLLOW IT!

Second, was the red and black Mustang that pulled through as we were waiting for the bus. The kids could read that it said, “Cobra” The boys were all excited, it’s a COBRA car come and look, and then the door, it didn’t pull out, but pushed up. The just about fell over from being so excited.

The driver, he got out with not just one, but two chicks. I think that’s what impressed the adults the most.

First there were flowers…

And some wild life ….

And the obligatory picture of kid in blue bonnets.

Spring Fever

This weather is amazing.

The mornings are cool, and the afternoons are perfect. I spent the week-end camping. Even if we did set up in the wrong spot, we were given incorrect information, AND had to move four tents. It was ok. The scout we had with us was very embarrassed that we just picked up our tent and carried them to the right location. Right past other campers. I’m sure we must have been a sight, but we got it done. To reward ourselves we headed out for dinner and got some amazing bbq. We definitely deserved it by that time.

The rest of the week-end went well. The weather was great and the company even better.

With spring coming, I’ve been itching to go out and take pictures. Hopefully, I will get some this week-end. The wildflowers have started blooming, and there are bright colors everywhere. I DO love Texas.

On the knitting front, I’ve finished knitting the condom critter from Naughty Needles, and am working on my strawberry shortcake sock. I’ve been working on that for a while. I’ve been working on a gift, and when I tried to felt it, the wool must have been superwash because the main part did not felt AT ALL. Frustrating. It was a good go at my first bit of color work, tho.

And to end a quote from last nights Big Bang Theory, “You’re like the Oompa-Loompas of science.” Do you think he was referring to the first Oompa-Loompas or the ones from the Johnny Depp movie? Sheldon is probably a purist.