Mommathon

This is a tree in our backyard. It was our first sign that fall is really here.

Colm and I made pumpkin biscuits today while Liam was at school. I love cooking with Colm, but I must say it is an exercise in damage control, that is why there are no pictures of us actually cooking. I can’t step away to get the camera for fear of what would happen. You can see by looking at his shirt that he got flour everywhere and he will not wear an apron. By the way, the dog LOVES it when Colm cooks. Not only does he get to lick the floor clean, he gets to lick Colm clean, too.

Every book I have ever read of Jodi Picoult’s is a pageturner, this one is no different. I also like that even though I have read several of her books, they are all about different topics. This one is about a woman who marries a man who is not the kind of person she thinks he is. You will want to keep reading to find out what happens next and to find out how their relationship will turn out in the end.

I don’t know why I find this website so interesting, but a friend of mine has a link to it on her blog.

www.whatsthatbug.com

It has pictures of all kinds of different types of insects. You can write them and ask them questions about insects or if you have a bug in your house, garden, etc. and you don’t know what it is you can take a picture of it, send it to them and they will tell you what it is.

The boys are going to love this when I show it to them in the morning.

Liam brought home a book today that his class wrote together called A Trip to the Beach. Each child has a page that says what they are going to bring to the beach and what they will do while they are at the beach. Most of the kids are bringing a frisbee, goggles, snacks, etc. and they are going to play frisbee, build sand castles, etc. Not my son, on his page it says he going to play his guitar and sing to the whales. Where does he come up with this stuff? I think this might have come from something he read. Kids say the darndest things!

We are finally getting Liam’s room together. He has a cowboy room and this weekend a gal came over and painted this mural on his wall and my mom is almost done with his cowboy quilt.

These words were uttered in our house yesterday. I had a nasty stomach bug yesterday that kept me from eating and left me laying on the couch wishing it was my children’s naptime all day long so I could have a naptime, too. I was achy and hot and clammy and then freezing…not good. I would like to translate for Liam. What he meant was not that he loves it when Mommy feels like crud, but that he loved staying in his jammies all day and watching a good chunk of TV. Then Grandma came over and played card games with them and gave them the kind of attention that only grandmas can. I would be more than happy to let him wear his jammies all day and I am sure Grandma would be more than happy to come over and play cards again, but let’s not wish this stomach bug on Mommy again…it’s not a lot of fun.

Why is it that when I have someplace I need to be the people around me are driving painfully, sluggishly, below the speed limit? Are they trying to irritate me? Or maybe they are just trying to tell me to slow down and that the world is not going to go into a holding pattern if I am a few minutes late to my destination.

This book is an account of the author’s family’s history of mental illness and how many of the women in her family for atleast three generations suffered from postpartum depression. She gives an honest look at her own bout with postpartum depression and how she and her husband worked through it with the help of meds, psychiatrists and the support of family and friends. As a sidenote, this book was written fairly recently-she has some things to say about Tom Cruise and his views on postpartum depression and its treatment.

After trying to eat all of the apples we picked, we have moved on to baking with the apples.

I loved Pampered Chef!

I have never made an apple pie with raisins before, but that’s what the recipe called for. I am sure it will be deeeelish!