The water is on at the science museum! We went today, despite the lack of sun and heat. Plenty of humidity though!

Lex built a pretty cool “shower” with the pipes and fountains. It was actually a pretty COLD shower!

They sure are growing up!

Flashback – check out this post from 2008!

BEGIN STREAM OF CONSCIENCE: Sorry I’ve been pretty MIA around here. I’m trying to do it all and barely eeking by! I painted the bathroom and am now working on decorating (hopefully a blog post for that someday), I’m subbing a lot, trying to get my teaching placements worked out for next year, trying (and sadly not succeeding) to eat well and exercise. The kids are in soccer once a week and I always wonder how so many families do hockey and lacrosse and other 4-day a week sports plus games on weekends! Lex’s birthday is this weekend. We are making party plans and the baking will begin soon. :) I’ll be back around these parts again some day. These days I rarely even have my computer on! I took pictures off the camera tonight and found only five! I don’t even remember the last time I did it. I guess my kids are no longer adorable babies worthy of photographing constantly. :/ Sigh. I’ve got more to do tonight. Love to all.

The bread is soft, and warm, and round.
Grab some butter, let’s go to town.
One loaf for you and one loaf for me,
And we’ll be as fat as fat can be.

Happy Mother’s Day to me, and my momma, and all the other awesome mothers (and soon-to-be mothers!) out there!!

Today I got to sleep in and woke to the smell of french toast on the griddle. Yum! I came downstairs to a hot cup of tea, delicious breakfast, and a pile of cards from the kids. All week they’ve been scurrying up the stairs after school, squireling away some sweet note or another that they brought home. Today I got to read them all. Pure sweetness.

Morning snuggles

Then we hung out for awhile, read the comics, played some games, and read some stories. Alan got lunch from Panera Bread and installed a hitch and a bike rack on my car so we can now transport bikes places. Yay!

After lunch, Eve and I headed to King Arthur Flour for a baking class in their fancy new Baking Education Center. Double yay! It was a “baking with kids” class so the subject matter wasn’t new, but we had fun anyway. We made sugar cookies then decorated them with sugar frosting. :) Sugarlicious!

Eve checking things out.

A peek at the future when Eve is taller than I am. :)

We made these cookies without a mixer!

Check out the walk-in oven! That could be dangerous. Right next to the oven (behind the rack) is a giant walk-in fridge.

Time to decorate!

Cookies galore! We were a little heavy handed with the food coloring, so we have very bright cookies!

After class we had to do some shopping! Eve thinks we should start grinding our own flour for bread. I’m not sure I’m ready to go there just yet! I forgot to use my 15% off coupon though, so we’ll be shopping again soon. :)

Someone else was pretty happy with the cookies too!

When we got home Alan was mowing the lawn and Lex was lost in a book. I made soup and bread for dinner and we had a very nice family dinner, with cookies for dessert of course! Happiness is.

I hope your day was lovely as well.

The kids went a little crazy with the card board boxes this weekend and one thing that came out of the chaos was an ice cream stand. They’re pretty excited about it. “We’re going to be rich!” they said. Sunday afternoon they had the box all decorated, the menu, the money box, and the plan. Missing just one thing… the ice cream! Silly kids. I told them I would buy some at the grocery store this morning.

The ice cream stand is ready!

After school they were a rockin’ team and got their stand all set up. By 3:10 they were out front awaiting the crowds. :) The crowds were slow to arrive, but eventually trickled in and they ended up with a handful of customers.

Teamwork! Moving it outside.

Lex had to update the sign a bit to reflect the product we actually had to sell.

Ready for action! They were their own first customers. :)

So sweet.

Eve tried out the new watering can while waiting for customers.

First customers!

More customers!

They are planning to be outside every afternoon this week. Lex even asked if I would buy more ice cream when they run out. He’s ambitious! (I think this is also, at least in part, a ploy to stock ice cream on a regular basis!)

I’ve been talking about painting the bathroom for awhile now.  I guess now I am committed!

Or maybe I should be committed!!

As with any home improvement project, this is turning out to be bigger than it should be, especially since it’s just a little room!

After school on Friday we invited a few friends out for ice cream and playground fun! It was a beautiful day and a wonderful time!

As we were getting ready to leave I commented, out loud but mainly to myself, that I’d have to stop and get some cash to buy ice cream. A few minutes later Lex was at my side with $7 in his hand asking if that would be enough. He treated us to ice cream. Isn’t he sweet?!