Daily Archives: October 5, 2010

You are my sunshine

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You are my sunshine, my only sunshine.
You make me happy, when skies are gray.
You’ll never know dear, how much I love you.
Please don’t take my sunshine away.

The other night dear, as I lay sleeping.
I thought I felt you by my side.
But when I woke dear, I was mistaken,
So I hung my head and cried.

You know this song? I think these are the right words. They’re the ones I sing anyway, to Eve almost every nap and bedtime. She loves it. Tonight I started singing it while the kids were in the tub and it made Lex cry! I couldn’t believe it. The poor boy was really, truly crying. He told me he doesn’t like the song because the second verse is too sad. I wrapped him in a towel and cuddled him for a bit while he got himself pulled together. I’m not sure what to make of that. He’s so sweet and so… I don’t, just sweet, I guess.

My love/hate relationship with leaves

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I have a love/hate relationship with leaves. Yes, funny I know, but true. The leaves fall, the kids are thrilled, we have fun… but then someone has to actually remove them! Lex was worried yesterday that if we didn’t rake all the leaves in one afternoon then there wouldn’t be any more. I promised him that we have many, many more weeks of leaves! Many! Our 12yr old neighbor came over yesterday and said, “You are so lucky! You have the biggest leaf pile EVER!” Yay me! Sadly that “biggest leaf pile every” came from raking about a third of the leaves that have fallen from just one (of three) trees in the yard.

eve in the leaves

lex in the leaves

kids in the leaves

I’m forever trying to figure out a good solution for them. One that involves not too much work or money. Last year, mid November, I gave up and hired a crew to remove them. This year I’m trying to do the mulching thing again, but wondering if maybe we would all be happier (me and the kids anyway!) if I just played in the leaves with them and hired the crew again. Tempting!