Robin Hood.

Is what my daughter is watching on half of my computer screen while I try to blog. Any mother will understand the lengths to which one will go to keep children entertained...not that I'm all for keeping her entertained all the time--I'm not--but when it's early in the morning and the other child is asleep and the alternative is her running down the hall talking loudly (screaming), then yes, I am all for keeping her entertained. Onward....

I want to say thanks for sticking with me. I sincerely, deeply, heartfelt-ly offer my apologies for making you halt your lives while you wait for me to blog.

Wait, you don't? What? WHAT?!

I've got some good stuff coming, if I can ever remember to upload the pictures from my camera. Like an updated picture of my now pretty-much-finished dining room and a how-to on putting a copper and patina finish on cheapo frames. [Sidenote: I stole this idea from my friend Megan whom I could hyperlink if she blogged. But she doesn't. She just blog-stalks and keeps all her good ideas to herself. Selfish. You heard me, Megan! Selfish!]

Also, I made some corn chowder the other day and took step-by-step pictures and planned on blogging about it because my mother-in-law makes it and it is so good and the world needs to know about it. Buuuuttt the recipe was missing half of the instructions and I winged it and it didn't turn out as amazing as I thought it was going to be and so now you'll have to wait until I figure out how to really make it.

Ironically, a couple of days later I made some chicken tortilla soup that was TO DIE FOR and didn't take step-by-step pictures or fantasize about the witty and clever things I would say about it or anything. So you'll have to wait until I make it again and can post it in all the pictorial step-by-step grandeur it deserves.

To make up for all the above listed shortcomings and travesties, here are some pictures. At the risk of sounding blasphemous, in the blogging world pictures do indeed cover a multitude of sins.

Just like love.

Here you go:

My work-in-progress bedroom. This is as you walk in the door.

This is the other half. And this is Jude helping me fold the towels by sucking on the tags.

Oh, you don't do that at your house? Weird.


My cute man making a face at his Bebe.


Just some sweetness.


Here's some more. You need it. Your Monday needs it. All Mondays need it.

Again with the holding hands. E has to do it every time she's falling asleep in the car. Only falling asleep though. The rest of the time her hands are otherwise occupied taking crackers and smushing them into tiny crumbs or pulling out whatever attempt I've made to keep her hair out of her eyes. Stuff like that.

This is the day she was literally falling asleep while eating cheese. I mean, seriously? Just go get in your bed and go to sleep! Oh wait you're two. Sleeping is the devil. Right.

Precious, precious, and more precious.

Well, that's all from me today. Thanks for hanging in there. I want to leave you with a passage that's been with me this week. I made a little "Boo Bag" to start in our neighborhood and this is what God laid on my heart to put with the fallish things I packed it with:

"[Jesus Christ] is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation. For by him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities--all things were created through him and for him. And he is before all things, and in him all things hold together.* And he is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in everything he might be preeminent. For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross" [emphasis mine].

Colossians 1:15-20

*Watch this.