I bought myself a present!

I rarely spend money on myself.  It's a mom thing I guess.  But I decided that I wanted to get a dragonfly necklace and so I started hunting on Etsy for something like a friend has.  The end result is nothing like what I was looking for... I think it's better.

I joke that I designed it myself.  What really happened is that I saw elements that I loved in two different necklaces and I asked the owner of Kateemarie if she could make a custom necklace for me and she was happy to do it.  She even took some lovely pictures of it that she posted on the listing.

Wordless Wednesday

Pics from our trip to Boston Aquarium

Wordless Wednesday

I Have a Blog Button (or two)!

My new friend, Libbi, from the blog The Funner Life made me two lovely blog buttons.  They're over there on the right hand side of my blog.  Aren't they sweet?

Libbi has generously offered to make blog buttons for her readers.  She's also having a fantabulous series of giveaways on her blog.

Thank you Libbi!  They're beautiful!

Wordless Wednesday

Our school district has the second graders do a Flat Stanley project.  This year I was heading to NYC for a short business trip so I took Flat Son along with me.  Real Son was a bit jealous.

Train Station

On the train

Times Square

Chick Pics - Just for Fun

Ducky the Light Brown Leghorn

Patty (who turned out to be Patrick)

Mr. McFloofyhead (hen) a silver laced Polish

Rhode Island Red

Good News and Bad News

My son, who is 8 and in 2nd grade, has a bedtime of 9:30.  About 10:30 pm he walks down the stairs and in his best announcer voice says...
I have good new and bad news!
The good news is that I only have a LITTLE homework!  The bad news is that I LOST it!

He apparently needs to work on learning the definition of "good news." Fortunately, we were able to find the HW and get it done in just a couple of minutes.  A meltdown was averted.