happy

dinner is served

1.  cut pita bread in half (making 2 circles), then each circle into 8ths. 

 toss with olive oil & good s&p.  toast in oven @ 400 for about 8 mins.

2.  cut rough skin off of broccoli stems.  slice into 1/2 inch rounds.

3.  i won't insult your intelligence with how to make carrot sticks :)

4.  make THIS rosemary hummus + juice of whole lemon, 2 garlic cloves, more s&p, & 2 more rosemary sprigs

5.  make teeny rose vase clusters (cheap @ the groc)

& remember all the october roadside rose stands growing up in tyler.

& dinner is served.

april showers bring may flowers?

(photo taken a few wks ago when clint & hudson came home with beautiful tulips!)


if april showers do bring may flowers, then we should be set next month!

on easter morning it we had a lot of rain, & today we're having a monster of a storm, which means maddie is in my lap panting, slobbering & generally freaking out as she always does during storms. i, of course chose this day to run completely out of diapers (first time in 2 yrs!) & so in the middle of the severe lightening, i was that mother in our local grocery store running with her barefoot child through the diaper isle frantically searching for size 6 pampers cruisers.
unfortunately, i had JUST been to the grocery store earlier & completely forgotten about our diaper shortage, so that was grocery store trip #2 for us.
don't worry, i didn't let his barefeet touch the ground. i carried all 30 lbs of him as i ran through the isles, trying to get out of there before the deluge began.

we did make it home before the downpour, but we made it home with size 5 instead of size 6. honestly.

anyway, we're surviving & i'm really looking foward to those may flowers :)