for some reason i picked this morning to make applesauce.

it seemed so perfect, so old school.  mother & older boy making homemade goodness while tiny sister sleeps.  but @ some point it all started falling apart in the form of sister refusing to sleep & crying like a banshee while brother kept eating all the apple pieces & needing to get up & down, up & down WITH sticky hands.

and that's when i remembered alot of housewives in the 50s ended up with mental problems or in betty ford.

i know, it seems a little on the dramatic side (what, me??), but seriously, this whole mom-business might put me in the looney bin yet.  who thought it was a good idea for one woman to stay home & take care of multiple children alone??  maybe i'll move to a compound or a kibbutz or something...

anyway, the applesauce is going to turn out well, i think.  i hope.  & i just convinced hudson to go play his "cool, cool drums" for a sec & sis is happy to simply be out of that horrible, awful place we call a crib, so i think i'm going to make it for the next few minutes anyway.

applesauce recipe here, if you're crazy enough to try it, too.

monday morning

saw aunt nonna over skype - woo hoo! it's hard to get together with the time difference between here & london.

heard sissy laughing for some unknown reason! it was a belly laugh, too & i'm so glad johnna got to see it

smelled roast cooking in the crock pot (making brisket tacos tonight - don't know why i call them "brisket tacos" when i use a roast, but whatever)

touched the punky little mosquito-dotted face of my hudson

tasted a caramel macchiato (i decided we needed an outing :) )

saw the inside of the shower - yaaaaay! it had been a few days... :)

heard myself say "oh lord!" when i realized i put the raw roast into the warmer part of the crockpot, not realizing i'd taken the cookpot part out a minute before - gross! unfortunately i heard hudson repeat what i said - oops!

smelled my mother's day roses that are just now beginning to fade

touched red, blue, & yellow playdough with hudson while we played with his new monkey playdough toy

tasted salty goldfish & sweet apples - leftovers from hudson's party

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whew, have we been on a whirl wind of traveling for these past few weeks. i've had so much fun, but i'm really happy to be starting a new week of "normalcy" (whatever that is).

2 wks ago, hudson & i went to nyc with my mom. it was my birthday gift from mom - to get to visit my sister. neither of us had been to the city & it was really soooo much fun. it was a blast to get to do fun nyc things & that combined with getting to be with johnna & see her life in brooklyn, plus meeting her "significant other" jonty, AND carting a certain little guy around - well, it was just the makings of a TON of fun. i can't wait to go back with clint!

then hudson & i hitched a ride with clint to be with mom & memaw for the week in kerrville. clint had business meetings in san antonio, so we spent the week in the hill country. the highlights? doing a little gardening for memaw, & spending a couple of hours in fredericksburg. if you haven't been there, it's AWESOME & so much fun and i landed another account with THE most fun/mod children's shop i've seen (& i'm starting to see quite a few!). more on that later.

well, more on everything later! when i get the time anyway :)

but before i go, i should mention that today was hudson's 2nd birthday. i can't believe my baby is 2. i've read/heard a million moms say this & it bounced off of me like a tennis ball, but for the rest of my life, i'll understand every SINGLE time i hear someone say "i can't believe my baby is 2... 4... 18months... 14..."

his party is next week, so more on THAT later, too :)

another item worth mentioning is that today is mother's day & while it kind of stunk to have to share it with hudson's birthday (i mean, i'm just being honest here. everyone kept saying - oh how neat that his bday will be on mother's day, but really i wasn't thrilled. i'm working on becoming more mature!), clint did a great job of fitting in some fun mother's day stuff - like a handmade card from he & hudson (complete with scribbles!), flowers (arranged by the two), & tom's (actually a gift i forgot to order from valentine's day & so glad c remembered b/c i kept forgetting), & those SUPER fun stamps/embossers. you know - the one with the circle with you're name/address/whatever you like. you can find them here. i've wanted one for awhile & he REMEMBERED!!! lots of gold stars to clint :)

okay, it's getting laaaaate. oh, how i need to go to bed. for someone who loves to sleep as much as i do, i have such a hard time getting to bed nearly every night. something else to work on...

talk soon...