FFF

Ooopppss... My bad... I totally forgot to link my favorite foto Friday post back to the source blog... Sorry Hannah....

To check out some other sweet grandparents from "Favorite Foto Friday" head over to "Me-Me and Monkey's Big Adventures"

New Nickname...

I have officially changed Madalynn's nickname to Curious George... she climbs, scales, jumps off & on anything & everything.  Not to mention her curiousity for all things just out of her reach.  She'll turn anything into a stool to reach or investigate something.

Friday she was jumping off a little table for her bitty baby onto her bean bag chair... I of course had to grab the camera...

This picture I was laying on the ground looking up as she came over... that's the ceiling behind her...

I JUST love the look on her face in this one... totally sums up the mischievous going on behind those sparkling eyes...

Then this was later that evening, when she had turned a shirt into a skirt to accessorize her outfit...Now just jumping off the table itself... no bean bag necessary.. (BTW, this morning she asked me to stand on this TINY table, and jump off... I had to explain Mommy was a little too big to jump off this table).

 

FFF... 2 days late...

The theme for FFF is grandparents... I've never participated in this but thought I'd jump in this week. I'm so thankful for my parents, and could NOT do this single Mom thing without. Not to mention that Madalynn adores them!!

More thoughts on purging...

I really need to get the house in order, aside from clearing out stuff that I've held on to for whatever reason...

"I may need it someday"

"Oh, but so & so gave that to me"

My additional reason is I think I'm reluctantly going to be putting it on the market (that's a post for another time), but that is the direction I'm heading right now.

I'm struggling most with what to do with the clothes Madalynn has outgrown.  I don't want my family to be done.  I want to grow our family, hopefully (and prayerfully) with a husband.  I would love to adopt more children.  I would love to carry a child inside me, and experience that.  Therefore, there is a strong emotional attachment to her clothes... I may need them someday... I hope to need them someday. 

Looking at it rationally however;

• I know there won't ever be a shortage of cute clothes.
• I may not have another girl.
• I may have a girl who's size & season is off just enough to not wear Madalynn's clothes.

By nature though I tend to make decisions emotionally vs rationally.  Therefore, for now, for one more season her clothes will stay packed in their bins labeled with the season & size.

***On the husband front... don't any of you have any brothers or single male friends :-)... Hee-Heee.

Trip to the mall...

This is how we roll....




I got up, showered & out the door by 9:30am this morning... my goal was to leave at 9am, so I was impressed we left by 9:30am, of course I wasn't so impressed 20 minutes later when I was standing at the door to Old Navy, and realized they didn't open until 10am.

We passed the time spending .75 cents to ride Clifford... these rides used to be a quarter.































It was worth the wait as Old Navy had some Peanuts Valentine love, that I just had to get. Ever since Christmas Madalynn has been asking to watch "Chawley Bwown"... I can't even handle it... they had a whole line of t-shirts that reminded me of the ones we wore 'back in the day...



















Don't forget to stop by the 365 blog... link is to your right near the top of the page... "View From Here"

YIKES... Purge...

I just checked, and I have 56 blogs in my 'favorites' list. FIFTY-SIX!!!! No, I don't check all of them everyday, I know the ones that update regularly, and check those each day, but the others I might pop in once a week. I'm sure 6 of those have been added in the last month (thanks to the Nester tour of homes).

In my effort to simplify & organize my life in general, I am going to cut that list more than in half, so I have 25. I'm going to give myself one week to purge. Additionally, I have them all under my favorites as 'Adoption Blogs', that was true when I started blog hopping, I loved following all the adoption journeys of others. Thankfully, now all those babies are home with their forever families. I've also added many blogs that had nothing to do with adoption, so I'm going to try to re-organize into categories too. I'll let you know.

I'll start by any that haven't posted in over a year, some of those are my favorite blogs, and I've held on to them hoping the blogger would come back, however, I think after a year it's time to move on (or try to find them on facebook).

I'll update in a couple days, and let you know how it goes...How about you? How many blogs do you follow? Do you check them daily, weekly, monthly, use a feed service (which I've never been able to figure out). Do you think it's time to purge? Leave a comment & let me know, or if you just want to say 56... Terri, that's insane... get off the computer!!!, say it... I can take it.

Life...

Madalynn is getting soooo annoyed with me & the camera.  In my attempt to take a picture everyday, I'm also playing a lot with the settings on my camera trying to get the look I want... She is becoming even mooore uncooperative than usual.

In this one, she's taking my picture through that little plastic thing that goes on top of the blender...

Please excuse the food in her mouth...

However, I did get some sweet pics of her at bedtime last night (I know... time to get rid of the plug... we're working on it).  She gets her plug, and then takes Pooh's arm, and rubs it on her cheek, under her nose, or just rubs the end of his paw between her fingers.  There is just fabric on that spot now where there used to be fur... I LOVE it, reminds me so much of the "Velveteen Rabbit"...

This picture is from getting the nursery ready before she came home... that's Pooh in the back corner... waiting for her to come. 

I know a day will come when Pooh & the plug will be forgotten.