Two saturdays

I love three day weekends. Today feels like a bonus Saturday. Perfect.
The shop! Four little items just for you. :)
Have a good weekend!

Happy Independence Day!

Off to drive alot,
eat alot,
laugh alot and
do alot more fun summer stuff. Have a good one.

almost there

cloth and all that

It was a long road for me to get to this point at which I love using cloth diapers. I wasn't really happy with store brand disposables that I used on my son. Then I found the seventh generation diapers and was really happy. They were dye/ chlorine free. No characters on the waistband. (oh how I hated the characters) And they just looked crunchy. But then as I read up more on the dangers in the gel used in most disposable my searched for something better continued. I found this wonderful site, and started buying and trying. This wasn't a great idea for me because I didn't have the enough experience in my opinion, of using the diapers to know what I wanted. I finally decided on these one size buddies. Brilliant! That pretty much sums them right up.

first greens

This is our first picks from the garden. We ate them with dinner Saturday night. Pretty fun stuff. Joel did most of the picking. We let Sam watch, which was a bad idea because he wanted his part. That really means shredding. And it wasn't restricted to just the lettuce. He didn't do to much damage though.
We are really enjoying growing this garden together, and we wish we had planted even more. I'm excited to plan what to grow next year.

sea wees

Does anyone remember these? They were one of my favorites. And this little gal is all that remains of my little childhood collection. Doesn't she have a strong resemblance to my current real live sea wee?
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I'm going to try to have the first few items for sale in the shop Saturday morning July 5th. 10 am my time. The pieces won't all be just for children. They might be for ladies and gentlemen as well. If all goes according to planned. So please if you read, come by pick something and buy. ;)

new shoes

These are from the gap. I had one of those lovely $10 reward cards sent to me in the mail.
I went in there and bought Joel lots of socks. He loves them. And so do I. I was really looking for some new phenomenal pieces to add to my wardrobe but found none. Only these shoes stood out.
Then I realized, how comfortable they were compared with any given pair of shoes I had at home and decided it was a good idea. I saw these cute cute cuties in target.


They might really like to belong to me as well.

flats and veggies

Sorry for almost a week of no posts. For those of you who read here. We've been to lots of doctors. Between the four of us, well visits alone can take up a week. But, today was Sam's first swim lesson! I have a good friend who is a professional instructor. She offered to teach Sam and his little buddy from church. So of course I had to say yes.
I was all excited when I got up this morning only to find a flat tire on the van. I'm sure Mavis tire moved as quickly as they could, but it wasn't fast enough. We had to reschedule for next week. Bummer.

We are listening to and heartily enjoying the newish type Coldplay CD.
We hesitated to purchase and listen to it because we were feeling eehh, about the first single. The rest of the tracks are pretty nice though.

On to some better news, We have visible vegetables growing in the garden! Zucchinis and tomatoes! I can almost taste them now.

breakfast is becoming addictive

You know if what I said about the swedish oatmeal pancakes being the best thing on my breakfast plate in years was true, I had to make them on my own. Well, after some research, and several batches, this is the closet I've gotten. I found the recipe online and used it as a starting point. The pancakes it made were way to wet and sloppy. I changed the flour and milk quantities and came up with a denser, chewyier cake. (sooo not a word) But thats what we were looking for. So good.

swedish oatmeal pancakes

2 cups of oats
1/2 cup flour (i used 3/4 c, white whole wheat)
3 tablespoons sugar
1 teaspoon baking soda
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
2 1/2 cups buttermilk ( I use 2 cups)
2 large eggs
1/4 cup melted butter
1 teaspoon vanilla
butter for skillet( I use a teflon pan and didn't need any extra butter at all)

Mix dry ingredients in one bowl, and the dry in another. Combine. Batter is going to be lumpy. The original recipe said to let it sit refrigerated for at least 2 hours. And over night is a- okay.
I think 30 minutes is enough and overnight produces mush. But, experiment if you will. Its part of the fun I think.

Hope your weekends are wonderfilled.

A-B-C

Sam can correctly identify all 26 letters in the alphabet. He also knows the sounds they all make.
I am very proud of him. This may not be phenomenal for a 27 month old, but we are feeling accomplished at the moment.