my saturday.
waffle and i went for a run…..ran into a friend running with her dog.
that was fun!
kind of….waffle is so dorky and a spaz.
but we made it….all four of us.
after the kids finished their chores craig loaded them all up and they left for scott's basketball tournament.
they left me home alone.
🙂
craig offered it to me a few weeks ago to have the weekend off at home alone
and i thought for sure it wouldn't really happen….
but it did.
as he was backing out of the driveway he rolled down the window and said "why are you smiling so big?"
ha ha ha.
i made a pineapple and banana smoothie.
i checked on mama.
those are my legs in the bottom corner…..up on a step ladder.
look at how her nest is almost off the edge!
that ledge is……at the most…3 inches wide.
found these two little globe banks when i stopped in at my favorite antique shop….and i met a blog reader!
love that.
hi sarah!
i got all ready for my evening alone…..
i went up in the craft room and opened my mother's day gift.
that i bought for myself and haven't told anyone that i did.
i bought myself a pink fridge.
for my favorite snacks and drinks.
all mine.
in the craft room.
it's so darn cute.
technically the pepsi is for craig….because i like sharing with him.
i stayed up in the craft room for 3 hours cleaning.
it was a wreck.
and now it's not.
yay.
i watched The Dilemma.
ugh.
yuck.
vince vaughn…..why did you do that to me???? you made me waste my time on my one night alone?!
your movie SUCKED.
there was no chemistry and i could tell in the very first scene.
BOOOOO vince vaughn.
(but i still love you….)
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i looked for some pictures of my mom for mothers day in my one box of photos i have.
when i was a kid my dad took my sister & i to an Audubon camp out in ark city, ks on mother's day weekend.
i never even knew that it was for more than a camp out.
it was to give my mom the weekend off!
genius.
i just loved catching the snakes and running on the rocks.
for real….snakes.
happy mothers day mom.
i love you very much.
you did a great job dealing with what a brat i was.
i am grateful.
and so sorry.
thank you for not giving up on me.
i hope your day is great!
and mine is going to be full of more gardening.
while i wait for my carload of goofy kids to return with all their lovely voices that i miss already.
i mean…..i hope they take their sweet time getting here…..but i still miss them when we are apart.
דומיין בעברית - I wish to all my friends Happy mother’s day. I got several unique thought regarding mothers day. I like it all. Thanks for sharing this blog.
Ohsweetwhatever.wordpress.com - Please please please please tell me you’re going to sell prints of those gorgeous blue eggs in the nest???????
Melissa - Where oh where did you get that pink fridge?? I need one very badly!
danielle - i could go for a couple days in the craft room with you and that fridge. mmmkay?
Brooke - The fridge is to die for!!! So cute! I want one for my sewing room, had no idea I could get a PINK one! Yeeeehaw!!! A day by yourself…..fantastic!!!!!
Megan - At first I thought…is that a pink fridge? then read it’s a pink fridge! love it! pepsi, chocolate, beer…all my favorite things.
Londen - I love the fridge and everything inside…makes me want a bud light. Sounds like a wonderful weekend. I really wanted a whole day to myself but it didn’t work out. Soon.
bobbie - We watched The Dillema too on saturday night. ugh. I agree.
Annie looks so much like you as a kid!! really.
Janie - I just love your blog!!! I have to check out what you are doing everyday. I feel like you are my girl friend across the states. Keep up the great work.
Janie
Lisa - I asked for the same thing on Mother’s Day – my hubs took the two boys to the soccer tournament for the majority of the day on Saturday and Saturday evening leaving me at home with the puppy. 🙂 I ate ice cream with chocolate sauce and watched a movie – Brothers with Toby McGuire and Jake Gyllenhall. Good to get time alone in my own house! 🙂
Toni :O) - Okay, we love the same candy!!! No wonder I love your blog and the pink fridge…adorable! Glad you had a great Mother’s Day, mine was spent napping for a good portion of it, hence, the reason I’m wide awake at 1 a.m.! I often wonder how in the world you keep white furniture with five kids??? You are SuperWoman! :O)
Toni :O) - Okay, we love the same candy!!! No wonder I love your blog and the pink fridge…adorable! Glad you had a great Mother’s Day, mine was spent napping for a good portion of it, hence, the reason I’m wide awake at 1 a.m.! I often wonder how in the world you keep white furniture with five kids??? You are SuperWoman! :O)
Kacey - Sweet pink fridge! Happy Mother’s Day – glad it was wonderful.
karen - too cute Meg..too stink’n cute!!
Happy Mother’s Day!
Rebekah Brummel - WOW! Lauren looks like your sister!
Carly Winborne - everything about this post is de-lish. loving that pink fridge, the pineapple smoothie and a stack of magazines. the time alone sounds like . . . well, i don’t have the right word. perfection? bliss? heaven? unattainable? 🙂 all of the above. glad you enjoyed the day.
Heather R. - Just check my mail…Matthew Mead’s Summer was in it. And your blog. 🙂
jeana - My Birthday was today…I’ve been spoiled since Friday. I kinda wanted a morning alone too, but decided not to be ungrateful for all I did get. Although it still sounds pretty stinkin dreamy! i’m so glad you you got time and I love the idea of having your own snacks in a room far away ha! Happy Mother’s Day sweet Meg!
stacie - Happy, Happy Mama’s Day to you!! Your gift is my dream … the time alone (well, I hadn’t thought of the pink fridge, but I’d love to have some of those goodies too :)). Thanks for being an inspiring, amazing mom to your readers who are mamas too.
Emily Zimmerman - Happy Mother’s Day Meg!! I love your blog!! You always have me laughing out loud! Like today when you bought yourself a mother’s day present, genius idea, I expected jewelry, a book, but when I saw the fridge and a pink fridge…priceless! I love it and think I need one for myself. Every mom needs there own little stash. And I agree about the movie Dilemma. Just watched it this weekend with my husband and I was disappointed. We both love Vince Vaughn but this movie missed the mark. Have you seen Wedding Crashers?? It’s been my husband’s favorite for a long time, but it’s been growing on me. Very funny and classic Vince Vaughn.
Josephbirdsong.blogspot.com - happy mother’s day meg! kudos on that bud light!
Dana @ Bungalow'56 - Ah sounded wonderful. While we here at the Bungalow are emptying out the basement getting ready for a reno. Ugh! Took a Starbucks break though, and did a little walk through at Costco. Just the hubs and me, while the girls cleaned the house back at home. It doesn’t get any better than that!
Dana
Tracy Fisher - Happy Mother’s Day Meg. I love your photos and stories (except the part about snakes). Your kids look so much like you when you were yournger. Isnt’ it funny how we appologize to our moms now. My mom pretends she doesn’t remember the bad things I did. She just says that to be nice. They all do. But notice how they still like to hear the appologie? haha.
Have a great day.
Tracy Fisher
Tara - i love when i visit here and i laugh out loud like i did when i saw your pink fridge in your awesome craft room with beer in it.
still laughing….
Julia - Thanks for saving me from renting a bad movie – I hate wasting the time!
Kimberly Dial - You always make me smile. Thank you for being you. I love it!
Kimberly Dial - You always make me smile. Thank you for being you. I love it!
Terrie - In LOVE with that PINK fridge! Maybe my craft room needs one of those! LOL!!
Hope you got some awesome crafting done!
Have a FaBuLoUs MoThEr’S DaY!!
Jill - Perfect gift!!!
LOVE. THAT. FRIDGE. and everything IN IT! LOVE!
Shannon - Happy Mother’s Day!!! I just received my Mathew Mead mag. and I love the article on your home, great pics!
Kimberlee Jost - Pink fridge + time alone= double love.
Heather R. - Happy Mother’s Day!
Shayne - Your pink fridge gift to yourself made me laugh out loud! I think that’s fantastic, and it’s a perfect color.
Craig was so insightful to give you time alone. I’m convinced that that’s what most moms would ask for, if they didn’t feel guilty doing it. Time alone makes us enjoy the time with our families so much more.
Glad you had a wonderful weekend. 🙂
betsy - HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY! I don’t know how you do it all … and get a blog post up every day!
LOVING the pink fridge. Maybe I need one for my classroom. Will you tell us what brand it is? Pretty please?
Have a great day! Enjoy the Spring weather that finally decided to show up in Kansas 🙂
april - my mothers day wish…i could sit in your craft room and craft, drink a beer and make cute stuff….i know i know….dorky…hahaha
xoxo
Carol S - What a gorgeous mom you have, runs in the family. Nice break for you. I appreciate the mom’s day post. Gotta make a couple salads, have pulled pork in the crock pot for dinner, get to church, then my parents and mil are coming for late lunch in the backyard (gardened last week). Thank you God!
Short, Sweet Season - A weekend alone…that is going to the top of my wishlist! My husband and baby went to the store to buy ingredients to cook breakfast this morning, so that 30 minute break was pure relaxing bliss for me! Have a wonderful rest of Mother’s Day!
Alicia @ La Famille - oh ms. meg…a LITTLE jealous of your weekend AT HOME…ALONE! that’s better than winning the lotto 🙂 ha!! glad you are having a great mom’s day weekend. i went shopping for summer clothes alllll alone last night. that was fun 🙂
oh, hey…did you check out page 39 of that magazine on top of your pile? still a little giddy 😉 i consider it a big mom’s day gift 🙂
Leah - Happy Mother’s Day! Thanks for giving me something fun to read every day. And my husband just took my daughter to Starbucks to buy me a drink. I’m cherishing the 15 minutes of freedom and silence. It’s like I’m on vacation.
Penny - I love your pink fridge too! I am looking for globes and can never find any. boo hoo. I remember when my kids were young.
(2,5,8) my husband gave me the entire day alone, to do what I wanted. I soaked in the tub reading magazines, I watched a movie and read my book. I also just ate whatever I wanted, no cooking. It was the best mother’s day ever. I am now waiting for my girls to come and shower me with love! They are 17, 20, 23! I really don’t think the 17 year old is ready to shower me with love though, she hates Michigan’s new law that new
driver’s under 18 must be in by 10:00. I love the law because I didn’t make it, but IT”S THE LAW! 🙂
Lisa - I hope you had a great time alone. I may need to suggest to my wonderful husband that he take the kids for a night like that. I could use it!!!! 🙂
Annika - Happy Mothers Day! That fridge is so cool! (Pun intended!)
Esther Dee - ok…where did you get that pink fridge??? waayy to cute.
Happy Mothers Day, Meg!!!!!
Trina Curran - Oh. Em. Gee. I have to get a pink frig. That is freaking awesome! And I’m so glad your momma birdie is doing well. She looks like she will have a fabulous mother’s day too! 🙂
Sharla - Happy Mother’s Day Meg! Your weekend sounds great – this KS weather is making my weekend too! Thanks for your wonderful blog and starting my day off right 🙂
brooke - You had me at “pink fridge” and bud light 🙂
so glad you had a day to yourself!
Sarah@this farm family's life - You are so lucky and I love the pink fridge! And the Bud Lights look delightful. Enjoy your time alone!
ashley jensen - The pink fridge is awesome!! I want one. I have no where to put it but still. I have no problem with snakes either. Happy Mothers Day Meg!!!
Holly - cute fridge! Wish I could justify that but the kitchen is right off of my craft room so the big fridge is already close by! I am wanting to do some gardening today also but word is that the cicadas are back and I dont love them at all so we will see! Happy mothers day!
Ruth Elder - THANK YOU for validating the thought I had that all I wanted for MY Mother’s Day was time alone, away from my 5 kids!
I don’t feel so terrible now. I mean, we need to re-charge, right? Being a Mom is the hardest job there is.
And the best.
jill - Now I want:
a. to try a pineapple/banana smoothie
b. more globes
c. a PINK FRIDGE! I didn’t even know such a thing existed! Your mother’s day gift of time alone sounds perfectly wonderful (except for the lame movie). 🙂
Enjoy your day today!
se7en - Love your blog, love your comics, love your pink fridge, love your craft room … just love your weekend off, love how kind your dad was to your mom, love how kind your hubs is to you!!! Love it!!! Happy Mothers Day!!!
Krista - i luv ur blog. it makes me happy and i read it every single night. my fav part: happy things! happy mother’s day to you!
Alicia - I LOVE YOUR PINK FRIDGE!!!!
I want it.
Sarah @ Handbags*N*Pigtails - Pink fridge in the sewing room…flippin genious! LOVE your globes too. I FINALLY found two this weekend here at a massive annual boy scout sale we have. One regular sized globe and one that fits in my hand. I had completely given up hope that Id ever find any for a good deal:)
Happy Mothers Day!
xo,
Sarah
Sheri - You are too darn cute. Your post crack me up. Always look forward to them. Happy Mother’s Day! Enjoy.
Michelle from Australia - Hooray for time alone. What a GREAT gift. LOVE the pink fridge. Too cute and functional. The first photo of you and your family. The girl in the red jacket. Is that you or your sister? To me, it looks like Talby. Happy Mother’s Day!
mary - I can’t get over how much your kids look exactly like you! I’m not sure why but when I see that in families…it always throws me for a loop. You’re all cuties!
Happy mother’s day!
Rebecca W - i like the pink fridge!
happy mother’s day!
sue - A weekend off with out the kids. What a great idea. Does that go for kids still at home age 26 and 28. What do you think? ha ha. Happy Mother’s day Meg.
Jennifer O'Steen - i am very much in love with that pink fridge! happy mother’s day!!