saturday i peeked in on the birds.
they had significantly grown.
and on sunday….
they were gone.
bummer.
let's enjoy a look back….shall we?
Category Archives: things i loveannie came running inside during the wiffle ball game with everyone while i was fixing dinner and yelled "mom…did you see me out there?! i was beasting it up!!!"
we both thought her new swimsuit looked like a leotard for gymnastics. ……………………………………………………………….. our baby birds on saturday. unbelievable how quickly they change!!
……………………………………………………………….. on thursday night craig took me to see Tim Mcgraw in concert. oh my. i have loved tim since i was in high school. he is timeless. i was so happy. craig isn't a big country music fan…..not much at least….so he gets big points for bringing me. but seriously now…..tim mcgraw is awesome. not this song…but this one is a recent, catchy, happy one and looked like what i saw at the concert. as much as i love kings of leon, U2 and the black keys…..i love country music that much too. and he is my favorite of all the cowboys. best thursday night evah……
Tim McGraw is awesome with a capital A, isn’t he? He’s so electrifying on stage. Even if you’re not a fan, you can’t help but admire and respect the man. He is country music at its best. k i want to know if you slightly suggest these outings or plan it your self or does he surprise you ALL BY HIMSELF??? just want to know how stellar he is because he sounds pretty stellar. SWEET!!!!! I like tim McGraw too. and I love that his marriage has stood the test of time. Annies Comment totally make my day!! I am a kindergarten teacher and she would be AWESOME to have in class!!! I too love me some Tim McGraw!!! Happy Monday!!!!! Hey Meg, That video made my rainy, wet Monday! Country music is the BEST, and not a lot beats a hot cowboy like Tim 🙂 “beasting it up” Gotta start using that! i felt like that at U2 this weekend. i may have shed a tear. I couldn’t remember where in Kansas you live. I hope it’s not anywhere near where the tornado came through. I’ve checked here several times this morning, hoping to see something from you. Praying you’re okay…. I live near Nashville and was shopping at Old Navy one day and guess who walked in…yes, Tim McGraw…I thought I was gonna wet my pants!!! He was on the phone and nobody bothered him. He picked up a pair of jeans and threw them over his shoulder!! Who’d of thought that he bought his jeans at Old Navy!! He is very handsome in person,btw!! And I loooove Annie’s leotard!! So cute! LOVE Tim McGraw. I’m not really a country fan, but LOVE him. I saw him on Who Do You Think You Are. It was really good and he seemed so real. Rich, but real. Isn’t he the guy married to Faith Hill? I love Annie’s suit. cute. that girl is a hoot. It’s nice to see someone else has as eclectic taste in music as I do! that song makes me happy! Love country music and Tim McGraw! Craig does get big brownie points for this – maybe he could talk to my husband. . . :o) Love country music but my all time favorite anything is James Taylor and my hubby is taking me to see him tomorrow night!!!! YIPPPPEEEEEEE!!!! Have seen him multiple times before but every time is special! He is amazing in concert. Anyway, i get the whole surreal thing, have had those moments myself. Glad ya’ll had such and awesome time together. 🙂 Love TIM. Love. Haven’t seen him in concert since the last Soul to Soul tour with Faith Hill; he is so great onstage. My all time favorite song of his is Angry All the Time. No idea why, it just has always been my fav. (Even though I am not particularly angry all the time.) 😉 That is so awesome. I love me some Tim too. You just went up 10 points in my book for being a country music lover 🙂 Whoah, that guy is a major stud, how hot is he? That basic tshirt and jeans (practically skin tight?) with the big guns, oh my. So cute. Great stage movement, thanks for sharing on a Monday morning. I believe he’s tight with Faith Hill so I guess there’s no chance for the two of us, huh? lol Tim McGraw – say no more. He oozes with “hot NESS”. I saw him in Las Vegas and I also saw him many years ago and Faith Hill was his warm up – before they were married. i love that annie says beasting it up..my kinda girl OK…have you ever seen Keith Urban live? I sort of liked his music before last summer, when I saw him at an outdoor concert…and I have been the biggest fan ever since. He is also amazing. And his songs….swoony. aaaah – i love country music, and LOVE that song! Your man is hilarious – such a ‘Tim’ pose.. haha – way to go Craig 🙂 glad you got some time away with your hottie! I love the trampoline pic! hahaah go annie!! lookin good little lady! 🙂 Tim McGraw, my heart be still. Glad you had a great time with your hubby that definitely gets points for taking you to his concert. those baby birds are so ding dong ugly. 🙂 I had baby birds and before I took pictures, I kept meaning to and kept forgetting to, they grew and flew! I also love Tim McGraw . Saw him once in Champaign IL with Martina McBride. Awesome! Glad you had fun. Annie is a doll! My Annie is almost 29 *tears* I am a girl from Texas, so my all time fav cowboy is George Strait! That cute swimsuit gave me some ideas for my girls. Annie cracks me up. Love her “leosuit” and her “beasting it up.” Shes awesome:) It’s hard for me to fully trust anyone who dislikes country music. Just fyi. I love that Annie walked the dog in that outfit—we would be perfect neighbors–our son rides his bike in full iron man costume, except the helmet hurts so he drapes a bath towel down the back of his head under the helmet (I think he likes the way it flaps when he rushes down the sidewalk!). I knwew you were a girl after my own heart and cut from the same cloth….this post proves it!!! Love me some Tim McGraw!!!! There was something about that Tim McGraw video that reminded me of Friday Night Lights (the television show). . .ha! Wasn’t he in the movie version? Love Craig’s picture — what a good sport. So funny you post about Tim Mcgraw. I feel the same way about Jason Aldean. I lurve Jason Aldean! SO cute too, ha! Dude I just posted about how big our baby birds got!!!! http://www.dishesinthedryer.blogspot.com. We saw them one day and it was only a few weeks before they busted out of the nest and we were lucky enough to be there when they did!!! Our kids loved these little guys. Yes Tim was fantastic! Great meeting you! What about Luke Bryan… HOT! Fantastic Thursday night! I love Annie’s style and Tim McGraw….and Garth Brooks. I need to find my old CDs…. Thanks for the video too – he’s fun to watch! Love the swimsuit and love Tim. What a great midweek date! Good for you. ~Kelly Annie in the swimsuit as a leotard stand in…awesome! I like how this girl thinks. Walking Waffle, that much better.
this was not my breakfast but i wish it was. ……………………………………………
…………………………………………… …………………………………………… …………………………………………… i forgot to tell you that as of spring break this year my kids have been doing i help annie by putting it in the dryer for her because she is too short.
…………………………………………… annie came into my dark bedroom to my bed and woke me up to ask if she could have oatmeal. "please can you help me mom?" "ok….i will be right there"
it's not oatmeal. HA.
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here are our babies this morning….in one day they grew SO much…and have teeny feathers too. i found this sweet short video on youtube of a robin hatching.
happy friday! You have been on pinterest- I marked that shark watermelon too. Love it! I love this shark watermelon!!! My son is a huuuuge sea life/shark fan. He is going to love this. Thanks for posting it. First I have to tell you my husband took me to Target to buy a new purse and I picked up this cute yellow bag. When we got home with it I thought it looked familiar and sure enough it is the same one you got from The Pleated Poppy (only without the cute flowers)! Second, my inlaws have a birds nest that had 7 eggs (3 blue and 4 brown) and now there are just 3 babies. No sign of the brown eggs or birds. It makes me wonder if there were 2 different birds going to the same nest. Are you on Pinterest? I would love to follow you if you are. 🙂 I’ve seen that rainbow braid on there is why I ask. And oh lordy, when my babies are old enough for laundry it.is.on! YOU MAKE MY DAYS HAPPY 🙂 that is all. oh..except…. Can a person who is not crafty but wants to learn to be crafty come to the craft weekend? just checking. {insert giggle} Wow! that video is awesome! The mama taking the egg shells- that explains why I sometimes find robin’s eggs in random places, with no trees about! I think they must just dump them wherever to keep the nest clean. That shark is awesome! My three year old loves watermelon and would love a shark like that 🙂 So, I clicked on the picture of the french toast, then clicked on the picture again, then clicked on the link in that post, then read the original author’s post, but she never says exactly how she made those french toast kabobs. I assume she just made regular french toast and then cut it up and stuck it on. They must have been cold by the time she served them. The bridal shower she made them for looked awesome, though! The laundry room–awesome! The rainbow hair–eww. Tell me how a mother robin can just bop around the nest & poke & prod & her baby thrives, but whenever bb birds were discovered in my childhood we could never keep’em alive, even the best of efforts. Must be God. In case you wanted to see more of the rainbow hair, here is her photostream: http://www.flickr.com/photos/wisely-chosen/ LOVE the laundry idea – the best part would be the no mountains of laundry to fold!!! And I bet it would cut down on number of outfit changes per day – I have four girls -the number is RIDICULOUSLY high!!! Hello Meg, I love the french toast kabobs! We did those for my husband on Father’s Day a few years ago and were a big hit:) I saw a lady at the grocery store today that had rainbow hair and it looked totally cute! I think you should still do the pink:) We did that exact shark watermelon about 2 years ago, I saw it in the newspaper and my husband said he could do it. We made it for a party and had to transport it (that was kinda hard). It sat on my lap the whole drive to the friends house!! Hit of the party though!! Thought you might like to make these for your robin-inspired crafty thing… your nest photos reminded me of them. http://oakhillsacademy.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/im-nesting/ That laundry room could be my happy place, for real. The watermelon shark is rad. I don’t think I’ve used the word rad in 10 yrs. I may just need to bring it back to my vocab. If Annie accidentally ate the onion soup instead of oatmeal she may have never ever wanted oatmeal again. That experience just might ruin a person. Glad you stopped that from happening. Have a great weekend, Meg! In response to Quinn’s post… It is amazing to see (although it’s poop)… they position their little bottoms toward the outside of the nest! Then when mom (or dad) comes to feed – they clean the nest too!! These birds are fantastic! I found your answer… unless someone else already posted it hhahahah. I can only go from personal experience with our pet chickens, but I think the mama ate the shell. Our chickens do it all the time, but maybe robins are more sophisticated than that. I know it’s weird but we have a collection of robin’s eggs in my family. When we are out for a walk or anything, if we see them, we pick them up. I will e-mail you a photo. The mother (and father) clean the nest! Crazy! Not only do they take away the eggs once they’ve hatched… they clean the poo too! I included our story in the link with my name, we just saw our first 2 babies leave the nest successfully! I totally saw that rainbow hair on Pinterest a few days ago and thought of you! 🙂 Hello Meg! “did I ever tell you you’re my hero” I love the food. So creative and fun. Also I have loved looking at all the bird photos. Thanks for those. just watched that video (and saw annie doing her OWN laundry) with my 5 year old. we were both very impressed by both. i was explaining to her what “instinct” means…like how the mommy bird knows to take the shell out of the nest. too bad it doesn’t mean that kids automatically know how to do/want to do laundry. omgoodness! i am so trying to make that shark for the last day of school party! My kids are starting their own laundry also. Its good. an older mom of 6 told me the secret of each kid keeping their laundry basket in their own room. .and then each doing their own clothes. . .it has transformed my life!!! We used to all just throw our clothes down this laundry shoot and a mountain would grow in the basement. . not anymore. I sometimes will do a load for a kid as a special way to love up on them. . .but even that is way easier cause you do not have to sort and try to figure out whose socks are whose. . .I love this laundry system!!! And yes, our kids will leave the house knowing how to do laundry!! Thanks for your regular posts. . I stop in almost daily. . .love the inspiration and happiness. So, when are you going to do your hair like that?? It would probably make a hair dresser cry. I don’t think it was me that gave you the idea of having your kids do their own laundry, but mine do too. I used to feel guilty, like I’m a bad mom for making them do their own, but it really is a great thing. Not only do I not have the burden of making sure it gets all done and keeping track of what they need when they need it, i.e. baseball uniforms, etc., it does give them life skills and responsibility. I think we are actually good moms for having them learn to do their own. Yay for you Meg, good mom award! P.S. that is a really fun watermelon monster…might have to try that one! P.S. – Thanks for stopping by! Sorry it made you cry…if it’s any consolation…I cry every time I read it too, and I wrote the darn thing! LOL!! I’ll say it again…you are easy to be kind to! I LOVE your blog…I can’t tell you how many days you have perked me up with your pictures and words. I went back and got ‘caught up’ so to speak. It’s a little sad, your blog was my before bed read. My husband is probably glad though…’cause now I don’t wake him up with my laughing out loud!! Seriously…thanks for your kind words! hugs! wow, i’m impressed with how independent your kids are. i’m thinking i need to give my kids some more responsibility. thanks! HI Meg, I believe Kate S. (above) is right about the egg shells. We have a robin family nesting on my truck tire and I found the egg shells in my melon patch about 50 feet away from the nest. Meg, I know I don’t comment here much but I read your blog ALL of the time. Anyway, the kids and I just made silhouettes, inspired by you. Here’s the blog post: http://pressedpetals.blogspot.com/2011/05/profile-of-inspiration.html The laundry. Wow. I am in awe. I have hope for the future! Too funny about the “oatmeal.” I didn’t even notice the words on the package until you said it wasn’t oatmeal. 🙂 Oh, and I’m pinning that laundry room! Oh how funny (the onion packet)! And just today I was thinking (while dealing with mounds of laundry), this is silly – one person taking care of 5 people’s laundry. Not silly… INSANE! So I will be training my troops this weekend!!! Yay for me!!! I think I will be making the French toast kabobs this weekend too! Thanks for sharing! Have a happy weekend! Love the rainbow hair. I let our girls get a couple of strands of colored hair put in for the summer only. They think they are cool. I’m glad you went and checked out the oatmeal situation. LOL. AND I’m so all over the do your own laundry. Great idea. Are you doin’ your summer list this year? Love the shark head, and birdies, too. 🙂 Oh how I wish we werent STILL having those family laundry folding nights! I also have five kids, so I know the amount of clothes we’re talking about here. Ahhh, maybe this summer they can begin to learn this task, only two weeks of school left, hooray! what a great Friday post!!!! little bits of everything from food to decor to baby birds!!! Happy Friday Meg <3 Love the post. Awesome mom teaching of life skills. Laundry on their own. Perfection. And now, all I can think of is mango. Great post…..you sure saw a lot of stuff this week. We have a bird garden and the birds greatly appreciate it. Every year robins nest in the Silver Maple there, above a large stone birdbath. And, every year, I find the cracked robin’s eggs in the birdbath . . . a sweet little sign the chicks have hatched: ) Supposedly, the robins are supposed to carry the eggshells and fecal matter far away from the nest to help deter predators from finding their hatchlings, but ours seem to figure the birdbath below is far enough. Okay… that video freaks me out a bit. That hair is amazing! I would love to have the kabob recipe too. Yum! And I think I’m going to make granola and buy some clementines and mangoes to have on my yogurt!! 🙂 Fun random post. That’s great about the laundry! My daughter is only 3, but I’ve started getting her involved by having her bring her laundry down and she puts it in the washer. We make it a fun thing to do. Hopefully she’ll still think it’s fun when she gets older! What a great post- F.T.Kebabs(gotta try em!), rainbow hair(I flippin LOVE it but would never do it), that laundry room(I have it pinned in Pinterest myself…total LR envy here), the shark watermelon(so fun, esp for a pool party!), Annie doing her own laundry(go Mama Meg!), the birdies( I almost cried when you said the 3rd one is nowhere to be found…sniff sniff) and the onion soup mix/oatmeal story…awesome. Ok…if little Annie can do it, my boys sure the heck can…but what happens when they wash a crayon…or toilet paper (don’t ask…I don’t even want to know) i used to wake my mom up to ask what the weather was going to be like. i know one day my payback will come… hopefully it has a funny ending like your “oatmeal” story The “oatmeal” CRACKED ME UP!!! So, I was hungry when I first started reading this post …. then I watched the hatching video – yikes!!! That was kind of … weird – for lack of a better word! I don’t like birds much though, but I am intrigued – where does the mama take the egg shells??? Happy weekend! These pics have all made me smile 😉 Wow. Love that shark head too. Maybe for a beach party??!! My nephews are with me this weekend and I was leaning towards chocolate chip pancakes….but man those french toast kabobs look awesome! And what’s up with baby #3? Seriously gone?? Strange and sad… When I read there was no third baby, I really was sad. I’m curious too where she takes the shells? Ok! I think I’m gonna try it…the laundry thing, not the rainbow hair:). I don’t think I’m a rainbow hair kind of girl. Hi Meg! Thank you for the new birdie picture. And for finding the video! Very thoughtful, Mrs. D.! School children everywhere will appreciate it! 🙂 ok,so now I’m craving french toast…and rainbow hair! And we are outta bread!Dang it! my favorites. please enjoy a bazillion giant pictures of my peonies…..with some ruby slipper and white daisies mixed in.
my grandmother loves to garden. so i cut my peonies and put them in the vase she gave me. my dad goes to visit my grandma every morning and has been reading my blog to her. hi grandma! when i was a little girl i remember picking strawberries in her yard…near the door of the fence. don't you love to go back in your memories to times that are warm and fuzzy? i have more flowers to plant….gotta go. 🙂
oh yeah….baby #2 is here. these are robins….in case you didn't know.
i guess i should also clean the porch today.
The peonies are beautiful and I am in awe of the baby bird photos! Thank you for sharing and Go God! I love peonies and am anxiously awaiting mine blooming. So jealous yours already are! Don’t the mama and papa birds dive at you when you walk under the nest? Years ago I looked into a robin’s nest and then every I went by they were diving at me and really after me. You are so lucky. I am loving your baby robin pictures. They are amazing. You could sell them! 🙂 Simply spectacular 🙂 Love em 🙂 And congrats on baby bird #2!!!!! I’m planting strawberries today….I’ll think of your grandma….and I’ll think of my poppa’s HUGE garden I used to “help” him with 🙂 sigh….. love your flowers …. wow it looks beautiful and warm and sunny where you are …. the snow has finally melted up here in Fernie BC although its on 7degrees Celsius here at the moment and there’s a frost on the ground. we hope summer is coming soon 🙂 Lovliness…pure and simple. your blog totally cracks me up – absolutely love it! peonies make me so happy…. I drove by your house this week and your flowers looked so pretty. My peonies just started blooming and I LOVE them too. Definitely my favorite. Oh, and the bird pictures are awesome. 🙂 God is at work right in your yard and on your porch. Absolutely beautiful pictures. Thank you for brightening my day! Gorgeous … I also love the back-lit, light pink peony photo … about took my breath away, sooo beautiful! These photos seriously made me wish I had a yardful of peonies! The baby birds are amazing, thank you for sharing your peeks of the peeps with us! 🙂 love the bird picture!! What a beautiful collection of Peony’s you have. Mine are a week or 2 away from blooming. Unfortunately they always seem to bloom around Memorial Day when we are away and when I get back rain and wind tend to make them disappear way too fast. I saw on Martha Stewart last year that you can actually freeze the buds just before they bloom and take them out of the freezer as needed. I thought that was such a great idea that we ordered about 8 more plants last year so we can give it a try. I’m not sure of the specifics but if you search Martha and Peony’s I’m sure you can find the info if you are interested! You’ll have to let me know how you keep your peonies bug free. Mine get covered with ants! UG! Thank you for taking me back to my house I grew up in and remembering the beautiful peonies that lined our driveway each Springtime. I LOVED those bushes and my mom had many of them alongside our drive. It was SO pretty! I really should plant some of those myself, they are gorgeous! Loved the baby birds pic too…awesome especially since I unfortunately saw a dead baby bird (a robin) on my neighbor’s driveway this evening…sniff, sniff. Happy Spring to you…hopefully it shows up in Michigan one of these days…sheesh! Oh, and I’m SO envious of your beautiful porch…sigh! Thank you for taking me back to my house I grew up in and remembering the beautiful peonies that lined our driveway each Springtime. I LOVED those bushes and my mom had many of them alongside our drive. It was SO pretty! I really should plant some of those myself, they are gorgeous! Loved the baby birds pic too…awesome especially since I unfortunately saw a dead baby bird (a robin) on my neighbor’s driveway this evening…sniff, sniff. Happy Spring to you…hopefully it shows up in Michigan one of these days…sheesh! Oh, and I’m SO envious of your beautiful porch…sigh! Your peonies pics are so pretty. I made one my screensaver. thank you. and you need to send those baby birdie pics to national geographics or something. they are amazing. I think I need to go buy some peonies and plant them right this minute. Yours are absolutely gorgeous! Great photos of beautful flowers. I especially love the 7th photo – sunlight filtering through the green leaves of the light Beautiful flowers!!! Ooh, I can’t wait until my peonies bloom! crazy. i just posted a pic of the peonies i purchased today!!! i cant grow them bc my husband is alregic to bees. love THEM though Your pictures are awesome. Peonies, or pinies, as my mother and grandmother used to call them are one of my favorites. They bring back many childhood memories. I’m not very lucky in raising them so will enjoy your photos instead! Thanks for sharing. Your peonies (or panties as I used to call them as a child…) make me smile! They are gorgeous, so so beautiful. They are never that good in Atlanta, so I enjoy your pictures. wish your pictures were scratch and sniff… peonies are my favorite! what lovely photos. happy day. Your poenies are beautiful! I wish I could grow them down here in South Texas but it is too hot. And I am glad I to see I am not the only one that has a messy porch sometimes. haha…By the way loved all the colorful images from the other day. Make you feel happy. Oh my goodness!!! If anyone ever asks me “Julia, what are you missing out on by not living in Kansas?” I’m going to say “Seeing Miss Meg’s garden in person.” they’re gorgeous. nothing smells better than a peony. yum. I really loved the pictures of your peonies! My grandma loved peonies and grew them all around her yard. After she passed away last February, I dug up some of her plants and transplanted them to my yard. I am so happy that they survived, and two of them even I love peonies!! I wish I would have planted them years ago. Our small town restaurant had a vase of them on their counter yesterday. I about died with the beauty of it. Not really, but could have. 😉 I am SOOOO Jealous!!! I love peonies, but I don’t think they can grow in Texas. As I sat down after lunch… I said in my head… ‘ok, meg, make me smile.’ And LOOK! You did it! hugs to you! my sister and I just had a discussion yesterday on how to pronounce them, so which is it? peoooohhhhnies or peuuuhhnies?? I grew up saying the first, but now everyone corrects me with the second! Love, love, love the Peonies!! I so wish we could grow them in the south! Enjoy your beautiful flowers and sweet little porch visitors. 🙂 i have been anticipating your peonies post. my friend has scads in her yard and always gives me some. Your flowers are beautiful. They are really nice flowers…perfect for a wedding! ahhhhhh! I love my peonies too! How do you get all the ants off yours to bring them in the house? My grandma had peonies and I brought some to this house. They split really easily and well. You are so lucky that your grandma is still alive. Mine has been with the Lord almost 20 years and I still miss her very much! (I am tearing up just thinking of missing her.) The flower pics are gorgeous. What lens did you use when you took them? So sad I can’t grow Peonies in SoCal…they are seriously the most gorgeous flower ever. Yours are so pretty and I love your memories of your Grandma…grandmas are special. There are no ants in those peonies! Your weather must have been great lately. I love them. My little girl memory of peonies was dropping their flower petals in weddings I was in when I was small – 4 or 5. We would always practice with peony petals and have pretend weddings from that point on. I’ve tried growing them in zone 14 in the Bay Area of California. The bush will grow but never flower. After a few seasons of that – the bush got pulled out. No flowers – no stay. 🙂 Thanks for a blast of spring! Peonies mean birthdays (mine) and mother’s day to me. They are tied up in all my May/June memories — along with LILACS! Flowers = Pure Happiness! Kansas has some of the prettiest peonies I’ve ever seen (brother used to live in kc). Wish I could grow them here! they’re some of my very favorite flowers. What do you do to get rid of the ants, or do you just live with them? #1… my fave thing about that picture is that your porch looks like a normal person’s porch… thank you! Those baby birds look a little like miniature aliens. 🙂 But the whole thing is quite amazing isn’t it? I live in Southern California. That means no peonies. I *dream* of a day when I can grow peonies, but I don’t think we’re moving any time soon. I can almost smell them!! Thanks for sharing! gorgeous – love the peonies! I have 2 that bloom and bought 2 more this year…I just hate that the blooms don’t seem to last long. I keep thinking I need to look for a tree peony but have yet to find one. Your pictures are BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the intense color and can almost SMELL them! I love peonies! and your are gorgeous!! My husband and I just dug a bunch out of a flower bed at my parents farm that had become over run with weeds! I could not let them go:) Megan – your blog is my happy place. Thanks for sharing your flower pictures today! LOVE the pictures! Please make some into HUGE prints and put them in your etsy shop. Or just send them to my house. 🙂 We have several of my great-grandmother’s peonies but they’re not quite ready to bloom yet. By the way – Betsy Kate’s pictures are super sweet. Thanks! i.love.peonies. why don’t we have them here in zone 8/9??? i would so steal your peonies too! And i love that your porch looks like that. 🙂 Wow!! Your pictures and garden are amazing!! I absolutely love peonies! They are my all time favourite flower. I love them in the bud stage, so tightly wrapped up, carefully concealing the beauty beneath. Then when they burst open – they’re so huge! It’s yet another part of God’s beautiful creation that makes me smile. Thank you for sharing your beautiful photos. All your photos are lovely, but the one of the back-lit, light pink peony in the sunshine stopped me in my tracks- GORGEOUS! Be careful the kids don’t scare the Mommy bird away from the nest and make her reject her young – v important that they don’t touch or freak out the mother. Oh, I’m enjoying! And cursing myself for only having 1 peony plant when I LOVE them. Thanks for sharing! I love peonies and they are the main flower in my upcoming wedding 🙂 I got married 2 weeks ago and carried peonies…they are my favorite too! I hope to plant a yard full of them one day! WOW!!! I have serious Peopny envy!! SO gorgeous!!! And those little baby birds, my goodness! So sweet! Love the mohawk on the one bird! Your birdie pictures are awesome. Love that Grandma is reading your blog. Just makes my heart melt. gorgeous photos. the memories of time spent with my grands are the best. i heard that peonies require ants to help them open. is that true? ask your grandma, i bet she knows. 🙂 Great post. Peonies are my all time favorite. And the pictures of the birds hatching are priceless. Thanks for sharing with the class. Cheers, girlie. xoxo You do know how lucky you are, right? We just set a record overnight low here in Seattle…and might see our first day about 70 later this week. My grandma was a gardener, too – I have plants from cuttings in her yard which I treasure. Those peonies are amazing! do people ever steal your flowers? i would if we lived closer. I’m loving your pictures of the birds! Make sure to place something on your porch because the poop gets outta control! 🙂 We just place a cardboard box top and some newspaper and then it’s easier to clean up and change out. Because the birdies don’t want to poop in their nest so that means it just falls onto your porch! 😀 sigh… love peonies. Oh, how I wish we could grow peonies around here. I have too much sun and too much heat for them. Thanks for sharing. And the babies are beautiful. I LOVE peonies. It’s so sad that they’re only around for such a short time. So beautiful. And, your pictures, gorgeous. Thanks for posting. I can smell the peonies right through the screen, I swear! Love ’em! And now 2 birds? Get out!!! These pictures are just so amazing!!! I adore your front porch, even if you think it needs cleaned. Looks like a great spot to read a book or have a morning chai. Be blessed. Aaah Meg! The colours are to die for! Did you put those flowers up because its my Birthday? 🙂 haha! Also, Welcome Baby #2 x i adore peonies. i almost adore those baby birds more. kind of like sad, pathetic and helpless meets the cutest thing i ever did see. so precious. I needed that burst of color this morning! So beautiful! Lovely pictures as always. Your blog makes me so happy! Oh, thanks for sharing 🙂 I love photos of your home. My peonies are no where near ready to open…June is peony month for us. I also have baby birds, I’m jealous you can use your camera to take pics, our nest is on my truck tire(!), I have to use my cell to take photos! Your porch is gorgeous with or without cleaning it up. Love the birdie picture, especially yesterday’s…something hopeful about those two waiting eggs. I think you should submit that one somewhere. Hi, Im back to bug you about selling those as prints…now I think I love the 2 baby birds even more! That beautiful blue egg is so lovely…Gods handiwork is everywhere for us to enjoy. Amazing. So when will those pictures be in the shop?? 🙂 Im glad to hear your Grandma is able to enjoy your blog…she will love this post. I love these pictures so much! I feel so upliftd seeing such beautiful flowers this morning! Thank you so much for that. I love your garden, and hope to have one like yours one day! 🙂 The picture of those birdies is incredible. We had some mourning dove babies on our porch a couple of weeks ago. It was always so fun to go check on them. those babies flew the nest though… so now i am a 20 something single empty nester. ha! Gorgeousness all around. Can you A. adopt me or B. turn your house into a bed and breakfast so I can come stay with you? Every post of your home makes me wanna move to Kansas and move into the Museum next door. All of those pictures are incredible, but I really like the bird ones – WOW!!! Thanks for all the pictures of your peonies!! We lived on the my husband’s family farm for years and we inherited all of Grandma’s plants. Peonies were one of those treasured plants! When we moved to McPherson…I moved them with me and gave some to her daughters. When we moved to Hutch last year (in the coldest part of winter) I moved them again and transplanted as soon as I could. Sadly…they didn’t make it. Peonies are in my backyard plan somewhere…but it’s not the same as having Grandma’s Peonies. They always make me think of her! Loved every pic!! Back to quilting and then finishing some flower planting for me too! Amazing bird pics! Gorgeous peonies….I’ll bet your grandma is going to love this! don’t be surprised if you spot me crawling in your garden with a pair of scissors… i have a new bag. don't you love it? it is from lindsey at the pleated poppy. how amazing is that shop?? i love the yellow stripe with the pinks, browns and orange!
it's the perfect size to hold the stuff you need and a few extras. since it's got the sling strap i can use during my shoots for all my camera junk. it's perfect! there are a few pockets that will fit my lens cap, my phone, some extras and my gum (very important to me) (i actually wrote guN at first….HA HA HA….lindsey even has a pocket for my gun….ha ….a gun purse) look at all these fun finds over at her shop!
there is so much to choose from! i know that the bloom bags like mine have been really popular but with how much she has in her shop right now i think you will be happy you went. and just for fun…..lets have a GIVEAWAY! how about a $35 gift certificate to the pleated poppy! leave me a comment telling me your weekend plans I Just finished the play of Annie Every day for a week it’s been non-stop Morning show, Lunch, Night show, and come home at 11:30pm Just about every night. Having to miss some school. I love it! C.Y.T. Wichita is such a blessing to me, and It’s been my first show. Pleated poppy has been on my wish list every since I’ve seen it 🙂 LOVE YOUR BLOG <3 we hung out at home & I worked on some birthday sewing! So cute!! I would love to buy something for my kid’s awana teacher! Clean, clean, clean…and prepare stuff for a youth activity for our church. Our weekend plans included packing for vacation!! Shoot! My weekend is over, BUT maybe I’m not too late by your time zone 🙂 My plans this weekend were to help out a guy who wanted to ask out another friend on a date! So fun! I was the distraction that got her out of the house while he left flowers and a note for her. Just call me cupid 😉 Fun! We went to a birthday party on Saturday, Sunday School celebration at church, and cleaned out our office/craft/guest room. its probably too late but would love a gift cert! This weekend kicked off with a wonderful evening down at the lake – we had a surprisingly warm night so ended up staying down there much longer than our planned quick trip there to get some things done…it was nice to chat with good friends while the kids took an unplanned dip (COLD – there was ice on that lake not too long ago) and then pilfered through the bags in my trunk – they were wrapped in scarves and winter hats that were still in there! the rest of the weekend included a band trip, baseball game, and errands!! you’re just do dang cute! oops! i am a little late… but our weekend plans were to put up our new swingset but then it rained alllll weekend long. so we just chilled. and it was the best 🙂 I had quilt group, a bridal shower and gardening to do this weekend. Love the Pleated Poppy. I’ve wanted something, anything for a long time. This weekend was cold here in Kansas so I made chili and we roated marshmellows, it was perfect. Celebrated with a baby shower for my sis!! Happy colors!! I want one! Love, love, love your new bag! I think I need one. 🙂 This weekend is yard work, trip to the zoo, a poker party, church, and naps. Ahh, weekends are so wonderful. Taking the kids to my parents house so dear husband can paint all the hallways, entryway and stair, shampoo the rug, mop all the hardwood and supervise the pouring of our new patio. Yes, he is a gooood man!! I graduation from UNCC with my masters in school administration this weekend and threw myself a party 🙂 It was great! And I love the bloom bags and EVERYTHING on her website! Went on our 3rd annual girls only camping trip – no kids or hubbies! The weather was cold and rainy but still managed afire and lots of noshing and catching up – very therapeutic. Love the camera bag! A whole lot of relaxing is in store this weekend. Maybe some sewing on Saturday and some time at the park on Sunday. Must take advantage of the beautiful weather! Well, the weekend is about over but my hubby & I celebrated our 6 year anniversary and then headed down to Orlando to shop at Ikea! A great weekend!! My two girls (9 & 11) are appearing in our church’s production of GodSpell. I will be spending most of the weekend driving them to and fro and sitting in the pews cheering like crazy! my weekend plans were… thoroughly enjoying my daughter’s dance recital while one of my sons travelled out of town on a bus for the first time without his mama to participate in special olympics; my hubby working; playing with and taking care of eight adorable kiddos! A happy gift certificate to Pleated Poppy would be so fun! 🙂 pj days——-rainy days=pj days!!!!!!!!! my weekend plans: going to Mackinac Island on a work trip. I loved EVERY thing about my time up there. It is such a magical place. And the grand hotel, a fairy-tale come to life. although i’m 24, you would have thought that I was 11….. if you’ve never been, it should be for sure on your bucketlist 🙂 LOVE it!!! I got to help style my cousin’s wedding this weekend-an awesome, rustic, outdoor wedding and it was perfect!!! Wow – what a giveaway! Love that gorgeous, big bag. I threw a wedding shower this weekend! Matron of Honor is a wedding…and recouperating today! Whew! Glad that is over. 🙂 My weekend was amazingly fabulous (which is why this is the first time I’ve been on the computer in a few days). I spent Friday and Saturday being blessed at Women of Faith. It was AWESOME! Saturday night was my niece’s first dance recital and today after church we watched the baptism of a friend’s little girl. Such a great weekend!!!! (That this exhausted, pregnant momma to be topped off with a nap!) Spending time with my momma who just had a biopsy done last week..hugging longer and talking later into the night…life is precious!! Date night with my hubby and shopping! 5 50% off coupons to old navy…woohoo! hahahaha i laughed out loud at the gun/gum comment! i finally tore down the outdated (but beautiful…) cabbage rose wallpaper border in my living room….yay!!! thanks for the chance! i’m a little late for the party. just getting back from vacation and trying to come down from that high. i feel like a pleated poppy goody would perk me right up. 🙂 laundry, clean, birthday party, another birthday party, another birthday party sleep-over, clean and more laundry. yippee for me! No big plans this weekend…resting up on Sat from working the night shift on Friday, then church Sunday morning, lunch w/ the family…naps… Oh my word. Must have this bag!!! Sooo cute! Love your photos as always. Love Linsey’s stuff! Love her attention to detail–all the way down to her packaging! So fun! Our weekend was small group, two baseball games, friends over, church, a rained out baseball game, piano recital, evening church, a meeting and then a big sigh and rest and getting ready for next week! Never a dull moment around here! Hugs to you! Love your blog! This weekend has been filled with a lot of nothing terribly important. It has been fantastic!! BTW, I am Sooo coveting that bag of yours. 😉 doing a bunch of nothing and loving every minute of it! Going to watch my dad in a Duathalon! He is 69! So proud of him! Thanks for the giveaway! Yesterday I ran, we walked around Target for no reason, and had a friend over for dinner. Today a couple more friends and their kids are coming over to play. Overall a pretty laid back weekend! We are taking our rabbit to the vet, helping Nan move house and having some rabbit loving time! Lovely weekend with Friends and my sweet little family–my 2 year old and Husband who was away all last week. SO nice for him to be home, if not so I can sleep in 🙂 Painting the wicker chairs on my front porch a nice sunny yellow and planting my flowers! Yay – I love Spring! Our weekends is full of time outdoors. Smores and hot dogs, camping in the backyard, and am java on the front porch! LOVE THE PLEATED POPPY!!! Chaperoning 14 Daisy Girl Scouts at Camporee! That should do me in! How did I miss this until now? Love the bag and The Pleated Poppy. Well, my Fiance graduated today from the University of Arkansas, so I went to watch him walk, and support him in his accomplishment! It was so exciting! For the rest of the weekend, I’m spending as much time with him as I can before he goes home (to MS) for the summer 🙁 This time next year though, we’ll be married, and I won’t have to be apart from him! Hope you have a great weekend Meg!! LOVE that bag! And I’m needing a cute camera bag for a wedding I’m shooting soon. So…..we’ve gone on a birthday campout and are now home preparing for another b-day party sunday at lunch. I’m exhausted. This weekend is my oldest son’s birthday weekend. He turned 8 on Friday. We had a huge neighborhood movie night in our garage. Totally GREAT! But I’m glad that’s over…enough said. I just love your bag. I’m going over to the pleated poppy and do a little window shopping. Hope I win. Late mothers Day this weekend. Were doing a surprise flower bed/garden for her. Hope she loves it! Take my girls to dance, jewelry party at my cousins and enjoying family time! Thank you for such a great giveaway! I am hosting my girl’s first sleep over! Then I will go to a few garage sales and a birthday party! Such a cute bag! We are watching basketball and going to graduation parties. Will be lots of fun! I went to some garage sales this morning and then did laundry… Tomorrow we’re going to see our niece and nephew. I love your bag!!! Oh what a FUN bag! LOVE it! I would just love anything from her shop…thank you for the giveaway! This weekend we are moving my office/craft room downstairs into our old dining room. We are adopting a little boy from the foster care system and that will be his room. Lots of purging and organizing still to do! LOL After a quick trip to St. Louis, I get to spend the weekend with my little sister. Great surprise that will make an otherwise dreary weekend bright! Lots of homework – no fun right. But the weather is beautiful and my kids are enjoying every minute of it while mama studies. Tonight we had neighbors and friends over for a big smores roasting! So much fun! Tomorrow we will go to our wonderful church and then finish packing up the kitchen to begin the big remodel on Monday! That way too cute bag would help me be happy when my house is a big mess for 8 weeks! Second time ever we’re getting a babysitter so the hubs and i can go to a wedding. SOOOO excited to get away. Love the new bag! Precious bag! Luau-themed birthday party for my nine year-old has left me wiped. I am absolutely crushing on your bag and would love one of my own! My weekend plans include a lot of “homeyness”…cleaning, laundry, cooking, puttering, rearranging, decluttering…and maybe even relaxing with some magazines. anywhere outside with my family. cute bag!!!! My husband and son will be at a father/son campout which means a girl’s night for my daughter and me at home… sundaes, movie, and breakfast out! Lots of fun! 3 of each please! holy crapola, meg! there are like 730 comments already! you are so popular 🙂 oops! forgot to talk about our weekend plans! we went to a children’s museum today and let 2 of the boys run wild. they had a fabulous time going down the slide head first into a pile of pillows and encouraging other kids at the museum to do the same. i’m sure i was the envy of all of the parents there! (uhm… sure!) sunday includes a haircut for my husband and power washing some baby items. the purse is so cute! and so is your target tank & the cardigan. i love target. and your blog is just so fun! thanks for doing it! that bag is freaking adorable. i’m dying. Enjoy your blog! Hubby took our junk…I mean treasures…to a garage sale while I played with kiddos in the backyard. New kiddie pool and they are excited! Tomorrow is church and more swimming (OK, splashing) and a trip to our favorite yogurt shop! cleaning an yard work! We had a great bbq with my parents too. Lovin the sun! LOVE your new bag! Oh man…. PICK ME! I’ll share the gift certificate of course…. Cousins grad party and cleaning. Nothing else to do when it is freezing out! My weekend consists of birthday shoots…one for a 90 year old great grandpa and one for a 1 year old girlie girl! 🙂 Love it! LOVE that bag you have! We’re going for the “simple weekend” at our house- with our little kiddos. It will be another round of Madagascar…and then my choice: Mary Poppins {**love**}. ps. love the your sweet birdie bag hook. Our oldest graduated from HS last night, had his party today. Tomorrow is our middle sons 9th birthday. Lots of partying and cake for us this weekend!! Love the bag! We got to have dinner with our friend who grew up in England…. made us his local cuisine. So yummy! Tomorrow is a kid birthday party. I love that Bag! Im going to check her site out now… My weekend is full of BEAST activites haha… Friday my husband and I found out we are having a beautiful baby girl, who is due in October. Today I went to my nieces little league game, and have a movie night with the hubby, and tomorrow I have a big family cookout complete with my grandparents that live far away! Hope your having a Great weekend too. I love your bag. Such fun colors. My weekend plans: drive kids around and host a sleepover for 13 year old girls — and in between, I will do laundry and make a wreath for my front door. I’m spending the rest of my weekend relaxing after a great half marathon finish this morning! My 7 wk old granddaughter is being christened in the morning, then lunch for family and friends at my house. This weekend is the great purge! Oh my. I’m having a yard sale but I think I’ll end up having to pay someone to take it away. 🙂 My plan is to do as little as possible! (I’m long overdue!!!) I am going to carry stuff upstairs and down, get projects set at the dinning room table, and get the house ready for recovery from my hysterectomy on Wednesday. Love that bag! Girls on the Run 5k, nap, Kick off Summer Block Party, church, soccer and more soccer , bible study dinner party and that’s it! spending time with my grandbabies…my favorite thing! I’m working this weekend at Comanche Acres Iris Gardens. We’re close to full bloom and it’s absolutely beautiful! Hard to have a bad day at work here. I LOVE the pleated poppy! How clever of you to use it for a camera bag! I think Jillian is working for ya, you look skinny in the close up picture. Love the Pleated Poppy! My weekend will be filled with soccer games and a yard sale. Weekend plans WERE to let my 7 yr old go to her first sleepover. Plans changed and we had to go get her. We are having unusually cool, rainy weather here in CO. I plan to cozy up with my family, and finish The Help! Gorgeous! So happy and pretty! Weekend plans…..grocery shopping, cleaning out the pantry and some home organization! Fun fun! A BBQ tonight with good friends and then a Mommy-Daughter day tomorrow. Probably some errands and shopping. weekend plans: host a baby shower, celebrate a graduation, plan for my last baby bird’s graduation next thursday, conquer Laundry Mountain!! I am sick this weekend, so the couch and more TV than I have watched all year! Love, love love the bag! This weekend we have been painting the living room, going to a ladies banquet at our church and then visiting some friends on Sunday afternoon =) FUN! AND where do you find time to read all these comments? My husband is working, so me and the kids are hanging out with my single-mom friend and her daughters and eating strawberry shortcake. Had big cleaning plans….but down with a bad headache. Tomorrow church, birthday party and maybe a movie with the kids. Love that purse! Cheery fabrics on a crummy day here in Illinois! what a lovely giveaway! i actually had a yard sale yesterday so i am relaxing today and then church tomorrow 🙂 I love that bag, and also The Pleated Poppy! No big plans for the weekend. The hubby is out of town working, so that means movie night with the my little girls. planting, steaks, family night and magaritas w/hubby after kiddos in bed…. Love the camera bag! We are celebrating a belated Mother’s Day:) as I spent last Sunday in the ER with my mother:( Going OUT for Italian TONIGHT! YIPPEE! Shopping, church, cleaning, wrapping presents! Love the Pleated Poppy! LOVE that bag – how happy! 🙂 We’re mowing, cleaning carpets and then – as a reward – goint to eat pizza and see “Water for Elephants”! Fun weekend – love the Pleated Poppy already but that bag is too darn cute! 🙂 Taking our foster puppies to adoption events. oh snap! this is awesome! so glad you posted on your new purse-I loved that sneak peek a few weeks ago! My baby sister just graduated from Carson Newman College in Tennessee yesterday!! I spent yesterday getting sunburnt at graduation (totally worth it–so proud of her)!! Tonight we are having a huge party for her at my older sister’s house!! YAY baby sissy!! Adorable Bloom Bag! I would love one! This weekend I’ll be planting, going to the gym and hanging out with my sweet husband. 🙂 We went to an open house at the local fire station….so much fun for the kids! Must. have. that. bag. Our weekend plans included a visit with friends and a trip to the locally Amish run Bent-n-Dent store. I cut apple blossom branches to display in my blue mason jars throughout the house and I am currently waiting for the rain to stop so we can start tilling up our garden. I LOVE weekends!! You have great style!!! I am at school this weekend (weekend college for mommy), watching my 8yo in a church musical, and seeing dear old college friends at a baby shower. If I am lucky, getting a Sunday nap:) Visiting extended family to help celebrate with the newest college graduate! Love all of those colors! So pretty!! We are resting and unpacking after taking a trip to the beach last week. I took a CPR certification class today, and tomorrow I have a “Learning to Meditate” class. A weekend full of classes! 🙂 We are celebrating the end of my husband’s semester by doing not a lot. We’re cleaning, sleeping, sitting, and maybe some minor shopping. Woohoo for a relaxing weekend (finally)!! Love her stuff!! My plans this weekend are just visiting with my niece and her fiance, then picking up my daughter from her church retreat and finally topping it all off with Mass Sunday evening. 🙂 Nice and simple. ooh!! How fun and happy!! My weekend plans consist of relaxing,shopping topped off with some backyard wiffle ball and grilled burgers! LOVE our happy days! That bag is to die for. LOVE it! The colors make me happy. 🙂 This weekend is a fun one…a Glamor Girl birthday party & Disneyland. oh how i love her stuff! My daughter’s first ballet “performance”… she’s 3! 🙂 freezing cold parade yesterday. 5th grade madathon after that – more cold! coffee with a bff this morning. laundry. cooking YOUR YUMMY potatoe soup for supper tonight (where is my May??) and graduation open house tonight. church tomorrow. CUte bag! THis weeknd of NO BASEBALL will be spent in the yard and regrouping for the week! I’ll be packing all my things for a big move from Alabama to Texas, that will be happening in a week! i LOVE the pleated poppy! this is a great weekend for me…yestrday i got to see my little brother graduate from college and be commissioned into the air force. today we are throwing a bridal shower for my future sister-in-law. lots of family time! I LOVE that bag! t is so cute and fun! I will be doing the usual this weekend…..grocery shopping and cleaning house. Sure do praise God I have a house to clean! Hope you have a great weekend as well. Hello! That bag and I were MADE for each other. Weekend plans.. my baby is getting a “big girl” bed (tear). Her new brother will be here in a couple months and so we are going to start getting her adjusted before his arrival. Wow, I feel all grown up. I have always loved all of her stuff… and your bag is gorgeous! I guess my plans are to paint…. and paint and paint and paint! Fun for me 🙂 My weekend plans include going to my son’s all star band concert, my daughter’s soccer game, laundry, and hopefully some rest! my family has a weekend full of blessings. we have 2 First Holy Communions and 1 Baptism. Deo gratias! Love the bag! Suprise birthday party, softball game, clean my house, go to the grocery store, and BBQ. Should be a good weekend. love the bag / my weekend is relaxing with my kids + dinner w good friends. can’t beat it! Busy weekend ahead: My older boys are helping with a church playground building project, my younger will be bouncing away celebrating a neighbor’s birthday..Somewhere in there I need to pay the bills:) I live in Manhattan, KS so I will be busy tracking down Food Networks “The Great Food Truck Race” contestants around town and tasting all their unique food (and maybe trying to get on TV…) Flag football, birtday parties , gymnastics , church, mission trip meeting , wedding , gotta go I’m too busy to type more… Already tired We will be at the garden center picking out new trees and shrubs for our front yard. Now that’s a good time for me. I noticed that cute bag in a couple of previous posts..love it! And I like how you threw in a little homage to TPP’s “What I Wore Wednesdays” posts…I just started reading those! She (and you) sure have cute stuff! Let’s see…weekend plans: last night – went on date with hubby and wore new shoes, got to pull 6-yr-old’s dangling tooth (while wishing I could soak feet from wearing afore-mentioned new shoes); today – shop for birthday party present & supplies for tomorrow’s Sunday School craft, go to birthday party, veg out; tomorrow – Sunday school, church, lunch out…make sure we have enough clean clothes & food to get us off to a good start on Monday. 🙂 Just came home from helping cook at the new Young Life Camp for our son’s school trip -(awesome)-so I am re-connecting with the rest of the family. The rest of the weekend is full on Ballet Year End shows- for my two girls -complete with lots of family coming to watch. We are so blessed to have a ballet teacher who loves the Lord and wants to glorify Him, so her shows end up being worshipful and inspiring (bring kleenex kind of shows). It is going to be great. Time to get the little dancers up and ready. Have a great weekend dreaming about cute bags everybody. We have a busy weekend. Our 14 yr. old daughter is attending a church tea party with her grandmother, our 12 yr. old son has two baseball games, and our 17 yr. old son has Prom tonight. We’re also hoping to get some flowers planted in pots for our front porch. My weekend plans are…hanging out at home playing with my 5year old boy and 2year old girlie! Especially after just reading your post from the other day about your little boy turning 13-I just ran over and gave my little guy a squeeze-because he is exactly like you described your boy-and it’s overwhelming at times! but worth it 🙂 okay-i’m crying now! love your blog-your the kinda momma i’m striving to be! I love would love to win this!! There are so many cute things, and I can’t seem to have enough bags 🙂 LOL! I am about to be in the Strawberry Festival Parade! In the rain! My weekend plans include my BABY SHOWER!!!! Lots of friends are gathering around to help us celebrate our first Bitsy Hitzy!!!! relax on saturday and go to work on sunday (I am a nicu nurse) Very cute bag! Today — Taking cat to vet this morning, Cub Scouts rocket launch, oldest son’s bowling tournament, graduation party. Tomorrow — church and hopefully some relaxation! No AAU basketball this weekend. So it is soccer, soccer, and more soccer. Bead Expo!!! Yay! The bag is awesome! We are busy with sports this weekend. Lacrosse games and soccer games – all in the pouring rain. Yeah me! Well….I HAD great plans….and then it hit…THE STOMACH BUG. Ugh! I’m so bummed last weekend was so busy…2 soccer games for my oldest son…then a birthday party to go to that night for my daughter…then mothers day..traveled to be with my mom and the mom in law. (didn’t really have much time for my family) SOOOOO…this weekend…I had planned to take my family to the park. Let them ride bikes, picnic…let my 3 month old hang out on the blanket…take my daughter for some mommy/daughter time…and have some sweet time with my hubby on the porch after everyone goes to sleep….then I woke up throwing up yesterday. There went my plans. There has been a stomach bug going around the school and I had been praying for the Lord to keep it from us and if it had to come that I would get it. Well….I did. Today is better. I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck..but it is better. Isn’t it funny how sometimes our plans don’t work out. Well…if no one else gets sick…it was worth it. And just being able to check in with you and see that cute bag made me smile. Thanks. Cute bag! We have our dance recital this weekend, last night was rehearsal – tonight the performance. It is so much fun to watch all the girls dance, from 4 years old (they are just the cutest in their little tutus!)to 18. My girls are 10 and 12,been dancing for 5 years, did great last night! Tonight’s performance will be beautiful, the whole show – I just love it! My mother from 1000 miles away just surprised me by showing up for the weekend for our church’s mother/daughter brunch! I’ll be spending some time with Mom/Grandma this weekend! I am a busy soccer mom this weekend. T-ball practice, a wedding to shoot tonight, work at church tomorrow, then soccer games. Fun with work, church, and family… and I love all her stuff! Dinner with friends last night, watching an extra little today and then celebrating birthdays and mother’s day with family. (all a week late!) 🙂 LOVE the new bag!!!! We have no plans and it’s wonderful because for the last 2 months every weekend was filled with stuff we were doing so we are just going to chill……we did have kid free night last night so went out to see some friends 🙂 Big plans for the weekend – watching our youngest make her stage debut in “Cheaper by the Dozen”. Maybe squeeze in a little gardening too – LOVE THE BLOOM BAG!!!!! Planning to pick up trash with the conservation group in my neighborhood, coffee afterwards and then hit a few of my favorite stores (hubby out of town!) 643 comments???! Wowza! I’m working allll weekend – so that just made my comment really boring 🙂 Lurrrve your bag, going to hop over there now to see if I can get one for my camera too. Have a fab weekend 🙂 pretty pretty!!! the weekend is all about the kids…soccer, tennis and gymnastics!!! That bag is all about you. Super cute. Weekend plans: movig my daughter into her house up at college for the summer…..in the rain 🙁 LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the bag! I’m completely bananas for yellow. Garage sales early this a.m., than a baptism class at church, then dinner with friends and our kids! It’s freezing here in Melbourne, Australia at the moment so I’m sitting in front of the fire at my in-laws house, about to have yummy homemade soup and apple pie for dinner, wishing I had one of those ruffle scarves! I have totally been drooling over her Blooms for the longest time! outing with kids, church meeting, yard work, then church on sunday morning! love your entire outfit! We have our last soccer game of the season and lots of cleaning out of closets to do! Fun, fun! 🙂 My husband and I are having a Cold War themed birthday party on Saturday night. I can’t wait! Thanks for the chance to win — Lindsey’s items are super cute! this weekend I am helping my parents with a big moving sale all day saturday 🙂 they are getting ready to sell the house i grew up in and decluttering! I am going to make chicken pot pie for my baby brother’s 16 birthday. I cannot believe he can drive now, it crazy. and on Sunday, I am trying out a new church, one that is closer not a crazy 50 min drive. Thanks for the give away. I love reading your blog. I’m starting to come out of blog lurking :). I love the neat things over at the pleated poppy! The color combos are amazing! This weekend I’ll be getting my classroom ready for open house and then head down to the happiest place on earth. I hope to do some online shopping for handmade goodies as well! Hope you have a good weekend!! LOVE this bag! I want one! I will be shopping for graduation gifts tomorrow and going to graduation parties Sunday evening. cute, cute, cute! Love her fabrics and designs, PLUS I need a new bag!! Tonight I am pulling an all-nighter to bake goodies for hubbies Not-So-Surprise Birthday Party. The husband is out of town — so me and the girl are going for morning coffee/hot cocoa and then heading out to take the dogs for a nice long walk around the vineyards. We won’t even care if it rains! (When you’re five, it’s even better when it rains!) my husband is a camp director and his camp is hosting a family fun day tomorrow. and then on sunday our staff arrive for a training week and i am teaching the life guard training. CUTE BAG! Selling PTO Raffle tickets at the local grocery store..attending a wedding at a gun club:) Finally seeing the sun here in utah…lots of yard work this weekend. OMG! i love that bag……….. love all of lindsay’s stuff! i just sit there and drool over it all! we have a super fun weekend ahead of fixing up our rental house on saturday and then turning around and working on out house on sunday. i might be able to sneak away to the farmer’s market at some point in time… 🙂 Nothing fun happening here, I have to work all weekend 🙁 love love love it! soccer tournies all day saturday. cold rain 45 degrees yuck. church sunday. LOVE THE BAG!! WEEKEND AT THE FARMERS MARKET AND LUNCH AT COMFORT FOOD….YUM! Love the pleated poppy! Weekend plans of work on Saturday then home with the kids the rest of the weekend as my husband is going out of town. Wishing the weather was warmer to hang out outside, guess we will do some crafts and baking! I am hanging out with my visiting aunt, SHOPPING(!!), and baking a cake! love the pleated poppy 🙂 My weekend involves getting up at way too early am to peruse yard sales kid free. Heaven. 🙂 Adorable bag, and love her shop! Going to some garage sales…hope to find some good buys, then a Monster-themed birthday party. After a long, tiring week, I’ll be doing fun stuff! Going for a run, putting finishing touches on a bathroom redecorate, and posting for the first time on my new blog! What an awesome shop and I LOVE that bag! We are holding a yard sale to raise money for baby #2!!! Saturday, we’re taking our girls to Midway Airport and surprising them with a visit from their grandparents (who have a layover) and Sunday is church and the Lilac Parade! I’ve been drooling over one of her bags for a while now! I will be working all weekend, and hopefully cleaning my house. babysat my sweet grandson this evening, rummage sales tomorrow morning and then laundry tomorrow afternoon…cook something yummy for supper and then church and rest on Sunday…perfect weekend!! :o) I have no plans. My husband is a farmer so he is planting corn. Wow her store is so amazing! This weekend I am taking my mom to the Islands of Adventure in Orlando to see the new Harry Potter World– can’t wait!!! All our weekend plans of parades and outdoor fun got cancelled since it is only supposed to be in the 50s and raining! It has been in the 80s the past few days so it makes me so sad to see the nice weather go away! Such is life in Michigan! Maybe we will finally go to Chuckie Cheese to reward my middle child for being so brave in the hospital a few weeks ago – he got promised a bunch of tokens every time he got poked. Saturday is a huge outreach day for our church where we go out and serve our community to share the love of Jesus 🙂 a birthday party, church on Sunday. Would love to plant a garden too, thinking I may have a few too many things planned! 😉 Cute bag! I will be planting flowers and working on my little mans first birthday party…one week away! SWOON! That bag is gorgeous <3 that bag is so cute! i’m headed over to check out her shop! 🙂 weekend plans… tomorrow is cleaning the house with my roommates and brunch with them, then i work 3-11. sunday is church, lunch with friends and gearing up for another week of work. Soccer/Cleaning/Laundry/Church I’m in LOVE with your bag! How stinkin cute! Weekeend plans are BORING! Just doing a major spring cleaning and swapping out the winter clothes for the summer ones. Not fun but has to be done. Love the bag!! I bought all my herbs during my lunch hour today so I’m planting!!! Can’t wait! Ummmmm…..basil. Cleaning the gardens still in between yet more rain. I am hopefully house-training our new puppy! 🙂 I’ll be spending my weekend hunting for vintage treasures in this unfortunate chilly Missouri weather….brrrrrrrrr! i’ll be cleaning my house 🙁 why does the weather turn yucky every single weekend? my yard is a wreck! i just wanna bbq in a beautiful yard! Love the bag! And wow you are a popular lady!! Love that bag! I have an early morning bible study on Sat. where breakfast is made for me! So nice! Then off to the pool with the kiddos for the first swim of the season. They are so excited. Birthday party to follow on Sunday… My weekend plans are to get things checked off our to-do list before our baby girl comes in 3 weeks. mooooving…. weee! always fun to move 🙂 Sewing and crafting and trying to stock up our Etsy store….oh the joy of sitting in front of my sewing machine for hours and hours on end! haha! Luckily I’ll get a break for the kids gymnastics and the dogs training class! My hubby is taking our kiddos to his parents house for the weekend! I get to be in our house all weekend long…ALONE! How awesome is that?! Love your boom bag! Jealous! She’s always sold out when I go to look! Love the chance to win… We have a coach-pitch baseball game to attend on Sunday…and the rest is some good R&R!! 1 HS lacrosse games friday night, 6 lacrosse game on saturday with PROM on saturday night….kind of a really fun weekend! swim lessons, making mud pies, sand box (and of course some eating from our 13 month old), walks and church. Oh and a big run to Costco. Out of just about everything. I have been following your website for at least a year over here in Michigan. I read it and smile and wait for the inspiration to overcome me. But, on to my comment…what am I doing this weekend? Running a 5K with my sister. We raised money for a local charity called Bethany Christian Services who find foster homes for children. We are running for “David”. I run to help him find a home. how cute is that! I am running my first 5K! Ummm, not so fun. Dryer broken, must go buy new. We’re off to the City of Brotherly Love tomorrow! And hopefully a day of rest and recovery on Sunday. That bag is adorable!! Love the purse! I’ve been to her sight looking at the lovliness in the past week! Trying to decide what I want! I’m planting flowers and shopping for a new camera this week! Going to join the big girls and get one that needs different lenses! I’m gonna be in way over my head, but I can’t wait to learn some new things!!! I’m running a 5K at the zoo, date with the hubby and church with the fam. Love the bag–soooooo cute! Having my garage sale, friends over for dinner, church, and a niece’s birthday party (busy but fun). finishing up yard work and watching my 2nd born in the kids program at church. Lots of down time, hopefully. local children’s festival with the kids, then off for a night away with my twin sis to do a running race 🙂 Every weekend in May is crazy busy for me!! My son got married last weekend….2 more weddings…3 graduation parties and a baby shower! I need something cute from the Pleated Poppy to accompany me!!! I love the Pleated Poppy! I read Lindsey’s blog every day. my weekend will include a soccer game, food shopping, planting flowers, haircut and color, church, another soccer game and the norwegian day parade. FUN stuff!!!! thanks for the chance to win. Love her blog, shop and her “what I wore Wednesday” posts! Love your new bag! Used the new grill I got for Mothers’ Day to cook dinner tonight. TWO kid b-day parties this weekend, boo, and my birthday Sunday, yaay! I hope to have a baby this weekend! I am 38.5 weeks prego and have been having contractions on and off for the past two days. Love these bags!!! Our weekend is going to be filled with soccer games, communion party, and a 10k. Fun times with the family! Goin’ rummaging!! My fav pastime. Helping with a yardsale and getting my plans ready for one more day of science review for my 5th graders before the end-of-grade test! My little girl turns 3 on Saturday, so we’ll be having a small party (the big party is next weekend). Then we’ll head to my brother and sister-in-law’s on Sunday to help landscape their new place. My hubby is away all weekend, camping in the woods with my dad and brother and a whole bunch of guys for my brother’s bachelor party weekend….so while the hubby’s are away the step mom and I are going to play (and eat great food, like steamed crabs!!) and go to the movies and be bums!! I’m going scrapbooking tomorrow with a good friend and then lazy Sunday morning 🙂 you, your blog are such an inspiration for me to use more color. You are awesome!Love the new bag! Soccer games and doing preparations for our Relay for Life event. So excited!!! My daughter is going to a b-day party and we are planting some seeds in our garden. 🙂 A date night with the hubby and then sleeping in! May Day, flag football game, local baseball game, and working in the garden! My 14 yr. old son is getting confirmed Sunday morning! Tomorrow, I alter pants and press his shirt, clean my studio, plant some flowers. Then Sunday it’s celebration all day with family and friends at other confirmands’ open houses (our party is a little later). A GREAT weekend! Ohh got sidetracked by the colours.. OMG love the colours of that baq so much. Hi! We are going to my little cousin’s first communion and then playing in my parents’ pool on Sunday! Birthday dinner for me on Sunday – ice cream cake! YUM!!I love your blog, Meg! It makes me so happy every day! 🙂 busy weekend, soccer practice, soccer game, groceries, laundry, cleaning, birthday party, homework ( our kids finish end of June here in Montreal) and rain, rain, rain! At least there’s lots of wine in the house! I’m spending my Saturday hopping from graduation party to graduation party. On Sunday I’m goign to catch up on the rest I missed Saturday and study for my finals! This weekend, hair cut,plant some herbs,get things ready for next Saturday when we celebrate my 2 May babies 1 and 3 year old this year! I’ve been with my boyfriend for nine years. Yes, NINE! Well, technically he’s been my fiance for the past year. I get to be his wife in 28 days. This weekend I’ll be getting showered with gifts as we look forward to the big day! My 4 sisters are hosting a wedding shower for me in my hometown. I drive out of the city tomorrow for the small town with my bestie, my future mother in-law and my future step-daughter. It will be a FUN and BLESSED day. I just know it! That bag is fabulous! I’m a teacher, and today was field day, so the rest of my weekend will involve nursing my sunburn from today and planning/prepping for my last week of classes. I want that bag!! Going home to KS this weekend to spend a belated Mother’s Day with my mom and family. I LOVE the Pleated Poppy! I am a teacher and the $35 gift card would be such a nice reward for such a great year! I love your site Meg! We plan to hang out at home this weekend. We are in need of some family time. I am graduating from college this weekend! : ) First of all, I have one of the Pleated Poppy’s notebook covers, and it’s adorable! Also, I’m going to finish off my garden planting and finish my flowerbeds this weekend if the rain holds off! I’m biting the bullet and going back for my master’s in graphic design – but first I have to be reviewed by the University’s School of Art committee (oh joy) but going back at almost 42 with 3 kids is a much more peaceful experience – wish me luck 🙂 Super cute bag!!! Quilt group/baby shower in the morning tomorrow and then we need to get the rest of our stuff moved – we just bought our first home and trying to get the rental house empty and clean is a nightmare!! Enjoy your weekend! I love your bag! You are so right, the colors and patterns are perfect. We actually are not doing anything. And that’s kinda nice. Preschool lesson planning! Oh how I love her shop! It’s so fun when two favorite blogs support each other and show up at the same time. I’m a bag lady through and through. Shoes? Meh. Bags? Love. Garage sale, baseball, small group bbq- busy but fun! My husband is camping with my middle son. I am home with my daughter, oldest son and my baby (who’s turning 6 next week 🙁 You always show us the best stuff, Meg! Super gorgeous bag! Gotta love anything with flowers like that on it! I am loving those fabrics. So so so cute. My weekend plans involve kids kids and more kids. Plus Hubby is working Sunday so we will be laying low after church. xxx Such a cute purse! Today is my birthday, so I’m visiting my family in Texas and hanging out with them all weekend! For me – Saturday consists of working at the thrift store and then nothing but relaxation after that! MOPS end of year picnic, taking a vanload of 9 yo girls to the 1,000,000 meals event for Kids Against Hunger, church & maybe, just maybe, a wee bit of reading for me! I LOVE the PP shop!!!!! Going to a birthday party Saturday, church and the aquarium on Sunday! and trying to relax a bit in between 🙂 I am hosting a sleepover for my daughter who’s 11th birthday is this Sunday. We are off to a local church’s spring fair tonight and swimming in the pool all day tomorrow….. I am a teacher to 25 4th graders. I will use this weekend to remember how much I love my job, even in the last few days of school when the kids are OFF THE WALL! I want to get my hands on a bloom bag because my last name-Blum, is pronunced Bloom and I think it is meant to be. Carrying a cute bloom bag with all my school stuff each day, would make me oober HAPPY! i love the pleated poppy and am a follower of hers. weekend plans, hmmmm…. hubs is painting the garage and i am cleaning out our walk-in pantry. both huuuuuuge jobs. boring to others maybe, but i will love the clean look of a freshly painted garage and organized pantry. hamburgers on the grill after… yum! Weekend plans… well, my husband is playing in a tennis tournament (even though he stayed home from work today with 102 fever). My 6yo has a baseball game Saturday morning, and I’m working the nursery on Sunday morning. That’s about it! Graduation party for my sister and a date with hubs. Cute stuff! Well…I’m a teacher and with only three school days left I’ve got LOTS of grading to do! 🙂 Baseball, baseball and an All-American cookout! yard work and prom for my senior son!! Love the bag! Love the colors! We are going to the farmer’s market this evening, out for breakfast at a restaurant where we have been wanting to try their breakfast tomorrow morning, and church Sunday morning. Other than that we will probably just hang out and do something outside if it doesn’t rain. I also have some new flowers to plant and grocery shopping to do. Just your typical weekend. i love the pleated poppy! i gave each of my sisters a gift from her shop for christmas and wish i had ordered something for myself too! My weekend plans consist of doing the same thing I have done every weekend for the past 3 months! Work on the new house we bought so that hopefully we can move in next weekend! Curling up with a blanket and a good book to ride out the cold wet weekend ahead! This weekend my littlest boy will finally be home from DisneyWorld!!! He is there with his grandparents who take all of their grandkids sometime when they are five (sooooo awesome)! I was laughing out loud at your almost mistake of guN for guM, so my other two boys were wondering what I was laughing at….they loved the idea of a gun purse! Back to my weekend….undoing the spoiling that has taken place in DisneyWorld, soccer, working out, church and family time! Have a great weekend yourself! My plans for the weekend…. I get a Mother’s Day re-do! We spent the day on an airplane with two toddlers. No fun! 🙂 Working, stuff around the house, church, and a dinner with friends to plan for the mission trip coming this summer… I’m bringing a blackberry cream cheese pie… YUMMY! Skipp’in out of town this weekend…spending some time with family we don’t see often, & hubby’s preaching engagement… Lots of talent over there at pleated poppy! Love that bag! The colors and prints are awesome! This weekend—unfortunately I have lots of work to catch up on. And my kitchen floor should probably get cleaned (it’s been awhile- yikes) but I am also on planning something crafty for me to to do…gotta keep my sanity 🙂 I love your bag! Our weekend plans consist of putting sod in at my parents house and working on the garden at our house. Weekend plans…….i get to go shoot guns with my husband (work related), then to my daughters soccer game and a bike ride.. sunday is church and then i work the night shift!! Here’s to a great weekend!! :0) I’m heading to Richmond to see Amos Lee on Saturday. On Sunday, I’ll work with a friend planning our youth mission trip to Macedonia! I can’t wait! Looooooooove your bag! SO SO SO happy! We are taking our daughter to what our town our little town calls “Trail Days” that is like a miniature fair with a parade and rides and food. Oh my goodness, how PERFECT is that bag!? I mean, with a gun pocket and all…? LOL This weekend we are rocking out to my baby’s fifth (fifth!??) Birthday and my baby brother’s twenty-sixth! ( wait, how did he get so old, too?!) Hope your weekend is awesome. Your blog brings me JOY! Watching my second born play rugby on Saturday morning and church Sunday morning. Hanging out with the fam for the rest of the time. LOVING that bag! So cute! Lindsey is so talented! We are laying rock down in our landscape and also planting flowers. Looking forward to the flower part, but not so much the rock part. I foresee a lot of Aleve in my future this weekend :). The bag is adorable. Will check out the shop. I am doing 3 paint parties today and tomorrow, then on Sunday we are painting at the fit Family 5k Run at the Waterfront! Yeah!! Yay for bright accessories! My hubs and I are going on a double date to see Thor at the iconic Alamo Drafthouse in Austin, Tx while our in-laws watch our baby. This mama needs a drink! 🙂 Sweet bag! Lets see….dress shopping with my 11 yo for her 5th grade social tonight and tomorrow is lawn work (for my hubby), laundry (for me) and then Disney/Epcot for the evening (it’s already too HOT during the day). Should be fun! What a fun bag! What a clever idea to use it for your camera! It’s my birthday weekend as we are going to do something fun, but I’m not sure what. Probably go to the beach, or check out some museums and gardens in L.A, or maybe all of those things! We have a soccer game and piano recital on tap for the weekend. And, here’s to hoping the kiddos might let us sleep in a bit on Saturday! 🙂 This weekend I am finally going to plant flowers! YAY! my family is going to a baseball tournament out of town…i am going to be home alone (can’t remember the last time that happened!). i am working on some stuff to do… Going to visit the extended family to celebrate May birthdays. The oldest of us is 32, the youngest is 2 weeks! Soccer and shopping! The cutest stuff, I LOVE her shop! I really want a belt, but they are always sold out! It’s the weekend of my middle child … the one who was put on this earth to test me … the one who’s more colorful than a rainbow … the one who colors outside the lines … the one who can just look at something and it breaks before she even touches it. She’s receiving First Holy Communion on Sunday and is also turning 8 … I hope the church will survive her … & I pray she closes her mouth and doesn’t chomp on the holy wafer or use her finger to pry it off the roof of her mouth! I hope her curly red hair has grown enough to get it up in her veil since she decided to cut it a few months ago. She is unique and makes me laugh … sometimes. So … that’s my weekend … and it’s gonna rain 🙁 I get the awesome pleasure of watching my 11 year old daughter bowl in a state family tournament with her papa..two generations sharing the same past time..love it. CUTE bag! it’s a perfect bag for outtings! I LOVE the Pleated Poppy! I just discovered her shop not too long ago. This weekend is DATE night! Yippee! Not sure what the plans are, but it really doesn’t matter as long as we’re alone! 🙂 Oh geez, 484 comments! Volleyball tournament and Sunday brunch, it’s a good life! Date night Friday, birthday party Saturday, church and baseball game Sunday. Sunday night collapse and watch the season finale of Survivor! baseball games, laundry, church, and time with my favorite guy ever… my husband. What a fun bag! I really want to get the nursery this weekend so I can get some flowers on my front porch! It is looking rather drab!!! Oh I love her store! We are going to take our toddler to a Pow Wow. He is going to be so excited! Planning on sleeping, eating yummy food, and finishing my lesson plans for the year! Woohoo! I’m in my first trimester and tired, tired, tired! So I plan to sleep, rest, and nap 🙂 My little girl woke up with a 103 degree temp today so it looks like we’re layin’ low this weekend. Happy Friday!! I’ll be going to Six Flags with the Best Friend and letting her drag me on whatever rides she wants. Then making dog treats to sell to raise money for the animal shelter. Sunday I’ll be having a supply drive for the local animal shelter at Wal-mart! Love the bag! Hanging out with the hubby and kids before the hubby goes on a trip for a week! Boo on work trips! Soccer games and hopefully vehicle shopping!!! Love her stuff! I am actually going to prom Saturday night!! My husband is a high school teacher so we get to go to prom every year. Love it every year! I’m going to run 8 miles….geez! that’s good enough for a cute bag!! Going to the beach with my grandma! I love The Pleated Poppy! The products are all so cute and I love her blog too. I will be doing baseball with my boys and heading out of town for some wedding festivities for a high school friend. ok Your Jillian workouts are working…you are looking really skinny in those photos!! My weekend plans, cropping all day on Saturday and celebrating a 3rd birthday on Sunday. Fun! This post is awesome because I have that sweater in green and I have that bag. 🙂 I love the pleated poppy! 🙂 What a super fun bag. You’re right, Lindsey does do a great job putting fabrics together. My plans for the weekend: spend time with my husband since I’ve been out of town all week, work tomorrow at my job at a sewing store, church on Sunday, napping Sunday afternoon. Love your new bag! Think I need one 🙂 Beaching it this weekend with the hubs. Florida sun, sand, and salt water. Let the fun begin. the bag is perfection! instant smile on my face! 🙂 Love it! Thanks for the giveaway…hoping to have a slow down and relax kinda weekend. My son has his football party tomorrow, that’s really all we have planned! i’ll be workin’ for a livin’! somebody’s gotta hold down the hospital-fort on the weekend… You send us to the funnest shops and sites! (no, “funnest” is not a word) relaxing!!!! Garage Sale to finish up… church and some family relaxing time! I just started following you from Under the Sycamore! Tonight: dinner at a local restaurant then to our high school production of Babe, the sheep pig! My boys loved that movie!! Tomorrow: wood chips, wood chips, baseball, wood chips,wood chips. Sunday: Church and then to Lake Michigan! Fun. I am cleaning out the garage- fun times 😉 I have the same cardi in yellow- LOVE it! I am spending the weekend refinishing our dining table and chairs. Hoping the weather cooperates! Great giveaway! I will be taking the kiddos to a tractor show where they get to climb all over the vehicles. Hopefully while I’m there I can shoot some pics for my photography class! I’ll be hanging out with my friends at my baby shower and praying baby girl stays another week. I can’t wait to meet her but I’m hoping to make it past 36 weeks! Such a happy bag! My baby girl is turning 2 on Monday so we are celebrating this weekend with family. My parents are visiting from Illinois for about a week. My children have so much fun with their grandparents. They don’t get to see them very often. Happy Friday!!! I love that bag!! I have a fun weekend ahead – going to Chicago with my three sisters for a girl’s weekend! I can’t wait. T-ball game, family outing to our local minor league team, church, and a MOPS cookout…whew! That is a great bag. I have been hunting around for a camera bag and now I know where my search can end! Dinner with my man tonight and we’re going out to dinner at a wine vineyard/restaurant with friends on Saturday. Completely excited about all of it. 🙂 friend of ours just found out they are having a baby and they r comin over for dinner:) We are having a community yard sale and it is my 4 year old’s first dance recital!! Oh and my 11 yr. anniversary today! baseball games, baby showers and bathing suits are on the agenda this weekend!! I love your blog and lindsey’s too…I am a loyal follower of both!! the hubby has reserves, and the boy is teething, so probably not much. I am hoping to take the kids to the play outside day event on base though-should be fun! lovin that bag! this weekend we have dinner with friends, lacrosse game, farmers market, church and a birthday dinner for the hubs. Love the bag and the shop! Let’s see, my weekend plans… Cute bag! I’m hunting down a vintage credenza this weekend for our guest room. Wish me luck! I’m potty training my son this weekend. Fun, fun! We’re hoping to have a lot of pool time this weekend if the weather cooperates. And we’ll be meeting up with some friends we haven’t seen in a couple of years. I’m excited! It’s my 18th wedding anniversary Sunday…we’re celebrating by going to Frankenmuth, Michigan…so excited!!! Thanks for the chance to win! It’s my 18th wedding anniversary Sunday…we’re celebrating by going to Frankenmuth, Michigan…so excited!!! Thanks for the chance to win! Not a lot of plans this weekend, except for my younger daughter’s dance recital. Woohoo! going home to St. Louis for a cousin’s wedding and seeing family!! PERFECT weekend! can’t wait! A little shopping and a lot of resting! A soccer game, house cleaning, bill paying, church going and a lot of family time with my husband and two precious daughters is on my calendar for this weekend. I am having a garage sale so that I can sell all of my old bags and make room for one EXACTLY like yours. 😉 We have a very busy schedule, fishing, gardening, drive-in, grocery shopping. I cant wait for it to start! No plans as of right now, but garage sales sound fun!!! What beautiful bright & sunny things! My plans include our local country market with my husband and sweet toddler tomorrow and throwin down some mulch after that! Bunco with the girls tonight!!! Saturday one kid has church event and the other has friend pool party. Then Saturday a friend bowling party! Fun weekend!! Thanks so much and I always go to Pleated Poppys Blog but hve bought anything yet. I love it all! love her stuff!!! i am scrapbooking this weekend. My son graduates from high school in two weeks!!! painting my bedroom!love your new camera bag! Just moved into a new house…we’ll be unpacking and painting! Your bag is BEAST. :0) have a good weekend! so cute! cook out with friends, a long run Saturday morning (training for a 20k), heading to my parents farm, graduation party, and relax? 🙂 Going out with girl friends, hanging out with my family… Love that bag! This weekend, we are announcing that our son, Owen, will become a big brother in January! 🙂 LOVE the bag Meg, makes me happy too. That’s such an awesome bag!!! I’m taking my girl to KC for a little girls weekend…I’m so excited! I’m planning to do a little purity talk and then we’ll hit the American Girl store at Oak Park. PRETTY! Thanks for the giveaway. On the weekend, I will organize my latest holiday shots, bake rhubarb cake, do some cross stitching and the laundry! I’m headed to a womens retreat this weekend with our church. Very excited about that! 🙂 Husband is home early today 🙂 We are doing pizza on the grill tonight and probably some house work tomorrow and a friends birthday party on Sunday! Love a weekend! Thanks for the give-away! So cute! We are doing some DIY stuff around the house and then having a little party for father in laws birthday on Sunday! I’m going to a scrapbook event on Saturday! 6 straight hours! Boy do I need it!! 😉 Cute Bag! Baby shower and my daughters first ever church musical:) Love your new bag! My daughter loves it too, yellow is her favorite color! Oh my golly! That bag is a must have. I’m thinking it would make a trendy diaper bag for my new twin girls! This weekend we are having friends over to meet our girls for the first time. Can’t wait. Adorable! Love the color combos. I’m looking forward to planting more flowers and a cousins Graduation party. And, spending time with the kids. I love her stuff! I agree, her fabric combinations are amazing! I’m a quilter, so am always interested in what people put together and how. Anyway! Our weekend is full of soccer and playdates and church and hopefully, some alone time for mom! LOVE the pleated poppy, I have bought gifts for others from her site, I would totally spend this $35 on me! This weekend I am going to a super interesting wedding, first ceremony is the christian ceremony followed by the hindu ceremony, can’t wait! Dogwood Festival in our town and lots of garage sales! that bag is CUTE! We tend to fly by the seat of our pants so we have no plans in place other than to maybe grill and try out my new silhouette that should be arriving any minute. Your bag is so cute! We finally have a slow weekend. We are going to relax and stay at home. Love that bag! Going to Movie in the Park tonight and Saturday is a full day of scrapbooking followed by a golf tournament on Sunday. Such a cute bag!! We don’t have much planned for this weekend, which is nice, so probably just hanging out as a family. :0) Wow! That is a great bag and a wonderful giveaway. Our plans include dinner with some friends tonight and a dinner date tomorrow night. Such fun. baseball game tonight for my oldest–for the championship! exciting stuff! hangin’ out tomorrow, then church as a family on sunday. LOVE your bag and just about everything else in her store!! dinner with friends tonight…work tomorrow night…church sunday…nothing too exciting. Fun weekend here! Saturday starts with our 9 year old daughter running a 5K for Girls On The Run, then our 8 year old son’s baseball game, then LifeGroup for church..yeah!! I’m hoping for a quiet weekend with my husband. No major plans. My husband has to travel for his job and is on call and he finally has a weekend off! We are just going to enjoy each others company, go to an MLB game and play with our daughter No plans so far…just family time, farmer’s market??I love the bag for sure. But wanted to tell you that you are looking SO skinny in these pictures. Be encouraged! Unfortunately my weekend will consist of major punishment for my 6th grader. She is making me crazy! She got caught skipping class today….. 6TH GRADE! I could really use some Bloom in my day! This weekend is much like the other weekends in May. Soccer on Saturday, church on Sunday & then the grocery store. Weather permitting, some play time in the yard & maybe even getting to buy some flowers?!?! love the bag!!! I have a bunch of projects to get completed so I will be painting and sanding a lot this weekend. Fun fun!!! Dinner with my guy tonight and maybe plant flowers tomorrow!! I’m in love with your bag!! what a great bag! Such wonderful happy stuff! Love the bag!Can’t wait to see it at my photo session this summer! We followed along with Dani’s Pineapple Paintbrush art class this spring…so we are inviting friends over for our art exhibition this weekend. We hid all our artwork so it’s going to be a surprise for daddy too! Can’t wait!! Thought of you today as we began preparing our rainbow party food 😉 I am going to sit around and do absolutely nothing! Well, that’s the plan, not sure it will happen… Try to get something done while the kids pull me in all directions??? Walking in Race for the Cure, date night with hubby, church. 🙂 Good stuff! I’ll be saving lives at work 🙂 looove pleated poppy! we’re going to a graduation party & attempting to have a make-shift date night after the littles go to bed saturday. fondue & all! thanks, meg! Her stuff is so very cute, love your bag! My hubby’s been gone since last Friday….traispsing all over Scotland without me….I reeeally deserve this bag, rigggght???? heeeheee 🙂 So, this weekend…I’ll be running around crazy trying to wear these kiddoes out until our Daddy returns 😉 Counting the hours!!!!!! Thanks Megan! i’m in love with all things pleated poppy. this weekend we’ll be in ks city attending a b-day party and wedding. it’s a birthday party weekend at my house! i’m in the middle of the final details for an over the top birthday party for my 6 year old…it’s a “My Favorite Things” party with dress up, a tea party, pearl bracelet craft and “My Favorite Things” bingo. party tomorrow, recoup on Sunday with a nap, hopefully. I love the bag. I am working in the yard, going to a dinner where my Mom is being surprised with an award for all her years in ministry and then plenty of hugging on grandbaby time too! Assuming the biggest boy is well… we plan on taking he and his sister to swim. (He’s been begging for weeks!) If not, we’ll be hanging round home for day 2 and 3? of movie marathon. Yuck! oh her stuff is beautiful! Our youngest daughter wil be shaking her bootie all weekend, with year end dance recitals, and our other daughter is running the clothing booth at church for our city’s Life Clinic to help the underpriveledged and homeless. There are all kinds of amenities for them from clothes, to food, to salon services, dentists and Dr’s. It’s a beautiful thing when you can see your children step up to the plate to be the “hands and feet” of Jesus. So, I will once again be shuttling kids to and fro, and thanking God for all of the many blessings He gives me daily. T ball game tonight and then taking my son to a Texas Rangers game on Sunday! He can’t wait! This wknd’s all about the fam. I have my nieces and nephews play tonight and then a nephew’s birthday on Sun. That means lots of time with my sistas which is always an AWESOME time. Saturday is community planting day, then off to take my daughter to tap. A cookout is the evening with good friends….can’t wait! I would love to say I have a nice quiet weekend ahead, but unfortunately, that is so not the case…. birthday parties, classes, meetings, you name it! Picking up my dogs from my parents, who were watching them while we were out of town, and going to a work event. Pretty low-key! Love, love, LOVE your new bag! Working on our baby’s room! Got room painted a happy green and the crib put together yesterday! I have big plans to nurse my severely sore throat! Tonight: movie at school sponsored by PTA…if my boy doesn’t get any blue (bad) marks today. Tomorrow the fam will go to a birthday party while I work the rest of the weekend away. 3p-3a in the ED, Sat, Sun, Monday. on my agenda this weekend: make waffles, go to a dollar movie with my family, church on sunday and lots of resting. 🙂 I will be mulching like a maniac…in between running around like a headless chicken to different events…all the while dreaming of sleeping in, doing the crossword, and having a tray of coffee and croissants appear. camping! My husband unexpectedly took today off work so we took the kids to the zoo and out to lunch! L.O.V.E. the Pleated Poppy!!! My little man graduates from preschool this weekend 🙂 He’s my last preschooler, I can’t believe how fast time flies! Hope you have an awesome weekend Meg! Ohhhh I love the Pleated Poppy!!! We are deep into baseball season here…living at the ballpark!! Love the purse! We are planning to try a new mediterranean restaurant with friends. Then it’s off to several b-day parties and a cheer picnic. I’m exhausted already! I love your bag & I LOVE the pleated poppy so so much! I actually have NO PLANS for this weekend & I could not be happier about that 🙂 Love the bag. I just bought a pack of 3 flowers. . .black, white, pinks, and turquoises. . .but I would love to pick up a few things. Love the new bag!! We’re supposed to have an engagement session this weekend but it looks like all the rain and wind headed to Chicago may damper those plans… in that case, we’ll be spring cleaning our entire house!! Ahhh!! I love it! I’m going to have a relaxing weekend by the pool, and grill out with my friends for dinner. I’m loving summer break! that bag is A.Mazing!! Working. But I don’t mind. I can’t wait for the weekend! We get to enjoy our son’s last flag football game, take my daughter and her bestie to see another bestie perform in “Annie”, go to the graduation of my mentee from church and graduation parties to celebrate such an awesome accomplishment! I’m most excited to give the scrapbook I made to my mentee as her grad gift – it’s just a fun book of high school tidbits she can share with all her new friends next year in college. A wonderful weekend of celebration ahead! Beautiful bag. I’m going to work this weekend. This weekend we have Dad’s Day at my Christian girls sorority and all the dads will be here for a BBQ and college baseball game. I am hoping to get some shopping in with pops here amongst all the festivities. We are hosting the class gerbil all weekend…big fun!! No way!!! I love the Pleated Poppy. And you should do WIWW, you know – cute outfit 🙂 Haning out with the family, hopefully making some family signs and some pillows for my sofa and bed!! Love the pleated poppy!!! Wow! Love this! Neighbor get together on friday night, t ball on saturday, wonders & worries volunteering on sunday 🙂 hope I win! I love the Pleated Poppy. Her color choices always make me happy. Your camera (gun) bag is so awesome. We were planning to go to a bid kid’s festival, but it’s supposed to rain and storm all weekend. Maybe we’ll just hang out and watch movies all weekend…. We are getting haircuts, mowing multiple lawns, grooming the dog, cleaning the bedrooms, eating some pineapple and hopefully laughing a lot! cleaning, painting furniture, planning and just plain getting excited for my bestie to stay the weekend with me in a couple weeks to go to the farm chicks show. This afternoon: pool This shop (and your blog) are new to me – and both are so much fun! Our weekend consists of laying new soil over the back lawn to prepare for new sod, taking my eldest to a birthday party, and holding a garage sale which will likely be rained out…. Spending time with my two babies! Spending time with my two babies! Both of my daughters have a dance recital Saturday! In laws visiting, swimming, grilling out and just enjoying family time. Love your bag! My youngest daughter is having a sleepover tonight, which means I won’t get any sleep. Tomorrow is probably a boring cleaning day, maybe a BBQ at night. Sunday church and maybe talk hubby into going out to lunch. Hope I win 😉 Tonight I am going with a friend to see Trans Siberian Orchestra! Saturday my husband and I are going to ShoGun restaurant to celebrate my nieces birthday, looking forward to both. Maybe fit some yard work and laundry in too 🙂 for once we don’t have any plans for the weekend. and i’m pretty excited about that! I’m enjoying a weekend at home hanging out with all three of my wonderful boys and am really looking forward to the down time. This weekend I plan to get some work done. Attempt to paint a chalkboard with me daughters help. And hopefully spend some quality time with my girls (maybe take some pictures). a bunch of us moms are going to have a slumber party and bring our girls…going to be very fun, and then spending the rest of the weekend preparing for baby number 2 (due in 5 wks)!!! I asked for my b-day & Mom’s Day for an entire day of shopping. Sans kiddos. So tomorrow I’m hitting all our glorious antique stores (aka not kid-friendly stores) to SHOP! I never do this!! An entire day of only MY seat belt to put on! No car seat buckles!!! No bluegrass music for my 6 y/o! I don’t have anything planned, but I hope to get some much needed rest in! I am a teacher with 9 days left and the end of the year is brutal! Great purse or camera bag. I will be going to see Bridesmaids it’s going to rain in NorCal Very cute stuff! Cute, cute bag!:) I would love one of those! Must get the lawn mowed tonite. Our 12 year old has a baseball game in the morning. He loves baseball! Then dance pictures for my daughter. She gets to try on her recital costumes, and she is so excited! I would love to get some flowers planted too. It’s just been so cold and rainy. Must have some sunshine! I have a date with a little shut-in from our church. I am so excited about it! She wants hot dogs! Can you believe that? I love little old ladies! The bag is adorable and you look so slim and trim. 🙂 This weekend I will be cleaning chicken coops with my hubby and our church revival starts Sunday night and lasts until Wednesday. I am super excited about it, I hope many lives get saved! Happy Friday Meg! We will spend time with my dad who doesn’t have many days left… I just finished my last final and I have to, ummm I mean get to, work a 10-shour shift Sat. 🙁 but i will get to watch my husband and son play softball tonight on their church league and worship as a family on Sun. LOVE when my college boys are home during the SUMMER!!!!!!!!!!! (One college son doesn’t get to come home this summer as he is off to New Zealand with a college a capella group and then has made it into a medical research program – it will be so sad not having him home, but oh so proud of him). Staying dry in the rain that is coming while I attend my niece Lily’s 5th birthday party!!! i have a friend coming in from out of town {can’t friggin’ wait} and a wedding to celebrate. hoping not to get rained on…its outdoors! Love the bag and your cardi! Going to Worlds of Fun on Sunday. Our littlest daughter is determined to ride the Patriot and is tall enough! Yay!!! LOVE the bag..so cute.. Our weekend plans….we will be at the soccer fields, redoing our bathroom, having company, attending a party, and my oldest has his senior prom.. Life with 6 kids is hectic. 🙂 This weekend my daughter comes home from college so I plan on getting in a bunch of hugs and hope to get some work done in the garden…i love the Pleated Poppy – I got her iPad case for Mothers day! I love her bags! I have been trying to figure out how to convince my hubby that I MUST have one! my husband is a high school teacher, so we’re going to chaperon prom!!! I love the pleated poppy! So many cute things!! If the weather is rainy, like they are calling for, I plan to catch up on some sleep. that bag is so cute!! no plans for this weekend.. just gonna cuddle with my sick little man.. he’s been needing his mama alot the past few days.. 🙁 defeat ALS walk, 1st bday party, 3rd bday party, church! Soccer, soccer, soccer, and more soccer 🙂 Dying to get a few of her things!!! My weekend will be a little bit ‘o everything… making jewelry, gardening, reading, watching the birds in our backyard… just enjoying and doing whatever. My weekend includes a Women’s Retreat at a mountain lodge with about 20 other women from my church. I’m about to have my first baby and would love one of those cute bags as a diaper bag! Weekend plans: running a 10K! i love you bag…super cute for sure! Taking the kids to the “Sid the Science Kid” exhibit at the Science Place. Love Lindsey and all her blooms. I will be going to a graduation ceremony, and getting ready for my wedding coming up in two weeks! 🙂 Enjoy the cooler weather, get some plants in the garden and I am sure I will cart my son to and from 700 activities. Nephew’s first communion and my son’s second birthday party! My mind latched on to that bag from the first time you showed it (last week?) and it hasn’t let go. Friends from out of town stopping in tonight. Early childhood ministry candidate and wife coming in for the weekend and the regular weekend ministry stuff that comes with being married to a minister….and enjoying cooler temperatures!! Go to the AWANA derby car races Saturday at church, finish laying a tile floor, install a new washing machine and then church on Sunday! hanging with my dad, church and dinner with family! Our weekend plans include lots of Tball! 🙂 So entertaining at this age to watch. Chicago Cubs game and family time! I loooove the bag! I want to make it myself 🙂 We are kicking off wedding month! We have three weddings to attend in the next three weeks! I love this bag! I’ve been waiting for her to list another yellow one…maybe with a little turquoise?! HA! This weekend, we have absolutely NO plans! It’s sort of a treat!! So, we’ll probably do pancake Saturday, go to the park, play Legos…you know, the important stuff!!! Love her stuff! I am grading papers all weekend. Love your new purse – so cheery!! My weekend is full: dinner with girlfriends tonight and tomorrow (wow, TWO nights out at once, I’m SO excited!), and my 3 year old’s preschool end-of-year program on Sunday afternoon. I have 13 soccer games, two lacrosse games, one volleyball game, one track meet, a heaping load of laundry, an empty fridge and a partridge in a pear tree! And I love every minute of it! Two birthday parties sat and cleaning my poor neglected home on Sunday 🙂 I love the bag! LOVE your bag! I love all of Lindsey’s items. 🙂 The bloom bag is simply gorgeous! Weekend plans include a day trip to Santa Barbara 🙂 Love these!! I will be drawing. Drawing, drawing, drawing. I have a portrait due to a client before I leave for a Mommy vaca on the 27th… and I haven’t even started it yet. YIKES! I love your bag! Let’s see for this weekend I will be watching my friend’s son for a few hours. Having my downstairs office ceiling ripped out because of water damage from the upstairs bathroom, my husband is working all day Saturday because they are short on staff. Then church on Sunday:) Wow, my weekend sounds like a blast, lol! But I’m smiling because God is still good! Do I have to list it all? Here’s my favorite thing I’m looking forward to: daughter’s 7th grade musical TONIGHT! That bag is adorable—it’d make any guN look cute! I’m such a bag addict! I love the flower bag! currently cleaning out my craft room!!!! going to be doing it all weekend at this pace!!!! We’ll be going to the Tulip Parade in Holland, MI on Saturday and going to a track meet. Then on Sunday–a picnic in the park with all of the small groups from our church. Busy, but FUN. Thanks for the giveaway– i know a few people who keep a gun in their purse- or bag– so it’s not out of the question… although, i’d guess lindsey didn’t intend for it to be a gun purse. Hoping to do a bit of shopping and maybe catch a few rays. I really need to get working on my tan!! 🙂 A trip to Lowes, planting flowers, taking the kids bike riding are all the plans for the weekend! Yea! for summer fun. I love Lindsey’s blog and shop. So far I’ve just window shopped, though. This weekend hopefully brings sunshine and family time! ♥ Such an adorable bag! I want one for my own! Plans for the weekend right now include shopping, practices/games, a renaissance festival and a dinner auction for our school (date night for me and hubby) Whew! I’m already tired! Love the bag!! This weekend I will be starting up Wedding Season! I’m also hoping to find some time to do a few craft projects. Love that yellow, it’s so happy. I could use a bag like that this weekend while at the soccer field and the pool and church and everywhere! So cute! We are having a garage sale this weekend! Hope it don’t rain!!! 🙂 baby girl’s third birthday complete with tinkerbell dirt cake, planting garden, organizing summer/winter clothes, enjoying spring. My baby shower is this weekend!!!!!! Yay!!!!! Adorable Bag! I love her stuff! All we are planning to do aroung my neck of the woods is administer pink eye drops and bleach things! Fun times! Spending time with my 3 favorite guys (sons and hubby!) and doing the obligatory laundry. Can’t wait til next weekend though–date night! 🙂 I love the Pleated Poppy! I plan to do some cleaning and hit a 5-year-old’s b-day party. We will be picking out granite for our newly rennovated (our ourselves) kitchen. YAY!!! I am REJOICING because we have a sports-free weekend! Well, sport GAME free weekend, since there’s still practice. 🙂 But, I will be working (I’m a bit behind) so no fun times planned. 🙂 Plans? 3 soccer games tomorrow followed by a birthday party for my youngest to attend, church and a visit to my classroom to prepare for next week’s lessons. Phew! Love the bag…I might need one too. We don’t have any plans this weekend which is unusual and wonderful! Hopefully that means lots of hanging out together. 🙂 I love the bag. This weekend is my husbands birthday. We aren’t doing anything big. Just staying home and making a cake and his favorite dinner. 🙂 I’m a sucker for the petal pushers, but all of her stuff is super cute!! We are headed to Seattle (we live just outside of it) and running a race :), should be fun!! Tonight I’ll be spending time with the fam. Tomorrow morning I’ll be shopping at the preteen fundraiser garage sale at our church then heading to a friend’s church to help make 1500 burritos for their youth camp fundraiser. Then tomorrow afternoon we’ll be heading to The First Tee’s First Saturday so our sweet daughter can practice her golfing skills with plenty of tips from some local golf professionals. We are LOVING The First Tee. Then Sunday… we’ll be spending most of the day at church worshipping the Lord and fellowshipping and serving Him through our AWANA program. this weekend consists of studying, studying, and more studying for final exams. yay. Weekend plans = hanging with family, baseball, park and beach. Yay! The seasonal kids’ clothes “change-out” and a Saturday grill-out with friends! Peace out 😉 Wow, I LOVE your bag! This weekend holds good weather which means spending lots of time outside! Love that bag! This weekend is about the garden and one long run! Hope your weekend is awesome! I love love love the bag! Lets see this weekend… maybe the beach, spending time with some visiting friends, and hopefully relaxing a little. Love the bag! Spring cleaning for the weekend.. forgot to say …. LOVE the new header …. very cool! Love Lindsey at the Pleated Poppy (and Meg at Whatever….duh!). This weekend the husby is going to be gone. That means I get to do, or not do, whatever the heck I want and clean like a mad woman on Sunday afternoon to make it seem like I slaved away all weekend. Just tricks of the trade… I love the cardie!! where is franciscas? we will be hanging out at the dirt park, its a park where teenage boys built dirt jumps for their mountain biking jumps etc and they smaller ones for the little boys who aspire to be big boys like them! very cool and my 5 year old would live there if he could!! fabulous bag ! i am hoping for a peaceeful weekend, but yeah NOT going to happen ! our oldest is having a sleepover with her bestest friend in the whole wide world ( her exact words to desscribe her friend – to be 9 againg !!) and with her away we are going to try to get our 4 month old to sleep in her crib. she’s been sleeping in her bassinet and she has out grown it, so Megan… Is that you? I thought at first you were getting Lauren to model the bag. I think Jillian worked some magic, or maybe your runs with Waffle? You look Fab! Have you been holding out on us? Tonight is my preschooler’s end-of-year program and then hubby and I are shipping the kids off to granny’s for the weekend. Tomorrow I’m getting a haircut and color! And laundry….there is always laundry. Then Bible class and worship and potluck on Sunday! YAY! ballet dress rehersals on friday and recitals on saturday and picnic in the park on sunday 🙂 Cute bag! We are packing over here–moving in two weeks. Finishing our chicken coop if it’s nice…and while we’re doing that the kids will be helping Grandma with a food drive. LOVE the pleated poppy! I’ll be taking my daughter over to see my mom on Saturday…we’ll be helping her wash windows and clean woodwork before she goes on vacation. And, we get to bring furniture back from her house, so that’s always fun! Great giveaway! We don’t really have any plans for the weekend, for once, and we like it that way. =) Ok last weekend I went to Silver Dollar City so this weekend will be low key-but I do have plans to take my mom shopping, her birthday is Monday and she will be 83 – so thats my big plan , should be fun! I just love your blog but don’t think I’ve ever commented – just wanted to say that your new bag is soooo sweet and cheerful! My weekend plans are to hit up some yard sales and snuggle with my little boy, Max:) Have a great weekend! My weekend plans: Julia’s 11th Birthday Party with like 28 girls? I am insane. It’s ok 🙂 I LOVE the pleated poppy! I read her blog daily! I’ve designed a spa party for a client and she’s hired a masseuse so her guests can have hour long massages as well as a nail tech for mani/pedi’s. So I will be decorating her house for her party. I LOVE that bag! Our weekend plans….volunteering at a 5K to benefit Young Life tomorrow, then a dinner date with my hubby! I LOVE LOVE LOVE her shop!! I have had my eye on those bloom bags ever since she came out with them!! Let’s see, this weekend… just relaxing with the family hopefully! Thanks for the chance to win!! Bible study Saturday morning and then getting ready for a short trip back home! Very excited! My weekend plans. 1. a good cuddle with my best buddy. (Hubby) 2. Closing day ceremonies for my little softball players. 3. Pizza Party 4. BABY SHOWER! 5. Visiting with my Soul Sister that is arriving in LAX from South Africa. (Missionary) The weekend is full but I’m excited. if the rain holds off, then some gardening , If not then movies. SaWEET! I am hosting an American GIrl mystery party tonight (I teach American Girl classes) and a yard sale in the morning! If I can drag myself out of bed! Ack! Lori I’m digging the coat hanger thingy that you have, with the birds. Thats awesome. Hanging with the family, neighborhood cook out…good stuff. Who’s the skinny minnie behind the bag in the photos?! Looking great Meg! Love your ruffle shirt. Weekend plans: headed over the mountains to Seattle right now to meet my newest little nephew, Soren Carl Sorensen. Yup, he’s got some Swedish blood in case you were wondering with a name like that! Ha! I love the bag!!!! I love her stuff- amazing! I love all my pins from her! Cute bag! I’m going to a baby shower on Saturday for a friend that lives 2 hours away from me, so it will be a fun road trip with my other girlfriends 🙂 Birthday party for my nephew on Sunday. Hope to plant a few flowers somewhere in between all the running around! Love the Pleated Poppy! We have friends coming to town for the weekend. She and I are going to go get pedicures, shop, and go to the movies. Then we are all spending Sunday in New Orleans eating and shopping. Great weekend! Hope yours is wonderful also. so pretty and colorful! Love The Pleated Poppy! I love The Pleated Poppy! Our weekend plans are gardening, working on a treehouse, and attending my boys’ first piano recital. Have a great weekend! Love your bag! I’m having dinner with some girlfriends tonight. Hooray 🙂 We are headed to our nephew’s graduation! Love the bag….this weekend I am going to keep myself busy because my husband is out of country. So a little shopping, a little working out, a lot of keeping 4 boys busy. I love Lindsay and The Pleated Poppy. Crazy weekend for us, church clean up day and plant church garden, bible study, soccer games and a bridal shower. I had to hire a sitter for the younger kids, because I have no idea how I’m going to get it all done. My weekend plans include baseball, baseball, and MORE baseball! 🙂 LOVE the new bag! My weekend plans include babysitting for a friend so they can get dinner just the two of them, a family session on Saturday morning, and moving boxes the rest of the day! I’m kind of surprised how excited I am to move boxes, though!;) Love, Love, LOVE the bag! headed to NE to celebrate my lil bro’s hs graduation! Love love her shop! Weekend will be endless outside time cause in a few weeks the bikes & toys will be put away cause it will be 105 degrees here til September. Living it up while we can! Oh cool… I have the same bag… minus the pleats and flowers! Love her stuff!! So cute! I will spending the weekend with my fiance. I haven’t seen him in a month! So funny, I was on her site yesterday! This is just the kind of bag I’d love to carry…so full of personality!! 🙂 Love it and it looks adorable on you! Love your new bag, but I must have that ruffled scarf in yellow! cleaning out the garage… maybe I’ll find some treasures I’ve forgotten about! I love the Pleated Poppy! There are 3 blogs I like to start my morning with- yours, Pleated Poppy and La Famile! This weekend I will be in the car on a very long road trip with my sweet family. 22 hours in the car with my 4 kiddoes. It will be fun. I am choosing to have a good and patient attitude. Have a wonderful weekend yourself! Shopping for my fiance’s tux and wedding ring this weekend! Less than 4 months to go… Nothing!!!! We are FINALLY doing absolutly nothing this weekend and it feels great to have no plans. Now if the sun would just come out to play:-) LOVE that bag and LOVE The Pleated Poppy! I bought petal pushers for my MIL for Christmas 🙂 This weekend is pretty low key but we’re starting off with date night (hooray for in-laws who love to keep my kiddos overnight!) and ending with the hubs going out of town Sunday for work. I think cereal will be on the menu many many times this week 😉 Hosting family pizza night tonight, nothing tomorrow, my little sissy comes home from Costa Rica and we’ll have dinner here at my house. Oh that is GREAT! how cute and what a fun giveaway – sing me up! I was due to have a baby several days ago….my weekend plan?! GET THIS BABY OUT! 🙂 love the pleated poppy! i have the green chevron notebook – LOVE it. 🙂 now i want a bloom bag! <3 <3 <3 I have been trying to get buy a bag like that since I saw it on one of your previous post. awsome bag….i plan on being in the garden as much as possible!!! Graduation parties to go to this weekend! Love your bag Meg! We are going to plant flowers all weekend! I love that bag! It is summer perfection! We are going away to Niagara Falls this weekend to celebrate a baptism with our very close friends. I hope the weather is nice! This weekend we are going to spend lots of time outside working in our yard…planting flowers and putting out mulch. So fun! my son and i are attending a lunch and tour of the cleveland browns stadium thru an invitation from his school for a “mother and son” event!! It is my 4 year old daughter’s first dance recital this weekend. She is so excited because she gets to wear makeup 🙂 I think we actually have an event free weekend! SO, I will try to do some weeding and enjoy watching the garden grow. What a perfect bag for spring! Very cute bag! I am going to be watching my husband graduate law school with the in-laws. Three long years of playing second fiddle to studying is finally over! 🙂 Fun! I’m a new reader, found you through something on Pinterest & I love your style. I love your bag! 5k run, roller skating birthday party, Church and a 1st grade school project to finish. I am also just trying to survive with four children ages 7 and under and dad out of town for work until Tuesday! Awesome colors! Fun! We are having a girls night and echanging funny tshirts!! Yay! I always want to buy from her shop, but mulah is tight, so no “little extras” for mama right now, so this would be sooooo fun for me! THanks for the opportunity! Love the yellow stripe! My plans include a baby shower and catching up around the house. I’m looking forward to all of it! We had big plans to work on trimming out our library, but I am sick…so it looks like it will be a movie weekend! Love the bag! Unfortunately, I am doing two 12 hr shifts this weekend so no time for anything else. And the weather is to be fabulously glorious…. Ooo, I love this bag. So cute! Weekend plans….going to dinner with friends on Fri night, my niece’s HS graduation on Sat. and visiting my Mom and Dad(who just had open heart surgery. Hope I win! my husband and i are photographing a wedding up on the coast…a weekend of fun. my husband and i are photographing a wedding up on the coast…a weekend of fun. My summer plans are to pack, pack, pack, finish a 15 page paper (my last paper of my college career), and get ready to graduate next weekend. Plus, I’m getting married in August so I need to do a bunch of stuff for the wedding over the weekend, too. doing a little demolition before my husband puts in new floors. what an awesome excuse to NOT clean for awhile! we have to attend a lame corporate thing tonight, but at least there will be a band and fun food and drinks. heading out for a run so i can enjoy a few extra:) Adorable! Well, this weekend my mother in law is coming b/c on Tuesday my second child will graduate from high school. We have baseball, Awana awards, baseball, may take the boat out, will definitely eat lots of food and junk and talk like crazy. helping out with miniature horses :0) visiting with friends & family soooo cute!!! we are traveling for a baseball tourney and a softball tourney~~busy, busy:) We have a busy weekend – baseball games and walking in the Relay for Life tonight, dinner with the entire high school baseball team Saturday night (my husband is the coach) and church on Sunday. Attending son’s college graduation and if the rain ever stops, doing some gardening. I’ve been reading your blog for the past three days and it’s my new favorite morning thing! You’re so much fun! The bag is adorable and will be perfect for summer. My plans for this weekend are… um, I would LIKE to till an area to plant some flowers. Other than that, just hang out with my family and relax! 🙂 graduation & planting flowers–yippee! I’m so glad everything is greening up! Girls day tomorrow with my Sister in Philadelphia @ the Art Star Craft Bazaar (http://www.artstarcraftbazaar.com/index1.html) then off to Alvez for a late lunch, early dinner. Can’t wait for some sister time. My best friend is coming to visit! She has never visited the town where I live now so we are going to explore some shops downtown and just spend quality time together. I’m sure there will lots of be cheezy chic flics, laughing, and good conversation. Adorable! I need to be more colorful like you. This weekend we will be shopping for our fairy garden plants and spending time digging in the dirt. I started zinnea seeds indoors for the first time and need to get them in the ground. weekend plans…zumba class, church, birthday party, and hopefully some relaxing! Going to my niece’s college graduation – outside…wishing it was a little warmer 🙂 i’m giving the dog a bath, buying a sewing machine, and making bootylicious cookies…YUM!!! Hmmm….weekend plans. Does sitting around sulking that my husband is out of town and left me with all 4 kids count? Ok…maybe fast food and a babysitter???? I LOVE the bag! I will be attending a 5th grade party. I am a teacher and my students (second graders- 3 years ago) are about to go to middle school. So, I am attending their ‘going away’ party 🙂 Love the tank – I bought it too. This weekend have gardening (if it will stop raining) probably make-up softball games and Sunday we are going to Family Fun Day at our local park. Canoeing, hiking and a whole lot of fun! No soccer. No baseball. What should a mama do? I need to make a list, otherwise I might just around and do nothing 🙂 I love the bag! This weekend will consist of helping my 5 year old practice riding his bike with no training wheels, a concert at our church, and driving around a nearby city that we’ve never visited. I’m taking my 3 year old to a birthday party tomorrow morning while my baby boy stays with his Grandma. We’ll probably hit a quick lunch at Chick-Fil-A and then home to hopefully make up some jam with some yummy strawberries I hope to pick from the berry farm. Church on Sunday and then hopefully home for some quiet time for the kids!!!! Hope you enjoy yours!! LOVE that bag! The whole shop looks amazing. I’m spending the weekend with my Cricut and planting flowers 🙂 Oh, I love your new bag! So happy. Swim class with my baby girl and traveling to visit family! Love your bag! Well here is KC its suppose to be cold and windy, so I will probably stay home and paint my bathroom. I am thinking a melon and grey color! It’s supposed to rain all weekend, so we’re going to do some much needed inside house work! baseball games and my husband’s birthday 🙂 This weekend we’re making our yard beautiful on Saturday so we can have family over on Sunday for lunch to celebrate the blessing of our fifth baby. Yea! I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Pleated Poppy. I am spending the weekend with my parent’s in chicago! Love Pleated Poppy (and you of course!). Our weekend plans include a house full of company – my family is in town visiting for the weekend. Should be lots of fun:) I’m a middle school Drama Teacher and our show is this weekend–Once Upon a Mattress! I’ll be hanging out with my 75+ member cast making theater magic happen. And my parents are in town to see the show (who am I kidding–they’re really here to see their 5 month old grandson!). 🙂 Happy weekend! Ball practice tonight, ball game tomorrow followed by a birthday party, And then on Sunday I’m gonna try to find some time for myself to go walking. I’m walking in my first 5K next Thurs. Super Excited about that! Have great weekend, LOVE the bag!! 🙂 Date night with my girls, age 10 and 14. We’re going to see Soul Surfer. Then planting the veggie garden! I am going to sleep. And sleep. It’s been a crazy week and I’m still recovering from Mother’s Day antics. That is an awesome bag, by the way. I love the bag! Just got a lot of insulation added to our house, so I’ll be sweeping, dusting, and mopping all weekend while I put rooms back together. This weekend….moving, moving, moving. Did I mention we are moving! AWESOME giveaway! My husband and son are going on an all-guy camp-out, so the girls and I are having movie night with our girlfriends. We’re going to watch Tangled on the big screen, and eat lots of yummy treats. I’ll probably spend most of Saturday writing. Good times! taking the boys FISHIN’ relxing weekend. Catching up on life and laundry. I love your bag! I will be sewing cleaning and hopefully getting a couple of runs in. weekend plans? Must. Get. ORGANIZED!!! Summer’s coming and if I don’t get a schedule figured out it will be pure mayhem around here. That, and maybe clear out the nuclear fallout that is my house at the moment… not sure. CUTE bag! relaxing with my boys, watching the thunderstorm, going out for mexican food, finishing the slide show for senior sunday, chuch potluck, baby shower. thanks for the chance to win:) happy weekend to you! Love that bag and I love the pleated poppy. I drool over her shop on a regular basis! My weekend plans! Well it starts off with a service project for our community, 1 soccer and 2 baseball games, swim team, lots of gardening, church, and hopefully a date with my hubby! Sounds like a great weekend for me. love,love,love everything in her shop so happy! We have very minimal plans for the weekend and i could not be happier to have a lazy weekend! I am excited that my husband is going to finish putting up shelves he made for my sewing/craft corner! Love the bag! Let’s see…this weekend brings a daughter and father princess ball at our church (My daughter is so not into the whole princess thing, but they are raising money for charities both locally and globally. She loves her dad and thought she would go, calling it a fancy social action meeting…love her!), hanging out with my little guy, running kids to art lessons, baseball games (watching game, probably in the rain, gardening, church, and I’m sure there are other things that I’m forgetting…. I plan to make waffles, go to yard sales (if there is no rain!),drive around looking for a new place to call home,…and most importantly….lay on the couch with my wonderful husband! Super CUTE! I’m going CAMPING for the first time this year (actually first time in quite a while). I hope it doesn’t rain! 🙂 Two swim meets to attend! Such cute things she is making! Love your bag! You are right. She does make the best fabric choices! This weekend I am getting the air conditioning in the van fixed. Yahoo! I’m also going to see some of my old students perform in the high school musical. Too fun! Thanks for the giveaway! Wow! That bag is soooo cute! I am definitely shopping at the Pleated Poppy! This weekend I am going to visit my Dad, who is terminally ill. It won’t be exciting or even very relaxing but it will be very nice to visit with him and take care of him. Hope you have a great weekend! Grocery shopping, garage saling (weather permitting), graduation open house, church, Dave Ramsey seminar, another graduation open house and hopefully a Sunday afternoon nap. This old gal will certainly need one by then! Love that bag and everything in her store! I plan on doing some major Spring cleaning this weekend v Love this! We are getting our house ready to sell… and showing it to one possible buyer. Fingers crossed!! what a great bag! This weekend I’ll be in my garden! Rain or shine. I can’t wait!! What an awesome shop! Weekend plans… Super cute bag! Certainly wouldn’t mind one of those to carry around my “gun”. This weekend is actually really special as the Hubs is celebrating his 12th year of sobriety on Saturday. We are going to spend the day playing as a family and then I’m taking him for a special dinner. I’m so proud of him!! Love the Pleated Poppy shop! I am going to Avery’s (my 3 year old) first dance recital! Tonight I’ve got a date night planned with my hubby, and tomorrow night is ladies night out!! Sunday will be a lazy day…horray for weekends! I have to say u do look like you are slimmer! I just bought jillian 30 day shred so hope it works for me! the pleated poppy is great. this weekend is my daughters first ballet recital, looking forward to the cute 4 year olds dancing. LOVE that bag—I hope she makes more! how can someone be in a bad mood when they’re carrying something yellow around? Love it! I’m the fundraising coordinator for my oldest’s little league and this weekend is my big fundraiser that i’ve been putting together for the last 6 months. it’s basically throwing a party for about 300{ish} boys under the age of 13 and their families. no pressure or anything. have a great weekend! how can someone be in a bad mood when they’re carrying something yellow around? Love it! I’m the fundraising coordinator for my oldest’s little league and this weekend is my big fundraiser that i’ve been putting together for the last 6 months. it’s basically throwing a party for about 300{ish} boys under the age of 13 and their families. no pressure or anything. have a great weekend! My kid’s first horse grooming lesson (thanks Groupon!) and a friend is sharing some of her perennials with me. Hopefully we’ll be rain-free, but it’s not look real promising right now. I love this bag! We are taking an adoption education class this weekend which will bring us one step closer to adopting our baby girl from China! Cute bag! This weekend I will be going on a date with the husband, taking the kids over to my in-laws for a bit, and cleaning house. Should be a fun and productive weekend! It’s rummage sale season! So excited to go and also, hopefully will put my very first garden in. Hope the weathers nice! Friday=dinner out with the whole family. (Late Mother’s day gift) I’m leaving for the weekend with my sister! No kids 🙂 Love it! Working this weekend on getting everything in order for a family vacation. I graduate from nursing school this weekend!!! =) Oh, how I love EVERYTHING on Pleated Poppy!!! This weekend’s going to be great – my son’s last baseball game is tomorrow (with award ceremony!) then I get to go on a date with my amazing hubby!! I’m planning on a relaxing and enjoying the sunshine with my little family. Love her shop! My big plans are the last two soccer games of the season and a baseball game. Then Sunday we’ll just be hanging out, no plans at all, except mass if we don’t go Sat night! love the pleated poppy! and adore your bag! I was hoping to mow the yard, but I think I’ll take this weekend to just have fun with my kiddos in the yard. Maybe I’ll even dig out the sprinkler. 🙂 Love your bag! We will be working on the nursery for baby boy #2! I will be helping a friend move on Saturday, taking dinner to another friend Saturday night, and then church Sunday morning. Love the bloom bag! Fun weekend ahead with Prom for my oldest, a birthday party for my 3rd child, and swim team league finals. Love that bag–and the whole SHOP for that matter! We are celebrating our littlest 4th birthday this weekend! Party in the Park! Planting flowers! That bag is way too cute! This weekend the hubby is gone in Las Vegas for a bachelor party and tomorrow I have a bridal shower to attend. After the shower, I’m meeting my parents and son at the bowling ally to watch my parents bowl. Sunday I think my son and I will head to the nursery and buy some pretty flowers for the front porch. It definitely is lacking some color right now. Very cute bag!! Well – my triplets turn 8 today and I am really sick, so this weekend I plan on feeling better and hanging out with my babies. Very cute!!! We have a weekend full of graduations. Not real exciting, but it gets us out of town for 2 days! This weekend I will be watching a really, really cute lil 7 yr old play soccer Saturday ! I love it ;). Yeah! We are staying home most of the weekend. Such a treat for us. So I will be catching up on organization and cleaning. we are having a weekend to ourselves after family has been in town celebrating our daughter;s first birthday. we are going to ride our tandem bike (with kids seat) to breakfast, i am going to yoga, and then we are going to spend the rest of the weekend outside, playing in the little pool and sprinklers. can’t wait Soccer game tonight for the 9 & 10 year olds, gymnastics tomorrow morning bright and early for the 6 year old. THEN, (please Lord!) we really, *really* need good weather to finally get the dirt in our new perennial/shrub border ready to go. April was so crazy WET, we never got to get out and work on it! I have 22 baby plants, waiting for a home!!! My folks are coming, late Mother’s day celebration, graduation party, band concerts in the park, and greenhouse hopping with Mom. Should be a fun weekend! This weekend I am playing with my toddler twins and headed to a wedding shower before I leave for a work trip on Sunday. Good times 🙂 This weekend is a welcome home/birthday party for our neighbor, and lots of gardening. Love that bag love the pleated poppy! I am going to work! Boo! I work weekends at a resturant, so it is what it is.. My son and I have pink eye today, yay. Cleaning and organizing and watching Toy Story for the 10000008 time. Feel bad for my little girl, she needs out of the house! Just hope she doesnt get pink eye too! Love your new camera bag!! Matches your fun personality! This weekend my kiddos (3 – ages 1, 3, 5) are going to my in laws 6 hours north…I am going to CLEAN, hang out with my husband, watch a movie that doesn’t have animated characters and have a garage sale where I try to sell the toys they never play with (hence them leaving)…I am looking forward to it and trying not to feel guilty that I am looking so forward to it (loved your Mom’s day post about the same thing btw)…but we need this time to regroup, air the diaper smell from the house, remind our hubbies we love them..etc! Keep on bloggin always a fun read!! Rain in the forecast (again), so our plans for soccer and baseball games might not come to fruition. it’s been bright and sunny here in Illinois, but of course, the weekend has a mind of its own and says that it’s going to stay firmly planted in the 50’s. Thinking sunny thoughts just the same… We’ve got a baseball double header, followed by a soccer game. Then we are taking my in-laws to see our new house. Church on Sunday, followed by getting our house ready for an open house. Thanks for the great giveaway! Garage sales on Saturday, Church potluck and Church annual meeting on Sunday. work on the yard…weed {boo} plant flowers {yea!} my daughter is staying with her granny this weekend so i’m doing a little yard saling, going to a free luncheon for moms, going out for a meal without looking at the kids menu and spending some time with her daddy! 🙂 Baseball/Tball games, Death Star piñata making, church . . . those are my plans- we’ll see what actually happens! 🙂 LOVE your blog!!! So real and so inspiring!!! Weekend plans: family heading to my daughter’s t-ball game on Sat….hope to get some cleaning done & complete the absolutely dreadful task of shifting out the kids winter clothes and fully bring in the summer (we’re in CHGO, so the weather shifts from 50 to 90 dat-to-day 🙂 my sister is in from NY, so she and her b/f are coming over for a bbq to hang w/ our 4 girls on Sun…hope everyone has a gr8 w/e!!! Having a garage sale tomorrow, hoping to rid our house of some baby/kid clutter, and going to the Brewers game with the fam on Sunday 🙂 I LOVE the bag…and you! Your openness, your vibrant spirit. You are so refreshing and just what I need many mornings! Anyway…my weekend plans…I am taking a FREE online photography class from Creative Live. It will be my first and I am SUPER excited about it. i plan to clean and hang out with my kiddos! hmmm. cleaning is on the agenda for part of the weekend…I could use a new purse to cheer me up… Love the bag and hope I get to see it in oct on our photo shoot, hubby coming home after a long trip, yeah! Competing in the Memphis in May Barbeque Festival this weekend. Love the bag and the beautiful items in her shop. Thanks for the chance on a fabulous giveaway! I’ll be making a plethora of ruffle butt onesies for my little niece that’s due to arrive any day! what a fun bag!! this weekend we get to go to a 3rd birthday party and then we’re doing a ZIPLINE!! EEEP! so excited! Holy cow, I love that bag! We have a softball game for my oldest on Saturday, starts at 8am. Eek, so early! Then hubby and I are going on a date . We have tickets to see Michael Winslow (the sound effects guy from Police Academy and Space Balls) and doing dinner. I love the bag. going shopping with a friend for new clothes to wear for a race we are running in next weekend! This weekend I have a photo shoot, lots of family time, family craft time, photo editing, and cleaning out our storage unit! 🙂 I hope you have a great weekend yourself! Love the bag! I love The Pleated Poppy as well and already have a few of her things. I would love the bloom bag though. Soccer games, track meets, and my own training for my tri. This weekend is bike,run. Dog park today and house cleaning, crawfish boil with neighbors tomorrow, and church bright and early 8:15am Sunday morning, then lacrosse games. LOVE pleated poppy’s goodies!! I hope to have a relaxing weekend. Just finished a very busy week at work and another busy one next week. So this weekend I hope to find time to sit on the deck, enjoy my little garden pond and my doggies and read my book! Cleaning, cleaning and more cleaning – finally! On Saturday we are building walls for 3 churches in Haiti, in our church parking lot. And graduation on Sunday! Such cute things in her shop! I have a jam-packed Saturday – meeting at our church at 8:00 for church clean up. 10:30 shower/brunch for my daughter and her fiance. And at 6:00, a church social. It’s gonna be a fun day! 🙂 Love the shop and you by the way… Tough weekend ahead: my husband will be out of town and so it will be me and our 4 small children and it is supposed to be rainy and cold. Pray for sanity! Dogwood Days Festival, BBQ and Bonfire with good friends,planting flowers and most importantly-spending time with my main squeeze….my hubby Teddy! 🙂 Happy Weekend Meg! She has the best way of putting fabrics together! Love all of her stuff – SUPER cute bag! Thanks for a great giveaway! love love love the pleated poppy! Hoping to buy all my flowers to plant but the weather’s supposed to be cool and rainy…..blah! Maybe a pedicure instead! Women’s event at a friend’s church with my mom tonight, dinner out tomorrow night w/my SIL & BIL, and family b-day party for my sweet niece is turning 12–YIKES! LOOOVE the bag:) This weekend I will be watching my boys in their baseball games, doing some housecleaning, yardwork and dinner at my parents. Hope you all have a great weekend!! I am heading off to a girls weekend away with my sister in laws, and my mother in law! it will be so much fun! My weekend plans: This weekend my son has a school won auction party (that I am hosting) followed by a basball playoff game and to end the night (yes, this is all happening today-Friday, which I consider after 3:00 the weekend!!) a birthday party! Then Saturday, my olderst daughter is “flying up” to a Junior Girl Scout followed by a 24 hour pure crazy fun party for the whole troop that ends with a campout in MY backyard!! Then on Sunday, after ther troop leaves, my daughter has a party! Just pure crazy fun around here!! 🙂 BBQ with the family! that bag is so so cute! track meets, graduations, sewing 🙂 love the pleated poppy! dodger game and graduations! what’s not to love about happy? we’re baseball tournamenting it all weekend long. praying for sunshine–actually praying for no rain. or only a little rain. who am i kidding–i’m praying the rain doesn’t give me *bad hair* all weekend. have a happy weekend, everybody!!!! We have birthday parties to attend, and my daughter wants to have a dog tea party at the park. Not sure what that entails, but she has already made invitations, so it has to happen!! I would love to win!! Absolutely no plans, and I love it. Just family time and maybe getting a headstart on packing for vacation. I’m going to see Bridesmaids. I’m crossing my fingers that I will laugh until my side hurts… I have a few parties to go to and my fun Bunco night Saturday night! LOVE that bag!! Gotta work this weekend! Winning this would make it all better… A wedding, a soccer game, 3 year old bday party, soccer party, baseball game, celebrating my hubby’s 36th bday! this is so cute! over the weekend I’m planning on sleeping :D, feeling tired after long hours of helping with the sandbagging up here in Manitoba. SO cute! Two college graduations and lots of driving! I love her stuff!! Throwing my dad a huge surprise 60th birthday party! Love the bag! Love her stuff, I need a little color in my life 🙂 I’m finishing painting my kitchen this weekend and helping my husband with the garden….oh, and of course getting caught up on laundry. Hope you have a great weekend! My family is headed to the beach on Sunday for a belated Mother’s Day celebration. I can’t wait to eat all that yummy summer food! Birthday party, and most importantly my sons NICU reunion on Saturday. We can’t wait to see all the doctors and nurses who looked after him. Also, Survivor finale on Sunday night, I know, I can not help myself I love that show. Yey for a giveaway! This weekend I am flying from Michigan to Pennsylvania to be with my sister for the week while she has her 2nd chemo treatment. Bittersweet. I get to see family, but certainly not under the best circumstances. Love the bag and you looked skinnyminny! I am finishing up two flag football seasons and volleyball too. Our weekends will be alot slower after this one! Thanks!Hope you have a fun one too! Love the bag! So cute! We will be gardening, if it stops raining! And playing with our 1 yr old baby. Have a great weekend! A birthday party for a five year old friend – Mario themed. And probably some yard work. Oh, and church. 🙂 I love your cardigan!!! I am a huge fan of cardigans!! Our family is driving to St. George, UT, which is one hour and 35 minutes from Las Vegas. We drive there because we have no Cracker Barrel. Then we go shopping at Tai Pan. Can you believe that there is no cracker barrel in LAS VEGAS? Love her shop, love your purse. We are having my son’s 5-year birthday party (Angry Birds theme)! Happy Friday, Meg! Little bit of soccer on Saturday and a little bit of baseball on Sunday. In between, I hope to get the boys’ closets cleaned out of clothing that does not fit (which there seems to be a lot of), get to the grocery store and get the heaps of laundry done. Have a good one! graduation! yeah! Your new sunny bag is SUPER fun! I am actually wearing one of The Pleated Poppy flower pins right now!! That bag is so cute! Even if you use it to conceal some heat! Soccer, soccer and more soccer! But then I’m sneaking away to have a slumber party with my bestie at her house! i will be gardening. it’s been neglected for too long! My husband and I actually get to go out on a date! Alone! Without kids! Love the bag!! Does she have a website? Having the 2 year old grandson for the night tonight; yard work tomorrow. I’m in SHOCK – you only have 9 days of school LEFT? My kids go til the END of JUNE!!! Your bag is adorable – with or without a gun. 🙂 We are having a cookout to celebrate hubby’s b-day this weekend! It is supposed to storm all weekend but I love a challenge! Happy Friday (the 13th – gasp!) Love Love the new bag! so pretty! I absolutely love her stuff! Please count me in. Celebrate my mom’s 60th birthday plus the usual soccer game and trip to the park. Love her stuff! The hubs and I are going to see Bridesmaids with Kristen Wiig tonight…I need a comedy! We’ve got a one year old birthday party to attend, and a wedding rehearsal. Our three year old is going to be a flower girl. This should be interesting 🙂 Love your new bag! Getting our house ready to sell this weekend. Lots of work to do! I love your new bag! a surprise birthday tonight… tulip time parade if it doesn’t rain… a photo session sunday morning before church. busy, but fun! Meg- What a pretty new bag- so you!! We have a weekend off from travel baseball YAY YAY YAY!!!!!!!!!! So many possibilities! Tonight I am going out with other moms from my son’s school for a moms night out. We are having din din and seeing Water for Elephants. Graduation & graduation parties all weekend….that means Momma won’t be cooking! Yea! Such colorful happy goodness! good morning. this is what i have been working on in my yard….mulch.
i spent several hours yesterday moving it. good thing i have three strong men in this house…. ………………………………………………………………..
on her blog today she is giving away a $500 gift certificate to her shop!! that is amazing. go check out her new shop. you will find something you love i am sure! …………………………………………………………………. so how did mother's day go?
i made myself one too. so…..i told you i got the weekend off. but i will also tell you that i also had EXTREME guilt all week before about it. i felt guilty i wasn't going to the basketball games….because a "good mom" wouldn't want to miss even one! i felt guilty that i wanted to be alone….because a "good mom" would never want that. there was a lot of guilt on many levels. but when i really thought about mother's day…. i decided that the quiet time…..the time to think….the time for NO voices or questions or yelling….. was what i needed to be a good mom. and i was right.
My weekend plans include sanding (and hopefully) painting some used cabinets we bought right out of someone’s garage. We put them in my laundry room where I now have LOADS of storage. Even tho I have a bad back and its really bugging me today I simply must try and get these cabinets painted. They are battleship gray in color and oh so depressing. I’m painting them ‘cotton white’ in semi-gloss and the walls will then have to be painted (next weekend). Just got that paint color today and it’s called ‘Moose Mousse’ – a lovely tan that looks like delicious mousse! Gotting stop commenting and get busy!! 🙂 Good on you for trusting your instincts and going with what YOU wanted for Mother’s Day. First I have to say, I love your honesty about mother’s day. I asked for a nap and 3 hours to finish a painting. And it was amazing how productive I was… it finally won over guilt. But I hear you on that one! Second, I love love love the Jeanne Oliver stuff. I immediately ordered the blonde girl print that says “I Love My Life” and a BLESSED leather cuff for my daughter. Thanks for encouraging her. I’m so glad that you had a happy Mother’s Day – and that you used your voice and asked for what you truly wanted. And that they gave it to you! My day was good – you can read about it on my blog. =) That is a crazy amount of mulch. Mulch is the one part of a garden I don’t enjoy – I always end up with splinters. I’m a better mom too if I get time alone. My mom’s day was WONDERFUL. My son remembered to call me (I only had to send 4 texts) And, I LOVE mulch. Your garden will LOVE it. Hi Meg! Amazing pink fridge!:) My absolute favorite color! My daughter gave me the sweetest handmade card(she’s 11). I also got a beautiful card from my Mom. We’re supposed to spoil her and it always turns out the other way. Brought flowers to the cemetary for my beautiful sister(can’t wait to see you again sweetie). Had lunch and then dessert with both Moms. Busy day! My boys took me out for lunch today. It was special. Being a Mom is very busy…..and very wonderful! Mother’s Day was rough. I cried because my little boys are still in Africa, waiting to come home, and I thought these adoptions would be DONE by now. (incidentally, the doll I bought off your website as a fundraiser for your Africa trip is in their room. which just drives home to me how very long we’ve been waiting!) I cried because my baby is sick and I had to spend the whole day on the couch while she shared her fever with me. Then I cried because I realized my little boys don’t even have someone to spend the day holding them if they are sick. A FEW YEARS BACK, I DECIDED I NEEDED THE DAY, CALLED MOTHERS DAY, ALL TO MY SELF. N0 KIDS, BLUE EYES, NO ONE. JUST ME. ALONE. SO I GO TO BREAKFAST AT FAVORITE LOCAL DINER, THEN HEAD TO BARNS AND NOBLE. I GATHER AN ARM FULL OF BOOKS AND OFF TO A COMFY CHAIR I GO. PANERA BREAD FOR LUNCH. THEN A MOVIE, MAYBE A LATE AFTERNOON DRINK WITH A FRIEND AND HOME. SO YEAH, A QUIET WEEKEND SOUNDS RIGHT TO ME. That is a heck of a lot of mulch! I was wimpy on the mulch this year, and will pay for it all summer long. And I secretly wish Mother’s Day was never invented…too much pressure for EVERYONE…and none of us moms need more pressure, nor do our husbands! I am the oldest of four kids (we are 24, 22, 18, and 16), and I remember my mom having some not so great Mother’s Days when we were in the age range your kids are now. This year she did have a nice quiet weekend (my 16-year-old brother, the youngest, was the only one home) and when I called her she said that she was finally getting to a point in life where she actually wanted quality time with her children on Mother’s Day. Love the rock’n pink fridge … and u drink BEER! Woo-hoo!!! my husband was working. he asked me if it was okay…and i said sure…it was lots of overtime…and we are doing our front yard landscaping this summer. So i had lunch at his parents and went over to my parents in the afternoon. For me.. i still feel like i’m a kid…I feel Mother’s Day is for my mom and hubby’s mom…not for me. I guess because my kids are still very young. The best part of the day was the weather..finally some heat!! You are so tootin’ cute and honest. Yes, real mommies like their time off but we love our families the best. because you are such a great mom is why you deserved the weekend you had!!! (I would “bold” “because” and “great mom” if I knew how…. i’m so glad you share how you really feel. I saw you working in your yard this weekend! We also worked hard in ours over the weekend! Love the flower thing you did with Sunday School class. Such a pretty, simple idea. I wanted to be by myself for Mother’s Day too. And I didn’t feel guilty at all 🙂 Hope you had a happy mothers day. It was in March in the uk, so my mum celebrated a while ago. I received my copy of SUMMER today…and I LOOOVE your pages! (just like I knew I would!)Great job!!! <3 I love your honesty Meg. I blogged about this very subject Sunday and was hesitant to post it. I read it to all my guys first and by the end I was sobbing. A good cry. My day was not what I would have dreamed of – and yes, I feel a little guilty for dreaming something so different. But I came to the realization that it’s about enjoying the life I have. I love my husband and sons very much and I am blessed by them every day! My birthday last month was so bad that I had no expectations for Mother’s Day and it was great 🙂 My birthday fell on a busy weekend and week and it didn’t turn out the way I thought it would in my mind. I like to celebrate birthday week and it just didn’t happen. I thought it would be a week of celebrating, spoiling, treating myself, babysitter, it just didn’t happen and I was crushed. So as mother’s day grew closer I kept reminding myself not to have any expectations. Little hugs and kisses from my kiddos would be enough for me. But my hubby did get my a necklace from etsy…ok I have to admit I sent him the link to it…but he actually pulled the trigger and got it for me! I also had the stomach bug, but was able to enjoy some alone time with my little girl while my husband and son went to church. And the day before my husband actually participated in cleaning the house and helping me get rid of some things. Nothing turns me on more than a man cleaning 🙂 So Mother’s Day weekend was great because I just let it be about me being a mother and having these two precious babies in my life. thank you SO MUCH for your honesty. i have two itty bitties and it always makes me feel bad when i think about shouting when the precious hubby gets home: “i need a break!!!!!!” but you’re right. we need them occasionally. even regularly – to be better mommies. and wives. and daughters & friends! hope you still feel relaxed & refreshed by the end of monday! I understand completely. I spent most of Sunday with my kiddo’s while my husband made fresh salsa for snacking, a carrot cake from scratch (not my favorite but it was tasty) and a yummy italian dinner. Then they all watched a movie while I went and scrapbooked. That’s what I wanted to do and I am working on the kids’ books but I felt guilty for being away from the people who made me a mother…..! Oh well, I think it ended up a good thing and it WAS a good weekend so no real complaints here! being completely honest here, that pile of mulch scares the bejesus out of me! 🙂 I LOVE, love your honesty. 🙂 For me as a mother, I can’t say anyone went our of their way for me. They did what I asked, for the most part, went out for bagels & a quick hike, I received a card, a potted plant (a tree to be planted in the fall – IOU) & the most wonderful coupon book from my 7 yo. It wasn’t so much what I received as what we did for my mom, that will last to the end of time. 🙂 That made my day special. oh I WISH we were sitting together in your kitchen and we could get to the bottom of it. the freedom to be honest?… thank you. i have been stewing over who i could share these thoughts with – not husband, it is about him and i don’t want to be petty and “emotional.” not mom, because once i am over it, she is still not. not friends, because i only want to share with them uplifting things about my husband, not drag his name through the mud. could i share with you? i never have high expectations – i have learned that the hard way. i expected nothing from my kids because they are too little to get the spirit of the day. but my husband? should know better. i don’t want gifts. didn’t even need to spend a dime on me. but wasn’t there SOMETHING he could have thought of to make me feel special and appreciated? i can think of 100. i did enjoy and feel blessed to be able to celebrate my mom and mil. but went to bed wondering why i wasn’t valued as the mother of his children and the woman who takes care of everyone else. i was hoping just sharing these feelings would make them less intense and they would go away. but i still feel hurt. even though it felt like any other day, it was still a good “any other day.” i like my life – i just wanted to feel a little special. I love that “be honest” bit. It feels like we’re sitting at the counter in your kitchen and you just handed me a mug of tea and you’re going to get to the bottom of things. good for you – those moments of quiet, while much needed, are seldom found with 2 kiddos around…can only imagine what adding 3 more does!! we had a great day. So glad you had a lovely Mothers day! I spent mine painting our family room. Hopefully it will be done tonight so I can blog about it tomorrow!! Every good mommy knows she needs a break every once in awhile! It’s what makes us good mommies. Glad you had such a great weekend! :0) I think I have worked every Mother’s Day I have been a mother. My girls made me some cute gifts, and I am awaiting my cute necklace from the Vintage Pearl. Thanks by the way for the post about it. I cannot wait to buy more. We did nothing and it was great. I would love a night in by myself. 🙂 I LOVE that you had time to yourself! After I read your post I knew what I was going to ask for next year. 🙂 I have four kids and I also need a break from the noise, constant questions and requests . . .! All I asked for Mother’s Day was a “work day.” It was the first time I really asked for what I truly wanted and not what a “good” mom would ask for. And I LOVED my day! Glad you had a wonderful day too! Here’s to a week starting with happy and rejuvenated moms! I”m absolutely jealous of your weekend! Good for you, you deserved it! I had an ok day, I kept my expectations wicked low this year, (I’m not a fan of the day). I worked outside and the weather was beautiful, typical Sunday for me. I asked my kids at breakfast to not argue and be mean to each other for the entire day, it lasted maybe an hour…ugh 🙁 I like the fridge!! Good mother’s day. Got gifts where my family actually thought about me!! 2 bottles of wine yay! and new glasses. and stuff i said I would like. i really think satan has a hay day with the minds of mothers ohhhh the guilt. we need breaks alot alot alot. I dread Mother’s Day every year. Every year I get my hopes up (God only knows why) that Mother’s Day will be an amazing day filled with lots of love and laughter. Every year I am mistakingly wrong. Yesterday was horrible. I feel guilty for complaining because I know there are single mom’s out there that have to make the day special themselves. I’ll never understand why my husband can go shopping every year for a gift to give his mother but I end up empty handed. I don’t ask for much. Just something simple, even homemade would be nice, to show me that I’m appreciated for spending 99% of my life chasing after the kids and taking care of his needs. Good for you! All mothers need time to themselves to recharge their batteries. 🙂 My Mother’s Day was wonderful–enjoyed the day hanging out with my two best fellas…my hubby and son. I must admit though that Mother’s Day for many years was a painful day for me. I dreaded it with a passion. My husband and I have lived with infertility for years. But the greatest blessing of our lives happened in 2006 with the adoption of our son. I learned on that special day that God does hear our prayers, they just are sometimes answered in a different and more meaningful way. He knows what is best for us- it took me a while to fully understand this. Mother’s Day is now a joyful and blessed day for me! 🙂 Happy Mother’s Day Meg! I also got the weekend “off”….I was able to sleep in, go on errands without the girls & just be mellow. It was SO nice…and SO needed. I feel so refreshed today! sounds like you made the most of YOUR time & that is good for the whole family 🙂 happy “moms” day! Honestly, I think this is bogus holiday because it sets up this expectation that we – as moms – will have a blissfully pleasant day for us. And as moms, we know that’s probably never going to happen for an entire day. My day had its moments. But I did find myself annoyed with my husband at times and the “celebration” for my mom was less than fun. So all-in-all, the day was fine. The best part of the day was sitting at the dinner table and Sophie saying to me, “Mommy, I forgot to tell you: Happy Mother’s Day.” That made it worthwhile. I’ll be honest: My Mother’s Day started out pretty well, but ended with my almost-six-year-old son telling me that I never play with him. Um. Never mind that he said it because he was cranky and upset at his dad. Never mind that it’s not true and that I spend 99.8% of my life taking care of his every need. It made me feel like the worst mom in the entire world. It made me feel like running away from home. It made me feel guilty, sad, tired, ANGRY… And then I went to bed and was awakened by my kid three times because he wasn’t feeling well. I may not be much fun, but if you need Tylenol in the middle of the night, I’m the one for the job. So that’s my life as a mom. Ups and downs. Guilt and happiness. In sickness and in health. Glamorous, isn’t it? 🙂 Last year for mother’s day I went out with a friend in the morning. Later we went to my MIL’s house and my husband told everyone what I had done that morning. Very proud of himself for allowing me to have some “me” time. My MIL was shocked that I didn’t want to spend mother’s day with my children. Hooray. My mother’s day was just so so. It’s not a Holiday I love. For some very silly reason it ends up making me feel like not so good of a mom. But I did get to spend it with my mother who is here visiting which was awesome. My kids loved having grandma here too. Yesterday was fantastic as a day, but I gave myself a little pity party about the fact that it wasn’t even remotely mother’s day-ish for me. As a Sunday, though? It was just perfect and amazing! every year i have a sneaky suspicion that i don’t like mother’s day. turns out that i don’t. next year i want a day to myself, by myself. alone and preferably at a spa. seriously how painful is breakfast in bed when you can hear the chaos in the kitchen, knowing you’ll be the one cleaning it up??? I am with Michelle in that mine wasn’t the greatest. The hubs and the kids made it wonderful but others made it horrible. In-laws!!! Ugh! Yes, you deserved to do something for you! And I am glad that you did. It is always nice to have the special alone time, but I do know some of the guilt! #1-i love that you have a pink fridge with beer in it. in your craft room. awesome. i hate beer so if i had a fridge it would hold malibu rum and coke :O) Mine was sucksville, but after going to bed early last night and getting a luscious 12 hours of sleep, I’m ok with that. Stupid pregnancy hormones will turn you into a lunatic. It started out a little rough – Hubby is still learning how to handle our emotional older girls (ages 9, 10) who had definite ideas for how they wanted the morning to go. My oldest took too long doing her hair and came down all upset because I had already seen the flowers and the other kids had already given me my card. A few tears before church. Me, too. I’d much rather they had all gathered together and made it “special” (for the kids! they love that), but it was more like, “Look flowers. Here’s a card.” And they all felt a little weird about it, I could tell. Hubby was spreading himself too thin, trying to make breakfast, too, and nothing seemed special, just rushed and feelings got mushed on a little. He’s still learning, just like me. we all need a break! and a good mom knows when to take one. i even have a small private fantasy of renting my own apartment so i can go there to be alone sometimes 🙂 how’s that for “good mom”!! Ha!! have a great week! Meg, mommy guilt plagues all of us. But Im a firm believer that we’re never better moms than when we’ve had a chance to BE refreshed ourselves. We cant give give give all the time unless we’re FILLED from time to time. Otherwise, we run on empty and then everyone suffers(If momma aint happy, aint nobody happy at all”). Saw you yesterday in your front flower garden. You looked great. No really, wish I could have been doing the same in my yard. Went to KC with Jamie last week to see Wendi. We celebrated her birthday…….maybe we can all get togehter sometime this summer. Wendi is sure to be moving to the area soon. 🙂 annie received this little tiny pot with 5 sunflower seeds and dirt for easter from her nana.
i was hooked.
we have a mama bird right outside our door. three perfect lovely blue eggs. we watched her work for a few days on this nest. i am in awe of how God made this world. wow. i'm not going to go all "double rainbow" on you….don't worry. what's really on my mind is…….my grandmother loves birds. i am not sure i am loving this part of my grown up life right now. grown up. God is still good and crazy awesome even when our bodies don't do what we want them to. my hope is in that. and birds are awesome.
except geese.
the other thing my grandma loved more than birds was gardening. for grandma.
Nice post regarding life. Every one is struggle for survive include bird, animal and human being. I like your post. There are many similarities between them to survive the life. This post really tugged on my heart. My grandmother just passed this week, on Wednesday, at age 93. I know exactly what you mean about watching your dad cry and feeling that grown-up sadness.. it’s heartbreaking. I am holding on to the hope that she is in Heaven and happier than she’s ever been, after living a long and full life on earth. How sweet it must be to see Jesus after so long! Thank you for the reminder of God’s goodness! Thank you for the beautiful post. Really awesome to be reminded of God’s amazing truths and creation. Your family is in my prayers! I’m sorry about your Grandma. My mom is on hospice right now, we are staying with her around the clock, spending as much precious time with her as we can. My dad died in November, in early spring the tulips and daffodils he had planted bloomed, it was like he said hello. I’m praying for you and your family. Blessings to you and yours, Meg. It’s a tough time, but anyone who can appreciate things like gardening and bird watching, is probably OK with meeting the creator of all things. Keep that in mind and heart, and remember, it’s in HIS control for the good of all who believe. Some days are hard. Megan, even before I got to the part about your grandma I felt so blessed by this post. I have spent the day at the hospital with my sweet, wonderful mother who was having surgery for breast cancer. Yuck, yuck, yuck. Being a grown up is hard and yet a privilege and I am so thankful for your reminders and LIFE and how cool and wonderful God is! Yes, yes, yes! Those eggs are splendid! He didn’t even have to make them beautiful but He did! So wonderful. I am so sorry about your grandma. I am so thankful for hospitals and at the same time it’s hard to spend time in them. Blessings on your night and the morrow. Kelly {{Hugs}} to you and your family Meg. We just walked this road this year with my grandpa. {I miss him like crazy.} Praying for the peace of God to surround all of you. Your in my thoughts and prayers. A mama bird just made a nest right outside of our place too, and we discovered 3 little eggs just like yours yesterday! You’re right, what a miracle! I love this post. LOVE. LOVE. LOVE. i relate to your post ALOT. my mom is going through a rough patch with her health right now. i think it is so sweet that you gardened all day for your grandma bc she loves it that is such a great way to honor her! I’m sending love and prayers for comfort and strength to you and your family, Meg. xoxoxo you are not alone. This was a beautiful post! Beautiful. Those were amazing pictures and I love the color of those eggs. 1. ADORE the new blog header. I’m so sorry about your grandma. I’m learning that each season of life has its own joys and challenges. I wouldn’t have guessed that mama bird’s eggs would be such a beautiful bright blue color. I hope you enjoyed your day of gardening for Grandma. prayers for you and your family tonight…this was a beautiful post. Sending some warm thoughts your way about your Grandma. I’m sure she’d love this post! Oh Meg, I can so feel the sadness you are feeling about your Grandma. My Gram was 92 when she went to be with Jesus. Due to distance, I unfortunately didn’t get to really know her until the last 6 years of her life. She was incredible. Her passion of nature and gardening sounds very similar to your Grandma. Happiness. Wonderment. Sadness. Hope. So many emotions went through me while reading this post. Might be my favorite one to date. I can’t imagine what this feels like. Prayers for your Grandma…your dad…you…and your children. Much <3 being sent to you! lol at the “i’m not going to go all “double rainbow” on you”!! My grandma is going through the EXACT same thing right now too. She is 95. Been in the hospital 3 different times in the past 3 weeks. Doctor says there is nothing more to do but take her home and make her comfortable. I am sad. Not for my Nana but for my dad. He adores him mom. And soon she will be gone and it will be my dad’s generation that will take over with the “aging.” And I will be taking care of him and my mom. Circle of life ya know? Anyway sorry for rambling but know that I am thinking of your grandma as I think of my own. i too am going through a lot of “grown up” things…taking care of my aging mom….surgeries and aftercare….emergency hospital stay with the hubs…a child with multiple teeth extractions..etc., etc…..being strong for everyone, has left me weak and weary. your post was uplifting…thanks for sharing your little mama bird’s eggs..they are indeed a miracle. 🙂 i too am going through a lot of “grown up” things…taking care of my again mom….surgeries and aftercare….emergency hospital stay with the hubs…a child with multiple teethe extractions..etc., etc…..being strong for everyone, has left me weak and weary. your post was uplifting…thanks for sharing your little mama bird’s eggs..they are indeed a miracle. 🙂 Sending up many prayers for your grandma. xx you are precious. I know what you mean about grown-up stuff. Both my grandparents passed away last year (I am 35, too!). I had many lunches alone with my Dad as he cried on my shoulder and I prayed for him. It is even more difficult to understand how he and my mom are now the oldest generation. Both mid 60s. But times heals. And I enjoy every day reminders of my grandparents- each so special. Especially my Lydie-girl who walk around with my Nana’s name!! Praying for you now. Love this post! I’m praying for your Grandma. (and you & your family.) Oh my goodness. I could have written your post, Grandma in declining health, Dad crying, bird loving, gardening…but we are both 35 so I guess it makes sense that we are both in the same place. My grandma died on Monday. I’m happy that she’s happy and healed and with her love (Grandpa) again…but it is still hard. How lucky to have had 35 years with her! Your family is in my prayers! your grandma and I would get along beautifully My ‘hubby’ just gave me a new sewing machine so I could get back into sewing. Sitting and staring at it brings back so many memories of my grandma from when I was younger. She sewed all my clothes and taught me to sew at a young age. Man I miss her! I LOVE Robin egg blue. It’s my favorite blue. Hugs to you, friend. I just can’t believe this post…I love it! What is so strange, just seconds (literally just seconds) before I read it, I’m sitting at the dining room table on the computer about to open up your blog, and I’ve been seeing this same type bird here on our back patio for the last couple weeks, and it landed on the ceiling fan today, I wanted to jump up & get my camera & take some pictures of it, but my memory card is in the bedroom & hubby is fast asleep after a late night at work, so I decided to wait & will try to photograph it another time. I just couldn’t believe it when it was the first thing I saw after opening your blog! Great minds think alike, right?! Simply beautiful! Life is beautiful and sometimes the not so good news. However, the end is even more beautiful! Hi Meg! I don’t know if you read all your comments or not. So you may or may not get to mine but it just made me feel better to know I wrote something to you. Your post made me cry. I totally understand and I believe the same as you….I don’t like being a grown up sometimes. I am learning more and more how fragile life can be….my gparents whom I have not been all that close to until the last 2 years or so….are getting older…in their 80s….and their family members, their age, keep getting ill and passing on and I know in my head it’s only a matter of time and I have been trying to prepare my heart but I just cannot do it. They are, on all accounts pretty healthy, but I know the day will come. It makes me sad….and I know God is there to comfort me….it’s just…hard. 🙁 Wow, what a wonderful post on this dreary day. Thank you. I am sorry about your grandma. “I’m not going to go all double rainbow on you”…you’re SO funny! 🙂 Oh Megan, I”m so sorry to hear about your grandma 🙁 Yes, being a grown up does suck in these times…I will be praying for her…and you too! And those eggs…yes, completely awesome! We had a pair of geese (I KNOW!!!! They are mean little suckers!) at our pond that were nesting….she RARELY left that nest….and when she did…it was for a quick little swim (Man do I get that…she JUST needed time away!) and the funny thing…the daddy goose was flapping his wings at her…letting her know he didn’t think this was a good idea….and she just kept on swimming and then went back after a brief few moments to herself 😉 We would watch every morning at those two….my husband I LOVED it!!! Sad to report…something did eat their little eggs…circle of life…it’s a sad, tough thing. God is amazing to give us all these things to adore…if only for a little while 😉 oh my goodness meg…my thoughts and prayers with you and your family. I was just thinking the same thing, in the last year i have watched my parents health go downhill and our conversations that use to be short and sweet are now filled with health and medical talk….this chapter in my life will be most challenging i’m afraid. on another note…i am in awe at how beautiful those eggs are….the color!!!!! I know exactly how you feel. I think about having to do the same with my grandparents who are now in their mid 80’s and the thought is unbearable. My prayers are with you and your family. I love that God made that perfect shade of aqua, just for us. I don’t think I’ve ever thought about it before this post…and I’m not sure it exists anywhere else in nature? I mean, maybe on a tropical island, somewhere. But definitely not in Indiana. Meg, I loved this post. I was recently thinking the same thing. That life is so amazing…that there are tiny baby birds growing in there! However, my four year old found a broken egg that had obviously been dropped/fallen, and it made me think about sin and how awful it is. But our hope is in Christ! We need not fear death! You putting my Sonic sign on your list of Happy Things makes me SUPER HAPPY! 🙂 I will be praying for you and your family Meg! Love the color of the bird egg’s! I have a chicken that lays teal green eggs and they are gorgeous too! My granny loved birds as well and had a ton of porcelan musical birds all over her house! I used to love waking up in the mornings and hear her crank the handle and hear the little song sing! That’s one o fmy favorite memories 🙂 I love those eggs. So humbling. Thank you Meg! I needed this, my husband’s Grandma had a stroke this morning. He used you to speak to me today. Meg, I lost my grandmother very unexpectedly in March. My BFF lost her aunt in December and her uncle last week. We too have decided that this part of our lives is going to have new challenges that we don’t feel prepared for. It’s going to be an adjustment for sure. I hope your grandmother makes a recovery and you get to enjoy her a little longer. Your post was beautiful and I hope she will be able to see it soon. i found this & it reminded me of you. Dearest Meg, I am so sorry to hear that about your grandmother. Your family will be in my prayers. Please enjoy your gardening day! I hope it is extra special! Beautiful eggs! I lost my grandfather about 16 years ago now. I still miss him. He never got to meet my kids, and he would have gotten a kick out of them for sure. I hope you enjoy your day gardening,watching birds and enjoying the sunshine while loving your grandmother. how beautiful. i (obviously) dont know your grandma but i am positive she would have loved it. Double rainbow….funny, funny stuff. loved this! praying for your grandma and your family… those eggs are the most beautiful turquoise color! How neat! i love how you captured the bird and her blue eggs! what a fun surprise for your when you finally got up there! great pictures, great post… sending lots of love and prayers your way. Tears … this post hit close to home with me. What better way to honor our loved ones than by celebrating or doing the things they loved? I’ll say a prayer for you, your grandma, and your dad. Beautiful post. Prayers for your grandma and your family. and if you want to see a funny old movie that kinda sorta includes bird watching rent Mr. Hobbs takes a vacation. hilarious! prayers for your granmother meg. just remember , if He took such care creating those robins in all their beauty, how much more care He took to create the beautiful life your grandmother must have lived and is living. i haven’t had to face it yet, but my grandfather isn’t doing so well either, and he doesn’t know the Lord… Actually, that would be an adjective. Grammar fail. I love that you just used “double rainbow” as a verb. Thank you for reminding all of us to see the beauty in small things. Life is a crazy, wonderful, scary, exciting beautiful ride. I am 33 and just had my third child. So I just experienced “building my nest” and “protecting my babies” too! This time my daddy wasn’t there to experience this new life with us. He was celebrating with Jesus. He had Alzheimer’s and went to be with Jesus four years ago. Sometimes life is just tough! My mama who as experienced a lot of loss in her life (my oldest brother died of cancer when he was sixteen..I was 2) always reminds me that everyday might not be great…but there are GREAT moments in everyday. Watching your bird build her nest and seeing those gorgeous eggs were great moments. Watching your sweet daughter’s amazement with her flower and seeds…great moments. Being reminded of your grandmother in doing something she loved…great moments. I will lift you up today…each time I see my flowers. I too will be thankful for the great moments. I will stand in awe of Jesus. I will be thankful for LIFE! ……thanks for being my morning cup of coffee! You Rock Meg!!! I’m so sorry to hear about your grandmother. I just lost my paternal grandmother a month ago and I have had those same thoughts so often lately-this part of adulthood is just no fun. Meg, I love your posts. Look forward to them everyday. You’re right. God is awesome. I hope you have a wonderful, relaxing Mother’s Day. You truly are blessed to still have a grandma! So sorry about your Grandma:( I will be praying for her. And you’re right, God is so very good to us. Such a beautiful post Meg:) well hello there momma bird! love all your posts- but this one is especially inspiring and hopeful. life is hard- but God is so good! I think that grandmas are one of the greatest blessings God gave us. That and the color of robin egg blue. Garden on today sweet friend. Give that love you have to all those that are around you, your kiddos, your hubby, your daddy, and especially your grandma. My Grandma…Nana is 96 yrs young. She is a gem, and I adore her. She is not a bird lover, but she is a unique and special Southern Lady, who I will one day, miss so very much. I savor every day I have her in my life. Prayers for your family as you go through this hard time. I know we are dealing with hard times with my parents, 87year old Mom with Breast cancer and 90 year old Dad crushed watching her deal with this. It is hard. So I will pray for your family and your special grandma. Growing old is not fun! Our hope is in all the new life around us, knowing God has a wonderful plan! Thanks so much for sharing those photos, I am in Florida and we get the robins for a few days, they are such lovely birds! I hope that your sweet grandmother gets to see the photos as well. Hugs and prayers for your family during this time! God Bless! Praying for your sweet grandmother. My grandmother reads my blog. In fact she calls if I dont post enough. We had a momma bird on one of our colums on our front porch last year. Beautiful post and photos. Hugs to you as you celebrate your grandma today — through nature’s beauty. Hugs. Beautiful eggs and JELLY BEANS! 🙂 We will be thinking of your family and your grandmother. Hey Meg, My Memommie went to be with Jesus 2 years ago this month. My Andaddy (her husband) is still alive at 96. He has an anuresm (sp?) in his stomach and just found out he has bladder cancer! He is SO ready to go home to be with Jesus. He sings “i want to see Jesus most of all” all the time. I am almost 46 and am so thankful to have had this precious godly man in my life for this many years. I will be sad when He goes to be with Jesus but i choose to pray that God would take him quickly and without pain. Then I will continue to praise my Savior that He kept Andaddy Faithful and finishing strong to the very end. Praying for you and your grandma right now. My Grammy just passed away 2 weeks ago today. It still doesn’t feel real but I think its starting to sink in a little bit. There hasn’t been a day that’s gone by in the last 2 weeks that I haven’t thought about her. She was 72 and she loved birds as well. Especially hummingbirds. 🙂 I love this post and am praying for your grandmother and your family during this difficult time. Just checkin’ in….it’s been awhile since we’ve connected. Know that i’m thinking of ya during this time with your Grandma. Love how you continue to keep it real. Enjoy your time gardening, soaking in all God has created today! Love ya! Wow…incredible pictures. I want to frame the one of the three eggs shot from above and hand it on my wall! Would you be willing to sell it? your post got me all teary. Beautiful as always… Hugs to you as you deal with facing your grandma’s situation. But what a blessing that you have had a grandma for this much of your life, whom even your children are old enough to know. I am 23, and my one remaining grandparent just turned 89 and isn’t in very good health. I wish with all my heart that my amazing grandpa would live to see my 35th birthday and know the children I don’t have yet. So whatever happens, just be thankful that your grandma has known you for so much of your life. The grandparent/grandchild relationship is so special. Beautiful pictures! I will keep you and your family in my prayers. That picture of those blue eggs in the nest almost took my breath away—how incredibly beautiful–what an unexpected surprise!!! My poppa passed away on December 16th. Watching my family greive was one of the hardest things I have had to do to date. One thing I learned though, is time heals all. God is the author of time and to me that means he slowly mends our hearts. Growing up is tough, for sure! The color of those eggs also reminds me of how great our God is. So beautiful, eh? Meg! I have been reading your blog for over a year now and have never commented. Many times I have noticed that a lot of similarities between our lives. We have had a lot of birds nest on our front porch but never ever had blue eggs – that is beyond awesome. This made me teary (in a good way). I’m 34 and still feel jolted when I have to make grown up decisions. Really, me? 3 kids, a marriage & a mortgage and it seems I should still be eating at the kid’s table @ Thanksgiving. (btw love the bird’s nest pics!) Ninety-four is such an amazing number of years, which means you have made some wonderful memories. What a thing to treasure, but in another way, even harder to walk through the ending-ness of her life. Our thoughts and prayers are with you; strength for your days and peace for your nights. Warm thoughts for your Dad and Grandma. We have a nest under our deck, I think birds pick sweet families to build their nests. All the best to you and yours. Just sending hugs your way…and a few prayers! Your post today made me think of my Grandma. She, too, loved Gardening and gave me ‘the bug’. She passed away 13 years ago. I still cry when I think of her. I still plant pink roses that make me think of her. Just remember: True love stories never have endings. are you going to eat what you grow in that garden? blessed by your post today, thank you P.S. love the new header. 🙂 Life is amazing. All of it. Enjoy your gardening, your bird with her eggs, and most of all your love for your grandma. Hugs! Prayers for you and your sweet grandmother. Thanks for sharing a bit of happiness and beauty even though your heart is breaking. “Fuzzy baby Robins” … a FAVORITE of ours! Celebrate ur Grandmom’s 94 years – u & ur children r so lucky to have had her. I’m so envious of those who still have their Moms & Grandparents. Life … although amazing – is sometimes too short. So sorry about your Grandma, beautiful post, beautiful pics….hugs! Sorry to hear about your grandma! When my grandma passed away a few years ago I had the feeling that my biggest fan on earth was gone! She was the best! my dear grandma loved birds and gardening too. and i loved and still love my now-departed grandma. ((((hugs)))) to you this morning and a good day for your grandma. it’s good to know that we are all connected too, through love and understanding and the need to carry on from one generation to the next. I have been down that road with the aging grandparents. I am sorry to hear about it. Never easy. No matter what age they are. Thoughts and prayers for you. I have the exact same bird/nest and 3 eggs in my back yard tree! yesterday I was brave enough to snap some pictures! And strange as it may sound, my great grandma is also not doing so well, she has been in ICU for about 2 weeks… So good luck with your grandma, I will keep you in my thoughts. So sorry to hear about your grandma. It is hard. My prayers are with you and your family. I have the same cute little sunflower pot! I follow your blog, but have never commented. I love this post so much that I’ve come out of hiding. 🙂 I will pray for you and your family. How awesome is God that He gave your family the “gift” of that mama bird and her babies right now in the midst of the situation with your grandma, reminding you that He is Creator and He cares for all living things. Have a blessed day and enjoy your birds and your “garden therapy”. God bless your grandma, gardening and birds. My grandma lived with us growing up and at 95 and passed away on Christmas Eve 2001. The last several years I visited her at assisted living places with my little ones which made her day, then the last 6 months were real hard, and she told me in confusion on my last visit, pointing at her body “this isn’t Alice, this isn’t me anymore and who I am” meaning it was time for her to leave. Huge believer, super faithful woman, and she adored cardinals and gardening. So, Meg, I’m right there with you. It’s hard, but she will live on in you forever. Hi Meg…I absolutely love this post!! Having to be a grown up for situations like this does stink!! I hope all works out for the best!! The colors in the pics of this post are stunning!! I hear you. big Hugs meg! I know that feeling having been through it when my husband passed away. I kept thinking to myself, we are too young to deal with this being 31 at the time, it was a year ago. My faith has brought me great strength in times of trial, and I know yours will too. The nest, eggs and mama bird show how great God’s gift of life is. We are lucky to be a part of that gift! Oh, I love this. The bird is beautiful and so is her work of art. And, yes, I believe your grandmother would have loved it…bless her heart. And yours. We watch for cardinals to know that my husband’s dad is keeping watch over us…we see them at almost every family event. Coincidence? I don’t think so. We have one that lives in the tree outside in front of our house. 🙂 Aging parents and grandparents is so hard. I’m starting to see some of those slowing down signs in my own parents (even though they are VERY active still), but it’s still hard when they have more dr. appointments than my four kids combined. Prayers for you and your grandma today. Gorgeous pic of little eggs! Wow!! What a blessing to get to see that. Thank you for sharing! hugs, it’s never easy watching our loved ones age! I’ve never seen eggs such a vivid blue color. Gorgeous! Prayers out to your grandmother. Maybe you could print the pics out and take them to her to have in her room. Love ya, darlin! My Mum was orphaned at age 6. And as she watched her friends have to take care of their parents she said to me that she always thought she lost out on the parent lottery in life. But she said watching people have to make horrendous decisions on how to care for ageing parents, she realised that maybe she had pain young but was spared a more acute pain later in life. Her parents died young, beautiful, in love, they were her heroes, she has no bad memories of them and they didn’t suffer. I’m sorry your Grandma is not doing well. You are a source of comfort and strength for your family, though. When my dad was in the ER with congestive heart failure last year, I was there with my mom. I kept watching the ER doors, thinking someone I knew would come through the doors to help us. I realized that I was the one that came to help my mom and dad. It was a “grown up” realization and I didn’t like it. But, I did the best I could to help my mom and dad. (He recovered from that near fatal event- six weeks in the hospital and lots of hard work). Sadly, I never knew either of my grandmothers(my moms mom, her best friend, was buried the day before I was born and her only wish was to live long enough to “meet the baby”). But I totally know what you mean about life being hard, tough decisions and all that. Im watching it happen with my PARENTS. They had me at 38 so although Im only 31 their healths have been on a downward slope fopr years now and it totally stinks. Cannot say how much I love and needed this post. My grandfather has been fighting cancer for 4 years and this past month has been the worst. He has decided to forego further treatment and like you said, seeing my mom cry and watching her heart break for her daddy is way too grown up for me. Praying for your sweet Grandma and you, too. It is the hard stuff of life, and it makes me stop and go…okay I guess this is what being grownup means. I lost both of my grandmas and my mom all within a one year span. So blessed to have had my grandmas into their nineties. My daughter was only 3 at the time, and I am sad she will miss having her grandma and great grandmas around. Sorry to hear of your grandma’s hard times right now. Yeah, growing up isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. I’m so sorry about your grandma, Meg. Those eggs are beautiful! Sorry to hear your grandma’s having some rough days. I hope things will get better for her soon. So sorry to hear about your dear Grandma Meg. I lost my sweet Grandma last September. I can not tell you how many times I have wanted to go see her to tell her something that has been going on with myself or my kids and she is not there in her little blue chair anymore. It stinks. Although I am thankful for the promise we have in Christ that I will see her again someday…it is still so very hard. I just prayed for you and your family. Grandmas Rock!!! 🙂 Those eggs are my fave colour!! Beautiful 🙂 Love the seedlings too! Sending your granny love and strength across the seas x I like your new banner! And the bird photos are amazing. Nature is amazing! Beautiful eggs! Your house is even more colourful now! Pls try and get baby bird photos too when you can 🙂 Hi Meg! How blessed you are to have gotten the chance to be with your grandma this long and for your kids to know their great grandma! I lost my grandma when I was only 8 years old and my mom’s mom I never got to meet at all. Prayers for your family during this time. Awww Meg, I just love this post for lots of reasons…the little bird and her amazing nest, her most gorgeous blue eggs, the reminder of who God is. Take care. I know this is a hard time for you and having to deal with the reality that life isn’t always rainbows. I will keep you in my prayers. Sending you a hug. lovely post 🙂 My grandma just found out some not-so-good news (not really *new* bad news, but it’s confirmed…does that make sense?) and I agree that this part of grown-up life sucks. Bad. |
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alicia @ la famille - wow! isn’t that amazing! so fast…kinda like our kids. or so every one tells me. 🙂
elisa - just like kids! awesome capture of their short time in the nest!
Heather R. - I showed our girls the pics. That’s so cool was their response. I don’t think I realized how fast it all continues. Thank you for sharing…
Shelly - These are amazing, I have been stalking your blog for quite some time. I can’t get enough of your photography. Do you think you’ll turn this into a series?? And sell it on etsy?? so we can all buy it???
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melanie - how did you get the photos of the baby birds to line up and across like in a grid like that? how cool. thank You for always seeing the beauty in life.
marisa - just amazing. thank you for doing this post.
Heather - Oh my goodness, this was unexpected and made me cry! I’m just emotional…my baby turns 1 in one month. ;)I know, it’s a little different.
I love your blog! Thanks for sharing.
Midwest Magnolia - Melissa Lewis - I have the SAME thing going on at my house, except my robin decided to build her nest right on my front door grapevine wreath. Mine are still beautiful blue eggs, and I am anxiously waiting to see some babies. Funny enough, my mom had this happen to here last month on her front door arrangement too. She sent me text pics every day to see their progress and now she’s all said they left the nest.
Leigh - Wow – such amazing photos!!!
FireMom - Wow. This is amazing. Thank you!
Cara - Get ready for round two!
Stefanie - Wow, that nest is very clean! We had a nest in a wreath on our front door and I think the babies finally moved out because the nest was FILLED with poo…I spent hours sanitizing my front door! I almost just threw it away and bought a new one it was so gross 🙂
Wendy - The 5/15/11 pic rocks! Makes me smile 🙂
Thanks for sharing.
Kayla - Wow! That really happened fast. I am glad human babies don’t grow up and move out that quickly!!!
Annika - They grew so quick! Thanks for sharing your birds. Next year, they’ll have babies of their own!
happygirl - btw, I’ve found robins usually use the same nest twice. If you leave it there, she will return. Of course, that assumes nothing happens to her.
leonieke - i think motherhood is so special for birds.They enjoy their eggs, birds, watch them fly out. enjoy a period without childeren and then make some new ones!
hannah - little birdies grow up so quickly!
love all of your sweet photos of them:)
have a great week! xo
AshleyAnn - that is incredible…way to go capturing it!
April M - ty for sharing. just ty ty ty.
kim - amazing. love that you kept a chronology of them. love that you shared it too. 🙂
dana - Wow. Amazing photos. Thank you for documenting that for us!
Yaz - Awww so cute. It feels like my little guy is growing just as fast.
Dawn - The pictures were beautiful. Love them. We just found a robin’s nest too.
Terrie - No Way!! Seems like my kids did the same thing! Well, it does now…sure didn’t in the middle! 🙂
se7en - I am so glad that our little human fledglings last a lot longer in our nests!!! Have a fun day!!!
Janie Fox - And now I am singing I’ll Fly Away…love that old song! Now I betcha it will be stuck in your head:)
Janie Fox - I had 3 the grand kids and I watched …they were just about a week ahead of yours. Wished I would have taken pictures.
Life with Kaishon - Oh.
My.
Goodness.
Perfect post.
Fly away little birdies.
Fly away.
Kimberly Dial - Before ya know, they’re gone (sniff, sniff) … poor momma bird. I know the feeling! 😉
Kimberly Dial - Before ya know, they’re gone (sniff, sniff) … poor momma bird. I know the feeling! 😉
Leslie - How cute are they!!!!!! I haven’t visited in a while, I am looking forward to some Whatever inspiration!
Have a great Tuesday
amy - love. it. and isn’t the blue of the eggs the most beautiful color ever?
jackie mccobb - Sad. Sometimes I feel like my girls are growing that fast. 🙁
happygirl - Wow, that went fast. The circle of life. thanks for sharing.
beth - We had some just about the same age on a very similar porch post. I was bummed to see them gone Sunday afternoon, as well.
Julia - I wad trying to think if something ….. But Tonya already said it better!
Leslie - That was fast – I had no idea. Thanks for the recap – I LOVE IT! I had been checking your blog daily to get updates 🙂
Kathy - What a neat documentation.
Kerry - aaah man! too fast! xx
Debbie - Wonderful photos! I’ve really loved this series. Maybe the mama will come back again next year!
Ali Richardson - WOW!!! I had no idea they grew so fast! Sorry you’re an empty nester. I wonder if you can spray something on it to preserve it and shadow box it. Is that weird of gross? It’s so pretty!
Cyndi Hamilton - Awe…it’s kind of sad! I too will soon have two little birdies(teenagers) leaving my nest.
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Jenni - Aww. That makes me a little weepy.
Deanna - God is amazing isn’t he?? So neat!
Tonya - …and we thought our children grew up fast.
Shannon - I love it, they are so cute. Thanks for taking pictures and sharing your lil bird babies with us 😉
Mary - Do you think she’ll be back to have more babies this summer? We had barn swallows and they have multiple set a babies. So maybe, you’ll get the same!
anna - i am very impressed with the cleanliness of the nest. we had a turtle dove nest a few years back and let’s just say, they weren’t nearly as tidy! makes me wonder if you have bird poo all over the porch! lol
Kris - They fledge very quickly. Only two hatched? Did you take the third egg from the nest?
Ana M - How quickly they grow and go…you’re right that’s bummer…but this is the way life goes on, isn’t it? Thankfully our children take a little bit longer to “fly away”…Love
amy b. - do you think the mama has empty nest syndrome?
Valerie @ Chateau A La Mode - I love watching sweet little birdies and I can’t help but mention that she left her little home quite tidy when she left.
Holly - but we enjoyed watching them grow up thanks to you! That sure was quick though!