| current reading material: Free Range Kids by Lenore Skenazy....it's all about chilling out as a parent and letting your kids experience life (as in - let them go to the park by themselves when they are nine. Don't put foam corners on your coffeetable, etc.) I definitely subscribe to this sort of parenting. current songs o' delight: You and Me by Dave Matthews Band - I LOVE the lyrics to this song. It's the latest "our song" for me and Kyle. Wanna pack your bags, Something small
Take what you need and we disappear
Without a trace we'll be gone, gone
The moon and the stars can follow the car
and then when we get to the ocean
We gonna take a boat to the end of the world
All the way to the end of the world
Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly
You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes (x2)
You and I, we're not tied to the ground
Not falling but rising like rolling around
Eyes closed above the rooftops
Eyes closed, we're gonna spin through the stars
Our arms wide as the sky
We gonna ride the blue all the way to the end of the world
To the end of the world
Oh, and when the kids are old enough
We're gonna teach them to fly
You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yes, yes
We can always look back at what we did
All these memories of you and me baby
But right now it's you and me forever girl
And you know we could do better than anything that we did
You know that you and me, we could do anything
You and me together, we could do anything, Baby
You and me together yeah, yeah current projects: planning Christmas presents, researching a story for the newspaper on a soldier coming home for the holidays, working on menus and prices for my new catering venture (I'm calling it Apple Blossom Catering...it's a throwback to my very first catering job when I lived in WI on an apple treed hill) AND calling people that just received their Silpada pieces from a benefit party in October. current hair color: almost natural! thanks to a clarifying treatment that stripped the miles of built up gunk, minerals and color on my hair. The various tones of brown/caramel/honey and highlights of blonde are almost okay with me. But I have a feeling it will not be long for the world with my penchant for chocolate brown coming on strong. I'm thinking of plum streaks in there too...or caramel highlights. We'll see. current events: 1. MOMS group yesterday - I really enjoy getting out and fellowshipping with other moms from my church a couple times a month. It's a nice group and the speakers are usually interesting. Yesterday was on nutrition - nothing I didn't already know, but it was a great reminder to feed my family well. 2. My three side-jobs are really making me happy. Each day it's fun to make my to-do list and tackle either Silpada, the newspaper or catering ideas. I'm super excited to be dipping my fingers back into my own personal honey of catering. (I'm going to be catering for a local scrapbooking retreat cottage once or twice a month starting in December, if all goes well with my debut weekend.) 3. Yesterday we voted on a proposed school levy (read: TAX HIKE). I'm very glad it didn't pass, though at the same time I wish there was a better way to provide the schools with the money they need. Maybe dipping into the overpaid administrators pockets would help? (I think teachers are compensated fairly - it's the administration that I'm frustrated about.) Also - I'm trying to figure out how when enrollment is down, they need MORE money? In any other situation, when consumers go down, costs go down....hmmmm. upcoming events: 1. Silpada show this weekend - BIG sale on retired pieces and a great chance to get Christmas presents ordered. 2. Day of shopping with great girlfriends - we're going to hit the new Clothes Mentor in Roseville, my beloved Turnstyle, good ol' Goodwill and top if off with a Starbucks trip. Did you know they already have their holiday drinks on the menu? Gingerbread Latte, here I come! 3. Jackson's 4th month "birthday". I cannot believe how big my little man is getting! He's busting out of 6 month clothes already and is tipping the scales at 20+ lbs. Jack has become SO interactive and vocal in the past couple of weeks - it's wonderful and so fun. 4. Thanksgiving! I need to start plotting the delectable things that will grace our table on the holiday that is rapidly getting squeezed out by Christmas already. current photos:     
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