Thank you for telling me that

Kaia has had an obsession with smoke for a long time. We were recently driving on a cold day and she observed that there was a lot of smoke outside (the exhaust from cars). I decided to try to explain the difference between smoke and steam to her. (Don’t quote me on this; I do not claim that this description is scientifically accurate!) I told her that smoke is when there is fire and steam is when hot and cold mix. She thought about it for a minute and then said, “Thank you for telling me that, Mommy!” We were recently going through pictures on the computer. As we were browsing through pictures of when Asher was born, Kaia observed, “He was naked!” I explained, “When babies are in their mommy’s tummies they don’t have clothes on; so, when they’re born, they’re naked.” Again she said, “Thanks for telling me that!”

Asher then and now:

Freebie!

This green chair was recently left in the lobby of our complex with a note to this effect: “Free! There is nothing wrong with this chair; we just wanted a change.” I immediately knew it would fit perfectly in our living room. The color is perfect, and I thought it would make our living room a tad bit more upscale than its predecessor, an IKEA chair smeared with Vaseline and lip gloss, among other things.



Peter, good man that he is, carried the chair all the way down the long halls to our home, not grumbling a bit because he completely trusted in my vision. =) A side benefit to getting the chair is that it motivated me to finish a throw I’d been working on sporadically since March. My vision of where the throw would end up had begun to dim, so I hadn’t sewn the squares together and I had almost stopped any progress on it. But as soon as I saw the chair, I knew the throw had found its home. So I worked like a madwoman over the next several days and this new addition to our living room was complete!