Wreaths, Pinterest, and Yams

Hold on to your pants, folks!

We've got a lot of ground to cover.

1.  Do you remember back in aught-nine when my husband went on his hunting trip and my children became horribly ill?

No.  You don't.  No one read my blog back then.  And if they did, I can assure you, they've long gotten sick of me.

Anyways.  You can read it here, if you are feeling frisky.   It seems that whenever my husband goes on his hunting trip, things go wrong.  And, guess what.  The kids MIGHT be starting to get sick.

I am going to pray that they don't.

Join me.  I implore you.

2.  My ma and pa came to camp at my house the past two nights and I am pleased to announce that I have unlocked the secret to homeschooling:

MORE THAN ONE TEACHER.

Brilliant!  I took one child and my mom took another and BAM!, we got 'er done, tag team style.  It was epic.  And my dad entertained the dudes, which was like Christmas for me.  So, we got done in record time and we had a little extra time for some craftiness.

Oh yes, we did.

3.  We made coffee filter wreaths.  Mmmm-hmmm.  Bimlissa's mom (she's kind of a big deal) she has this tutorial on how to make a wreath out of coffee filters.  You can check out her tutorial here.

Now.  My mom and I were too special to do it the way Bimlissa's mom suggested.  So we made our wreaths entirely out of a) brown coffee filters (these are essential) b) hot glue gun and its accompanying sticks and c) a wreath thing.

Here's my mom doing her thing:



She puts on her glasses when she is being uber serious.

Daisy Mae "helped."



Yeah.  So you take a coffee filter and you kind of smoosh it.  Or something.  And then you glue it onto the wreath.

I know what you are thinking.  "Why DOESN'T Taylor start a crafting blog?!  She's obviously a natural!"  I know, I know.

Here is the finished wreath.  This is a horrible picture, but you were expecting that.



I took it last night.  With my phone.  Sure, I could get up now and try for a better one.  But that would require effort.

4.  Are you still holding on to your pants?

5.  Since we were getting all handsome on our craftiness, my mom mentions that she enjoys The Pinterest.

Say whaaaat?  My mom has heard of Pinterest?  Doth she be cooler than I?

Well.  I have abstained from Pinterest because I do not have time to pin anything.  But, my mom talked me into it and it is fabulous and I intend on becoming the world's most craftiest person who cooks delightful treats, uses raffia and mason jars to no end, paints furniture, and paints walls odd colors that strangely look fantastic.

Just you wait.

6.  Handsome Dude had to eat yams.



This did not please him.

7.  Yams are delicious.  There's no denying it.

8.  My parents found a bunch of my old books and brought them for the girls.  As we were looking through them, we found one with some sort of creepy title like, "Is Mary Home Alone?" and it showed a girl looking out her window all terrified-like.

Me:  Oh!  That one looks creepy.

Daisy Mae:  Do you remember it?

Me:  No.  I don't think I've seen that one before.

Daisy Mae:  It looks like something Aunt Meagan would read.  It's probably hers.

Attention Sister Meagan:  Ha!

9.  Oh!  Sorry!  I went to visit Pinterest and I got a bit distracted.  I'm back now.

10.  Do you think David will call me today?  I haven't heard from him in so many days.  He's totally pining away over me, I just know it.

11  And now, because I am clearly running out of things to blog about (could you tell?), I would like to tell you a story about my Sweet Pea.

Sweet Pea got glasses when she was two. Now, you always hear about Handsome Dude and his glasses, but I have never told you about Sweet Pea and her first pair of glasses.

She hated them.  We would be driving and she would just chuck them at my head, the loving child that she is.  Anyways, one day David and I were at the mall-(yes!  the mall!  with David!) and we had both girls in the double stroller and we were running around all stressed-like, because who enjoys going to the mall with a grumpy husband and two little children?  Anyways, at one point in the mall, Sweet Pea did her "cute" glasses-chucking thing and we have never seen that pair since.

We ordered her some new ones and they forgot to put the little ear loopies on them.

You KNOW.  The ear loopies.



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Turns out it was the ear loopies that she hated all along!  So, there you go.  A helpful glasses tip for those of you with kids.  Anyways, once she put on regular glasses, she was a precious angel in the glasses department.



My babies!  Where did they go?

And then.  God said, "Let them have a boy who needs glasses."



And, clearly, that has gone well.

12.  This post is coco-nuts.  Even I'm confused, and I am the mastermind behind it.  It's that darn Pinterest!  It keeps capturing my Interest (get it?)!  This must be a hard post for you to read, seeing as how my posts are always so clear, beautifully-written, and inspiring.  And on that note . . .

13.  I, yes, I, Taylor Maliblahblah, put on my big girl pants and removed a dead rabbit body.  It took a lot of squealing (on my part of course, not the rabbit's), running in place, and an extra long shovel, but I did it.

And that is all I have to say about that.

So, on that note, dear readers, you can let go of your pants.