I won, I won!

I won the cutest little skirt for Abby from the Custard Shoppe out of Amesbury, MA.

Check out their website here!  Very cute clothes for little girls and boys!

Not blogging much!

I have not been blogging much lately.  Mostly because we had a week+ round of sickness in the house with sore throats, ear infections, coughing etc.   And in the end after taking care of everyone- I got sick too. 

It has also been very "un-spring" like.  Last Friday, big snow storm.  Today cold and rainy.  I think we just needs some sun!!

I looked back at some spring pictures I took from when Abby was young.  Before Miss Livy even came along.    I can't wait to see the yellow of Forsythia out our window!

Seriously??

I received this email from a popular diaper company.  I subscribe to their email list in hopes of getting free offers and coupons.  I wasn't really expecting this??   Seriously?  So what they are saying- in my spare time (what little I have) I want to play games with pirates and dirty diapers filled with poop???






However, it is free..... maybe I will download it............

Maple Syrup Season in New England

Last weekend was the big weekend for maple syrup farms in Maine to open up their sap houses to the public.  We were lucky enough to be invited to a private sap house to watch how syrup is collected and made.  My kids loved it.  But I have to be honest-I think the biggest kid -my husband- enjoyed it the most!  Maybe it was the beer or the male bonding, but he enjoyed learning the whole process.   In fact, he has already offered to help again next year.

It smells SOOO yummy inside!

 Syrup face.

While the males bonded and processed the syrup the moms cooked about 100 pancakes, bacon and sausage to bring back down to the sap house for dinner to be enjoyed with all the fresh maple syrup! 

 

Feeling like Gardening

We had snow yesterday.  Today when I woke up it was 26 degrees.  The fire is going, it has been going all week despite this being the first week of spring.  In order to keep my chin up I have pulled out all the seed packets and have started to think about getting ready for the garden and planting seeds indoors.

and looking at last years garden pics make me happy.

I can see why you would be confused

One of our favorite book series is the Bear Snores On by Karma Wilson.   On each page Olivia is able to pick out the bear, the wren, the raven, the gopher, the mole, the badger, the mouse and the hare. Phew- it takes us a while to get through each book-but a fun game.

When we get to this page below we run into a problem.  She refuses to see that the gopher in this picture is indeed a gopher and not Plumpy.   (He's the fat one in the middle)

I guess I can see where she might get things mixed up. 

First Day of Spring?

This was out my window today.  Not looking very "springish" to me??