{me}anderings . . .

home!

 
touched down in nashville last night at 7:06 pm cst.  20 minutes ahead of schedule.  yay!  so glad to be home.  we had a great trip.  i have lots to say about it, but not tonight.  thought i'd at least throw up a couple pics though.  and since i'm not in the mood to think i decided to just go with the first and last.  so here's the first.  we went to a little town just outside the capital our second day there and happened to catch the catholic church decked out  for a wedding.  the gman was grumpy because he thought we were going hiking in the mountains and he totally wasn't interested in sight-seeing in some little town.  whatever is what i say.  he got a paleta (popsicle) right after which did improve his mood somewhat.

 
this is the last pic i took there.  a quick family photo snapped just before leaving for the airport.  this set of granparents hadn't seen him since he was 10 weeks old.  to say they were elated is an understatement.  he got squished lots.  he's pretty irresistible in the squishy department anyway.  he ended up calling them granny and abuelo.  abuela and abuela was way too confusing for him.  more tomorrow (hopefully).  getting sleepy here.  g says we're going to bed as soon as this episode of the pink panther is over.  course that's what he said about three episodes ago . . .

feliz navidad!

seasons greetings from sunny honduras!  i hate to post without pictures, but my access to technology is limited here.  thought i´d drop in to say hello anyway.  hola!

so far we have had honduran taquitos, pupusas, carne asada, tamales, fried platanos with queso seco  and sopa de pollo.  still on my list honduran enchiladas, papaya with lemon, corn on the cob with salt and lime. and tortillas con quesilla.  i LOVE honduran food!  yum!

ok.  that´s it for now.  lol.  back in a few days with photos!

merry christmas friends!

hello world!

 
i am here.  but not for long.  tomorrow we are taking the gman to visit his abuelos in honduras.  they haven't seen him since he was 10 weeks old.  much excitement.  sorry for a brief post after a long absence.  i have been way too bizy.  bizy bizy bizy . . . buzz buzz buzz.  life is slower in honduras though.  mayhaps i will blog you there.  we shall see.  modern technology does not abound.  but i hear tell g's tia has gone wireless.  fingers crossed . . .

vintagefest 2009

as you can see, vintagefest was a total blast!  the gman wanted to bring home lots of jenni's vintage christmas decorations.  she gave him this sweet tiny parasol.  i don't know what she was thinking; it was demolished by noon.  but you know jenni's such a generous soul.

check out the jbs inspiration blog for my photos of the actual booth.  and why can i never remember that sufficient lighting for still life photography is not sufficient lighting for active boy photography?  anyway, you can see a couple action shots of jenni (and jared) teaching over on twitter.  we're @jbsmercantile

i spent most of the day hanging with boys.  i think i wore them out as they were much less violent by our fourth trip to the hotel's pool.  we also watched the goonies, mib, and aliens in the attic.  hey! i think we covered 3 decades with our movie choices.  oh! and i totally enjoyed watching alabama slaughter the gators over ny ny pizza.  

towards the end the boys were practically comatose, so i finally got to hang with the girls.  so much fun.  enjoyed meeting teri from louisiana, watching april from studio calico create a couple masterpieces, and visiting with kellidarr superstar who i hadn't seen in a while.   great great day!  you should come next year!

dental extractor for hire . . .

so this is my ode to thanksgiving cooking.  scrambled eggs and a blueberry/raspberry combo of jiffy muffin mixes.   the gman thought i was martha.  or he would have if he knew martha.  i'm sure you all are now worried about poor us having scrambled eggs and muffins for thanksgiving.  never fear though.  that was only brunch.  sherri invited us over for dinner.  serious score and no cooking on my part.  then shirley had us over for leftovers the next day.  score again.  our friends rock.

now the week before turkey day the gman got on my bad side.  he brought home his mid-term progress report with THREE U's on it.  now i know this i'm a boy and i really don't care mentality runs in my family.  i have 2 brothers and several nephews who suffer from it.  i guess i was thinking not MY son.  but yes.  my son.  three u's all in sight words.  i fussed at him all the way home and informed him that mommy was cutting off his cash flow at target, walmart, walgreens, etc.  he sounded so humble and apologetic.  but then as soon as he got home the little stinker got a paper towel from the kitchen and set to work on a wiggly tooth.  he had the sucker out in an hour flat.  no lie.  and lucky for him the tooth fairy was somewhat amused and gave him a fiver.  with that and some other loose change he'd been saving up he managed to purchase this bad boy.  he was actually shaking with excitement when he carried him out to the car in his very own target back.  as soon as he got buckled in he reverently pulled him out and proclaimed, "he's my FRAVit all the way to JEsus!" 

i didn't actually get a picture of that gap-toothed grin, because he set to work on the next one well before mommy got shutter happy.  here he is after violently ripping out the next one.  i couldn't get a decent smile from him showing the most recent losses.  this one made 5 gone.  the two bottom middles have grown back in and it was the two flanking these that he yanked.  you can see here that g's tooth fairy likes variety in her gift giving.  this time around she left a movie gift card.  g knew it was for the movies too without me even telling him.  he doesn't know his sight words, but he somehow knows the important stuff.

but wait.  there's more.  you guessed it.  he ripped out that other top one a couple days later and got a lego giftcard that looked mysteriously like an image from the lego site we've been frequently.  seems our tooth fairy hangs out in the same places  we do.  guess she's cool like that.  now if you're the gman you're think why stop there?  monday morning he asked me when his "grinders" would come out.  i told him in no uncertain terms that he was done with losing teeth for a good long while and if he pulled any more the tooth fairy would give him a citation.  seriously.  but hey.  g's always on the lookout for a fast buck and he's obviously a professional in the tooth pulling arena.  if you've got a kid with a reluctant wiggler i'm sure he'd be happy to help with any dental removals as long as he gets a cut of the tooth fairy loot.

i keep meaning to blog, really i do . . .

i guess the holidays are getting in the way?

the december kits and galleries are up at jbs mercantile!  i actually designed the project this month!  talk about intimidating!  i also did two misties, one regular, and a mini.  the design team did some fabulous stuff too!  head on over and take a peek . . .