gardening

this post kept "accidentally" being published before i was done. {isabella. she loves being like mommy & typing on the laptop}. So, for those of you that are on my emma-iling ;) list you probably got a couple of emails with partial posts. forgive me for that!

anyway, it's thursday again. time for the inspiration workshop! this week were looking at gardens! well, gardening. remember this post? where my garden was fantastic. i was so proud. well , guess what!?

i gave up on it.

i stopped watering, weeding, caring.

1. squash bugs ate my squash & cucumbers. on morning i went to the garden to pick tomatoes & they were just... gone.

2. japanes beetles attacked.

3. drought/heat wave... i'm not going to be out there in 110°+ weather! no thank you. 

4. i planted some hydrangea bushes by the front door and the dog dug them up. they were doing great too. i really don't like that dog sometimes. ok, a lot of the time.

so yeah! that's what's up with MY gardening right now.

but i wish i had a pretty garden, pretty landscaping. i wish my hydrangeas had grown to look like this.

as much as i love flowers though, having something minimal, just green would be great. of course around here all of our trees, bushes, even evergreens have wilting leaves right now. {Thank God for the rain we got on Tuesday & Wednesday}

 but time. there's just no time for it. i have too many things to do inside. & i can hardly keep up with all that. but if you'd like to bring me some fresh flowers, i wouldn't mind.

this though, would be a dream. specially if i didn't have to do any of the work. 

my beautiful, funny, great friend Amanda has a green thumb. she works at a {tree} nursery on the weekends. i love going to her house. the front of the house is gorgeous, but the back yard is where we spend most of our time when we're there. that or the kitchen of course. i love going there. it's so relaxing. 

i could live there.

well... see you tomorrow for "insta-friday" & a facebook update!! 

a day in the life...

so i haven't been linking up with the inspiration workshop because i haven't really been feeling inspired... not to blog anyway. as i told you before, {here} i have lots of "work" to do. a cape, a WHOLE bedding set, 7 hats, that on top of building up inventory for the Northwest Arkansas Craft Fair.

week 10's prompt though was A DAY IN THE LIFE... this i can do! i even took {some} pictures!

first this is what i wish my day was like:

• 6:30/7am wake up, do yoga, have breakfast.
• 8am wake up kids, feed them breakfast, get them dressed.
• 9am - sesame street. duh!
• 10am - outside play with the kids {while it's not super hot out}
• 11am - isabella naps. D colors, or helps me while I unload the dishwasher, do the dishes from breakfast & get lunch ready.
• 12:00pm lunch with D
• 12:30pm Isabella wakes up & has lunch
• 1pm - 3pm kids play while i clean up & blog or sew or something fun.
• 3pm - 4pm snack movie time
• 4pm -  isabella's nap time play with D
• 5pm-7pm get pre-scheduled dinner ready,
• 7pm isabella wakes up, have dinner with kids & billy {maybe mathew if he's home}, 
• 8pm - bath time for the kiddos
• 8:15pm - isabella's bed time
• 8:30pm - D's bed time
• 9pm - clean up the kitchen make some raspberry tea
• 9:30-11pm - sew, blog, watch a movie or trashy reality tv, while i drink my tea. or  go to starbucks. any other # of things i want to do really...
• 11pm- bed time.
• 11:30-6:30am sleep... UNINTERRUPTED SLEEP. 

but reality is this:

• 9am - trying to get as much sleep as possible. only wake up because the kids wake up. darn kids needing food & caring.
• 9:something - find something for them to eat for breakfast, eggs, yogurt & fruit... cereal. something quick. 
• 9:30 get me something to eat, more than likely a parfait {vanilla yogurt, thawed frozen fruit, with granola}, or just some saltines.... whatever it is Isabella eats most of it even though she just had her own breakfast. while we watch sesame street or yesterdays episode of The View on Hulu. we sit on the couch and "wake up" for the day. hand in nose & mouth included

• 10-11am... hang out. check email, etc... maybe get dressed.
• 11:30am isabella goes down for a nap. me & D unload the dishwasher and clean up the kitchen from breakfast... some days...
• 12:00pm try and figure out what to make for lunch. end up fixing something easy. pb&j side of strawberries, cheese & carrot sticks.
• 1pm Isabella gets up & i feed her lunch.  i eat the same thing they did or just some saltines... whatever it is Isabella eats most of it even though she just had her own lunch.
• 1:30pm go outside because more than likely we didn't go outside earlier. {now it's the hottest time of the day of course}

• 1 -1:45pm we play outside, swing... lay in the hammock... until we almost die from the heat..
• 2pm go inside & recover from the heat, apple juice all around... except for me, i have lemonade... ok fine! pepsi. sue me! 
• 3pm - isabella's nap time & scenerio #1- i'm kind of tired too. & d is really cranky so i'll lay down with him for a bit. don't wake up until 6. scenerio #2- kids lay down i waste time on facebook scenerio #3- now that i'm not on facebook anymore i spend time crocheting or sewing, or even cleaning!!
• 5pm - start scrambling for dinner.
• 5:30pm - D wakes up freaking out, confused.
• 6pm - get back to trying to figure out dinner, isabella wakes up
• 6:30/7pm - have dinner with kids & billy {maybe mathew if he's home} we eat quesadillas, spaghetti, something quick. i eat the same thing they do or just some saltines... whatever it is Isabella eats most of it even though she just had her own dinner.
• 8:30pm - isabella's bed time. D's not tired because of that nap he took. 
• 9pm -10pm- isabella's still awake singing & talking in her crib. she lets out a fake cry every 15 minutes or so. Douglas "i dont' want  to go to bed i'm not tired". when i finally make him go to bed & watch a movie he keeps getting up because he has to pee 500 times, or says his tummy hurts, but not really. 
• 10pm - i remember i should have made me some tea, but instead i'm cleaning the kitchen from dinner. go check on Isabella. her room smells like crap. the middle of the night pooper strikes again!
• 11pm D finally falls asleep. mathew needs something, remind billy what time it is & that he's supposed to be up in 4 hours. 
• 11:30pm finally get my tea & sit on the couch with my lap top for a bit. hear scratching at the door. forgot about the freaking dog. watch something. get sucked in. start blogging/editing pics/crocheting/anything else that keeps me up until 1am
• 1am - bed time.
• 3am - d comes into bed with us
• 7am - wake up because D almost pushed me off the bed & my arm is asleep from trying to sleep on the edge. tell myself i just need another hour. need to get isabella up at 8.
• 9am - be disappointed that i didn't get up earlier & start all over again.

all this. besides the fact that Isabella is at the stage where she's into everything... so when she's awake you have to be with her. she listens great. doesn't get hurt. but she's very curious about the toilet & reaching into it, D doesn't always flush. she's so fast she disappears, so basically you're on "Isabella watch" the whole time she's awake. trying to get a shower in there somewhere, changing diapers, doing laundry, picking up toys, & keeping the peace.

here's to more days like the wish list at top & less days like this past tuesday, thursday {2nd list}