Random music thought on my birthday

As I was listening to the Taylor Swift CD that my husband got me for my birthday, I was thinking about how it seems in my music listening habits Miss Swift has seemed to replace Avril Lavigne.  I think somewhere post divorce, Avril kind of decided to go skanky pop instead of what she was, so unknowingly I subbed in Taylor Swift and she's been stuck in my one random girl pop artist that I like.  I think the Mine video really made me like her, because who doesn't want a happy ending.  So that's my thought of the day. Now to return to indie/punk rock listening. :)

probably a bad parent

So the kid had continuously climbed up onto the dining room table this morning, and each time I got him back down. The last time he decided to take things into his own hands, but apparently missed the chair as a step on the way back down and was dangling off the table for a wee bit.  The table isn't that high, and really I thought hmm, you got yourself into this, and really no real damage is going to come of it except the table cloth is gonna come with you when you fall on your bum.  So I let him fall.  Laziness or trying to teach a lesson too early probably, but he didn't get hurt one bit.  So parenting failure or not, it is what it is.

Lessons from the garden

So this year as you may have known, I attempted a small garden.  So far the results have been mixed.  I do think that I have learned from it.

First: while herbs grow well in pots, in what I have experienced veggies do not.  And maybe this is due to over crowding, but really the plants seemed to take off once they were put in the ground and out of the pot.

Second: Apparently cherry tomatoes are much easier to grow than bigger ones.  At least this is what is happening over here.

Third: No peppers, I have six live pepper plants and nothing has amounted from them.  Grr. I love peppers.

Fourth: Zucchini totally needs to be in the ground but seems to be kind of fragile as the flowers seem to keep popping off so thus no zucchini either.

Fifth: Apparently I really suck at keeping cilantro alive; the same happened with dill last year.

And those are what I can think of for now.  If you have any gardening advice that I can take away and store for next year's try at gardening without pots (except for herbs), as long as its charitable its more than welcome.  How is your garden treating you this year?

Oh teething baby....

Why do you have to scream so much so early in the morning?

Here's to hoping they pop all the way through by our trip to VA this weekend.

Oh and if anyone wants to come play with the crazy kiddo they are more than welcome.  Just know he screams a lot.

Menu for the week

Honestly I don't do a daily menu but more so make sure I have about 5 dinners planned out for the week.
This is what I picked this week.
1. Southern Cobb Salad
2. Potato Cobb Salad - minus the bacon for meatless Friday
3. Strawberry Spinach Salad
4. Cucumber and Tomato Ranch Pasta Salad
5. Summer Tortellini Salad

Can you tell there is a theme that I am not turning on my oven this week?  90+ with no AC means minimal cooking and thus we get a week of salads. Should be yummy nonetheless.

Happy Anniversary

Ah what a 4 years its been. Praying for lifelong continued happiness.  Its been a wild ride thus far, and I bet it will just get crazier and sweeter.  Here's to continuing to help my husband get to heaven for the rest of our lives, and now our borrowed kiddos from God too.  Cheers.  :)

Overnight get away

So as means of having an overnight get away from Ben we decided to utilize Living Social and go to a B&B nearby for half price.  It was fun.  The place was called the Hillbrook Inn and looked like this from the front entrance.

Some rich guy brought over part of a castle from England to make his mansion and later it became an Inn and country club. Me being an architecture closet fan, loved the years behind this place.  The room we had was very nice, and honestly we were probably one of 2 guests the place had that weekend.  A lot of their efforts go into weddings/receptions that they seem to hold every weekend.  So we had some fun exploring the grounds and went into the town of Chagrin Falls to eat that night.  Apparently my appetite came back recently in this pregnancy 'cause food suddenly tastes good again.  I probably still like strange stuff, but the fact that I can eat and enjoy it is awesome.  So thus dinner was good and dessert was good. The next morning we found the room of breakfastland and ate oatmeal, granola, muffins and fruit.  The one thing about this place because they weren't run like a hotel is that if you wanted to know something you had to ask, otherwise you were left to explore on your own.  We probably did split the asking and exploring 50/50.  

We were sad we forgot our tennis stuff because they had 5 nice courts there, but we did remember to bring stuff to swim, and swim we did.  It was fun to just relax the two of us and have fun playing water games with Keith pretending to be Solid Snake and me attacking him with a water gun/kick board.  

Afterwards, we were set to have lunch at the place as part of our Living Social deal.  So we asked about lunch and they set us up our own private table as we said we were like the only non-wedding folks there, so it was kinda like we lived in our own little world.  The food was simple but good and filling.  

So after lunch we went to pick up Ben and well as much as I missed him, I'm not so sure he missed me or rather us.  He was just playing away at his grandparents without a care in the world and apparently was really good for them the whole time.  I guess he's becoming less needy, and maybe its the attachment parenting thing that makes him trusting of a few others besides me.  I dunno, all I know is that God made us be able to have a successful night away and a toddler that was ready to be away from his parents.  Thanks :)