It has been a lazy Saturday here at the Hutson home. We needed lazy after the past couple of weeks. I was awoken at 6:30 this morning by a little person in my face asking me if it was waffle time. Breakfast with Evangeline is one of big things I miss about being a stay-at-home mom. She is in such a good mood in the mornings. She is so talkative and just such a little joy to be around. She loves to help me bake. She has gotten pretty good at pouring the ingredients into a bowl and mixing gently enough to where the ingredients aren't flung from the bowl. She likes to learn and participate in most everything I do.
This child is such a piece of work. She just hams it up constantly. She loves the days when she gets to stay home with Mommy and Daddy.
Later in the morning Kyle took E.B. to Lincoln Trail to play and walk around in the woods. It is amazing what this mama can get accomplished with just one hour by myself, too much coffee and perhaps a pinch of ADHD. I folded several loads of laundry, changed Evangeline's sheets, spruced up her room, loaded and started the dishwasher, put away a ton of clothes, washed up the table tops, put away things in the kitchen, tidied up the laundry room... in short made our house just a tad less disgusting than it was.
My birthday is coming up. I don't think I will ever reach a point where I don't like my birthday. I like the time of year and I like the memories my birthday evokes I also like to hear from people that I don't hear from too often. I got a beautiful flower arrangement today from my father-in-law and Karen. They always brighten my birthdays with a gorgeous bouquet (and every other big day and holiday for that matter).
Aren't they lovely.
My friend Maria is the florist in town that we patron. When I told Evangeline that Maria was going to be stopping by she giggled and said "like Anna Maria and Samuel Whiskers?" (The Tale of Samuel Whiskers). I said, "no, like the Maria from church.
After Evangeline caught wind that my birthday was coming up she set to work making me a surprise out of her "assessories" (as she calls them). She is such a thoughtful little one.
Here is another early gift that I am particularly excited about. Beatrix Potter and knitting...two things I adore coming together. This is a fun book to thumb through. It's just beautiful and very inspiring. Evangeline loves to look at it too. She knows the characters and already has plans for some things she would like me to make for her. (Thanks for the book, Mommy!)
This is one of Evangeline's latest illustrations. It's a snowman with a snowflake nose underneath a rainbow.
And speaking of artwork...our little darling has been getting up in the wee hours to go "bumpy". Then she finishes out her night's sleep in the coach. Lately she has been up at the crack of dawn and has been doing who-knows-what. We find her playing, coloring, changing her clothes. It's been a little unnerving, but that's another story... One particular morning last week Kyle woke up to find her coloring. She had gotten out her Christmas coloring stickers and was busy coloring them at the table. This wouldn't have been such a big deal until Kyle gave her permission to stick them all over the window. A few days later when I decided it was time for them to go I realized that Goo-Gone will be needed in order for them to be removed. I guess it will just have to look a little like Christmas in the dinning room for a few more weeks...
How festive.
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