This Moment

A Friday ritual. A single photo - no words - capturing a moment from the week. A simple, special, extraordinary moment. A moment I want to pause, savor, and remember. Thanks Soulemama.

Memory Lane

 I'm always looking for excuses to post old pictures. I have so many! So here is my excuse. I'm starting a link up. Do not feel bad if you don't want to join in. I always have my sister, lol. Post an old pic, anytime before next Thursday, of you, your kids, anything, and write a little something about the memory.

Laughing about how Naia had no hair on the top of her head, poor girl.

Crafty Drinking

Let's start with the important part...the drink.

This is a Michelada, and believe me, I needed it with the sewing project I just completed. 

Recipe

Light Mexican Beer

5 oz tomato juice

1 oz hot sauce (Tabasco is good)

dash of Worcestershire

dash pepper

juice from one lime

You're not going to pour the whole beer in, but almost. See how spicy it is. A lot of people pour everything over ice, but I just chill the beer and tomato sauce. A lot of people also use salt on the rim. Make it your own. 

Now onto sewing. I saw these pocket wall charts (I guess that's what they're called) on a teacher supply store website for $50. I wasn't going to pay $50 and I thought it wouldn't be too hard to make. It was! I will NEVER sew with plastic again! Supposedly there is a foot one can buy to sew with plastic to keep it from sticking. Of course, I wasn't going to buy that either. So, I got some tissue paper and cut it to the same size as the plastic and sewed over both. I then had to tear the tissue paper off. The pics are dark because the room is dark.

 I could not see where I was sewing and so the plastic is all off. It's functional though and that's all that matters I suppose.

Crafty Drinking

We're still alive!

Well, we made it....to the creek (and back). Eaden immediately set out on her quest for tadpoles.

Taven pointed at them.

The lil' buggers proved to be a little too fast for them. So they moved on.

We decided to walk over to the Nature Center.

 Remember this bridge?

after walking a bit with no shade...

...I started to feel dizzy (and the Nature Center was closed by the way). Now I've fainted from the heat A LOT in my life. I fainted as a little kid at field day, as an older kid playing softball, at other random places, when I was pregnant, etc. etc. So I know the feeling I get when I'm about to faint. If I can sit down and drink water, or pour it over my head, I'm fine. So I did. And I was fine. I did start thinking about what my kids would do if I fainted and was too dizzy to walk. We were the only ones in the park, but I'm sure they could have found their way back to that bridge, and over it, past the creek, down the trail, and into the front office for help. Right? Anyway, we  made it back.

And I felt fine so we explored the creek some more.

22nd day of 100+ temps

So what did we do on the 22nd day of 100+ degree temps? Stayed inside! I haven't had much to blog about because we haven't been doing much. I've been getting ready for "preschool" and the kids have been doing the same ole' same ole'. They do love to dress up as if it IS cold outside. Without shirts of course.

Bingo.

Lots of puzzles.

Blocks.

Art.

And books, of course.

Not too exciting, but our lives aren't sometimes. However, it's getting a little old. Today, on this 23rd day of 100+ temps we, the bravest of all souls, are going on a nature walk!....where there is a creek....and shade. We are starting to develop nature deficit disorder and are patiently waiting the cooler days of late fall. PLEASE, hurry up! I've had enough living in the moment for now.