dear honor

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She woke up early and made this card for him on his birthday.

Today Honor turns 5 years old. My baby! I can’t believe that he is five… As much as I’ve longed for this day – in my mind 5 was the magical age in which he would be easier – I’m now sad having reached it. He is easier, in fact he has been quite a joy lately. Almost every day he comes up to me with a tender look on his face and tells me, “Mom, you’re so cute.” (Can’t wait to see him when he’s a teenager trying to woo girls.)

Honor’s number one request for his birthday present was a live lobster. He’s been pleading his case over the last few months as we visited the lobster case at the grocery store. “Please mom, I want a pet wobster! Pleeeaaaseee?!” I never could quite reason with him as to why we couldn’t keep a lobster as a pet, but hopefully he will be happy with the slightly used Gameboy advance that we bought him instead.

I think the next year for Honor might find him in preschool. He asked me yesterday if he would be going to school now that he is 5. Poor kiddo! He’s so lonely when Eden is in school! He also asked me if he could use the microwave now that he is 5. But, alas, no microwave usage for Mr. Honor as the last time he used it, he cooked a breadstick for 45 minutes before we discovered it.

Well, it’s opening presents time. Honor has been “dying” with all this waiting!

• I’m knitting this. It’s going to be beautiful. I can’t wait to finish it.

• Today Jim and I started a 12 week, hardcore workout program. Counting the 20 pounds that I’ve already lost, you probably won’t recognize me when we’re done with it! I’m excited about the prospect of being buff. And slightly sad about the loss of all my cute clothes. But I’ll just have to buy more right?

• Yesterday we booked our flights to Las Vegas for our anniversary. We got an amazing deal on a 4 night stay at the MGM Grand. It will be good to take an actual vacation that doesn’t involve dogs, campers, children or moving other people. It’ll be our first. Listen people, don’t wait 9 years before you go on an actual vacation with your husband!
If we win money in vegas, I’m going to march myself right over to anthropologie and buy myself this purse. Then I will be purchasing expensive shoes. It’s good to have a goal right?

• The move to Main Street is proving to be great for Tangle. The downside to all this fantastic business? I haven’t got any of my day-to-day work done, and once in a great while (or all at once like today) we get the pleasure of dealing with meanies. Such is the life of a retail business…

Congrats to my friend Lori who delivered a healthy baby girl last night. Lori, I’m so happy for you!!

(Lori and I went to high school together. We spent many hours in the music and art rooms and we sang a song together – as long as I have music – at one of our graduation events. She found me on myspace last year after she moved back to town.)

Its not a new puppy but it will do

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Jim surprised me with a new ipod for my birthday week. Im so happy to be able to fit all my music on it! Isnt he sweet?

Edens Night Writer 9/17

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Eden writes in her Night Writer every night as her homework. She can write whatever she wants and she shares it with her class the next day.

• Yesterday I turned 27 years old. I’ve been dreading this birthday because 27 seems significantly older than 26. But so far, it’s not seeming too bad. Maybe it just hasn’t hit me yet?

• For my birthday my friend Carrie and my sister surprised me with a white Hobo wallet that I’ve been lusting after. I am quite excited about this.

• Friday we went fishing up in the mountains. We had fun, but I didn’t catch any fish. In fact, for all the fishing we’ve done this summer, I’ve only caught one fish the whole time. I think it’s official, I suck. And that makes for one expensive fish considering the cost of fishing licenses. I shouldn’t have thrown him back, but eww, I so don’t like trout!

• Things at Tangle are going quite well. I’m really happy to be in our new space, we’re already filling it up! Yesterday a nice order of Malabrigo arrived. It’s so nice to have it in stock again. We also have amy butler wrapping paper! (I have a lot of web updates to do. eeep!)

Carrie: This music is butt music.

Jim: You mean butt rock? This is metal not butt rock.

Carrie: No this is butt music, as in music that I can perform with my butt.

Jim: Wow, your butt rocks!

It should be noted that last weeks menu never happened due to my lack of grocery shopping.

Monday
Date night

Tuesday
taco salad

Wednesday
Cuban black bean stew with tortillas and chicken for Jim

Thursday
Farmers market

Friday
pasta with roasted cauliflower

Saturday
leftovers

Sunday
friends over:
roasted vegetable soup
broccoli corn chowder
good bread and a big salad

So I realize it may seem as though I’ve fallen off the face of the earth, but I just haven’t gotten back into the swing of things yet. I do, however, have some pictures from the wedding. I’m not 100% thrilled with the photographers work, but these pictures turned out pretty well.

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