a thousand words

A picture I happened upon on the world wide web caught my eye.

This little thing is too precious. I think I envision us having a little blonde girl someday, and so not only did her sweetness, blondeness and snuggly little cute shirt catch my eye, but the jar of Bonne Maman preserves did too. Because as a replacement for the Welches grape jelly that he wanted to slather on his weekend biscuits and pancakes, I started buying Taylor Bonne Maman blueberry preserves and he’s never looked back. Everytime I bake a spreadworthy bread, he’s always quick to ensure that we have his “jelly” before expressing excitement about whatever baked good I’ve slaved over. His relief and excitement over the presence of those preserves {and the fact that he puts them on his pancakes and on top of his biscuits –rather than inside –duh} is one of the random things I find cute about him.

So when I first saw this little round blonde thing with her Bonne Maman preserves, I thought, “Oh look, it’s little Taylor!”

Except upon closer inspection I realized that unlike my future babdydaddy she’s also {a} eating peanut butter {b} making her own sandwich {c} not using a napkin…

With that I leave you. I’m off to the lake to read, read, read. And maybe graph some vertical motion problems.

P.S. @Mom! My teacher’s edition came and I’m super excited about our friend Chapter 11. Let me know if you want to come over and work canoeing up the current or motorcycling off the cliff problems! :)

girl’s trip!

It’s home sweet home after a weekend trip with Megan and Elizabeth to cool, crisp Breckenridge, Colorado! As Elizabeth and I tagged along on Meg’s getaway from her hubby’s Bar Exam studies, we got to get away from the Texas heat and spend a weekend chilling, eating, shopping and chatting at the great home of Meg’s SO fun, generous and hospitable in-laws!

Here are some snippets from our weekend. Liz was the excellent designated trip photographer, so I imagine her blog, and likely my facebook, will soon be updated with much better shots! But for now here’s: {1} our view for the past weekend {2} staples of the evening fare {3 + 4} some scenery {5} the poor survivors of a humorously cold and unfortunate thunderstormstruck hike {6} and a souvenir!

After picking up the pup, starting a load of laundry, unpacking and showering, I sat down to download my library books to my new Nook only to struggle for two hours through message boards and Adobe software to try to get the software required use the library file to actually recognize my Nook. Once I finally tried it on my husband’s PC, someone’s random message board “delete this folder” suggestion worked, and I was able to get both computers to recognize the Nook.

Mac: 0 PC: 1. Nook + Adobe = #fail.

Anyway. Hope you have better luck than me in that area, because it works now, and other than that frustrating two hour drain on my life, I do highly recommend it. Not only is the Nook letting me now enjoy library books, free public domain books, all the books I teach for school and tutoring, but I’m also enjoying my $2.50 per month subscription to The New Yorker. Add me as a contact and we can lend each other books!

americana

I hope y’all had a great fourth of July weekend! We spent the weekend in Fort Worth celebrating the marriage of one of my very best friends and getting to hang out with many much missed pals from college.

In keeping with good old American traditions, I want to go to a drive in movie! Locate one near you here and take some snacks and sweets!

Among the little twists on classic snacky fare in the links above, besides those crazy cookies I’d never be able to pull off, I want to make these.

mmmmmm. Chocolate chip cookies and oreos. Only think missing there is a glass of cold milk. God Bless America.

{Drive in Inspiration}

tuesday morning treats | peony perfection

My peonies are blooming along just beautifully in my mint julep cups that I just got with the last of my wedding credit, yes dontjudge we’ve embarked upon our fourth year of marriage, and I was able spread out the two bunches of four stems each into four vases all over the house. Happiness.

By the way, since inquiring minds want to know, I improved my Bedside Table page over there on the left in case you’re looking for a good read. Would love to tell you more about any of them! Check it out.

Also, you must go check out a blog I just discovered, The Simply Luxurious Life. It’s filled with great pictures, sorry but a must for me when I peruse blogs, but it also has great advice and insight on living life. I think today’s post is great. Go now go.

monday sweet treats

Whammy of a weekend for y’all who follow my food blog too! Sometimes when I have too much time lots of ideas…I schedule a few posts out. Saturday’s post was supposed to post Sunday night, but I guess I messed that one up! I had to go in and change a few things when I got the email that it had posted. Oh well. You had the treat and privilege of three blog posts from me in one day! You’re welcome. I hope it made for an extra special weekend.

Because we all need some sweet treats to get us going for the week ….

1. sweet little ballerina 2. little people mocs – do they come in my size? 3. clutch –  just simple and unassumingly lovely 4.bruschetta – what to do with my homemade bread and farmer’s market tomatoes! 5. lovey just lovely peonies –  today i bought ten buds for $8. serendipity. no shame. 6. major case of eReader case lust – my nook is in the mail!