Doors.  Bainbridge Island.  Love them.

Our morning routine goes a little something like this.  Graham’s bus comes a bit after 9am.  If I wait to take Spencer to school until after Graham is on the bus, he misses circle time and the ever important show and share.  So I load both kids into the car, we drop Spencer off, then speed back to the house to catch Graham’s bus.  Except on Wednesdays when Spencer stays home with me and we all wait for the bus together.  I know this picture is blurry.  That is because my children never stop moving.

Sad face.

This is the loaner car I have been driving while my car is getting its 75,000 mile check up.  When they gave us the first estimate, I thought to myself, “We could probably buy a pony for that price”.  Once they got in there and started noodling around and found that we needed new brakes, new battery, new timing belt, new things I have never heard of, they gave us another estimate.  I feel quite sure we could buy a very nice used Prius for the price of what this “check-up” is costing us.

Hard to believe that just  a couple of weeks ago, we were using these sleds as sleds.  Now they are rain catchers and lawn ornaments.

After almost a year of trying to make peace with my graying hair, I decided to start coloring it again.  I felt like it was making me look older than I wanted to look.  I would not say that I am an overly vain person, it was just starting to bum me out.  I found a place that uses dye that does not smell and a woman who really understood what I wanted to do.  I’m not trying to cover the gray completely and I wanted my hair to look natural.  When I have done all-over color in the past, the color is too uniform and my hair is short, so I look like I am wearing a helmet.  I wanted to work with the gray to make it almost as highlights.  Is this incredibly boring?  Anyway, this is the before picture.  She did kind of a reverse foil and I’m really pleased with how it turned out.

After.  With the birthday boy.

Veggie Pho.  I could eat this for lunch and dinner every day.  I like my broth really spicy.

Finally, the cake the birthday boy picked out.  Recipe coming soon!