enjoying the small things

enjoying the small things today.

10) it’s just one of these days, literally and figuratively:

clean sheets on the bed. a floor that managed to stay free of piles of oatmeal, cheerios or other various fill-in-the-blank messes that sweet cubby likes to pull out of the pantry. a clean kitchen. it’s all good.

9) this shirt. what? my daughter? now why would she feel the need to say this?

8) finding, on a clearance endcap in target, just what we needed today: an otherwise crappy disney princess purse set…however, it included super cool fake make-up thus avoiding future cubby catastrophes. it was so cute watching her tote the little purse around, stopping occasionally to rifle through it, pulling out the little plastic red lipstick, popping the cap off and giving her lips a good smear of invisible beauty. in fact, she is sleeping now, sweetly curled up in her crib holding puppy in one hand and the plastic lipstick in the other.

7) speaking of clearance endcaps…it’s always a good day with red tags.

6) spaghetti and homemade meatballs in the crockpot. and mozzarella/basil and the closest thing to straight-from-the-garden tomatoes you’ll ever find for dinner tonight. (thank you donna nana for reminding me)

5) surprising brett with a bottle of red. we hardly splurge on wine these days and i don’t like it, but once in a while…i like to make him happy. and the cool frenchy label sold me. i’m so glad my husband has a nice wife.

4) teaching cubby early that every vote counts. …and that $5 will buy you a cheap t-shirt.
(p.s. check out the cool camera strap cover i sewed…working on making my sis one too now.)

3) overwearing these shoes, my favorites. if there’s any shoes to be bronzed for her, it’s these babies and as many cute shoes as she has, i find myself choosing these over all the rest. they’re just so lainey. years from now i’ll look back at pictures and smile when i see these shoes.

2) taking the girls outside this afternoon to play in the water. brett would have died because it was a complete hill-billy set-up what with the beach umbrella and my lawn chair, but it was worth the fun. hey, you can take the girl out of detroit, but….you get it.

1) finding myself saying to brett more and more, “what did we do to deserve this?” because she’s too amazing…too beautiful…too over-the-top for me to grasp that she belongs to me. we’ll be watching her play at night and she’ll do something just dripping with cute and we’ll look at each other and half cry/half laugh and then “she’s ours, she’s ours, she’s ours” will follow.

…enjoying the small-but-beautiful things. ~k