Miscellaneous ramblings.

Just because you're my friends, and this is what I would talk about if you called me on the phone. :)

• Kloe and the Mister have been out of town all weekend. Kloe left on Thursday with her Grandma, headed for her uncle's house in Arkansas. The Mister left on Friday to meet up with them there. They will both be back tomorrow night. Here's Kloe's favorite part of the trip:
  
  
  
  Ahhhh, Grandmas! And here's The Mister's favorite part of the trip:
  
  
  
  Jacob and I have been living it up since they've been gone. We've been to Chuckeeeeee Cheese's (for games only, not food), roller skating, watched an instant-download Netfl*x movie, and had dinner out twice.


• For one of our dinners out, we ate at Double Dave's for the first time last night. I know. It's my new favorite pizza place.


• Woke up with a nasty crick in my neck this morning. Ugh.


• My yard is green green green thanks to all the rain we've gotten in the last week. Unfortunately, also thanks to all the rain, the weeds are running rampant.


• I've had my bread machine sitting on the kitchen table for the past 2 (or is it 3?) days, because it's been so long since I've used it, I forgot you have to use bread flour - not all purpose flour - and I don't have any.


• Going to put my new sewing machine to use today. Jacob asked me if I would make him a police officer costume. He's the dressin-uppest kid I've ever seen. Cowboy. Doctor. Scientist. Secret agent. Spy (which apparently is different that a secret agent). Pilot. Sp*derman. And some odd conglomeration of Indiana Jones and an entomologist. Maybe I'll do a post about that someday, with photos.


• I'm going to start a new "home binder" system that I saw here, in hopes of bringing some sense of order to the paper tiger that currently terrorizes my home. I will NOT be making 14 binders - or however many it is she uses. For now I'm trying ONE.


• I love, love, love these prints from Red Letter Words.
  
  
  
  Don't you love them? I'm thinking surely I can make some for less than $165, don't ya think? A little paint and some canvases on sale at Hobby Lobby.... The only thing I can't figure out is how to make the letters. My MIL does have a Cri.cut, but I really like the way the words are all different sizes, and I'm worried I wouldn't be able to get them all to fit right without using $165 worth of vinyl. Hmmm, food for thought. Anyone have any ideas how to make it work? If so, please share!

Do you have a good system for organizing papers?
Ever used a bread machine?
Any ideas for making the words fit on my canvases?
I'd love to hear from you!