Craft ADD

I had to laugh at myself today. Okay, I do that quite a bit, but today took the cake.

I was thinking about Handmade News and writing an article about crafting ADD. It's a serious affliction, you know. Well, before 10am I had cut a new batch of soap, boiled eggs for Easter egg decorating, took pictures and created a Crinkly Baby Block of Power (see the pretty picture below), and rearranged the entire living room.



My dining room table has the remainders of my frantic need to create. It's funny really. The table is heaped in fabric, buttons, thread, paper and items I don't even know the name of. Serious Craft ADD. And here I am, sitting at the computer desk, with my back to the dining room.

Thankfully, Mr. Gym Mama doesn't come home for an hour. That gives me time to clean up, shower, get the kids ready for Grandma's and pretend none of this happened. What a mess.

Oh, and to top things off, I hit "Enter" instead of shift when I was working on the Handmade News application and sent the application in without some very important things. Like my name and contact information. Lovely.

Focusing On The Positive

I asked my hubby to push me out of bed this morning if I didn't get up when the alarm went off. Apparently, it wakes him up more than it does me. Go figure.

Thankfully, no pushing was necessary. The baby woke up at 5:20, so I just shut the alarm off, fed her and got ready to go. You'd think that would have been easy.

Let's just say it was a challenging morning before, during and after the gym. I thought about listing the myriad of things that made me want to just climb back in bed, but really, does that accomplish anything? (And, holy cow, the baby just peed on my leg. *sigh*)

So, I'm trying to focus on the good things this morning instead. Like the beautiful sunrise, the gas in my car's gas tank, the low humidity, the coffee I've been steadily drinking, toothpaste that will freshen my coffee breath, and on and on. The simple things.

I know you're dying to know what happened, but don't even bother asking. We're going to be positive today!

Bionic Arms & Mutant Zucchini

I apparently have arms with a mind of their own. They do things, like turn off the alarm at 5:30am, without me ever knowing it. Honestly! It's happened twice this week. This morning and on Tuesday...I wake up, the alarm is off and it's already past 6am. Yes, the alarm really was set, and no, my hubby didn't shut it off. It's my bionic arms, I tell you. Bionic arms....who knew?

So, since my bionic arms decided I was not going to the gym this morning I've decided to share some pictures of our flourishing garden. About a month ago (almost exactly to the day) we dug up a 1/4 of the yard and put in a vegetable garden. The lettuce seeds never took and there's only 1 lonely, tiny little carrot plant growing. However, as you can see from the pictures below the tomato plants are gigantic, the zucchini plant is surely a mutant, the eggplants are flowering and the peppers, well, they're a little droopy, but growing nonetheless.

The garden in May...


The garden today...


We even have over a dozen small tomatoes growing and tons more flowers on the plants.



The zucchini plant really is enormous and there are about 8 zucchini currently growing with another 6 or so getting ready to start. It's fun to watch. Weeding isn't bad either, because the smell of the fresh tomato plants is to die for - YUM!

Well, my bionic arms and I are off...have a good day!