Strawberries on a stick

So Max and I spotted the cutest little bunny having a hearty snack on some leaves, probably from a cherished plant, but I prefer to think they were weeds in our back yard yesterday afternoon. Max, being ever enthusiastic about animals lately, wanted to find some carrots and quickly add to the cute little guy’s plate. We had none so I suggested a couple of our strawberries. Poor Max was thinking he could saunter on out, berries in tow and the little furry friend would happily eat from Max's hand. I explained that the bunny would quickly hop away once he/she/it caught sight of us, which it did, but that if Max wanted to watch the bunny eat our delicious contribution to his meal we could put them on a stick and then plant it in the ground right where the rabbit had been eating. Max approved of the plan, so out we marched, strawberries on our stick and jammed that poor little strawberry laden limb into the ground. We quickly trotted back to the house in hopes of catching a glimpse of a no doubt very grateful bunny nibbling away on our fruit kabob. No luck, the bunny was being shy, sure enough though that stick was licked clean by this morning. Short story long, now you know the tale behind the strawberries on a stick.

Happy Day all.

Gracious Gifts

Yea, another issue of Artful Blogging is out. I find myself pouring through it yet again. I love Somerset Studios publications, they're just so beautiful and inspiring. I feel pressure however to get my blog up to par (customize it w/ my own headers, side bars etc), which it is not at the moment. I'm hoping to make time to do this in the next week or so.

In the mean time, I wanted to post a picture of some of the thoughtful gifts I received for my birthday last week. They're beautiful, delicious, fun etc. and they photograph well too.

Thank you everybody for your kind gestures and helping to make my 40th birthday so memorable. It was a great time.

Much love,
Jane

The best Mothers Day gift ever

Yesterday (Mothers Day) was spent cleaning the house after my 40th birthday party the night prior. It was unseasonably cool so most of the day was spent indoors even after the cleaning was done. I was pooped from the party and party prep the night before so I did not mind at all just hanging out with Terry and Max. I did spend some time trying to take advantage of good light to take pictures of some of the thoughtful gifts people brought. I'll post those later. Max decided he wanted to ham it up for the camera then so I was able to get some cute snap shots of him. Here's one for ya. It's RARE that he's cooperative for picture taking so I seized upon the opportunity. He's a wonderful boy, I'm so grateful to be his mother.

Happy day everyone,
Jane

Two sweet preschool teachers, Thanks.

So Max is wrapping up preschool in two weeks. I can hardly believe it. Ms. Vicki and Ms. Jan, Max's fantastic teachers, put on the sweetest program with the kids including a terrific picture slide show immediately following. It was wonderful, and I'm glad to say that I was not the only one at the end of the program to have teary eyes and a sniffle nose. They so graciously passed out sweet daisies to all of the moms in the audience; at least I think they're daises. Any way, I took a ton of pictures of them, found one I really liked, and went crazy with it in Photoshop. This is going to be there thank you and good bye card from Max. I don't know what he'll give them as a gift but at least the card is covered. I'm going to miss them and quaint little D. school and I think Max will too. Here I go again, sniff, sniff.




Sweet dreams all,

Jane