If I Needed To Get Rid Of Evidence, I Would...

(all fingerprints wiped off first)

1. No return address and mail it somewhere random

2. Tie a brick to it and throw it off the MLK Bridge. (No one's going to go looking in the Big Muddy)

3. Burn it in my parent's backyard

4. Cover it in peanut butter and give it to my dog

5. Just put it in the dumpster

6. If it's something other than a gun, put it in a Washington Ave trash can and hope a homeless person takes it as their own

7. Knock a hole in our wall, put it in there, patch and paint over it to cover the hole

8. Without telling them, hide it at one of my friend's houses

Junk I Bought At Schnucks Last Night

1. Sprite cans

2. Coca-Cola cans

3. Chex Mix

4. Soft Batch chocolate chip cookies

5. Microwave popcorn

6. Huge bag of M & Ms

Weekend To-Do

1. Make a pack list for Arkansas trip

2. Make plans for Arkansas trip

3. Clean up all the piles in our house (driving me crazy!)

4. Make another Goodwill drop-off run

5. Clean two bathrooms

6. Clean the laundry room

What I Would've Done Today If I Hadn't Left My Wallet At Home

1. Bought frames for my bedroom

2. Bought a pair of jeans

3. Returned a pair of Pumas (I need to embrace the fact that I am not sporty)

4. Returned a spiral slicer

5. Returned a hands-free headset for A's phone

6. Gotten a chai milkshake at Coffee Cartel

Dinner Tonight (With Guests) Menu

1. Parmesan chicken breasts (Quorn cutlet for me)
2. Mashed potatoes
3. Caesar salad
4. Bread
5. Brownies

What R Loves To Do

1. Play with things he's not supposed to...space heater, dog bowls, dog toys, power cords....
2. Make this weird "losing my voice, straining to scream" sound
3. Try to chew on Puddy's (our dog) feet
4. Smile at people
5. Wake me up every three hours to nurse (still!) through the night
6. Drag himself around the house
7. Watch W and Daddy chase Puddy
8. Watch TV
9. Be carried around
10. Give super-slobbery, open-mouthed, suck on your face, wonderful kisses

To Do List

1. Clean the baby room
2. Sort their old clothes
3. Make a Goodwill run
4. Vases to storage
5. Start planning W's birthday party
6. Go through and sort my clothes

What I'm Loving Right Now

(I don't love these words, they are links you have to click on)
1. THIS
2. THAT
3. THIS
4. YUMMY
5. WANT
6. SO CUTE
7. WOW
8. THESE
9. THIS

My Playlist Lately

1. Let It Be Me- Ray LaMontagne
2. The Ice Is Getting Thinner- Death Cab for Cutie
3. Full Steam- David Gray and Annie Lennox
4. Never Say Never- The Fray
5. March- Jackopierce
6. Flightless Bird, American Mouth- Iron & Wine
7. California- Copeland
8. Rootless Tree- Damien Rice
9. Free Fallin- John Mayer
10. Best I Ever Had- Vertical Horizon
11. Alibi- David Gray

What I Can't Live Without (Shallow Version)

1. Spinach leaves
2. Chocolate soymilk
3. Mascara
4. Chapstick
5. Garlic salt
6. My iPhone
7. My Chi
8. Tea tree dental floss
9. TiVo

More Childhood Memories

1. Drinking a cup of milk from an Alvin & the Chipmunks Dixie cup and getting to the end to find a huge black spider in the bottom
2. Singing "the gown girls" with Jenny
3. Nightly baths and mom giving us "tick checks". Yes, I know, real country.
4. Writing on the concrete table with sticks
5. Watching "Swan's Crossing" on the little tv in Matt's room
6. My cousin and her baby living with us for awhile
7. Watching an episode of "North and South" (when it originally aired) on Kat & Bud's huge tv
8. Jenny's taking over the bathroom every morning with her curling iron, hot rollers, and hairspray fog :)
9. Eating punch and cookies in the church basement after Music Makers
10. Matt running into Tootie Parsons metal wall in Dad's truck while making fun of Jenny's driving
11. Shopping at Maurices
12. Stealing gum, quarters, etc out of Jenny's purse in her locker
13. Listening to Tori Amos and the Indigo Girls on the way to school
14. Thinking I was cool when I got to wear Matt's baseball jacket
15. Winning a Pet Shop Boys cd at the CSCO carnival
16. Writing out the details of my future wedding (sidenote: none of those details came true in my actual wedding)
17. Faking sick on Mom's days off to stay home with her, and her letting me
18. Wearing every pair of socks that matched my outfit. At once. Usually 2 or 3 scrunched down.
19. First grade field trip to the circus. Kinda scary.
20. Days at Table Rock Lake. Mmmm.

Things W Likes To Say

1. "Minute!" (she gets from me...I feel like I say it a lot...usually preceded with "just a..."
2. Baby Hope- this about 60 times a day
3. "I help" translates: I am doing it, please keep away
4. Book Go? (she's always looking for a Sesame Street book I threw away days ago)
5. "Call Googie"
6. Asking to drink from the "flower cup". This is a tiny cup that she drank from once at the Hogans house from their play kitchen.
7. "Nurse Abby". She does this when I nurse R.
8. "Daddy crackers?" (really Chex cereal). She wants them constantly.
9. "see pictures please Mama?". She knows if she asks so sweetly, I'll let her look through my iPhone photos.

What I Need From Target

1. A's multivitamin
2. Jug of OJ
3. Frozen waffles
4. Mascara
5. Dryer softeners
6. Naked juice
7. Organizer of toys for storage
8. 2010 desk calendar
9. Birthday card
10. House shoes
11. R shoes

My Not So Healthy But So Good Soup

1. Can of potato slices
2. Flour
3. Soymilk
4. Frozen peas
5. White cheddar cheese
6. Salt
7. Pepper

Atari Games I Played In The Day

1. Pitfall
2. Q-Bert
3. Megamania
4. Frogger
5. Pole Position
6. Basketball

InStyle Mag's "On My Mind" Questions

1. Itching to work with: Nutritional yeast
2. Beauty essentials: Aveda Rosemary Mint hair products. Yummy smell!
3. Signature scent: Gucci II when I'm feeling fancy, but I usually smell like Aveda Hand Relief
4. Recent discovery: a red pepper in my fridge that has been there for maybe 8 months
5. Top shops: Anthropologie, Uma, Byrd, Nordstrom
6. Dying to: sell a loft, buy a house
7. Can't wait to: go to Silver Dollar City this spring
8. Craving: Mexican food, sigh, as always...El Maguey, where are you?
9. Biggest splurge: Yikes, after my recent debauchery at City Sprouts, I try to avoid "splurges." I spread it out now.
10. Watching: new Project Runway, Biggest Loser, and 30 Rock
11. Fashion obsessions: get to know me...Splendid cardigans
12. Necessary extravagance: art you love
13. Playing: Words with Friends
14. If I weren't a (stay-at-home mom): I wouldn't mind being one of those people who get degree after degree...a little art history, some psychology, a little espanol...

Weekend To-Do List

1. Move stuff into our new storage unit (so excited!)
2. Make homemade pimento cheese and blueberry scones
3. Whole Foods, Art Mart, and Target trip
4. Clean the bathrooms
5. Update family blog
6. Start a new book

My OLDER Sister's Way Cool Because...

(a second chapter in my cool sisters list)
1. She is completely unaware of how cool she actually is
2. She makes AMAZING food that is all vegan and sometimes super healthy
3. She gets really excited about things (holidays, movies, cheesecakes, etc)
4. She can make ordinary days and events seem special
5. She gives great, sound advice
6. She's an amazing mom and so creative in teaching her kids and doing fun things with them
7. She would disagree, but she's good at balancing her life
8. She loves family
9. She's spontaneous
10. She's a cute little thing...really tiny and a stylish dresser
11. I really look up to her and would love to be more like her
12. We have fun planning trips, and now that I'm done being pregnant, we can go on more!
13. She and Ryan seem younger than they are
14. She's a good blogger- click here. She is a writer. Her blog is proof of everything on this list.

What My Wardrobe Mostly Consists Of

1. Black yoga pants
2. Cardigans
3. What I believe are interesting tanks and shirts to go underneath said cardigans
4. Dark wash jeans
5. Long-sleeved tissue tees
6. Many summer dresses from Anthropologie
7. Pretty flats
8. My Converse All-Stars

What's On My Counter Right Now

1. Teakettle
2. My iPhone
3. Glass of Kool-Aid
4. A gift for Hazel I keep forgetting to mail
5. Our Visa statement
6. Winnie's first non-family birthday party invitation
7. Some Andy mail
8. A very wet (thanks to R) Super Grover
9. My Fresh Express vouchers (I got a faulty bag of caesar salad)

What I Threw Out From The Fridge Today

1. Shriveled red pepper
2. Some pineapple chunks
3. Super stinky romano cheese
4. A baggie of spinach leaves
5. Two tomatoes my sister left here
6. Some cupcakes
7. The end of some delicious lentil dip
8. Empty ketchup bottle

What I Bought Today

1. Cardigan (another Splendid one...oh, so many)
2. Tank top (well, Mom paid for that. And two bowls)
3. W some bear-face house shoes
4. R two pairs of jammies because that's all he wears
5. R a gray hoodie
6. W got some fancy shoes from Googie

Good Stuff This Weekend

1. Sister-in-law is getting married today
2. Hope Reinberg was born!
3. My parents are here helping out wirh the kids
4. Realized I'm back into my old clothes
5. Had a really good cinnamon roll yesterday

What Was In My Hodgepodge Crepe Tonight

1. Brown sugar bananas
2. Blueberries
3. Brandied cherries
4. Lemon curd
5. Blackberries
6. Strawberries
7. Nutella

Christmas Decorations Still Up

1. Big hanging snowflakes from our sprinkler pipe
2. Two big, bare Christmas trees
3. Well, they still have lights
4. Christmas dishtowel still hanging on the drawer handle

Out Of Town Restaurants I Love

1. Satisfaction Pizza in Durham, NC (makes me wish I'd gone to Duke)
2. Loafin' Joes in Fayetteville, AR
3. Oceanic in Wrightsville Beach, NC
4. Mexican Villa in Springfield, MO
5. Quartino in Chicago, IL
6. Oak Street Bistro in Conway, AR
7. Boulevard Bread in Little Rock, AR
8. Rosebud on Rush in Chicago, IL
9. Karyn's Cooked in Chicago, IL

10. Karyn's Green in Chicago, IL

11. Brixx in Wilmington, NC

Tomorrow's Plans

1. R has his 6 month checkup at the pediatrician
2. I am getting my first hair cut after 9 months
3. Going to cook a big pot of beans
4. Playdate in the a.m. at Foam
5. Making a HUGE drop at Goodwill

What I'm Liking In My House Right Now

1. My new couch pillows
2. R crawling everywhere
3. My electric griddle that is huge and can make like a million pancakes at once
4. Christmas decorations are gone...house is back to normal
5. I keep finding little things that my nephew hid all around our house (like the cattle from my nativity)
6. Our space heater
7. I put the 4 things on my kitchen counters (that's it!) in different spots. It looks better.
8. My Fobot that watches me sleeping from my night table.
9. Art my sister got me for Christmas

Songs W Has Me Tired Of

1. People In Your Neighborhood
2. Veggie Dance
3. Walk Like An Egyptian
4. Bert & Ernie's Great Adventure
5. Ghostbuster's Theme
6. Away In A Manger

Resolutions

1. Get back into my old clothes (my stomach virus got me started)
2. More family outings
3. More date nights with my husband
4. Take a yoga class

Who Slept At My House Last Night

1. Me
2. Andy
3. Winnie
4. Rush
5. Puddy
6. Ryan
7. Jenny
8. Finn
9. Rafferty
10. Remi
11. Ghetti
12. Roni