Our Crazy Boys

Lesson Learned.

Aug 022010

This is going to be a short and sweet lesson.

Because my fingers hurt.

Lesson:

When attempting to be all fancy and make homemade green chili enchilada sauce,

do take lots of pictures to show off your chili and tomatillo roasting skillzzz:

but don’t attempt to de-seed the chilies without wearing gloves. Because even if you don’t think they’re hot, you might be unpleasantly surprised:

You will soon have to put your camera down and grab a bowl full of milk to soak your poor little fingers in:

And your 10 year old might laugh at you while taking your picture.

And p.s. The milk? Doesn’t help.

I’m dying to share some pictures of what I have been doing for the last 2 weeks!

Most of these are cell phone pictures, so bare with me…

Steve is visibly absent in these pictures because he has been spending a lot of time behind the closed door on the right.

Not to be mistaken for the open one on the left. That’s the bathroom.

He has officially started his Master’s program and is there every night and weekend. It’s just like he’s traveling for work, but he’s not. I guess it’s better to be behind the door because I can still scream and ask him to come kill bugs for me :)

I have been watching Jack make new friends and spend time with “old” ones… (I love the thumbs in the pockets look).

I have been spending a lot of time in my new classroom planning for the amazing kids that I have this year…

Michael has been coming to have lunch and play games with me on the days that I work.

We spent last weekend watching a friend take the Lindy’s Challenge…

and drooling over the mac and cheese burger (though I didn’t try it):

We waited (very patiently) for the monsoons to roll in… and they finally did!

We have spent a lot of time talking about how to deal with Jack’s hoarding…

This picture was taken today while we were rearranging his room.

I went to move his dresser and he said, “Well, Mom… there is some stuff under there… “

I don’t think I shared it with you, but about a month ago, we found this stash under Jack’s train table:

The funny thing is, these are items I had asked Jack to throw away at one time or another.

Anyone have any ideas about how to nip this in the bud? Because apparently, whatever I’m doing is not working.

Anyway… where was I?

Michael fell off of his scooter and banged up his hip and arm pretty good…

We had a few chances to see real Arizona cowboys in action:

Oh, and we tried to rescue a lizard from our pool, though it didn’t work :(

Tell me… what have you been doing lately?

{Ahem}

Hello?

Are you there?

{chirp… chirp…}

No one?

Ok. I’ll be back tomorrow.

Tell all of your friends, and don’t forget to come back!

The first day of school brought new backpacks,

new sneakers,

new friends,

new hopes,

and new experiences.

Michael proclaimed that his 5th grade teacher is the “best teacher ever!… well, she’s tied with last year’s teacher.”

and Jack’s first (and second) day of kindergarten began with some tears, but ended on a great note.

Here’s to a wonderful, memory filled year for us all!

Due to the start of school and work for the year, I am taking a mini-blog vacation. I’m thinking 2 weeks will be enough time to get our routines started and relax a bit.

See you all soon!

I shamelessly borrowed my photo idea from Darcie, who took adorable first day photos of her little ones last year.