TV Addiction

This is what happens when the Food Network comes on at our house.

I'm glad my kids like watching cooking shows, but this is ridiculous!

My Neurosis

I'm embarrassed to post this, but I have to show you all how crazy I am. I am not a neat freak. I don't have to have everything perfect -- if you've been to my house, you know this is true. But some things have to be exactly right. When I organize, I have to have everything at right angles to each other. I don't crumple up paper (even at fast food places), I fold it into a square. Here's an example of my neurosis. I dumped a bag of tater tots into a pan. It says to put them in a single layer in a pan. My pan was just a little bit to small. Instead of just getting a bigger pan, I did this:

I wish I cared more about what my house looks like and less about what my pan of tater tots looks like.

Valentine's Day

I love Valentine's Day. Every year, Ben sends me flowers. I love hearing the doorbell ring and knowing that it's a box of flowers!!! This year, my box of flowers also had a box of chocolates, lavender bath goodies, and a teddy bear. Two weeks later, my flowers still look like this:

Thanks for always being my Valentine, Ben. I love you more than I can say. xoxo

Snow Day!

I love waking up to snow. It's so pretty! My kids were thrilled. School was canceled so they threw coats and boots over their pajamas and ran outside.

Calvin and Hobbes

I love Calvin and Hobbes. We have books and books of this comic strip and a lot of them are so funny that I actually laugh out loud. I can't read them before I fall asleep or I just lie in bed and laugh. My favorite strip is this one:

And thanks to my amazing brother-in-law, Zach, it's now hanging on my wall. Yes, he drew this. I know, he's the best. Ever. This will probably be the first thing you see when you walk in my house. I know. I'm a lucky woman. Thanks, Zach.

This will be me very soon

Ben and I will celebrate our 10th wedding anniversary in Hawaii this year. Time to start dieting again!

2 of my favorites

I usually forget to take pictures of my favorite flowers before I sell them, but these are some that I made recently. The denim ones are separate, I wore just one of them, but I found the other on the floor and stuck it in my hair too.