My Kitchen Is A Mess!: March 2011

Sunday, March 20, 2011

SPRING has SPRUNG!

Spring definitly came in like a roaring lion in the night...there was a HUGE BOOM of thunder/lightning so loud that it shook our house and set off our smoke detectors around 5 a.m. this morning! I love storms but WOW!
We had a busy but excellent week. Our celebration of St. Patrick's Day began with a journey to Chicago with our friends (Tom and Cara) for a weekend and ended with a Leprechaun turning all of our food green! Our girls love St. Patrick's Day! They were even lucky enough to have their snack days for preschool during this week...so exciting!
Reese and Rumor reached another milestone in their lives during the month of March. They attended Kindergarten Round Up at both St. John's school and East Elementary. They are so excited to start Kindergarten...and I am excited for them...but a little sad as my babies are no longer babies :( However, they are smart little girls who are more than ready to head on to the next chapter in their lives...even if mom is not!
For the next month, I will be Spring Cleaning and preparing items for an annual garage sale. This year's sale will be even better as it WON'T be at our house! Instead, I will be bringing our items over to my friends home in Waterloo for their neighborhood garage sale. Reese and Rumor have grown a lot taller in the past year so there are a ton of clothes to tag and bag.

Yesterday we broke out the Easter/Spring decorations after cleaning up the house. It makes me smile to take down the snowmen and put up the bunnies! I was feeling a bit ambitious and even cleaned the dog snot off of our front and back doors!

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

THING 1 and THING 2

An impromptu celebration...that would do Seuss proud!

This is what we had today...all day long I didn't know whether I was coming or going...I even forgot that my girls had preschool...and worst of all, I forgot it was Dr. Seuss' birthday...gasp! My favorite children's author...for shame! It wasn't til my own personal Thing 1 and Thing 2 walked out of the preschool with their Cat in the Hat hats that I realized I had missed an opportunity to celebrate.

I thought quickly...what to do...ah, yes! Visit our local library and look for Seuss books. We have many but there seems to be a billion gazillion million of them!!! Boy was that trip worth it! We found a GREEN EGGS AND HAM COOKBOOK! Bazinga! We quickly checked that little gem out and headed over to the local grocer for some goods and an hour later we were feasting on a fantastic meal of GREEN EGGS AND HAM, PINK YINK INK DRINK, CAT AND THE HAT TOPPLED HATS (my own creation) and the GRINCHES SLAW (another personal creation)!

Reese and Rumor set the table with some of their favorite Seuss books and we laughed and giggled and enjoyed the fantastical meal from a mystical land that can only be known as green eggs and ham!