This Makes Me Happy

Book 2 from artist Ursus Wehrli, The Art of Clean Up, is due out soon.

i.

can't.

wait.

The organized control freak in me is in love.

i'm not kidding. looking at these images (see more from link below) seriously make me giddy.

Strange?

//see more here// read more from NPR here// other Wehrli books here

Mondays, 'sigh'

Mondays are hard.

The house is trashed.

Chris goes back to work.

Laundry is backlogged.

Today I found a miracle solution.

Have friends over.

When the boys are busy playing, I get my work done. We all stay busy.

We also went to another park today, but we went after lunch and it was just too hot. I think parks are banned to "morning only" for the most part.

It's in Fox Point. If you take Spooner to a dead end, it dead ends into the parking lot of the playground. I found this park when scouting out condos to rent this spring. It's a great park, with two playgrounds and a double drinking fountain (but no bathrooms). It's right next to Indian Creek which has a few bridges (which the boys love) and a gazebo on the playground (which the boys love). There are 2 playgrounds. The larger one being a big wooden structure with different types of things- a wobbly bridge, lots of slides, swinging monkey bars, the gazebo that is accessed from a rope-climbing wall, the wobbly bridge, or ladder. I think the boys like it so much because the gazebo is up in the air and they feel like they are going to a fort. It's really big too. Sorry no pictures. It was a spur of the moment thing. I will try to get pictures of it. And it's not labeled on a map, but you can see it in the following link.

http://www.google.com/mapmaker?ll=43.167844,-87.907703&spn=0.002246,0.004088&t=h&z=18&q=e+spooner+rd+%2B+fox+point&hl=en&gw=30

I started reading this yesterday

and really wished that I had brought it to the park with me. I am only 20 or so pages in, but I am totally hooked. (Thanks, Trudy).

Speaking of books, Chris reads this aloud on Sundays

we all love it. If you love the movie then you will looove the book. I really love snuggling up together listening to Dad read. I am trying to do a lot of "throw-backs" to earlier times. One being reading aloud with the whole family for entertainment. I will do a post on "throw backs" another time. You should try it. This is a great book to start with.

Friday during our pirate-prep I stopped at TJMaxx. The boys found these scooters in the toy section and followed me around the store. When I told them it was time to go, the said, "No, Mom! Keep looking!" I was pretty sure I was going to get kicked out of the store, but everyone else seemed to be as amused by it as I was.

I really hope these cars are not still there the next time I go because obviously they will expect it, and to be honest, it was really rude of me, and they did not yield at intersections or give right of way to pedestrians.