Odds and Ends

Just a quick post about the odds and ends of things around here this month.

A tower of trash that Landon texted me a picture of. This is all the stuff he could carry at once up from the basement. He's a true teenager in the sense that he has every cup we own in the basement or his bedroom half of the time. I find plates, bowls, cups, empty soda cans, empty water bottles, gum wrappers, various articles of clothing, etc. in the basement all the time. He brought all that up but when I went downstairs later that day I found two more cups he'd forgotten.

These are the materials Dakota brought to dinner on Friday night. We almost always eat out on Fridays and while both kids are usually happy to work on the activity sheet that the restaurants hand out Dakota has begun to bring a little bag of stuff just in case. She usually brings a pad or stack of paper as well, just in case. I love that she has a "crafting to go" bag!

I'm trying to find the perfect color of gray for Landon's room but it is so hard! As you can see I've got samples galore (thanks to my friend Lisa who is also on a gray kick) and they range from nearly white to really dark. The colors are really hard to see here but as of today I'm leaning towards the color called "online" or "lazy gray". I can't do much until my neck is healed though so I'm in no rush to decide and Landon could care less that I've made a mess of his already disastrous room!

Harper was sitting at the table in the kitchen reading but I asked him to go sit in the living room instead because I needed to put the chairs up to sweep and mop the floor. This is as far as he made it and he probably stood right in that spot a solid 3-4 minutes before eventually making it to the couch. He never did sit on the couch though, just sort of leaned on it while he continued to read. He makes me laugh! I just love that he is such a reader!