Randoms from the life of able mabel

It's her favorite cereal. It's also the first thing she asks for in the morning, except when her daddy is home. When he's home, she first skips across the room to say good morning to him. (shows how I rate! :)) I love that dimple in her elbow! So sweet!!


The first thing he did this morning was scribble on the magna doodle. His older sister drew those stick figures and now he's scribbling all over them. (Check it out! The stool is actually reflecting on the tile and not a crumb in sight!! Must be a fluke.)

The line-up from last night's work. Got the backs painted this afternoon and one listed. This morning, I started in on three signs getting the edges painted. Hopefully this evening I'll be able to do the lettering...not holding my breath there.

Brewing up a jug of iced tea. The kids love to have

picnics whenever possible. Why they decided to have it on the sidewalk today instead of in the grass is beyond me! I'm sure there will be a lot more of these during summer vacation!!

What happened in your day today?

I thumbed my nose

at my piles of laundry and any housework to be done today, and instead took out my sewing machine. Housework never goes away, so today was "playtime"! I talked about it all last week and today I finally got a chance to do it! Yeah!!




This is what I had to deal with...(I'm not complaining, just sayin'...)

Since it had been a while since I pulled out the machine, I had to deal with the peanut gallery for a few minutes. It didn't take them long before they got bored and went to play. I kept checking on them every so often since they were outside. (Our two year old loves to take off down the street. Not good when you live in a neighborhood.) Here is part of the scene I found on the back patio...

Heeeheee! Sometimes I wonder! She obviously takes after her goofy father! Hat and mitts on (it was over 70 degrees), one shoe on, one shoe off, apron tied around the stroller, her big sister's socks on (each a different color). At least her pants are on this time. She was happy as a clam, so I snuck back inside without a word to continue sewing.


(Holy Cow! My baby is slowly but surely pulling herself across the room. Help! She's way too little!!!)

I was able to get 3 burpies and 3 blankets done. (a red birdie one in the bunch, surprise surprise!) Granted, I wasn't able to sew constantly.

1. Iron the fabric.
2. Help put a shoe on someone.
3. Pin right sides together.
4. Snag ruler out of little hands and put in safe place.
5. Sew right sides together.
6. Check on kids playing outside.
7. Turn right side out and iron.
8. Stop and feed baby.
9. Topstitch blanket.
10. Wipe up water cascading down front of the fridge.
11. Cut threads, iron blanket one last time.
12. Check on kids playing outside.
13. Iron fabric for next blanket

You get the idea. It's what I get for working when the kids are awake. When they're napping, I can get a lot more done. That's life and I love it!

The school kids walked in the door so now it's time to clean up my mess and get supper going. Later!