A hot shipment

So I finally ordered some of my designs in notecards and notepads. Some of them came in today to the tune of $300. Thankfully I have a very understanding Hubby. I don't think he even flinched, I did. I expected it to be less than that. But if they all sell I will be very happy. We will see I guess. I am spending most of my day tomorrow putting together my sample book of stationary to also put out for people to browse. The store I am putting them in right now charges a 40% consignment rate. EEP! Hopefully I will also list some in my etsy shop, when I have a free moment. Let us hope that people like what they see. I will try to post some pictures soon. If this doesn't fly, I guess I will just be content as a stay-at-home mom.

Once, twice, three times a lady

I get a weekly email that highlights things that are/should go on in the Peanut's life. Something they nailed this week is her fascination with keys and cell phones. Their suggestion was to get her her own so that is what I set out to do yesterday. We already have an old cell phone that the Hubby disabled the #9. That way she can't accidently call 911. DId you know you could do that with a cell phone that is not connected to a service? She loved it! I think the Peanut has been carrying it around as her favorite "new" toy. Then we headed out to the store yesterday to find keys. I would use some old keys but she likes to rub her gums with them and that is just nasty. Fortunately Target had some key sets that are pretty realistic. Of course she loved them. Finally I decided that she needed a purse to carry her treasures so we headed to the Dollar Tree. We found a brown one with gold polka dots. I don't know what it is about polka dots, I just love them! They also had a set of small sunglasses. She is really funny about these, she gets the biggest smile but then takes them right off. I don't expect them to last very long but they were only a dollar. I have gotten a few very cute pictures. So she loves her purse, she loves her babies, and she loves shoes. How much more girly could she be? We are so proud!

Yummy Yucky by Leslie Patricelli

Just last night I bought a new book for the Peanut that is the funniest kid's book I have ever read. We already owned BIG/LITTLE and love it. The Peanut has a favorite page that says, "Parents are big, babies are little." I think that the Peanut thinks that the parents look like me and Hubby. A sample of what is in YUMMY/YUCKY: "Burgers are yummy, boogers are yucky." I'll say! The art in these books are truly cute and funny. I don't get tired of them like I have of some other books that we have read over and over and over and over.... Leslie Patricelli, you are a genius!

When the octopus attacks

Today I thought I might go to the grocery store with the Peanut. We are cooking out for the 4th and my mom's birthday and we needed some food. What a terribly heinous idea! The Peanut has magically morphed into an octopus. She doesn't want to sit in the cart, she wants to lick everything in sight. It is not fun to wrestle with your kid all over the grocery store while getting sidelong glances from the other shoppers. She screams and wriggles and tries to stand up. I was so ready to be done when I noticed her bottom seemed wet. Of course her diaper had leaked. I wish I could have just rushed out to the car but I had a cart full of food. What do you do then? Plus the butcher came out and it was someone I knew from high school who I haven't seen in a long time. He was extra friendly and chatty and I just kept thinking, "Leaky diaper, leaky diaper!" I got outside and was able to clean things up before heading home. Thankfully after a quick snack, the Peanut/Octopus was ready to nap. I think I need one too, now!

When being on a schedule is a bad thing

Tonight some friends asked us to meet them at Shealys for dinner. Normally this is a very good thing because we all love Shealys. They are celebrating 40 years of delicious yummyness and had a special price on the buffet all month. Tonight was the last night. As you can imagine it was a mad house! We all got there at 7pm to the longest line I have ever seen. I fed the Peanut before we left so she was ok, but after standing in line for an hour she was pretty restless. By then it was getting close to her bedtime. She wasn't hungry so she was minimally interested in eating. To add to her cranky pants, there was limited seating space so we were crammed into a small area. I was so ready to go home before I could even finish my dinner. Hubby warned me about this. The Peanut has been acting up more any time we have gone out to eat. Add to that tiredness and an overstimulating environment and we were lucky she didn't have a total meltdown. We left a little past 8:40 and as expected she was out in the car seat pretty quick. It is a disaster when we do anything too far out of her schedule. Welcome to the dark side of scheduling!

A short trip up the hill

This weekend Hubby, Peanut and I headed up to Asheville to see a dear friend of mine. She is getting married in October and I was hand-delivering her invitations do I could meet this fellow. It is a fairly easy trip from here to there, about 3 hours. That is long enough for the Peanut to nap and then decide she is ready to get out. She really wasn't too bad in the car. Once there we stopped for lunch at Cheddars, a chain that is pretty good and not expensive. We headed to the house to hang out for a while. It was unusually hot! After a bit of roasting because there wasn't any air conditioning in the house, we decided to take a quick trip downtown to go to the Mast General Store. I love Asheville downtown. There must be a billion cool little stores with neat things. This evening there was a gay marriage parade and festival. I didn't care for that too much but Asheville is kind of known as the southern gay capital. We went back to the house and visited a bit after that. We headed home the next day after church and lunch. We ate at a local place that my friend likes and it was pretty good. We had pizza, she and the fellow had calzones. On the way home we stopped at Bloomfield's, I think I blogged about it last September. It is a cool little store on the interstate. I bought my mom's birthday present there. Her birthday is this Saturday.
Anyhoo, we had a pleasant trip but it was nice to get home. This trip the Peanut was mighty restless about not following her schedule and not being at home. I hope this isn't an indication of how she will be when we go to the beach.

Oh my curly hair

A week or so ago my mom and dad headed out on their yearly summer trip and asked me to water their plants while I was gone. This is not the easiest task, since they live about 30 minutes away and the water has to stay on for two hours. When they got back they gave me with a gift card for a pedicure or something like that at our local cosmetology school as a thank-you. I really debated on the pedi but thought maybe, just maybe I would try a perm one more time. It is risky to do that at the cosmo school because you make get the person who doesn't know what they are doing. Fortunately for me I got the girl who knows exactly what she is doing. YAY! So now I have very curly, no-fuss hair. It needs to calm down a bit but it will in about a week. And after my gc of $20 it only cost me $10 plus tip. Very reasonable!
Then today I went for my yearly check-up with my pulmonary specialsit. I love him, I wish he could be my normal doctor. But alas no. He said that to avoid possible flair-ups of my asthma-like situation I should avoid overly odorous adventures. So it seems that I should probably avoid perms in the future. But I like my curly hair! I like to breathe easy more so.