Wordless Wednesday

10 Things

The goal is to list 10 things that you are thankful for. The first 10 things that you can think of at that moment, plucked straight from the top of your head.

1. Time with my boys

2. Freezer Pops

3. Summer nights under the stars

4. Weekends

5. Splashing in the pool

6. Starbucks

7. Children who slept in until 8:30

8. Praising on Saturdays

9. Mommy talk between friends

10. Goodnight smooches

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesdays Unwrapped

It time for Tuesdays Unwrapped again! Something I discovered over at chatting at the sky.

The goal of this is to tell a story or post a photo documenting your messy, lovely, unexpected gifts of the small and ordinary nature and to unwrap your daily gift :) Beautiful right?

The past few weeks have seemed like a blur to me. Between starting a new job and adjusting to the schedule of a working mom, having Brayden home all day now that kindergarten is over, throwing my brother a massive graduation party, and the sudden death of a family friend, I feel as if life has turned upside down and I'm stuck somewhere in the middle waiting for it to settle.

Through the chaos and the busy days its always a blessing to catch sweet, quiet moments shared between Brayden and Gage. Because when everything is going so fast these moments are easy to miss, and now I'm realizing just how lucky I am to be able to a part of their tiny little lives.

10 Things

The goal is to list 10 things that you are thankful for. The first 10 things that you can think of at that moment, plucked straight from the top of your head.

1. Drive In movie theatre family adventures

2. Having a husband who is an amazing father

3. Two happy and healthy little boys

4. Naps

5. Ice Cream Cakes

6. Backyard fires and marshmellow roasting

7. Good friends who bring good times

8. Sweet Gage smooches

9. Homemade Fathers Day cards

10. Family tennis matches with Brayden

Hey You!

Psssssst!!...

Today is my day to post over at The Mama Dramalogues, and if I don't say so myself, its a good one! So hop on over there and check out todays blog entry :)

Wordless Wednesday

Tagged. My Life in a Survey

Alrighty ... all of you folks out here in blogger land can thank Miss Marisa of Elegant Snobbery for this blog post. She tagged me and now I have to fill out this great big long survey all about me. And seriously, I'm not that interesting.

What is your current obsession?
Real Simple Magazine. I just love it. There is just nothing better than crawling into bed after a long day and reading and planning all kinds of new projects and meals. Oh, and Cheese Its. YUM!

What are you wearing today?
Brown cargo pants and a navy blue tank with white polka dots.

Whats for dinner?
Twizzlers and a Pepsi from the vending machine. I was at work during dinner time.

What would you eat for your last meal?
My momma's homemade spaghetti and meatballs. Shes Italian and makes the best sauce ever! Seriously I'm drooling just thinking about it.

What's the last thing you bought?
This cute tote from Ching's Tote Shop to carry all of my stuffs to and from work everyday.

What are you listening to right now?
Spongebob. woo.

What is your favorite ice-cream flavor?
Good old fashioned vanilla. But I'm quite fond of the apple pie kind from Cold Stone too.

What do you think of the person who tagged you?
I used to love her before she put me through the cruel and unusual torture of taking this long survey!! hehe, just kidding! I love Marisa!!

If you could have a house totally paid for, fully furnished anywhere in the world, where would you like it to be?
Tough call. I'd be greedy and have two. An awesome flat overlooking Central Park in NYC, complete with a fancy doorman and also a cottage in the Welsh countryside overlooking castle ruins. I have to have my mixture of hustle and bustle and simplicity.

If you could go anywhere in the world for the next hour, where would you go?
Curled up in my bed. I allow myself the extravagance of really fancy high thread count sheets and a fancy duvet. At the end of a long and tiresome day I need my little piece of heaven!

Which language do you want to learn?
I know a little bit of French, I'd like to actually learn it completely.

What is your favorite quote?
I have three that I love and could never pick just one. If you read my blog though, I'm sure that you've already seen two of them on the sidebars, so I'll just post the third one :)

"She walks in beauty,
like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes"
- Lord Byron

What is your favorite color?
Yellow. Its understated but cheery, kinda like me.

What is your favorite piece of clothing in your wardrobe?
Probably my short sleeved black cardigan that I got from JC Penney's a little bit ago. It dresses up all of my tank tops and lets me wear them in Spring and Fall as well as summer. Gotta love those classic transitional pieces!

What is your dream job?
Mattress Tester. Seriously.

If you could invent any useful invention, what would it be?
Weight loss pills that actually work and allow me to not have to exercise at all and eat whatever goodies I want. Liposuction in a bottle baby!

If you had $100 now, what would you spend it on?
Oh man! Either a shirt from Lirola or a wrap from moocow.


Describe your personal style?
Comfy and relaxed but feminine. I run around after two rambunctious boys all day long, I don't do short skirts and stilettos.

What is your favorite TV show?
I don't watch TV really except for cartoons. Probably old Roseanne reruns on TV Land or Good Eats on the Food Network.

What are you going to do after this?
Bury my nose into a book. The kiddos are in bed, the husband is working late and I'm going to relish in a bit of quiet time and wind down from a long day

What are your favorite movies?
Love Actually (I have a huge crush on both Alan Rickman and Colin Firth, what can I say), What Dreams May Come and Almost Famous

What's your favorite fruit?
Oranges. Love em!

If you could swap lives with someone famous, who would it be?
Whatever chick is banging Robert Pattinson at the moment.

Your favorite books?
The Bell Jar, Eat Pray Love, Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, and A Mighty Heart

Are you a home body or do you prefer to be out?
I'm a total homebody. I don't really do people, thus why I love the Internet. And unless its really important I'm not dragging a 6 year old and a screaming 2 year old out of the house.

Polka Dots or checks?
Seeing as I'm wearing a polka dot shirt today, I'll go with that

Favorite candy?
Toss up between Bottlecaps, Sour Patch Kids, and Cherry Laffy Taffy.

Do you collect something?
Vintage tea cups. I could care less if they are actually worth anything or not, I just think they're pretty and sophisticated.

Wooooo! I'm all done! If you have finished reading this and you feel so compelled hop on over to Marisa's Blog by clicking here and print out the fun little certificate of completion that she created for you. Just cross out Marisa Hopkins and write in Amanda Gindlesperger. :)

And now to be horrid and mean and torture someone else by tagging them as well
Eh, who and I kidding, I'm not going to tag anyone. I'm being rebellious here, so feel free to fill out the survey if you want to and consider yourself tagged :)

A Little Ramble

Something is going to have to fall by the wayside. I can feel it.

This new schedule is going to take awhile to adjust to. I want to try and maintain my blog and my etsy shop while I'm working now, but there is still the matter of mothering two rambunctious little boys and keeping up with the house. Things are sure to start slipping through the cracks. But I'm keeping positive. If I can't make things to update my shop as often or find the time to blog as often, well then its sure to be more special when I do have some spare time to devote to my interests.

Somehow, in the midst of all of the hustle and bustle that my life has recently taken a dive towards I found the time to reupholster my dining room chairs with the sweetest Heather Bailey fabric ever. I painted the walls in the kitchen nook (this room is in no way big enough to actually be called a for real dining room) a faint light blue. I needed a room in the house with a girly touch, even if it is a small one. Living with three boys makes you crave that sort of stuff from time to time. Anyways, just a small update today. I hope all is wonderful with all of you out here in blog land :) Happy Monday.

Hi Ho, Hi Ho, It's off to work I go...
xoxo

10 Things

The goal is to list 10 things that you are thankful for. The first 10 things that you can think of at that moment, plucked straight from the top of your head.

1. Summertime little league baseball games
2. Big "hello I missed you" hugs from Gage after a day at work
3. Ice cream cones
4. Napping beside a window with a cool breeze coming through
5. Good books
6. Having Faith
7. Good times with good friends
8. The Pens winning the Stanley Cup!!!
9. Backyard tennis matches with Brayden
10. Little brothers who have turned into young men

One Busy Bee

I promise you all that I haven't fallen off of a cliff or disappeared or any of that stuff. I'm still here in bloggy land, I promise!! The past few days have been a total whirlwind.

Thursday my baby boy, Brayden, graduated from Kindergarten, complete with a school program full of songs, a paper graduation crown, and a diploma.... oh, and a sobbing momma in the audience who just had the extreme realization that her tiny little first born baby is no longer a tiny little baby buy a growing child who is learning and is growing more and more independent.
The very next day my 17 year old brother, Ron, graduated from High School and I got the do that same realization all over again only in the role of the big sister rather than the mom. And on Saturday Mike and I hosted a very very large graduation party at my house with tons and tons of friends and family (who left my yard in complete disarray I might add!) So yeah ... I spent Saturday playing hostess and Sunday cleaning, washing, scrubbing, and so on.

And then there is today. *Sigh* Today I started my new job at the American Red Cross. The job itself, well today at least, wasn't bad at all and wasn't the pure hell I was expecting. But I've been a stay at home momma for three years now, so I'm sure I worked myself up just a bit too much. But I've got to say that I'm entirely heartbroken over the fact that today was the longest time that I can remember that I've been away from my kids. It's an adjustment, that's for certain. I'm quite positive that I'll do that whole roller coaster of emotions thing as well.

But hopefully as things become a bit more regular around here and we all adjust to our new schedules of mommy working and no school for the summer I'll be able to blog a bit more regularly and possibly update the etsy shop as well.

Oh, and there are pictures from the last few days on the memory card in my camera, but that camera is in the other room and quite frankly I'm way too exhausted to even bother with getting up to get it, so please, enjoy this totally random photo instead :)

xoxo

Mama Dramalogues

Hello bloggy friends :)
Just wanted to give you out there a heads up as to what I'm doing in addition to this blog.

Check out The Mama Dramalogues, a totally fabulous and totally mama-riffic blog set up by the amazing Marisa of Elegant Snobbery.

(And Psssst today is my turn to blog ... so go and read it!!)

Click on the icon to go there, you know you wanna!

Wordless Wednesday

Tuesdays Unwrapped

It time for Tuesdays Unwrapped again! Something I discovered over at chatting at the sky.

The goal of this is to tell a story or post a photo documenting your messy, lovely, unexpected gifts of the small and ordinary nature and to unwrap your daily gift :) Beautiful right?

I'm a city girl. I've always been a city girl. Somehow, however, I got stuck in suburbia.

I grew up in Virginia Beach, literally right on the ocean. Even though that was forever ago not a day goes by where I don't miss it, all of it. I don't just mean burying my toes in the sand and splashing in the waves, but also the hustle and bustle of the city around where I lived.

Where we live now there is literally not a whole lot here. A Wal-Mart, that's really about it. And I loathe anything and everything having to do Wal-Mart.

But living in suburbia does have its perks. Its a safe and an amazing place to raise children for one, which is probably Mike and Is biggest selling point on staying here. Both of our families live within miles of us, which is always pretty fabulous when Mom and Dad need an evening to themselves and there's a grandparent nearby ready and willing to spoil the heck out of the boys for a few hours. And there is always free entertainment. Snowman building in the winter, leaf pile jumping in the fall, and in the Spring and Summer when the sun is shining there are so many wooded trails and paths to follow that will lead you straight into the beauty of nature.

My husband agreed to look after his Great Uncles house while his family was on their vacation, grab the mail, check the dehumidifiers, you know the basics. Mike's great uncle lives on 9 or so acres of gorgeous rustic land filled with fields, ponds, wild flowers, trees, you name it. While taking a drive on the property the other day I thought that I spotted two little ears poking up from the tall grass in one of the fields. Mike, of course told me that I was crazy and seeing things, which of course ignited the "Oh yeah, I'll show you!" flame inside of me. And so we went into the field to check it out.

To our surprise a tiny, baby fawn was laying in the grass. We (well, I) "oooh"ed and "ahhh"ed for a minute or two and then snapped a quick picture before leaving for its mother to come back, who was probably scared off by Mike and I.

As much as I miss it, I'm not so sure if city life is all I made it out to be anymore. Sometimes you just have to open you eyes wide enough to see the beauty of where you are right here and now. And anyways, the only place other than the country that I know of where you can get that up close and personal with a living animal is the zoo and maybe Petco, neither of which have such sweet baby deer.