thoughts

• so i won the mower battle....finally....third day was a charm! maybe it's a little short in a few places because i didn't realize the blade had dropped down, but it's grass, right?! it'll grow back!
• we have been blessed with two days of fabulous sunshine! it's 11:15 pm and the sky is glowing a beautiful purpley-pink (yea i don't know if purpley is word but go i'm going with it). my living room is still lit up enough by the daylight that i'm letting mother nature shed the light. this, my friends, is why i love summer in alaska! the beauty is magical! and when the sun shines, you will do anything to be outside in it.

11:30 pm

• because of the above, my house looks like a cluttered nightmare and my floors....yeah, well don't look at them until it's dark because they're speckled with spots. but we're not sticking to them yet! i did manage to get the potties clean the other morning though! update: so that was yesterday and today was gray and rainy so i'm happy to note the floors are clean, rugs washed, and five loads of laundry are done. ahhh, feels good to say that!
• my lovely raspberry bushes took a beating this winter. don't know what happened but i'm not the only one who didn't get hardly any canes with regrowth! so sad! there's some new growth sprouting up but i'm not going to get anywhere near what i usually do. and i think gabe is going to be the most disappointed because he keeps asking about them on a weekly basis!
• gonna try my hand at a blueberry bush this summer! just gotta get him in the ground. he's been sitting on my driveway soaking up the rain and sun for over a week now. don't really expect any berries this summer but who knows. the boys each blueberries like they're going out of style so anything would be a winner in this house!
• our neighbors across the street moved a few weeks ago to oklahoma. they were the best neighbors a family could ask for. the kind you call when you realize half-way through making lasagna that you don't have enough eggs. the kind that will watch your kiddos in a pinch. or feed your dogs while your on vacation. the really, really great kind. and i miss them! miss the meet in the middle of the street chats. the exchange of recipes. the chatter about what's growing in the garden and what's getting eaten by the moose (if only i was the one with the garden...sigh...next summer). i just miss them. did i say that already?
• i finally broke down nick's high chair into a booster. i was dragging my feet because....your going to think i'm silly....i love to see his little pudgy toes hooked over the edge of the table. it was one of the steps where these is no going back, and it means he's turning into a big boy. i'm in a little bit of denial when it comes to that (if you hadn't noticed). he, on the other hand, is going to love it at breakfast tomorrow morning! pushed up to the table like gabe.....instant smile and squeals!!