Why must children try to cut their own hair????

"I only did three cuts on each side..."
(The HotWheels sized car is there for scale.)

I guess we'll be having a hair cut day today. (sigh)

Bye bye tree

I will miss your piles of leaves for the kids to play in.
I will NOT miss your piles of leaves plugging the gutters.

This picture is when they've just started to take the lower branches off. (Sorry it's blurry. The camera focused on the truck and I didn't notice.)
Now, what to do with the newly available space? Hmmmm. Maybe monkey-girl's apple tree (she started it from a seed), or a raised bed, or some Rhododendrons or some combination. There's actually quite a lot of space without the crazy tree in the way. Oh!!!! I know!!!!! A Secret Garden. Now I have to get the graph paper out and start planning!

(It was planted WAY too close to the house by the previous owner. He probably didn't realize how big it would get. I hated to get it taken down, but it was just so impractical. I couldn't bear the thought of trimming it every year and cleaning the gutters multiple times each year. I was also a bit worried about roots into the foundation - ours and our neighbour's.)

Monday, Monday (bah da, bah da da da)...

Oof. I'm tired.
And it's Monday.
And "Monday, Monday" from The Mamas and the Papas is going through my head. (Just the chorus, really.)

Maybe I'll put the CD on and see if that improves my mood.

Ugggh!

How can your own children make you so crazy?

Halloooooo.....

Yes, I'm still here.

It's been a couple of weeks. I know.

Well, what has happened in the last two weeks?

A friend's child got chicken pox (and I wasn't sure if my kids were going to get it - they haven't).

Monkey-girl's school had their spring fair.

Friends' little guy had a birthday party.

This: (The house settling caused a nail to puncture a copper pipe...who puts a nail where there's a copper pipe????)

Kitten's eye started watering (he's fine now - vet gave him some eye-drops). We think he must have got dust in it (or something) after spending the night in the crawl space under the house.

Monkey-girl got her dance photos taken.

Mother's Day.

And yesterday, TKHubband was rear-ended on his way to work. (He's okay....a bit sore, but okay. We'll find out about the car today.)

So, I haven't been sitting around eating bon-bons all this time, I've been unmotivated to blog because life has been, well, life. I finally decided I'd better get some of this posted or soon it will be a month with no posts. And that wouldn't be good.