Fabulous Miss S.

Grace in Small Things, 31 of 365

1. Walking with Noah and having him reach up for my hand.
2. Watching thunderstorms from the dry comfort of my sofa.
3. Days when Noah takes a three hour nap.
4. Lucking out by taking a nap myself on those days and relishing the afternoon hours of siesta.
5. Sitting at my computer in the evening while the house is quiet finally able to hear myself think.

Housekeeping

Shocker!  I managed to put up new posts yesterday on not just one but all THREE of my sites.  I don't cross post or reference the others sites too often so I wanted to make a brief list of what I'm posting other places and give you a chance to read something else, something new, or ignore them altogether. You know, your choice.

Hilary has a recent review about bronzing powder.

Photo Card Creations sent me some awesome samples of their cards and you can read the review here, as well as get the 15% discount code they are offering all my readers.

Click here for a link to my latest DC Metro Moms posting where I kvetch and whine about living in the dense suburbs of Washington DC with a sidewalk for a front yard and neighbors on either side of me. 

30 Days to Better is exploring the challenges of eating healthy in the month of June.  I've posted food diaries and explanations of weekend chow fests with my family. 

Finally ... here is a picture my brother took while we waited on the ground for people to start falling from the sky. 

photo credit: Corey Ochsman, copywrited and all rights reserved not to be duplicated without permission

Grace in Small Things, 30 of 365

1. Tostitos with Lime
2. The courage to change doctors when you need different kinds of care and convenience. 
3. Good friends to help me with my kid when I have no one else. 
4. Feeling overwhelmed by my love for Noah. Nothing else in life compares to how happy he makes me.
5. Hot humid days that mean summer has arrived. Sooner it starts... sooner it ends. Amen.

Skydive Orange

Irony, no?

We took a little drive to Orange, Virginia this weekend to watch my brother skydive.  It's a recent hobby  pasttime addiction of his to strap a very small parachute to his back and go up in an airplane that the pilot described as a piece of shit and then jump out of said airplane, although, I suppose you could argue that exiting the plane is the smartest part of this activity based on the information above. 

It really is strange watching people fall out of the sky.  I wasn't one of them.

As far as spectator sports go, this isn't a great one.  You sit around a long time.  Then a bunch of people walk over to an airplane.  Sometimes it starts, sometimes it breaks down and you all have to wait for about an hour to try and restart it, then, they make the pilot wear a parachute on the way up, you know, just in case, then a bunch of crazy people pile on and you can hear a plane circling above you for about twenty minutes and then all of the sudden, people start falling to the ground.  Most of them attached to pretty bright colored parachutes.

Corey landing.

Noah had fun, he rode around on Grandpa Bob's shoulders for awhile. And then he played with cups.

All in all, it was a nice day out in the Virginia countryside under blue skies and sunshine. 

Grace in small things, 29 of 365

1. Rainy days that make you SLOW DOWN AND RELAX.

2. Making small baby steps of progress toward weaning Noah.

3. Chicken cooked on a charcoal grill; tastes SO good.

4. As a weather-buff, watching crazy stormy radar images for days on end.

5. Not getting upset/angry/panicky when Gmail refuses to load. Heh.