Hand-Me-Downtown

The Gigi took the boys today for her weekly Friday Relief Day. It's all in the title. If you are a stay-at-home-mom, you know as well as I do that by Friday (that is if your hubby has a standard Mon-Fri job), you are getting a bit agitated with the kids, the kids are a bit tired of you...so this Friday Relief stuff works.
Honey stayed home with me. We napped. We ate. It was pleasant.

I really wanted to catch Honey in this outfit as it has been worn by both her cousins, Estella and Taylor. I get all nostalgic with hand-me-downs...something about knowing who was in them and that they were at one point this small:

Daddy Mock, yet again, made a comment about an outfit (this will be interesting, having a girl and a Daddy who pays attention to such things!)... he walked in from work, looked at his daughter and exclaimed, "look at my little doily!".

Hmmn. It brought back memories, you see, not great ones, I should add. When he found out that my wedding dress was all lace, he said, "oh, you'll look just like a doily!"...nothing a woman wants to be associated with on her wedding day.

Round.

Paper.

Cheap.

Like I said, nothing one would want to be associated with.

Are you getting sick of seeing photos of little Honey G yet? My apologies. I just can't help it!

Ball and Chain Crane

Since we were stuck inside all day, there was a lot of room for creative development...is this easily identified?

Well, it's a small pink ball crane, of course!

Kid drew one specifically for his baby sister:

Speaking of, thank you for all of your feedback on keeping Honey safe!

I have never heard of breast milk up the nasal passages, but naturally, it makes sense, being that I use it for everything else...maybe I can squirt some in the boys' noses? Hmmn, must try! Garlic and Raw Honey? I tried it this evening, covering the garlic with the raw honey...their response: (Kid: "Well, I love honey, but I do NOT like those white things in there" Bee: "YUCK"). Thanks, Rachel...I will do it and at least one of us will benefit!

Also, I was so happy that Cindy responded... she is a wealth of information in the health department (and other departments, I might add!)...she actually just started a blog that is extremely educating and beneficial. I've mentioned The Maker's Diet before and how our family aspires to live along the premise of this book...well, Cindy's family does very much the same and more. She focuses specifically on "gut health", which is all based on the intestines and keeping the bacteria healthy "down there"... gut health has to do with 80% of your immunity, so as you know, it's very very important to take care of your digestive system--immunity doesn't just mean fighting against the common cold and flu...it means fighting against cancers and other deadly diseases, something we all should be thinking about!

Excuse me while I go back to the exhausting task of taking care of sick children...talk about ball and chain...I feel trapped and stuck...it's been quite a while since I've had sick kids and it's always a brush of reality when it happens.

We sure do take health for granted, don't we?