We just finished all 10 seasons of friends. Now we need a new series to watch.

I don’t know if I’ll ever be ok with skinny jeans. I just remember being in 5th grade dying to get out of them because the cool thing was now flares. Not to mention, I just feel like I can’t pull them off. Body shape wise and coolness factor wise. I prefer bootcut.

I weeded and mulched a bunch of flower beds this weekend, but have a lot more to go. We can get free mulch from our town’s dump and Andy keeps bringing garbage cans of it back each week. We save about $150 each year because of the free mulch…we have a lot of flower beds. But I’m ok with that, I always liked them better than just bushes.

I think I want to grow my hair out again. Short is cute, but somedays you really just want to do a pony tail without 50 bobby pins.

The latest game with Ben is singing “The itsy bitsy spider…is SO big!” He does the little spider motion and then opens up his arms really wide for “Soooo big!”

I’m considering a smart phone again. I keep going back and forth about it, the data plan just kills me. I might wait for a few to drop in price before jumping. Or you might find me again in 6 months still going back and forth and back and forth :)

We haven’t worked on the house in months, I’m starting to get the itch again. Memorial Day weekend Andy is taking a bunch of days off work and his parents are coming down and we’ll attack the next project. I think it’s going to be finishing 1,001 little things we’ve left along the way. (Trim, caulking, making a built in bookshelf, staining doors, adding thresh holds, putting a mirror and shelving up in the bathroom). The bigger project will probably be gutting Colby’s room. Haha, Colby is our cat and right now he gets closed in the 4th bedroom downstairs for breakfast and dinner because Jack tries to eat his food. I suppose if we gut and finish the room, we’ll need a new solution for Colby though.

We’re getting rid of the Stratus this summer, I.cannot.wait. Poor rusty car is falling apart and Andy has to keep fixing things. It’s 13 years old, I paid very little for it and it’s had a good life. We’re looking at the Ford Escape but are open to other smallish SUVs.

The lawnmowers in our garage keep multiplying. Andy brings them home from the dump, either to scrounge for parts, scrap the aluminum or fix up and sell on craigslist. He came home with over $400 from the scrap yard last month (mind you he’d been hoarding metal in the garage for half the year). I keep telling him if we lived in the country and had the room we’d be that family. You know, the ones with all the crap in their yard. Broken down cars, tractors, swingsets, scrap metal, etc :)

I think we might try canoeing with Ben this summer. The thought kind of terrifies me because the boy will not stay in one place for a long time. And I’d hate to be stuck out in the middle of a lake and have him decide he was done with it all. Guess you never know ’til you try.

Speaking of Ben, he also doesn’t hold your hand and walk nicely with you. If I set him down at church or on the sidewalk to try and walk holding his hand, he’s just gone in another direction. Meaning I have to carry him every where we go, he’s getting heavy!

I’ve been making something called a Green Monster Smoothie lately, it’s so yummy:

Ingredients:
Handful of baby spinach (yes weird, but you don’t even taste it)
1 banana, peeled
3/4 cup frozen fruit (pineapple, mango or peach)
1/2 cup orange juice

Directions:
Add all of the ingredients into a blender. Blend until everything is well combined. Serve immediately and enjoy!