Running out of time....

Today, 3 days until I am back to school for good, I finally finished another item off of my summer-to-do list. I got the faded blue doors around our house painted (3 total). Oh, and what an improvement!! My earlier post today showed how Mason was enthralled with what we were doing outside. Well, this was it. The nice thing is it became a family project. My son and hubby helped me. The doors were too heavy for me to lift and my son loved painting along side me!
So, it turned out to be a nice day!

I just LOVE my.......

Baby Mason! He is the best companion, always by your side, no matter what room of the house you are in. He is curious to know what we are doing outside today!





Here is my favorite picture of him........just sitting there as I ramble on to him. I think I see a bit of that "look" my husband gives me when I try to get my full quota of words in..........in one sitting!

Poor guy!




I even looked up some neat facts on women vs. men and language etc.... here:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-419040/Women-talk-times-men-says-study.html

~In fact, women talk almost three times as much as men, with the average woman chalking up 20,000 words in a day - 13,000 more than the average man.

~Women also speak more quickly, devote more brainpower to chit-chat - and actually get a buzz out of hearing their own voices.

~The simple act of talking triggers a flood of brain chemicals which give women a rush similar to that felt by heroin addicts when they get a high. (ewww...that's weird!)

~Women have an eight-lane superhighway for processing emotion, while men have a small country road.

~testosterone also reduces the size of the section of the brain involved in hearing - allowing men to become "deaf" to the most logical of arguments put forward by their wives and girlfriends. (That makes sense now!)

~But what the male brain may lack in conversation and emotion, they more than make up with in their ability to think about sex.

~to put it another way, men have an international airport for dealing with thoughts about sex, "where women have an airfield nearby that lands small and private planes".
Studies have shown that while a man will think about sex every 52 seconds, the subject tends to cross women's minds just once a day.

With that last one.........I wonder how they get anything done in a day with that much thought power going to one subject..and so often!

Well I guess food for thought huh?

Bookin' fun with my son.........

Last Saturday my son and I had a great time scrapbooking. A friend of mine held a fundraiser for JDRF, in honor of her daughter, at a local scrapbooking store. It was a first for both my son and I. It took us awhile to get going, as we were feeling like 'two fishes out of the bowl' at first. With the kind help from several experienced crafters (thank you Diane and Ally), we were able to start our creations.

The first three are my son's creative masterpieces! He was feeling a little outnumbered as he and his cousin were the only males there. I think he did well though! He wanted to make sure they had a masculine flair to them, heaven forbid they would look to "girly".















The rest are the ones I created. Once I started, I did not want to stop. Oh, it is FUN......and sooooo addictive!! Not too bad for my first time out! Main thing is, I had fun and it was well worth the cause!




I was thinking, I might frame this for my father!

Hey that's my spot........

As I left to take my son to tennis practice, I was anticipating crawling back in bed for just a little while longer. But, Mason seemed to have the same idea................ and besides he looked too cute to disturb ;} Well, I ended up staying up and getting some school paperwork and a little housework done.

So, I guess I'll have to thank Mason.....I think!

It does look awful comfy though!