Category Archives: Little Sprouts

Mama Buzz texted this to me:

“perfect moments and one of my most favorite things to do is cuddle both of my children at the same time 🙂 I love my life! xoxoxoxoxoxo”

Ohhhhhhhhh … I just want to SNUGGLE all of them!

I’ve been having a really tough week here in Disability Land. No energy for bad news and a big need to focus on stuff that makes me smile. I’ll get back on my game when this flare up is over.

Well, Lil Buzz has invented miniature handball. I was chatting on the phone with Mama Buzz, asked what the banging noise was. It seems Lil Buzz’s current favorite thing is to take his balls into a closet and bounce them around. I love it! She sent pics.

Whoa … check out the fixed attention! Those Veggies are magical LOL.

Just catching up on some older emails and found these gems. I never heard of toddler bowling, but what fun it must be to push the ball and make the pins go crashing down!

The news stinks. I need an “Awwwwwwwww” break.

When her Mama was this age, I used to sit by the bassinet and just marvel at her.

I did a hard inventory of my personal short-comings yesterday and decided to move my banking and on-line business chores to the first-thing-in-the-morning top of my daily To Do list. All year, I’ve been leaving it to last, because I hate doing that stuff. Then, I was always too tired to concentrate on anything I find so difficult, so kept giving myself yet another day off.

Net result … a $30 bank charge I wouldn’t have incurred if I’d been paying attention and embarrassment at realizing I still had not replaced a necklace I sold out of my on-line store back in July … not because I didn’t have new pieces to post, but because only the making is fun for me.

The whole business thing … I dunno what happened. Maybe I am a throw back to some other generation, because my dad was a terrific salesman and my mom did all the books for his business. She could add figures in her head when the list was facing the wrong way. Me, I need a calculator, a strong cuppa caffeine and a ruler to slide down the list facing the right way. And even then I need to do it three times and get the same answer all three times before I trust the answer.

Dearest has often said, “Artists need managers.” I’ve used that as an excuse for a long time, but my webmaster is a very talented artist and she has made her little business http://www.katiemadeit.com/ not just work, but also grow. I decided for 2012, I’m going to try to be more like her.

So … I bared my soul (and Lil Buzz’s bum ::giggle::). Anyone else up to committing to a resolution? Having partners to keep you honest is supposed to help you succeed at making changes in your habits. 🙂

Left: “He can’t get them all the way on by himself yet, but he always tries!”

Right: Can you tell Mama Buzz loves frogs?!

I got this photo in an email from a relative. The kicker is my sibling’s grandson, so a something-something nephew.

The original is slightly out of focus and a tad overexposed from the bright sun, but the pose is SO good!

It is SO RARE to get a really good action sports photo, especially when the photographer is just amateur mom with a point-and-shoot camera. But this one is fantastic. So I did some photo-shopping on it.

I also did a gravatar.

This kind of tweaking is very easy for me to do. I’m seriously talking about 10 minutes tops. So say $5 worth. I’m just mentioning it in case you’ve got a photo you really wish was better so you could stick into your Christmas cards.