A peek at our random day....

The girls painted pictures for Grandma.....

I thought I would let them do this while I got a few things accomplished in the kitchen.....uh-huh, yeah, right...do they make paint smocks for faces?  

Oh--and it's national clean out your fridge week....

(this project did NOT happen while the painting was going on!)  

If you haven't cleaned out yours yet, what are you waiting for?  

Check those expiration dates, toss those things you can no longer identify, 

make some space, it's quite exhilarating, really....

OK, I need to get a life, but seriously.....

I LOVE a clean fridge!

(Thanks for motivating me to do this by your facebook post Jodi....I needed the idea!)

Another thing I love.....

having healthy snacks right on the kitchen counter, and I love my jars!  

And they're right there accessible for hungry grazers at anytime 

(even for you Uncle J!)

Dates, craisins, mixed nuts, almond slices, goldfish crackers, pretzel sticks, mini rice cakes....yum!

(Our version of your treat baskets Jordan)

And I just threw in this pic because this is my favorite section of my kitchen, mostly because it's the only part that manages to stay somewhat organized most of the time!

Oh--and I made this simple little activity for the girls out of a tissue box, a square piece of flexible foam with an x cut in the middle of it and some duct tape, pink duct tape of course!  It's an exploring box, and took about 5 minutes to make and entertained the girls about an hour.....that's my kind of toy!  (I filled it with various trinkets and fun to feel items...) The girls took the things they pulled out of the box, added a bunch of twisty ties they found somewhere and created some sort of burial ritual for the sing-a-ma-jigs.... I can only wish the sing-a-ma-jigs had actually died, as Kelsie has been using hers to "Wake up Mama" each morning this week......(Thank you Sampa & Meemaw, you're truly a blessing!)

I was able to spend some time in Little Miss Mae's classroom this afternoon...

The teacher was having each child share their writing/drawing for the day.  One of the girls drew a pair of underpants....that just about made Little Miss Mae die laughing!  The teacher attempted to get the class to stop giggling and settle down, which they pretty much did...A few more kids tried to share, but during each presentation the little boy sitting next to Little Miss Mae would whisper "underpants" in her ear, and she would start laughing hysterically again.  Finally, the teacher gave up and sent everyone out to recess....a good call!  Yep, that's my little one, completely interupting the class.  And at recess, she chased all of the girls around and tried to put woodchips in their pants...lovely!  In her notebook today, the teacher wrote, "Not sure we got much learning done today, but we sure had fun anyway!"  

The week ended with the stories from Grandma for the girls....and me blogging, checking Facebook, watching The Social Network, and thinking about my fun coffee date earlier this afternoon with my hubby...yes, I'm doing all of that at the same time, which is probably why this is such a random posting, and RyDaddy is working on taxes and making comments like, have we ever owed taxes before???  Welcome to our random life!  Happy Weekend!