Here's some updated pictures of Kuyper :)

silly, i know, but...

Rules: It's harder than it looks! Copy to your own note, erase my answers, enter yours, and tag 10 people. Use the first letter of your name to answer each of the following questions. They have to be real. . .nothing made up! If the person before you had the same first initial, you must use different answers. You cannot use any word twice and you can't use your name for the boy/girl name question.

1. What is your name? Claire
2. A four-letter word: cold
3. A boy's name: Colin
4. A girl's name: Catherine
5. An occupation: chef
6. A color: crayola
7. Something you wear: clothes
8. A food: cookie
9. Something found in the bathroom: Comet
10. A place: Constantinople
11. A reason for being late: crash
12. Something you shout: crap
13. A movie title: Coraline
14. Something you drink: Coke
15. A musical group: choir
16. An animal: cat
17. A street name: Circle
18. A type of car: Camry
19. A song title: Can you feel the love tonight
20. A verb: create

It says tag ten people, I will tag Kierstin, Heather, and Ashley Crisp.

the laundry is quietly murmuring a sweet song in the distance, and i am thankful for the peaceful break from the day. both boys are temporarily asleep and the sun is begining to go down, causing a big red portrait to glow against the living room wall.
dinner is already planned (grilled salmon on a bed of spinach and mixed greens with fresh louisiana strawberries and goat cheese). at the begining of the month i planned all of february's menus, instead of just a week at a time. tonight's festivities include a trip to snap to run and lift weights, and hopefully, finally getting around to watching fred claus, though a new movie did come in from netflix, so wesley may prefer to watch it instead. today has included suprizing wesley with breakfast, a trip to the grocery store - where i got groceries plus the last of my valentine's day gifts, assorted errands run, and one of several valentine's day cards made. i hear knox asking politely to get out of bed, so i will go and help him to encourage his polite-ness.

"Free" time...?

here i sit on my pretty comfy, but not so attractive sofa, barefoot on my cold hardwood floors typing again. i have wet spots on both of my shoulders because i forgot (again) to get a burp cloth out before burping kuyper, who is currently (and finally) asleep in his little vibrating bouncy chair. knox is in his room sleeping, also. laundry is running, dinner is already cooked, and i know there are a million other things to do, but here i sit. this is the time of day that i never quite know what to do with. i have a tiny window of opportunity that i could use in a thousand different ways, but i never can decide how. i think, 'i could pull out the dusty scrapbooking stuff, but then i'd just get into it and have to put it all up before the boys get up. besides, i need to print off pictures, anyway.' then i think, 'well, i guess i could keep cleaning up, but i'm tired. (though, this suggestion usually wins.)' then i think, 'well, i could take a little nap while they are sleeping, but man, i have a lot of laundry to catch up on...not to mention dishes or dinner or work or ...(etc.)' so, here i sit, on the computer, linguistically contemplating what to do with the rest of my "free" time.

Hello world. I feel like its been a long time since I've blogged, though I know it hasn't been that long. I guess its just been a while since I have blogged regularly.
This week's dinner menu (you can tell how behind I am...making the dinner menu on Wednesday...):
Wednesday: Church night
Thursday: Steak, squash & onions, spinach salad
Friday: Crawfish stuffed chicken breasts, green beans, spinach salad, brownies for dessert
Saturday: homemade whole wheat 4 cheese pizza, spinach salad
Sunday: leftovers/grilled cheese & vegetable beef soup

Kuyper

baby pictures of kuyper are up here.

how was your holiday season?

so, it's naptime here at the strebeck household, which means i have a (very) few minutes to think, catch my breath, and hopefully, do so things around here.  i am (sortof) back from maternity leave, though not completely back at the office (yet?).  I have been working like a mad woman these past few weeks on some pictures.  I have a couple of shoots coming up that i'm excited about.  

how was your christmas holidays? ours was, well, crazy.  honestly, i'm glad its over.  i hate to say that, but its true.  i think next year we'll have people over to our house if they want, and if not, that's ok, too.  we just cannot keep running all over back and forth anymore.  not with so many places to go and not with 2 kids.  anyway, our holiday season included: 3 rounds of the stomach bug for knox, two rounds for wesley, and one round for me; traveling about 1400 miles in about a week and a half (not exaggerating); finding and buying a new car (which is good news, but still crazy); and a newborn.  

so, happy new year.  i'm glad it is.