Wordless Wednesday: New Favorite Book

Mommy and Me Tea Party

Mia's daycare had a tea party this morning for all of the moms and kids to celebrate Mother's Day.  It was fun.  They had pretty flowers, apple juice, tea, muffins, etc.  I love that the ladies at the daycare do their best to make every important day and holiday special.  No wonder that some days Mia isn't ready to go home when I get there!  Then, Wesley and Mia let me choose where to go for my Mother's Day dinner.  I chose one of my faves: Gloria's!  This was our first time to go to their new location in the Bishop Arts district.  It was gorgeous inside, and the food was amazing as usual!

On the Road Again

For the second weekend in a row, we went on a road trip to Oklahoma.  This time we went to visit Nana and Keith.  They were having a house warming party, so we went up to visit and meet some of their friends.  Mia had fun playing with Keith's grandsons who introduced her to Finding Nemo.  She asked to watch it several times on the way home but kept changing her mind and wanted to watch Tangled.  She calls that movie "Perunzal"(Rapunzel).  I think we may be starting a princess phase because she also kept requesting "Cindawella" as well as "Tinkabell".  I don't know how many times she's watched "Perunzal" this week.  She really pays attention to it, too.  When Rapunzel hit Flynn on the head with the frying pan, Mia stood up from her purple Tinkerbell chair and said, "No Perunzal! You be nice! We don't hit our friends!"  Haha!  Princess Mia only wants to wear dresses and skirts now.  I asked her the other day if she was a girly girl.  She replied (very seriously), "Yeah, Momma.  I cute!"  Ooookay!  I think I'm in trouble.  Hehe!  We had a nice visit with Nana and Keith.  They threw a great party!

Helping Nana with food prep

 Sitting at a dining table originally owned by her Great-great grandma Martin

She picked up this glass right about the time I took the picture.  Geez!  If she'd dropped it, I would've had a heart attack!

Wordless Wednesday: Having a Look Outside

Friend Makin' Mondays: Are You a Bookworm?

Time for another Friend Makin' Monday with Kenz from All the Weigh.  I love these little surveys.

It's time for Friend Makin' Mondays!  If you've taken part in FMM then you know the rules. If you're new, please take a moment to answer this week's question on your own blog then add your link in the comments section of this post so we can all see your FMM questions and answers.  Now it's time for this week's topic!

Friend Makin' Mondays: Are You A Bookworm?

1) How often do you read?  I'm almost always reading something...

2) What's the last book you read and loved? The last book I read was Sarah's Key by Tatiana de Rosnay.  I was completely in love with this book.  It's about the huge round-up and deportation of Jews in Paris during WWII.  The events were horrible, but the insight and emotion of the story was breath-taking.

3) What book(s) are you currently reading?  I am almost finished reading The Heretic Queen by Michelle Moran.  I read another of her books, Nefertiti, a couple of years ago.  I loved it, so when I saw this one at the store, I grabbed it.  It's a (fictional) story about Nefertiti's niece, Nefertari.  I am fascinated with Egyptian history.  It was such a unique culture.  I've just devoured this book and will finish it soon.

4) Share a few of your favorite authors.  Oh wow, where to start?  You know what, the list is ridiculously long.  It's best not to make you read that many names.

5) What's next on your list of must-reads?  My reading list is soooo long.  I can't wait to read Two Kisses for Maddy by Matt Logelin.  It just came out last month.  His wife died just after childbirth from a pulmonary embolism.  When I first started reading his blog, he was talking about this crazy idea of writing a book.  I've been a faithful blog reader of his throughout the writing of the book (much of that was done in India) and beyond.  His daughter is so beautiful and sweet.  It's wonderful that he has been brave enough to share his life with others.

 

Other books I want to read include Devil at My Heels by Louis Zamporini, Escape from Davao by John Lukacs, The Help by Kathryn Stockett, A Secret Kept by Tatiana de Rosnay,...the list goes on and on and on.  So, yeah.  I would say that I'm a bookworm.

Princess Amelia

Today's royal wedding of Britain's Prince William and Kate Middleton has been a hot topic.  It's been plastered all over the television, radio, and internet.  I read some about it online, but it's hard to get too excited about people I don't know.  My favorite pictures were the ones of all of the hats that guests wore to the wedding.  Some of them defied gravity.  Those women must have worn dozens of bobby pins to keep those hats from falling off their heads.  What do I know?  I'm just a simple girl who grew up on a farm.  It's interesting, though, to take a glimpse into the life of the royal family.

Mia and I were playing around in the front yard earlier.  I was trying to take her picture with her tiara as a shout out to today's events in London.  However, she thought it was much more entertaining to put the tiara on my head and take my picture.  She took pictures of the grass, her finger in front of the lens, etc.  One picture she took though was really good.  She took it completely by herself, so I was really surprised.

Finally got her picture when she sat down with a cupcake.  It's not a 1936 Cartier tiara like Kate wore, but my little Mia makes quite the pretty princess.

This is the picture that Mia took of me all by herself.  She said, "Say cheese, Mommy!"  You can't really see it, but she had put her tiara on my head.

 

Rain, Plastic Eggs, and Lots of Smiles!!!

Mia and I went to Heavener for Easter weekend.  Wesley couldn't go, unfortunately, because he had to work on Saturday.  I let Mia have her Easter basket last Sunday since I knew we wouldn't be here.  It was hard to get a picture of her with the basket because the little stinker kept getting candy out of it.  She would hand it me and say, "I want this one please!"  That girl loves her candy.  The weekend didn't start off too great.  On Friday morning, I had car "issues", so I wasn't able to leave work at noon as planned.  I didn't pick Mia up until 4:00pm.  Getting out of Dallas takes awhile at that time of day.  We spent much of the drive ahead of one storm and behind another.  It was all worth it when we got there, though.  Mia got to spend all weekend playing with Zoey.  Zoey is sitting up really well now.  She likes to make funny sounds and bob her head back and forth when you sing to her.  Z gets prettier every time I see her.  Mia isn't as jealous of her as she used to be.  For some reason, she only got a little jealous about diaper changes.  Poor Mimi had to change Zoey's diapers as well as several of Mia's.  Mia didn't want me to do it.  She kept saying, "Mimi's turn!"  I must admit that I didn't mind not changing a couple of dirty diapers!  We had our family get-together at my dad's on Saturday.  I'm happy as a clam when I'm surrounded by my family.  I just wish Wesley could have been there.  Mia was the littlest "egg hunter", so there were a lot of eggs in plain sight for her to find.  She kept saying, "Right there! Another one!"  There were a few dyed, hard-boiled eggs.  Dad's black lab, Mattie, found one and started chowing down, blue shell and all.  Gross.  Hehe!  One of the eggs Mia found was nestled in a small cluster of poison ivy.  Unfortunately, she had already picked it up before someone pointed it out to me.  I scrubbed her hands good with lots of soap, and we never saw any sign of it later (thank goodness).  Mia kept hunting eggs, but she wanted to open each plastic one as she found it to look for candy.  She ate entirely too much candy this weekend, but I guess she needs to let loose sometimes!

Mia last Sunday with her goodies from the Easter bunny

  Now, pictures from this weekend.
Zoey trying on the bunny ears

Mia is on the hunt for sugary treasure!

A couple of local residents came walking by the yard while we were out there.  They seemed surprised to see a bunch of humans picking up colored eggs.  

 This one's got candy - jackpot!

Two of my favorite ladies - my grandmothers!

 Miss Z and her mommy

 Checking out the loot

 Shayna practiced her driving with my dad while Camryn and Kaylee enjoyed the ride!