This week and coffee induced ramblings

This week has consisted of lots of little sleep nights,

lots of early mornings,

and lots and lots of coffee to try and stay awake

and pleasant (;

Although I should note that the heatwave

ended Friday morning and the weekend was such a delightful beginning of fall!

Bring out the sweaters and pumpkin soup!

 I got a wicked blister on Friday 

from wearing boots that I forgot I hadn't completely broken in last year,

So we kept pretty close to home all weekend.

(seriously! I was limping the whole weekend and there was slight concern of infection.

And I wore socks! Promise! I was not an idiot this time)

but it was wonderful all the same (:

Husband kept tsking over me with concern and we got lots and lots done

in lieu of fall cleaning at home.

This week and the not sleeping much has just done me in,

although in thinking about it its really just the not sleeping much.

This week standing on its own has been delightful.

Yesterday I texted Husband and invited him to go to the zoo

with my boys and I after school.

When I told the boys Josh was coming to the zoo with us

you would have thought I had told them we were going to 

Disney land. Squeals and fist pumps and "oh yeah!" all around (:

those boys LOVE Josh.

It was one of my favorite afternoons.

We had SUCH fun 

and had so many little adventures.

Playing tag with Otters, high fiving Beavers (No really! It was the coolest thing!)

climbing through a massive maze jungle gym, and singing 

Taylor Swift's "I Knew You Were Trouble" at the top of our lungs.

I am so grateful for the honor of getting to love 

and take care of these little boys

and so humbled when Josh comes along side

and loves them too.

We are so blessed.

And with that sappiness....

I hope you have a wonderful weekend

filled with long naps 

and autumn picnics!

We're hoping for sleep without nightmares

(please. please. please)

and to go record hunting (:

xoxo,

lyss

Just give me a moment....

Tonight a guy at Trader Joe's asked me how I was

(are they instructed to do that? is it in the "working at Trader Joe's manual"

or something? because they ALWAYS ask)

and I thought about it a moment and then said

"I'm tired" 

he looked up at me, laughed, thanked me for my honesty and then when I asked how 

he was doing, he responded with the same.

And then all of the sudden we were friends (:

But truly,

we are a very tired worn out pair over here lately.

I guess there's a lot of little reasons 

(heatwave, not sleeping because of said heatwave, 

stress from school, little stresses, etc)

but as a whole its just been a stressful tiring week.

So tonight we'll set the timer for an hour,

grab a root beer, put on Nat King Cole's "That's All",

sigh about stupid heatwaves and allergies,

and then when the timer goes off,

we'll get back to work.

Because sometimes we just need a moment

from the craze in order to keep going.

Just keep going and going and going (;

xoxo,

lyss

That One Time We Went On a Impromptu Labor Day Roadtrip And Forgot To Charge The Camera....

 hence the weird mix of phone and dslr pics (:

We are so enjoying this season of independence and being

able to do crazy impromptu trips like this one.

As we were talking about random things Saturday night

we realized we had 2 days off and hadn't seen one of our good friends

(he helped us move here in the middle of winter, 

so actually he's a really REALLY good friend ;))

in almost 3 years, so hey lets take this time off and go to Louisville and see him!

We had such fun (:

It was so delightful and encouraging to catch up 

and find that we were learning/going through some of 

the exact same things, just different circumstances.

To laugh about old stories (some of them new to me)

and make some new funny memories,

like losing Blake's car in the middle of downtown and

spending an hour in the sweltering heat searching for it.

It wasn't so funny in the moment (we all had blisters and were quite sweaty :P),

but in the evening we were crying we were laughing so hard about it.

 We ate so much yummy food too!

Some of the best chinese we've ever had,

sushi, fudge (the boys said it was AMAZING),

and we ate at one of those grilled cheese and soup places popping up everywhere. 

Their vegan cheese was reeeeally good!

And of course we had some local coffee (:

It makes me sad that the camera was dead,

because Louisville is just beautiful

and I would have enjoyed capturing more of it

for memories sake.

Especially the bridge they transformed into a walkway from

Kentucky to Ohio.

Have you heard about it? Its so cool! 

We walked on it in the evening after eating

and it was just breathtaking.

I took some pics on my phone but you'll have

to squint really hard to see much of anything...

I kinda of want to go back just to 

go on it again.

I am so grateful for old friends

and roadtrips (:

xoxo,

lyss

P.S. pics of the bridge

Thinking About...

~Its the end of summer beginning of fall but you wouldn't know

it looking at our yard. Everything is so green and new flowers popping

up every day. Um hey pretty flowers, where were you in spring?

~Oops to not blogging for a week....

I always forget the adjustment period to Josh being back in school 

and needing the computer back, because school trumps blogging.

~ little boys poop a lot.

~Its fall cleaning time,

but didn't I just spring clean like last week?

~Hello September! 

~I think our email acccount is losing emails...

~I could listen to Nat King Cole all day

~I'm waiting till the first cool day to watch

"You've Got Mail".

Its my favorite fall movie, last year I watched it 11 times.

I have no shame...

or self control apparently.

~I need to write more handwritten letters.

~Maybe I should work on responding in a timely manner

to phone calls, texts, and emails first.

Small steps, small steps.

~Nickel Creek has been playing constantly in our home.

It will keep playing (along with the civil wars and allison krauss)

until Christmas music takes its place

~We got measured the other day,

we're both really short.

~We also got x-rayed the other day

and our xrays were remarkably similar.

I guess this whole pursuit of unity

thing is really working.

~pumpkin latte's!

Have a good weekend!

xoxo,

lyss

P.S. We did do stuff last weekend and this week

AND I have pictures to prove it.

Proof will be shown soon.