best day ever

Today is turning out to be the best day ever. Or, at least one of them.

Wanna know why?

1. Even though our heat has been on the fritz constantly since we moved to our new house, and it went out last night, and we woke to a house that was (no exaggeration) 52 degrees, we were still warm(ish) upon daybreak because our MSC piled one by one into our bed to cuddle. Big Mac was next to me and, since he's the biggest kiddo, I was thankfully fairly warm.

Until we got out from under the sheets. Brrr!

Prince Charming bundled the kids up in their coats, closed doors, turned on lights and lit the fireplace. Before we knew it, our HVAC friend Matt came over and fixed the problem again (hopefully once and for all)!

2. I got the photos of Small Fry in her Blooms finished.



3. I had the chance to give away an HP TouchSmart computer to one of you. I still can't believe it. The giveaway is far from over! Click here to enter anytime between now and Christmas Eve.

4. My husband and I, after disagreements and ugliness for a few days (90% of it being my fault, stupid pride and arrogance), had a make up hug. Those are the best.

5. After much contemplation, we decided just today to hire Ali, a wonderful local gal, to help me with laundry and cleaning a few hours a week. Since we are homeschooling our children and won't be able to "look forward" to many hours of them away at school each day for us to get stuff done, Prince Charming and I decided hiring some help would be worth it.

I feel so thankful! We have had help in the past. Remember when The Queen Mum used to live with us and did all our laundry? But we haven't had a long term set up in a while, since wonderful Rachel, the college girl who used to help in the evenings when Prince Charming worked late before Stellan was even a twinkle in our eyes, moved to Africa to teach.

Welcome, Ali. We are grateful for you!

6. Stellan has been standing more and more and more and even took his first steps!!!

7. Today was also the best day ever because I got great news from the folks over in photo recovery at National Camera. It seems that my Canon has developed a mind of its own and somehow, frustratingly, much to my dismay, deleted an extremely large number of photographs from my memory card, unbeknownst to me, during my Frozen Tundra photo shoot last weekend.

I've been sick about it, until I learned that it is true: If you haven't reformatted your memory card, deleted files can usually be recovered.

Thank the Lord! Literally.

So it's back to work on Frozen Tundra shoot photographs. Here are some more of my favorites. I was completely and utterly in love with this family. I tried 17 times to steal their fabulously dressed, longhaired older son and keep him at our house. I failed. But thankful to have my suspicions confirmed, that Uggs do look fantastic on little boys, I will just have to use him as my style muse from now on. In fact, to church on Sunday, I did layer the boys' brown and blue striped shirt from Target (they also each have one...$2!) under short sleeved shirts after being inspired by this eclectic heartbreaker.









8. And last, but certainly not least, today was the best day ever because it is Stellan's one month anniversary of being SVT free!

Ahh, yes. Best day ever indeed.