My promotion to Mother Nature!

Yes I got a promotion today! Despite the long list of jobs I currently hold, my 4yr old promoted me to Mother Nature this morning.
Today his pre-school had planned a field trip to Santa Fe to go to the Childrens Museum and to the Legislative Offices. Aaron was very excited because Mommy was coming with him on his first official field trip. I knew we were going to be in trouble because of the pending storms that were due in, and when the big fluffy snow flakes started falling last night I knew that this morning was going to be a joy when I would have to tell Aaron that his field trip would be cancelled.
Now I figured I would have some calm before the Aaron storm hit because he loves the snow, oh was I wrong. So our usual routine in the mornings is hubbie and I are up by 5:30, and Aaron wanders in to our room within 5 minutes of the alarm going off, this morning was no different.

Except the first words out of the Aaron's mouth this morning were "Mom today is my field trip"..................
I will confess for a split second I felt like telling a little white lie and saying "yes Aaron it is" (Atleast let me have some coffee before the Aaron Storm hit!)
But no I said "Well Aaron we will have to see because it has been snowing and school might have to cancel the trip"

Well that was the wrong thing to say because within those first minutes of conversation with my 4yr old his excitement was shattered and the storm of Aaron hit with full force. As far as he was concerned I had made it snow, so I explained to him that I am sure the school would have the field trip another day, and that he would have fun at school this morning. He would be able to get a new library book, have circle time and that we could maybe go on a field trip when he got home. No that was not what Aaron wanted!
I finally managed to convince the boy that it was okay about the field trip being cancelled and that he would have a fun day at school. It is very amusing to me how in the eyes of a 4yr old everything is Mom's doing! I wanted a picture of Mother Nature to post on this entry, but I couldn't find one that showed her blowing snow everywhere and shattering the excitement of 4yr olds!!

My Free Bag from Cost plus World Food Market

Yesterday I had to run to the Cost Plus World Food Market, we were running low on teabags. I love this store, if ever I miss home I can pop down there and pick up some home comforts from England. Which is a good thing but can also be a bad thing because I can do some serious damage, but I have been really good lately! So I get the boxes of typhoo yesterday, and I head to the checkout, now the customer in front of me at the check out gets her items placed in a rather cool bag.................thinking to myself I want one of them!

Not realizing that they were running a promotion that if you spent $10 or more that day you would get one of these bags. I was very happy when my boxes of typhoo tea were placed inside one of these bags!

Inspiration................a New Year

WOW....................when did I last post!
I feel like I have to sit here and confess that I actually at one point last year completely forgot about my blog. So sitting here after exhuasting cooking dishes, growing crops and tending to my virtual fish tank! It suddenly dawned on me that I should start my blog up again, I honestly couldn't tell you why I stopped, life got too crazy, but when I think about it I just never made myself sit here and take that 30 minutes to post an entry.
Life can run away from you sometimes and since my last post that is what the past 6 months has felt like to me. So here we are New Year, and a new start to this blog.