Love Notes
Can it really be February?
Otherwise known as The Month I Have to Hand Over the Manuscript I Only Started Three Months Ago.
I have 23 days. I promise not to count it down every day on here until the due date.
You know I don’t blog on the weekends, so there’s that respite for you.
It’s also the month of love. And the love notes are flying around here.
Lulu brought home this picture she made in preschool. That’s her in the yellow with the eyelashes that go over her head. She must use Latisse.
I thought the boy on the right was S*, the self-professed boy she’s going to marry from her class, but apparently there has been a changing of the guard.
“S is TOOOO naughty,” she explained. “He presses the elevator button when he’s not supposed to.”
“That’s R,” she continued, pointing to the purple boy.
“The only naughty thing he does is move when I try to sit by him.”
I must be doing something right to have R’s avoidances not be classified as rejection, but just him being “naughty.”
Go get him, girl.
*names changed to protect the innocent, and the guilty. That’s you, S. Leave the elevator button alone.
Gigi got a “love letter” yesterday from her Sunday School class and more specifically, Jesus.
I’m not one to question the love of our Savior, but this is the hardest danged dot-to-dot I have ever seen in my life.
I stared at it for ten minutes with glazed over eyes before I figured out that there was no number 1.
Seriously, Jesus, not cool. And I think that pun is a little beneath you too.
But when I want true romance, I need not look any further than my email inbox.
I haven’t seen much of my husband this last week between all the craziness with the book and his new firm. So I was touched when I saw the message from him with the subject line “Love” and I was excited to see the attachment.
Was it a little sketch he drew for me?
A love poem?
A picture of us together from our trip?
I excitedly opened the attachment.
And immediately remembered the girls playing on his laptop the night before.
Still, his message is clear.
He loves me.
And blind hens in pink dresses and tiaras.
I’ll take it.
You make me laugh all the time (and eat great vegan food) . . .I wonder if there’s a Valentine’s Day card for that?
Yes, there is. It’s called chocolate. I’m not picky.
aw you guys are so much fun!
Is Pea Daddy getting nervous about Lulu declaring she’s going to marry guys already!?
I think he’s just glad it’s not me.
I think I am in love with Lulu. Do you think she would try to move if I wanted to sit next to her? (I’ll bring her pickles and cheese!)
Ahh…you know the way to her heart.
Aww this was really cute! I love Valentine’s Day. This will be Josh and I’s second one together!
I hope everything with your book is going well, I can’t wait to order it!
Congratulations! This will be our…10th? Geez, I’m a geezer.
I love this! …get it?! Love…..
Anyway.
I hope and pray that Lulu intended her and “R” to be on a see-saw of some sort. It just looks oh so very “R”-rated!
Oh man, I didn’t see that.
Why yes it is the month of love….. Ave asked me yesterday when she could have a boyfriend. AHAHAHA!!!!!!! NOOOO!!!!!! I said never.
The funny thing is, Gigi has ZERO interest in boys, but Lulu talks about them all the time. Oh boy.
Best of luck getting your manuscript done in all that time you have, you know, all 23 days…to write a book! WOW!
Somewhere I miss that Chris started a new firm…congrats and good luck to him (and you) getting settled in at the new job and adjusting to a new flow.
Good luck on the manuscript!
I would love to get any of the above Valentine’s cards! You ladies are lucky.
By the way, I finally made your Crazy-Good Hummus (from the awesome FIRST book) the right way- I’ve been making it for a while now, but was way too lazy to shell the chickpeas beforehand. Good call on that one- I finally shelled them and you are SOOOooo right~ creamy, crazy-good hummus on a whole ‘nother level. Love it! <3
I wouldn’t lie, girl.
I believe I was promised chocolate finger, Mama Pea!
^fingers, I meant. Don’t flip me off with a chocolate finger.
That’s tomorrow! I can’t keep up with a recipe per day for both the blog and the book. Plus isn’t a smile better than a chocolate finger? (I promise, it will be worth the wait!)
So counting up to 51 wasn’t enough, they had to count to 357 by 7s – that’s not cool at all!
I know! I seriously was so confused for so long. I am smart.
I got to 28 and got lost, but felt quite proud to realize they were counting by 7s.
I’m pretty sure I woke up the entire neighborhood with my laugh when I read your Latisse comment.
Who would buy that?! Okay, Brooke Shields. But who ELSE would buy that? So freaky.
You better watch out. Sounds like you have a saucy little minx in the making with your little one
Prepare yourself for valentines day sugar highs though when they come home from school. I just remember getting far too much chocolate than humanly necessary at that age
Don’t I know it.
That is hilarious that Lulu is so boy crazy already. My niece just started to really talk about all of the boys she likes and she’s eight. Listening to her chatter about it all is too funny. When she was six she decided she wanted to have six kids, three boys and three girls. I wonder if she wants eight now…
I love it. It isn’t rejection he is just being naughty. Too funny. I love the way an innocent mind works.
23 days!!! Holy moly. I bet things are crazy! I am so excited for your second book. Love the hen. Too funny. And who the heck makes a dot to dot without a number 1?
Ah funny – especially that ‘rejection’ to ‘naughty’ interpretation
Good luck with the next 23 days! Really amazing that you’re so close to the end (or so close to having to be at the end!). I hope it isn’t too crazy.
Thanks! Surprisingly, I think I have it under control. Maybe?
Happy Valentine’s Day month! Good luck with the rest of the book. I wish I got emails from my hubby with Love in the subject. The content would probably be about the food he wants to have available on the Super Bowl. I would still feel special.
You will get it done! You are super pea, haha!
How sweet of pea daddy to send you a little love email ; ) Life does get busy for sure! I hope he is liking the new firm!
Happy Thursday! <3
oh SO funny- thanks for the good laugh this morning
Sometimes your tags are my favorite part of the post.
Nothing like a good hen dressed up as a princess card from your true love. Quite naughty of him. LIke mother, like daughter I guess.
That’s cute that he emailed you
. My fiance doesn’t have much time to email me during the day, but it always means a lot to me when he does!
hahaha love notes from just about anyone are nice.
unless it’s from S…i know i wouldn’t want a boo who was naughty enough to press the elevator buttons. scoundrel.
Cute!! Tell Lulu not to worry. One day she’ll bring vegan cupcakes in for her birthday to share with the class and R (and every other boy in the class) will think she’s the best girl ever. Then S and the other naughty ones will get into fights because they ALL want to sit next to her.
Ahhh, if only that were true. I guess I would have been a lot more popular in school if I could have baked.
Lulu has a good head on her shoulders. Best to dump the elevator button pusher now. You know his next naughty trick will be armpit farts.
It IS the natural progression.
Just wanted to say Thank You! for the amazing middle-of-the-night reading material. After being woken up for the third time by 3 a.m. by one of our 5 children or our stinkin’-rotten cat, I just could NOT fall back asleep. So I proceeded to spend the next 2 hours reading the first book and planning our whole month of meals.
It should be a delicious month, if I can somehow get enough sleep to be able to prepare and cook all of it.
Great recipes!! Thank you
Megan, that’s great! Well, not the part about the kids and the cat, but you know I can relate to that. I hope you enjoy the recipes as much as you enjoyed the reading material.
“I must be doing something right to have R’s avoidances not be classified as rejection, but just him being “naughty.”” Perfect, just perfect. You are definitely doing a lot of things right! I hope your beautiful girls keep that confidence & attitude forever!
Thank you!
BAHAHAHAHAHA. That is AWESOME.
The other day I got an email after trying to set Lulu up on the computer with one of those kids’ game sites, haha. No love notes though… Love the new little tagline/bio.
Did you really? Funny!
That’s a crazy dot-to-dot! Apparently Jesus wanted to show love by teaching higher math through bears. Amen!
Sometimes Jesus’ lessons are just hard to take
I love the way ‘the boy’ in Lulu’s craft is looking at her (and her eyelashes). And that is one hard dot-to-dot. I’ve never seen one that left out a hundred or so numbers along the way!
I giggled out loud at least three (OK, maybe five) times reading this. Your writing style is so witty. Love it. Ooo, see? Love really is in the air. Definitely February.
Thanks a lot, Amy! You made my morning
Hahahah!!! “Seriously, Jesus, not cool.” I love it.
HIL-freaking-Larious…Blind chickens….I may pee my pants!! This post actually happened to me last night…Ryan brought home a project from school, a nice decorated red card with a heart on the front, Love on the front, glitter, whole nine yards. I open it and ooh and ahh over it, hug him, “thank you honey, this is the sweetest valentine I’ve ever gotten!” He looks at me with a cocked eyebrow and says “momma it’s not for you, it’s for grandma carol.” Oh snap.
Ha ha ha. I say keep it. What Grandma Carol doesn’t know won’t hurt her.
Your posts always make me all warm and fuzzy!! Adorable
Oh good! Thanks!
Maybe pea daddy wanted to remind your that, during this time of stress, sprout is there for you 24/7. Sounds like love to me!
Ah yes, they are. Gotta love Chica.
Hahaha kids get into everything! I love the R/S love triangle going on here. When does Q come into it??
The story of Lulu and S/R is priceless! Too too cute!
I’m just glad she was able to move on so quickly
This post had me cracking up at least three different times. Love it.
I can’t believe you wrote an ENTIRE cookbook in three months. Wow! My hat is off to you. And I can’t wait for the second book. Do you need recipe testers?
I wish I had time for recipe testers, but I just don’t. Thank you for the offer!
Look how clean your inbox is! How do you manage that in addition to everything else you do?
Maybe your next book will be about organization…
Oh my, no. I moved all my other messages out and moved ‘em right back in afterward.
i love your daughter’s mindset! she’ll most definitely have a solid head on her shoulders come time to date.
In 50 years…
Ha! Love the email story — too cute!
I totally thought the pom poms where a giant pile of shredded cheese until I got to the end of the post. Wow, I think I need more coffee.
Hahahaha that ecard is too cute. Happy V-day indeed