things darla has said today:
“mom, can you help me with this? i’m not competent of this.”
annnnnnnd
“mom, these cookies you made make me dizzy with deliciousness. did you put magic in them?”
i can assure you they were not *magic* cookies of one kind or another.
and just a few more pics of us from the last few days because you can never get enough of us.
or can you?
ps. i just love the lighting this time of year, don’t you?
hope you’re not too far into your christmas season to take a looksie at a bit of our thanksgiving. we celebrated our love of butter and darla, aka smiling pony, spent most of her free time chasing woody. 
thanks to my parents for the lovely, fattening holiday
and…
our family photo one more time because i love it.
it’s officially holiday season sooooo sending you our best. Happy Holidays from the Wruckers!
we had a pretty solid weekend around here: boot camp, successful prospective client meeting, our friend joe stayed with us, darla’s first school buddy birthday party, and family photos. and somehow i managed to get a lot done around the house. i love weekends like that.
soooo, working out makes it ok to eat whatever you want, right? burgers, pizza, biscuits and sausage gravy, ice cream and brown betty were all on my menu. i have a feeling it’s not going to get much better for the rest of the year. whatevs. we had some veggie curry and salad and stuff. i think it evens out. yeah.
i’m pretty excited about our family photos this year. looking forward to sending them out in a few weeks.
hope you all had a wonderful weekend!
i’m writing this as a pretty tired momma on this afternoon. i know to be this tired means i have a lot to be thankful for…
or…
it could mean that burgers are really not a good lunch choice and my decision to attempt going meat and gluten free next year is valid.
anyways, snaps from a week in which there was a lot to be thankful:
thankful for delicious, delicious soft pretzel snacks at north market. equally thankful to have spotted the elusive, unenthusiastic unicorn while we were there.
ps. she did not get any jeni’s while we were there. shame really.
thankful for games and hot chocolate at luck bros to make up for the missed jeni’s opportunity.
thankful for one more week of play opportunity outside
and lastly, i’m thankful to be the one to plait these beautiful braids. even if the subject is quite squirmy and they come out crooked. i’m glad to be the one to do it.
my girl had a gimpy leg yesterday. no one, including her, has any idea when it happened but since she jumps off about 213 things a day it’s likely it occurred one of those times and didn’t really set it until she slept.
anyway, we spent the day laid up on the couch. well, she did. i was relegated to snack servant. but i have to say it was a pretty excellent day. blankets bundled on the couch, candles going in the dark horse grotto…we started with a pile of books then movie, then books, then movie. you get it.
so this got me to thinking of this idea that i really think would work. it would get me through winter and save us money:
HIBERNATION
i could do days like today all winter long. just lots of movies and books and talks and laughs and snuggles. i wasn’t even as hungry since we didn’t use a lot of energy. maybe we could drop down to only 2 meals a day! we could lower the thermostat bc we’d just stay bundled under blankets all day. let’s do it everybody! just stop going to your jobs in the winter. really. it’s ridiculous. just stop it.
can we do this revolution? let me know what you think…
snaps of our week and gratitude with attitude:
listy listy of my gratefulness. this week i’m thankful for:
1. a family that still has fun even after 2 1/2 hrs of waiting in line
2. warm, portable voter’s breakfast and a voting location within walking distance
3. thankful for the voting process and for being an ohio voter for the first time. i’m pretty much hooked. that swing state suspense is killer!
4. thankful for walks with my girl past “the moustache house”
5. my girl’s wild hair
6. sunny & warm fall afternoons at the playground and shadows that make me look like a MO-del
7. daddy daughter reading time
8. and again, this girl. if there’s any questions as to why….just check out that face ONE MORE TIME.
wishing you all a happy weekend.
no matter what happens tomorrow i’m glad i was there for this.
and i’m glad i was with these two line buddies. darla was a real trooper. i mean it. we were there from 11 in the morning until 5 and she was great. she got a little bored during the boss’s slower songs so she started playing games on my phone. as soon as jay z started she just handed my phone back to me without even so much as breaking gaze of the stage and stared transfixed. so maybe she’s into hip hop. she a fly girl. she a j-lo.
just now during bedtime routine, i asked her what she thought of the rally and she said “oh it was great. it smelled like popcorn and the nerds you brought were yummy.” soooo maybe she didn’t really get that much out of it…but she told me she really liked the parts where she got to yell with everyone. that’s enough for me.
happy voting tomorrow, everyone!
ps. here was my main reference point for the day to darla. i may rely on an american tail as a teaching source just a little too much:
our first weekend home in a while was quite busy but busy is good. the weekend included: momma got her hairz cut, initiation at To Di for Fitness boot camp, lady date to brother’s drake meadery, and here’s darla and i at an annie leibovitz family-friendly event at the wexner center:
we toured the leibovitz collections. there was much protesting from darla about this. i was pretty bummed because i wanted to check out all the nudie pics. just kidddding. i am sure i will be teasing her about turning up her nose at the most famous american photographer when she’s a know-it-all teen. we played leibovitz guess who and had a portrait of our feet taken in the style of miss annie. i adore it. it’s worth noting that darla does not appear to have the sexton toes. we finished the day with our first bizache. wowza. i’m in love. the cafe at the wex center is phenomenal.
as great as all these different outings and doings were, my favorite of the weekend was our family trip to the grocery. my family can turn a simple, routine event into a fun fest.
i love them.
hope you had a great one as well. you really deserved it. i don’t know if you know this but…you’re my favorite reader ;-)
momjeanz 