self indulgence

This week we went out with the kids, after dark, to my alma mater , to indulge ourselves in the loud raucous energetic percussive antics of ScrapArtsMusic . And we took a picture. And I'm in it. And I figured out how to resize images. I know, we look wet and dirty. We were, because we are an uncouth family and have no understanding of clean clothing or umbrellas for rainy weather.

Then we did this bizarre thing. Out of the blue, and despite being completely broke as far as the bank account goes, we bought a car. Not just any car. A Second Car. WE are a 2-car family. And not just any 2 cars: 2 gas guzzling Kia Sedonas. And because this happened so quickly I still don't know what hit me. And I realized as I went to type this that I haven't even taken a good picture of the pretty new vehicle. So I ran out into the wet driveway in my socks and shot this image. Because I just learned how to resize photos in Picassa:

Sorry. I know that doesn't help much. I'll take a better picture later.

 My kids are really the family photographers these days, because they are the only ones with working cameras. Here are my daughter's artistic impressions of the new car, all taken from within while we traveled to celebrate Easter with the in-laws:

That last shot is my mommy, and I think she's cute.

We've been given the opportunity to get a free piano (not counting moving costs). And I said yes, whether or not the husband agrees. We don't have room for it, but that's okay because I had the gall to go and fall in love with a house. The house. It happened just today. And despite having just bought a second car 2 days back and agreeing to pay to move a piano, I've decided we must now also buy the house. Just make it so, right?

Finally, my etsy shop is suddenly exciting to me again. After a few quiet, stale weeks I've decided to make elf booties. Really it came about at the insistence of a customer. My prototype is in the works:

My next goal is to run a promotion called "Slipper the World" in which I will offer a 10% discount or free shipping (whichever is the better deal) to the first slipper orders destined for countries I haven't yet infiltrated. I am excited to have slippers residing in Britain, Greenland, Canada and Spain right now, and really want to have representation across the globe. My next order will live in Hungary after a stopover in Scotland and I'm anxious to get some slippers to a friend of my mom in Kuwait. Australia or New Zealand are top on my list of hopefuls right now, and I'll double the discount for Antarctica.

To draw the self-indulgence to a close, I made rice-krispie treats tonight. E has a friend over to spend the night, and to get them to stop eating all the marshmallows I promised to make them. Of course, I didn't get them made until after they went to bed, so I guess that's breakfast. If there are any left . . .