Domestics

It has been such a long time since I have posted a Barley Update. Or any updates at all for that matter. I am finding that without my camera I have little interest in posting our goings on.  We are in the market for one though, so hopefully soon. Any suggestions? Because the Barley doesn't stop growing for anyone and today's picture is weeks old (before the lake incident) so if you can imagine she is even taller now with even more hair, and a couple of added teeth.

A catalog of new words would be nearly impossible at this point because all she does is talk and surprise us with new ones! Some endearing...some not so much. Case in point: She says daddy all the live long day. Points to pictures of him "daddy!", waits for him at his bus stop "daddy!"she even knows when we get to the part of town where he works "daddy!" But I asked her the other day who I was (pointing to myself) and she said "Fat." and walked away.
Nice.
When she isn't showering me with her sweet compliments, we have a grand time together.
Little Thing has discovered dancing on mommy's toes, spinning in circles, and singing songs in tandem. (ABC's being her particular favorite.)
Not to be topped however with her most recent favorite past time. Helping me on with my shoes. She fetches them for me and together we untie the laces, put them on my feet (sometimes the wrong ones but we go with it) and then she pulls the laces through the knots. Feeling very proud.
Over all, I feel like this is the Spring time of our life.
Our house is happy and healthy, both of which not being requirements for joy are added blessings to us, and I am daily thankful.
Kent is picking up the piano again and his playing has me curled up like a kitten at his feet.
Our garden is producing edibles (!), and I have finally found the charm in Home Depot*.
We are that family who in cheesy fashion sing old songs** in the car and harmonize our way home. That Walter can really hold a harmony.
And I wouldn't change any of it for work that pays (money) or an ounce of hipster cred. (I think we lost the last of that when we stopped going to shows and added a Raffi station to our Pandora instead.)
But there is something to be said for what I am considering to be our current season of utter Domestic Bliss.

* My mom and dad used to go on dates to Home Depot which I thought the epitome of laaaaame. But now that I have discovered a little something called the perennial ( You buy a plant once and it comes back the next year!...that's not just cool, but thrifty.) look who is skipping down the aisles of the garden center on a free evening?

**In the Jailhouse now (Hank Williams), and Don't Stop Believing (Journey) are currently hot.