"Practically Perfect" except not at all...

Last week, I had to cover for my sister. She is a Nanny for three kids: a 13 year old, an 11 year old, and a 9 year old. This new experience made me never want to reproduce. These children were god awful, threw fits over just about everything and nothing, and loved to scream and stomp. This new experience will be short, because I don't care to relive it XD Looking back, I'm sure these kids are not every child out there (I've watched some pretty sweet kids over the years), this just showed me how truly AWFUL kids can be. But hey, that's people right?

Spinning and Cherries and Soccer, OH MY!

Well, I have three new experiences for this past weekend. Maybe I was hoping to make up for my two past epic-failure weekends (they weren't for lack of trying I promise!)

New experience #1: I'm learning to spin yarn!

It was always something I thought would be cool to learn, but I never had the tools. Then my friend Marci Blank lent me EVERYTHING I would ever need to make yarn! I'm SO EXCITED to get good at it!



New experience #2: I learned how to pit cherries with a hairpin.

I know it sounds kind of weird, but I was amazed. Mama is obsessed with cherries, and Dad got to pick a whole bucket of 'em last Friday morning. We never had a cherry picker, I've come to learn, because my Mom during her childhood learned how to pit them with hairpins so she could eat them right off the trees. It went really fast between the two of us. Here's maybe a fourth of our harvest:



New experience #3: I watched the USA vs. England World Cup game.

This was a VERY new experience (I never really used to watch sports), and the United States hadn't played England since the 1950 World Cup. Everyone was amazed the United States won the game in 1950 (I thought it was interesting that the winning goal was scored by a Haitian), and this years game was exciting to watch. It was a 1-1 tie, but hey, for us that's a win!