Daily Archives: August 27, 2010

Stinky Toes Design

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You know how sometimes you meet people, and you keep running into them? Or  later on you find out there’s something else you have in common?

Last fall I met Amy of  Stinky Toes Design. I bought my grandmother a necklace with her initial (she’s known around her assisted living center as Catherine-with-a-C) on it and I’ve never seen her without it on since. According to my mother (who sees her weekly), my grandma almost ALWAYS wears her necklace, which makes me happy.

I’m on Amy’s mailing list, and I’ve become a frequenter of her blog, and then all of a sudden, there was an ANNOUNCEMENT. (do you know where this is going yet?)

Amy and her family is in the process of adopting from Africa.

Amy makes beautiful jewelry with metal and paper and glass.

Amy now makes beautiful jewelry which you may just find fitting for someone you know who has an adoption connection in some way.

Amy makes amazing pendants featuring vintage maps, and vintage dictionary pages.  I remember talking to her about it last fall.

Just think about the possibilities with that.

So go see what’s she’s created–it’s pretty amazing stuff, and her family is embarking on an amazing journey.

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Stolen Moments

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So week two of school-for-MaM-no-school-for-me has come to a close. Jr and are getting into a good routine, and I will be the first to admit: I LOVE IT. It’s by far the very best part of our most recent life changes.

I’ve conferred with my friends who all have or have had children in school and just one young one at home, and it’s official: having your child load reduced for a few hours each day, it’s like a vacation. Not the fruity-drinks-on-the-Lido-deck kind, but more like a nice hike in a State Park kind. You’re still going to break a sweat, you’re still going to work a bit, but it sure as heck isn’t like having all (or you know, both) your children around all the live long day.

So what have we been doing?

We’ve been going to library story hour.

We’ve been meeting friends for coffee and lunch.

We’ve been hosting friends.

We’ve been playing a bizarre version of tennis where we use a tennis raquet like a hockey puck and hit a wiffle ball down the driveway.

We’ve been grocery shopping.

We’ve been watching Sesame Street every day at 10:30, and Word World every day at 11:30.

We do some secret things we don’t talk about with MaM , like steal away to the Children’s Museum with friends who are visiting for the day!

He’d like to start motorcycle riding lessons next week, but I think we’ll be holding off at least for a few more months…..

Want to learn more about the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis? See my post at the SavvySource City Guide!

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