It's like rain, on your wedding day

I went to Target today. Noah and I just needed to get out and look around at stuff. They have A LOT of stuff at Target. My favorite was the nicely painted sign "Reduce. Reuse. Recycle." Really? Isn't that a little ironic? Please no one buy this sign. I have plenty of wood that I have been collecting and a little paint--I'll make one for you. AND. I'll sell it at half the price. How does that sound? Okay, a third the price. deal. Please don't think of me as a self-righteous environmentalist who went "Green" years ago before it was cool. I'm not. (But I DO think we all have to make changes at our own pace--right now mine is receiving paperless bills and saving plastic grocery bags so I can recycle them at my local grocery store) I just think this sign is very silly and ironic.

dontcha think?

a little tooooo ironic.

And yeah, I really do think.

P.S. Holly trivia: Jagged little pill (featuring the song "Ironic") by Alanis Morisette was the very first CD I ever owned. In 5th grade my mom took me to Incredible Universe so I could buy it. Thanks Mom!

AND... Here's a picture to appease all those like my husband who don't like wordy posts with no pictures. (If he ever looks over my shoulder while I am reading a blog with no pictures he says "ewwww too many woooooorrrrrrddddssssss" and then continues to bug me so that it takes me twice as long to read the post)


Here's Noah, excited because I'm going to let him finally play with the camera today


Wait. No I'm not. Isn't that the cutest little sad face you've ever seen. Don't worry, I don't try to make him make this face on purpose. But it's cute nonetheless.


And here's a nice shot of our fun little tree. fruit loop garlands--which are wrapped around the top two branches (Noah finally couldn't help himself and ate about 6 inches of our garland while I was doing the dishes); noodle angels that we made last year with mamie; and little presents that Mark and I made by cutting up cereal boxes and forming them into little boxes and then wrapping them; the topper is a brown paper bag reindeer puppet in which the antlers are a cutout of Noah's traced hands. We decided that each year we are going to make a new set of ornaments for the tree and then we'll save just the really good looking ones to save for the next year(s).

Ok, this post is officially longer than the short paragraph I originally intended to post. Make sure you scroll down and read the other new posts I've made if you haven't already.