cinder and smoke.

i am predicting this will be another productive day.

i promised tyler i would make him breakfast this morning, so i dragged myself out of bed at 5:30 when he got up and made some eggs and toast and coffee. i used the last two pieces of bread for his toast, and so i felt bad because there wasn't any bread for a sandwich. so i kinda scraped together an assortment of snacks in lieu of an actual lunch. he got 2 kiwi, a pear, some carrot sticks, a protein bar, and 2 cupcakes (suzanne and i made coconut pecan cupcakes with chocolate ganache and banana pecan cupcakes with caramel buttercream - tyler got one of each in his lunch). plus i filled his water bottle and made him take it... it has been sitting on the counter empty since we moved in. i don't think he has been drinking enough water. i had a science teacher that used to always say hydrate or die and he would keep a water cooler in his classroom which he supplied the water for. he encouraged you to come in anytime and fill your water bottle. he said that your brain needed a lot of water to function properly and learn well.... the fact that i just worded that in such a manner i think is a clear indication i didn't drink enough water. anyway, i try to make tyler drink enough water.

by the time tyler left, i was so awake i opted not to go back to bed. instead i folded the laundry that i didn't get to yesterday (because i went to work) and did another load so i could wash our sheet off the bed (i think it has been a while...). then i decided today was the day to try my breadmaker. i'm still worried about it. i had some issues with recipe (they called for all kinds of crazy stuff... so i tried to simplify it so i didn't have to buy a million stupid ingredients - i found a simpler recipe online). everything is in there... but it isn't doing anything yet? i don't know. we'll see how it goes. i'm making honey whole wheat bread. should be interesting? i hope it works!!

today i have a meeting for our kids have talent - to go over the itinerary and find out what EXACTLY i am responsible for doing at the actual event. and i am GOING TO PICK UP MY SKATES! which is very exciting. i also have to work another hockey game tonight (playoffs) which i am a little bummed about. but i need the money... so its good. i hope they keep going and going and going so hockey season never ends!


tyler left this picture open on the desktop yesterday morning, so i found it when i got up. haha. his friend gabe sent it to him. this is the first night that tyler and i met. i was 15, he was 17. haha. we had a big argument a while back about whether or not i was wearing a red hoodie... he was right, i was. i really didn't want to have my picture taken, and tyler and gabe kept trying to take mine and chelsea's picture. there is one more of just me, as well. tyler was always a little strange... hence the posing like he is totally fake eating the apple. i remember him doing that and saying something stupid.

that's all. thought i would share.