Here and There

1. shake that laughy happy 
2. our sturdy white picket plastic is up to it's neck in the warm and fuzzy
3. walk Theo by a cute little puppy or a treat him to a fun little showing of Baby Einstein and he doesn't break from his stone stoic cold b-face but show him a blanket of snow and his whole life is changed for the better

I hate to break my lifelong streak of being all doom, gloom, and doom some mo but ... after Sunday night's dip down to hellish and frozen temperatures there really has been nowhere to throw ourselves but right on up the ladder of positivity.

I don't recognize us either.

In addition to Simon's car starting up last night after a little brush with death on Monday we were able to visit him for some quality cafeteria time and all felt right in the world again. And a whole bunch of other happenings ... in no particular order but all totally worth your valuable click.

Let's break it down ...

My phone magically started working again and I am back to gramming every other minute of our glitzy and ritzy life of leisure. {And if your iPhone/iPod/iPad ever won't scroll and weird boxes appear around every app and it just talks to you about making lunch plans with Emily and makes you want to throw it across the hemisphere .... just quickly triple click the home button ... that took me about 20 hours and 20 litanies of cursery to figure out}

Cascada was playing on the radio this morning. (I won't apologize for my taste in music ... I'll only profusely apologize for my taste in music .... only the most refined around here).

The kids and I made a cake for Theo's first birthday last week without the help of any white sugar. I'm sure that's impressive to no one but myself BUT I wrote all about it over on the Melissa and Doug blog where they are letting me post from time to time. If I could fill our house with nothing but Melissa and Doug toys ... I would in approximately 1/9 of a heartbeat. No nonsense and no batteries. No brainer.

Pubslush ran a tiny little Camp Patton feature .... if you're in the mood. I sense you might be. They asked me some tough questions ... go see how I sweat through it.

It's no secret that even though we've lived in St. Louis for 2.5 years I've had a hard time getting integrated (all my fault) around here so it's been fun connecting with some local bloggers (not in person ... yet ... baby steps!!). My week was totally made when the impossibly sweet and impossibly pretty Lindsay (last name PattAn ... not to be confused with PattOn) emailed to let me know that along with four other bloggers, the Camp was featured on a fun list of St. Louis lifestyle blogs. If you're in the mood to add some new blogs to your list (I always am ... some might call it an unhealthy addiction ... I call it mommy getting her social ON) ... check it out over on Alive Magazine's website. Please?

New year new desktop background. You know I'm right. I'm loving these downloadable and free monthly calendars that Ready to Blog designs puts out ... and I can hardly wait to see what February's looks like. Once January is over in about 68 years.

Aaaand I think that's all. Hulu is being a total asshat and is not broadcasting the Bachelor and I'm dying. DYING. I am actually writing this from my perch of dead. Go read Ashley's recap because it's sure to be the funniest thing you read until next week when she recaps again. And pray for Hulu .... it needs to get it together. Yesterday.