What a day off works looks like for the Bean Family.

Periodically, my husband feels the needs to acquire a project.  Generally, I dont mind.  It's good for his psyche to be elbow deep in a messy chaotic "man mess" and it gives he and Noa a chance to hang out.  Sometimes, though, I wonder if he knows what he's gotten himself into.  Case A: this boat. 

I came home from shopping yesterday to my husband telling me that he had bought a boat.  Now, he didnt spend much on this at all, so its definitely not the $ that bothers me, but I see something like this and I wonder a) how long it will be an eyesore in my driveway, b) how long is it going to take him to clean it up, and c) what is my share of the profits.  To his credit, he usually doubles his money put into it, and he is great about letting Noa be his little helper. 

So, on this beautiful sunny day, my husband is outside tinkering on this boat and chilling with the four year old.  Honestly, Im thankful that he's so capable, creative, and vested in spending time with our sons.  I am a blessed woman. 

  - I take out the camera to get some "before" pictures of the boat. 

Noa finds this to be a perfect opportunity to cheese it up and

pose for the camera.  He obviously gets that from me.

 Yep, that would be my sewing tape measure stolen

from the sewing room. 

It's official, spring is coming.  This does

my heart good.

 Here she is, Austin's newset find.  He calls the process of acquiring

these boats, "sailboat picking."  Noa is especially fond of

this activity, and they spend Saturday mornings driving around

back country roads looking in peoples yard for abandoned

sailboats.  This is what they found last week.

 Hard at work

I was shocked today when for a snack, Noa told me he wanted

celery with peanut butter.  Noa generally has an aversion to celery that

competes with an arachnophobic's aversion to spiders.  Come to

find out, he just wanted to lick the peanut butter out of the celery.  

 "Don't worry, mom.  I'm not going to chop up the flowers,

I'm just going to watch them to see if they come out."

Happy President's Day!