Glorious Mess

I'm feeling pretty tired today so we've been having a lazy Sunday around here today. Our lazy day has consisted of me laying in bed watching movies (currently Miss Congeniality 2 on TBS) and Matt and Norah have been out in the living room. A few moments ago I walked out there to see how things were going and found two pretty familiar sites.

I'm pretty sure Norah fell asleep first, and instead of putting her in her crib like I suggested (asked...demanded?) he do he instead fell asleep as well. You'll have to ignore the fact that her dress falls at her waist haha, a girl isn't always pretty as she sleeps.

Then this caught my eye.

It makes me both smile and cringe. I cringe because of the obvious mess. I smile because of how happy it makes me that we have our daughter that is there to make the mess (uh well I suppose it is us making the mess at this point since she isn't mobile enough to get the toys out all on her own... but we'll blame it on her anyway). In early September 2010 we had been praying for someone to make a mess of our house with toys for over a year and we didn't know if and when it would happen. While I feel like I am picking up toys - and sweeping, and picking up food thrown on the floor (ahm I mean calling the dog over to eat the uneaten gerber puffs) all day long, I'm so thankful to have someone I'm picking up after.

Tomorrow I'm going to be making my second batch of homemade granola/cereal. It's incredibly tasty (just ask my husband who keeps making trips into the kitchen for handfuls of it) and pretty easy. It being healthy is just an added benefit! I'll be posting tomorrow how to make it.