I had Thursday and Friday off last week. Unfortunately, my new position requires me carrying a Blackberry and I didn't do a very good job of staying away from the emails. In fact, I took Owen and Evelyn up to the office on Thursday for a quick, 20 minute visit and work stop. Oops.
1. Isn't it such a refreshing feeling to rearrange your furniture? The room feels different, it feels renewed, even if you still have the same old dungy carpet in the same too-small room. It just feels BETTER.
2. And then you stick a too-BIG tree in it, and the room goes back to feeling small, but shiny. Decorative and shiny, yes.
3. Owen likes to follow up Hubs' dinner time prayer with a prayer of his own. It unfailingly goes, "Dear Lord, thank you for the food. Thank you for the milk. Amen." Well, Saturday night I had served up the plates, but hadn't yet gotten around to the milk. Owen did his praying and it went, "Dear Lord, thank you for the food. Thank you.....uhhhh, where's the milk?" I interjected and said we have it in the fridge, and we'll get it in a minute. "Dear Lord, thank you for the food and.....uhhhh, ummm, I don't know what to do." I again interjected and said we can still be thankful for having it in the fridge. Continue. "Dear Lord, thank you for the food. Can I please have some milk? Amen."
4. This past weekend Till turned 14. Holy moly, we could potentially have a child move OUT of the house in approximately 4 1/2 years!!! Oh, and happy birthday Till. Please continue to outgrow these teenage years as quickly as possible while remaining young at heart. We need your refereeing and lego-building skills.
5. I like to put my kids in swishy pants so that I can hear where they are at all times.
6. Evelyn giggles like a maniacal little devil when she's really, really having fun. Is that a good thing? Probably not.
7. I followed a link that a fellow Twitter friend posted. I thoroughly enjoyed the writer's style, and even the post itself until the final sentence. Where she stated the exact thought that prevents me from fully committing to this thing called religion. And while some sentences standing alone can bring a meaning entirely different than its intention within context...I don't think this one does. It might have been a bit tongue in cheek, but still...grrrr.
8. Speaking of Twitter, I'm @Toojemama and who are you? Post yours in a comment so I can check you out. My Twitter rules for myself are that I won't be posting the same thoughts as Facebook, and I won't be posting links to my blog. If you read my blog, you already know how to get here. If you have me on Facebook, you already read or hid what I said. No need to duplicate.
9. Anyone else finding some joy in the Chevy commercials where the salesman looks like Santa? Please say you do. He's funny.
10. I've found that if you teach your eldest child really, really well, they can become really, really good instructors to the youngest children. Or else Turner is just 'specially fantastically super duper great. Whatever.
10 comments:
LMAO to your #5!!! Love it
Man, I am getting old. At least I must he because with your new color scheme it is a bit difficult to read...especially on my phone!!! I will have to read later. Did you know I figured out the mobile device reader enabling thing! It does make quite a difference when reading blogs on my phone! Talk to you in a bit!!!
Just followed you on Twitter! YAY me!
@ASassyRedhead
And yes, moving the furniture around will keep me giddy for several days. Makes me feel like I moved to a new place without all the hassle!
Swishy pants...that's gooood!
LOVE #5, oh so something I would do!!
3. LOL! I LOVE that!!!!
7: As a regular reader of Bad Catholic, I can say with a fair amount of confidence...yes, that last sentence was very tongue in cheek. But I understand that if you are one who doesn't know that, or if that sentiment is something that really gets on your nerves...it reads badly.
10. I can't tell you how happy I am these busy days that Sarah and Dani can read to Helen and Helen can read to Dominic. All of my children get read to (that need it) and I don't have to do a large part of it. :) So, I absolutely agree with this and shamelessly flaunt my expert teaching skills at all times. :)
#6 - I can just hear her laughing...that sweet face, with a maniacal laugh...so cute...for me, a thousand miles away...you my friend, are in for a world of trouble I do believe ;)
1. Man I haven't done anything to change, update, or improve my apartment since, oh, about three or four months after I moved it...in 2008. I haven't changed the bathroom decor, the living room colors, the bedroom, whatever made it up on the walls, nada. And I haven't gotten bored of it. The only thing I've half-heartedly have wanted over the years is new covers for the couch so it could look like I changed something.
2. The last time I put up a tree, I left up til May. I'm still riding off that overdose so not bothering putting up for a second Xmas in a row.
3. I love Owen.
4. Yipers 14?! Wasn't he 11 the other day? I feel the same when I say my "baby" brother is 20. Twenty! That means I'm....gah!
5. Next thing we know you'll want them to wear cowbells around their necks.
6. Ha! I thought her laugh was already bizzaro and hilarious when you posted the video of her sticking her belly out.
7. The link didn't work for me.
8. We already follow each other on Twitter :)
9. I haven't had cable since Jan 2010 and look! I'm still alive!
10. I think he was already fantastic. Not saying you're not great or anything...hee hee.
Oh I had to laugh at #2. Hubby and I rearrange the furniture in the living room every year to accomodate our Christmas Tree. We are always so darned pleased with ourselves....and then we jam a giant tree in there and ruin the enitre room. lol
Does dusting and/or running the vacuum cleaning count as "rearranging furniture"?
I mean, some of the dust bunnies are so old here, they got to be dead...
Ahhh you've joined the land of twitter! Off to add you...
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