1. One of the benefits of having a blog where you open up your head on a regular basis and let complete strangers poke around inside looking for something interesting is that everything in life tends to present itself as a possible Thing To Write About. Or at least that's the explanation I'm giving for why, when cleaning out my picture files this week, I discovered folders devoted to pictures I'd taken of cacti that dated to 2008, of assorted meals spanning the last four years, and of a step by step photo montage entitled How To Descale Your Kettle.
2. I was stuck for bath reading the other day and pulled out some books I had ordered on a whim a few years back, Mary Ostyn's A Sane Woman's Guide To Raising A Large Family and Meagan Francis' Table For Eight: Raising A Large Family In A Small Family World. And then I went on with my life and the children destroyed the bathroom and in the process moved my books all around the house. It just didn't occur to me to put them away on the shelf again until I realized that my inlaws had been visiting for almost a week and what must they think?? Books about giant families scattered everywhere!
3. I've bitten the bullet this year and started making Christmas lists for the grandparents. It started with the realization that we now live in the world's least storage friendly house and I couldn't handle one more big, noisy toy that needed it's own special bed/shelf/accessories, but I'll admit, it quickly has turned into an avenue in which I can be controlling and obsessive and make lots of lists. I'm trying to figure out how much information is too much information. For example, can I say "Clara needs mittens and socks but other than that is set for clothing"? Can I then add "Please no television cartoon characters on anything"? Is that taking it too far?
4. Duck Dynasty - Love? Indifferent? I'm astounded by the beards, myself.
5. I'm in the market for a daytimer/organizer/planner type thing. I'm not sure why I don't have one now, except to say that if I had one I likely would have written 'Get New Planner' in there somewhere and would now currently have one. So there you have it. Instead here I am in
6. If I had a planner I could also write a list in it of all the stuff that sorta-but-not-really works around the house. For example, my washing machine, which has been hooked up (praise the Lord!) but with the valve thingies the wrong way. Or maybe it's the hoses that are the wrong way. Regardless, hot water comes out of the cold water tap. Or at least hot water comes out of the washer when the machine is set to cold. Is this making sense? Anyway, from my limited understanding of such matter it seems that what needs to happen is the hoses need to be switched, except that to do this seems to involve super human strength and a wrench that I do not currently own. So I just keep washing my clothes on the Hot/Cold cycle, which is actually Cold/Hot. Oh my word.
7. Do you know what my inlaws did? They went off for a night by themselves and when they came back they brought me a tonne of food for the freezer. Chicken breasts, a Butterball turkey breast, a lot of cheese. It was so exciting! Especially since my plan for the evening meal last night was 'pray'; I'd spent the entire afternoon doing visitation at the nursing home and frankly people were going to eat rice and sausages from the day before. Everyone should be thankful that someone saved the day.
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