(more at Jen's)

1. Directionally Challenged

It is possible to get through the majority of your day wearing your black stretchy yoga pants backwards.   Like, you could be standing in an itty bitty craft store basement trying to find a glue gun stick, reach around to rub your back,  and suddenly feel a string and go "Wha…?"  and then it dawns on you.  Its the drawstring.  Mmm hmmm.  

My Gram used to say you had days when you didn't know if you were coming or going. Apparently pants can have those days too.  Then you need some chocolate. And maybe some Motrin.  And a maybe a quick run into the grocery store ladies room to set things right.  That all helps. Hypothetically speaking. 

2. True story - 

While driving big kids around  there are preschoolers bickering in the back seat, prompting an exchange like this:

"He hurt my book!"

the other:

"Did not!"

the first:

"Did too!"

Me:

"Apologize to the book please." 

This actually made them all happy.

 

3. Bad hair dogs day

We somehow have dogs again.  I am not responsible for this decision but have been coming around.  At least until we got them groomed.  They have been bounced around in 3 other homes in as many years and haven't been groomed in many moons.  They needed name tags when we picked them up. : o  Wow.  We now have THE ugliest little bald dogs on the planet, God bless 'em.  Seriously. I need to take a picture of these ears – assuming they don't catch a strong breeze and float away before I get to them.  Stay tuned.  You gotta see these. 

4. All tied up

Dh decided to wash his  running clothes before he left for his trip.  I was heading out to run an errand but said I would run down to throw them in.  No, no, he assured me.  He could do it himself.  Just could I show him where the buttons should be set on the machines?  That is never a good sign. Still, I showed him.  He kissed me goodbye with that very confident look that made me just a smidge uneasy.

When I came home I heard a knocking sound in the laundry room.  I asked if someone was in the laundry room?  "Nope" he says.  "I washed my clothes and they are drying now."  I asked if he threw his running shoes in too?  Nope.  Probably was my cue to explore further but I didnt.  He called from the laundry room a while later.  "You've gotta see this!" he tells me.  There he stands with the entire contents of the dryer in one tight wad, completely tied together with string.  Apparently a spool of thread was near the dryer (I had some sewing supplies in the room when pressing some seams I think) and one landed in the dryer with his load where the whole thing unraveled winding round and round and round every piece of clothing.  I am not sure you could repeat the result if you tried lol!

We are easily amused. But you knew that, didn't you. 

 

5. I Heart Edu-Software

I picked up a SchoolZone kindergarten cdrom  set for the littles  this week and we are LOVING it. For $20 it replaced all the workbooks they had – save for some printing prctice  we are still working on, which is huge when the paper man comes only once a month. They are much happier and more productive during the big kids' school time now when not playing with the giant wooden train set and the play kitchen.  They are so excited to 'do school' when the rest of them are. Please don't turn me in to the twaddle police 'k?  This is between us. ; )   

 

6. The Fog is Lifting

Had a little happy realization today.  I didn't have the GPS on,  and haven't most of the week.  And my image editing software textbook didn't make my eyes cross. As we finish our second quarter I can say that I feel fairly up to speed with our correspondence school program and testing/grading/reporting system. And I can now open my PO Box in front of strangers because there are no more expletives nor vocal prayer to the patron saint of combination locks.  Woo Hoo!

When we moved this time I was prepared. I knew that as exhilarating as this would be, there would be months of haze where my brain would be like a sponge so saturated with data that it would be leaking all over. (Granted #1 take may contradict my feeling that it is wringing out some lol) I didn't fret too much but it IS disconcerting when every. single. thing. is well, foreign.  Different sounds, different smells, different signs, different procedures.  New. New. New. Everything New.  Today was a blessing. We are finally at the point that it isn't ALL new now.  And the new information I do take in is sinking in versus overflowing into a big puddle. 

 

7. Lovely links:

Becky inspiration – easy transformations with patterned paper and a freebie to frame for February.

Picture a day fun from this family

Been all over A Lemon Squeezy Home blog.  Check out the tutes.   I feel I must make this now. You know, after I get my own clothing situated on myself correctly and all. <g>