Wow! It's been over a week since I've posted. I guess life is pretty mellow for us now. I have nothing grand to write about, which can dangerously lead to rambling. The most notable part of our week is that our dryer isn't working. We are waiting for the part to come in the mail. In the meantime, we have clothes hanging everywhere in the house to dry--on shower rods, kids bunkbeads, the garage, and even the underwear out on a clothesline in the backyard. The great thing about it is that everywhere I go in the house it smells great! My favorite smell is clean laundry and I'm surrounded by it!! Just think, if I did this all the time, I could save money on utilities and expensive air fresheners. The downer is that a lot of things need to be ironed.
I also have recently come up with a solution to a big problem in our house. We have so many cups being used at any given time that I can never remember which one is mine. Does anyone else have that problem? So one day I was looking at a mini paper clip, and I put it on my cup so I would know it was mine. The only problem with this is that I felt like I was going to poke myself in the eye. So Anna came up with the wonderful solution of putting a rubber band around it. Perfect! Of course then everyone wanted to do this with different colors, but I said that wouldn't work because then I wouldn't remember which color rubber band was mine and I'd be back at square one. That's when things started getting out of hand: three rubber bands on a cup, one with an eraser stuck in it, or a plastic bread tab, and even a Frito.
What else? The outside of our house has been half painted for a couple of weeks thanks to weather. I watched the 1931 version of Dracula. I did another dinner exchange and brought back home taco salad, pork sandwiches, spaghetti pie, broccoli-cheese soup, chicken noodle casserole, and meatball and sausage spaghetti sauce. I have been to one board meeting for Young Women and one 3-hour planning meeting for the youth. Dan and I have walk/jogged three times. I have an annoying pain in my upper lungs that has lasted for a month and I would like to take a vacuum and suction it out. Three of my kids have science projects due this month, and one has just finished a history day project. I did scrap booking with good friends this afternoon and got 3 pages over the "brain-pain" hill. As usual I talked too much and put on display all of my faults. I shouldn't admit this but I have read six books so far this month. It's a natural byproduct of trying to "cut expenses." Oh, and I almost forgot--my toenail fell off.
I also have recently come up with a solution to a big problem in our house. We have so many cups being used at any given time that I can never remember which one is mine. Does anyone else have that problem? So one day I was looking at a mini paper clip, and I put it on my cup so I would know it was mine. The only problem with this is that I felt like I was going to poke myself in the eye. So Anna came up with the wonderful solution of putting a rubber band around it. Perfect! Of course then everyone wanted to do this with different colors, but I said that wouldn't work because then I wouldn't remember which color rubber band was mine and I'd be back at square one. That's when things started getting out of hand: three rubber bands on a cup, one with an eraser stuck in it, or a plastic bread tab, and even a Frito.
What else? The outside of our house has been half painted for a couple of weeks thanks to weather. I watched the 1931 version of Dracula. I did another dinner exchange and brought back home taco salad, pork sandwiches, spaghetti pie, broccoli-cheese soup, chicken noodle casserole, and meatball and sausage spaghetti sauce. I have been to one board meeting for Young Women and one 3-hour planning meeting for the youth. Dan and I have walk/jogged three times. I have an annoying pain in my upper lungs that has lasted for a month and I would like to take a vacuum and suction it out. Three of my kids have science projects due this month, and one has just finished a history day project. I did scrap booking with good friends this afternoon and got 3 pages over the "brain-pain" hill. As usual I talked too much and put on display all of my faults. I shouldn't admit this but I have read six books so far this month. It's a natural byproduct of trying to "cut expenses." Oh, and I almost forgot--my toenail fell off.
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So what's up with your toenail?
Chris puts a piece of black masking tape on his cup so he can remember which one is his. One more option you could try I guess. Sorry about the dryer...I absolutely hate ironing so I feel for ya.
We are in the middle of science projects too!:) Thanks for the cup idea! Tell us more about your toenail.
My toenail was still having issues from when I killed it during the 12 mile hike. Half of it finally just fell off and it looks very strange. I kind of wish the other one would fall off too!
I love your blog. Sorry about the dryer. Things like that really suck. In my house I use a square (of course) Fiji water bottle. Everyone knows it is mine and Marc knows to refill it if empty. In the summer I will fill it half way and freeze it overnight. Then I can have cold water all day. The downside of course is that it doesn't go in the dishwasher and needs to be replaces every so often.
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