Random - really Random

Long rambling...

1. Lydia calls chapstick "lips" and loves to put it on.  Her bestest friend, Regan "Way-gun" gave her a stuffed unicorn named Sparkle that she loves to take everywhere.  Lydia believes herself to be Batman most days - "I not Lydia, I Batman!".  Therefore, yesterday Batman left the house riding her pet unicorn, Sparkle with her "lips" in her purse.  And while at the thrift store looking for a lamp I noticed them putting out swimsuits - Lydia said "can I have a Batman bathing suit".  I'm not sure if they make Batman bathing suits for little girls but I may have to look.

2. I've thought often in the last few months how grateful I am for our Honda Civic- at 14 years old and within 500 miles of 200,000 miles it's been a reliable ride for me as a single person into marriage and now as I haul three kiddos in the back.  It's dingy with age but I love that car - it was the first car I bought on my own and the CD player I paid extra to have installed in 2000 still works.  This week we had to have some repairs after someone Reversed into Jeremy while in the drive-thru at Chick-fil-A.  Fortunately, it was a pleasant process and got the car back this week.  The car hasn't been that clean in forever - I guess that's what happens when you have someone over the age of 8 in charge of washing and cleaning!

3. We both got smart phones this week - I know, I know - that is so 2007 - and I'm still trying to figure out how to use it.  My old cell phone is so old they can't even transfer contacts into my new phone so I'll be slowly adding as I go.  Seriously folks, I feel like I'm Dorothy entering Oz in the full color of technology.  But don't worry - we'll still be grounded - my skills in using rabbit ears for the TV will still be in use.  Those skills were honed in the trenches on the farm when I was growing up and I'm glad they still come in handy all these years later.

4. Samuel starts baseball today.

5.  Lucy made some homemade chocolate bars in PC this week - they made recipes, packages, personalized marketing, etc.  She was super excited about "Lucy's Gooey, Chewy Bars" with her favorite animal on the logo - a Cheetah.

6.  I planted some azaleas in my front yard and I'm itching to plant and garden and be outside.  But first I MUST hang something on my walls.  I just can't get it done.  I keep thinking about what I might do and then I can't get it done.  After getting our house painted last year, I like the simplicity of the empty walls - nothing to dust, clear space that is not cluttered like my brain but it's just a wall - it says nothing.  I need my walls to say something.  I need them to remind me of what I treasure, what is beautiful to inspire the daily.

7.  Oreo was left out several weeks ago and peed upstairs - I've worked HOURS to get rid of the smell.  My children believe I'm obsessed.  Maybe I am.  I can't handle the smell.  I think we're finally on the back end of the cleaning - I think.

8.  I have wanted to love oatmeal for a really long time.  Y'all - I'm a cheesy grits kind of gal, but oatmeal is so much better for you, so cheap, so easy and I just could never make myself even eat more than a bite or two of it.  I'm not totally oat adverse.  I like Oatmeal crumbles on cobbler, oatmeal cookies and oats in granola - so I knew it could be overcome.  I'm not much for Beginning of the Year Resolutions - but my unspoken goal this year - to like oatmeal (Defined as "being able to eat a bowl of oatmeal without gagging and hopefully enjoying it")  I think I'm there.  Again - my children think I've become obsessed.  My strategy (mind you, this strategy was not thought out ahead of time it just evolved) - Eat Oatmeal every day until goal is reached.  I like oatmeal, can eat it with little added but love it with some pecans or berries.

9. I heard an interview on the radio about pleasant/happy sounds  - I didn't hear all of it and I'm not sure what it was about but it made me think of what might be my most pleasant sound - something that makes my heart smile, something that brings me joy everytime I hear it.  Rushing river? Tweeting birds? cello music?  the ocean tide? were all things I thought might make the top of my list.  I thought of it on my way home from work the other day.  My happy sound would be the happy contented play of my children as they talk, dream, laugh, sing - often in the background of my daily chores around the house - their voices in the yard with the windows up, her 2 year old chatter at the plastic critters at her feet in the living room, her creative songs while dancing upstairs, his joy at playing ball with those boys down the street.  That is the pleasant sound that fills my days, that is the sound I will miss one day and need to soak up and enjoy.

10. Glad to be home on a Saturday and not at work.

11. Yesterday we got a package from Papa and Grandma - the kiddos LOVED it and now we're ready for March 17!

 

picture taken with my new phone :) and now successfully made its way to the blog!