Category: Around the House

Around the House, I Really Do Cook, My Own Personal Weirdness

posting to help the postlessness

I don’t feel like blogging today.  Didn’t yesterday either.  But usually when I post saying that I don’t feel posty, postiness falls upon me, so I’m hopeful.

We forgot to do St. Patrick’s day yesterday, due to me having to make 2 casseroles for different organizations (for a total of 3 made this week), and us going to Nick’s parents house for Aunt Opal’s visit.  We had a good visit.  My camera was acting up, so no pictures from me, but as soon as Mandy posts some, I’ll nab them and repost them on flickr so y’all can see just how huge all the kids are getting.

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home again, home again, jiggedy-jig

I have no idea what poem or song that’s from, but my family has always said it.

The big kids learned to rollerskate/blade this week.  They wore their skates in the car the entire way back home, which made bathroom breaks interesting, to say the least.

Anyways, we’re back from CS.  For a bit, at least.  Nick and the kids are leaving for church in a little while, then David’s going to a sleepover/camp-out thing.

I have nothing of interest to say right now, actually.   Sorry.  I mentally wandered the entire way home and while I “wrote” posts in my head, nothing sounds good right now.  I think I need a nap.  Yeah. *sigh*

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snow that stayed a bit…


All morning long there were big fluffy snowflakes falling from the sky. We kept the house quiet, doing indoor things like baking chocolate chip muffins, drinking hot cocoa by the fire, & snuggling under the blankets reading snowy day books.
Click here for photo set.

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snow!

I went outside to take out the diaper trash (it was somehow missed this morning) and while outside I could hear this crackling sound.  At first I thought maybe it was my hairspray (it’s been a while since I’ve used it, can you tell?), but then I realized what the sound was: SNOW!  There are the littlest, tiniest snowflakes you can imagine outside right now!  I took the kids out and we danced around and tried to find some spots where they were accumulating.  It’s not much, but it’s exciting!

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Best spot in the house


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Originally uploaded by awamiba.

Gregory doesn’t really like Thursdays. Those are the days that everyone else gets to leave the house and he’s stuck home alone with his momma. He spends quite a bit of the day hanging out by the door, waiting for time to go get his brothers.

Even when he’s not waiting for a brother to come home, he loves the front door. There’re all the trees to look at and sometimes people with dogs go by. Frequently we have little dust-n-leave twisters right outside the front door (at least a couple times a day, actually).

Personally, I’m not really fond of our entryway. It has the old wallpaper from the former residents. It’s always messy with papers and backpacks and jackets. It’s drafty this time of year and hot in the summer. The doorway isn’t big enough to really see a lot that’s going on out front of the house.

But Gregory loves it. So do the other kids. They like to set up their bowling pins there and dig through my shoes (from the shoe cupboard–to wear, of course!).

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The Land of No Sleep


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Originally uploaded by awamiba.

These two boys haven’t been sleeping lately. Oh, sure, they’ll sleep and hour here or there during the night, usually at opposite times, but for me, that is Not Sleeping. I haven’t had a full nights or even a half nights sleep in over two weeks.

So this morning I made an executive decision (Nick’s not available, so it’s up to me. woo hoo!) to forgo the Workroom for now and to turn that room back into the Nursery. I think the two boys are feeding off of each others inability to sleep and us constantly having to go into that one same room twelve times a night is keeping them up even more than they would have been on their own.

I’ve already moved Greg’s toys. He’s sooo excited! Some of them I don’t think he’s even seen before (they were on the shelves in the boys room, but the way it was set up, you couldn’t really easily get to them). Of course, he has a few toys that aren’t his that he’s trying to drag over there. It’s kinda funny, actually.

Anyways, I hope this helps fix the problem.

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Very domestic day

It’s been an oddly domestic day for me today.  I made french toast from french bread with freshly squeezed orange in it for second breakfast (first was just yogurt with honey).  I’ve run 5 loads of laundry through washing, drying, folding & I’m starting to put it away (it’s in towering piles on my bed).  The younger kids and I sang and danced and played computer games and sang and danced some more.  We hit library storytime, got books, came home & read them.   Then I made garlic toast with spaghetti sauce & salad & sweetened ice tea for lunch (admittedly Nick made the sauce the other night, but I was the one that peeled & crushed garlic to make the garlic butter for the toast).  Then there was more singing and dancing and washing dishes.  I ran two loads through the dishwasher (one from yesterday and one from today).  Picked up the last kid and played the original Legend of Zelda game on the original NES for about an hour (we took turns).  Then I got dinner ready (it’s cooking as I type).  While it’s cooking I’m going to take yet more books & CD’s out of David’s closet and put them on the shelves in the living room.  Tonight I’ll take David to RA’s, which is usually Nick’s job, but he’s working late in meetings all this week (which is highly annoying, as I can’t call him while he’s out there).  Plus I’m wearing a skirt for the second day in a row.  How weird is all that?  Have I mentioned that it’s been a mostly good day so far?  Oh yeah.  (It’s drizzly and cold and Ben keeps wondering when the snow is coming–hehehe.)

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He wanted to check out the vents and light.
Originally uploaded by awamiba.

So this morning I was trying to dance with the baby, make French toast, do laundry, and wash some dishes. All at once, naturally. At some point I must have put the baby down, left the dryer door open, and did some cooking or washing, because this is what I found when I went back to put the wash into the dryer.