I have vacuuming issues. I don’t like to vacuum. I like to spell vacuum, but I don’t like to do it. It’s loud, the vacuum is heavy, it scares the kids or wakes them up, and the amount of time it takes to do is much longer in my head than in reality. I really [...]
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A list of things I can see on the floor from the chair where I’m typing: About 100 duplo blocks The duplo container A package of wipes A wrapped-up dirty diaper A plush green dinosaur/dragon (Degen Dragon) Maggie’s pink windbreaker Two paper plates A blanket Two white socks A “choo choo shoe” (Thomas the Tank Engine sandal) Three [...]
The toughest time of day
Posted in Home on Mar 5th, 2008
Why is it that the hours between about 5pm and 7pm are the toughest time of day? I nearly invariably get tired and grumpy and frustrated at about that time. It seems like I should be able to avoid it since I know it’s coming, but I don’t. But I can try now! So, what [...]
Okay, I need a plan to recover from my grumpy awakening and here it is: 1. I’m going to go eat something. I’m thinking a bowl of raisin bran will do the trick for now. 2. Say my prayers and read something in the scriptures. Since writing the above, I decided it would be silly [...]
Grumpy awakening
Posted in Cleaning, Food, Home, Primary, Religion/Church on Mar 5th, 2008
Colin and I are both grumpy this morning. He woke up with a headache and I woke up mildly nauseous for the 10th day in a row or something (no, I’m not pregnant unless the tests lie). There are piles of clean, unfolded laundry sitting on the floor around the house and the kids dumped all [...]
The local weather report says we’re going to have severe thunderstorms today. I used to get really excited about an announcement like that, but ever since we had the tornados nearby last month I’ve been nervous about thunderstorms. I don’t mind the lightning or thunder or rain–it’s the possibility of a tornado that concerns me. [...]
Yesterday was my birthday and I really had a great day. My family called and sang Happy Birthday to me on speakerphone in the morning, an indispensable part of any truly good birthday. Colin spent most of the day up north helping with the cleanup of the tornado disaster that happened a couple of weeks ago, [...]
Cleaning, Scriptures, and Exercise
Posted in Cleaning, Health, Home, Religion/Church on Feb 27th, 2008
This morning I woke up feeling really good and happy and ready to get to work. I’m sorry to say that waking up that way has been the exception for me for a few weeks. It’s been harder than usual lately for me to get out of bed energetically, to be cheerful for any stretch of [...]
It’s been a couple of months since I’ve done anything more serious than a slow saunter around the apartment complex with my kids and the lack of movement was getting a little ridiculous, so when both kids went down for a nap at once this afternoon I decided to take the first step to a [...]
Mommy Shirt
Posted in Cleaning on Feb 5th, 2008
I have mommy shirt. At least in public most people wear clean clothes, and I’ve even seen mothers of young children wearing clean clothing, though I don’t understand how they achieve such an accomplishment. I admit that even before I became a mother I was a little klutzy and occassionally wore stained shirts or got [...]