It is snowing outside! Big beautiful snowflakes. Unfortunately, their grandeur ends as soon as they hit the pavement and melt into drops of water. I bet the kids are having a ball at school. But it doesn't look like today will be a snow day.
I have a question. Have you ever had a "project", a person who you just knew you could help (read fix)? I know we are all guilty of this at sometime in our life. It may not always be intentional.
I just realized that I am someone's project! How could that be? I am the "smart one", the "responsible one", the "over acheiver". I make project out of others :).
2/6/06
2/2/06
Put on a coat!
This morning I found proof of the old wives' tale "a coat is something a mother puts on a child when she is cold". NPR has a story : Why kids don't wear coats that validates the fact that cold does not cause colds, a virus causes the colds. Still doesn't make me feel any better when my 12 yr old goes to school in 40 degree weather in shorts and 2 tshirts. Nor does it create motivation to cover up those mid-drift tops on pre-teens (and yes, maybe if I had a flat tummy like that I might let it hang out too). I find it funny how my opinion has changed regarding that now that I have a pubecent boy. When my daughter was in middle school, I defended all those cute little girls in their grown up clothes. "They don't mean to dress that way" Now, well this leopard has changed her spots. Guess I finally realized just how visual boys are.
1/31/06
End of January
Today in 1990 the first McDonalds opened in the Soviet Union... less than 2 years later the Soviet Union ceased to exist as a nation... coincidence?
Yesterday's project in my "January Spring Cleaning" was to clean off my desk. One 50 lb. gargage bag later and I am almost there. How does it get like this? I try the "only touch paper once thing..." obviously not working. Do I have to save 10 year old finger paintings? What about Easter cards I bought 7 years ago when we moved into this house. Will this be the year I actually send them out??
Today is the last day of the month. Thank God! I am looking forward to a fresh start!
1/28/06
Mothering 101
Ok, so I said I was going to clean out the pantry because it is full of shit. I was also going to "free myself" by getting rid of all those old cookbooks that were supposed to make my life perfect but instead cause crap to fall out of the pantry when you open the door. It might help if we did didn't have duplicates of things and things we "can't throw away because we might need them". Notice, this is me POST FlyLady... I need to learn more patience because I am not perfect. Though, it would be nice if the stuff that was falling out was stuff that I actually bought... but I won't go there today. THREE HOURS LATER I have chased a butterfly into my computer and tried to link this cute (but worth 3 hours??) cartoon to this new BLOG. Rhett's response to my newfound knowledge... "It's just going to suck more of your time away..." The wise words of a fellow butterfly hunter. We'll see if you can actually see this wonderful cartoon. Meanwhile, my pantry is still spilling out onto the kitchen floor and I haven't even run a brush through my hair since my shower at 9:00! That's one way to get curls in your hair...
1/27/06
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