Enjoying this blog...

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...now, if only the maid would show up to finish the laundry, cleaning and cooking, I could go on a creating spree. Alas, I am the maid, the nanny and the owner of the laundromat and so, I will file away some of the projects found here until I have a spare moment or two to discover myself once again. :-)

25 Random Thoughts on this rainy day

Extremely random thoughts all swirling around in my head at the same time...don't you wish you were me?

1. I miss my camera. Daily I would reach for it to snap pictures of my growing brood...and I wonder if I should pay to repair the lens or just buy a new one. Will it be the same camera when the lens is repaired?
2. Why is it that my four year old son can be standing on top of something and never find it while my 2 year old daughter can find something downstairs, two rooms away and buried under couch cushions?
3. I really should go dig out our snow clothes for the youth ski trip tonight.
4. Sometimes I miss the days of sleeping in, reading books till all hours of the night and eating junk food for lunch.
5. On the food note -- I miss chicken too!
6. I'm feeling convicted to keep Andrew in worship with us but can't get him to sit still for five minutes at a meal.
7. Sometimes a homemade chocolate chip cookie makes the day so much brighter.
8. Why is there a roll on the floor under the table?
9. And why don't I have a canine vacuum cleaner?
10. There was a Sunday School coloring project in my freezer this morning.
11. Can a woman drown in dirty laundry?
12. There are two marbles, a lego, candy hearts, some loose change and two receipts in my pocket right now. Oh, and a pacifier.
13. Still chuckling over the episode of "The Office" last night.
14. Does eating Gobstopper Cookies at 11 am count as breakfast?
15. I still have a gift certificate to CBD to spend...the problem, it's not enough for my ever growing wish list.
16. In all things, moderation, except books!
17. How can I quickly defrost a ham?
18. I'm not really fond of my new haircut.
19. My children make me laugh (daily!)
20. WOW! I need to find the broom and sweep before the day is done.
21. its hard to type onehanded
22. my children make me laugh -- daily!
23. I would love a Sonic cherry vanilla Dr Pepper right about now!
24. "Do everything without arguing..." -- this song keeps running through my head.
25. Jesus paid the ultimate sacrifice for me, for me -- How cool!

11, 13, 3...

What do these numbers have in common? They are, from oldest to youngest, the age in months at which my children slept more than, say, three hours at a stretch at night. I still recall to the day (September 18) the first time Andrew slept seven hours at night...I woke up in the middle of the night in cold sweats, thinking he was dead. Marcail may have actually slept through the night because I forgot to turn on the baby monitor and made her cry it out. Most likely I was pregnant with our third and so exhasuted that I just never heard her!! But Ethan...sweet little Ethan...born five weeks early, weighing almost a pound more than his brother...sweet Ethan is a great sleeper. And this week, we've been averaging six-seven hour stretches of sleep at night. Now, if I could only learn to stay on top of laundry, cooking, cleaning, etc. and get to bed on time!!