Stuology

The title of this post is the theme to cleaning my kitchen. Really. By looking at my kitchen, you’d think that dinner was way more fun and exciting than it really is. My accomplishments for today: Paperwork filled out Required notarization done Health assessment dropped off at doctor office Dishwasher pump replaced–I only needed to [...]

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I’m home again. I was surprised that my house was an even bigger mess upon returning than I left it, and even its pre-traveling state wasn’t clean. Today I picked up the upstairs kid toys* put away the dishes that I had washed on Wednesday refilled and washed new dishes washed, folded and put away [...]

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Donna Jo ca. 1947 Here is another endeavor for my not working time. I’m scanning old family photos for archiving and restoration. I’m starting to store them on Flickr, although they are all in their “before” state. I’ll update with the after later. I’m still scanning. The beautiful woman in the middle is my grandmother. [...]

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I spent the morning going on a field trip to the Prairie Park Nature Center with 35 kids ages 2-5. I’m frakin’ exhausted. And I have partly-chewed sandwich smeared on my pants. I was only responsible for four of them. That doesn’t seem hard or tiring until you add them to the blurry gaggle of [...]

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Sara and Grant Wedding I know this is biased, but for me, this is the Trifecta of Cuteness: he’s a miniature man, he my son and he’s wearing A TUX!! He had a crisp, white shirt, tie, vest and black shiny shoes. He made typical Jay faces for the photos I tried to get of [...]

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I’m not sitting on a beach. I haven’t read a book. My “vacation” has still been enjoyable. Why? I went to bed with most of my house clean. The kitchen was spotless. The playroom is organized. There are only a few toys in the living room*. The kids’ room is clean. The dog is even [...]

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Same story: A recent 27-year old grad that cannot find a job. With a totally different attitude, it makes up for the previous story.

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I woke up this morning not only with both kids sleeping with me, but also with a headache. Mac was super kind and took Jay to daycare. I went back to bed with Ada. She kept waking me up to help her with things, but I did get a little rest in that time. My [...]

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Jay just came into our room crying. He did the Please Pick Me Up Arm Stretch, so I did. Then he punched me in the eye. I have days when I wish I could have someone hypnotize him into thinking he is five.

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Look what I did! This is what I did for dinner for Mac because I spent much of the day baking bagels and not planning dinner. The Bagel Man tutored me in the way of the bagel today. He also left convenient bins for part of the bagel process, one of which is being used [...]

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