Friday Quick Takes

Lots going on around here this week, so I'm joining Jen for Quick Takes Friday:




~ 1 ~
Mayday! Mayday! BIG problems at school! I've had to let the angry mama bear out of her (deep, dark) cage, and she's not going back in any time soon. And my ever-hopeful homeschool-mama heart is going pitter-pat in a big way. That's all I'm saying, for now.

~ 2 ~
KLD decided to give up tantrums for Lent. God bless that child, and I will give her chocolate cupcakes every day until Easter in exchange for her blessed sacrifice. Go, KLD, go!

~ 3 ~
My Lenten observances, along with giving up Diet Coke OF COURSE, include getting up at least a half hour early each day. So far, so good. Why, oh why, can't I do this without Lent to motivate me? It hardly even feels like a sacrifice, because it's so nice to avoid all that morning panic. I'm hoping to inch up to an hour early a day, to get in more prayer time and maybe even some other paperwork, or exercise, or meal prep, or...
We'll see how that goes. Good thing I'm NOT giving up caffeine any time soon.

~ 4 ~
When we bought this new house, one of my very most favorite features was its spacious, light-filled, fully-decked out laundry room (with a mini-fridge, no less!). Well, this week the awesome Kenmore Elite front-loading washer just self-destructed. The repair man, who fortunately is sent over by the home warranty company, diagnosed it as a complete FAIL of the main bearing assembly that spins the washer's drum--something like a new transmission, as best I can understand it. $700, to be blunt about it. And a parts order, and a week or so.

It's a good thing I have lots of time to run around shopping for possible new washers, and measuring the matching dryer and pedestals to figure out whether we'd really have to replace everything in order to rebuild the glorious temple o' laundry that I have come to feel is my right. And it's a good thing I have even more time to hang out at the laundromat until almost midnight last night, washing all our clothes and towels and everything I could find that might need washing before next week.

And good thing I'm not giving up caffeine any time soon.

~ 5 ~
My baby is going to turn 2 in a few weeks, so naturally my thoughts are turning to...myself. (Yikes!) Now what? More babies? (Now there's a blog post in the making, I promise!) Some homeschooling? (See #1 above) :) Inch back into some sort of career, or at least some sort of something? Some of you have mentioned lately that perhaps that "something" should involve writing, which makes my heart go pitter-pat almost as much as homeschooling! So I've been writing some stuff...you know, that I haven't put on this blog yet. And I might try to learn a bit more html and so forth. You never know what I'm going to come up with next, right?

Bill, if you're reading this, I promise I'll get to cleaning out those closets and organizing our finances any minute now, really I will!

~ 6 ~
MPD has really been saying lots of little words lately and it is so darn cute. He can really get in on our conversations these days, and make his wishes quite clear! Here are some words I can think of just off the top of my head: milk, ball, truck, "right there," yes, no, me, Mary, Jack (sounds like "ssssshhack!"), boots, coat, play, all gone/done, more, cup, spoon, basketball, car, open/close door, bath, hot, dark, moon...and he understands just about everything. I love telling him to put his clothes in the laundry, or put back the bowl and get a plate, or to throw something in the garbage and seeing him perfectly understand me! What a sweetie! These first years are just so cool I never get tired of watching all the cute stuff they do. Well, maybe a bit tired--not of the cute stuff, just tired in general...good thing I'm not giving up caffeine any time soon.

~ 7 ~
Four weeks to spring break! I can't wait! (See #1 above!) Not sure what our plans are yet but I have a bit of winter cabin fever and I feel like a little family fun of some sort. We shall see; four weeks out is much farther than I typically plan things these days! One thing for certain is that I am very much looking forward to the SPRING part of the break! We're in the home stretch of winter--hooray!
(And we can't wait to see our beloved JAMIE the week before our spring break!)