Three Meme

I've watched this go around with the kids' answers..really cute! Now they're tagging grownups and I get to play :-) ! Thanks, loni!

THREE NICKNAMES: Mom, Grammie, Honey

THREE PEOPLE THAT MAKE ME LAUGH: My goofy DH, the grandkids, my brothers

THREE THINGS THAT I LOVE: Worship dance, sleeping late, foot rubs

THREE THINGS THAT I HATE: Throwing up, Texas summers, conflict

THREE THINGS THAT I DON'T UNDERSTAND: People who won't forgive you when you say you are sorry, married people who would rather get divorced than stay and work out their problems, people who want to save the whales and abort the babies.

THREE THINGS ON MY FLOOR: HA! There are not very many places where we can even see the floor right now! Three of the PILES are: stuff from the linen closet that we're selling at the garage sale this weekend, stuff from the bedroom closet that we're selling at the garage sale this weekend, and tons of toys (some we're selling and some that the grandkids are playing with.)

THREE THINGS I AM DOING RIGHT NOW: trying to finish this quickly before the napping babies wake up, trying to distract CreamPuff while her parents do the final walkthrough on NewBigHouse, and wondering what we're going to have for dinner.

THREE THINGS I CAN DO: Read in Hebrew (on about a Pre-K level--if the vowel markings are included), drive a stick shift, knit with three different colors of yarn at one time

THREE WAYS TO DESCRIBE MY PERSONALITY: intense, upbeat, optomistic

THREE THINGS I CANNOT DO: remember where I put my ____ (keys, shoes, purse, important papers--fill in the blank) without a great deal of hyperfocused backtracking, eat foods with gluten, d0 some things quickly (I clean slow, I sew slow, I cross-stitch slow, I write blogs slow...)

THREE FAVORITE FOODS: avocado, brownies, my potato salad

THREE FOODS I DO NOT LIKE: liver, seafood, lamb

THREE BEVERAGES I DRINK REGULARLY: tea, kefir, Perfectly Protein

THREE SHOWS I WATCH: Numb3rs, History Detectives, PBS American Experience

Into the Home Stretch

I've been doing daycare for over 20 years and because my favorite age is the babies, I "graduate" my young charges when they hit their first birthday. And because it really is a little to0 difficult to let go of a sweet little person you have known all their life, I have unconsciously developed a little mind game. A few weeks before they are set to go to an exciting new toddler program which is more in keeping with their big grown up selves, I begin to allow myself to be annoyed by certain behaviours which had previously not been a problem. This one cries so darn loud or that one doesn't nap worth a flip. As I focus on what a pain these things are, I begin to look forward to how much better it will be when they move on. So by the time they actually leave, I can kiss them goodbye with a big smile and be ready to embrace the replacement baby.

Well, my sweet daughter and her husband and 3 fabulous children are just about ready to move to their new big house. It's all finished, the walk through is this week, papers to be signed next week. And last week, I found myself just a little huffy about the noise, the mess, the stuff layin' around. It's been like that from day one, so I was a little annoyed with myself for suddenly having a problem with it. Then I realized that my "disconnect" mode had activated itself.
Had to go into my brain and turn it off. Even so, I feel a little guilty that any part of me will be happy to be back to our quiet existance. I will miss them so much.

Anniversaries all around

Well, I'm late, but that's old news. But it has been said that I NEVER blog and I can't let that pass. Actually, we went on a real live, "out of town, stay in a resort, see the shows, sleep in, go shopping" kind of vacation. (At DH's suggestion and encouragement, I bought this outrageously theatrical looking garment--velvet with peacock feathers beaded onto it--ksl promptly dubbed it "the sultan's bathrobe" and said that when I come to my senses and get rid of it, she wants it for CreamPuff's dress up trunk). Anyway, we came home to "need to get ready for work but the main sewer line in the house is clogged so you can't do the mountain of laundry or wash the dirty dishes". So this has been a busy week of catch up. DH worked hard this week, too, so, apart from a very sweet two dozen roses, we haven't yet celebrated. But this year was 35. 35 years of happily ever after. Made sweeter by the fact that it was also 10 years and 5 years of happily ever after for our two sweet girls and the wonderful men they picked to marry. I love my wonderful husband. I love it that we made the two sweetest little baby girls in the whole wide world who grew up into amazing, strong, beautiful women who are living lives of purpose and passion with husbands they love and are giving us grandchildren that are delightful beyond description. We have the best lives in the world and we give the Lord all praise and glory for His incredible goodness to us. Happy (belated) anniversaries to us all! :-)