May 2011
7 posts
questions
Why do I want to get a tattoo for my thirtieth birthday?
Am I the only person that does sock-shoe-sock-shoe? Does everyone else do sock-sock-shoe-shoe?
Why does making the beds soothe me so very much?
Why can’t Grassroots Coffee open a shop in my backyard?
Why do chickens smell so gross?
Why does our neighbor let her nine year old daughter drive a car?
Why does 35 minutes on an...
Watchthird official day of summer and this is what we have become
out of the mouths of babes
Last night the babies and I read about Lot and Sodom (a version that was child appropriate) and Anderson had a few questions. We talked about evil and sin and hearts that reject God. We also discussed that people that have asked Jesus to live in their hearts can still make bad choices and have bad attitudes, the difference being that those people can ask for forgiveness. I gave a few examples of...
bath house
So our old house had two bathrooms. One had a tub and shower combo and the master bathroom had an itty bitty shower stall and a linen closet. I guess having a closet in the bathroom was supposed to make you forget that the easiest way to get clean would be to soap the walls of the shower stall and lean against them. It was that small.
It was small but it worked for us. I started not to mind that...
lapse in communication
You know that thing where the wife is waiting to start dinner until the husband is finished building a chicken coop? And the husband KNOWS that the chicken coop cannot be built in one day but decides to keep working until the wife calls him in for dinner? That happened.
And also the meal was one that was somewhat labor intensive and compounded by the fact that the wife had started an alternate...
working on my fitness
I hate the exercise. I really do. You know those people that love working out and cannot get enough of being super fit and go on and on about how awesome exercise endorphins are? Yeah. That is not me. Never has been and never will be. Now don’t get me wrong. I do not want to be overweight or lazy, but honestly, I do just enough of the exercise to get by and I am fine with that.
I have...
this is gross...do not read this
Last night was horrible enough to make a grown woman cry. Like another random grown woman, because really it takes very little to make me cry so I cannot be a barometer for tears.
Want details? Great because I would love to share. It all started with vomit…all good stories do. Last night after dinner we let the babies have some outside playtime. Not usually our routine, but with such perfect...