Category: Family Matters

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Just like on Sex & the City!!

NOT. Ok, the only way my life resembles that TV show is that it’s 6pm on a Friday and I’m drinking a Cosmo. I’m in suburia, have toddler snot on my shirt, my glass is plastic, and my entire outfit cost less than $50, so obviously, the only thing that has my thinking “carrie bradshaw” is my drink. Which is goooood.

Other ways my like is not like Carrie B’s:

Tomorrow we are going shopping!!! (for a new dishwasher. fabulously more exciting than a pair of shoes at this point in my life) Did you know that behind the panel of a d/w is a piece of courrogated cardboard? And behind that is the mechanism that works the timer/soap release, and that’s it?? M taught me that this week. Thus the reason we are going shopping tomorrow.

I am going to dinner tomorrow night downtown with a girlfriend!
(to a Catholic Life Network dinner) Girls’ night out with a prolife theme, if you will.

We are going to a show on Sunday!! (to the Murat Circus) yes, the Circus is in town, and we’ll think M will dig it!

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Valentine’s Day 2007


HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

Above is the view we woke up to this morning. To the right is where our AC unit is. Those little black specks are our solar lights that are about a foot tall. Holy Drifting Snow, Batman!

Due to the FOOT of snow we got yesterday, I got to spend the day with my two favorite Valentines. Check out Miss M in front of our door, after the snow blowers came through the neighborhood:

You can check out hubby’s flickr account for more of our snowy adventures. I did venture out today–down to school (a whole 3 miles down the road) to pick up a few things to continue to work on the upcoming fundraiser. I also journeyed to Sam’s Club (1 mile up the road) for a few things. I foolishly went in looking for something special for dinner tonight. Dinner for 2 and 1/2. At Sam’s. This is what I found:

Pounds and pounds of chicken, ravioli, parm cheese, breadsticks and a huge cookie. Dinner for 2 and 1/2 for the next, what, 5 nights???

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SNOW DAY

The only thing better than waking up to a snow day is enjoying snow day #1 and getting a call late in the afternoon that tomorrow will be snow day #2. I know it’s juvenile, but honestly, snow days are still the best in my book. Completely unscheduled free time/day off with pay that doesn’t count against your time off tally. Seriously, can you beat that?

L worked from home today (and honestly, I did a lot of “school work” too), so the three of us had a nice day together. For fun, I dumped a box of alphabet pasta in M’s sled (inside) and threw in some bowls and cups and she had a ball scooping, pouring, and of course, DUMPING. It was a hoot. She also colored, read books, played in the snow for a litttle bit and then had fun just watching Daddy play in the snow. Too funny.

This morning I read my SIL’s post about being crazy-productive due to Oprah’s organizing expert. I was working a draft about that very topic. Here’s most of it:

On Tuesday, Oprah showcased a family with a serious clutter problem. Ever since, I’ve been uber-motivated to get a few things in order myself. Now, granted, my house is NOTHING like the one she featured, but still, we all have room for improvement.

SOO since Tuesday I have: reorganized our bedroom closet and added a step stool to maximize storage, gotten a new file box for our finanaces and organized it, found the bottom of the compter desk and filed everything that was on the desk, wiped/dusted surfaces too numerous to list, and done a ridiculous amount of laundry/put it away where it now belongs. Phew.

I have to say that it’s been a few days now, and things are still in pretty good shape. I’m loving my newly organized closet, and the fact that I now have 2 file boxes–one for $$ matters, the other for other things (daycare newsletters, adoption agency notices, etc).

And these snow days will just give me more time to figure more things out. Or atleast to watch more Oprah.