Nothing at all witty to say, so I’ll just write about my day.
It was actually a pretty productive day.
AJ got up and got his scooter ready to take to Oklahoma for a rally. L and I were outside at 6.40 in the beautiful sunshine so that I could help him load it on the trailer. (Incidentally, AJ also had to learn how to remove and reinstall the car seat. He’s never done it.) As for the rally, L and I went along last year and stayed with my sis. It was cold and rainy weather, which sucked for Aaron, and L got sick, which sucked for me. It was a fan-freakin-tastic weekend, let me tell ya.
So, when the prospect of going again this year came up, I cringed. And when we determined that we’d be staying in a hotel and my sis and fam were going to be busy on Saturday, I declined. The five-hour drive is bad enough, not to mention trying to sleep in the same room as my kid, and the same queen bed as my husband. (Love ya, AJ.) So, since he’s on vaca this weekend, I’m on Mama AND Daddy duty. Don’t worry…I’ll get mine.
I grumped about getting out of bed so early, but it was a beautiful day and L and I had been to the grocery store and were home by 9.30. He watched the last 30 minutes of Sesame Street and then we mixed up a huge batch of sugar cookies. (I mixed. He attempted to shove his wooden spoon into the mixer. Scary.) The cookies are for a wedding shower at the end of the month, but I want to have a little time to experiment with the recipe and the icing. This gives me enough time to remake them if I need to.
Our buddies, Jack and Ade, stopped in for a short visit. I didn’t get a pic of the two boys together because L is wearing the same pajamas that he wore all day yesterday - and to bed last night. I didn’t think you really needed to see them again. However, Jack is looking very GQ these days. I’ll post a picture later on when I don’t have to go downstairs to get the camera. (It’s 10.10…I’m in bed, people.)
Updated: Here’s Jack.
L ate and then took a nap. I also took a short nap and then got up and cleaned the house a little. I’m in a state of flux at the moment. There are things without a “place” and I need to find places for them. Said things are mostly stacked on the floor, on the island in the kitchen, or strewn around the house at random in plastic Target bags. My goal for the weekend is to get at LEAST everything on the main floor into a new home. I even packed up L’s toys in see-through plastic bags (suffocation hazard, I know, but he’s always supervised) to put in the toy box so he won’t get every freakin’ thing out at once. Now he has to ask to have me open the bags - at least until he figures that out, which will probably be tomorrow. Oh well, at least the toys have a place to be put away. My desk, on the other hand, still has a serious problem with homelessness. That’s what I get for not having drawers in which to hide things. Ugh.
Since it was 65 degrees, I had no excuse not to work outside a bit, so I cleaned out L’s frog pool from last summer and turned it into a bean box. It’s up on our deck now, so we can play outside up there and stay out of the mud, dog poop, and scary spider webs and ticks haunting the forest of our backyard. I think he’ll love it.
It was too chilly (shaded) for him to play out there when he woke up from nap, so we went on a walk. He’s figured out what a house is, so he was thrilled with the neighborhood and named the colors of many of the houses and counted them as we walked. I said something occasionally to appease him and listened to All Things Considered as we made our rounds. I did stop to show him daffodils, dandelions, and a really cool crane moving part of a building frame into place. I’m sure the construction dudes thought I was a weirdo. Shit, L probably thinks so too. Oh well.
We came home and I proceeded to check out the damage done to our electric dog fence when the lawn guy came to aerate and reseed last weekend. I knew it was cut because Aaron called to tell me while I was at my parents’ house and it made me cry. I spent six hours putting in that fence last summer. Anyway, the damage doesn’t SEEM to be as bad as I thought. So far there are only two spots on either side of the yard that are cut. I think I can fix them and the fence will be in working order again. This is a good thing…I had visions of relaying the entire thing. That would be a bad thing. Now I just have to get some electrical tape.
Had dinner and then I worked on the sugar cookies while L entertained himself with Mardi Gras beads. He loves them. It’s insane.
Cookies are cut and baked and I think I even figured out how to make my favorite recipe hold the shape of the cookie cutters a little better. I know, I know…you are all dying to know. Well, it’s my little secret. If I tell you, then I have to kill you. Last I checked, there were like 90 of you out there reading my site occasionally. And you know, I just don’t have the energy for that kind mass death stampede.
Well, I warned you that this was going to be a hodge podge of stuff. The only thing I have to say for myself is: at least the title rhymes.
