Tid Bits

The other night Jason was reading the 3 Little Pigs to Clara. He likes to interject while he reads so he referred to the oldest brother pig as the "one that went to college and didn't squander his money so he could build a nice, big house..." To that, Clara held her hand up in the air and with plenty of attitude said, "Okay, pigs do not go to college."It's going to take forever to paint our family room. It took Jason hours to tape everything off, doing all the arches was his favorite. I thought maybe it'd be worth it to rent a paint sprayer. I just called Home Depot. $87. Not worth it.

Hazel had another one of those days yesterday. Today, totally happy and normal. Weird. Also weird, the second I put her in this sling thing, she falls asleep.

I know I am not too overwhelmed when I have time to clean out my posts on Google Reader, but I don't have so much extra time that I am checking more often than people post.

I think I was justified in getting a bit upset when Clara accidentally peed her pants yesterday.

I don't like it when people are vague on their blogs. Kind of like I was on Monday. Sometimes I just don't know what to say, so I don't say much.

The dresser we bought smells like smoke. How cool is that? I have plans to get it out. Other smells are more likely to make me want to vomit, but cigarette smoke is the most irritating smell of all for me.

Looks like Clara is going to like math like me. She's already adding and subtracting.
addition: termites are "termamites", ideas are "ideals"
subtraction: surprises are "sprises", diseases are "seases", decided is "sided"

Last night our power went out. All the clocks were blinking this morning and I went to go get my cell phone to see what time it was. I found myself wondering, What did we do when the power went out and we didn't have cell phones? Then I remembered when our power would go out in Snowflake, before the cell phone era, and there was a number you could call to tell you the time. Technology changes so many little things.

I love this baby.

The world is full of good people and I know so many of them. Last Saturday I talked to my friend Brittany. We haven't talked in forever. I don't think we've talked since I saw her last, which was about 19 months ago. Yesterday my friend Carli called, we visited for an hour and then she brought me dinner. I haven't seen or talked to her since we ran into each other at the temple when she was 9 months pregnant. Her baby is now 15 months old. My friend was headed to Wal Mart and called to see if I need anything. Other friends are constantly entertaining Clara, offering their help and checking in on me. I need to try harder to be that kind of friend.

My goal today: sit on the couch in my pj's as long as possible. I'm sick and it's cold out, why not? I did take a shower and got dressed since I had spit up all over me. Right now I'm letting my little beeby sleep on me. And wishing my head didn't hurt so I could fall asleep too.

About the men in our backyard... There is a group of retirees from Canada that volunteer for the United Food Bank. They pick people's oranges (for free!) all over this area, then donate the produce to the Food Bank. It'd be tough to pick all the oranges ourselves (we have 35 citrus trees, 32 are navels) and even if we did, we'd never be able to get rid of all that citrus. It works out nicely for everyone involved. Speaking of our citrus, some of our lemons and oranges are GIANT. I held them up next to an average sized one, taken from the same tree even.

I am on a mission to get my house organized, every single room, before this Sunday. I am sick of having an anxiety attack thinking of someone looking into my room, let alone walking into it. {I wrote this before I got sick last night. Since it feels like someone stabs me in the ear with a knife every few minutes, I think I'll lower my expectations. Hopefully the laundry is put away before Sunday.}