On Wednesday...and also On Thursday

1) The girls are sitting in the kitchen, watching the heavy rain fall. "This is terrible." says Quincy.  "This is good for our crops." replies Reese.

2) Quincy is getting frustrated while trying to master drawing a star without help.

3)I'm trying out two different types of dinner rolls tonight. We're going to taste them both and see which one we like best. (or if we like either.)

4) Reese finds an old disposable camera in the drawer of stamps.  Quincy diagnoses it "out of batteries" when it won't take a picture.  Then she asks where the screen is. I explain that it isn't "out of batteries, it is just out of film."
"What's film?" asks Reese.

5) Soren and Corbin are napping. I probably should wake them up. But the storm is so noisy that I figure if they didn't need the sleep, they'd definitely be awakened by it.

6) "6 seconds.  The storm is getting farther away from us" says Reese

7) Corbin made an adorable paper house at library story time this morning.

8) Soren and Corbin have had several successful nights together in the same room. Nap time is still a challenge.

9) I'm scratched up a bit from a hard core fall in the road while crossing the street on my run last night.

10) It is going to freeze tonight. My tomatoes and peppers are toast. again.  Winter is a bully that won't quit.

11) The dogwood buds in my yard are so swollen, I think they will burst tomorrow or friday.  I hope my tulips survive, so we can get a blossoming, greener, prettier photo taken of the front yard for our real estate listing.

12) I dedicate an hour every day to real estate listings and birds eye view maps, determined to find us our farm.  Every time we find a perfect property, it is placed right along a highway, has a bunch of operating chicken houses (stinky!) next door, or is $100K overpriced.  It is out there, I just know it!  We can't wait to get homesteading.

13) I want bees for my birthday, but we decided to wait until we have relocated.  In the meantime, I am reading about beekeeping.  I've never been stung. My dad is deathly allergic to bee stings and swells up like the guy in Pure Luck. I don't know if a bee allergy is a genetic thing suppose I should probably find out they could kill me before I put up a colony on our land.

14) Are you interested in doTerra oils? You're not? That's ok, I'll ask you again in 5 minutes.
-said everyone I know.

15) This rain is lovely.  I know a lot of people are complaining about it, but it's going to make everything lush and green.  I'm bitter about the frost tonight, but I will still gladly take super cell thunderstorms over snow 100% of the time.  Flowers and rainbows coming soon!  Plus, this afternoon with my girls in the kitchen with me has been really fun.

16)  Reese is reading SuperFudge with her class at school. I love hearing her describe all of the funny parts in the book to me and pretending it is all new and exciting again, which it sort of is, coming from Reese, 20+ years after reading it myself.

17) My sweet grandma (Mima) is in the hospital.  I'm looking at flights to go out for a quick weekend visit in the near future, since we aren't going to see my family this summer.  I greatly regret not visiting my grandpa one last time before he did not know who I was.  Aaron's grandmother (Wini) is not doing so well either right now.  These are the times when it is most difficult to live beyond a reasonable driving distance from our families.

18) It's thursday now, and I am still writing this post.  I had big plans to go back and fill in with pictures, but I'm just going to post for the sake of having these little thoughts put in writing.   That's all I've got time for today.

19) Corbin had a rough (terrible) day at preschool today.  Two steps forward, one step back.  He made an "I'm sorry card" for the little old lady volunteer at the preschool to hopefully convince her not to quit volunteering.  In her words, "Corbin made today worst day I've ever had as a volunteer at this school, and I've been volunteering for a very long time."  When he got in the car, I knew right away something had gone wrong today when I got my first experience with the sentence that sounds a lot like, "ok don't freak out, BUT..."  He just kept saying, "it's ok Mom, I will fix it. I will fix it! I will make her a yellow card. I will make it better!"  I do believe in helping children understand that they have made a bad choice. I do not believe in telling children that THEY are bad.

Dear Corbin,
Kicking an old lady in the leg is a bad choice.  In spite of today's events, I still love you and I always will.
...but if you kick again I might end up being the only one left who loves you, so make my job a little easier and don't do it again. Ok?
Thanks,
Mom

20) Last night's "roll off" was delicious.  Tonight's cafe rio pork is going to be a delicious reminder that I love my deep freezer.

21) Aaron got a flat tire at lunch time today.  The boys and I drove down to pick him up and got the car over to have new tires put on (it was time to replace them anyway), and then we took an out-of-the way route home so we could check out some land along pumpkin hollow and peach orchard road. It was peaceful and beautiful and Corbin loved pointing out the cows and horses that we saw along the way. I found myself actually grateful for the flat tire because we had such a nice drive home.

22) I feel like the only kind of blog posts I can find time to do lately are these random lists. It's not very exciting, but it's something to capture what's happing in our little world. In this case, busy is good, because our lives are (mostly) busy with important and meaningful things, so hooray for good life happening. mostly.  ;)