Another week, another review

Highs

Bundling Hyrum up and bicycling with him in the rain
Making chocolate chip cookies (and not eating all the dough) that would rival even Meridith's best batch
Spending a cold and blustery evening eating homemade soup with Mom Baker and Hyrum while Aaron worked on the Buick (see "Lows")
Dad Jackman visiting for a minute during dinner
Watching the BYU vs NM game Saturday night
Talking to Amber on the phone in Virginia
Walking the treadmill for 50+ minutes at a time, daily, and loving it
Making a dish of chicken cordon bleu that I would give me right arm to eat again (I don't know why but it tasted AMAZING this time...probably the fact that it was at the end of a Fast Sunday had something to do with it)
Having the crop of spider infested ivy pulled out from around the house
Actually communicating with Celio, Grandma's "Mexican worker" in broken Spanish (I felt distinct joy in being able to understand and speak back to him in Spanish and it made me want to take out all my old Spanish literature and flash cards to review.)
Watching Mom communicate with Celio in Espanol mucho mejor than me
Long evenings dreaming with Aaron about the future
Having insulation put into the roof and enjoying the immediate benefits
Getting a haircut (just the experience alone)
Spending Friday night with Aaron and Hy-guy at Bajio's. Yummy!
Watching Hyrum voraciously stuff his little face with fistfulls of Spanish rice and black beans at Bajio's
Spending cold nights snuggled up to Aaron and reading Anna Karenina

Lows

The boy haircut
Finding out that the Buick has more than just simple "brake problems"
Overextending the budget because of said Buick
Furthermore, having to use the blue diesel station wagon in the meantime, ironically named "blue thunder" by Dad Baker (though, this could also be on the "highs" list because it is actually pretty fun to drive, albeit stinky)
Having the insulation guys empty the attic of its various contents (including wooden planks, a crate, and a huge old antenna) and leave them on our front lawn (these items in conjunction with the old rocking chair that is still drying outside and "blue thunder" make our house look like white trash central)
Seeing mouse #5 scurry across the kitchen floor
Aaron working on homework until 4:00 a.m.
Narrowly escaping another childhood accident with Hyrum: finding him innocently holding one of the set mouse traps in his hands that, for some blessed reason, didn't go off
Eating 3/4 of a batch of cookie dough
Cooking the other 1/4 and eating them too