- Winning a local Chili Cook-off with Sous Chef H (Hurrah!)
- Watching General Conference and the RS Session
- Maintaining exercise 5x a week at 5:15 a.m.
- Developing a "almost there" gourmet cupcake recipe incorporating 5 or 6 baking discoveries (haven't yet mastered the frosting, but it is super close)
- Visiting Teaching = done!
- Spending the weekend with [prego] Auntie Mer and [not prego] Uncle Ben!
- Finding out some Really Good News!
- Enjoying the, finally, cool weather. Hallelujah!!!!!!!!!
- Not desiring dessert or second helpings
- Basking in the autonomy of the boys ages
- Bowling a dang good game
- Wrestling with the boys in the front room
- Coming to the surprising realization that I'd really like the next baby in the family to be a boy
- Planning the details of hosting Thanksgiving
- Reading The Hunger Games
- Finding chicken breast on sale for $1.25 per pound
- Bottling 15 pints of chicken (Thanks, Ashley!!!)
- Getting invited to dinner
- Loving the structure that having a child in school brings
- Napping next to my babies
- Making new friends
- Riding bikes to school and not sweating profusely
- Enjoying the simple luxury of living in a small town (paid the local doctor in cinnamon rolls after he pulled a rock out of A's nose...it's another story for another time)
- Spending most of the grocery budget in the first week...again (p.s. We need a cow, preferably lactating)
- Finishing the laundry all in one day, including putting it all away! (this is big, folks)
Lows
- Watching General Conference in HD = the uncomfortable feeling of being personally perched on the podium (I noticed bad teeth, red and tired eyes, moist nostrils, interesting skin discolorations, the works...)
- Feeling very, very tired
- Gaining weight despite the awesome exercise routine
- Eating pounds and pounds of candy corn, mellowcreme pumpkins and "cowboy mix" (shoot me)
- Eating dessert and second helpings despite having no real desire to do so (this may correlate to that pesky weight gain thing...)
- Putting away the skinnier "goal jeans" for awhile
- Just feeling very chunky lately (...are we sensing a theme here...cupcakes, feeling fat...)
- Forgetting to send H's homework with him when it was due
- Making some interestingly creative end-of-the-month sack lunches for H and, suddenly realizing that, despite all, I have turned into my mother
- Telling an entire roomful of peers that I never clean my kitchen floors (it is true, but still)
- Reading most of Genesis with Aaron and feeling very much annoyed (Is the entire Old Testament solely about procreation? And incest? Hmmmmm.)
- Making a cookie recipe from a local bakery using shortening (shudder), and throwing most of them away
- Wasting precious calories by eating some of the aforementioned disgusting cookies
- Trying to run an organization with dwindling participants and tiring of the grind
- Going to the RS Session's Stake before-the-broadcast social = older ladies, older lady food, older lady conversation, older lady smells, etc
4 comments:
Woo-hoo! Congrats on the chili cook-off! And that rock in the nose is definitely a story that needs to be told! It's been a long time since I've seen you! Come visit one of these days. Perhaps when you are trying out that cupcake recipe, ha ha! :)I will stop now before I end one more sentence with an exclamation mark...
I'm reading an announcement between the lines of this post. Am I correct? I hope you are well. I miss you guys!
Yep. Due in May. We miss you guys too and talk of you often. I hope you had a great Christmas.
Yay! Congratulations! Are you going to find out if it will be Boy #4?
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