[Previous entry: "another weekend gone"] [Main Index] [Next entry: "ache in the head"]

03/22/2006 Archived Entry: "full closet- full fridge"

Yesterday I did the kids' laundry. I know so many people hate this particular chore, but I actually like it. It's so easy to do and doesn't take much of my time. I think it's an organizational thing. It starts with things being sorted into their particular piles and end with everything being put away in just the right spot. Ahh, I love seeing the drawers and closet full of neatly put away clothes.
The grocery store would be the other chore for yesterday. Sometimes I don't mind this one and other times I'm not too fond of it. Yesterday I just didn't want to go out into the cold, but the actual shopping was okay. Idiots as the check stand though. The actual cashier was barely paying attention so things had to be scanned several times because he simply wasn't looking. He was listening to a co-worker, who wasn't working, just standing around, talk about how a different co-worker apparently told on him for standing around and talking to yet another co-worker. Um, yeah, I can see how that might have happened. I know I felt like "telling on him" at this point, especially because the girl who was bagging also was listening in and not paying attention and let three cartons of milk and two Diet Cokes pile up on my bread. I had to point it out to her that she was squashing my bread so dumbass checker could turn off the belt and dumbass bag girl could get my bread out of there and get me a replacement. Fun-fun, but at least we ate well last night. I tried a new recipe, Huevos Rancheros in the crockpot. Yum does not begin to describe it. It came out so good and all four of us enjoyed it immensely.
In between grocery shopping and dinner, we had a play date here. We have not seen these friends in forever and it was so good to finally get together with them. I put up a couple gates to corral Daisy and the 2 year old in the dining room and living room with K and I. This way Tabitha and her friend could play in peace without younger siblings trying to butt in. It was fun watching Daisy watch C, the 2 year old. She just watched him play with her toys with this look on her face of "what the heck?" But she didn't seem to mind though she occasionally wanted what he had, she didn't try to take anything from him. Even if she had, there's not much I could have done considering her age. I'm glad she didn't just freak out when he played with her house and slide and stuff.
Due to the play date though, she didn't get her second nap and that was one exhausted baby in the evening. I gave her a nice bath and she was in bed before 8. At that time, Tabitha, Chris and I settled in with some popcorn and watched American Idol. This is the first time we've had trouble voting at the end of the show, we eventually had to just send Tabitha to bed and promise we'd vote for her. Once she was off to dreamland, Chris and I got cozy and watched Amazing Race. A lot of TV, but we love Amazing Race and don't put it off if we can help it.

Yesterday's creative writing, I love what she did with it. Her subject was "soft"

"Don't ask me if a goat's coat is soft. I'll say that I have no idea. I think a goats coat is fuzzy."