Monthly Archives: May 2011

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At this moment

It’s 6:07.

It’s lightly raining outside. It’s been kind of threatening to rain all day, but mother nature was kind and didn’t dump it on us when we walked over to the Farmer’s Market, or when we went out to get new helmets for the girls (their heads are HUGE! We measured- they both have the same size head, and they measure 1 inch smaller than mine. Either my head is small, or theirs are big!) or when they rode their bikes delightedly on our street. Tiny has finally figured out how to pedal her trike, so I just got to sit on the driveway and peruse pinterest while they rode.

I’m tired. I went on a bit of an organizing binge today- I sorted through and organized all my fabric (it looks so pretty now!) and now I have a bunch of projects I want to do. I need to finish Z’s quilt first though, I’m hoping to get it done before her birthday. I took some time from it to make a quilt just for me, but now I have to get back to it. Here’s the one I just finished.

 

I’ve been wanting to make a quilt of just big squares for a while, and every time I’ve tried I’ve talked myself into something else. But I got this layer cake and had to do it. It’s about 60×70, the perfect size to lay under on the couch.

The girls are playing nursery. Z is the primary leader, and Tiny is the nursery leader. It’s kind of funny.

Speaking of which, there’s a change coming soon in my life, but I don’t know what it is. I thought I had a pretty good idea, then B brought up an option I hadn’t even thought of, and now I’m really not sure and dying until tomorrow when I find out.

I get to teach Gospel Doctrine tomorrow, which I’m excited about. The lesson is about hypocrisy, and it has some really thought provoking prompts, which is always good.

Also thought provoking is this post, which totally kicked me in the face.  Total game changer, that one.

The two minutes I just gave the girls before pj time are now up. I’ll be back in a minute.

And I’m back.

In case you’re wondering, it is now 7:22, which means that a minute equals roughly 45 minutes.

We’re reading James and the Giant Peach again, which makes me happy. Z remembers bits of it; for all intents and purposes it’s Tiny’s first time through. I remember my mom reading it to us, intending to read one chapter and not being able to stop- and in fact this time through my mom started it with them (when we went to see Prince) and made it to chapter 12 before they fell asleep. :)

And speaking of Prince- we went to see Prince again. And he was a genius, as per usual. This time, however, he had a bonus- beside his 3 regular backup singers (who are DIVAS in the best possible sense) – he had “the twins”. Two tiny,  gorgeous, insanely talented girls who danced, shimmied, played trumpet and guitar, and wore the skimpiest of skimp (not the whole time, just when appropriate). Any time they were on stage I couldn’t take my eyes off them, and that’s saying something, seeing as Prince was right there next to them. I would have taken copious pictures to document their greatness, but the ushers had a serious hate on against cameras and phones of any kind, so the only picture I got was this one, which shows how close our seats were to the stage.

We were in row 11, which translated to about 5 rows from the stage. Insanely excellent seats, and we were SO close to him at moments. The man is an incredibly good performer, and so dang charismatic.  I’ve been looking high and low for a video with the twins and can’t find one, but here’s one of him from one of his nights at the Forum so you can see him for yourself. Oh wait, this one kind of shows them, (they’re the ones with the huge trumpet things) but it’s from far away. That’s because, as I said, all of the ushers up close were being super crazy about recording devices of any kind. (This is from the show we went to.) This one has some of them at the beginning. But anyway, it was fantastic, and I’m so glad we went.

We saw True Grit the other night and I thought it was excellent- not an extra line in the thing. Lean and tight and fantastic. Excellent acting by everyone.

The season opener of So You Think You Can Dance has me excited, there were some excellent dancers, and I have spoilers that a couple of my favorites made it through to the end of Vegas, so hopefully they make it onto the show. I love that show.

And now I’ve gotten sucked into random YouTube videos, so I will spare you them and go waste time on my own. :)

What’s happening with you at this moment?

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What I’ve been up to

Hello there.

I feel like I haven’t posted in a while. Is that true? I don’t know.

What have I been doing? A lot of crafting and sewing. In the past two weeks I’ve made: 4 fabric belts, 15 reversible headbands, a fairy picture album, 6 notebooks, a baby quilt, 3 dollies, 3 necklaces, 2 canvases, and a mini quilt.  Would you like to see?

A lot of them are for the fundraiser that’s coming up for Autism Speaks, but some are for me, for my mom, or for Liz. It’s been fun, being so create-y.

But because I’ve been focusing on that side of things (since the beginning of the year, it seems), I haven’t been reading as much as usual, but I have been reading a bit, so here’s what I read in April and so far this month.

A Charlotte Mason Companion by Karen Andreola : I have quite literally been reading this book on and off for at least 8 months. But I finally buckled down and finished it. It was a reread, and it’s so chock full of great information that I feel like I need to start it over again. It’s a staple for Charlotte Mason philosophy homeschoolers, and is really fantastic.

The Continuous Atonement by Brad Wilcox: I read this book on Easter- and it was perfect timing and a very good book.

A Moveable Feast by Ernest  Hemingway: This was also a reread, and is simply brilliant. I adore Hemingway, I love his distilled, honest prose, his pursuit of truth and expression. His sentences are so deceptively simple, and he packs so much into so little.

Bossypants by Tiny Fey: This was awesome and hilarious. I already loved Tina Fey, but this book really solidified that, as it shows her as really goodhearted. Foul mouthed, but goodhearted. :) I literally laughed out loud in a number of parts, and thoroughly enjoyed it all.

So yeah, that’s what I’ve been up to. Oh, and I got my hair cut:

And I took the girls to their well checks today where we had a grand total of 5 shots and a TB test. Poor babies. There was a lot of screaming, and then a lot of bribing to make them feel better afterward. :) And we went to see Grandma for her birthday, so that helped the day be better.

What have you been up to?

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Things I don’t do

I’m a girl of many interests. If you were feeling generous you might term me a Renaissance Woman, or if you were being realistic it would be “she of the short attention span”.  Regardless, I’ve dabbled in quite a number of things, and that has caused at least three people to ask me in the last couple of weeks if there is “anything you don’t do”.

The answer of course is yes- everyone has their priorities and interests, and there are things I wish I could do that I don’t have time for, and others that I don’t care that I don’t do.

But here, because I think it would be fun, is a list of things I don’t do (in no particular order):

Can

Make my own bread

Cook instinctively (I must have a recipe- I did not inherit this gene from my Grandma or Dad.)

Freestyle rap

Train for or run marathons, triathalons, or any other “thons”

Knit (I can do it, I just don’t.)

Coupon

Paint

Needlepoint

Fence

Surf

Skateboard

Draw

Juggle

Play, watch, or care about sports of any kind

That’s the short list- I’m sure there are more. What don’t you do?