On a recent trip to see grandsons,
I didn’t know where to look.
One minute I was totally focused on watching my oldest grandson play ball,
and then I turned in my bleacher seat and saw this.
Back and forth- all weekend.
Or the day before watching my oldest grandson fishing
and then turning and seeing this.
I need to go back right away and look some more.
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Here are five random things this wonderful Friday, beginning with:
*Cookie Butter- a Moral Dilemma.
Do I go back to the kitchen cabinet where it waits, or do I resist?
Just don’t do it folks.
Don’t buy it,
don’t keep it in your house, don’t think you can resist its siren call.
My only saving grace (literally) is that it can only be found at Trader Joe’s.
The closest Trader Joe’s to my home is either in Houston or Dallas
(7-9 hours away respectively).
When I bought my husband (ahem) several jars on a recent trip to Dallas, a man standing next to me in the
cookie butter aisle was
mumbling, “Gosh I love this stuff….”
Don’t do it.
*I am planting today- regardless.
I was supposed to plant my tomatoes on Valentine’s Day, and I didn’t
because it was cold. I also have a big pile of zinnia seed packets.
Enough already.
* We have parrots in our trees.
I kid you not.
We have a trio of cheerful, squawking parrots nesting in our trees.
I don’t even know what to say about that.
My husband thinks they are even more dramatic than I am.
* You Tube Videos
It is no secret I am a fan of you tube videos.
By now I should have an advanced degree.
It is a rabbit hole you may not want to enter.
(eye makeup application, knitting, performing minor surgery…)
*The Note
And finally, more importantly,
visit Pura Vida's blog to read The Note- a wonderful lesson for us all taught from the playground.
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Linking to
Random 5 Friday.
Dear Daughters,
First of all, I understand your weariness and exhaustion as your workdays begin each morning, during this long, cold winter.
And even though your work may be uniquely yours (as an attorney, English teacher, or librarian),
I understand the feeling of the alarm ringing and the day beginning.
And so this letter is not about creating a Pinterest worthy post of no fail steps for you to follow in tackling your
spring cleaning.
In fact I have decided that published steps about how to do the things in your life often create
postponement.
It becomes more about reading about the steps than taking them.
Please don’t misunderstand.
I love hearing about how people tackle the chores in their living.
But I also know that we often measure our mastery of said chores by someone else’s confidence in doing them
and talking about them.
To that I say, WHATEVER.
And so the housekeeping, spring cleaning idea that I want to share this morning is simply this-
look at , give away or keep , and clean everything you own.
There are no rules.
There is no timeline.
There is no wrong way to do this.
You don’t need perfectly labeled or color coded baskets.
When I was teaching, I did this every summer once the school year ended, and it worked.
My only rule- which doesn’t have to be yours – is that I looked at and dealt with everything we owned.
This may be the last thing on your mind this morning.
I know that too.
If this doesn’t get done, the sky won’t fall.
I promise.
Love , Mom
