Tonight ends with me having done nothing else on my list. BUT my house is clean, my eldest has new meds, and there is milk in the frig (no small feat!). I’m content but hopeful. Anna “Pushman“, our beloved sitter/friend, is coming tomorrow morning and I just may spend that time in my closet. . . cleaning. We’ll see.

I did manage to paint this thingy. I got it at Goodwill two years ago and it has been sitting on a table. Since I cleaned up my kitchen counters, I now have a place for it so I went all spray painty on it. Don’t like how boring the color is and hope to go all spray painty on it again before another two years pass.
(See how she struck a pose and stuck that hip/knee out? Yea – she just did that on her own. She said, “Mama, take my piture widis,” and then popped her head, hip, and knee out to the side. Yikes. Then she added this:
Heaven help us. . .

Little did not want to be outdone and so she yelled, “MY TURN!” and held up her most prized possession. . . a toy computer. She did NOT strike a pose because she was having enough trouble standing still (hence the new meds).

KB wrapped up the photo session with a hug pose. She is SOOO like her mother – loves to lean in and hug in photos!

My Daddy has always traveled a good bit. One wouldn’t think of a pastor as a real jet setter, but he’s in missions and that means he gets to see all parts of the country and world. Two things I associate with my Dad traveling are: 1) my Mom rearranging the furniture and 2) my Mom planning to “get so much done”.

Day three of Honey’s absence is coming to a close. I have NOT rearranged the furniture but, in true Cheely woman form, I made a list of things I planned to get done while Honey was away. There are five things on that list:

1) School calendars transferred to new planner
2) Scrapbook – all albums completed through August 2009
3) Closet cleaned out
4) A plan for July sketched out
5) July 4th – clothes sewn/finalized

Day one ended with me in a women’s council meeting but coming home to sit on the couch surrounded by calendars, pencils, and a ruler; working on #1. SUCH a calming activity for me. LOVE my TAWP (time alone with planning). Went to bed with one item crossed off my list.

Day two found me sitting on the back porch sewing. The weather was gorgeous here and so the porch wasn’t too hot. The day ended with problematic sleeping BUT number five was marked off the list.

Tonight I stayed home, put the kids down and spent the evening with Sandra Bullock, Hugh Grant, and my KB’s scrapbook. I’m off to bed now. All children are asleep and another item (#2) is marked off my list.

I can just hear my mother’s voice saying, “I get so much done. . .”
Tomorrow, to be true to my heritage, I might just have to rearrange the living room!

Dear Honey,

I hope you are having so much fun.

Tuesday was a good day at home. Things went along swimmingly and I even got to spend five hours of the evening with Marcie. It was fun being with her knowing you would be chatting with her Honey at the same time.

Little woke up at 11:30PM with a FULL pull-up and a wet bed. I waited too long to get in there and change her and give her medicine. She didn’t go back to sleep until. . . she didn’t go back to sleep.

I hope you are having so much fun.

Becky

Bring on Day Three