Laundry Lullaby

I hate doing laundry.

I get so overwhelmed with the kids constantly outgrowing their wardrobes and the drastic change of seasons that I tend to just put that stuff aside - but after doing that for several seasons I am drowning in clothes.

So far I've emptied the laundry room and sorted it out into piles. I then took the pile of kids' clothing and sorted out all the outgrown/wrong season/going-to-outgrow-next-week-and-I-might-as-well-get-it-out-now-while-I'm-motivated clothing.

Maddie and Wyatt are in the backyard - digging, playing, picking everything that is green.

Wyatt keeps climbing up on our little (tiny) toddler slide and yelling "Mommy, Look at ME!" and once he has my attention he slides down.

Maddie - in her true princess fashion - has on no less than 3 necklaces, a purse, dress-up heels, a dress I made her, a santa clause hat, blue sunglasses, my headband (wasn't that just on my head?) and some fairy wings. Oh - and a purse - has to have the purse - which is no doubt full of all kinds of jewelry and make-up.

I've eaten the last of the chocolate in the house - even the 70% cacao dark stuff that I've resorted to - but hey it's healthier, right?

Back to laundry now. I will conquer it this week before I bring any new, cold weather stuff into the house for the kids.

Crisp Morning

It's not yet 8 a.m. and our house is mostly awake. In fact the kids and I are outside in the backyard - playing in the early morning chill as the sun gets higher and higher in the sky.

Pumpkin was loving the outdoors until Azzie taught him how to squeeze through the fence into the neighbor's yard and I banished him to the inside. Azzie ran off in her usual fashion (note to self, get her a collar with ID now that she's become more of an outside cat).

Wyatt is running around the yard finding sticks to beat things with and Maddie is chasing spider webs. Now she's picking up rocks in the flower bed and bringing them to me.

"Here's your favorite," she just said as she brought me a small, white stone. "Mashberry bacomba!"

Mmmmm, that's my favorite for sure.

Excitement has just grown- Maddie found a wiggle worm! I tried to get her to put him in my container of green onions, but she informed me that he lives somewhere else.

"Buggies," was Wyatt's response.

She keeps giggling and dropping the worm when it thrashes around in her hands.

I don't know what it is about fall, but it seems that all my dental issues rear their ugly heads in the months of Oct-Jan. I've known for a while that I needed to get more work done, but the thought of losing more teeth is frightening to me. We don't have the thousands of dollars to get things fixed and with the way the economy is I don't even know if we could get a loan at the moment. The pain is starting to show up every day now and that makes me nervous, because it means that the end is near and I'll have to face the facts sooner than later. On a selfish note - it would be nice to enjoy Thanksgiving dinner as I've been incapacitated orally the past 2!

Azzie is still in the neighbor's yard - chasing squirrels and making racket pouncing on things.


"Moon, Moon!" Wyatt just said to me.

I looked up and indeed saw the moon in the blue sky.

"See it?" he asked.

"Yes, I see it," I told him.

"Joking," was his response. My little comedian :)

My fingers are cold and it's getting harder to type, but Maddie just informed me that she made the worm a bed and he's in the hospital so he can feel better. Like the good nurse she is, she's checking on him frequently and building him a home out of rocks so he'll be warm.

I think it's time for some hot tea - I'm chilled to the bone!