(aka – a little of this ‘n that)
Lots going on. I don’t know if I will remember all of the little odds-n-ends I wanted to mention. Guess it doesn’t matter much.
Let’s see – the truck still isn’t running. Hopefully that will change after this weekend, if hubby gets a chance to get out to work on the thing. In the meantime, my mom picked me up to take me to work a few days this week. The kids had a snow day on Monday, so we all went to work. Today, I stayed home. I was going to go to the girls’ classroom parties, but decided to try to get some things done around the house instead (besides – by the time I got home from taking them in the morning, I’d only have had a half hour before having to start the walk back for Peanut’s party, and after we got home, we’d have had an hour before Princess’s party, then would have had to come home for an hour before going back to get her. I think we’d all have been worn out after that much walking back and forth!). Mom is picking me up again tomorrow.
Anyway – one of the side benefits of walking when so much snow is on the ground is that I’ve been able to show the girls animal tracks in the yard. We’ve got a family or two of rabbits, and a few deer of varying sizes, as well. The girls like watching to see where new tracks will be.
I’m listening to a new album hubby gave me this morning (he should have saved it for Christmas, but didn’t want to because it was missing the booklet, lol. He’s so silly!). Actually, I’m on my fourth or fifth time through it today. It’s Hvarf/Heim, the latest from Sigur Rós, and it is a lovely album.
We’ve watched some pretty good movies at home lately, but I have to say, the one we took the girls to see at the theater was the best, and we were all completely enchanted with Enchanted. 
Can’t wait to see it again!
We added two new members to the family last weekend – a black panther named Boomba, and a gray and black moose of a tiger cat rechristened Buddy, as the name he came with was the affectionate name hubby called my late father-in-law. They’re both much larger than any other cat we’ve owned, but they’re beautiful, and are welcome additions. They’re great fun, and very loving.
Oh – I had more success with Craig’s List. Not selling – haven’t gotten to that yet – but we got a nice dark eggplant colored comfy leather chair with a matching ottoman for free last weekend, too. It has a small spot of damage on the inside back of one of the arms – but it is easily hidden with a throw pillow, and it goes nicely in the living room.
Back to an earlier topic again, I did get a bit done around here today – not cleaning so much, though I have some of that to do. Instead, I was decorating. I draped (fake) greens around the mantle, arranged some decor on top of it, hung some ornaments and the stockings. It looks very homey. I like it. I also put away all of the fall decor from the dining room, and put out winter/Christmas decor in various places in there. Hung a wreath or two, very belatedly put up both Advent calendars (the girls had fun with those this evening), and so on. It was more work than it sounds like, lol. I also made two batches of chex mix, a pan of brownies, and wrapped all of hubby’s Christmas gifts.
The kids had too much excitement and TOO MUCH SUGAR at school today. Peanut was tired, Princess was tired and cranky. Still is, for that matter. I just sent them upstairs to watch a movie until bedtime because the noise was making my head hurt. Oh – that reminds me. I walked Princess to class this morning because I was carrying the pan of sugar cookies we made last night for her party. Several of the girls were wearing fancy dresses (she would have been too, had we not had to walk – snow pants just don’t fit well over dresses 
). Two of the boys in her class were watching them run around – one turned to the other and said, “Why are they all dressed up?” The other boy looked at him, shrugged, and said, “It’s a girl thing.” Made me chuckle. When I told hubby about it, he said it was interesting to see how boys that age finally really started to get an awareness of the differences between girls and boys.
Well, anyway – I guess that’s enough rambling on for now! Have a good one.
