It’s Friday. I love Fridays. Don’t you love Fridays? If it’s Friday that means it’s time to play Friday Fragments with Mrs. 4444! Woohoo. I haven’t done this in ages. Let’s just hope I can remember how. (I’ve got a glass of syrah on standby, just in case.)
My son, Vanilla called me from school (though I didn’t know it was him).
Me: Hello?
Vanilla: Hi.
Me: Hello??
Vanilla: Hi
Me: Who is this?
Seriously, you’d think he could have said, Hi MOM it’s me, Vanilla. Honestly.
He needed a ride home because he was staying late to take a quiz. I told him I’d pick him up out front in 20 minutes. I pull into the school driveway (about a 1/4 mile long) and there’s Vanilla almost to the very entrance. He thought I literally meant the entrance to the driveway. I meant the school, as in the front door. Sometimes it is so very hard to be the parent of an extremely literal child.
There are Mocha sized dents in the upstairs couch cushions again. I’m onto you dog. Just because I can’t get up the stairs fast enough when I get home to catch you, doesn’t mean I don’t know you’ve been there. Once you learn to fluff pillows, then we’ll talk.
Last week a skydiver went missing in the mountains next to my house. They searched for four days from the ground and air. With temperatures below freezing, and snow on the mountain, he didn’t survive though they never found him. It’s tragic and sad. And I can’t seem to stop thinking about it every time I leave my house and see the mountain or drive right past it to the grocery. I know there’s a deceased person out there, and it’s just so horribly tragic.
Hard to know where to go after that, isn’t it?
I’m supposed to be answering questions for the bible study I joined. Tomorrow we are supposed to have read the first chapter and be ready to discuss the questions via Facebook. I haven’t even gotten two pages into the chapter let alone answered ten questions. It’s the first week and already I suck at this.
I left the house today after being cooped up most of the week with a horrible cold. When I got home from grocery shopping I had this desire to completely sweep everything off the pantry shelf like in a movie. Because it’s so disorganized it’s enough to be disgraceful. A new neighbor moved in down the street she told me at the bus stop she loves to organize. I must just invite her over for tea or coffee next week….just being neighborly, you know.
Have you watched Downton Abbey? I finally started watching in November by catching up through Amazon Prime (as a side note, AP is so awesome. Free movies and tv shows…oh yeah.) I’m totally addicted. Papa bought me Season 1 & 2 for Christmas. Between watching on AP and dvd, I’ve seen it about four times already, all the way through. Maggie Smith? Hello! I am in love with her. She gets so many fantastic lines, I can’t even stand to wait to see what she’s going to say every Sunday. So much so that I pre-ordered Season 3 from Amazon which gets delivered next week. Hehe. I promise I won’t give any spoilers while the rest of you watch it weekly (I’m so mean, I know.)
We picked out the new hardwoods that are being put in February 11th. It’s going to be two days of ripping out the first floor, two days or installing and (they said) a cleaner on the fifth day. I’m so excited to finally have floors that aren’t uneven, super cold, and ugly. The joys of a 6 month old house! I’m especially thrilled that since it is a builder issue, it’s not costing me anything more than a week of living upstairs and 4 days of take-out. Here’s the color. Pretty no?
I am being very, very stubborn and continuing to use the 7 year old slow-as-dirt Mac, even though we bought a new pc last month. I hate Windows 8. With passion. And daggers. I am on pc strike.
I made this this week. It’s made from wooden letters bought at Michael’s and covered with scrapbooking paper. I might just find my inner Martha Stewart after all.
Do you like the button below? It’s courtesy of Nancy over at Ordinary Miracles and the Crazy 8 9 It does represent us very well (minus the dog and Papa, who would love to pretend they were normal. as.if.) Coming soon to a sidebar near you…..
Leave me some fragments, some comments, or some thoughts. This little ole blog needs em!
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All the way through this post I kept having “Oh! Me Too!” moments. Dog who is not allowed on the couch – check, a neighbour who loves to organise – check (mine has been helping me declutter during our renovations), Downton Abbey love – check (I’ve been watching avidly with my 14 year old daughter) and new timber floors – check (the BEST thing ever!).
Your blog button is adorable.
If you could send me your neighbor when you’re finished with her…
Happy Friday. Those floors are dark, but nice. Lots of texture look to them. Mine are the boring light hardwood colours. I can’t wait to refinish them now that the boys are older and there’s less cars running on them. I’d love to change out my front door way to something other than the hardwood though as it’s not good for “winter”.
Good luck with bible study.
I love doors. I have a weird thing for them. I always take multiple pictures of interesting doors wherever we go.
I love the header on your blog. It is very cool!
Repinned the letters so I don’t forget it; would be a good summer project!
Floor: pretty
Vanilla: at least he stayed busy walking down the driveway while he was waiting for you!
Downton Abbey (and Maggie Smith): LOVE IT! I really need to look into getting Amazon Prime.
Have a good weekend!
You definitely need Amazon Prime. We’ve been catching up on the last two seasons of Grey’s Anatomy and started watching Parenthood through AP. My husband got a cable to hook our laptop to our tv, so we even get to see it on the big screen.
Loved reading this today! I want to invite your neighbor over to my pantry, I mean house too!!!
I love the hardwoods and how great that it’s a builder problem! Take out sounds good for a few days and oh, how nice it will be when they’re done!!!
I want a button! Maybe I’ll contact the person who did yours, I like it a lot!
Nancy. She’s so nice (and she has awesome pictures, and teaches Photography 101 on her blog). And she’s got 7 kids! So she’s always got something interesting going on.
Love the floors! So pretty. I can’t wait until we get things organized enough that we can refinish the floors in our house. They are original to the house and need some TLC.
With 2 teenage boys in the house, my pantry looks like that ALL the time. Annoying!
Glad you are feeling better!
I love love love original old hardwood floors. My dream would be to buy a 1920′s craftsman and restore it top to bottom.
Course I’d have to have a million dollars too so…
That pantry is huge. I can see where it might get disorganized quickly. But it really didn’t look too bad to me in the photo.
You must not have been looking close enough.
The only part that’s organized is the dog’s treats in the little basket with the paw prints on it. Figures I get the dog in order but nothing else!
I would love to have that pantry…. messy or not and I love that floor!!
I don’t think I “know” you until now, but I will say I THOROUGHLY enjoyed your humor which shines through in your fragments!
For a while I’ve been blaming my husband for setting things on the entryway bench cushions, when the only things that belong there are our butts. Then I saw one of the cats sleeping up there — the pokey holes in the cushions are from his paw prints!
I love Cousin Violet! I’m so happy that my husband got hooked during a Downton Abbey marathon while he was home sick.
I love me some Amazon Prime movies!! We actually use them a lot in our homeschool.
I watched the first episode of Downton Abby and was hooked. But here in Alaska, you pay for the internet by Gigs used. So we have to pick and choose what we use them on. Bummer, right? So I may just have to buy that series!!!! Hello birthday!
I love the button, very fun!
LOL about the phone conversation. When my children are with their father and I call, he’ll have them pick up the phone and they say, “Hi Mamma,” and I can never tell who it is, so I just say, “Hi Pumpkin,” or “Hi Sweet Pea,” and I’m right about half the time!
I love Downton, but have only seen the first season. Don’t have AP, anbd netflix free only has season 1.
The bad thing about organizing a pantry is it gets all unorganized again in just a few days. I am a glutton for punishment though and I will keep trying.
I am going to be redoing my office in February and I suddenly realized it is a disaster because since I decided to redo, I have not been keeping it organized. I’m suddenly realizing the start of the project will be very boring.
We ripped up all the carpets in our old house over the summer and room by room we are trying to clean them up, trying to save them. They are finally starting to look pretty good.
My 2 little dogs have a doggie door and if I forget to cover my sofa, especially on a rainy day..just ugghhh. What was I thinking 5 grown and out of the house kids and we got 2 dogs. Honestly they crack us up but they truly are as much work as 5 kids:)
Your button is adorable!
The letters are so cute to. I have some here (beach) that I should start working on…
Good luck with your bible study. Time got away from me this month I have 3 books to review before Wednesday…yikes!
Have a Blessed weekend.