A Monday Ramble
I’m so glad we haven’t had rain for almost a week.
Rain makes me so weary.
Piper Finnian has attended her first official rehearsal for her upcoming role as Daughter of Ivy in The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe. (If you don’t recognize the name of Daughter of Ivy in the famous C.S. Lewis books, don’t feel badly about that. Ivy is a housekeeper in the professor’s home where the four siblings discover the wardrobe. I’m not sure the housekeeper in the novels really had a daughter. I just know this play really has a Piper.)
She has her four or five lines memorized and she is daily working on perfecting her British accent. I think it’s just too much cute for us to handle here.
Riley’s heading home soon and we’ve been doing some rearranging of space since her former bedroom is Kevin’s current office.
And you know when I start rearranging one room I have a tendency to let it all leak over into multiple other rooms. (I know it’s an addiction, thankyouverymuch.)
Kevin and I had the rare pleasure of an afternoon date this weekend thanks to some generous friends. We ate tacos and then we just hung out in a bookstore for a few hours, flipping through magazines, drinking coffee-esque beverages and people watching. It was a refreshing little date.
The chickens who have all decided to stop laying eggs this winter have slowly begun to produce again. Right now we are getting two eggs a day. Two eggs. Eighteen chickens. That’s still a poor ratio. Eighteen chickens. Two eggs. Countless piles of chicken poop. I don’t care for those numbers.
My brother just got a promotion and he’ll be working at the Pentagon. Am I allowed to share that? I think it’s super cool and I’m really proud of his hard work. I told him I couldn’t believe that the kid who stole my quarters was an employee at the Pentagon. How can this be? He said that I never should have left those quarters so accessible anyway.
Do your kids bathe as often in the winter?
We find it rather difficult to maintain regular child bathing routines when it’s so chilly. Something about a steady temperature of sixty degrees makes one rather opposed to stripping a kid down and tossing them into lukewarm water.
Our favorite show right now is Sherlock Holmes. Any other fans out there? My short list of funny programming currently is this: Raising Hope and Parks and Rec. I keep watching Modern Family almost out of habit but it’s only a sometimes-funny show to me these days. I’m finding Alex and Hailey less and less amusing each week. Maybe it’s the parent side of me. I’m also a giant fan of Parenthood. Don’t get me started on how I feel about the matriarch of that family this season.
This is the point in this post that I should stop typing. Actually, I probably reached that point at least one paragraph ago. Maybe two – when I started confessing that our kids aren’t taking enough baths.
I’ll reign myself in.
I can do that.
I hope your week is slow and purposeful. I hope mine is too.
6 Comments
Chelsea
I was catching up on laundry today and realized that a certain child had no clean underwear in their pile… I will not tell you how many loads of clothes I did, but be sure that it was enough to warrant multiple pairs of clean undergarments. But then I realized that I have no idea when that child last had a bath. I think the cold is a factor, but also less sweat equals less smell. My offended nose send children to the shower fastest. So with that, clearly the kids shower infrequently in the winter. Truthfully, though, I consider playing in the hose or swimming to be sufficient often times in the summer, so maybe it isn't less after all.
lacey35
Less sweat DOES equal less smell – thank goodness!
I have always thought the hose and the creek equaled a summer bath.
Rachel
Our bathtub sits directly over the crawl space. It's been in the subzero temperature range here, for weeks. I feel like wet skin sticks to the tub anyway, and the boy only likes lukewarm baths to begin with. I try to throw him into the shower with my husband three times a week? But, yes, he also gets dry and cracky. So, no, way less bathing here, too. It's too cold.
lacey35
For weeks — ah – winter. 🙂
Stephanie
No… or yes… we bath less in the winter. Aside from the cold, they dry out and get all cracky. And actually we go to the pool a lot in the summer so that takes care of a lot of the bathing then. So basically you now know to steer wide left when you see us coming at any time of the year! :).
LaceyKeigley
Ha!
Steer clear or stand close so no one can figure out which family is at fault.