rethinking my to-do list
For better or worse, I have lived by a to-do list for the past 5+ years. My list is long and evolves very slowly. I have daily items, one time items and then longer term items all crowding my list. While I try to remember to make sure some of the one time and long
instagram: snug as a bug
Chloe is all cuddled up in her top bunk. That black ugly thing in the background? The fire alarm is so close to her ears that we have to cover it a bit so she doesn’t go deaf if it goes off in the night — which it has done a few times in the
Emergency but not 911
At the last minute I volunteered to work at the Wine Festival in Decatur. With 2200 attendees and Ponce being closed, it is no small festival. Even more last minute due to cancellations, I was asked to be a gate captain. As my instinct is to say “YES!”, I readily agreed. Unfortunately, I had never
instagram: party spiders
We were about a dozen here last night for game night — Camille made these cute spiders (kit on sale after Halloween at Target) for one of the snacks.
photo friday: st. augustine
As part of Camille’s homeschooling for this year, I decided that an interesting topic for us to cover would be the history of Georgia. Camille has lived here almost her entire life and has yet to see many of the important historic sites. We started out great, visiting a number of “pre-European” sites, including a
instagram: streets of Decatur
Living “downtown” means that we can often go “carless”. Today Camille and I donated books, went to lunch, hung concert posters, donated “gently used” shoes, bought a book, donated CDs to and checked books out from the library, bought groceries and looked into the possibility of her selling her Camboodle pouches at a local boutique.
Delusions of Eloquence
While I was at my sickest with the flu from which I’m still trying to recover, I wrote about twenty extremely awesome blog posts in my head. I had come up with a great post on parenting, another questioning the way the mind works and a series of amazing posts. As I recovered and could
instagram: halloween
Rob and the girls headed over to Pine Lake for trick-or-treating this evening. I’m still not feeling 100%, so i stayed home and tried to rest.
instagram: subway sign
A little over a month after getting it, the subway sign is now up in the girls’ bathroom. Almost done in there!!
instagram: brownie mice
Our lovely concierge is also quite talented! She made these cute little brownie mice for a party and brought the leftovers to share with her favorite Artisans, my girls (and I’m sure many others too).
instagram: painting
A day mostly at home. Cooking, cleaning, laundry and painting the hallway. Plus, a fun Halloween parade right outside our front door!
instagram: stars
Today the girls and I went to a fun Chemistry Day at Fernbank Science Center, went shopping for various things including a winter coat for Chloe and then to the Pine Lake Halloween Party. After having been out late the night before, I was too tired to go to the Christopher Paolini talk at Agnes
instagram: ghost tour
Camille, Claire and I joined this evening’s Decatur Ghost Tour. We enjoyed it, but I think I would have gotten a lot more out of it had I not been quite so tired ….
instagram: moon
I’m still feeling very, very tired, but I managed to get the girls taken care of and out the door to my citizens’ police academy class tonight. Im hoping that I’ll soon get back to my regular energy level, but this weekend is going to be tough!
instagram: view
I’m very much enjoying my newly-found view from my desk.
minor change results in great happiness
While I was stuck home this weekend recovering from the flu instead of out camping at the LEAF Arts and Music Festival with the rest of the family, I did spring cleaning here at the condo. This amounted to “room of the week” style cleaning and organizing of the entire apartment. It looks better than
instagram: halloween penguin
This little guy has been sitting in our window for a while, and now he’s all decorated with the Halloween lights.
instagram: homework
Despite all the school Chloe has missed over the past few weeks, she seems to be keeping up quite nicely. Unfortunately, despite my trying to make sure Chloe got all her homework done before Rob got home, she had a panic attack in the evening about work that she “forgot” she needed to get done.
instagram: lego overload
I gathered up all of the LEGOs hidden in every closet, bench and bucket and put them all in one place. That was the easy part — now we need to figure out what to keep and how to store them compactly…
instagram: perspective
The rest of the family is off at LEAF. I’m stuck home being sick. But relaxation doesn’t come easy to me. I’ve spent the day decluttering and cleaning. Given that we’ve only been here a year, an amazing amount of crap has built up already. Admittedly, we did move a few things without really sorting
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