What did you do all day?

Someone posted this on an e-mail list I'm on. It's too fabulous not to share! (I'm guessing most mommies out there will agree.)


One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house.
His three children were outside, still in their P.J.'s, playing in the mud,
with empty food boxes and wrappers thrown all about the front yard. The door
to his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house. Proceeding
into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.

A lamp had been knocked over, and a throw rug was wadded against one wall.
In the front room the TV was blaring a cartoon channel, and the family room
was strewn with toys and various items of clothing. In the kitchen, dishes
filled the sink, Breakfast food was spilled on the counter, dog food was
spilled on the floor, a broken glass lay under the table, and a small pile
of sand lay piled up by the back door.

He quickly headed up the stairs, stepping over toys and other piles of
clothes, looking for his wife. He was worried that she might be ill, or
worse!!

He found her lounging into the bedroom, still in her pajamas, reading a
novel.

She smiled, looked up at him and asked how his day went. He looked at her
bewildered and asked, "What happened here today?"

She again smiled and answered, "you know everyday when you come home from
work and ask me what in the world did I do today?"

"Yes", he replied reluctantly.

She answered, "We'll, today I didn't do it!!"

sporting woes

No offense to all the baseball, basketball, and NASCAR fans out there...but I've just never found these sports to hold much appeal to me personally. But please don't take away my football and hockey! Well, that's what I've always thought anyway. This year is certainly putting me to the test, however. No...I'll not abandon my teams. But they most certainly are making it hard to be very enthusiastic about the world of sports this fall.

My much beloved Dolphins have been disappointing me for several years now, but a 1-6 start. Come on, guys! And as bad as that is, at least they're tied for last place in the league. The Flyers get to claim bottom of the barrel all to themselves! I'm telling you...this is NOT a fun time! And though I'm actually happy about the big shake-ups in Philly (not a big fan of Bob Clarke), I have my doubts whether it will really turn things around all that much. Maybe I'll be pleasantly surprised.

Hey...I just found the silver lining...both of my teams have nowhere to go but up!

I obviously can't be trusted

A few posts back, I wrote about the deal I'd made with myself to buy no new supplies until I'd used up old supplies. Well, it didn't take me long to blow it. I did complete 16 layouts/cards. Which earned me one new item...not the 14 I ordered from twopeas. I am such a naughty girl! But they had some really great stuff on clearance...what's a girl to do?!! (But just look at a few of the layouts I have completed...you can see how I am managing to use up some reeeeally old supplies!)

Dawn spoke about how warm (and un-fall-like) yesterday was in her neck of the woods. Same could be said here. What a glorious day it was! Much more like summer. I hear it's not to last though. There's even talk of light snow showers on Friday. Could we please just have fall first?!! Still need to get all those fall activities in...the leisurely fall foliage drive, the trip to the pumpkin patch, the pumpkin carving, the leaf wars. Even told the munchkins we could try making caramel apples this year. Guess we'd better get busy, since the weather obviously has no idea what season it's supposed to be.

Managed to finally get up the Halloween and fall decorations yesterday. Although it's nothing like the major 2-day task of Christmas decorating, it did take a while. Mostly because I decided that I really had to clear the 1/4" layer of dust (only a slight exaggeration) from everything before I put my ghosties and pumpkins out. Left the cobwebs though...figured they added to the ambience of the season.

O.K., time to sign off and get on with the day's schooling.