My Peacefully Chaotic Life

Well, I had grand plans for today, but I should have known better. I was going to get up early and steam clean my carpets and straighten up a bit. Then I was going to go outside and do some work while I caught up on laundry. The GuitarMan is on his way home and we are having some friends of his over this afternoon to cook out. Then he and Z are doing a concert tonight at a local church. We are hoping to go but I'll have to see how Cornbread is doing. I had to take him to the doctor yesterday with fever. So anyway. I got up with no problem. I straightened up with no problem. Then I broke the vaccuum cleaner. Literally. The handle broke off in my hand! Then I tore up the steam cleaner. I'm a little afraid to approach the washer or dryer. I'm a lot afraid to approach the gas grill. I offered to blow the driveway off for The FisherMan. He said to go ahead, he's been hoping for a new gas powered blower anyway. Very funny.

Just some thoughts upon seeing a woman's tatoo today. She leaned across a counter and her top slipped up showing her lower back where the words "Sweet Thang" were scrawled across it. She had various other tatoos as well and honestly was a very well put together, attractive woman, albeit a bit immodest in her clothing choices. :) Now. I am going to just tell you exactly what popped in my head. Ready for honesty on a touchy subject? Here goes. Ok, I'm not really going to say anything about the right or wrong aspects of tatoos. Sorry, fooled you, right? :) No, actually the first thought that popped in my head was a picture of what she might look like as a little shriveled up 90 year old woman in the nursing home with that across her backside! Can't you just see the little woman in the hospital gown with the open back who always manages to escape? There she goes wandering down the road with her tatoo shining as the aides chase her down! I always wonder about that! You...

My posts have lagged behind a bit this week and for that I apologize. We started back to homeschooling Monday and it has been soooo busy! Now that FlowerChild is in 2nd grade and LadyBug is in Kindergarten we have had to readjust our learning time to accomodate the material and learning styles. I haven't ordered the new curriculum I want just yet. I am waiting on The FisherMan to have time to look it over. To be perfectly honest he has zero interest in it and has total trust in my decisions in this area. But still I trust his judgement also. He knows me so well and can sometimes notice things that I might not. I want to use Heart of Dakota but I keep wavering on Math curriculum. Singapore? Horizons? Saxon? I lean towards a combination of Rod and Staff and Horizons. There is so much to choose from out there! For now I have enough I can use until I make a firm decision in the coming weeks. It has been an up and down day. Poor FlowerChild had a rough time this morning and let her feel...

I am feeling the effects of a busy week so as I sit here and type I am also yawning like crazy! Hopefully I make sense as I ramble for a few minutes. Yesterday was a go-go-go day. It was our first day back in school. We also had errands to run, groceries to buy and we found out quite incidentally that it was the last day we could sign FlowerChild up for soccer. So we had to also squeeze that in. Plus The FisherMan had a meeting to attend up in town last night. We managed to get her registered for soccer and she is on cloud nine about it. It makes me happy to see her so tickled about it but honestly, for the life of me, I just don't get it! I tend to agree with LadyBug....she says she might would want to play "if maybe dey would walk a little more and not have to wun so much!" Yeah, what she said! All that running just to have someone dive in and kick the ball away from you and off you go again! Today was school again, of course. Then we took off to go find cleats as she ...

Do you ever get curious about the homes you pass each day? Some are perfect and tidy with neatly trimmed bushes and freshly mowed grass. Others have gorgeous flowerbeds. Some are completely neglected and give an air of despair. It makes you wonder about the people who live there. Take a look outside our house and it is pretty obvious that a family lives here. It has nothing to do with the type of house or the location. Yet there are some dead giveaways. The laundry flapping on the line is an assortment of guys basketball shorts, big and small, little girls dresses, and men's and women's clothing. Not to mention the big, fluffy sleeping bag with the sparkly butterflies and flowers on it! Toys are strewn across the back yard and a slip-n-slide is draped across the bench under the plum tree, just waiting for some active children to spread it on the ground. Children's pool toys spill out around a big, blue mushroom pool. (The FisherMan says that's how you can tell it's...

We are indulging in an early lunch today after having a late breakfast. I would say it is due to growth spurts but I'm not sure. Unfortunately mine tend to be outward rather than upward so I am hoping that isn't the case for Mama! :P As I went towards the kitchen to fix lunch LadyBug frantically called, "Wait, wait! Mama look at my picture!" She had worked so hard to color a kitty in a coloring book. The head was royal blue and the body orange while it sported a jaunty red bow. (Just so you Auburn fans know it...there was some Crimson Tide thrown in there, ha!) I praised her for staying in the lines while in my head I thought of how an adult would have had to made it look more real. Have you noticed that about children? The majority of young children never color a picture to look real. They use different colors all over. FlowerChild used to color pictures of people and animals with a pattern of up to 8 colors at a time! Have you ever seen a plaid horse? How about a st...

Jennifer's wedding day was fast approaching. Nothing could dampen her excitement -- not even her parent's nasty divorce. Her mother had found the PERFECT dress to wear and would be the best-dressed mother-of-the-bride ever! A week later, Jennifer was horrified to learn that her father's new young wife had bought the exact same dress as her mother! Jennifer asked her father's new young wife to exchange it, but she refused. 'Absolutely not, I look like a million bucks in this dress, and I'm wearing it,' she replied. Jennifer told her mother who graciously said, 'Never mind sweetheart. I'll get another dress After all, it's your special day.' A few days later, they went shopping and did find another gorgeous dress. When they stopped for lunch, Jennifer asked her mother, 'Aren't you going to return the other dress? You really don't have another occasion where you could wear it. ' Her mother just smiled and repli...