I think I need to find a way to get us all to bed a little bit earlier at night. My little Bug woke me up at 3 am this morning because she couldn't get back to sleep, and then after I rubbed her back for a few minutes and went back to bed, I couldn't get back to sleep! Getting up this morning sure was tough, and that messes up the whole morning routine.
Little Bug's teacher is having a baby, and I have started a little blanket for her and the baby, but today we got a little invite to the school shower for her. It's Wednesday! Somehow I don't think the blanket will be done by then! LOL. So I shall have to think of something else to do. Maybe not go and send it later? Go with a small gift and send the blanket on later? Hmm.
I am still fighting with the constant fatigue. I hope it will get easier. I am still struggling with the meal planning thing, too (meaning I haven't done much of it! lol).
Does anyone else wonder what this whole bailout stuff will really mean for America? I hate to be pessimistic, but it sure doesn't look very good for the future of the economy.
Just my wanderings.....
Monday, September 29, 2008
Monday, September 22, 2008
Wool Festival
On Saturday we went to the Canterbury Shaker Village in Canterbury, NH for their Wool Festival. It was great!! The Little Guy was a bit bored, and the hubby wasn't super thrilled, but he did enjoy it.
I love it. I was in Fiber Heaven. So much yarn! So many spinning wheels! So many fiber producing animals! It was great. So many things to do with the fiber afterward! Spinning, weaving, rug hooking, rug braiding, felting, card weaving, inkle weaving. I would have bought more yarn if I had had time.
We did look through some of the buildings, too, but some you had to be on the tour for, and we weren't there at the right time.
I used to think I had no interest at all in spinning, but now I'm thinking I might want to try.......
My New Life
It's a whole new world, that is for sure.
I haven't worked full time in nine years, so getting used to a whole new routine, working all day, and still taking care of the house and family when I get home is a whole new ball game for me. I am struggling and persevering, but it is hard.
I am so tired. But I hate to go to bed at night in some ways, because the only time I have to really breathe and relax all day is that little window of time between when the kids go to be and when I have to go to bed. It drives me nuts when they don't go right to sleep and come out to the living room to ask us questions, and so forth. I just want to savor that little bit of time! In the morning, I'd love to have a quiet breakfast with no distractions, but most days my Little Guy is up and at 'em before I even get out of the bathroom after I shower!
Things are compounded by the graduate class I am taking. It is good, and it is only one day a week, but I need to be better about getting my reading done before class, etc. I'm sure it will be a good class and I'll get a lot out of it, but in many ways I wish I wasn't taking it.
Things will get better, and I will figure out how to juggle things eventually, but at least I like my job so far. The people I work with are great, and it makes me so grateful to know that my children go to this school and are able to have this education.
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Freedom!!
I am officially done. Done-dee done done done. My classes are done, my final paper is done, and now I can relax. For a week and a half. Then I start my new job. Oy!! I am so relieved to have those classes done, and will NEVER take two summer courses at the same time again.
Just to keep us on our toes, we had someone want to see the house right after my daughter's birthday party when we were heading to Maine for the weekend. So we just packed, got the house picked up as best we could and left. The person who looked at the house the next morning wasn't too interested, I guess, so that was ok with us. We planned on meeting with the realtor tomorrow to take the house off the market officially (at least until next spring).
So the realtor called today to say that someone wants to see it, a motivated buyer, and he is a cash buyer. Like I said, it is keeping us on our toes! So we'll see what happens there. Probably not anything. DH has a friend who has had a condo on the market for over a year and has had more than one "cash buyer" come look at it. So who knows what will happen. I'm not going to stress about it. Seriously, I'm not. Really.
Just to keep us on our toes, we had someone want to see the house right after my daughter's birthday party when we were heading to Maine for the weekend. So we just packed, got the house picked up as best we could and left. The person who looked at the house the next morning wasn't too interested, I guess, so that was ok with us. We planned on meeting with the realtor tomorrow to take the house off the market officially (at least until next spring).
So the realtor called today to say that someone wants to see it, a motivated buyer, and he is a cash buyer. Like I said, it is keeping us on our toes! So we'll see what happens there. Probably not anything. DH has a friend who has had a condo on the market for over a year and has had more than one "cash buyer" come look at it. So who knows what will happen. I'm not going to stress about it. Seriously, I'm not. Really.
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Bliss
A comfortable chair to lounge in, a book or magazine in hand, a lovely breeze to keep the sun from getting too hot, the lake stretching out in front of you, a loon to watch float through the cove, the children playing contentedly in the water nearby, a snack to munch on, a drink to quench thirst, and blessed peace. That is bliss. I had it, for three wonderful days.
What a gift my parents and grandparents gave to us when they bought the camp together. I have spent many happy hours there at 'camp'. It's not a cottage, it's a camp. It is rustic. It is less complicated, it is restful. The biggest dilema is what to eat next, for we always seem to be hungry. It is amazing how you can spend a whole day doing nearly nothing and still sleep like the proverbial rock.
We may not have traveled around the world as kids, we may not have had a lot of family vacations to other states, neither of which I'm particularly sorry about, but we had camp, we are the richer for it. Now it is a joy to me to see my children love it too, to be asking what day we are leaving to go to camp, how long it will be before we get there, to hear them talk about the first thing they will do when we arrive. Those are the joys that fill a heart, and I will try to treasure them.
What a gift my parents and grandparents gave to us when they bought the camp together. I have spent many happy hours there at 'camp'. It's not a cottage, it's a camp. It is rustic. It is less complicated, it is restful. The biggest dilema is what to eat next, for we always seem to be hungry. It is amazing how you can spend a whole day doing nearly nothing and still sleep like the proverbial rock.
We may not have traveled around the world as kids, we may not have had a lot of family vacations to other states, neither of which I'm particularly sorry about, but we had camp, we are the richer for it. Now it is a joy to me to see my children love it too, to be asking what day we are leaving to go to camp, how long it will be before we get there, to hear them talk about the first thing they will do when we arrive. Those are the joys that fill a heart, and I will try to treasure them.
Joys of Summer
They are haying the fields around our house, my favorite two to three times a year. I just love the smell, love to see the once-tall grass short and new and green, love that connection to the farming community here. This family leases the fields from the owners (who built a huge expensive house way out on a 92 acre piece of land) and hay the fields to feed their dairy cows. My favorite part is when they bale it - there is something about the way the bailer whips that topsy-turvy hay into a lovely rectangular bail! To go with the sound of the tractor in the field is the sound of my dear husband mowing our lawn.
Today is the perfect summer day for me weather wise. In the 80s, no humidity to speak of, a beautiful breeze, partly cloudy. Perfect.
Two days ago on my way home from school (how strange it feels to talk about being in school again!) I stopped at one of those small local grocery stores. I was buying only one small item, but then suddenly the clerk was handing me a huge bouquet of gorgeous roses!! They were free, a bit on the 'past it' side for them to be selling, so they were giving several bouquets away to customers. The ones I was given were the most beautiful color of them all. When we got married, my mother-in-law wore a corsage from sterling silver roses, and these roses remind me so much of them. They aren't pink, they aren't purple, they aren't really quite mauve. The are lovely, though, and I will enjoy them as long as they last. What an unexpected treat!
This week has been exhausting. We got home from my parents' camp late Sunday night. Monday I started class, then we went to the baseball game with DH's whole family (which was loads of fun). Tuesday I had to get up quite early to be in Manchester by 8 for my next class. And so it continued, with me reading as much as I can and typing up drafts of papers last night while eating my dinner after class, and so on. I am glad I do not have class on Fridays, and I am so grateful to have a husband as wonderful as J, who is so supportive and takes care of so many things while I am out during the day. Little Bug is thrilled that I am home in the evenings, as I was gone so much during the class I took in the spring, either at class or at work.
I am adjusting to life as a student, and I think I will enjoy both classes, though one more than the other. It is wonderful to put my mind to work in such a big way again, and to be stretching those muscles that have been dormant so long!
Today is the perfect summer day for me weather wise. In the 80s, no humidity to speak of, a beautiful breeze, partly cloudy. Perfect.
Two days ago on my way home from school (how strange it feels to talk about being in school again!) I stopped at one of those small local grocery stores. I was buying only one small item, but then suddenly the clerk was handing me a huge bouquet of gorgeous roses!! They were free, a bit on the 'past it' side for them to be selling, so they were giving several bouquets away to customers. The ones I was given were the most beautiful color of them all. When we got married, my mother-in-law wore a corsage from sterling silver roses, and these roses remind me so much of them. They aren't pink, they aren't purple, they aren't really quite mauve. The are lovely, though, and I will enjoy them as long as they last. What an unexpected treat!
This week has been exhausting. We got home from my parents' camp late Sunday night. Monday I started class, then we went to the baseball game with DH's whole family (which was loads of fun). Tuesday I had to get up quite early to be in Manchester by 8 for my next class. And so it continued, with me reading as much as I can and typing up drafts of papers last night while eating my dinner after class, and so on. I am glad I do not have class on Fridays, and I am so grateful to have a husband as wonderful as J, who is so supportive and takes care of so many things while I am out during the day. Little Bug is thrilled that I am home in the evenings, as I was gone so much during the class I took in the spring, either at class or at work.
I am adjusting to life as a student, and I think I will enjoy both classes, though one more than the other. It is wonderful to put my mind to work in such a big way again, and to be stretching those muscles that have been dormant so long!
Friday, June 27, 2008
Who thought this was a good idea?!
So I work at the mall part time at a women's clothing store. Directly across the corridor from the store I work at is one of those vitamin/supplement type stores. Outside the door of that store there is a scale. Yes, a scale, a large scale.
A scale that talks.
Yep, it talks. It can sense when someone walks by and it says, "Have you checked your weight today?"
Needless to say, it is quite annoying after a long shift to continually hear that phrase over and over. Granted, it is a nice voice, human sounding and so forth, but still. What does amuse me is the comments I hear from people walking by it. I haven't heard anything too rude, but there are many that say, "No, and I'm not going to!"
So who thought this scale was a good idea? Asking passersby if they have checked their weight? And who thought that people would actually WANT to weigh themselves in the middle of a mall, of all places?!! Personally, I'd be afraid that the talking scale would announce my weight out loud to the whole mall, wouldn't you?
I really want to know the whole thought process behind this scale. What was the meeting like where they pitched this idea? What were they thinking when they agreed to put something like this into production? I mean, there had to have been more than one person thinking this was a good plan! I'm wondering what went through their heads when they were all nodding in agreement.
By the way, have you checked your weight today? Nevermind - I don't want to know.
A scale that talks.
Yep, it talks. It can sense when someone walks by and it says, "Have you checked your weight today?"
Needless to say, it is quite annoying after a long shift to continually hear that phrase over and over. Granted, it is a nice voice, human sounding and so forth, but still. What does amuse me is the comments I hear from people walking by it. I haven't heard anything too rude, but there are many that say, "No, and I'm not going to!"
So who thought this scale was a good idea? Asking passersby if they have checked their weight? And who thought that people would actually WANT to weigh themselves in the middle of a mall, of all places?!! Personally, I'd be afraid that the talking scale would announce my weight out loud to the whole mall, wouldn't you?
I really want to know the whole thought process behind this scale. What was the meeting like where they pitched this idea? What were they thinking when they agreed to put something like this into production? I mean, there had to have been more than one person thinking this was a good plan! I'm wondering what went through their heads when they were all nodding in agreement.
By the way, have you checked your weight today? Nevermind - I don't want to know.
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