This Just In

Outside my window… ~8 degrees, frigid but beautiful.

I am thinking… ~that Spring Break is going to be a very busy one for me.  Lots of renovating upstairs.

I am thankful for… ~ Girl’s Night with Tammy, Twy and Tanya!  We have such a good time and I really enjoy it.

I am wearing… ~my dessert jammies.  Gotta get dressed shortly though and shovel the additional three or four inches we got last night.

I am remembering… ~the winters we used to have when I was younger.  It seems to me we got significantly more snowfall than we do now.  I also remember playing outside a lot more than I see kids doing today.  We never wanted to come indoors!

I am going… ~to end my volunteering with the PTO at school.  I have a lot on my plate with Little Man’s extra curricular activities and I just can’t do everything.  Something has to give, and that’s going to be it.  I was Box Tops coordinator for two years, and yes, it was educational–but I think someone else can have a turn at it and I don’t feel too badly about it.  Little Man now wants to learn MMA, so that means an extra 6 hours a week of training in addition to Cub Scouts and soon baseball.  It takes a lot of time and effort for Cub Scouts…it is constant.  Meetings every week, events nearly every weekend.  Between planning the meetings, and helping with Pack events, I am always on the go.  I don’t mind this, in fact I rather like it…but I can’t devote time to other things lower on the priority list.

I am currently reading…~A Game of Thrones, the 4 book series by George R. R. Martin.  Excellent series, I can’t put it down.  It’s a long one though at 3517 pages.

I am hoping…~to finish a cross stitching project I’m working on.  Remember how I mentioned not having a lot of extra time?  Yeah.  Trying to cram hobbies in there can be a challenge!

On my mind… ~replacing the windows in my boy’s rooms.  Can’t wait to do it.

Noticing that… ~we got all the snow we should have had over the course of the winter in one night.  Insane!  Take a look here.

From the kitchen… ~I’m back to planning menus again.  It helps relieve so much stress.  There’s such a good feeling knowing what you’re going to make, and that nobody has to wonder.  Since we moved our dinner time up to 4:30, things have been going incredibly smoothly in the kitchen department…the kitchen is totally cleaned up by 5:30 or so and we have the whole evening to do whatever we like.  I like that!  Tonight’s dinner is chicken and dumpling casserole.  I have yet to plan the rest of the week, but I’ll post a picture of the cute new menus I’m making.

Stacey