ho hum day

I started out with my title being that I hate cold weather but then I started thinking about all the good things that happen when the weather starts getting colder. I felt guilty for typing that so I erased it. So I'll share some of the good things cold weather means to me.

• I get to go thru the closets and give away all the kids summer stuff that they won't be wearing next year. Some boy and girl are going to be super happy next summer!
• I get to get out all the great winter buys I found last year. I already have both kids' wardrobes ready for fall and winter.
• The bugs start dying outside.
• I get to wear sweatpants again! I'm not sure if that's because it's cold or it's because my regular clothes are feeling kinda snug these days! =)
• Picture day is coming up at school!
• My favorite family tradition is coming up very soon. That is picking apples and pumpkins at a great fruit farm in Cols with Jess and her fam. We spend all day among the apple trees and pumpkin patches and they have a great little petting zoo area and other things for the kids to do.
• Fall means winter is coming, which means spring is not too far behind, which means the baby won't be far behind either!

I spent the first couple hours of the day doing the first things on my list above. I have big bags of clothes and shoes for two special families who need them. Then I cleaned up the kitchen. You can't tell it now, since I have cooked supper, made smoothies and fed a starving boy all day. Then I decided to do some misc things that I have been looking at the past week or so that just needed done along time ago! I started with the ceiling fan that I look at all too often. It was disguisting! But it is clean now! Then I cleaned the windows where Sebastian would look out the window and rub is nose across it. You wouldn't believe how hard it is to remove dried dog nose stuff from a window! I moved my last tadpole into my small one gallon tank and took the 10 gal tank out on the porch for Brad to get rid of for me. He kept complaining that the water stunk so I got rid of it. I swept the playroom. I think I basically stopped after that. Brad's grandma wasn't home most of the morning so Ryan was dying over here all day. He did sit and watch Spongebob for a surprisingly long time while I got those things done. The kids played outside for a long time after I got Hannah and they had ice cream at grandma's. Then we ate supper-lasagna. I dont' think the kids have ever scarfed down a meal so fast! Almost every thing I make Ryan complains about and usually that includes lasagna but not today! Then I let them take a shower by themselves and then it was time to cut fingernails and toenails then go to bed. And now I'm not doing a thing. Brad is still at work. Poor guy.