December 27, 2008

• Slow Start

  Yesterday was an out of season warm day.  In fact, I believe we set a record high – near 80°!!!  On the way back home, I noticed my car said it was 77° outside, but it didn’t mention the heavy, muggy air and 40mph winds!  We didn’t need electric blankets last night and the late night weather report said we’d have some rain within the next few hours.  It didn’t arrive until around 4am.  Hail, wind, thunder, lightening, and rain, rain, rain!

  My wet patio
   
  I don’t remember those cracks in our patio.  I’ll have to ask Jesse.  I’m not the most observant person in the world!

  This is the “sunrise” Jesse and I woke up to this morning.
  
  If I didn’t know better, I’d say I was in California looking at the snow capped mountains!  The sun wasn’t having much success in rising OR shining!

  When we went to bed it was still in the lower 70′s and this morning it is 38°, as I type.  Welcome to Oklahoma!  We will have the same high winds as yesterday, but coming from the north instead of the south.  You know what that means????  Right!  Brrrrrrr!  It’s supposed to get up to the low 40′s and then start dropping again. (sigh)

  The early morning storms woke people up (not me, except for a second when the thunder made Chirper jump!) and we have some slow moving family members today!

  Luci & Annamarie were awake the longest at 4am before going back to sleep, and the first ones awake this morning.
   
  Luci was sent to bed early last night for bad behavior and promptly fell asleep a little after 7:30pm.  She may or may not need a nap today, since she DID get an early start last night!

  Jesse said he got up this morning to use the restroom and, when he came back to bed, someone had taken over his place in bed!  He got up and turned on the coffee maker and watched the news in the den!
  
  Poor Jesse.  He said someone came and tapped him on the arm to say they couldn’t fall back asleep, JUST as he had fallen back asleep after the storm!  Now he has to work all day! 
  

  The last to wake up were Rissy and JanaLyn.  They had a hard time going to sleep last night, but I’m not sure the storm woke them up this morning.  It’s just “that kind of day” for sleeping in late.  I’m not sure if they were talking or if Rissy was reading one of her new books to JanaLyn!
   

  It didn’t take long before they had company!  
  
  They look like they got caught doing something wrong, don’t they?!
  

  I still have the Christmas pots and pans to wash by hand and some straightening to do, here and there.  If it stays cool, I may burn the wrapping and tissue paper in the fireplace.  That’s a quick fix to a corner of junk – just burn it!  I wish sweeping my kitchen floor was as easy!  It doesn’t matter how often I sweep the kitchen, it is ALWAYS dirty.  The white tile doesn’t help, but dirty is dirty, whether you can see it or not.  I think we must be filthy people and that’s the answer!  There’s always “stuff” on my kitchen floor.

  I was checking out other parts of the house this morning to see what was out of order (I won’t mention the guest/foster children’s room!!!) and found the girls’ new electric toothbrushes (is that correct if they are BATTERY powered toothbrushes?) lined up on their sink counter top.  I didn’t think about the fact they wouldn’t fit into the bathroom toothbrush holder.  I’ll have to get some little caps to go over the bristles so they can store the toothbrushes in a drawer.
  
  This doesn’t look very sterile, does it?

  I have to wash my dirty table cloth and put the silver (fancy stainless) that’s in the dishwasher in the silver chest.  Then, I can put the chest away.  I don’t think I’ll be serving anything “fancy” for a while, so maybe I’ll put away the tablecloth, too, and change the centerpiece.
  

  I haven’t given New Year’s Eve/Day a thought.  In the past, I’ve served party food, but we are really trying to cut things to the bare essentials around here this winter, and party food isn’t cheap, nor is it a priority.  I’ll have to ask Jesse if he cares about anything in particular.  He is working such long hours, I doubt he feels festive!  Our anniversay is January 2nd, and we haven’t discussed doing anything special.  I told Stephanie I might want her to babysit next Friday when she gets off work. 

  Jesse went by to see his two aunts from Louisiana, at his mother’s house last night, after work.  They are leaving early Sunday morning – I mean REALLY early (6am) to go back home.  He enjoyed their company, but said his mother was a little surly.  Typical.  Makes a relationship with her difficult.

  Stephanie will pick up JanaLyn tonight to take to Stephanie’s Dad’s for Christmas gift exchange.  He and his wife only live a few miles from our house.  That means JanaLyn will be gone a little early this time. 

  Today’s To Do List:
  *  Empty dishwasher and wash big pans by hand
  *  Put silver chest away
  *  Maybe teach school, just so the girls have something to do
  *  Laundry (it seems like it’s been a few days since I’ve done any . . . uh! oh!)
  *  Dinner – I’ll have to stand in front of the freezer for inspirational thoughts, while trying to invent something using chicken or ground beef!!!!
  *  Maybe . . . read (???!!!!!)  The book I’m reading isn’t difficult and is going quickly. 

  Jesse mentioned he might take the girls (or I could go, too) to his mother’s, tonight, after he gets off work, so his aunts could see us.  I don’t know how that will work if JanaLyn is still here.  I really don’t care to go.   No one usually speaks to me and being with his mother for very long is awkward & uncomfortable for me.  We’ll see.  If it’s important to Jesse, I’ll go.

  It won’t be long before we open our new school books and I’ll be back to lesson planning and teaching.  I think the excitement of new books will help motivate all of us to get back in the swing of things.  At least, I HOPE something motivates us!!! LOL!

  Be blessed  ~

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