...and I'm surprised it took 5 1/2 years to finally occur.
I did some laundry last night (ha ha, very funny...it hasn't quite been 5.5 years since I washed last) and pulled the second load out of the dryer. It was a darks load, which included my brand new dark-wash jeans. I was very careful, turned them inside out and meticulously sorted the laundry to prevent bleed problems, even caught and removed the lone white sock that snuck in the machine. Everything looked good when I put it in the dryer. When I opened it up afterward, there was a broken green crayon on top of the lint trap, but still solid! Whew. Then I found a yellow crayon jammed in a groove near the lint trap, also miraculously unmelted! Thank goodness! Yellow and green wax all over our clothes could have been a nightmare!
So, I dropped the next load (whites) in the dryer and went to bed. I opened it up this morning to fold and found green smears all over the dryer insides. The missing piece of the broken green crayon had hidden out somewhere in the dryer. Judging from the piece I removed, it was a maximum of 1/2 inch of green wax, but it sure spread far!! Of course, the crayons remained whole in the dark load, no signs of melting or smearing there, but once I put in the white load, the crayon nub tumbled itself to melty oblivion all over our clothes. Mostly, it's the underwear that were affected. A few white t-shirts have some green smears on the sleeves. What are the odds? Why didn't the crayon melt in the dark load, but reached it's breaking point with the whites?
Monday, April 27, 2009
Thursday, April 23, 2009
William - the Riddler
Note that this conversation occurred in the car, where all deep thought happens for our kids and immediately followed our conversation about the boxes of toys we were driving to the church to donate. I have no idea how his brain leapt from one to the other.
W: "Mom, what would you do if you 'digged' a deep, deep hole and you were at the bottom and you didn't have a ladder to get out? You couldn't jump that high."
Mom: "I suppose I would call for help."
W: "Well, what if no one heard you, could you get out then?"
M: "I don't know William, what would you do?"
W: "I guess you could just actually dig more dirt in the hole and climb on top of it. And when you dig the dirt just fills up the hole and you could walk out."
My mind immediately returned to the riddle about a tennis ball down a deep hole. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff and how he thinks these things up so quickly.
W: "Mom, what would you do if you 'digged' a deep, deep hole and you were at the bottom and you didn't have a ladder to get out? You couldn't jump that high."
Mom: "I suppose I would call for help."
W: "Well, what if no one heard you, could you get out then?"
M: "I don't know William, what would you do?"
W: "I guess you could just actually dig more dirt in the hole and climb on top of it. And when you dig the dirt just fills up the hole and you could walk out."
My mind immediately returned to the riddle about a tennis ball down a deep hole. I don't know where he comes up with this stuff and how he thinks these things up so quickly.
Monday, April 20, 2009
Sorry for the delay...
...it has been very busy and we are still very busy.
Just know that there is lots of house stuff going on around here. We'll get around to sorting it all out and hopefully posting wonderful pictures soon enough.
Just know that there is lots of house stuff going on around here. We'll get around to sorting it all out and hopefully posting wonderful pictures soon enough.
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Holy Birds
William: you know why birds don't have churches?
Mom: why not?
William: Cause they can't open doors.
Of course, how silly of me! How could birds get in?
Mom: why not?
William: Cause they can't open doors.
Of course, how silly of me! How could birds get in?
Friday, March 27, 2009
Moving Day!
Our stuff is all on a truck and on its way to our new house. I'm thrilled and eager to be unpacked.
By the way... our house came with a pet. We named him Bonkers. He is a wild red cardinal, and though beautiful, not so smart. He flings himself into the windows at the back of our house at least 300 times a day. (hence the name Bonkers)..
Come visit us soon so you can see our house and our bird before he breaks his neck or wing on our windows. :-)
By the way... our house came with a pet. We named him Bonkers. He is a wild red cardinal, and though beautiful, not so smart. He flings himself into the windows at the back of our house at least 300 times a day. (hence the name Bonkers)..
Come visit us soon so you can see our house and our bird before he breaks his neck or wing on our windows. :-)
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
It's New House Eve!
Sure, I haven't packed even the teeniest bit of our apartment, but I couldn't resist the urge to announce that tomorrow morning (way too early) is our closing day! The house we've been planning, saving and dreaming for over the last 9 months is finally going to be ours! Sure, we're forking over more money than I've ever had to fork before, and we're taking out a loan for a few times that, but we're going to be homeowners again.
No more hearing our neighbors cough in the middle of the night or listening in on the upstairs neighbor's morning pee. No more reminding the kids what it might sound like downstairs when they play hopscotch across our living room rug.
Tomorrow, we get the keys to our dream house! It's exciting and you can be sure that we'll be taking pictures of our palace tomorrow afternoon. We won't have computers up and running to post them, but we'll get there. :-)
The movers are coming on Monday and it's good-bye apartments, HELLOOOO house!
No more hearing our neighbors cough in the middle of the night or listening in on the upstairs neighbor's morning pee. No more reminding the kids what it might sound like downstairs when they play hopscotch across our living room rug.
Tomorrow, we get the keys to our dream house! It's exciting and you can be sure that we'll be taking pictures of our palace tomorrow afternoon. We won't have computers up and running to post them, but we'll get there. :-)
The movers are coming on Monday and it's good-bye apartments, HELLOOOO house!
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