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I'm probably going to take my friend up on her offer of an old cell-phone. I'll stick with the online surveys for some extra cash though, I seem to be making decent progress to the "cash out" levels on a couple sites I found.
Lilly has developed a terrible temper. I feel somewhat responsible. I told her that we both need to work on not screaming when we're angry. Lilly also needs to work on not throwing things, stomping feet, and hitting people/things when she's mad. At around 1:30 this afternoon, after at least 4 (it honestly may have been more) times of telling her to stop screaming, one sit-down conversation between me, Lil, and Joe, and a few instances of just ignoring her outbursts, I finally was able to tell her that she was doing a good job of being angry. She didn't scream, yell, throw, or stomp; she sat on the couch, glared, crossed her arms, and said "I'm mad!"
I got the girls new tooth brushes yesterday. I think that's Maddie's favorite thing ever. She LOVES brushing her teeth. She also loves going to the dentist. The hygienists are always pleasantly surprised to have a 2 year old lay calmly in the chair and let them brush and floss for her. They all have a dental appointment on Tuesday of this week. I'm going to try to get a time-line on Alta's braces. Poor kid got my dad's BAD snaggle toothed grin, I don't think there's a straight tooth in there.
I shaved my legs today too. It had been a while... they were looking rather mannish with inch long hair. As usual, I'm already prickly. I hate shaving. I'm going to run my epilator here in a bit, it can grab teeny-tiny hairs and it doesn't hurt at all when they're really short. Once again, I'm swearing that I"ll do it once a week and not let them attain hairy-man-leg status again. We'll see.
Our new pastor is officially sworn in (or whatever happens with pastors) tomorrow. There's going to be a big lasagna lunch/dinner thing at 3:30 in the afternoon. I'm going to bring my new lasagna for it's first public appearance. It's low carb/gluten free, with seasoned grilled eggplant instead of noodles and it's REALLY good.
I've had a weird ache in my hip the last couple days. I have no idea what it's from. If I'm sitting on the couch it aches inside the hip-joint. If I'm standing up or sitting in a kitchen chair it's above my hip bone, almost in my back. I can't think of anything I did that would cause it. Maybe 7 hours in the truck on Monday?
I'm now going to dig into the odd combination of chocolate chip cookies and a glass of Merlot. Whee!
Lilly has developed a terrible temper. I feel somewhat responsible. I told her that we both need to work on not screaming when we're angry. Lilly also needs to work on not throwing things, stomping feet, and hitting people/things when she's mad. At around 1:30 this afternoon, after at least 4 (it honestly may have been more) times of telling her to stop screaming, one sit-down conversation between me, Lil, and Joe, and a few instances of just ignoring her outbursts, I finally was able to tell her that she was doing a good job of being angry. She didn't scream, yell, throw, or stomp; she sat on the couch, glared, crossed her arms, and said "I'm mad!"
I got the girls new tooth brushes yesterday. I think that's Maddie's favorite thing ever. She LOVES brushing her teeth. She also loves going to the dentist. The hygienists are always pleasantly surprised to have a 2 year old lay calmly in the chair and let them brush and floss for her. They all have a dental appointment on Tuesday of this week. I'm going to try to get a time-line on Alta's braces. Poor kid got my dad's BAD snaggle toothed grin, I don't think there's a straight tooth in there.
I shaved my legs today too. It had been a while... they were looking rather mannish with inch long hair. As usual, I'm already prickly. I hate shaving. I'm going to run my epilator here in a bit, it can grab teeny-tiny hairs and it doesn't hurt at all when they're really short. Once again, I'm swearing that I"ll do it once a week and not let them attain hairy-man-leg status again. We'll see.
Our new pastor is officially sworn in (or whatever happens with pastors) tomorrow. There's going to be a big lasagna lunch/dinner thing at 3:30 in the afternoon. I'm going to bring my new lasagna for it's first public appearance. It's low carb/gluten free, with seasoned grilled eggplant instead of noodles and it's REALLY good.
I've had a weird ache in my hip the last couple days. I have no idea what it's from. If I'm sitting on the couch it aches inside the hip-joint. If I'm standing up or sitting in a kitchen chair it's above my hip bone, almost in my back. I can't think of anything I did that would cause it. Maybe 7 hours in the truck on Monday?
I'm now going to dig into the odd combination of chocolate chip cookies and a glass of Merlot. Whee!