Totally random.
Tuesday, March 8, 2011 at 07:49PM 1. Did you know that baby oil is an excellent cleaner for stainless steel surfaces (like on refrigerators and microwaves)? Hal at Home Depot told me so. He swore me to secrecy, though, so don't tell him I told you.
2. I love Monday afternoons. (Yes, I know that sounds weird.) After I pick up the boys from Options, we mostly go out to grab a snack. It's tradition. During that, they take turns telling me (in detail) about their day. I love that they want to do that.
3. Micah's kindergarten words of late have been Star Wars, technology, uranium, vector and war. (Vector, in case you were wondering, comes from the villain in the movie Despicable Me...not any precocious knowledge of geometry, lol.)
4. My exercise "habit" hasn't yet reached habit status and I'm a bit behind on my goal of 3x a week, but I'm going to go out on a limb and claim that I'm making progress. One of the biggest hurdles was figuring out that I really just need to shift my entire schedule to getting up earlier *every* morning. (Keep in mind here that prior to coming up with this whole, crazy "I should exercise more" idea my schedule was definitely that of a night owl. I'd stay up late after the boys were in bed...and they go to bed late to start with (around 11 pm) for varying reasons that work for us...and then not worry about getting up earlier than them in the morning.)
Anyhow. Trying to get up early only 3-4 mornings a week just wasn't working because then I was staying up late the other nights and sleeping in those other days...which meant that getting up earlier to exercise was, um, not fun. (Okay. It's still not to the "fun" stage, let's be honest here, LOL!)
5. I love that Micah, though being the shortest kid at Options, considers himself "just one of the boys" and is more than happy to hang out with his big brothers and their friends (all the way up to 6th graders). I love it even more that those other boys all totally accept Micah and are genuinely delighted to let him play with them, happily adjusting their skill levels to give Micah a fighting chance. (And, obviously, I love, too, that Noah and Asher think this is perfectly normal and wouldn't even think about not including Micah.)
6. Legos are awesome. They once again came to my rescue this week during Asher's math lesson. The lesson was about volume (specifically cubic units). Once I explained things in terms of lego bricks, it all made sense. Whew.
7. Is it weird that I almost always eat M&Ms in this order: yellow, brown, red, blue, orange, green?
That was all. Told you it was random. ;)
Reader Comments (2)
I don't think #7 is weird. I eat them in brown, red, orange, yellow, green, blue order!! And thanks for the baby oil tip.
Awesome idea about using Legos for volume!! You come up with the best stuff!