I like running orange peels down the garbage disposal. It smells amazing!!! 
I made whole-wheat pancakes for dinner last night. They weren’t a huge success. I thought they were fine, but my Hurb has a prejudice against whole-wheat. The main reason I did is because all of our “white” flour is in a 50 lb bag in the cellar, and I forgot to go down there to get some. Ha!
There is less than an inch of snow on the ground this morning, but the lads saw it and their first response was, “I’m going to build a snow man!” Good luck to them! 
One of the kids’ gifts this year was “recordable” Christmas books from Halmark. Their Grandma and Grandpa Zahn recorded the books and they love to listen to the books being read to them. Fun gifts!
Qade asked me this morning, “What love means?” Hmmmm…. not sure I have a very easy to explain answer for that one.
One of the lads asked me recently, “Why water is wet?” I had a hard time with that one too. Apparently I did not get enough “book larnin’” to field all of these inquiring minds’ questions. Ha ha!
It boggles my mind that one of the ‘games’ the lads play the most is to make up beds anywhere and everywhere in the house and then take naps. BUT when it comes to real nap time or bed time it’s no game!
I’ve developed a bad habit of nearly burning my oatmeal. It’s happened several times now. I’ll watch it carefully till it’s almost done, then somehow I get distracted and totally forget about it till I accidentally see it and rush to catch it in the nick of time. My mind is going, I tell you.
I will not be winning any awards for patience this year. *sigh*
Some days the simplest things would “make my day.” Something like being able to empty the dishwasher in one fell swoop instead of being interrupted 17 times. One day I’ll be writing the reverse, I know, but today….
Made peppermint bark for the first time. That was exciting. The lads love that it has candycane in it and it got a thumbs up from Stu, so I’m calling it a success.
Ella loves feeding herself green beans, though it can be rather gross when she decides to “talk” with her mouth full. Ha ha! Silly gal!
I had ‘action’ dreams last night. The first one I remember was like the “catch me if you can” story and people were after me, and I had to keep running and hiding from them. I don’t think that I ever impersonated a doctor though. The second one was more like a “Fantastic Four” kind of adventure. It was weird. I woke up very tired!
I yelled at the cat today. He earned it though.
I need to make Ella’s stocking stuffer hat. I’ve made beanies for the lads, and now the lass needs one…. but I’ve been procrastinating, obviously. I suppose that’s what I could do with this evening.
Random comments to this and that:
I find that whole-wheat pancakes are better if you let the batter sit for a while. I’m not overly crazy about them either, but James likes them.
Wouldn’t the egg-heads be surprised to know that the deepest thinking does not, in fact, happen with them.
I’m having bed time issues again too. When did Qade start growing out of naps? What were the signs? Maybe she’s just started being afraid of the dark. Maybe the atoms on Jupiter have aligned against me. Maybe God just likes to deprive me of sleep. At least James was awesome and got me a good part of Friday off.
I think they gave up on giving a patience award, since no one ever meets the requirements.
Make my day moments: actually having a child listen to me the first time . . . hey, I’d settle for listen to me the eighth time at this point. Both children staying “down” for their naps long enough for me to get a good one.
I’m curious, what did the cat do?
As James and David say: If I weren’t so good at it (and at getting away with it), I might stop procrastinating.
Thanks Joy, your comments are such fun to read!
Qade could teach the egg-head something for sure! Qade still takes naps from time to time, but we no longer call it nap-time, it’s “rest” and it was around 3 ish that he started not needing a nap every day. Maybe you could have “room time” for Helen when she gets a couple “quiet” toys or books on her bed, but has to stay there with them?? Myles takes a few books with him to “read” before he falls asleep for nap and it seems to work well with him. Not that he doesn’t still complain about going.
The cat followed me into the cellar then decided that he wasn’t going to come out again once I had my arms full of stuff and was trying to close and lock the door. I’m pretty sure I threw something at him too. Shhhhhhh!
Ah! Helen has not a whole lot of trouble with naps, just bedtime. The past few days she has not gone to sleep until 10pm or so. Her bedtime is at 8pm. Grrrrr! I’m not sure what is up with her. Tonight she’s been good so far, I heard a little talking, but no whining!!!
Hmmm… Well, you might try waking her up earlier from nap. I have to do that with the boys. Seems like by the time they settle down and sleep, they want to keep sleeping till 4 or so, but then it’s a battle at bed time. So I try to get them up at 3 now days. It’s a bummer though because if you’re trying to nap too that’s no fun.