rachel's continued ramblings

sunday: one night, our neighbor knocked on our door and brought us this bike, which he had found in front of his mailbox, thinking it was ours. it’s not. so I sat it in front of the house for awhile, hoping the owner would claim it. took a pic and sent it to a couple of neighborhood friends to see if they recognized it. they didn’t. dave took it and asked a couple of other neighbors if it was theirs. it wasn’t. and then one morning, we saw it in a ditch down the road. at that point, I had 2 other neighbors alert me to this fact, thinking the bike was ours. eventually it completely disappeared. no clue whose it is. monday: no school for MLK day. at some point in the day, we were coming back from somewhere and layla and micah were majorly fighting in the car. so I sent them to their rooms when we got home. layla used the time to compose an apology letter to micah, which she then read to him. they chatted and worked it out. then they explained it to me and asked if they could come downst...

just a few thoughts I’ve had on the subject of sports recently. between skating and football, I’m a little bit disillusioned by sports and people’s reaction to them. it takes two teams to play a football game. (or any other competitive sport, for that matter.) without the other team, you have nothing to play. the other team is just that: the other team. they are not the enemy. they are not the “bad guys”. they are not the spawn of the devil. they are the other team. as the other team, they do their job, you do yours. train. play hard. do your best. make every possible, allowable effort to win the game. this is the responsibility of both teams. and what makes for a good, competitive game. it is lots of fun to support your team, especially when they are winning. being a fan is awesome. okay ways to express this would be to buy jerseys, wave flags, go to games, cheer your team on, put stickers on your car, etc. not okay ways to express this would be to personally insult players from t...

monday: every time I get out of the shower, this cat is waiting for me, so he can get in and lick up the water off the floor of the shower. it’s his favorite way to get a drink. cats are weird. tuesday: this cracked me up. had micah at the grocery store with me and he spots the produce scale. so of course, he wanted to weigh something. he went for his little donkey kong lego toy that he had with him. tuesday: this is my parents’ cat, beatrice. she is small and feisty, and has the prettiest eyes ever. she’s not so fond of it when I come over to make up beds, and usually finds herself made into one because she refuses to move. wednesday: layla has been very interested in all things domestic lately, and really wants to learn how to cook. so I told her she could start helping me make dinner. this night, it was homemade, cheesy mac & cheese with ham and peas & carrots. she did almost all of it herself. from boiling the noodles, to cutting the cheese (yes, I did just say that), mi...

sunday: up early to leave for home. had to drag layla and micah off of their respective couches and onto gramma laurie’s lap for some morning snuggles while we loaded up the car. layla was sleepy and didn’t want to wake up. micah was sad and didn’t want to say goodbye. monday: this happened. eek! tuesday: fighting valiantly to not get sick.  I was not successful. wednesday: now that we’re back home and mostly recovered from our trip, it’s time to start undecorating the house. putting up the decorations is so much more fun. the pile grows. eventually I did get it all put away in boxes in the attic. it was a slow process. thursday: just the general chaos of a well-attended MOMS Club business meeting… nobody wanted to sit by me because I was sick. friday: taking down our christmas tree is no joke. we have so many ornaments. that red bin with the green lid two pictures up? ^^ that gets filled with ornaments. ONLY ornaments. FILLED. I took them all off, took down the lights and th...

this week is a little odd, as the year started on a wednesday. I didn’t have any trouble filling in the extra photo pockets, though. wednesday: a trip to EG wouldn’t be complete without a visit to feickert park. while at the park, dave and shane were throwing the football around, doing fun stuff like trying to throw it into various slides and such… and then dave threw it into a tree. high in a tree… the new football that shane just got for christmas… and then I had a heart attack… thursday: since laurie was sick on the 1st, we celebrated dave’s birthday on wednesday instead. friday: dave and shane got the opportunity to go shoot some guns with nolan. a friend of his ad all sorts of different ones. apparently they (the adults, not shane) had to ‘empty’ some beer cans first so they had something to shoot at. also friday: for the last year, micah has been talking about this ‘happy birthday’ shirt he wants to get for his dog carper. it had resurfaced with a vengeance lately, as he’s ...