rachel's continued ramblings

sunday: slave labor! layla is now in charge of the downstairs bathroom. yes. also sunday: getting my newest project life album set up and a few weeks in!!! after MUCH deliberation, indecision, and other such hemming and hawing, I walked into michaels and found a MIDNIGHT edition clearanced! SOLD! fortunately, midnight is one that I had been seriously considering, and, now that it’s out of the package and into the pages, I LOVE IT!!! I’m so excited for the rest of this year! monday: so, he may look cute and innocent, but this dog is a cold-blooded killer… of chickens that is. sunday afternoon was a less than pleasant experience. on saturday, we’d had a fair amount of wind. it had blown open our garden gate, but I forgot about that when I left to walk down the street to my parents’ house. bonez was in the yard when I left, but I didn’t think anything of it. until a half hour later when dave called me and asked if the dog was down there with me. no. panic. scattering to canvas the neigh...

sunday: found on the floor of layla’s closet… apparently ken is the next big thing to hit the 49ers roster. tuesday: ah yes, the return of the “reading room”… the distinction being that it is apparently NOT a fort, because moms get annoyed when the family room is constantly being overtaken by forts… but reading is important. and educational. so therefore, “reading rooms” should be tolerated and encouraged! even bonez is a fan of the reading room… doesn’t look like he’s doing a lot of reading, though… wednesday: when cats sit like humans… the humans laugh and take pictures… thursday: found yoda’s head, I have. (this has been missing for at least 6 months… and randomly showed up on the floor of the laundry room.) friday: putting christmas stuff away is so much less fun than getting it out… saturday: dave and micah went to a pinewood derby car workshop at a fellow scout’s home. in addition to cutting his car, micah managed to fall out of a trampoline and land on his head.

sunday: happy to be back home and have this hairy menace back! monday: layla and toby snuggled up to read one of the new books she got from gramma laurie for christmas. tuesday: micah wanted to bring his wallet to school for his “sharing” day. mean mom wouldn’t let him bring it with the money in it, so this was his solution. wednesday: it seems micah may have a small crush on his new student teacher. friday: after missing wednesday and thursday of work with some weird intestinal bug, I got back to work on friday to find get well notes from my kids in my box. awww… also friday: dave’s birthday present finally arrived!! classic will clark jersey! saturday: I am in love with bankers boxes.I spent the day organizing all my preschool stuff and filling up boxes. I need another set of these!

so, I say this is SORT OF week 1… it’s technically only thursday, friday, and saturday… not exactly an entire first week, but I wasn’t sure what else to do. week 0? at any rate, I call it week 1, you can call it whatever you want. thursday: january 1. new years day. dave’s birthday. waking up at the filippo’s tahoe cabin. pancakes and sausages for breakfast, packing up, driving down the road and just over the border into nevada so I can say I’ve been there, and then hitting the road to find some snow! we found some… not a lot, but enough to play in and even found a few small sledding hills. shane and gramma stayed in the car, but dave, layla, and micah did some sledding. I did some picture taking.   and we found charlie brown’s christmas tree! and back home, we celebrated dave’s birthday by inviting a bunch of people over and making him cook!   friday: trip to the bay area. always fun to play with nana’s toys. layla had fun making the slinky do tricks and even managed to...