Who could use $1000 dollars? If you'd like a chance to win, write a haiku poem about your mom and enter it at Rocks In My Dryer. Hurry!!!!! She's closing the comments in like 10 hours!
(A quick refresher in poetry, a haiku is 3 lines, 5 syllables in lines 1 & 3 and 7 syllables in line 2.)
Here's my entry:
I thought you were mean.
Mother, Daughter, love is tough.
Now, I'm the mean one.
Now hurry up, time is ticking!
If you read my post yesterday, you know that I've gotten on a cleaning streak. Well you see, I have this shelf. It's in my laundry room. It's a great place for storage except that.......................
....It's gotten a little bit out of control.
I mean, everybody needs a place where you can store extra toilet paper, paper towels, an inflatable baby pool, board games, an ice cream maker, an infant bath tub, beach towels, batting helmets, large serving dishes, infant car seat accessories, a tripod, baskets, quilts and surely everyone has........a fax machine.....in their laundry room.
But after the new pack of paper towels that I purchased yesterday, kept falling off the shelf, I knew it was time to take some action!
TA-DA!!!!
Yes, I kept the fax machine on the shelf. It provides all kinds of entertainment for the button-pushing maniac, otherwise known as Caleb, while I'm doing the laundry.
Since this week started, I have been doing some cleaning. Is today really only Tuesday? I feel like it's later in the week. Y'all, this morning I actually looked at Caleb and asked him what day it was! His reply....ELMO.
Anyway, sorry to get off track.
I have been bitten by the cleaning bug! It started from my home sanctuary task for Monday and I haven't stopped since!
Here's what I've accomplished so far:
*Cleaned both bathrooms and I'm not talking a swish with the toilet bowl brush and wiping off the counter. I mean I have scrubbed every inch of both bathrooms.
*Cleaned out the closets in our room and in the boys room. I haven't got the courage to tackle Emma's yet.
*Put away winter clothes. Although I don't know why since the weather has turned cold again!
*Vacuumed Ok, not really a spring cleaning thing but it was necessary.
*Mopped the kitchen- same as above
*Laundry, the never-ending chore!
We are having a church wide yard sale in May to raise money for our Costa Rica trip. I actually told someone the other day, "I don't really have alot of stuff to sell." Boy was I wrong! I have 2 huge piles in my hallway plus a huge bag of stuff that's going to Goodwill. Imagine what it will look like after I tackle Emma's room!
I've found some new blogs and I thought you might enjoy them. This one is a long lost sister, sorority sister that is! This one I found just today and I think we have a lot in common. And this one is just plain fun!
My friend, Cindy, tagged me with this Get To Know Me meme. So I will be answering these questions as if you really care to know these things about me!
What was I doing 10 years ago? In 1998?
*Living in Canton, Ga.
*I was a new mom. Emma was born Nov. 1997.
*Teaching school at Mountain Road Elementary.
5 things on my to-do list today.
*Meet with Brookes. (She just left)
*Clean the shower.
*Vacuum
*Give blood
*Buy, eat and enjoy a chicken-q plate to raise money for the Savannah burn victims. (Tough, I know but somebody had to do it!)
5 snacks I enjoy
*Chips and salsa
*Chips and cheese dip
*Chips and guacomole (do you see a trend here?)
*dark chocolate
*anything else that involves dipping crackers or chips!
5 things I would do if I were a billionaire
*I would tithe way more than my 10 percent.
*Adopt a child or maybe more from China or Ethiopia
*Give money to lots of differents missions like this, this, and this one and this.
*Buy a beach house.
*Pay for my kids, nieces and nephews college education!
5 bad habits
*Hitting the snooze.
*Leaving my shoes in the living room.
*Paying bills just past the due date (sorry Steven)
*Not calling my family more often.
*procrastinating- see I even put it last on my list!
5 Places that I've lived
*Roswell, Ga.
*Marietta, Ga.
*Canton, Ga.
*Woodstock, Ga.
*Millen, Ga.
I've really lived on the edge!!! The sad thing is the first 4 are withing 20 miles of each other!
5 Jobs that I've had
*Roswell Mall Theater- love popcorn, love candy, it was perfect!
*Blockbuster Video
*Various day care centers
*Sylvan Learning Center
*School teacher, 2 different schools
Now you know about me, tell me about you. If you're reading this, consider yourself tagged. Leave me a comment, so I can check out your answers!
Now, I'm off to give blood and eat me some good chicken!
I have absolutely nothing newsworthy to blog about.
Our weekend was rainy and pretty uneventful.
We were supposed to have the opening day of ball season for the kids but all the games and festivities were rained out. Dougie & Emma were really bummed, especially since they scheduled the makeups for next Saturday and they will be on a trip to D.C. with their dad.
We laid around, watched tv, read and did absolutely nothing!
Sunday was a great day, although it was still rainy. Steven has been preaching a series on Discipleship, What it means to follow Christ. He has been preaching some tremendous messages and one deacon came up to me yesterday and said this. "I started to bring Steven some water while he was preaching this morning." Looking confused, I asked, " why?" He replied, "Cause he was on fire!" I couldn't agree more!
Tomorrow, Steven has a meeting at the GBC and since we're coming from out of town, they will pay for a hotel stay. My parents live not far from there, so we're going to drop Caleb off in the morning and have a little get away. And while Steven is in his meeting, I might just go to the Mall of Georgia ALL BY MYSELF!!!!! I might even walk into a real live Starbucks and get a "cawkee."
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