Downs
- I’ve had a cold for the past week. I’m starting to think that cough syrup is nothing more than sugar water manufacturers make counting on the placebo effect.
- For various reasons, I haven’t been able to exercise much this last week.
Ups
- I’m continuing to be very busy but still managing to stay sane so far.
Calvin Moment
- We have a set of waffle blocks that Calvin is starting to get interested in. Sunday, when Jaeger and Calvin were video conferencing with Nana, Jaeger was showing Calvin how to put the pieces together. Jaeger, having a natural affinity for building things with blocks, was having fun putting the blocks together the way he wanted to. However, Calvin would protest vehemently some of the time. At one point when Calvin had become quite upset, Jaeger asked Calvin, “do you disagree with daddy’s artistic vision.” Calvin looked very solemnly at Jaeger and said, “yeh!”
Simplification
- I’ve prepped another three boxes to be shipped off to the thrift store tomorrow. I’m getting rid old mugs, two old wine glasses, and all my pregnancy books (none of them were good enough I’d want to pass them on to anyone).
- I organized the corner cabinet in my kitchen. I went into Bed Bath & Behind to find double lazy susan’s for my spices. However, I noticed they had a couple of huge 18″ diameter lazy susans as well. I went back home and measured it and discovered I could put them in my corner cabinet. It’s such an awkward space that I’ve been trying to figure out what to do with it ever since we bought this house. Up to this point, I had three smaller lazy susans for each shelf.
- Packed up and labeled Calvin’s 12-month clothing.
- A couple of weeks ago I moved my ivy-like plant from the book case to above the cabinets in the kitchen. Up to this point, I’d been using that as ad hoc storage for more china pieces. However, it didn’t look particularly good. The plant looks much better. However, this meant I had to figure out what to do with the china. I spent some time Sunday reconfiguring some boxes to hold the various pieces securely. However, I still have more to do.