Stats

Sarah is now a whopping 18 pounds and 13 oz. and 27 and 5/8 inches long. She's growing so fast. Oh, and she recently learned that her finger fits into her nose. Funny.

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How much I've saved on groceries in the last three weeks after trying out the Grocery Game. Totally cool. Click the link in the bar on the right and put my email address in for the referral. The real one, jencrutch(at)gmail(dot)com, not the one above that I haven't been smart enough to figure out how to change yet.

Happy Friday. And spring is coming.

It's Thursday

That's really all I've got today. It's snowing. Sarah has her checkup this afternoon. We'll see how big she really is. All I know is that my back is sore from carrying her around.

And it's cold. Nine degrees currently. The boys were thrilled about that because anything below sixteen degrees means inside recess. Why they like inside recess more than outside is beyond me. Good news is that spring is coming. Don't look at me that way. It is.

Knock Knock. Who's There?

Here it is. The end of my rope. I found it ironic that there was a letter in the Voice of the People today about these people from the telephone, cable and natural gas companies who continuously knock on our doors to try to upsell us on services we are already using. The nice young man I glared at while trying to find the right words suggested I might want to get a "no soliciting" sign.

Really?

Never in a billion years did I think that we would want one of those signs in our door. Yet, I wrote it down on my list for the store tonight. Jon, Evan and I came up with a compromise. What do you think?

Please Ring the Bell or Knock if:
You are friends of someone who lives here
You are our neighbors
You are our family
You are long lost friends we haven’t seen since High School
You go to school with the kids who live here
You are a co-worker of someone who lives here
You’re selling Girl Scout Cookies
You’re here to tell us that we’ve won the Million Dollar Sweepstakes
You’re here to inform us of a mandatory evacuation due to unsafe conditions

Otherwise:
We hope you find someone else to purchase whatever it is you’re selling

Have a Nice Day

Time Flies

Ugh. It's been too long. Really. We should talk more often.

So, we have participated in four Christmas celebrations, a birthday party, Christmas Eve church service, a trip to South Dakota and back and various other activities since we've updated here. And since then we've been doing laundry, laundry, laundry, and laundry. Oh yeah, and I forgot, Jon finished painting the kitchen and putting up new trim near the ceiling. It looks wonderful!

I've also been knitting since we've been back. I decided I would just make my favorite items as I have time throughout the year so they would be available when I wanted to gift them or have opportunity to do some selling.

I accomplished some holiday scrapbooking this Friday as well. I get much more done when I focus on current events and then go back to the ancient history when I have the time or the interest. For example, vacation from this summer is already complete and I'm almost done with Christmas for this year. However, lots and lots of previous birthdays and other stuff have yet to be even thought about. All in due time.

Oh yeah. The boys return to school tomorrow. Ahh. Yes, that is a huge sigh of relief. It is time. They need to hang out with some other kids. They are about to tear each other apart and I can only say "knock it off" so many times and still have it work.

The photo above is the dads and the kids walking on the lake after the big snowball fight. It looked like fun from inside the warm house where the moms were. They're great dads. And really good picture for being taken from inside the house, eh? We had a great time in South Dakota. More on that later.

Sarah puts e-v-e-r-y-t-h-i-n-g in her mouth now. Don't get your fingers too close. She will put them in her mouth. Really. I'm going to have to step up the vacuuming around here.

Oh, I also helped some folks with some organizing projects. What fun that is. I finally found the thing I would do even if I didn't get paid to do it. Maybe some day I will get paid to do it. We'll see.

Guess that's it in a nutshell. We've been busy. And it's been great.