Miscellany Monday

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So, in honor of my random mood, I'm hopping on board with some blogger friends and writing 5 miscellaneous tidbits for Monday:

1) Mondays are totally random in our house anyway. As a pastor's wife with three little girls, it takes about 24 hours to recover from Sunday (our not-so-day-of-rest). This morning, for instance, we shipped off my in-laws back to Ohio after a 10 day visit (more on that later), I spent half an hour playing Kung Fu Barbie, Monsters and Aliens is playing in the background, and we are on our way to the library for pre-school story hour. Later we will have a t-ball game, do our nails, and jump on the trampoline.

2) My older two girls have just dismantled the bed behind me and are sliding down the mattress into the closet. Great fun. It's amazing the stuff I will let happen in order to get a few minutes to blog!!

3) I don't mind washing and drying, but I hate to fold and put away laundry. Whenever I get it all out to sort and fold, I inevitably get company. Lots of it. Every time. Recently on laundry day, 5 random people stopped by unannounced, and two of them wound up staying for a meal. I'm thinking that if we all stopped wearing clothes around the house, it might help with both the laundry problem and the unannounced visitor dilemma. :)

4) It's funny how we all see the world from our own perspectives. When drawing pictures the other day, every person in my diva 5-year old's family was wearing a tiara. My 3-year old insisted that each person in her family have curly hair. She says, "because God made my hair like this {she makes a funny face and squeezes her hair really tight}."

5) For dinner last night, we had about 20 people from church over to our house. We had lasagna, garlic bread, salad, apple pie, and cheesecake. I absolutely love to cook, but hate to clean up. So I got smart and started inviting people over who hate to cook but love to clean up. Now my kitchen is spotless and I have leftovers for tonight!!!


Comments

  1. CourtneyMay 17, 2010 at 11:48 AM

    I also posted about hating laundry in may randoms today. Isn't it the worst?! That last pic is too cute. I enjoyed your blog today. Blessings!

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  2. carissaMay 17, 2010 at 11:57 AM

    thanks for joining in! it's so great to have you!!!

    i can completely relate to your #1... my hubby is the worship leader and with 6 services/sunday it is certainly no day of rest! mondays are recoup days for sure!

    laundry... it's so never ending. i want just for one day to have all of the clothes clean. but i guess that would mean we'd all be naked. oh well.

    your kids are adorable!!! so great to "meet" you!

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  3. JocelynMay 17, 2010 at 12:26 PM

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  4. blakleyMay 17, 2010 at 12:53 PM

    I totally agree with number 1! my husband is a youth pastor. and I despise folding clothes too! enjoyed your randoms!

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  5. UnknownMay 17, 2010 at 1:18 PM

    I LOVE number 3 and number 5!!! What a brain you have!!!! :)

    You crack me up! I wish we lived closer so we could get together!!! Our girls would have so much fun!

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  6. SummerMay 17, 2010 at 2:02 PM

    What a great random post! I am so with you on laundry I never liked doing it so early on in our marriage he fired me from it....I so am not good at it ha ha....I never minded being fired from laundry LOL....

    That below pic of your little girl with the bananas is ha-larious

    have a great day
    Summer ;0)

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  7. LizMay 17, 2010 at 2:19 PM

    So much fun! I just transferred this blog to my account, so I didn't have time to update my profile and stuff but I'm working on that now. Thanks for your comments!

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  8. alexis nicoleMay 17, 2010 at 2:42 PM

    I am so with you on the Laundry. Washing is the fun and easy part. Drying is easy-peasy but FOLDING... is so boring and I hate it!

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