Miscellaneous Monday

I feel like I'm all over the place today (in a good way) and don't have anything specific to write about (unless I returned to my Year in Review posts which have been shelved due to not being able to remember anything that happened past October...this is why I blog daily people), so I give you miscellany.


During primary yesterday the chorister had various kids come up to draw pictures from the song we were singing (Picture A Christmas) and the result was so touching and cute. Look at the chicken-legged angel and the very tiny Mary, I love it!


Gifford came over last night to borrow a suitcase, do a load of laundry and have dinner and Family Home Evening with us. Whitney gave a highly amusing lesson about honesty complete with 6 pages of illustrated dialogue to tell her story. I think Gifford learned a very important lesson, ha.

After having a couple months of successful sleeping, I seem to be back to fighting insomnia and the jimmy body (sometimes it's just my leg, sometimes it's my left forearm). I spent 6 of 7 night's last week on the couch and was awake until 3:00am last night watching Grey Gardens and Mamma Mia while trying to fall asleep. Not good.

{This photo is actually from last Christmas' insomnia!}

I was so tired this morning that I seriously considered going back to bed after the kids' left for school. But decided to fight it and be productive instead (sometimes that's not an option). Surprisingly I ended up doing 2 loads of laundry, vacuuming the house, made chicken salad and a pot roast, showered and got dressed (in lounge clothes but still), made 3 visiting teaching appointments, wrote 10 cards, watched 3 episodes of Seinfeld, went to the grocery store, picked the kids up from school, ordered my mom's Christmas cards and picked them up, took Lucas home, picked up my prescription and bought a bag of ice...not too shabby eh?


Landon and Lucas (who refuses to be photographed) were finally able to get together after 3 months of separation. They rebuilt the fort (aka Huge Mess) in the kids' room and played for 4.5 hours but still didn't want it to end; they're cute.

This girl is so herself it's amazing (and a little bit exhausting).

This is what our sky looked like this afternoon around 4:30, I love it when the clouds look pink like this.

**What was your day's miscellany?
Do you ever get the jimmy body?
Have you done your Christmas cards yet?**

Comment Window Tidbit: Randy and I are totally hooked on "The Closer" thanks to Michelle and Marc converting me while in Paris. It's a highly addictive show, and thanks to Netflix it's very easy to maintain our habit. Hee.