Cohabitation

How cute is this?




Blessings on your day,

For Real?

I have just as much going on as ever. I noticed this moment however, that I am just not sitting down to write about it. (Also not sitting down to do much reading.) I really enjoy the medium of blogging for relieving my brain of my thoughts, and also to keep people up to date on what's going on with our world. So - it seems that sometimes I just need to be more intentional about it. Which is the case with a lot of things in my life. I'm certain I am not the only one. There are only 24 hours in a day - you can't change that so you have to choose how you would like to use them. Anyway.... maybe I'll write more about that later. Right now, I wanted to tell you about this cow....





We are continuing the renovations in our home (no I have not forgotten to give the final reveal of the master - I am just still working on making it swanky) and the current major work has been taking our 13 year old daughter's room down to the studs, reconfiguring, rewiring and rebuilding to beauty and ever so cute teenager domicileness. My daughter is a saver of things. Like; everything. Empty rolls from papertowels. Shoe boxes. Things, things and more things. No clue where she gets that from. "PURGE IT" is what I always say.

Anyway....

The rule is that nothing is going back into that room if it does not have a place to be. I mean NOTHING. And there were a few things that went straight into a box labeled, "Not even if it has a place!" The cow was one of those items. It's atrocious. It is a bank. And as you can notice, the giant hole next to the giant purple udders is missing its plug. Therefore it can't even be functional. It's just a blight on my view.




My daughter noticed the cow in the, "No way on God's green earth" box and promptly proceeded to make a case for it. Really? For real? I tried to talk with her about how really and truly ugly it is. Unphased. How she couldn't possibly care for it as much as she thinks because she didn't use it for anything. Unphased. How the fact that it has 2 inches of dust on it tells me that she really doesn't love it at all (yes those are dust streaks from the cow on the table). Unphased. She is certain that this cow must remain in her room. She has promised that she WILL give it a prominent place of display and she WILL keep it clean.

What's a mom to do? The cow stays. However, the girl has been informed that the first time I swipe dust off it, it goes straight to the trash. Not.even.a.yardsale.

God help her future husband.

Swisspers And Cows

I bought a new package of super cheap version of Q-tips Swisspers cotton swabs and thought it was funny that one of their advertising claims is "Hot Colors" Why do we need hot colors of cotton on a stick to insert into our ears?



Hot? Seriously?


I sure do like the cleanliness and texture of the swabs.

I went out to rehearse for a special that I am singing on Tuesday. My friend lives in front of a farm. I crossed this cattle guard...


And walked down this path...


And stopped near this gate...


And watched the biggest bull in the pasture go and hide behind a tree as if the fence between us was not enough to protect him from me...


Then I sang.

Cow's It Going?

Visited the neighbors at dusk. It's so mooving to see God's creatures up close.





Today I spent the day shopping around with a new friend so today's tasks were slightly neglected. All told, well worth it. I received the new hard drive for the laptop and it freaked out too. Dell is sending out another one. Waiting so, so, so patiently.



We completed all of yesterday's tasks, with the exception of cleaning the sink and the mirrors in the master bathroom. No biggie - I'll get to it.

Clean guest bathroom (12 year-old daughter)
Make beds (each his own)
Wash and vacuum van (up for grabs)
Sweep floors (12 year-old daughter)
Update checkbook
Water front garden
Water mailbox
Wash and vacuum neon (up for grabs)
Sweep back patio (up for grabs)
Mow front & back yards (Dad)
Bathe dogs (Up for grabs)
Set table (Dad)
Make dinner
Clear table
Wipe table and chairs
Take out kitchen trash