Language

Language is such a funny thing! This has been floating around Facebook lately: Punctuate this: Woman without her man is nothing. Did you come up with this: Woman, without her man, is nothing. Or this? Woman. Without her, man is nothing. My daughter is always asking me what words and expressions mean. We use some funny expressions! One that was new to me when I moved to this area was "Geezum crow" Some other sayings "What the Sam Hill?" "Holy Toledo" "Raining cats and dogs" "Like a bat out of hell" "(Wizz) like a race horse" Of course now that I'm here writing this, I can't think of any good ones, but there are so many odd English expressions that I didn't think too much about until having kids. "Making a mountain out of a molehill" "Cute as a button" "Just a hop and a skip" What expressions do you use or just like?

Here are a bunch more . 

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My Daily Checklist: (to be updated throughout the day)

Drink water -  Yes, but not a ton

Name a "happy" moment - I'm loving the sun today

Exercise - Wii - 15 minutes of upper body workout

Enjoy peace - Watching dark-eyed junco out the window. =)

Time alone - 45 minutes break in the evening.

Good sleep/rest - 7.75 hours of sleep next to a restless little boy

Eat well - carrot, apple, English muffin with cream cheese (yikes), coffee, pesto pasta, pretzels, cereal

Do something for purge plan - email to DD's school to see if they'll accept any item donations

Leisure activity - Visited local store and got stuff for my oils - yay! My oils arrived in the mail today!! Whoo-hoo!
Get outside - Just to and from the car....

2/10/10

No blog inspiration today. Was hoping my oils would arrive as predicted, but they didn't. I look very forward to blogging about them!

My Daily Checklist: (to be updated throughout the day)

Drink water - Yes. 

Name a "happy" moment - Walked in the 'hood with DS in the stroller - in the snow =)

Exercise - Walk around the 'hood this a.m. with DS in the stroller - in the snow! Wii cardio work out - 15 min.

Enjoy peace - Same as last two

Time alone - 45 min. evening break. 

Good sleep/rest - 8.5 hours of good sleep, but wasn't ready to get up this a.m.

Eat well - eggs, seasoned rice, coffee, beef for dinner, with zucchini and pasta. Junk food in the evening.

Do something for purge plan - Nope, I have been bad this month about this!! Don't know why. Though I did contact, by email, a local community center and inquired about donating items. No reply so far. 

Leisure activity - Played with DS outside and in the play room for hours. =) Read some of the Whole Foods book. 

Picky

My dear daughter has become a very picky eater. Every day, starting with breakfast, we have the same conversation: Me: "What would you like to eat?" DD: "I don't know. What do we have?" Me: "You know what we have." DD: "No I don't." Me: "We have A" DD: "No" Me: "We have B, C and D." DD: "I don't want B, C or D." Me: "You need to choose something." DD: (standing in front of the open fridge as my blood pressure rises) "Hmmm. Cake?" And on and on. Then, when she chooses something and I make it, she eats a tiny amount. DD: "Can I have something else?" And then both kids have gotten into this very frustrating habit of claiming to be hungry right after we've finished eating dinner. ARGH! Add to this that she is currently not eating while at school and needs food when she gets home, and I have become a day-long short-order cook. Have I told you how I feel about cooking and meal-prep? And dishes? Grumble grumble...............

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My Daily Checklist: (to be updated throughout the day)

Drink water - Yes. Didn't start til afternoon.

Name a "happy" moment - Nursing DS while lying in the sun beams in the playroom. Neighbors came over to hang out and chat.

Exercise - 

Enjoy peace - DS napped at home, have time to myself before picking up DD. Loving the sunny day. Played outside with DS for 25 minutes, really soaked in the sun. Listened to the birds.

Time alone - 

Good sleep/rest - 8 hours of good sleep

Eat well - Smart Start cereal with milk for breakfast, coffee. Canned stew for lunch....blah.

Do something for purge plan - 

Leisure activity - 2 packages from Amazon today - whoo-hoo!