Taking the Scenic Route

#9  “Polly’s Sparkle Binge Ends Badly”

aka: random toys on the table that I found funny as I passed by.

#8 “Roooaaaarr”

Zora seems to be drawn to the dinosaurs every time we are in the waiting room at Heartsprings, and this week, when I mentioned that we need to get her a book to see what the names of dinosaurs are (because I can only remember a few from reading Jurassic Park years ago), she ran to the book cubby and pulled out a dinosaur book and began to compare them, asking me the name when she found a match. Smart cookie.

#7 “wii are family”

#6 “Roboblox”

It is an online, multiplayer game that is basically a world of lego-esq people and building and destroying lego-esq buildings. Zane really loves this game now.

#5  “The party”

Zora hosted a party for her friends and gave them all cookies. (including the car)

#4  “Child Labor”

Zach and I need some stuff for a project, so we split up. I took Zora to Office Depot, Zane and Zach went to Home Depot.

Zora inherited some “skipped a generation” genes for shoes, because as we are walking into Office Depot, she got really excited just SEEING the Carnival Shoe store next door and wanted to go in to look at shoes. This did not come from me.

Zane loved Home Depot. He walked through every door, opened a bunch of windows, and studied the staircase railings, rang all the doorbells (a note here…the store was empty), loved the sinks and bathtubs, looked over each refrigerator (decided he wanted the kind with a water and ice machine in front) and as they were walking down another aisle, he told Zach “Daddy, let’s build a house”. Very cool.

#3   “The Project, part 1″  Now we get to see if procrastination takes over.

#2 “Library Card”

I finally decided that after a years or two MIA, my library card was not going to suddenly reappear, so I paid my $2 to get a new one. I also had to pay a cringe-worthy fine that was incurred when we suddenly went from a 2 car family to a 1 car family and gas prices dictated there was no “drop Zach off at work and use the car for the day”. Well, that and the fact I am notorious about returning library books on time.

I thought briefly about getting the Jenny McCarthy book, but my stomach still lurches just seeing the title, so it will need to wait until I don’t have a visceral reaction to seeing the book after seeing her interviews about the book.

I also am not holding out a lot of hope for the “Sneaky Chef” recipes, but I thought it might be worth at least trying some ideas out. I sure didn’t want to spend actual money on it unless it was really worth it. Zach had been wanting the Ray Kurzweil book for a while, and I also got him a book on reading body language that looked interesting. (both look like books I will pick up too). Of course, the requisite homeschooling books and cookbooks that I am always browsing through.

I did make myself pick out a non-fiction “fun” book for myself. My grandma gave me some Nicholas Sparks books a while ago, but since they were “non-essential reading”, they mostly just sat on my bookshelf. Then my best friend said she loved that author for a quick read and kept bugging me to read one, and so I did. (“Dear John”, btw). I read it in a few hours and remembered why I love reading again. I realized I need to let myself enjoy taking a bit of time for myself again, so I am going to make a point of always getting one “fluff” book every time I go to the library.

When Zach helps me figure out how to make this a little feed on one of the sides, I will just do that, but I wanted to get started.