8 Thoughts that Have Been Swimming Around in My Head
It’s been a while since I updated you on all of the things going on in my brain and frankly the weight of thoughts gathering in there is beginning to affect me. Yesterday I stood staring at the washing machine and couldn’t figure out what I was doing there. Here are the 8 things on my mind today:
1. How did it get so hot all of a sudden? Yes, we have rounded the corner from lovely warm Texas days to sweltering, don’t-leave-any-Crayons-in-the-car heat. I hate it. I can’t breathe.
2. I need some new clothes. OK not really, but that thought does cross my mind at least once a day when I am trying to find something to wear. Don’t you ever wish you could just dump the whole lot and start over? Me too.
3. This Friday is our 26 anniversary. A few days ago James came sweetly to me and asked in his alluring voice, “Hey baby, what are you doing on Friday?” To which I replied, “Are you kidding?! I am sleeping! This past few weeks have been so exhausting and once my thing is over on Thursday I am going to sleep for 24 hours!” He looked a little dejected and said, “Well what about Friday night? Wanna go out with me?” “Oh no….I will be too tired. Sorry.” Then a few hours later I realized he was asking me out for our anniversary and I felt like an idiot. One point for James. Although I still have about 75,000 more points than he does if we’re adding up 26 years’ worth.
4. I love night swimming. I do it almost every night in the summer. After a long day and the kids are settled for the night I sneak out and slip into the pool. It’s so relaxing, the stars are gorgeous, the water cools me off. Heaven. Gina and I did it a couple of times this week and I think I have hooked her on it. Try it. You’ll love it.
5. I don’t run. Ever. I just thought you should know.
6. I sometimes wonder how often other people change their sheets. We have a lot of beds around here and changing sheets tends to get backlogged and then one day I realize it’s been over a month since we washed sheets. I think we’re at that place about now. Yuck. We’ll have to do that this weekend.
7. I am running out of lunch ideas. I don’t enjoy cooking or experimenting in the kitchen and sometimes when I go to make the weekly menu I lock up. Nothing comes to me. I have no idea what to have for lunch so it’s literally nachos-sandwiches-nachos-sandwiches-nachos….you get the picture. Around 11:0AM a kid will ask me, “What’s for lunch?” and I will ask in return, “What did you have yesterday?” “We had sandwiches.” “OK then…we’re having nachos.” I need some new, easy lunch ideas.
8. I way overslept this morning. I had plans to get up early and do some work before the house started its routine of people being everywhere and asking me questions. But then I opened my eyes and saw that it was already 8:14. How did that happen? Bummer.
That’s it. I feel better. I have missed this time we share together.
Happy Wednesday!
1. Agh. Texas heat. I feel your pain, even though we’re a little farther north of you. What bugs me most (pun intended!) is that the chiggers are coming right along w/ the heat and they are AWFUL this year. My 3yo is constantly covered. 🙁 Any Texas size solutions for nasty chiggers??
2. My problem with my clothes is that they seem to have shrunk while they have been in my closet. Ahem.
3. Happy Anniversary early!
4,5. I hate swimming, but have started running. Swimming sounds cooler though.
6,7. We’re the same on sheets and also on lunches. Except substitute macaroni and cheese for nachos. My only idea is that when I bake bread in the morning, I could serve pig slop for lunch as long as the kids also get fresh, homemade bread. Makes lunch super easy. 🙂
8. My two youngest (6 mo and 3 yrs) are my 2 legged alarm clocks. I can loan them to you and you’ll never be in danger of over-sleeping!!
Gwen, you reminded me of the bugs. They are awful! The flies here are worse than they have ever been. I wish I had a suggestion for the chiggers. Those things are a pain!
As for swimming, I don’t actually swim. I just float around and look at the stars. I don’t think it can be compared to running. Your running is WAY cooler!
Oh and no thanks to the offer to loan me your alarm clocks. I’ll just keep the ones I have thankyouverymuch. Lisa~
What’s wrong with eating the same thing for lunch everyday? I do it 🙂 I don’t run either – ever! I walk very, very fast but never run! I don’t have a pool – bummer for you – but I have a hose!
Becky B.
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Becky, if it is as hot there as it is here then I may welcome you spraying me with the hose a few times while I’m there. I’m not too proud to be doused. LOL! Lisa~
My friend’s husband has eaten a SlimFast Bar & a SlimFast Shake for lunch EVERY DAY for the past 12 years! (Kinda makes you think your lunches aren’t that bad, eh? 🙂 haha) I envy your pool…. Mine’s a little blue plastic deal that my kids only let me stick my feet in… Decided this morning that my daughter’s sheets needed washed… (they were looking a liiiiiiittle iffy) Alrighty then… so glad you shared! 🙂
Jul, yuck! Slim Fast every day. That would gag me. My husband goes through Slim Fast phases. Yuck.
I am so glad I’m not the only one with iffy sheets. Lisa~
1. We cooled off today but supposed to be back up to 95 by the weekend…. i mean this is northern central Indiana where it is not supposed to be as hot as where my mom lives on the Louisiana/Texas border…. when they were up for graduation it was hotter there then in La. Go figure! But the humidity has been lower this summer!!
2.clothes… yep understand. mine are filled with holes. i have many sunday shirts… (they are all holey..)
3. Happy anniversary!!
4,5. running ick! swimming after dark… divine
6. sheets… i plead the 5th…. a side note… so distracted earlier this week that I washed with whites without detergent. it was only once they had finished in the dryer that i realized my mistake as it smelled like a wet dog dried. umm yeah.
7. lunch… yoyo.. You’re On Your Own which means leftovers, sandwichs, eggs, veggies, or whatever they can scrounge up (within reason) since they are all teens now or at least soon… the “baby” turns 13 saturday… 🙁 today’s lunch… muffins, cheese, sliced cucumbers, and frozen peaches.
8. i once again plead the 5th…
Peggy you’re so funny! You sure do a lot of pleading. LOL! Lisa~
Running should be reserved for when something scary is chasing you – and hopefully its something big and slow and uncoordinated so you can just jog as to not shock your system. 🙂
Oh Jen thanks for the permission to go slow. I doubt anything will be chasing me anytime soon. Lisa~
way toooooo funny…laughed until I cried !! loved the running only when something scary is chasing you 😉 hilarious !!!! tickle my funny bone 🙂
1. You are absolutely right… the heat is atrocious! Jeff & I call Texas ‘Hell’ on earth! LOL! 😀
2. Clothes… yeah, I’m doing okay there for now… }:>
3. Happy Anniversary, early! Jeff & I celebrated our 30th last week. 🙂
4. I also love night swimming. Unfortunately, I haven’t been able to swim for years, because I don’t swim in public where other people can see me. Don’t want people to have a myocardial infarction from the repulsiveness. LOL!
5. Yeah, I don’t run either. Bet you’re surprised, huh?! LOL! Actually. probably couldn’t if I tried, & if I did manage to somehow, the Hill Country would be sure that we were having an earthquake! :-))
6. Sheets, yeah, about X number of times in a X. LOL!
7. How about Haystacks. It’s quick & simple. You don’t have to go all out with all the extras, unless you want to. Taco Salad is another quick, simple meal.
8. Since I don’t really have anyone to answer to, & Jeff & I both are up late every night, I don’t really have to worry about how long or how late I sleep. (except when I have a doctor’s appointment) 🙂
We love to swim at night! But we can only do it when we are at my parents house, because they have the pool! Bummer! I guess we will have to go over there soon.
It is just starting to get hot enough to swim here…kind of a weird June cool, then hot, cool…you get the idea.
I am terrible with breakfast and lunches….if you get any great suggestions, let me know!
Deanna, it’s so hot here that swimming is the only way to ever feel cool and that’s only in the dead of night. Sweating is not for me. Lisa~
The sheets-I gave up a long time ago trying to get on a good schedule with them. I just do them when I think of them and actually have the energy to fool with them. I will never be called a Martha.
Anniversary-Happy Day to you and get up the energy to go out with your man! Do it for all of us that can’t have a date night that night!
Lunches-spaghetti, taco salad, and grilled cheese make the rounds a lot around here.
1. It has finally quit raining, so HOT is definitely where we are headed to today! 90+ here in NC.
2. We’ll not speak of clothes!! 😉
3. Happy Anniversary!
4. Love to swim @ night, if the mosquito don’t carry ya away! To mild of a Winter to endure the outdoors in the evenings. Unless we light all the torches and candles, at which point it’s like swimming in the daylight!!LOL!!
5. No running here! Takes way to much effort. And refer back to #2!!
6. Sheets only get washed at our house when a bedroom starts to smell a bit funky! :/
7. I’m the Lunch Queen. MY youngest will not buy food @ school, so I became very educated in what is good for lunch and carry it over into the Summer. Wraps, PB crackers w/ Nutella, veggies and homemade ranch dip, toss salad, chef salad, chips and salsa, crackers w/cheese and pepperoni. And if I feel energetic we do English muffin or French bread pizzas, Ramen noodles, or hot ham & cheese on hamburg buns.
8. It is Summer here finally, so I put my alarm clock in the dresser drawer! 🙂
Sure hope you have a great rest of the week!!
Shannon, oh yes the mosquitoes are terrible. I have to put repellant on my arms and have the rest of me under water to keep them from eating me up.
Thanks for the lunch suggestions, oh queen. I bow you your cleverness!
Thanks! Lisa~
Lisa, I’m so glad you purged your brain …. dontcha feel better?! Your previous dump-the-brain posts inspired me to create my own. Not that my ramblings had any significant information contained in them, I just wanted to get the thoughts OUT of my head! I’m right there with you on the Texas heat. This is the time of year when I really wish we had a pool. Can I come over for midnight swims?! As for the bedsheets, I’m right there with you! It’s been way too long since I last changed our sheets. I’m adding that to my to-do list before the weekend. Sigh!
Blessings to you and your crazy life!
Nicole @ Three 31
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P.S. happy anniversary …. I hope the husband gets his “date” with his beautiful wife!!!
Nicole, I do hope we get a date, but it’s not looking hopeful. Things have been moving at a hearty pace around here and don’t promise to slow down for a few weeks. Maybe then we can run off together for a dinner, movie and midnight swim. 🙂 Lisa~
1.We had a hot spell last week… but this week has been lovely! In fact, last night we were able to have a fire in the backyard pit with s’mores and everything. 🙂 I’m with you on hating the heat! It does a real number on me… I tend to turn into “Monster Mom”. :/
2. Just yesterday I said to my husband that it sure would be nice to have a bunch of free cash to replace my wardrobe… Of course, at the moment, nothing fits anyway (1 week postpartum, I can’t expect more *wink*). And, I think maybe the new wardrobe needs to be hubby’s since he’s lost 65lb since the beginning of the year!
3. Happy Anniversary! I hope you take the time to go out on a date with your hubby. 🙂
4. If I only had a pool… although this cooler weather would make it a moot point anyway. And really, who am I kidding. It’s MN… I’d maybe get to use it 3 times a year. LOL
5. I rarely run. However, last summer I had a brief thought that I should do a couch to 5K program. Now hubby (who NEVER runs) is talking about it. This weight loss thing has gone to his head! 😉
6. Little kid sheets get changed when they wet out overnight. Big kid sheets get changed. um. way too seldom. (Is it bad when your 12 yr old BOY asks if he can please change his sheets because they don’t smell so good? LOL)
7. Lunch around here is (almost) always sandwiches. PB & J is usually 2-3 times a week, with tuna, bologna, lunchmeat (all with cheese) on other days. Occasionally they have cheese tortillas or hotdogs…
8. If 8:14 is oversleeping, I do it everyday. 🙂 My kids wake sometime between 7:30 and 9:00 (depends on the kid, and the day!) and while I’m awake, I’m rarely out of bed before 8:30 or 9:00. I get my quiet time at night after everyone else has gone to bed…
So glad you got that all off your chest… and now I did too! LOL
Kristin, you’re excused from all things wardrobe and running since you have a new baby. Seriously girl….rest, rest then rest some more. Take it from an older woman that wished someone had given her that advice.
And super congratulations to your husband for his weight loss. I am so impressed! Lisa~
amazingly, the weather is not too bad here right now. however, the inability to breathe is just around the corner.
i needed new clothes 9 years ago. i still need them.
happy anniversary.
i love night swimming too. it’s romantic. take your hubby with you.
i don’t run either … unless the toddler has the baby.
i wash mine & hubbies sheets every friday. the girls do their own. the boys are probably every 3 weeks or so. the problem is, we just need extras, so we can rotate. not have to take off, wash, dry, put on all in one day. *and, just realizing how selfish it seems that i make sure to wash mine (because it’s heavenly to sleep on freshly washed sheets) and not my kids. hope they don’t remember.
we do sandwiches almost every day too. and we do them on good whole grain bread, with good non-slimy lunchmeat … and my kids still complain. and i say, “i ate packaged bologna every day when i was little. you should be grateful” or, “the kid down the street isn’t even eating lunch today.” *again, i hope they don’t remember the shame i bring down upon them every afternoon. (ever tried salads … with all the yummy, unhealthy stuff … croutons, ranch dressing, cheese, leftover chicken, hard boiled eggs? the kids LOVE those days.)
it’s impossible for me to oversleep. a small child is always standing beside my bed needing to potty, or be covered up, or thirsty. 7:00 … 7:00! folks … would be lovely.
**so nice to read a not-so-serious post today!
Fresh clean sheets are probably in the top 3 of my very favorite things. Weekly is a must for me. I just love the way they smell, the way they feel and the way they sound so crisp! I’m kind of weird about stuff being clean. My kiddos get their beds changed every 10 days or so. I could probably stretch that, but it never fails my sons diaper will leak, they will jump in the bed and hide right after playing outside or someone could puke.
Lunch is my worst planned meal. Always. I’ve got nothing. I don’t like to cook at lunch time, so we eat a lot of finger foods, fruits, or leftovers if we have any. Chick fil a has profited much by my lack of good lunch planning;)
Oh Amy I’m with you on that! I change my own sheets weekly and the night they are fresh is my favorite night. I sleep so well in a bed of clean, tight sheets. It’s the older kids that are slipping through the cracks and need to be checked on, but I’m a little scared to do it.
Chick-fil-a is worth it. If we had one in our town I would probably support their electric bill. LOVE!
Lisa~
1. Please keep your heat! I’ve heard nasty rumors that the pocket of hot air you are currently not breathing under is heading our way over the weekend and we still have baseball games to play. Outside. In the sun.
2. I really do need new clothes. I’ve come to the conclusion that if I’m going to have any cute cool blouses this summer that are modest, I am going to have to sew. Soon. Very soon. See #1.
3. Happy Anniversary – enjoy your hot date! Maybe a movie would be good too, since that way if you fall asleep he won’t notice …unless you snore loudly.
4. I love night swimming too. I grew up on two lakes and I miss water terribly. There is nothing like a night swim to cool your core temp and help you sleep. I long for a pool, but right now we have a baseball diamond in the back yard.
5. Amen. My reasoning? When I try to run my skirts get tangled in my legs. Fast walking is good enough.
6. Sheets get changed as needed and every Saturday morning whether they need it or not. But they always do. If I can’t line dry them I will wait to wash them until I can, but fresh sheets go on the bed Saturday morning without fail even if it not a good washday. Everyone knows the drill – no breakfast until they’ve stripped and changed their bedding. I just realized I may be a clean sheet fanatic … or not.
7. Lunch – I feel your pain Lisa! For the most part I’ve given that job over to our 14 year old daughter and she does really well with it. We almost never eat cold sandwiches unless we are packing for a field trip. I’m not sure why, but no one is keen on sandwiches. We do ‘bird in a nest’, waffles or pancakes, which I know are considered breakfast foods, but work for lunch too. We eat a lot of ‘planned leftovers’ for lunch, and a great deal of crazy mixed up salads with nuts, dried fruit, cheese and homemade croutons. I make muffins almost every day. The kids like a fun ‘hodgie-podgie’ plate with fruit, a muffin, a boiled egg, a few nuts and some raw veggies. In fall and winter I make a lot of homemade soup. We do nachos once in a while, or tacos. Hot dogs are a rare treat, but they love them – I wrap them in biscuit dough an bake them sometimes. They do like mac&cheese once in a while – I buy the organic white cheddar seasoning in the bulk and use whatever noodles we’ve got in the pantry. Dinner is so much easier than lunch.
8. I love the early morning, but I don’t get up as early as I’d like too. I always feel better about the day when I do though. Whenever I get up I always need to start the day with prayer and thanksgiving. God’s mercies are new every morning!
Heather, thanks for more terrific lunch ideas! Why do I never think of these things?
Yes, yes, yes to getting up early and spending the beginning of the day in prayer and the Word. All days go better when they get a good start!
I refuse to comment on whether or not I snore. I shall leave that to your imagination, but let me tell you….I hope you have a very loud and oncoming-train-like imagination.
Lisa~
Oh dear! Sadly I do not have to use my imagination … I have a husband who snores like a freight train! Perhaps the movie idea isn’t a good one after all. I don’t know about you, but when it’s been go-go-go for me and than I finally sit down, I just can’t help but fall asleep!
I’m glad my lunch ideas were helpful. I have a list on the inside of the cupboard so that when I’m stumped I can look at my ‘cheat sheet’ and spark my imagination! One lunch favorite that I forgot to mention but that my darling girl makes often is whole wheat wraps. She’ll throw almost anything into a wrap and we’ll love it. I like chunks of avocado, diced chicken and cheese in a quesadilla with salsa, but they like to put chicken, cheese and spinach in a wrap or really almost any leftover meat, salad and cheese combo. They like peanut butter and banana wraps, cream cheese and cucumbers, and any lunch meat we have will usually end up in a wrap with a mess of veggies and cheese. I hate paying for cold meat so I usually make enough at dinner time to last for lunches. It’s about 1/2 the price of deli meat, much less sodium and more flavorful.
I thought of you yesterday at the thrift store. I know you don’t thrift for clothes, but you do creative things with old furniture! We found a 2 drawer filing cabinet for our girl’s room – it’s ugly grey, but in otherwise perfect shape. She is thrilled. I want to spray it white, but she wants a bright aqua color to match her room. I thought of your hallway picture frames and your comment that we should try bold colors because after all we can always paint ’em back to white! I need to be more adventurous with color.
Blah to the heat. Arkansas isn’t much better this week. Though, we did finally have rain one day, to which I locked my children and myself in the house, lit apple-y candles, and pretended it was October. mmMm..
we do quesadillas for lunch a lot. I make up a container of the mix for the inside and keep it ready in the fridge so we can just heat a skillet and throw in in the middle of tortillas 🙂 but other than that, it’s pretty much sandwiches or quesadillas here. maybe i’ll throw in nachos 😉
It’s hot in Arkansas too…and mosquitoey.
I need new shoes. Old Navy flip flops are ruining my feet.
We have missionaries at our house…right now. They had dinner with us, but I’m in my room nursing a baby, so I read your blog to pass the time. Oh, and Happy Anniversary.
I love swimming at night too, but don’t get to do it very often
I try to like running, but….
Our sheets get washed when someone pees on them
Lunch. Do our children really need a mid-day meal?
Happy Anniversary!! Hs it been a while year since your big party? Where does the time go. Did you make it out Friday night after all? I hope so. For James’ sake. If you didn’t, I went out with my James on Friday … so maybe that will cover it 🙂 So great spending time with you these last few weeks, you don’t know it but you have helped me me so many decisions about myself and my life and my priorities. Love you!
Happy Anniversary to you guys, by the way!!! Did you have a good celebration?
Also, on menus, have you checked out Heavenly Homemakers menu archive? I use it sometimes to keep my menu ideas fresh: http://heavenlyhomemakers.com/category/menu-plans