It’s been a rough couple days. I thought the morning (ha!) sickness thing was done, and it’s back with a vengeance. Last night after supper it snuck up on me, I made it as far as the bathroom sink… and plugged it up royally. Blaine, valiant knight that he is, ended up (without complaint!) using the shop vac on the drain. Seriously. Insult to injury, I assure you. Um, honey? I can’t get the drain to go down… good grief. Next time I’ll just keep going and clean up the floor later.

Still reading? I’m impressed.

Ruby likes to empty her dresser drawers. She tries each piece of clothing “on” (around her neck, usually, although some things end up over her head) and then casts them aside for the next thing. This is a discipline issue at this point. I’m tired of cleaning up and refolding her clothes. So last night, when Sterling hollers that Ruby’s making a mess with her clothes yet again, I called her to me. She came out with her fists covering her eyes, not wanting to look at me, moving them minutes later only to cover her behind as I got up to deal with her disobedience. Try not to laugh at that one!

We made an offer on a house! After a long and ridiculously difficult day getting the banker to get the papers to me that we needed to make the offer, it’s been submitted. Keep you posted on that one. It’s 3 bedrooms/2 bathrooms on 7 acres near Strafford, MO – a 12 mile commute for Blaine to work and about 20 minutes to shopping, etc in Springfield. I’ll get excited when we’re under contract…

We’re down to one box of cereal in the house. The kids don’t know, but I’m doing it rather on purpose. If I don’t “run out” every so often, that box of cereal they begged for that turned out to have better marketing than flavor will never get eaten. Poor children, forced to dine without options, I know.