Two calls from two teenagers to ask if there was any of last night's bean soup left for lunch today resulted in two groans of disappointment when they learned that the last of it went with their dad for lunch. Guess that means the bean soup recipe passes muster.
Recently in domestic Category
We put our tree up on Saturday, which turned out to be great timing because it was snowing while we were hanging up our ornaments. There wasn't a lot of snow by, but it was pretty to watch it falling, and in the morning there was enough for a light dusting on cars and balconies. It was a perfect way to begin our Christmas season.
I've become one of those people who has to have the bed made. For years this was not the case, as one might gather from the title, but it's finally happened, and this gives me hope that maybe one day I'll be one of those people who always hangs up/puts away their clothes, too. This is a fairly new realization, though. I was running late on Monday, so I didn't stop to make the bed like I've been making an effort to do since the beginning of the year. At the time it bothered me, leaving the house with the bed unmade, and it REALLY bothered me after I got home as soon I went upstairs and saw the messy bed. Even with all the clutter on the floor by my side of the bed, the room looks somewhat put together as long as the bed is made, but with the sheets and quilts all rumpled and the pillows tossed on it haphazardly, it was a very disquieting picture, and that's when I realized that I never want to leave the house with the bed unmade again. Too bad this didn't occur to me when I was a teenager.
Mike and I decided to keep Valentine's Day pretty low-key this year - no big presents for each other, just cards or something along those lines (although he did give me a early in the morning). The rest of the day was spent napping, sitting in waiting rooms, crocheting, talking to doctors, picking up kidlets, and taking a quiz. As a result I have three new prescriptions, the go-ahead on the mostly-vegetarian eating plan I'm thinking about, a slightly skewed sleep schedule, the warm feeling I've been getting lately when all of our family is together under one roof, and an 85 on that damn quiz. Oh, and a handful of these:
I found the pattern yesterday morning, and I immediately grabbed a crochet hook and some yarn so I could try it out. The trial heart turned out so well I went ahead and made one for each of the kids for Valentine's Day, and now I'm trying to figure out which project I want to use them in first: on cards or as embellishments for a cardigan for H.
I've been thinking a lot about finances lately, and being environmentally conscious seems to be an issue that often goes hand in hand with living frugally. One of the green sites I've been reading recently is Tiny Choices. The idea of making changes little by little is much easier for me to get behind than the idea of changing how I do everything, so I've been mulling over how I do things and ways I could make tiny choices to change. The first tiny choice I'm consciously making is my decision to hang-dry all of my clothes except for my jeans. Right now this means I'm putting all my clothes on hangers to dry, but as the weather gets nicer, I'm thinking about talking to Mike about putting up a removable clothesline on our deck. Our HOA won't let us keep one up there all the time, which I understand - they can be kind of tacky sometimes, so I'm thinking about a set-up that would let me put the line up when I need to hang clothes on it and take it down when I'm done. Until then, however, laundry days at our house will see my clothes hanging in doorways to dry.
