Just a few quick things today.
1. I chose the winners for the Living Proof Live Simulcast and have notified them by email. If for some reason I don’t hear back from them then I will choose two more winners.
Is it just me or does that sound like the Miss America pageant when if the winner is unable to fulfill her duties then the first runner up has to step in?
And even if you didn’t win, it’s not too late to sign up to be a part of the simulcast from the comfort of your couch. Here’s the event page with all the information you need. You can also find out on that page if there’s a church that’s hosting it anywhere near you in case you want to venture out and be around people.
Spoken like a true introvert.
2. On a totally different note, I have loved Mrs. Meyers’ cleaning products for a long time. But I’d always bought the geranium scent or the lemon verbena. Then last week I decided to try the basil scent and my whole life changed. It is my hands down new favorite.
3. Caroline’s P.E. coaches occasionally bring in new healthy food for the kids to try. And while she never eats more than the equivalent of one cheese cube at each meal, she is an adventurous eater.
So this is how I’ve ended up buying jicama and dragon fruit and learning that breaking open a coconut is much harder than they made it look on Gilligan’s Island.
It’s also how I discovered that we both love a pomegranate. I’d never bought pomegranates before because I wasn’t really sure how to eat them even though I love to drink pomegranate juice because it makes me feel like I’m negating the effects of beef fajita nachos.
However, I soon learned that getting the seeds out of a pomegranate is a beating. You have to soak it in water and then peel off the white part and then the seeds pop and stain your countertop.
But then Mimi sent me the link to this video on an easier way to eat a pomegranate. I tried it yesterday and it totally works. I’m embarrassed to tell you how excited I was about it.
4. Wow. I just wrote five paragraphs about deseeding a pomegranate.
That feels like a low.
5. I’m leaving a week from today to head to Birmingham, AL for the DotMom Conference. It’s not too late to sign up and join us. It’s a great line up including Jen Hatmaker, Vicki Courtney and Esther Burroughs.
Oh, and Korie Robertson from Duck Dynasty. I’m a little bit beside myself about it.
5. There were so many of y’all who said such sweet things about Jen and even offered her places to stay or to bring meals and prayers. It made me love you that much more. And I asked Jen if it was okay to share the link to her blog wheres she’s detailing her journey and she said it was okay.
It’s called Pink. Pray. Love. She has handled this with so much faith and grace. Love her so much.
6. This is the time of year when the Outdoor Channel airs all of its new episodes of various hunting shows. So guess what’s on our T.V. every night until P goes to bed?
You’ve never seen so much camo or heard so much whispering in your life.
It’s not at all annoying.
7. I’ve been sitting here for twenty minutes and can’t think of what else I wanted to say. I’m taking that as a sign that I need to go to bed.
Have a great day!
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Melanie, I really wanted to get to the conference in Birmingham, but cannot make it. Sadness. Although a conference on mom stuff is cool, but I do have 5 kids and 3 are in college so I’m not so sure what’s left to learn. I think I just wanted to go see you and Sophie. Again, sadness. Anyway have a great Thursday!
I always go straight for the geranium Mrs. Meyers, and forget that I love the basil smell, too! Have you see the honeysuckle scent? I don’t know if it’s a special edition, but its so good!
Also, that pomegranate video was amazing…definitely trying that soon!
I take the easy way out- they sell pomegranate seeds in a jar!!! Much easier!
I learned the hard way a few Christmases ago that you should not seed a pomagranite wearing a white shirt. You would think I would know that, but it took ruining my favorite white, long-sleeved, Old Navy tshirt to learn the lesson. It was a sad day. Old Navy doesn’t make shirts of that thickness anymore. Now they are all totally clingy and almost sheer. I digress…
I’m so jealous that you get to meet Korie. Duck Dynasty is #1 at our house, and I wish I could be adopted into that family. I can’t wait to watch the pommegranate video. Love them, hate ruining the white shirts.
You are hilarious and I thank you for your posts that make me smile every day.
Yes, the whispering…drives. Me. Crazy. He can’t hear his family when we talk at normal decibels, but some stranger in camo standing in the brush on a windy day with no subtitles, no problem. So very annoying. Followed only by the guy Yelling. At. Me. When he gets a big fish on his line.
I totally laughed at this. This is the biggest truth I’ve read today (other than Scripture).
“He can’t hear his family when we talk at normal decibels, but some stranger in camo standing in the brush on a windy day with no subtitles, no problem.” Amen.
Yes, we also have the Deer Whisperers on. EVERY. SINGLE. NIGHT. I cannot tell you how much joy that brings into our household. While I have opined on occassion that if you have seen one video taped deer-kill, you have basically seen them all, I was quickly schooled on the various nuances of the hunt. I do not mind being a hunting season widow, in fact I am quite happy when my sweet husband gets to go hunting because he loves it. I just wish we could have something on our walls other than dead carcasses. Or carcassi, whatever plural term would be correct.
Seriously, everyone needs to know how to manage a pomegranate! Thanks for the link!
Yes (fist pumping in the air), someone else who finds the whispering annoying! IT DRIVES ME NUTS!!!
Thank you for the link to Jen’s blog. I look forward to checking in on her. She seems like the sweetest person with a huge heart.
Just read a little of Jens blog, what an amazing attitude. You girls are awesome, what a great friend and friendship you have created!
The pomegranate video is amazing! My daughter who keeps asking for pomegranates is going to thank you. I will now buy more for them – even though it drives me little nuts that she just sucks on them and spits out all the little seeds.
Aloha! So great that there is a way to eat pomegranates w/out regretting ever buying them. It’s been years, now I’ll go find some.
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I get your posts by email and though I skim over almost everything in my email on my iphone, I always stop to read yours b/c it will never fail make me laugh. Thanks! (And today I’m on my computer so I’m actually commenting.
Thanks for the pomegranate video! We love them here but sometimes I don’t buy them just because I’m lazy and they’re hard to eat
Oh and “You’ve never seen so much camo or heard so much whispering in your life.” Story of my life. Not just my husband and son, but my dad and brother too. We can’t escape it!
I can’t wait to see you again next week in Birmingham! I had such an amazing time last year and learned so much! I keep meaning to e-mail you the pictures from your informative and insightful break-out session of which I nerded out and sat on the front row
I injured my thumb cracking open a coconut with a hammer a few weeks ago, it’s still bruised. I should have followed my own advice – http://inspiredrd.com/2010/06/how-to-crack-a-coconut.html
Ok…I was SOLD on dot Mom and have been a walking advertisement for it since I went last year. But now you are adding Kori from Duck Dynasty?!! I just can’t take it! I am officially on dot Mom countdown!!!!!!
Yes!! The hunting shows are already on my nerves and the season just opened here this past weekend. My husband started watching them again religiously about 2 months ago. If you ask our 16 month old “where are the deer?” he’ll point to the tv.