Maybe it’s because I’ve had a 3 foot tall person, who sleeps with the grace and ease of a Tasmanian devil all hopped up on over the counter cold medicine, sharing my bed for several nights this week due to serious thunderstorms, but I am drawing a blank on having anything worthwhile to share. I mean, after this week’s riveting posts on Diamond Darlings, my impending nervous breakdown, and American Idol, there is really nowhere to go but down.
So, in lieu of an actual post that contains crucial elements like a point, I’m going to share what is going on inside my head at this moment.
1. I have realized over the last few years, my memory is horrible, and I mean both short term and long term memory. I can’t remember to buy stamps at the grocery store when STAMPS is written across the very top of my list. The other night I went to dinner with Gulley and when I realized how extensive her memory is, it made me believe that I should invest in some sort of Sudoku puzzles to sharpen my cognitive skills and try to ward off what is, apparently, complete brain rot.
The only problem is I think Sudoku involves numbers and if I remember correctly, I don’t really like anything that involves numbers.
2. I talk so much about how rough and tumble Caroline is because it astounds me and truthfully, makes me a little proud that a daughter of mine can be so brave about things that are dirty or crawl across your hand. However, one day last week we took a little mother/daughter shopping trip to the huge outdoor mall here, and I have never felt like we were such kindred spirits as when I wheeled her stroller into the dressing room in Anthropologie so I could try on some jeans and she gasped and said, “Oh Mama, it is JUST beautiful in here!”
I told her, “I know! And we haven’t even looked at their housewares section yet.”
Ultimately, she was most impressed with the dressing room, but still it gave me great hope that there will be times she may prefer to go shopping with me, as opposed to going on a mass killing spree with her daddy.
3. And speaking of her being like her daddy, tonight I put her on the potty right before bed and she said, “Mama, get me a hunting magazine, it’ll help me go.”
Oh, if I had a dime for every time I’ve heard her Daddy utter those very words.
To top it off, as she was browsing through her Bowhunters Digest, she looked at a picture of someone all in camo holding a camo rifle and said, “Oh, this is handsome.”
4. This is a picture of a Mountain Laurel blossom. South Texas is covered with them right now and it makes the whole outdoors smell like grape soda.
It’s just a little piece of heaven all wrapped up in a lovely purple flower.
5. I saw these shoes at Target the other day and I didn’t buy them. They have been calling my name ever since so it’s just a matter of time before I go buy them. How cute are they?
$19.99 y’all. That is $20.00 worth of sassy I’d be wearing on my feet.
6. Something is going on with our home email address and I just discovered that we haven’t been receiving certain email. I can’t figure out why we get some things and why we don’t get others, but now I am totally and completely paranoid that some critical email, letting me know I have won buckets of money, has found itself in the Bermuda Triangle that is SBC Global.
7. I’ll leave y’all with this sweet picture of Caroline that I took at the butterfly exhibit at the zoo the other day. This is obviously the side of her that finds the beauty in God’s creation and lovely dressing rooms.
Although, if that butterfly hadn’t flown away when he did, my money would have been on his untimely demise.
Y’all have a great Friday!