Bullets

• Gracie likes grapes. She's not very good at eating them, because they're round and they tend to pop out of her mouth before she can get her teeth on them, but she really likes them.
• Here's something I miss about Asia when he's gone: another set of ears to listen to K. This boy talks and talks and talks and talks and talks. "Mom, I know they're not real, but if I found a dragon egg, would you rather I found a blah blah blah dragon egg or a yadda yadda yadda egg?" and "When I get my next DS game, do you think I should get Big Brain Academy or the New Zelda?" or "When I form my band do you think our name should be Crazy Rotten Bean Farts or Fuzz?" and so on and so on and so on. I'm glad he talks to me, because I know in a few years he could very well go inside a shell of teen angst, but it's truly constant... and sometimes I need someone else to listen to him. Just for ten minutes of peace and quiet.
• Baby it's cold outside... we went from mid 80's on Monday to mid 50's today. I dug a sweater and jacket out of my basement storage closet.
• Bought a new purse yesterday. I'll post a picture maybe later... busy afternoon... and I really should be doing something other than blogging!
• I also bought a new mop today. I own every form of mopping apparatus known to man, I believe. I'm always looking for the newest and latest... what I really need, I think, it a housekeeper. I really hate to mop. This latest one seems pretty swift - got the whole 350 square feet of my kitchen done in under 10 minutes. Can't beat that. (Except by getting the housekeeper...)
• My first Parent Teacher Group board meeting today... it's official. I'm a true school-supporting, badge-wearing, fundraiser-planning, school-newspaper-editing Mom.
• Our sweet neighbors across the street, Glen and Hazel, gave us a whole bucket of plums from their tree last night. They give us plums every year. I always know when it's plum time, because it's the only time Hazel calls me. "Mrs. Goins? We've got plums over here if you want some. Do you want to send one of your kids over to get them?" And so I send one of my kids over to get them. And we eat them. Yum.
• We got the whole rack of the My Mind's Eye Bohemia line in at the store this week. It's the most amazing line of scrapbooking papers and embellishments I think I've ever seen. I'm going to have to buy it all, I think. Isn't that just terrible?
• I picked up "Til We Have Faces" by C.S. Lewis at the library this afternoon, on the recommendation of several friends. Can't wait to read it...

Time to vaccuum... Asia gets home this afternoon and I want the house to be clean.

Toodles, friends!