This was hanging out in the sky over our general area the other day. No clue why. (goodyear)

I love that the word challenge games (like the find a words and Sudokus I like in pen and paper form) give my brain something to do. They tap into my vocabulary. I’m not sure what CCS does, other than make hungry and frustrated, but I keep playing, trying to beat the next level.

Now don’t get me wrong, I don’t try and gain ‘extra’ lives, I don’t play on anything but my laptop, and when I run out of lives (usually takes less than 10 minutes, lol) then I don’t play again until much later in the day. So it doesn’t take over my life, but it does seem like it steals my attention for those few minutes. I’m extremely glad that most of the levels are NOT timed, because my kids require near constant attention (I mean you know, sometimes they play for 2 minutes by themselves!!!)  so I can’t do much while they’re both awake and needy. Which is most of the time!

What about you?

Do you do any kind of online gaming, or are you a strictly board game or newspaper crossword person? Go ahead, talk about it!

It’s weird.

and since I’ve only had 2 comments in the last 9 days I figured I’d talk about the weather.

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Anyone out there?

I don’t understand boys putting weird hole things like earrings in their ears. Weirds me out. Our niece was with us and she was boy watching. She didn’t find much to keep her attention. Perhaps not the most attractive kids were out at 6 p.m. on a Saturday night.

The kids had a good time, riding rides. Well at least the older one got several rides and we ended with using the last 2 tickets in the rain on the merry go round. Poor toddler was asking for more horsey when we left. She apparently had fun on it.

water pushed debris against the garage

hole gouged underneath the tires from running water

ruts dug into the drive from overflow

water waylaid weeds

bridge no longer over troubled waters

Matt to the rescue

Keeley’s reading and playing a touch more on her own. Her independence is tempered with extreme frustration on her part. She wants to do things on her own, but immediately yells and cries (doesn’t ask for help) when things don’t go exactly right. Add in a huge dose of bad attitude and ‘wrong side of the bed’ and she’s not a lot of fun to be around most days. She lets one tiny thing get to her (like getting the wrong thing to drink for breakfast, being told her clothes don’t match) and then it seems to ruin her whole day. I don’t know what to do about it. I try and explain how it makes everyone unhappy when she’s so upset over something that doesn’t really matter all that much, but it happens repeatedly.

Brennan’s asking to use the bathroom or telling us her diaper is wet on a regular basis. She’s not even 22 months. Amazing. I’m not pushing her at all, but she seems motivated, so go her! She has JUST started saying ‘I can do it’ etc. Should be interesting to see how that plays out. Meanwhile she’s mostly smiley and repeats everything we say. That tends to get us in trouble. Oops.

Both kids seem to have bottomless pits for stomachs and want to be home as much as possible. For some reason leaving the house sets everyone off. They are digging being outside more, but the weather is not very cooperative.

Matt started a new job a few weeks ago. He’s working longer hours right now due to the fact that we went to a conference last week, trying to make up time, and hoping to go to a shorter work period overall by working longer hours 9 out of 10 days and then getting the last day off. I think the kids would love it and I certainly would appreciate knowing I could schedule appointments on a specific day and not need a babysitter or worry about him taking time off in order to see the dentist, etc.

Yup, things they are a changing for everyone.

‘Have book will travel’ adventure this summer at the library

I wouldn’t have believed it possible.

I managed to get a lot of chores done today, but that just means for the most part that I have baskets full of laundry to fold tomorrow. Blah. Anyone else feeling the blahs?