Well, it's official...
Our house is for sale and we've put an offer in on another.
Just typing is makes me hyperventilate a wee bit.
Our home when we bought it in 2005:
Cute 'lil place.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Baby, Baby
The baby has mastered scooting backward, but has yet to figure out crawling forward. It's the cutest thing to watch him steadily c r e e p backward! Maybe that's a good thing...seems like there may be less potential for rapid movement this way!
He has also had his first tastes of solid food: avocado! It wasn't such a big hit for taste, but it was great to smush and smear on everything in sight! I believe in child-directed feeding (no purees or baby food), but I did let him play for minute with a baby spoon someone gave us, and that was the most fun of all. I think we'll be exclusively nursing for awhile yet.
He has also had his first tastes of solid food: avocado! It wasn't such a big hit for taste, but it was great to smush and smear on everything in sight! I believe in child-directed feeding (no purees or baby food), but I did let him play for minute with a baby spoon someone gave us, and that was the most fun of all. I think we'll be exclusively nursing for awhile yet.
Wednesday, January 10, 2007
This is more like it!
Winter has returned with a vengeance to Central New York. Almost all the schools are closed today. There's that "lake effect machine" in gear! I was tempted to take a snow day (the school schedule is so ingrained in my being), but I resisted! I have a lot to do today, and some of it can't really be postponed.
For my own organization:
DONE
- Exercise/shower/dressed
- Apple pie
- Laundry (actually in progress)
- Supper (leftovers)
TO DO
- Pack boxes for Goodwill
- Put away baby's new clothes and finish packing away old size
- Sweep/scrub kitchen floor
The things I still have to do could be deferred in favor of enjoying the weather (other than the kitchen floor), except that the realtors may be coming this weekend so we can get our house on the market. DH has the basement to tackle tonight too, and we really need everything in tip top shape! (More on all this later.)
My sister did come over yesterday and we watched Emma. Actually we played with the baby more than we really watched it. It's put me in an Austen/romantic movie mood, and the weather isn't helping! It's a great day for Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth. Maybe if the baby takes a good nap later I can work on the Goodwill boxes and watch at the same time. Ah, multitasking.
As I was typing this and IMing with my sister (who is enjoying the snow day), she sent me a text message that they've lost power! This demonstrates two things: the weather is bad and my parents live so far out in the country that they routinely lose power. Actually, they live on the edge of a grid, and they lose power (as do the close neighbors), but half a mile down the road it's electricity city.
Tuesday, January 9, 2007
Kindred Spirits
Since it appears I have a few Kindred Spirits reading my blog (Hi Kat!), I thought perhaps I would chat about LMM today. I admire Bronte, love Austen, but I adore Lucy Maud Montgomery. I think that without a doubt she is my favorite author. Emma asked if I had read Kilmeny of the Orchard. I have two copies! My love (obsession?) with LMM developed slowly, though, and I'm ashamed to say I owned many of her books (The Story Girl, Magic for Marigold, and The Blue Castle) along with the Anne series long before I ever read them. I distinctly remember receiving the three above-mentioned books for a birthday from my friend Colleen when I was 12 or 13, but they were never taken from my shelf. Oh, the folly of my youth!
Like many other, I suspect, I was won over my Maud through the Sullivan adaptations of Anne of Green Gables. I am ashamed to admit it because they are so poor and scorned by many who love Montgomery's work. I still love the movies (not Anne 3!), but try to think of them as separate from the books.
Once I actually picked up a book and read, there was no going back! I can't actually remember what I read first. It may have been Anne of the Island or The Story Girl. I know it wasn't Anne of Green Gables. Funnily enough, AoGG still isn't my favorite book. The Blue Castle, A Tangled Web, and Anne of the Island are my top three, I think. I especially love ATW with its interwoven story lines about the Dark and Penhallow clan. The Blue Castle is just such a sweet romantic story, and Anne of the Island I love because of my fondness for my college years.
I also enjoy the short story collections. They are great to pick up when you need an LMM "fix." "The Doctor's Sweetheart" is just the most charming little take! I haven't finished reading the journals yet, although I do own Volumes 1-4. One day...
The pride of my collection are a 31st impression of Anne of the Island from 1931 and a third impression of The Story Girl from 1911! I’m not sure where I picked them up, but possibly a used and rare book store in Cooperstown. Wherever it was, the seller didn’t realize the treasure!
Like many other, I suspect, I was won over my Maud through the Sullivan adaptations of Anne of Green Gables. I am ashamed to admit it because they are so poor and scorned by many who love Montgomery's work. I still love the movies (not Anne 3!), but try to think of them as separate from the books.
Once I actually picked up a book and read, there was no going back! I can't actually remember what I read first. It may have been Anne of the Island or The Story Girl. I know it wasn't Anne of Green Gables. Funnily enough, AoGG still isn't my favorite book. The Blue Castle, A Tangled Web, and Anne of the Island are my top three, I think. I especially love ATW with its interwoven story lines about the Dark and Penhallow clan. The Blue Castle is just such a sweet romantic story, and Anne of the Island I love because of my fondness for my college years.
I also enjoy the short story collections. They are great to pick up when you need an LMM "fix." "The Doctor's Sweetheart" is just the most charming little take! I haven't finished reading the journals yet, although I do own Volumes 1-4. One day...
The pride of my collection are a 31st impression of Anne of the Island from 1931 and a third impression of The Story Girl from 1911! I’m not sure where I picked them up, but possibly a used and rare book store in Cooperstown. Wherever it was, the seller didn’t realize the treasure!
Romance Courtesy of A&E
A few weeks before Christmas my mom, Baby, and I went to a Books Are Fun bookfair up at the hospital. (If you aren't acquainted with Books Are Fun you are missing so much!) I found some neat things like a collection of vintage cookbooks, and hardcovers for the baby at wonderfully low prices. I also found a set of four games (Scrabble, Clue, Yahtzee, and Sorry!) for our giving tree gift for $20! You can barely buy one game for such a price these days!
The gem of the morning, though, was a collection of A&E book adaptation DVDs for an outrageously reasonable price. Five movies, twenty hours on eight DVDs for $50 or so (Ivanhoe, Tom Jones, Jane Eyre, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice). The collection also came with a booklet on the life and times of the authors, trivia, etc. My mom decided it was too good a deal to pass up and purchased it for my sister and I to share, as I already own several of these films. (I'm going to wear out P&P one of these days!)
My sister was thrilled, being a huge Janeite and book/movie lover that she is. (She actually took a course last spring on reading and watching all the Austen adaptations.) She sent me a text message last night and we are going to have a movie fest today or tomorrow evening! As she said: we are dorks but we own it and we love it! I'm not sure which one(s) we'll watch, but I'm voting for Emma to start since I haven't watched that version in a long time, not to mention it's shorter than the 5-hour marathon that Ivanhoe, Tom Jones, or P&P are.
So excited!
Side note: Some day I'll have to write a post bragging and boasting all about my sister. She is an amazing person!
The gem of the morning, though, was a collection of A&E book adaptation DVDs for an outrageously reasonable price. Five movies, twenty hours on eight DVDs for $50 or so (Ivanhoe, Tom Jones, Jane Eyre, Emma, and Pride and Prejudice). The collection also came with a booklet on the life and times of the authors, trivia, etc. My mom decided it was too good a deal to pass up and purchased it for my sister and I to share, as I already own several of these films. (I'm going to wear out P&P one of these days!)
My sister was thrilled, being a huge Janeite and book/movie lover that she is. (She actually took a course last spring on reading and watching all the Austen adaptations.) She sent me a text message last night and we are going to have a movie fest today or tomorrow evening! As she said: we are dorks but we own it and we love it! I'm not sure which one(s) we'll watch, but I'm voting for Emma to start since I haven't watched that version in a long time, not to mention it's shorter than the 5-hour marathon that Ivanhoe, Tom Jones, or P&P are.
So excited!
Side note: Some day I'll have to write a post bragging and boasting all about my sister. She is an amazing person!
Friday, January 5, 2007
Checking the calendar
It is January, right? I do live in Northern New York, right? Home of the lake effect "machine?" Yup, 'tis true.
Yup, it's 61 degrees outside right now.
Guess I didn't need to buy a new winter coat after all! El Nino year or not, this is so unusual! Can't say that I mind, but my goodness, I have the worst case of spring fever this week! It's made it nearly impossible to get anything done! My routines held up early in the week, but other than laundry, I haven't done anything productive yesterday or today! The baby is napping so I should sweep and wash the kitchen and dining room. You know what, though? I'm going to read!
My sister is coming over to go for a walk with us after work (she's a 1:1 aide for an autistic girl during her break), and then we're going to a Christmas party!
Monday is a new week. I'll get caught up then and enjoy the weather today!
Yup, it's 61 degrees outside right now.
Guess I didn't need to buy a new winter coat after all! El Nino year or not, this is so unusual! Can't say that I mind, but my goodness, I have the worst case of spring fever this week! It's made it nearly impossible to get anything done! My routines held up early in the week, but other than laundry, I haven't done anything productive yesterday or today! The baby is napping so I should sweep and wash the kitchen and dining room. You know what, though? I'm going to read!
My sister is coming over to go for a walk with us after work (she's a 1:1 aide for an autistic girl during her break), and then we're going to a Christmas party!
Monday is a new week. I'll get caught up then and enjoy the weather today!
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Bibliophile
During December I reread the Annes and the Emilys. Oh, how I love those books! By the time I'm finished with them, I always want to back my bags and move to Prince Edward Island. Or at the least, a seaside farm! Or failing that, at least back to the country in an old house. I grew up amongst farmland, but in a 1970s raised ranch! Very nice with wood siding, but still. New houses lack character and history.
DH gave me a new set of Anne books for Christmas as my old ones are literally falling apart at the seams. The cheap paperbacks are crumbling from so much use, especially Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams. I wish, wish I could find all eight books in hardcover!
My italics seem to be getting out of control! Must be all that Emily Climbs. I wonder if Emily would have ever written a blog. She did intend her diary to be read after her death. How would she have felt about one being read live, moments after she wrote an entry? Or for that matter, her creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery?
Goodness it feels wonderful to be reading again! I barely had a chance during the baby's first few months! Well, I read plenty of Goodnight Moon and assorted board books, but this is much more refreshing!
On a related reading topic, one of my goals for the new year is to read the entire Bible. I have a daily Bible to make it very easy on me. Also, a few months ago, I wrote about taking a course through the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. I never had a chance to get started, so I'm hoping to now!
I think I'll get started on Pat now.
DH gave me a new set of Anne books for Christmas as my old ones are literally falling apart at the seams. The cheap paperbacks are crumbling from so much use, especially Anne of the Island and Anne's House of Dreams. I wish, wish I could find all eight books in hardcover!
My italics seem to be getting out of control! Must be all that Emily Climbs. I wonder if Emily would have ever written a blog. She did intend her diary to be read after her death. How would she have felt about one being read live, moments after she wrote an entry? Or for that matter, her creator, Lucy Maud Montgomery?
Goodness it feels wonderful to be reading again! I barely had a chance during the baby's first few months! Well, I read plenty of Goodnight Moon and assorted board books, but this is much more refreshing!
On a related reading topic, one of my goals for the new year is to read the entire Bible. I have a daily Bible to make it very easy on me. Also, a few months ago, I wrote about taking a course through the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. I never had a chance to get started, so I'm hoping to now!
I think I'll get started on Pat now.
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