Annie's Blog

I absolutely love Google sometimes. Is there anything better than a sheep on a bicycle????

Tonight Hannah and I get to have dinner together atOlive Garden. Breadsticks are the most delicious thing in the world other than Mom’s cooking, according to Hannah. They taste incredible. Right now Hannah is getting ready to chow down on her first garlicy, tasty, hot breadstick. It is true. The kid can eat breadstick like it’s nobody’s business. That is also true!

Hannah and i are taking turns writing sentences. She’s done now, and ready to eat her Alfredo. So we’ll talk to you later!

Getting up at 5:00 in the ayem does have its advantages.

1. I get the very first cup of coffee (there’s just something religious about tapping a virgin pot of coffee)
2. The dog is still sleepy and cuddly.
3. I don’t have to talk to anyone
4. I can watch whatever I want (gotta love the DVR!)
5. I can keep the volume turned to a human level, rather than the screaming banshee level preferred by the other members of the house.
6. When I itch, I scratch.
7. If a sleepy child wanders downstairs, I get to cuddle with no deadline and no jealousy from the other child.
8. I can read, spin, or knit to my heart’s content.
9. A clean, unwrinkled, unmussed newspaper.
10. Did I mention the coffee?

Early mornings are definitely my favorite time of day. My brain seems to work better, able to focus on one thought at a time without constantly exploring angles and contingencies and variables and the like. For instance, this morning, I’m debating with myself about trying to get some moving boxes ahead of time and starting to pack some stuff. I’m going to have to downsize quite a bit (for example, in this house right now, there are four sofas. Three downstairs and one upstairs. that’s too many for a 1300 sq ft house). I’d like to just take the one couch upstairs, but then I’ll need at least one chair or something–and the two recliners we have now have been pretty trashed by the cats. I’d really love to get them declawed from a furniture-preserving standpoint, but the surgery (pretty barbaric) and the cost (almost $300) are big deterrents.

I also don’t want to take the big TV with us. It’s huge. and wonderful for watching movies (or the news first thing in the morning). But at 60 inches, it takes up a heck of a lot of room, and I am pretty tired of it being the entire focus in the room. Most of the houses we looked at in San Jose have fireplaces, which gives an alternate focus for the room. But with all the houses we looked at, not a single one was plumbed for gas, and not a single one had any wood stacked outside. So do people just not use them?

I think I will probably get rid of all my bedroom furniture (except for my pretty brass bed) and Hannah’s bedroom furniture. Chances are that any bedroom other than a master bedroom in San Jose is going to be substantially smaller than the princess’s room upstairs. I think Hannh is OK with that, especially since some of the pictures we looked at of daybeds and the like were pretty and flowery and feminine. I’m hoping that Maggie will be able to come visit to help Hannah decorate her room–Luke too. But Luke is in much better shape with his bedroom furniture–the bunk beds are incredibly practical. He might get new mattresses for the beds, though. The ones that are on the beds now are pretty uncomfortable if you weigh more than 60 pounds.

That’s enough cogitating for the day. Have fun!