Wordless Wednesday

Wordless Wednesday

Goodnight Nathan

Nathan really likes books.  He sometimes plays with them and makes noises like he's talking to them.  One book that we have and have read often is the classic "Goodnight Moon."  I'm sure I was read this book when I was younger, but I'm noticing details that I never have before.  For instance, did you realize the time on the clocks changes as the book goes along?  Or that the young mouse is peeking out in all the green room pictures?  The other day as we were walking Nathan in the stroller we started calling out things that we saw.  Goodnight cigarette butt, goodnight mutt.  Goodnight mutt eating the butt (or his butt).  We had fun and were laughing quite a bit on that walk.

I just put Nathan down for a nap, because he really needed it.  He woke up early from his first nap, and was crying over everything that he didn't like in his bedroom.  He didn't like how the block tasted in his mouth, or that he crawled into my knee, etc.  I read him Goodnight Moon, and he flipped through the pages of that book, and then another book.  He suddenly burst into tears again, so into the crib he went.  Maybe life will be more tolerable when he wakes up.

Here is an update on the living room, by the way!!! Yeah!  We still have the cardboard over the fireplace to keep Nathan out of it, and the bookcase isn't back up, but it looks pretty nice.  I'm not crazy about the lamp either, but it will stay for awhile.  We're building our emergency fund, and that technically isn't an emergency.  However, it almost could have been because when I was moving it when Mom and I started painting, the top part came out and the wires inside were detached.  I said to my mom at the time, " I hope I didn't break it!...sort of."  We laughed over that for awhile.

Well, since he's asleep, I probably should make good use of this time and clean or cook or something else housewifey.    :-)

Long Overdue

We've been having internet issues.  This along with time issues and Nathan issues, blogging just hasn't happened.  But I've composed a few in my head with titles like: Jon's New Vegetarian Lifestyle, Cooking Pizza in a Tornado, Painting Dilemma, Does Eating Goosepoop Cause Ringworm? ... and others.

Well, Painting Dilemma comes with pictures and a plea for help.  I was this close to going to the store and actually buying a gallon of paint today, but Nathan was asleep, so I took him home.  My mom came to visit in March, and one of our goals was to paint the livingroom.  We washed the walls, painted the trim, and did all the prep work, but when it came to the color of the walls, I kept buying three dollar cans of paint samples and putting them up on the wall.  For two weeks now, we've had the patchwork design on the livingroom, and the livingroom is still in disarray.

Before...

Current state.

What to do?  Which to choose?

Well, Nathan's still asleep, so I'll quickly write about the other post idea I had that comes with pictures.  On Palm Sunday, we had rain in the evening.  Since we don't have TV right now, and we weren't listening to the radio, we didn't know it was anything but a thunderstorm.  I made a pizza crust that night, and Jon was so impressed that he took a picture.

After the crust had partly baked, we pulled it out to put toppings on it.  Jon was working on that while I held Nathan on my lap in the kitchen.  Suddenly, we had a few power surges, and then the power was gone!  I went around and got candles going, and Jon tried to figure out what to do about the unbaked pizza.  He decide to put it on the grill!  He cut the pizza in half, put it on tin foil, and then went out in the pouring rain to put it on the grill.  I meanwhile got Nathan ready for bed by candlelight.  He knew something was different, with the candles, and he was excited and wouldn't go to sleep right away.  I decided to make him go to bed on schedule anyway to try and keep that bedtime.  I left him in his bedroom upstairs and came down.  Jon pulled the pizza off the grill and said it was a bit crispy.

It was actually burned.  Very burned.  We scraped off the toppings and put them on slices of bread, but the crust was black and inedible.  

The next day Jon went to work, and I still didn't have power at the house.  He called and told me what had happened just miles from our house.  There was a tornado!   It had destroyed many homes, but no one was killed!  But looking at pictures and driving by the wreckage the week after made us very sober and thankful that God spared us and others that night.  

As far as the other topics, I'll quickly update you.  Jon is trying to eat healthier, so we're eating mostly vegetarian these days.  The only problem is what to make for dinner - every night.  I just don't know what to cook, and don't have a good feel for how much something will make.  We hardly ever have left overs, so it's a new  challenge every day.  We are not tofu eaters, so that limits the vegetarian recipes quite a bit.  

And Nathan does not have ringworm, though I thought he did.  He had a scratch that seemed to be growing, and forming a ring.  I put antifungal cream on it, but then it started to break out.  His back started to have scratch like half rings, so I put cream there and a rash started there too.  So we went and the doctor said that it wasn't ring worm.  Maybe his diaper caused the initial mark, or the car seat straps.  And he was likely having a reaction to the "cure" cream.  So, we'll see.  I guess the dried goose poop that I tried to clean off our shoes that still somehow made it into his mouth didn't cause this.  Whew.