Three Year Old

I thought we had left the days of Holly writing on herself with a marker behind. Here she is at about 16 months old:



But unfortunately here she is at three years old:



Baby wipes are pretty good at getting marker drawings, and even Sharpie scribblings, off skin. We made it to church with at least her face, if not her palms, a natural color.

All I Need

Just sayin', if you ever come upon me and I'm listening to "All I Need" by Radiohead, it's a pretty safe bet that I'm under a dark cloud. It's my wallow song.

Now you know!

The Curious Case of the Tootsie Pops

I co-operate a little snack bar at work. My colleague and I make a small amount of money from it -- enough to pay our ways to an annual girls' weekend -- but mainly it is a benevolent effort to provide caffeine, fat and sugar to diets that might otherwise be lacking. (If you already know I work in an IT office, then you know that's a joke.)

Men are the majority in my department, which is why I rolled my eyes when I noticed this:



My question is: Why don't men want to eat the pink Tootsie Pops?

Yeah It's Cold

This morning when I got into the truck to take Thea to school, the temperature read 16 degrees. Great morning to forget my gloves! The heat did not kick in until we were nearly to school -- by then my fingers were numb. Mornings like these I do love the seat warmers. I let Thea sit up front so that she could enjoy it as well.

Faith was sick today so I stayed home with her and kept Holly home as well. It was a do-nothing kind of day. Faith's much better so I assume she'll go back tomorrow.

Geekout

My friend gave me a gift subscription to Netflix for Christmas. I've been getting DVDs and streaming movies for two weeks. Just now I found I can stream episodes of Mystery Science Theater 3000! I know what I'll be doing tonight.

It's really freaking cold and I hate it.

New Decade

Couple of changes for the new decade. I'm going to be moving my public posts over here to Blogger -- the new address is thebigenoughumbrella.blogspot.com -- and they will in turn feed over to my website. I'll keep friends-only posts at LiveJournal.

Here in Baltimore 2010 came in cold and has stayed cold. I love my heating system (radiators), but the house is so drafty that many areas just won't warm up. Over the weekend I put plastic up over one of the windows in the family room and it made quite a difference. I need to go to Home Depot or something to get more plastic for some of the other windows. I put towels down in front of the doors to try to stop the drafts coming under them, but a certain cat tends to pee on them. (Allie, our elderly lady cat.)

If you're friends with me on Facebook you may have seen this already, but here are me and the girls on Christmas Day:



Moving right along to goals for this year:

• Don't gain any weight. It worked last year!
• Read at least one book each month. I have no shortage of books waiting to be read. Follow the progress on my website, once I get the page set up.
  
• Make headway on the biggest house project -- the torn up upstairs room. Once it was going to be a kitchen and dining room, but now my plan is to make it a master bedroom and master bath. Or at the very least, to make it a livable room of any kind. This hasn't been worked on in over three years.
  
• Continue paring down my stuff (junk). It's a long road for me since I have packrat tendencies. So far in the three days of this year I got rid of two bags of clothing and a bag of toys. Gotta keep at it.
• With the kids, laugh and hug more, and yell less. Not sure how to quantify or track this one, but it's a goal nonetheless.