7 Quick Takes Friday

I can't believe it is Friday already!

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Our precious KT is home for the weekend from her spring break trip. We're happy to have her home in one piece!

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Crafting has slowed down a bit here since I finished the socks. I finished the quilt top for LP's bed just as my sewing machine broke down. But I got it fixed by an old-timer who wants to retire. Who will fix sewing machines then???? My 20 yo machine runs like a dream, now. But so far I haven't been motivated to work on the backing or putting the quilt together. Soon.

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In the meantime, crafty urges are being met by sewing costumes for our homeschool drama production and a poodle skirt for the Little Princess's father/daughter dance next weekend. Every little (and big) girl there will probably be dressed in a pink skirt. No other color would do for my princess!

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The Pipster says "Hi" He had a lot of fun with this glove and taking pictures of it in various poses.

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I'm still working on Spring cleaning a room a day. I just love the new look of my library since I did a fair amount of decluttering in here the other day. I even got the Silly Putty out of the rug! The question is: how long with these spaces remain uncluttered? I'm keeping after the kids to pick of the little items they leave in their wakes. I swear, they just shed clothes, socks, earrings, Webkins, paper airplanes, etc. wherever they go! It's going to get tough when I get the kitchen and family room done---the two rooms where the most clutter accumulates!

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I discovered Caveman Cookies over at Son of Grok's blog. He developed them and I'm totally loving the newest incarnation of them: banana flavored! I made them with almonds and walnuts and they taste like banana bread. An excellent addition to my "Saint" diet since they're yummy, filling, and don't contain sugar or grains.

OTOH, I'm dying to make cake pops which I discovered at Pioneer Woman's blog. Who knew Bakerella has her own blog? These are definitely NOT on the saint diet. I don't want to eat them, just make them. Who am I kidding? I do want to eat them, too! I'm sure the kids would have a blast making them. Actually, maybe watching kids roll up cake balls with their bare hands and dip them in chocolate would be enough of a deterrent from eating them. After all, they're not getting baked in a hot oven after handling!

Can you hear the debate going on in my head? I think we need to steer clear of these babies!

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I started drinking coffee again, some of my friends will be glad to know. I needed the caffeine for our trip out west! I don't plan to drink it every day since I've been drinking more tea, but I really enjoy a hot cup of coffee. When I'm out, I'll usually get a decaf, but I needed a jolt yesterday (probably DST sleepies!) and got a cup from Dunkin Donuts. Half of it had me jittery the first half of the day and wired the second half!

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Not.

Just kidding. I have no interest in spending all my time on FB, unlike many of my blogging buddies who have left their blogs high and dry in favor of "social networking". You'll remain nameless here, but you know who you are!!!

I'm trying to get back into the groove of being home instead of constantly in the car as we were last week. OMG. Driving from place to place with Mr. Flu in the car and putting zillions of miles on the car. It was a long week; I'm glad to be home.

It seems that the bloggers who aren't FBing are cleaning their houses for Lent. I decided that was a worthy way to spend my free (ha ha) Lenten hours. Cleaning a room a day. Actually, that's a huge improvement over the way I've done it in the past, which is to clean the whole. dang. house. during Holy Week. Doesn't make for a very holy mama, let me tell you!

So, like another buddy who gave up blogging temporarily, I'm cleaning my house in the mornings. I've already done 2 rooms in one day---the easy ones: living and dining (the easy ones). They're lovely. Not just clean, but slightly reorganized and decluttered. Since I brought home a slew (slough?) of new paintings that my sweet Mom painted, I'm hanging them and just generally rearranging household decor.

No links for you today---If you want to know who some of the slackers are ;-), you can check my sidebar and see who hasn't been posting!---I'm just doing a quickie post so I can get my library whipped into shape before dh comes home. It's really a 2-day room, not one.

7 Quick Takes Friday

1. It's Saturday here. Yesterday I was at my grandmother's funeral.

2. We've driven halfway across the country with a sick child who has actually been too sick to attend any family functions and stayed in a strange house, or hotel, alone. He's 17, don't worry!

3. Today we're spending some time with my dad. Leaving Hitch in the bonus room at my sister's where he can use his computer or the wide screen tv. 200 DVDs to choose from and cable.

4. Leaving early tomorrow for home. Praise the Lord! But we have put so many miles on the car in the past few days.

5. Wondering who will be sick next? Will we leave this influenza-like illness in our wake? Will we all get it from being in the car with him 12 hours a day?

6. I didn't get any of the things done over spring break that I wanted to do! I go home to a heavy homeschooling schedule and a messy house. I guess it's just like this week never happened.

7. I'm not terribly sad about Grandmother. She was 95 and had been ready to leave this world for several years. She was in pretty good health until the end and had just a few bad weeks that started with a heart attack last month. The hardest part of it all was that it was an almost identical repeat of Mom's funeral a year and a half ago. Same funeral home, same viewing room, same church, same luncheon, same people. We didn't really like having to re-live one of the worst times in our lives.

I can't wait to be home!