reality

Last week it was back to reality.  No more Christmas vacation laziness.  Rachel went back to school on Wednesday, I started back at the gym (I hadn't been since I got sick....was that November???)...it was like starting from scratch.  Not that I had done much to begin with, but I had built up some stamina until I got sick.  Then my sickness, the girls' sicknesses, and then December/Christmas got in the way, and...well....excuses, excuses.  But anyway, I started back at the gym.  Hopefully I can be consistent.

Girl scouts starts back up tomorrow--anyone want to buy some cookies????  Cookie sales start next week!

I finished another book--yet another one that I started (a YEAR ago!), returned to the library, and finally got back around to.  This one was "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo."  Everyone talked and talked about how good it was, and now the movie's out, so I wanted to finish it, but I felt like the first half of the book was soooooo slow.  It took me a long time to get into it, which is one reason why I never finished it.  After about halfway, though, I couldn't put it down.  That's hard when you've got two little girls around who need you.  I struggle sometimes with reading--I enjoy it, but when I'm in the middle of a good book it's hard to do the things I'm supposed to do, so then I get frustrated and sometimes I think it's better if I'd never started it!  But anyway, I finally finished it, a year later.  Now I want to read the next one in the series.

Rebecca's sleeping hasn't been quite so good.  She had been doing so well, and then at the end of last week her naps started getting shorter and she started waking up early again.  I don't know what's going on.  She goes to the doctor on Tuesday for a recheck of her ears, so we'll see if there's anything physically wrong with her, or if she's just her usual poor sleeper-self.

Rachel's enjoying school.  On Friday they started "Favorite Toy Friday," where they get to bring in...you guessed it...a favorite toy!  It can't be anything electronic, so she was very sad that she couldn't take her new favorite toy, which is the Leap Pad Explorer that she got for Christmas from Grandma and Grandpa.  So instead she took a book that we made on the computer with her new Crayola Story Studio kit, where we made a coloring book of Cinderella with Rachel in the coloring book.  You scan in your picture, it morphs it into a coloring book drawing, and adds it into the pages, which you print out.  She loves that she's on the same page with the princesses.  Anyway, she took that to school as her favorite toy!  She's already trying to decide what she wants to take next week.

We've finished our bathroom remodel, and now my husband wants to move on to the guest bath in the upstairs hallway.  The problem is that our checkbook doesn't match his ambition.  He loved doing the bathroom, was really happy with his work, and wants to continue.  I don't know what we'll end up doing--maybe just a couple of small things that do need to get done (like fixing the hole in the wall that he made recently because he saw some water damage and wanted to know what was causing it!).