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Exceptional Things I Did Today
(1) Turned the apparent hatch of an entire colony of houseflies somewhere within the confines of our home into fun in the form of a "fly hunt" with my son. (I will not reveal how many flies we killed; it is too mortifying.)
(2) Untangled an angry nest of beads and necklaces in the fabric-covered, floral-print, hinged jewelry box "inherited" from my beloved's grandmother after she died just over a year ago. Patience is not a virtue I have mastered--until it comes to working the knots out of jewelry. It is one of my lesser known talents.
(3) Set up a "jewelry store" with the liberated items to the pleasure of my daughter.
(4) Made the "pilot's dashboard" my son spotted in the book 365 TV-Free Activities to Do with Your Kids with a small cardboard box, the lid from a container of ricotta cheese, a stray screw I found on the kitchen counter, a piece of rope, and an empty toilet paper roll that I had fortuitously left in the bathroom this morning. (That may make me "MomGuyver.")
(5) Managed to construct a relatively balanced meal of leftover pancakes, hot dogs, and broccoli from a pathetically understocked kitchen--without having a breakdown when the slightly healthier eggs that had been slated for the role of protein had a suspect milkiness about their whites. (When the only fresh fruits and vegetables you have left in the house are a single lime, half a red onion, and a wilted partial head of Romaine, you know it's time to head to the market.)
(6) Kept my cool when an impossibly pointy Lego subassembly left on the bathroom floor wedged itself about half an inch into my left forefoot.
(7) Walked away after the second request for a drink of water instead of sticking around for the third, fourth, and fifth.
(8) Wrote something positive in my blog even though I didn't start feeling positive until I began composing this list in my head.
(1) Turned the apparent hatch of an entire colony of houseflies somewhere within the confines of our home into fun in the form of a "fly hunt" with my son. (I will not reveal how many flies we killed; it is too mortifying.)
(2) Untangled an angry nest of beads and necklaces in the fabric-covered, floral-print, hinged jewelry box "inherited" from my beloved's grandmother after she died just over a year ago. Patience is not a virtue I have mastered--until it comes to working the knots out of jewelry. It is one of my lesser known talents.
(3) Set up a "jewelry store" with the liberated items to the pleasure of my daughter.
(4) Made the "pilot's dashboard" my son spotted in the book 365 TV-Free Activities to Do with Your Kids with a small cardboard box, the lid from a container of ricotta cheese, a stray screw I found on the kitchen counter, a piece of rope, and an empty toilet paper roll that I had fortuitously left in the bathroom this morning. (That may make me "MomGuyver.")
(5) Managed to construct a relatively balanced meal of leftover pancakes, hot dogs, and broccoli from a pathetically understocked kitchen--without having a breakdown when the slightly healthier eggs that had been slated for the role of protein had a suspect milkiness about their whites. (When the only fresh fruits and vegetables you have left in the house are a single lime, half a red onion, and a wilted partial head of Romaine, you know it's time to head to the market.)
(6) Kept my cool when an impossibly pointy Lego subassembly left on the bathroom floor wedged itself about half an inch into my left forefoot.
(7) Walked away after the second request for a drink of water instead of sticking around for the third, fourth, and fifth.
(8) Wrote something positive in my blog even though I didn't start feeling positive until I began composing this list in my head.
posted by Lisa Strandberg at 8:45 PM
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