Randomness

Here are a few random things I thought you might need to know to help get you through the weekend  :) …

• Last Sunday morning I was making stew to have ready for when we came home from church. I took the lid (cast iron) off the pot, set it down onto my pot holders, stirred the stew, then put the lid back on. A few minutes before leaving for church, I gave the stew one last stir. It was then that I noticed a POT HOLDER inside the stew. Yeah, it had stuck to the lid and hidden itself when I put the lid back on. Yum. Can I just say how HAPPY I was to have found it BEFORE I left the pot on the stove to simmer during church? Yum.
• Recently, Elias asked me, “Mom, has it almost been a year yet?” And I said, “A year since what?” And he said, “Just has it almost been a year?” Ummm…probably…
• We have six bedrooms in our house…enough for all of our boys to each have their own room if they want one. Instead, they prefer this:

Not that you can tell…but there are two long lumps in sleeping bags
on the matresses, a medium sized lump on the top bunk,
and a little lump on the bottom bunk. 
Four boys, one room.

• Now that I’ve been blogging for a year, I’m afraid I’m going to start repeating myself.
• Now that I’ve been blogging for a year, I’m afraid I’m going to start repeating myself. 
• ;)
• One morning this week, Malachi told me, “Mommy, you look SOOOO cute!” Guess I’ll have to not brush my hair and wear my mismatched jammies more often.
• I finished Austin’s quilt!! (Can’t show you pics until after I give it to him. I would hate to ruin his surprise, you know. Because I’m pretty sure he reads my blog already.)  Malachi thinks the quilt is perftic. Yeah, don’t look too close.
• We can’t find Justus’ glasses. Anywhere.
• Lately Justus has decided that it’s fun to pretend he’s a puppy. And his little brothers have been following suit. Which is fine most of the time since thankfully they aren’t naughty puppies. But there comes a point when I ask someone where the phone is that I’d rather not hear, “rrr..Ruff!!” in response. Am I really asking too much?
• I have finally given in to peer pressure and am now Twittering. You can see my profile here.  Now, just because I have finally become a Twitter-er, don’t get your hopes up too much about how often I’ll Twit. I find it hard enough some days just to find time to wash the dishwater off of my glasses so that I can see. I’m not sure how good I’m going to be at this new thing I’ve just gotten myself into. 
• Oh, and by the way…when I was setting up my Twitter profile, I couldn’t call myself “HeavenlyHomemaker” because apparently 17 letters is too many. It kept cutting me off at “HeavenlyHomemak”. I didn’t want to be the “HeavenlyHomemak”. So I decided on being the “HeavenHomemaker”, which is only slightly better, but better enough. Later, I thought, “Why didn’t I just put in Laura Coppinger?” Duh. So, I tried to change it and it wouldn’t let me (or I couldn’t figure out how). Then I tried to just start a new account, but they said that someone was already using the email address, laura @ heavenlyhomemakers.com. Yes, I told Twitter…that would be the HeavenHomemaker. We are the same person!  Ah well, HeavenHomemaker it is… (Any of the rest of you talk to your computer when it isn’t doing what you want it to?)

I’m going to go look for Justus’ glasses. I’ll try to post it on Twitter if/when we ever find them!!