Link party at Conversion Diary, host of 7 Quick Takes Friday.
1. Have cooked like crazy this week, and portioned out the leftovers to freeze, so that the hubby will have stuff to eat while the kids and I...
2. ...go back to see my folks. They got an incredible deal on air fare. It'll be nice to see them again, though the hubby's gonna have one heckuva quiet house here while we're gone.
3. Trying to find some sources from either Jewish tradition or early church writings/tradition on Melchizedek. There is so little said about him (yes, references to how Christ is like him, but not much *about Melchizedek himself*). He kinda appears out of nowhere in Genesis, then disappears. There IS an interesting passage in Hebrews that mentions him as having no genealogy, no death, no birth, etc. - but it's hard to say whether the writer means exactly what I said above - that he is just mentioned with no reference other than being King and high priest of Salem, Abraham gives him an offering, and then that's *it* - or whether the writer is implying something about Melchizedek's actual origin and such. Thus the search.
4. Biscotti in the oven for Sunday's potluck. I don't think I have a choice anymore as to what to bring; there would be a lot of disappointed people if I didn't make my biscotti. At least it's easy, cheap, and I always have the stuff on hand to do it!
5. I had lunch today with one of the women I used to work with. We'd like to start a book club of some kind. We're not planning on anything huge, probably just start with the two of us and see who else expresses interest.
6. Hoping to have dinner out with the hubby tomorrow night, for some us time before we leave on Monday. It'll be nice. Looking forward to it, but we still need to figure out where we want to go!
7. And the timer going off means that it's time to pull the biscotti out of the oven. The kiddos think they're having cookies for dinner. Hope they won't be too disappointed...
7a. Am I the only one who can NEVER get the correct yield for cookies? I exaggerate a little, as there are a few times I've been very careful to try to do exactly the 1 inch balls or whatever, but typically, I never get what they say I should. Heck, the biscotti recipe is supposed to yield 3 1/2 dozen. I get almost 2 dozen instead, and that's even with measuring the rectangular loaves. I suppose I just can't do true 1/2 inch slices. Or I get pretty close, but just a little over with each cut adds up to nowhere near the predicted yield. Oh well. I just end up doing a double batch to get a respectable potluck amount.
Friday, July 31, 2009
Friday, July 24, 2009
7 Quick Takes Friday
(Go see Jennifer at Conversion Diary, hostess of 7 Quick Takes Friday.)
1. What the heck is so special about washing hands? I don't mean in a hygienic sense, but in the sense that Calla would happily stand at the sink and wash her hands for hours.
Heck, I wouldn't mind, if it weren't for the huge amount of water involved. Am I the only mom around whose kiddos have started crying because she made them STOP cleaning themselves...?
And yes, they do like showers/baths - until I have to wash their hair. Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth.
2. Now that the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing has passed, you can go through the mission at your own pace at We Choose the Moon. Very nifty for being able to see the stages quickly, though you miss out on the behind-the-scenes banter, troubleshooting, and such. (It will still play all of that audio, but if you skip ahead to the next stage, you'll be missing it.) I do kinda wish they had the rest of the time on the moon and the return trip available - the audio feed ends with Neil Armstrong's famous step.
3. We were going to be going to a Christmas in July shindig this morning, but my in-laws decided to host a family cookout this evening with a whoooooole lotta folks coming - so I decided overloading the kiddos with both would be a bit much. I was kinda looking forward to Christmas cookies and crafts today, though. :( Oh well.
(153 Days until Christmas. Oh, and Nick? 99 days until Christmas music! It's double digits now!)
4. I'm sick of the kiddos' room. Not in a decorative sense, but in a cleaning sense. The kiddos do try to help clean it, but it's difficult because their space is limited (which means it is that much worse than it could be, and gets cluttered QUICKLY). We really do need to get going on that attic conversion, and get them their playroom. And separate bedrooms. Preferably before high school... :D
5. Were overalls really THAT popular during the original run of "Lamb Chop's Playalong"? It seems like that's all Shari Lewis wore.
Related to that, wonder what kids' shows from now will be shown twenty years from now, and what the adults THEN will be saying "We really wore THAT?" about?
6. We're considering my returning to teaching in the 10-11 school year, with the hubby as the stay-at-home parent. It *would* be nifty for vacation time (and there would be other benefits as well); gonna need to think about it a lot.
7. "Can I make fireworks, Calla?" There's a sentence you don't expect to hear. Making fireworks, by the way, = hitting the bed with Calla's toy broom. Apparently it sounds to them like the *boom* of fireworks. Patrick usually makes a kind of "raspberries" type of sound to imitate the sound of the fireworks flying before the explosion.
And now Calla is upset because Patrick has the broom and she can't make fireworks.
Wouldn't that be something to overhear without explanation...?
1. What the heck is so special about washing hands? I don't mean in a hygienic sense, but in the sense that Calla would happily stand at the sink and wash her hands for hours.
Heck, I wouldn't mind, if it weren't for the huge amount of water involved. Am I the only mom around whose kiddos have started crying because she made them STOP cleaning themselves...?
And yes, they do like showers/baths - until I have to wash their hair. Cue wailing and gnashing of teeth.
2. Now that the anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing has passed, you can go through the mission at your own pace at We Choose the Moon. Very nifty for being able to see the stages quickly, though you miss out on the behind-the-scenes banter, troubleshooting, and such. (It will still play all of that audio, but if you skip ahead to the next stage, you'll be missing it.) I do kinda wish they had the rest of the time on the moon and the return trip available - the audio feed ends with Neil Armstrong's famous step.
3. We were going to be going to a Christmas in July shindig this morning, but my in-laws decided to host a family cookout this evening with a whoooooole lotta folks coming - so I decided overloading the kiddos with both would be a bit much. I was kinda looking forward to Christmas cookies and crafts today, though. :( Oh well.
(153 Days until Christmas. Oh, and Nick? 99 days until Christmas music! It's double digits now!)
4. I'm sick of the kiddos' room. Not in a decorative sense, but in a cleaning sense. The kiddos do try to help clean it, but it's difficult because their space is limited (which means it is that much worse than it could be, and gets cluttered QUICKLY). We really do need to get going on that attic conversion, and get them their playroom. And separate bedrooms. Preferably before high school... :D
5. Were overalls really THAT popular during the original run of "Lamb Chop's Playalong"? It seems like that's all Shari Lewis wore.
Related to that, wonder what kids' shows from now will be shown twenty years from now, and what the adults THEN will be saying "We really wore THAT?" about?
6. We're considering my returning to teaching in the 10-11 school year, with the hubby as the stay-at-home parent. It *would* be nifty for vacation time (and there would be other benefits as well); gonna need to think about it a lot.
7. "Can I make fireworks, Calla?" There's a sentence you don't expect to hear. Making fireworks, by the way, = hitting the bed with Calla's toy broom. Apparently it sounds to them like the *boom* of fireworks. Patrick usually makes a kind of "raspberries" type of sound to imitate the sound of the fireworks flying before the explosion.
And now Calla is upset because Patrick has the broom and she can't make fireworks.
Wouldn't that be something to overhear without explanation...?
Monday, July 13, 2009
We Choose the Moon...
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Random stuff from vacation.
We saw one of these while on the drive home...
It was rather amusing. We joked about folks just not knowing what was that-a-way. "Gas station is that direction, hotel is the other direction, but that way? No idea."
(Of course, we did fairly quickly realize that it was a directional sign for an information booth/tourist info, but the first reaction is still funnier.)
Also saw a sign advertising used cows for sale. I'm not sure that I want to know about that one. I mean, used as opposed to...what exactly? Calves?
That ranks up there with the question of whether they repo mobile homes the same way they do cars - in the middle of the night. Probably not, but still, the mental image is amusing.
Finally remembered to look up the "Which came first, the hotel or the movie?" in reference to Holiday Inn. It was the movie first.
Then we started thinking about names; specifically, the names Tracy, Kelly, Stacy - all of which have that y ending (or could be done with -ey as well), and all of which have changed from a masculine to a predominantly feminine name. We wondered if they had a common origin. Turns out, from my very limited research (one website, so I wouldn't go basing a thesis on it, LOL), two of them do (Tracy and Stacy; English), and Kelly, as one might suspect, is Irish. I think Stephanie has also had a masculine spelling with the same pronunciation (i.e. not just as Stephen)? I know names have a lot more gender fluidity now, but these seemed to be older examples (as opposed to the much more recent ones like Jordan, for instance).
Or maybe the masculine in all of the above are the -ey spellings, and they're no different than Frances/Francis.
Eh well. Guess I should go catch up on the 1976482 emails that accumulated while I was gone...
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