Random Thoughts On Wednesday

1. There's been germs circulating over here. It's gone through the whole family, except me. Avery's has held on the longest, in what appears to be a stomach bug. I took her to the doctor today, just to make sure that none of the crazy thoughts spin-cycling around in my head were actually true. They weren't; she's fine. Plus there's no medicine for an attitudinal and clingy one year old. He didn't say those exact words, but I know he wanted to.

2. I'm reading an AMAZING book that I would highly recommend. I read a lot, and most books I read I enjoy and get something/a lot out of. There are many, many books I have read and I think ooh, that's good. I want to remember that. Ooh, I love that! What a great idea! You get the point. But this book is...well it's just amazing. You really should read it, and I'm getting nothing to say that, I promise. It's called 7 and it's by Jen Hatmaker. It's subtitle is "an experimental mutiny against excess" and it's just fabulous. It's funny and inspiring and I am loving it.

3. But I will warn you, it may cause you to think crazy things. For instance, I recently have this overwhelming desire to tornado through my kitchen and throw away every.last.stinking processed food. Every single one of them. And I was making enchiladas the other night and it called for cream of chicken soup. When I pulled out the said soup, I just glanced at the ingredients. WHAT? Why does soup need that many ingredients? So I made my own, which was surprisingly simple AND delicious. Crazy things like that. Reading is dangerous.

4. Avery has been sleeping for almost three hours. Someone, somewhere should just stand up right now and shout Hallelujah! I know I am. But not too loudly, because I don't want to wake her.

5. Avery has entered a bit of a challenging phase. I thought the last baby was supposed to be all laid back and hey you just set me in this corner and I'll entertain myself, but someone didn't send her that memo. She used to have these cutesy nicknames like Bay, or sometimes we add fun endings and call her Bayza or even Bayzabee. Lately her nickname has been The Screamer or perhaps Demon Child. I've never called her that to her face, of course, just under my breath at the dinner table when she won't stop......you guessed it! SCREAMING.

6. There are no pictures on this post because my camera is broken. Or, I can't get it to work and I'm too impatient to figure out why. There's such a fine line. But I really am attached to my camera, possibly as attached as I am to sugar, so I think I have a Lack of Camera Headache today. I would normally say it's a caffeine headache, but I'm tired of blaming caffeine. I would take an Exedrin but that does have caffeine which kind of defeats the point and what if it has soy lecithin in it? What will that do to me?? Maybe I should make my own Excedrin.

7. I think that's all the random thoughts I have for today. I know I feel better. Or, I will, as soon as my Lack of Camera Headache goes away. I would have had time for a nap today if I had known The Baby AKA The Screamer was going to nap for so long, but I never know. Until it's too late.

Any other random thoughts out there today?

Comments

[Emily Jarkins]

Hey Megan - I hope everyone is feeling better today!! I can so relate to your # 5 post. I honestly thought that #3 would be a piece of cake. Someone once told me that going from 1 kid to 2 was hard and 2 to 3 was simple - um, I must be doing something wrong! My little guy is anything but laid back. He says "no" to everything, knows what he wants when he wants it, and copies both sisters' every tackling, wrestling, hitting move. I thought it was because he was a boy, but I'm not so sure. And he doesn't sleep either - wears on me more than anything. Anway, that's my random post for today:)

[Emily Jarkins]

But I should add that I wouldn't have it any other way!

[Ashley]

I love Jen Hatmaker. She's a great and fun writer. I read her Girls Guide to Bible Study and it was fantastic. Methods I had never thought or considered before. I'll have to check out the 7 book - although I'm nervous it would make me slightly crazy :) Not that you sounded crazy in this post at all...really...not at all. :)