at least it isn't a rerun . . .

so today . . . was just an average, normal, uneventful day.

this makes it hard to blog. what do i write about . . .

i had half a whole wheat bagel for breakfast. as usual, i was in a rush to get out the door this morning, and that is what they were serving for breakfast at school, so i helped myself--half a whole wheat bagel WITH cream cheese. i decided to toast it, which i rarely do, but today i just felt like a warm and toasty bagel. so i sliced it in half and dropped it in the toaster. when it was done, it popped up. well, sort of. i heard it pop up, but only half of my half came up high enough that i could grab it. so i did, and then just stood there staring at the other half that was still resting low in the toaster. had i been at home, i would have grabbed my trusty 'pampered chef' bamboo toast grabber and had that bagel out of there in seconds. but i was at school--with no trusty pampered chef bamboo toast grabber. i am kind of a wimp and did not want to suffer burned fingers. so i did the only thing i could--i picked up a knife and thought about sticking it in the toaster.

don't worry! clearly i am still alive. and since i'm not writing this from my hospital bed, i did not electrocute myself. but all i had was that knife. it was a really sharp knife. so i very, very carefully stuck the tip of the knife into the bagel--NOT into the toaster. i stabbed that bagel and pulled it out without even coming close to electrocution. (ok mom, you can start breathing again!)

and then i spent the school day listening to joshua chatter. jonathan is on vacation this week, so during instructional time, it is just joshua and me. so he is talking A LOT! yesterday i thought it would make a great blog to just keep track of all the funny comments joshua made throughout the day. by noon i had given up! i just couldn't keep up, and he is so random sometimes that seeing what he said written down just didn't communicate what he had said. it is true that there are times when you just had to be there . . .

we did spend some time working on our facebook farm. as with everything, i am somewhat ocd when it comes to my farm. joshua is not. i have actually "paid" to clear a previously plowed field, so that i could move it just a bit one way or the other in order for all my plowed plots to be aligned properly (and i still have a few to correct.) i plant the same crops in adjacent plots. i line my trees up neatly. i carefully do the math to see which crops will make the most money for me. joshua cares nothing for all my careful planning. i don't know, maybe there is a plan in his little head, but i cannot figure it out. so today we planted tomatoes, strawberries, grapes, corn, and rice all over the place. at least it will be interesting to look at . . .

we also have a cow, a horse, and a pig wandering about the place. but yesterday, we got enough points to "unlock" a puppy. this does not mean that we can get a puppy--it only means that we can give puppies as gifts to our other farmer friends. joshua doesn't quite get this. (actually, neither do i!) but i said, "don't worry, maybe sherry will give us a puppy." sherry has gifted all my animals to me, and all my fruit trees too, so i thought there was a good chance she would send us a puppy. but today, there was no puppy. so we decided to be more direct. we went to visit sherry's farm, and looked for all her animals (she has lots of trees, so the unpenned animals can be hard to find.) and then we wrote to her and asked her for a puppy. so we will see what happens tomorrow.

i came home and spent a little time helping rollie's mom figure out how to email photos. it can be very confusing if you have never done it before. i tried to make it as simple as possible, and she did a great job following my directions. she is probably going to turn into a picture-taking-email-sending maniac! that's what happens when you get a new camera, you know.

and now i am sitting here, wearing flannel, watching american idol and dancing with the stars, fighting off milo (who apparently hasn't licked my face enough in the last few days,) eating dark chocolate m&m's and thinking "will they even bother to check my blog tomorrow?!?" i've got to get out more . . .