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Dane, seeing that I’m staring at a blank Word doc, says: “Hey, you know what’s great for writer’s block?”
And, though I don’t have writer’s block—I have thinker’s block—I say, “What’s that?”
“Doing the dishes while I run to the store!” And here he smiles charmingly.
“Sadly,” I say, “I already planned to clean the bathroom.”
But thanks to his expert negotiating skills, I end up doing the dishes and cleaning the bathroom after all; he deals with the laundry and sweeps the floors.
And still I have a touch of the thinker’s block. So what I have for you, in lieu of an actual coherent post, is a list of bullet points.
- Teaching kids self-sufficiency is awesome. It also leads to the nine-year-old accidentally sweetening our pot of oatmeal with mango tea instead of apple juice. Or at least it did today. The good news: mango tea in oatmeal is tasty. The bad news: I’m not super-sure it wasn’t caffeinated. (The package didn’t indicate, either way.) Now I’m wondering why no one has ever marketed caffeinated oatmeal before. Seems like there’d be somebody willing to buy that.
- The kids had a stellar two-hour quiet time today. (Insert raucous applause here.) Quiet time has been a little bit, um, nonexistent since the younger girls gave up their naps, but today it went very well indeed. I have hope for the future of quiet time once again. And to go along with the quiet, I was sicker than I’ve been in days, so I mostly just sat on a sunny patch of floor and rested my head. For the whole two hours. Bah, who needs productivity! Yeah, me.
- At my midwife’s suggestion, I checked a pilates video out from the library. Because while in theory I’m sure I’d love to take a regular prenatal yoga/pilates/miscellaneous fitness class, I think we can all recognize that it ain’t gonna happen. Thus far my video has taught me that even in pregnancy, posture is an attainable goal. Which is good, in case I was worried that one of the side effects of pregnancy might be that all my bones would turn to pudding. In related news, if anyone has a different prenatal pilates video to recommend, go right ahead.
And with that, we shall end our bulleted list. Feel free to return to your regularly scheduled… um… your regular… uh… schedule. (Thinker’s block. Strikes again. It’s serious.)
http://www.energyfiend.com/2006/12/caffeinated-oatmeal
Sorry, Abigail will have to think up a different breakfast ingenuity.
I should have known the college student would have a lead on caffeinated breakfast foods.
Man, am I behind in reading (dang Google Reader for displaying newer posts first!). Congrats on new-baby-in-the-making!
Mango tea sweetened oatmeal does sound delicious! and nutritious!
I’d recommend 10-minute Solution: Prenatal Pilates. There are five 10-minute workouts, and I find them to be quite effective for their short span. You can create your own workout using any of the five. There’s also a post-natal workout, too.
Thanks for the pilates rec!
Now, I know there’s a way to switch Reader to show older posts first… let me see… okay, yes, it’s under “folder settings.” You can choose “sort by newest” or “sort by oldest” for each blog and/or for each folder, if you use folders. (Woohoo, I knew one useful thing!)