Man, I am so loving being apart of 7 Quick Takes Friday at Conversion Diary.
1)
Today, as has been the norm since they received it on Easter morning, we watched Frozen. However, today, when I turned it off and declared it time to get dressed for the day and to play, Vivian cried. Cried. "Waaaaa! I want Let It Go!!! Waaaa!" She wasn't crying in a whiny-I-am-being-obstinate kind of way but in a you-broke-my-heart-because-i-just-want-to-be-Elsa kind of way. Time to detox from Frozen? (Edited to add: She woke up from nap and asked so sweetly for Frozen, and since it is thunderstorming outside, I said yes. So much for detoxing.)
2)
If you do not have cats or are adverse to talking about cats and their litter boxes, please feel free to skip ahead to #3. For those of you with cats, oh my word!!!, I have to tell you about our new cat litter box. So, first, let me start by telling you that Eisenhower is a terribly stinky cat. Like, clear a room (more like the entire first floor) with his stench. The regular old litter box just wasn't cutting it, so we were looking into getting a self cleaning litter box of the electric kind. First off, dude, those are expensive. The nicest one was almost $300! I refuse to pay that much for my cats to poop in my house. Seriously. Do you know how many human toilets I could buy for that money?! The next price range was around $125, which, frankly, is still a lot of money for an inside cat bathroom box. So, I went to my good friend Amazon to see what it had to say. Allow me to show you our new cat litter box:
No, it is not electric. It was only $30 dollars and it works like a dream. Seriously. Even Evan, who is the king of skeptivity, was won over by how simple it was to use and how much it really does keep our house smelling like we don't have the smelliest cat in the universe. All you do is roll the whole thing to the right where there is a filter that takes the none clumped litter into one area and the clumps and cat poop roll into the drawer shown. You then roll the whole thing back to the left to allow the non-used litter to resume its place at the bottom of the box, pull out the drawer, dump the waste, and you are done. Best $30 investment I've made for these damn cats that live in my house.
3)
It is unbelievably humid here in Texas and I have been hermiting in my home. I just despise oppressive heat. It makes my hair frizzy, it makes me sweat too much, it sucks the joy out of life. But, unfortunately, I also hate feeling cooped up in my house. I'm a complex gal. So, I have been trying to suck it up and try to spend some amount of time outside during the least hot parts of the day because, honestly, I'm just being a big weenie--it is not even near as hot as it is going to be. Bleh. I hate Texas summers.
4)
Because my mother in law loves us so much, she sent us a donut pan this week. Well, I didn't want my family deprived of homemade donuts, so I went about whipping up a batch last night. I totally overfilled the donut molds in the pans, making 8 donuts instead of 12, but my family still scarfed them down and told me to keep trying to make the perfect cake donut. And to please try a chocolate recipe next time. I'm so glad they are encouraging of my hobbies.
5)
On Monday, Elisabeth came home with six fieldtrip forms for me to sign and $10 to go with them all. I do not understand why all the fieldtrips must be done on the last month of the school year. Why not sprinkle them about all year so the kids are not crazy stressed the last 3 weeks of school? One is for the final day of school pool party being held at the Ft Sam Houston Aquatic Center on base, so I do understand saving that for this month, but the trip to the art museum and the other random things I signed my approval to are all trips that could have happened anytime this spring. Not to mention, it's not just her school that is wrapping up, it's their dance classes (with the recital being held the Friday and Saturday after the final day of Ebeth's school), their last softball/tball games and end of the season picnic, and the end of their Faith Formation classes at church. Dude, June is going to feel like a flipping vacation after the whirlwind of activity in May!
6)
I have totally made up for the lack of book reading I did in April and can not wait to share all the books I've been reading this month with you all! I was browsing my bookshelves looking for the next book I should delve into and I was overwhelmed with book love. One of my life goals is to have my own personal library, which I am well onto my way of having, and I have so many good books on my shelves to read. I truly wish there was a job that paid you to read books. I would dominate that profession.
7)
The bugs are back. Along with the heat, the bugs that enjoy infesting this godforsaken state begin their attempt to take over my home. They come in swarms like the plagues of Egypt--ants, crickets, cockroaches, spiders, moths. Oh, and then the lizards start weaseling their way in, but that never ends well because the cats definitely are more interested in lizards than bugs. We had ants come in through cracks in our old wooden windows (the tiniest of ants I have ever seen) a few weeks ago and, let me tell you, I declared war on those intruders. I sprayed them to death with a vinegar and water mixture, but that did not deter them. I put Elisabeth on ant killing duty while I texted Evan desperate pleas to hurry home and fix this situation. I was on the ipad googling natural ways to kill the ants (cause you know I can't put any sort of poison on a window sill or Vivian and the cats will become enamored with it and eat it all and then I'd have nothing to kill the ants with) and would every now and then manically scream, "Elisabeth! Check for ants! Kill them all!" to which she would hurry to the window sill and smoosh them with her fingers yelling "Die you dirty ants, die!". After maybe three times of this back and forth I over heard Elisabeth say, "I need to write about my childhood. We're so weird."
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