Ten Things

1. Squirms LOVES to dance. This morning I might have made up a song, The Caterpillar Crawls, with only three words as lyrics, the caterpillar crawls (see number 2), and she danced to this. Now, you do have to sing the words, but if there is a "song", the girl will DANCE. This morning she started with Auntie L's favorite, the shoulder roll, and moved into what I like to call the Beyonce drop.

2. While reorganizing our filing cabinet I found a spiritual gifts test from college. My lowest score was in a category called Craftsmanship. This made me feel justified for my preference of buying something from Pottery Barn over making it. It also explains why I'm not addicted to Pinterest - I know I'll never make any of those projects. 

3. We've decided to make (this could be more difficult than it should be, see number 2) the Squirms a reading nook in her toddler room. Or, an open-and-turn-the-pages-and-babble nook.

4. Maybe I should mention that we're slowly clearing out our guest room so the Squirms can move into a toddler/girl room and the nursery will be ready and waiting.

5. R and I are under serious pressure to cut Squirm's mullet. So far we're holding out: a) I'd like to take her to Disney for her first hair cut; b) I'm worried she'll look like a six month old boy; c) It's acceptable to have a mullet in central Florida.

6. Whenever I say Squirms Loves Mommy! in the hopes she will repeat this, Squirms happily shouts Dada!

7. My 7th violin lesson is tonight. Last week I ran into one of my AWANA students (a third grader) who is learning to play the cello. We compared notes. I can play Mary Had a Little Lamb and she can't. She can play Ode to Joy. I'm just going to say that I don't have that music.

8. The Squirms got a cold. Then I got a cold. Now we both have colds. Pray for R.

9. The garden yielded two green peppers (along with the collards and tomatoes) this past week. Oh, and we tried Martha's pasta recipe with the collards. It was okay. We added lots of parmesan because it was a bit bland. This week I bought a spaghetti squash to try the recipe shared by mandghall in the comments.

10. Pepperidge Farm's Double Chocolate Nantucket Dark Chocolate cookie is the best chocolate chip cookie I've ever tasted.