Jalapeños are a Lifestyle

It’s that time of the year. Pat me on the back. I have just finished putting the year’s financial records in order. All of the stupid little dividend transactions are recorded in Quicken. (I know that eventually those micro transactions add up but they are SUCH a pain to record.) The receipts are in order and filed. I recovered a missing checking account statement from on-line. (LOVE internet banking.) I have printed out the necessary reports for our deductions and installed TurboTax. The non-essential receipts have been shredded. (Thank you identity theft creeps for making a shredder an office necessity.) One of our financial companies got special papal dispensation to mail out our forms late…or is that an IRS waiver? I always mix those two up….so we can’t file quite yet. But my part is done!

The most amazing accomplishment of all is that nobody is dead. Not even the cats that ran through my piles and messed them up.

So there we were, listening to a book on tape for our daily “read-aloud.” and I was working on my newest cross-stitch project. My children (all of them) looked at me and said “WE WANT TO DO SOMETHING LIKE THAT TOO!” So, I said (in a moment of utter, complete, and TOTAL insanity) “Would you like to make an afghan?” (They love afghans.)

Yes. They would like to make an afghan very much thank you. So we are now learning to crochet. The boys have taken to it almost like ducks to water. My daughter on the other hand has taken it as a personal insult on the part of the universe that her older brothers are able to crochet better than her. Many tantrums. Much drama.

Stan took her aside this evening and sat her on his lap and cuddled her and told her how it didn’t matter if she could crochet or not but we did care that she was respectful and kept trying and that he loved her and wanted her to be the best that she could be but not perfect.  Have I mentioned how much I love that man?

Life has overwhelmed me. I can’t share why but keeping a public blog is currently unwise. Check back in about 6 months for an update…perhaps I will be able to post the things that are waiting as drafts then.