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Sixteen things I like

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  1. My husband. I’ve known him for about 20 years. We’ve been married for 9 years, 8 months and 30 days. And I still find him delightful.

  2. The Saturday morning family cuddle, in which the kids pile in to our bed and watch cartoons while Rockford and I continue to doze.

    3. NaBloPoMo 2010

  3. Most of Wes Anderson’s movies. Especially “The Royal Tenenbaums” and “Fantastic Mr. Fox.”

  4. Ice cream.

  5. The weather these days. It’s cool but not cold. Which leads me to:

  6. Comfy sweatshirts.

  7. Marsha T. Cat, particularly the way she likes to cuddle.

  8. Cuddling.

  9. Books that make me cry.

  10. Books that make me laugh.

  11. The Internet.

  12. Meeting some of the nice people in the internet.


  13. Bill Murray’s face.

  14. Pizza.


  15. My family. All of them. Even my in-laws. They’re all terrific.


  16. The guy at church who plays the drums so joyously that you can’t help but smile.
menu plan Monday, National Blog Posting Month

A to-do list for the first of November

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NaBloPoMo 2010

  • Laundry
  • Homeschool
  • Write post (first day of NaBloPoMo!)
  • Make menu plan for this week
  • Start NaNoWriMo

Is it just me, or did November get here awfully quickly this year? I think we may have accidentally skipped a week of October. Not that I want to go back, necessarily. I love November. It’s extreme birthday season around ButterscotchSundae headquarters. In first seven days of November, we celebrate four birthdays: Mine, my sister-in-law’s, my dad’s and then Pete’s. And then, of course, there’s National Blog Posting Month, National Novel Writing Month and Thankgiving, and I plan to participate in all three. I’m pretty sure I can complete NaBloPoMo again, and I know I’m a champion at eating Thanksgiving dinner. But I’m not sure about NaNoWriMo. I’m going to give it a shot at least for a week or so.

I am aware that Thanksgiving isn’t November’s only meal. Here’s what we’ll be eating this week:

Monday: Breakfast for dinner

This will be eggs, veggie sausages and toast. It’s always a hit, which is why we have it at least one night most weeks.
Menu Plan Monday

Tuesday: Macaroni & cheese

I was going to make this from scratch, but then Target had the blue box on sale for 90 cents.

Wednesday: Chicken sausages and fries

I never actually made this last week, so here it is again!

Thursday: Pizza

What!?! Pizza on Thursday? But Friday’s pizza night! I know. But here’s the thing: I’ll be turning 32 on Thursday, which naturally means that we’re going to have a wild and crazy day. So Pizza Thursday it is.

Friday: OK, fine. Pizza Thursday isn’t just because it’s my birthday. We’re going to my sister-in-law’s for dinner on Friday.

In other news, my children are playing a game in which they’re hunting snakes and then eating them. For the record: I do not enjoy all the shouting about snakes.

Family matters, National Blog Posting Month

Happy End of NaBloPoMo, everybody!

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I did it!It is an exceptionally gray and drizzly day here at Butterscotch Acres. The good news is, it’s all Christmas cheer inside. We went out to the tree farm yesterday, and Rockford pulled all most of the decor out of the attic. I seem to be missing a box, but that’s OK. Because the tree is up and decorated, and we’ve been taken over by snowmen. I’ll share photos eventually, if I can get the computer to recognize my camera. (Which it hasn’t been doing. Did I tell you that? Very, very irritating.)

Anyway, hi-ho-diddly-day! I need to do some Christmas-list-making.