fast as a jack rabbit!

Well I have almost made it thru the better part f June without blogging!  I have 4 or 5 blogs started that have never been completed.  The boys are growing and runnng.  I seem to be losing the race to stay caught up.  Seen my dust lately?  Not the dust as in "eat my dust" because I am so fast but the "oh crap I forgot to dust that bookshelf before you came to visit!" 

Bradford starts golf lessons this week.  Berk's language explosion continues to amaze us!  He talks so plainly for a 2 year old.  His latest thing is to cross his arms and say "I so mad!!"  He gets this from big brother who says is frequently, in response to Berk demo-ing his Legos.  All in all they are getting along pretty well. 

Daddy is teaching Bradford to cook.  To which I leave the room bc it stresses me out a little that he is too young and will get hurt.  But he can make grilled cheese, his own toaster waffle, peanut butter sandwiches and even mix up his own batch of cookies.  It's the stove stuff that worries me.  The rest I am totally fine with...

So I have confessed before about my organzation and cooking distractions that I prefer over actually cleaning!  And here I go again...last weekend I put the food back in the quasi-pantry that was built in our house.  I had rearranged the entire kitchen 2 years ago.  And every morning since my husband, sister, mother, basically everyone visiting has continued to go to the wrong cab for a plate/coffee mug/can of soup etc etc etc...  Well it struck again and all is right with the world for my hubby now.  But since then I have drawn up plans to actually demo the existing pantry and expand into the garage and build a real live walk in pantry!  This will surely make my life easier!  So look out slegde hammer here I come.  And no electrical is in the way this time.  Elfa here I come...

So this is a record typing session and I am not even spell checking because if I dont hit post now this will be saved for all eternity like all the others from this month...

Top 10 WAYS TO BEAT BOREDOM

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom ~Thomas Carlyle
So my blogher friend Connie Weiss of The Young and Relentless has inspired me to blog my TOP 10 WAYS TO BEAT BOREDOM!



Reading her recent blog really got me thinking about the CRAZY things I have done to stave off boredom...which in my case translates to how to avoid cleaning the house....So here goes..

10. Talk hubby into organizing the garage! Gets the focus off the house


9. Rearrange the living room (code for move everything in the family room to the living room and everything from the living room to the family room)


8. Go Shopping really for anything!! When you are out of the house, you don’t notice what needs to be cleaned.


7. Start a new construction job around the house. Right now I am thinking about installing new flooring in my closet. How does a cedar floor sound? Researching it now to see if it's possible to do and not get splinters in my feet. Or build a playhouse for the backyard....


6. Take everything out of the pantry and move it where the dishes are and load all the dishes into the pantry. This one is not my husbands’ fav--3 years later he is still complaining. Sorry babe!


5. Elfa a closet. This is so fun. One closet left! Who notices when the house needs to be clean when your closets are sooo organized! Honestly.


4. Whip out Grady Spears A Cowboy in the Kitchen and make Stacked Pheasant Enchiladas in Salsa Verde. This recipe is an all day affair because you have two other recipes to make that are used in this recipe! But man-on-man talk about delish! You can substitute chicken for pheasant by the way.


3. Plan a road trip. We are the King and Queen of spur of the moment road trips. To my fellow Texans: Buy the Backroads of Texas Map. AWE-some! This puts cleaning house out of your mind for at least 6-8 hours


2. Can I say sand box? Because after an afternoon lounging in a sand box while two boys cover you from head to toe, along with themselves, that is sure to end in a bath for them, an early bedtime bc they are pooped and a long bath for me...what more relaxation could there be?


1. Just pack up head to the in-laws for the day and let the cleaning lady come! That is the BEST distraction of all. And seems to be the most successful.

So here's to avoiding boredom, finding time for projects and clean houses!
NOTE: All the above are true and accurate accounts of past or present incidents in our house....

Uncertainty and mystery are energies of life. Don't let them scare you unduly, for they keep boredom at bay and spark creativity. ~R. I. Fitzhenry