stormy day....

Well, not quite too stormy yet. Just windy and chilly and overcast, some rain on the horizon. I have my Mama Bear mentality on this morning. I want my kids home with me!

Suri and I are just chillin here. I have laundry in, trying to get caught up in case the power goes out. I should probably get all the dishes done too.

I found almond flour in a grocery store, and I have recipes I need to try. What a perfect day for it.

My short paragraphs are telling me I don't have much to say this fine Monday morning.

Yesterday afternoon, I spread a quilt on the floor, and played dollhouse with the little girls. We set up a huge orphanage. I played with them until they were really into it, then I sneaked away. This morning I discovered that a certain someone peed right on the quilt in the middle of the orphanage. rrr, Suri!


A certain kitty also pooped in the downstairs hallway during the night. Mr. General Thunder, is my guess. He is a great cat, big and elegant, and SO nice. He is just a purr-er, a sweetie. But. He doesn't meow fiercely to go out like Swanson kitty does. For the three and a half years we had Rosie, he kept a low profile, staying outside and out of her way. Now that we have Suri, he feels safe to come in and be around again. Which is a mixed blessing, seeing that I don't particularly like to clean up little piles of surprise.

I have not taken my walk yet. The weekday early morning ones are just not happening. I usually make up for it later in the day, but it gives me no joy to walk through the woods in the dark. And if it a chore, no thanks.

Cat poop, dog pee, dishes...is this my life?

No, there is a little more to it. Tonight, for example, Mali and I have a date. We are going to court again, to hopefully finally get her ticket dismissed for that awful accident she had with Abigail's car.

And Halloween is coming up. I convinced the princesses to just dress as butterflies, since they will be wearing their pink polka-dotted winter coats...I said I would try to find them some wings....keep it simple...we won't be out too long anyway, it will be chilly and rainy.

Jon doesn't know what to be yet, I say just put on a cowboy hat and draw on a mustache.

I just have to keep my paws off the candy. Last year I had one Ghiardelli chocolate square while we trick-or-treated, and it was enough. So I am thinking to let myself have one thing.

Ah well. I have to get out of my comfy chair and switch the laundry, and get some exercising in, since I skipped it all weekend.

If the power goes out for any length of time, have a lovely week and don't miss me too much!