Monday Morning Musings - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

We always have the most beautiful rainbows around here. I have seen probably 3 or 4 rainbows in the past few weeks. Because we are out in the great wide open, I can usually see at least one end of the rainbow, if not both. This was last week and you can't tell from the picture, but it is a double rainbow. And I could see both ends. I love it!

So I have been singing Christmas songs for about a month now. I LOVE this time of year! I love fall. I love that it is not so hot but not so cold yet either. I love the anticipation of the holidays. I love Thanksgiving and Christmas. It is just like one big snuggly quarter of a year magical holiday festival. I just wish Halloween (my least favorite holiday) wasn't smushed in there trying to mess up my love fest. But oh well. I can overlook it. But really, I have been singing Christmas songs for a while. And today when Addy was making her bed, I could hear here in her room singing Christmas songs too. It's going to be hard for me to not put up my Christmas tree as soon as that one holiday is over.

Two Friday's ago, I went to our ward Relief Society's Fun Friday. And it was just that. So much FUN! I made some cute things too, but I have no pictures of them and I don't really feel like getting up at this moment to take some, so just trust me. They are cute. Here's some of the gals at Fun Friday.

That same weekend, Steve had a booth at the Home Show and on Saturday I took him dinner and hung out for a while. We walked around the show and I was so excited because we were able to find the PERFECT (I was singing that when I typed it so you should sing it while you are reading it - PER-FECT!) window coverings for our living room and kitchen (and after only 3 years). And guess what? The lady told me they are about $700 for an average size window. SAY WHAT?!? I was like how does she know how much it will cost for my kitchen when I haven't even told her how many windows I have. Then I realized she was telling me it was $700 eaches. Which would be ridiculous if I had like one window in the room. But I have 8 larger than normal windows, 1 giant window and 2 small windows in my kitchen. And the coverings for the sliding glass door in there, well a normal size sliding glass door is $1500. Ours is larger than normal. In fact, I don't have one normal size window in my whole house of 70+ windows, thanks to my designer husband. So basically what I'm trying to say to you is this, we ain't NEVER gonna have window coverings in this joint.

The whole thing really makes me wonder though...Do people really spend $700 a window for window coverings? Really?

Emily is in Drama Club again this year. In the spring they will be doing Aladdin. Last Thursday they did one act plays. Emily was in a really cute Snow White play. Unfortunately all I had with me to take pictures was my cell phone so this is all I got. Emily was one of the Narrators. She is on the left side of the stage in the middle. She did a fantastic job!

So the other day, Addy and I were sitting in our living room on the couch reading. It was a nice day out so we had the extra extra large sliding glass door in that room open. You know, one of the ones that will never have a covering. And our chickens were busy pooping right outside the door on the patio. Well, as we were sitting there this big hawk flew right up under our covered patio and went after the chickens. The chickens started freaking out, and personally, Addy and I did a little too. I jumped up off the couch and when I did the hawk flew back out. It was an interesting little nature lesson in the middle of our story time.

Then just a few days after that when it was freezing and raining outside (and snowing in the mountains and other select places) and all the kids and I were in the living room, a huge flock of about a million birds tried to fly up under the patio covering. A big group would fly in, then fly out and then another group would try. This happened several times before they gave up that game of follow the leader. I have to say, my patio is a pretty happin' place.

Addy has learned how to call my cell phone. Which is great when I am somewhere and she decides she wants to call me 20 times in a row. Finally I stop answering her calls so she fills up my voice mailbox. Apparently I can have 20 messages at a time. And that is what I usually have, thanks to her. I went a few weeks with my mailbox being completely full because I didn't feel like listening to and deleting all her messages. The bad thing is there is usually a real message from someone else mixed in with the ones from Addy and by the time I get around to listening to it, it's too late.

Message one: Uhhhh...mom...it's Addy.....Emily's being mean
again....where are you.....when will you be home?.....well....call me
back.....

Message two: MOM!.....It's Addy!.....why aren't you answering your
phone?!......Aubrey and I were playing this really fun game........ (5 minutes
later)....and so yeah, it was really fun....well.....call me back.....

Message seventeen: Mom! Emily called me a name....and Zac won't let
me have ice cream....And I like the color purple.....can you get me a surprise
while you are at the store?......

Speaking of full mailboxes. The mail lady just drove past my house and that reminded me that I haven't checked my mail in about 2 weeks. We don't have mailboxes at our houses here, we have a big community mail thing where we each have our own box. A long time ago my sister Kristy taught me to not get the mail unless I had time right then to deal with it. That way it won't stack up around the house. Well, I haven't had time to deal with it in about 2 weeks, so...Maybe I should make some time for it today. Maybe....we'll see....