Sunday

Does everyone realize what a SWEET husband I have? Has everyone taken note of that? His 10 things list made me cry! His opinion matters to me more than anyone else and to hear him say those things.... He's given himself a little buffer zone. He could probably forget an anniversary or something at this point and I'd forgive him because that list was so sweet!
What's going on with the Dooleys:
1.) TV's STILL in the shop. Another weekend of no TV. It's a good thing Dave's not a football guy.
2.) Dave had to work yesterday, which was a bummer, and he missed a really fun moving party with our small group (really, it was actually fun. Maybe not for the friends we were helping to move, but I thought it was fun...)
3.) Anna is so loud and annoying that we actually searched Target for earplugs. For me. Cause I can't cope. She is not only loud, but so high-pitched. I think she is going to have her Grandma Jane's singing voice. We could not find the earplugs. I am going to keep looking. Our other Anna issue is that she is CONSTANTLY walking around with her hands shoved down her pants and in her butt. It is driving us CRAZY. I am having her wash her hands constantly.
4.) Both of our computers and our network drive are dying, so we (meaning Dave) are looking for laptops and trying to figure out a way to swing it financially.
5.) Interesting: We sold our play gym that we had on the porch on Ebay for 86 dollars this week. My brother fixed Dave's brakes today, and it cost 86 dollars. That was a happy coincidence!
6.) Jonathan played Tic Tac Toe today for the first time. Dave taught him how, and he won his second game. Jonathan also is suddenly able to color inside the lines. Both of these things happened when we were eating out at Duffy's for lunch. Good sweet potato fries.
7.) The kids were fighting over whose side of the car the moon would be on tonight when we were driving home. Every time we turned, the moon would switch sides and one of them would "win." Proof that they will fight over absolutely anything.
8.) We are excited about Jonathan's birthday (it's still a month away). Aunt Meredith will be flying in that day for a visit! Which makes it extra special.
9.) I am trying to help Jonathan with sight words, so lots of stuff in our house is labelled, with words like fridge and door and bathroom. It adds a certain flair to my decorating, in my opinion. Also, I have started scotch taping their finer work from school onto the walls by the fireplace.

I love my house. I had a revelation lately that this is MY house and I am in charge and who really gives a flip what anyone else thinks of it? It has brought much happiness. If my floors are dirty, I have no one to answer to but myself. If not a single thing matches, fine by me! If I want to have stuff for the kids' art projects and my hobbies piled all over a coffee table in the dining room wedged in next to the filing cabinet with the printer and a whole bunch of other junk on it, then that's my deal! I don't have to feel bad about it.