Yesterday…

• I installed the FeedBurner plugin.
• I started working on a counted cross stitch bookmark kit. I'm testing it! Yes, that's it! To see if it is suitable for Rebecca!
• Rebecca finished the blue flower and started on the leaves.
• Class was okay. I spent the morning debating whether I was up to it; glad I went, though, as the review of our partial fractions homework was amusing.

Yesterday…

• Matthew finally carried the baby's cradle out to the storage container. Yes, we have a storage container in our backyard. Anyway, with it out of our room, I no longer have a convenient place to toss clean unfolded laundry. My laundry-piling days are over. Woe is me! Woe!
• He also brought the filing cabinet downstairs from the girls' room. Now I can work on the second half of Marcus's mess (the first half is entirely his own fault), which will mean that I've entirely decluttered the house except for Matthew's office.
• Rebecca finished her flower and ladybug sampler and immediately launched into the teeny tiny bookmark with roses on it. Fear. I had to pick out the first row because I cannot count and started her off in the wrong place.
• Dishes. Laundry. Tossed the tennis ball for Kaylee and had doggie love showered upon me. Gave the baby the last banana.
• Madeline says "banana" now. She pronounces it "nanalabalabalaba".
• Marcus called me up to his room to show me how well he was cleaning up. His floor was covered with red cups full of Legos. His Lego bin was half empty. I bit my tongue. Hard. And worked a bit alongside him consolidating things. His problem is that he wants to micro-clean--sorting Legos by color and shape, when what really needs to be done is macrocleaning--putting all the Legos into a bin and getting them off the floor.

Yesterday…

• There was a mighty wind, strong enough to blow lawn chairs all over the yard.
• When Rebecca was playing outside on a tree in the back of the yard, three little boys in the adjoining yard asked to see her "peepee hole". She showed them her pocketknife instead. They threw it at her. Matthew talked me out of going back there and telling them off for being little pervs. We need a taller fence back there.
• I made a quick batch of vegetable soup with some chicken stock. Then I made instant chocolate pudding. Madeline ate her vegetables, and then her chocolate pudding. Unfortunately, she started sneezing while eating the pudding. At least I was wearing a shirt that's already been stained. Yes, oh yes.
• We went grocery shopping at Bloom. It looks like prices went up across the board.
• I filed taxes. I hate doing taxes.