why stay-at-home mother's don't make salads for lunch

As if I needed another mess to clean up.

this one makes me chuckle

rock the vote

Hey, friends, most of you have probably already heard, but I'll tell you anyway:

22 Words was nominated for a bloggie award.

(I know. It's a new thing to me too, but stay with me.)

If you have ever gone to Abraham's blog, you know that it rocks and it deserves a vote.

If you haven't ever visited, go now, and enjoy it (especially my awesome comments...probably that's HALF the reason it got the nom, but I won't tell him that.) And then vote for it!

So simple. Put it on your to-do list. Cross it off. And feel accomplished.

just in case you didn't read it in the comments

I love embarrassing stories. Even if I'm the victim. So, following Abraham's "mommy" story, I shared mine.

(here it is, copy & pasted from the comments).

In college, when Brent and I were just friends and called each other 50 times a day, he called and used a falsetto voice. Completely thrown off, I said, "Mommy??".

It still embarrasses me 12 years, a wedding ring and three kids later...

And it still makes me laugh.

given a chance

today I was thinking about God's discipline

The Bible says that God disciplines those whom he loves. He loves so many, and disciplines much, but, I can only think of one time a Christian friend referred to something specific--the loss of her husband's job--and said, "...and we know that God disciplines those whom he loves..."

Honestly, I was stunned. It wasn't pity. I wasn't painful for her to say. It wasn't really anything, but faith. But, she called it discipline. It wasn't out of a feeling of guilt (as far as I knew, of course), but just trusting God's hand.

I have more thoughts. But, in the meantime, I'll ask how you see the troubles in your life. Do you see them as sometimes, never or always God's discipline. I mean, I don't even know what I'd say...just thinking about it...and have some things I want to share when I have time.

it must be football season

Crazy 8s (a tag)

I was tagged by Sarah almost a month ago!! I wanna tag someone who will do this (even if it takes a month or two!). How about Janice??

8 T.V. shows I watch

1. The Office (really, the only one I do watch currently)
2. Arrested Development (on dvd)
3. So You Think You Can Dance (cannot get enough of this!)
4. SNL (every once in awhile)
5. Mad T.V. (sometimes)
6. um.
7. hm.
8. wuh?

8 Favorite Restaurants

1. Chipotle
2. Cafe Latte
3. India Palace
4. Pineda Tacos (it was only once and just recent, but golly it was tasty!)
5. A few gigs on the Hill, which I can't remember
6. Cardwell's (in St. Louis)
7. Longfellow Grille (for the sweet potato fries and the late Elvis Burger, which they removed from the menu...bastards...)
8. Pretty much any good Thai restaurant

8 Things I look forward to most in the morning

1. Coffee
2. Smelling Jillian's stinky breath (recently smelled like a hermit crab's aquarium. no joke.)
3. Cuddling with Miles
4. Seeing Avery has already managed breakfast for himself (I find his independence adorable)
5. Looking to see if it has snowed
6. Calling Brent to see if he made it to work, and how he's doing, and tell him I miss him already
7. Thinking new thoughts
8. Going to bed early (because I never do, but I always think I might with the hope that I will wake up more refreshed than I am in that moment...)

8 Most Recently Viewed Movies

1. Honey and Clover (a japanese film)
2. Lars and the Real Girl
3. King of Kong/Fistful of Quarters
4. Bottlerocket (again)
5. Persepolis
6. Baby Mama
7. Juno
8. Prince Caspian

8 Things One Might Find Interesting or Peculiar about Me

1. I remember names, as long as I learn the first and last name. If you say, "My name's Heather." I'll forget it immediately. If you say, "Hi! I'm Heather Winklerschmidt." It's locked in forever.
2. I used to be a morning person until we had kids.
3. I LOVE order. I live in chaos. It's maddening, I tell you!!!
4. I didn't read for pleasure until I was in my mid-twenties. I have so much catching up to do on good reads!!!
5. I'm not much of a planner. It's a necessity, but I get kinda depressed when all my days are filled up before I get to them.
6. I'm indecisive. big time. For example, I've been wondering if I should dye my hair for five years. I mean, I've decided not to for five years??? No. I'm just undecided.
7. I've never been overseas. Don't even have a passport. Wish I did...wish I could...
8. It took me 15 minutes to come up with #7.

8 smells I love

1. the ocean
2. horse barns (leather, horses, hay...all of it. I miss it a lot!)
3. clean clothes
4. coffee
5. neutrogena sesame body oil
6. pipe tobacco
7. onion and garlic sizzling in olive oil
8. my children, clean or stinky

i should have been blogging or reading the bible

but, no. i joined twitter. i'm so incredibly mad at myself. can someone explain the point of twitter? i mean...is it just another tool of the devil?? just wondering....

oh, the irony

I just wrote a post entitled something like, "The ridiculousness of pride as seen in my list of things I've been prideful about."

And then (obviously) I wrote this list of things that have generated some amount of pride. And they are ridiculous, really.

But, I was (am?) too afraid to post it for fear (pride) you won't like me anymore...because it is so ridiculous to be prideful about things...such as "having kids who eat spinach"...and such...

asinine, really.