mishmash

mish·mash n. A collection or mixture of unrelated things; a hodgepodge.

I haven't posted in a while, so here's a hodgepodge of thoughts:

• Cosette loves Sandra Boynton books, especially Moo, Baa, La, La, La and Doggies. She flips through the pages and hands them to me to read to her. She also likes Pat the Bunny, which is in pieces from Henri's days with it. When Henri was her age, these were his favorite books too.

• About a year ago, we realized we were spending more than we made. We cut way back, sold stuff, paid off all our other debts, cut up our credit cards, and saw that our house payment had become a curse to us. In May 2007, we put our home up for sale after only living in our home since August 2006. We thought about moving out of state to live near my husband's family, but it didn't sell. We reduced the price to below what we paid for it, and we only got 3 showings. After the listing expired, we talked to real estate agents and came to the conclusions in the previous post.

• On Sunday, while at a birthday party, our car's driver-side window was smashed. The police officer said that he had just come from a similar incident. My Honey drove it home in the cold, while our friends drove the kids and I home. We prayed with Henri about the "bad men" who broke our window. On Monday, our insurance company told us that the repair would be completely covered with no deductible and the claim would not affect our premium. Thank you LORD!

• I've been VERY busy this last week and will be for a number of weeks with my nursery work for the church. I've spent A LOT of time trying to find childcare workers for our weekday morning Bible studies that started up last week and for several other seminars and events requesting childcare. I've got more to come too. This would be the main reason why I haven't posted. Plus I'm trying to figure out what we want to do for Henri's 4th birthday party coming up.

• Henri continues to be the great pretender. His latest: pretending the couch is an airplane (as taught to him by Ava) & flying to visit Nani & Bapa. Their house is in our half-bathroom. He pretends to bring Nani gifts, putting his toys in boxes he finds. Then I have to be Nani and open them up. OR he hands them to me, asking me to give them to him so that he can open them up. Another favorite pretend game is that there is a monster in the house, and he either must chase it and shoot it or he must run & hide from the monster.

• Cosette came down with another cold yesterday. This would be her 3rd cold this season. We've been hanging out at home, while I ask other childcare coordinator's to cover for me at church.

• Cosette's words: mama, ni ni (night night), nah nah (no no), ah ah (oh oh)

• Cosette takes about 5 steps at a time, lunging for whatever she's heading for before crawling the rest of the way.