Fun Saturday

DH cleaned up the rest of our collateral clutter today, K’s room is
clean and empty, accept for M’s posters and art projects that I need
to transfer to his new room.  B’s dinosaur poster need transferring
too.  His framed pictures are under his bed, we’d had them matted to
match the old room, and they really don’t go well with the new room,
we’ll eventually hang them up in the hallway I think.  The living room
is free of all the unusual clutter, it just has the normal stuff now.
The back hallway has some things we are figuring out how to get rid of:
Attleboro has rather strict garbage and recycling rules, and they can be
hard to figure out.

Does anyone know any good way of suspending a bulletin board on a door
without putting screw holes in the landlord’s door?  I wonder if there
is a bungee and hook contraption anywhere?  I’m not really an
uber-shopper, so I ask around a lot.

The peacefulness of escaping the boxes is wonderful!

DH got a raise, what perfect timing.  Thank the Lord.  So, I ordered
myself some nursing adapted clothes and nice nursing bras off the
inter-net last night.

Mom and I went to the outlets, but the linens store had closed.  So we
got stockings and tights at the underwear store, and stopped into the
gourmet store to taste their samples.  They had out oodles of many
dipping sauces for pretzels and roast meat (you had to use your
imagination on the meat, they weren’t giving that away.)  Mom said she’s
going to Get DH some fancy wasabi mustard for his birthday, he likes to
dip pretzels.  The store was jammed with people stocking up for the Super
Bowl.  (Either that or it was near lunch time and they were hungry too.)

Then we went to Target and I got sheets for K’s Moses basket, M’s
new bed, and a water proof mattress cover in case of accidents.  They
offered organic cotton and bamboo sheets.  I bought a set of bamboo
sheets, the samples were SO SOFT!  I’ve read about them, there is a new
process to break the bamboo fiber down for spinning, and it needs much
less water or pesticides than cotton does in production, plus it’s
naturally anti-microbial, so it doesn’t stink as quick in exercise wear.
I wonder if sheets will need less washing?  It was really an impulse
buy, it’s about $5 more than regular cotton sheets right now, but
really, really cool. 

On the way home we stopped at a resale shop and I got a Ralph Lauren
newborn outfit for $4.00, cute enough for a going home from the hospital outfit,
and we also looked at the stamps and pretty paper at the scrapbook
store.

I read B the chapter in "Small Woman" about Gladys Alyward’s adopted
children.  He especially liked how the Mandarin helped her out in court when custody
was contested ("Of course you will win, I am the judge, but these things
must be done properly."), and how the older brother protected one girl
from a kidnapper by biting his arm! 

So, I had fun today.  Maybe I’ll stay awake long enough to read DH the
next chapter of "The Man who was Thursday" by G. K. Chesterton.  My
cousin included some novels in the box of baby things she sent me.  Ravi
Zacherias mentions G.K. Chesterton so much, it’s good for us to read
him, but my goodness, the vocabulary and philosophical references are a
bit of a stretch for me.

So, no more long, regular contractions, but I’m currently content.  Any
day now!