multitude monday

Here's my continuing Multitude Monday post, which all started a while back, right here.

"One Thousand Gifts":

1296. the sounds, sights and smells of spring
1297. another wonderful book
1298. dinner with friends . . . a FULL house!
1299. sunshine and a nearly snow-free yard {all the snow melts, then it snows again. all the snow melts, then it snows again . . . the life of a Minnesotan in the "spring"!}
1300. my kids and the joy they bring to my life
1301. starting the week with an empty dishwasher and sink and all the clean dishes put away {thanks to my fabulous husband}
1302. live video feed of an eagles nest . . . riveting, I tell you!
1303. sitting outside with my mom and Sara, enjoying the sunshine and warmth
1304. hearing my grandma play one of my very, very favorite songs on the piano at church yesterday, accompanying our choir {great job, Grandma!}
1305. crossing things off my to-do list
1306. discussing an important book with my 10-year-old {wasn't she just a baby? how'd this happen?}
1307. a warm home and cup of tea on a blustery April day
1308. good friends
1309. bike riding, rollerblading, scooter-ing, trampoline jumping, basketball . . . kids playing OUTside for long periods of time!


Alrighty, that's it's for now. Tune in next Monday for the next installment.

destructo-girl

we're having out-of-town company tonight::

donors kirb knows through work.

the people we stayed with when we went to texas.

we don't know them very well.

{don't worry, they aren't crazy:: they're just coming for dessert and to say hi and meet the small people . . . they aren't staying here or anything!}

the house is pretty much a disaster! {it was SUPER clean on saturday:: floors mopped. kitchen cleaned. junk picked up. beds made . . . but that has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with monday. today it is another story all together!}

anna does things like this {she was caught -- or just lost interest -- when there were about 3 tissues left in the fairly newish box of 200. it's so fun that they just keep popping up like that!}::
which do not help the situation any!

plus, i'm sick!

thankfully {i'm trying to look on the bright side here!} with this nasty cold i've got, i go through about this many tissues every 5 minutes or so. thus, i won't even bother picking them up, i'll just use them off the floor and the problem should resolve itself very shortly!

now, i'd better get back to work. there's LOTS to be done!