Merry Christmas Numbers

1 week in our new house, as of tomorrow

9,000 pounds of HHG (that's household goods, for you non-military types) that thankfully fit in

One 26' truck meaning that our we did in fact empty and release our

10x20' storage unit, avoiding extra rent, extra expense, and an extra

530 miles (each way) to MD and back to get the rest. Phew.

2 kids and

3 cats and

1 fish held up amazingly well on the

10.5 hour drive south last week - which was preceded by

2 nights in a hotel and a

7 hour drive from CT to MD. Did all this lead me to come down with a

24 hour stomach bug or just an extreme stress reaction? The jury is still out.

4 bedrooms in this house - it's huge!!

40" LCD TV - Merry Christmas to us - we finally catch up with the rest of the world in the technology department.

$2.96 for gas down here - that seems cheap?

2 episodes of "The Life of Mammals" that I've watched on our pretty new TV while trying to write this post while also catching up on

10 days of neglected bookkeeping... which is perhaps why I'm out of good ideas for now.

12 days of Christmas have only just begun; please let me stay in the Christmas spirit long enough to make at least

1 batch of cookies and watch Christmas in Connecticut at least one more time.

MANY fun and/or necessary things to do in the next

8 days before Don starts his new job.

MUCH to catch up on when I resume some regular blogging (I've been promising that for awhile, haven't I?)

LOTS of love to all my friends and family out there at this most wonderful time of the year!

Today's Numbers, III

5 days, at least, that I've been wanting to write this post, each day with a different set of "numbers" in mind.

6 months, it seems, is about when I get in the notion to account for my days this way.

$5.99 to replace the SD card reader that must have fallen out of my camera bag.

0 pictures to share until the new one arrives (thank goodness for free

2-day shipping from Amazon.)

90 minutes just spent entering receipts and paying bills and feeling broke leaving me with

1/10 of the interest in blogging I had earlier tonight.

98 degrees, give or take, is just too hot, and

82 degrees does not make for a helpful overnight low.

Infinitely thankful for air conditioning and ceiling fans.

3 not-so-little kittens have still not been adopted... Would having

5 cats qualify me as a crazy cat lady?

7 days left to enjoy them before we head north for

2 days in Baltimore Inner Harbor (yay!) and

1 week visiting family before Don reports for OCS for the following

17 weeks. That's

119 days. But who's counting?

$160 per month that we will be saving by not sending Amy to preschool this fall, despite a

$70 non-refundable deposit. Money was not the reason for this decision, but some savings is good considering in the last week alone we've spent

$653 at the vet for checkups, shots, etc, for our two resident cats and

$236 to replace the windshield on our

14-year-old Explorer because someone found out the hard way that a

10 foot kayak does not fit in an

8 foot vehicle. All of which makes spending

50 bucks on this fabric seem like a drop in the bucket - whee!

(Did I mention I've spent the rest of this evening on financial matters?)

4 weeks for William and I to finally get over our mystery summer cough.

9:00 am date with Amy at the park today in order to beat the heat.

Plenty more to share about my sweet kids and the fun we've all been having with Don on leave, but that is better with pictures, so since it is now after

10 o'clock I will wrap this up and say goodnight!

Today's Numbers, II

6 months, almost, since my original numbers post, and a fitting day to do it again:

1/4 loaf remaining of the banana bread I baked just a mere

5 hours ago.

0 meltdowns from Amy today - a good day!

130 minutes William spent napping, which is also known as

2 too-short naps.

7 o'clock this evening, and he was out.

3 weeks, 2 days until my parents come to visit (yay!).

2,500 pictures taken by me between age

10 and age 21, which have been reduced to about

700, and fit nicely into

1 box, generating

8 empty albums.

6 more albums up for review.

4 evenings, at least, and

7 lines of this post that have been devoted to this picture-sorting project so far...

2 bathrooms cleaned this morning, with Amy's help.

5 HUGE bags of clothes outgoing from the master closet along with

1 box of books and

a whole bunch of other stuff that we are releasing in an attempt to further simplify...

20" - depth of unsorted miscellanea on the sewing room floor, accounting for the

0 sewing projects worked on since Christmas.

12 days left in January to complete all sorting and decluttering projects so that on

2/01/11 I can jump back into something creative.

9 (estimated) other witty tidbits that will pop into my head as soon as I hit "publish".

4.5 hours until William will be waking up for his midnight snack, so I had better type

1 more line and then move on to something else for the evening before I'm needed again!

Today's Numbers

2 months old, my sweet William

11 lbs, 12 oz at today's doctor visit

6 trips from one end of the clinic to the other

4 people required to successfully draw a blood sample from my poor son

8 diseases vaccinated for and 0.6 mL of tylenol administered

7 days of being totally and completely dairy-, soy-, and egg-free

48 hours to process a referral to see a pediatric GI specialist

2 on a scale of 1-10 of how "worried" I am about my boy, despite

65% of my free time spent educating myself on dietary protein-induced proctocolitis

10 minutes spent sewing

100 more minutes I wish I spent sewing

3.5 height in inches of the stack of stuff in my "inbox"

102 degrees in the parking lot at 11:30 this morning

12 times (at least) that Amy and Don acted out the troll scene from The Hobbit

2.2 times singing "Winnie the Pooh" before Amy fell fast asleep tonight

78 minutes, length of the movie, Taking Chance, which sat next to the TV for

42 days before we got around to watching it, making the cost of this one rental from Netflix roughly

8 dollars (totally worth it, by the way)

10 minutes until I should be in bed

5 things on the list for a trip to Target (or Walmart?) tomorrow

38 hours until I see my brother and sister-in-law, which will make

3 separate sets of visitors we have had in

1 really, really busy week