The Queen's Rambles

Life has been keeping me very busy, with no time to sit down and journal. I can’t believe I pretty much posted every single day for almost 10 years. Two kids takes the words right out of me. Or the time. Plus, I feel like I’ve said everything I need to say. You know how I would run things if I was the queen of the world. I’m not. Let’s get on with things.

If you remember, we ordered furniture about six weeks ago. It finally arrived! It is not my style, really, but nothing that was my style fit our comfort and practicality ideals so style got sacrificed. There will be pictures. One day. Maybe.

The new couch is a lot bigger than the old couch, so we ended up with a huge pile of toys at one end of the room. It was very stressful and ugly, so we decided a toy purge was in order. I didn’t want to throw everything out once I knew I was pregnant, but now we know Elsa’s tastes and they very much run in the stereotypical girl line. We can safely get rid of the majority of wheeled things and keep all the Little People and other figurines. We’ve got the pile whittled down quite a bit, but we are not completely done. Once everything is looking decent down there I may remember to take some photos,

Erik was being oh-so-helpful and loading up all of Elsa’s toys into the trash bag. I don’t think he meant to throw her things away. He just doesn’t play with them so thought they could go. He’s six. He has no idea he’s not the center of the universe.

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We had a babysitter today! Let’s all do a cheer!

Our sitter used to watch Erik for me all the time when I was pregnant with Elsa. She is a stay-at-home mom who does week daytime sitting, which doesn’t really fit our weekend babysitting needs. This weekend, however, she needed some extra cash so she opened up her home as a drop-in daycare sort of thing. We left the kids there for four hours and enjoyed some alone time in our house. Mike suggested cleaning the basement and I about cleaned his clock. Alone time in our house? Boy better be naked when I get home from dropping the kids off.

We went to dinner and then didn’t really have time for a movie, so we sat together and watched the pilot of “The River.” Neither of us enjoyed it, so it’s out of the rotation. We didn’t even finish it, it was so bad.

In other news, Erik is completely obsessed with hedgehogs. He’s been watching “Sonic the Hedgehog” on NetFlix and wanted to know what a hedgehog really looked like. Mike found a pic and an obsession was born. Did you know they are the cutest animals ever? Did you know they need to be your favorite animal? What do you like better, snow or hedgehogs? Huh? HUH??? WHICH DO YOU LIKE BETTER?!?!

Yes, the hedgehog love is intense. We’ve been enjoying it, even if we do get tired of answering “Which do you like better, hedgehogs or [shoes, blankets, cookies]?” every five minutes. I’m all for any obsession that gets him away from TV and in front of reading material. He has big plans to make a video about hedgehogs to tell everyone who speaks English about how great they are. It’s going to be on the news and everyone is going to say “Wow! That boy knows a lot about hedgehogs!” Stay tuned. I am a mean mommy and forcing him to think about what he wants to say and practice before he does any filming. He keeps getting distracted so it hasn’t happened yet.

I also ordered a couple of books and a Sonic the Hedgehog hat. He wanted me to make him a hedgehog costume while he was at a birthday party yesterday. He has a lot of faith in me, but I can not produce a costume in an hour and a half. He hasn’t mentioned it again, so I hope the hat will be good enough. And I’m really hoping he is over this obsession by October! I can just see him wanting a hedgehog themed birthday party and Halloween costume. I seriously doubt his obsession will last nine months.