Life and stuff.

I don't know...can you see we have a problem? On the top is George without a tooth problem. On the bottom is this past weekend, when we realized we DID have a tooth problem. Never worry. He will be at the dentist tomorrow morning at 10am. I'm all over this one! Poor guy though. Don't you think?

In other news, Ruby was desperate for a crown all of her own. We've just been fighting over this one that belongs to Jane. So Thursday was the big day when we were at the Target 75% off toy sale, and even though the crown wasn't 75% off, I just felt all sorts of love and let Ruby get it. She wore it all day long. Told me she needed to take a picture to show Grandma Lark. Slept with it. Then it broke the next day. THE. NEXT. DAY. Darn that crown, and the makers of it. Come on, it was a solution to my problem and it was supposed to last longer than one day! Well, good thing we got the picture. And good thing Jane doesn't seem to care about wearing a crown every where she goes as much as Ruby does. Too bad Darin wouldn't let Ruby wear it to church. I told him he had no sense of humor. He didn't think that was funny either.

Additionally, I finished my epic book, "Pillars of the Earth". And it's a darn good thing I did. The Christmas boxes had been sitting in my family room for no less than a solid week. I was doing the bare minimum to get by around the house. My days consisted of waking up, taking care of the children...waiting for it to be 8pm so that my children were back in bed so that I could read again. Of course, taking care of the children is no small task, but when I'm not reading an epic book, I can go above and beyond taking care of the children, and throw in all sorts of diverse activities, like putting boxes away to the garage, laundry, etc, etc. I finally talked Darin into at least reading the first 30 pages of it before he tells me he won't read any book that I suggest he should read. (It's complicated. I think he thinks, if he reads one of my book suggestions, it means that I'm bossing him around. And let's just make it perfectly clear, I don't boss him around. He's his own darn boss. You know, in a good way.) Anyway, I'm trying not to make a big deal out of it, but he's read more than 30 pages.

And then tonight, I went to go see this movie at 9:20pm. I was sitting down in my seat right at 9:20pm, and was the only person in the theater. That's usually how it goes at my movie theater where I go to see all the movies I want to see. But at 9:20pm it was unusual, because I went to turn off my cell phone, (just out of habit I guess, since no one else was there, I could have left it on), but first I saw it said "1 missed call". When I looked to see who called it read, "mom Z cell". And that was weird because "mom Z" lives in Germany and the only time I get a call from that number is when she is in the States. So for a moment I thought she had decided to come to the states. I instantly called the number back to see where she was. But then Christine answered the phone. She lost her phone in Paris (how chic), and so you know, she now has the phone that registers as "mom Z cell". Anyway, for a moment I thought it would be something out of a movie, sitting down to watch a movie only to hear that my mom was close by. Closer than Germany. I got all excited. But it was also fun to talk to Christine. Who then I got to recommend "Pillars of the Earth" to, because she's my only sister who reads books, for fun.

So that's been life and stuff over the past few days. Weird tooth problems, requiring phone calls from the school nurse, and in turn the dentist, who incidentally remembered who I was instantly, I don't think that's a good thing. Target's crazy 75% off sale, and crowns that make little girls so happy, and then so sad all within 24 hours. Reading books, going to movies. And now, it's time to clean the house. Tomorrow. I promise!