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I saw the biggest rainbow on my way home today. It was so wide and bright.
My 13-year-old pointed out that in this picture, it looks like the SUV in front of me is driving up the rainbow.
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We did it! We finished both projects that I thought it was too late for us to do this fall. At least I think we did.
We put down grass seed on the barren part of our yard, although we'll see if it germinates. It may be too cold by this point in the fall, but at least we tried.
Before planting, Phillip wanted to go break up the ground so he went outside with a hoe. I watched him working for a while and said, "You look like a farmer."
"You look like a farmer's wife," he shot back. Touché.
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The other project was painting the front door. I took so long to choose a paint color, sand the door, and prime it, that I thought it was too late to paint it. But I decided that sometimes you've just got to forge ahead or it never gets done, and this was one of those times.
I won't lie, it was cold in the house with the door standing open while the paint dried (taping plastic over the doorframe helped.) We probably paid a little more to heat the house that day than if I'd had my act together and done this a month ago, but oh well. I love how it turned out so much that I'm still glad I did it.
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| A board for the new decking is at the bottom for illustrative purposes. |
I plan to touch up the sidelights in the spring, at least the white parts. As for the gold in the middle? My decorating strategy is to pretend they don't look like that.
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After painting the door and putting the knobs back on, I realized that we also needed to replace the broken doorbell to the right of the door.
I started to search for new hardware on Amazon, but the auto-fill results looked weird. I was confused until I realized that our browser's profanity filter was on.
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| Protecting our kids from exposure to inappropriate online doorbell descriptions. |
—5—
I was so on top of my game this year that I was about to order Christmas cards. Before Thanksgiving! Before Halloween, even! But it wasn't meant to be.
I looked through all of our photos and I couldn't find the family picture, even though I distinctly remember taking it this summer and specifically thinking "this will be a nice picture for the Christmas card!" Several children corroborated my memory so I know I'm not just making it up, but the photo completely vanished, and now two of my kids have left the state so we can't take another one.
So I'm not sending out Christmas cards this year out of protest. They're expensive, anyway.
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When I was volunteering at the temple on Wednesday, a Japanese-speaking sister came in who didn't speak any English. We have language translating headsets in the temple, but every language is on a different channel and I had to tell her which one.
I took 4 semesters of Japanese in college so you'd think that would not be a problem for me. Unfortunately, if you don't use it you lose it and I don't remember hardly anything. All I could say as I handed her the headset was "Nihongo, go" (Japanese, 5.)
Yes, I really did spend hundreds of dollars to learn that.
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At the request of one of the kids, Phillip made a pumpkin cheesecake. It was delicious, but somehow, a massive crack appeared on top while it was in the oven.
He was disappointed but the 13-year old told him "That's okay, my favorite flavor is crack."
"There are only two interpretations of that," he replied, "and neither one of them is good."
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