http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun recent pleonast.com entries by user sarahinthesun en-us http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=595556 I'm just tired. And I can't believe Obama is going to be president. The counting is still very much going on at the time of this writing, but I've already been praying for the Obama administration. It occurred to me yesterday that the Israelites survived through the faults of leaders much worse than Obama could possibly be. I still worry about the Supreme Court justice appointments though! I'm tired. 2008-11-05 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=579161 I’ve apparently been tagged and must list 8 “interesting” things about myself. The problem is, everything I think of doesn’t seem interesting to me. As much as I would like to think I’m interesting. 1) The one food that makes me lose all self control is brownies. I can eat half a pan of them in one sitting. That’s my record. Brownies also happen to be the only dessert my husband will actually eat a whole serving of. He doesn’t like sweets. 2) I can’t seem to live in a house with white walls. Every room has to be a different color. And I wonder sometimes if I will always be like this. Even when I lived in my parent’s white-walled house, I painted my room the blue-green color that my dining room is now. 3) I have strange questions, like, “If we eat in heaven, do we have to go to the bathroom? And if there is no marriage, and therefore no marital relations, will we be, shall we say, anatomically correct?” Yes, I know, I’m warped. (Bubba says ... 2008-09-23 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=576953 thanks for your comments, I just wanted to show you that it's almost done! Bubba installed the second sink and the bath faucet. Now we just need to seal grout and clean up the caulk some. And get window coverings and install the towel bars. I'm so relieved! 2008-09-18 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=576020 We have worked mighty hard this weekend on the bathroom. It seems like the little things, like caulking, take the longest. We still have a lot of little things to do, and we have not bought the second sink yet, but we are really close to having a finished bathroom! Right now it is a functional half bath. We still need to put in the tub and shower faucet. And I still need to buy all the cute accessories! But I'm itching to show off what we have done. The bathroom feels very beachy! I love the paint color I picked. Next to the tile, the colors look like turquoise water and sandy beaches. The wainscoting on the walls is vinyl, though it looks and feels like painted wood wainscoting, and is totally water proof. The trim above and below it is also vinyl. The toilet is a Kohler class five flushing system toilet, and we put in an ultra-silent vent fan where there was only a heater before. We also put in recessed lighting above the tub. For anyone who doesn't know, this was a co... 2008-09-16 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=574852 Life is finally starting to feel balanced. On Mondays I teach, on Tuesdays I am home. On Wednesday I have a full day with Bible Study (Psalms) in the morning, eat lunch in the car and drive straight over to the school to teach, getting home at 3:40ish. Thursdays I am home. And every other Friday I have MOPS, Mothers of Preschoolers, which is all fun. Grace goes into childcare while I have a great breakfast with other moms and enjoy guest speakers, devotionals, and the occasional craft project for 2.5 hours. Love it. Today I drove to the bank and withdrew the cash we needed for our budget, beginning our Total Money Makeover. Went grocery shopping and only spent $150! I still have $100 in the budget if I need to go again in the next two weeks. We're in good shape. I had quite a time shopping with Grace, as usual. She made me carry her, while I was pushing the cart FULL of groceries. So she was sitting on my hip and decided to start diving backwards, and just hang upside... 2008-09-13 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=571272 wow. Sarah Palin's speech was awesome. Palin 100, Obama zero. I'm very happy with my husband right now. He has been working hard, both at his job and on the bathroom remodel, and also managed to do a couple of other things lately. He bought me a watch I've been wanting off of my Amazon wish list :O which came in the mail yesterday. I was on the phone with him when our USPS guy knocked on the door and handed me a package. Bubba told me, over the phone, to open it. And it was my watch! It was a great surprise. A very functional, white, atomic Baby-G watch. Love it! Also, most importantly, I ordered and have been reading Financial Peace and Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey. Bubba was pessimistic about Ramsey and not too happy about the money I forked over for the books and software (only $35 plus shipping), but he started reading Total Money Makeover and is very excited about getting out of debt!! We used the Debt Snowball to see how long it would take to pay off eve... 2008-09-04 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=569779 I made DELICIOUS pulled pork with Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, in my crock pot. Everyone was impressed. I had so much of it that I took half to my parents' house. And they had brownies over there, so it was a yummy meal. Bubba has been working like a mad man today. He mowed the lawn, and then worked all day on the bathroom. He was working on the bathroom yesterday too. We are very close to being finished! I'm so excited! Will post pictures as soon as we're done. I need to go buy a shower curtain and cute accessories... 2008-09-01 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=568538 I get emails everyday, sent out to anybody who signs up for them, from author John Eldredge. They are short excerpts from books of his. I thought I would share the one I read today: Yes, dear friends, we are already God’s children, and we can’t even imagine what we will be like when Christ returns. But we do know that when he comes we will be like him, for we will see him as he really is. (1 John 3:2 NLT) We have an expression that we use to describe someone who’s out of sorts, who’s not acting like the person we know her to be: “She’s just not herself today.” It’s a marvelous, gracious phrase, for in a very real way, no one is quite himself today. There is more to us than we have seen. I know my wife is a goddess. I know she is more beautiful than she imagines. I have seen it slip out, seen moments of her glory. Suddenly, her beauty shines through, as though a veil has been lifted. All of us have moments like this, glimpses of our true creation. They come unexpe... 2008-08-28 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=567841 I just called Grace the Booger Plum Fairy. Where do I come up with this stuff? It just flies out of my mouth sometimes. Bubba let me practice driving his car today. It's a manual transmission, which I've never driven before. He just equipped it with a shifter knob of "rich Corinthian leather", haha. I've been in a funk for several days, but I think I pulled out of it today while exercising to an aerobics DVD. I gave myself a break from weights. I think I have all the muscles now that I really want; I just need to lose the flab! Anyway, back to the funk. I just felt lazy and foggy-headed. I did a little happy dance inside yesterday when my, um, most challenging pupil was absent. I'm not calling him dumb, he just likes to challenge me. I'm sure he's quite smart. Maybe in a scary way. Speaking of school, I'm getting the hang of it. It seems much less daunting now than the first day. I give out my first quiz tomorrow. Which reminds me, I need to go write t... 2008-08-27 http://www.pleonast.com/user/sarahinthesun?l=5&entryID=564423 We had our first day of school today at the homeschool co-op. I say we because my sisters Rebekah and Noma are taking classes there. Rebekah was in my science class in the last period. My class went well, I think. We did a fun little experiment turning water into oxygen and hydrogen gas. I managed to talk for one hour and fifteen minutes, which is quite a feat for me. It's pretty hard to get tired teenagers excited about anything. I told them I would bring some chocolate next class time if they would be a bit more peppy. They did get excited about that. I went through the first chapter in the textbook until I finally hit on something they didn't already know - the factor-label method of converting units of measurement. And I talked about copper hydroxycarbonate, or copper patina. Off the cuff I wrote out on the dry erase board the chemical equation for its formation, which I was rather proud of. Maybe they thought it was interesting. The world may never know... Class let ... 2008-08-19