You know that age-old question we all ask ourselves after doing laundry: Why am I missing socks? Where did they go? It appears, the majority of them go to Narnia!

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1. Please don’t tell me when the weekend is over. I like the weekends! Let me keep living in the weekend, even when it’s not.

2. Can you fast forward through the morning?

3. The color of sand makes me want to go on vacation to Hawaii!

4. I have a craving for sleep.

5. If my life had a pause button, I’d pause it all the time.

6. Eyes are the window to the soul. Cliche, I know. But I think you can tell a lot about a person by looking into their eyes.

7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to watching Monk & Psych, tomorrow my plans include work and possible a basketball game with some friends and Sunday, I want to go to church and relax with the family!

Ugh. I don’t like Monday’s. They’ve never been a favorite day of mine. Usually it’s a day to go back to work or school, though it doesn’t mean either of those two things for me for another month. I just don’t like getting up on Monday morning. I mean, it isn’t like I have partied hard over the weekend and am regretting it Monday morning or anything. I just don’t like Mondays. “Back to the grind.” Oh, well.

Anyway, today is full of things to do. I’m making the boys’ new chore charts for next week…well, for next month, but they’ll start on Monday. I’ve also got some menu planning to do so that when school starts for me, the rest of the family isn’t left to starve at night, lol. Not that dh can’t cook. He can. It’ll just be easier for him if I have stuff already done and he just needs to warm it up.

In the spirit of getting into the week, here’s my Manic Monday post.

Every person you have ever slept with is invited to a banquet where you are the guest of honor. No one will be in attendance except you, the collection of your former lovers, and the catering service. After the meal, you are asked to give a fifteen-minute speech to the assembly.
What do you talk about? Ok, This one’s easy. I don’t! There is no assembly. Just dh.

What’s your favorite thing to do on a rainy day? Read a book

Are you a window person or an aisle person? Why? Window person. I love seeing the outdoors and I’ve only been on a plane a couple of times so being by the window and looking out at God’s beautiful landscape is always breathtaking to me.

I have no picture of the “before” for today’s tackle. It was sort of an impromptu thing. A few months ago, we bought a big potted plant with 6 different herbs and a tomato plant. In my kitchen window a basil plant has been sitting and so has Zach’s pea plant that he planted at school. All of these things have needed re-potting in bigger (or separate) pots for quite some time. The poor little kitchen basil plant looked all but dead, or dying, anyway. And Zach’s pea plant had nearly overtaken the basil plant and had grown up my window! There are even 2 little pea pods on it!

So, tonight while at WalMart, we picked up a couple of pots and some potting soil and decided to replant our herb garden appropriately. Here is the end result:

The kitchen window planter has (from l to r) rosemary, sage, oregano and dill

The left planter has the 2 basil plants together (the one from the kitchen window and the one from the big planter). The right planter has the tomato plant (with 3 little tomatoes!) and the parsley, which really took off and nearly took over the whole pot!

This last little pot is Zach’s pea plant from school. I really never expected a school plant to do so well! He’s so happy about it. As you can see, we had to rig some thin dowel rods and loosely tie the pea plant up. Maybe we’ll have a bunch of pods by the weekend?

I approached today’s tackle a bit differently. I didn’t tackle something that had to be cleaned, but rather something that needed to be “set up” in anticipation of school starting in the fall. Yes, I know, I’m 2 months early. There’s just so much that’s going to change when we all (myself included) start back to school in the fall that I want to start now so that I’m not scrambling to get it all done in the last couple of weeks of summer. So, here’s the first of my “getting ready for school” tackles

This will be our staging area, where book bags and coats are kept in anticipation for the next school day. I also hung a white board so that I can write down the kids’ monthly schedules. I have a weekly one on the fridge, but the month-in-review will be helpful, too. It’ll give me a better picture of what’s going on that month. I think it will also help dh, since he’ll be the one home with them in the afternoons while I’m at school and will need to know, also.

Today’s Tackle It Tuesday was fun. Why was it fun? Because it wasn’t my tackle! And I had fun dumping out the toys for the boys to clean up. Yes, that sounds like I was being a mean mommy, but I went to the playroom looking for something and couldn’t find it. While their floor had been clean, they shoved things in places they didn’t belong; under, behind and next to places they shouldn’t have been. So, I dumped them all over the floor. The first picture was taken mid-tackle. It actually looks better than it was. I had dumped a TON of paper all over the floor, and by the time I had taken the pic, it was piled on the table in the back. They also have a toy bin rack along the side that you can’t see that I also pretty much dumped, but that was after the initial cleaning, so it’s not shown in the picture, either. And while it has been worse before (trust me!), there are are so many little things laying on the floor that you can’t see, like Lego’s and K’Nex. OY! Those things are EVERYWHERE!! And they manage to find their way into every nook and cranny…it’s maddening!

The good thing about a tackle like this is that I can get rid of junk! I managed to get rid of a bookshelf, a small one that I put in their room to control the books that keep creeping their way up there. Hey, if you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! And, I managed to take back two plastic bins that I can now use to store the massive amounts of winter clothes that just don’t fit in the two already-full massive bins. *Sigh*

Ok, enough rambling. Here are the pics:

1. For me narrow-mindedness is the opposite of creativity.
2. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows was the last excellent book I read.
3. I like fill-ins because it gives me something fun to blog about.
4. In nature I like looking at flowers.
5. I’m not happy with anyone who will win the US elections.
6. The last time I laughed with all my belly was probably at something one of my kids said or did.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to grilling out, tomorrow my plans include taking Ryan to a birthday party and Sunday, I want to chill out with the family!

This quiz was fun. I’m from northern Indiana, though, not southern.