Yesterday was a rainy day.  While we were driving  home from preschool, she noticed that one of the cornfields was very muddy.

C:  Mommy, look at all that mud!!!!!!!!  It’s squishy!

Me:  Yep!

C:  Mommy, Jesus put the mud on the man’s eyes.

Me:  Yes He did Claire. What happened next?

C:  The Man’s eyes were opened and then he could see.

Can I just say …….WOW!    About 2 months ago, we started sending Claire to Children’s Liturgy of the Word, even though she’s too young, because she was begging to go with the other kids.  (Typical oldest child syndrome my mom says….Madeline will probably not ever want to go).  Anyway, during Mass they take the kids out after the opening prayer until after the petitions. They read the readings and do an activity.  She never says anything about it except that she got to play with the kids and sometimes she says she got to color.   Well obviously her little sponge-for-brain actually caught something the leader said.  I was just astounded!!!  Perhaps we do need to put her in Catechises of the Good Shepard sooner rather than later……

And now for the mismatched socks part….

So I went to Weight Watchers today.  Had sort of a blah week — gained 1 pound.  I sort of knew this was going to happen because I pigged out after the triathlon.  It’s ok though — going to the meeting has put me back on track.

Today we had a dress down day at work so I was wearing jeans.  Usually I weigh in on Thursdays and I’ve been very careful to wear a skirt to work every Thursday so I don’t skew my numbers.  Since I had jeans on today, I grabbed a pair of exercise shorts to change into when I got to WW.  I went, changed, and walked out to weigh in. The lady in front of me asked why I had changed and I gave her the long story that I just typed above. She laughed and said…looking down…you know, you have two different socks on.    I thought….No lady, I didn’t know that.  I accidentally put on one black sock with flowers and one blue sock with stripes.   I’m wearing boots…who cares if I have mismatched socks on?  Those little orphaned socks need to be worn too?   I composed myself and said “oops!  must have gotten dressed in the dark this morning”.

You’ll notice a temporary addition on the left side of our blog for the next couple weeks.  :)  This way I don’t have to go to cbssportsline.com to get the scores during work.

I solemnly swear that I am not not watching the NCAA tournament online at work.