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A strange collection of things

August 19, 2009 in about me, housing, parenting

I made pizza last night. I couldn’t find the all purpose flour so I used half wheat and half bread flour. It turned out a bit heavy but fairly yum. I was also out of walnuts and was sad about it. I love walnuts on my pizza, with goat cheese and I hate sauce. This, I think, makes me weird.

This morning before my coffee Jack stabbed me in the eye with a fork. Thank god it was one of those little kid forks.

We looked at bunch of open houses over the weekend. There were two we we were interested in but they are very different.

One is someone else’s remodel project. It’s pretty much done although I think they may have finished it off with shoddy doors and a crappily put in bamboo floor. It’s pretty big for the area with a big yard great for a garden and we can afford it.

The other one is HUGE for the area and wicked cheap due to the fact that it is a fixer. It’s old and has hilarious wallpaper in every room and all of it is peeling and needs replacing. It would be big project but it would be very gorgeous when fixed up a bit.

Reading disclosures and such is a bit stressful. It seems like so much stuff to deal with and then there are all the special taxes. How does one keep it all straight? Find contractors? Decide what to do first? Get a home improvement loan?

Do I want to move in to an easy already done house? Or do I want to fix up an older house to my own specifications? Or do I want to keep looking?

Jack’s imagination is killing me lately it’ so cute. He pretends to be a bear or a shark or a dragon. If he sees a picture of something he pretends to pick up the thing in the picture and do stuff with it. He pretends to be plane and his animals and dolls are having more complicated conversations around everyday activities like cooking or going to bed.

We play a ton of ‘sharing, standing in line, waiting, taking turns, no pushing’ games. I need to add in there ‘no grabbing toys from other kids’ games. I think its working as in it is giving him a vocabulary for all these actions and possible avenues of dealing to chose from. I still haven’t really figured out a consistent (or at all) ‘time out’ or other punishment type thing to do.

I shall leave you with this picture of Jack with a dune surf board.