Sean goes back to work tomorrow so I guess that means the Christmas break is over – but I’m not taking the tree down until Saturday, after Epiphany. Oh, that reminds me; I need holy water and chalk for Sean to use to bless the house. I know where the chalk is but we don’t have holy water. Sometimes churches have special Epiphany water!
Anyway!
Sean will be gone so it’s back to normal. That currently looks a lot like sitting in one place and endlessly nursing the skinny baby. Which is great but everyone is kinda tired of that except me and the baby. I’ll make a trip to Walmart this week. You know it’s boring when the kids want to go to Walmart. Tomorrow Perry’s godmother-to-be and her kids are coming over. The house is a real mess but it is so dull when people go on about their messes in their blogs. It is how it is, there’s very little I can do about it, and there is no actual filth anywhere, just stuff. It’s obvious eleven people live here, that they don’t care much about tidiness, and that the one person who does care isn’t doing anything.
(I know I just said it was dull, but permit me an anecdote. A few weeks ago I ventured into the upstairs bathroom for the first time in about a month. I was greeted by an askew shower curtain, six moldering towels, four empty toilet rolls, countless shreds of toilet paper, five pairs of underpants, and an unspeakably dirty toilet. I closed the door, backed away slowly, and told Sean we have the worst. roommates. ever. Then sent the kids to at least pick up the clothes and towels. Ugh!)
All of that will change pretty quickly. It’s just how it is for now.
I’ve never done the chalking of the doors. I think my parents did it once, the only year the parish handed out blessed chalk. I guess it’s not really a big thing round here. I suppose I could organize myself into doing it regardless of the parish’s initiative, but I never have. Usually by Epiphany I’ve exhausted myself with Christmas gifts Round 2 and am too tired to deal.
Also, I love your Make Way for Ducklings header.
I love it too! It’s one duck short now though, so I’m in the market for a new one.