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Spending my b-day
By Moriah on April 23rd, 2009
Yesterday morning I gave myself a present. Andy took the kids to the park and I dumped out every single one of our toy boxes and bins and put back in only what my kids actually play with and what I won’t mind picking up again. (Which included moving all the furniture because you know half our toys eventually end up under there.)
Two full bags of plastic junk. I told Dolly afterwards I felt like I was walking on air! Usually when I clean out their stuff, I dig around and pull out odds and ends. This turned out to be a much more thorough method. I even decided to comb the van because I was scared they’d bring some of the junk piled up in there back into the house. (And we just really can’t have that.)
As per my ambitious goal, I did not cook. Andy made me cheese eggs for breakfast, can’t remember what I ate for lunch, and my sisters and I took the kids (mom’s treat) to Chick-Fil-A for dinner and then to Walmart for that blasted toilet paper. Except I walked out with a very full cart (how did that happen?).
Oh! I had at least two people ask what we ate for dinner the other night, so if you’re interested in such things:
Me: [name deleted] Farms’ Organic Lettuces (with roasted pears, pistachios & balsamic-molasses vinaigrette); Rabbit & Ramp Stew (with porcini mushrooms & crème fraiche) I did not order this but Andy did and the chef sent one out for me also; Hand Made Ricotta Raviolis (with spring vegetables & white truffle oil) another chef-sent course; [ranch name deleted] Pork Tenderloin (with root vegetable purees, apples & brown butter); and Carrot Cake Souffle (with Cream Cheese Anglaise).
Andy: Warm Asparagus Salad (with peekytoe crab, spring potatoes & aioli); same two middle courses I had; Sautéed Alaskan Halibut (he ordered a different set so I’m not sure what came with his entrée); and he had the strawberry tasting for dessert.
I told you, WAY too much food.
And I finally did find my camera. It was in Madeline’s mini backpack. I should have known.
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Happy Birthday week, M. Many Happy Returns.
Would you please come over and clean out our toy boxes?
I love cleaning out the toy boxes!! Happy Birthday Week!!
What is Ramp?
They are like wild leeks?
How in The Wide World of Sports did you EAT all that? It sounds fabulous! And I love that you had ramps – my relatives in W.Va. go and dig ramps every spring, and eat ramps every day till they’re gone. Delicious. [BTW - ramps are small onion-tasting veggies that grow wild. The flavor is very mild, but they are much smaller than leeks or real onions.]
How fun! Happy Birthday.
I came over to share an entry I just wrote for the PCA PresWIC newsletter and saw your birthday entries. Glad it was a good one.
Here’s the entry:http://www.genesismoments.com/awritersjourney/2009/04/spiritual-filters.html
Happy Birthday, Moriah.
Thanks for looking up the blog. It’s mostly just a way to pacify the grandparents about us not living in the same town or state (I’m still not sure my mom has forgiven me : ) but it is fun.
Yes, ballet is going strong. I always said I would start back up when Naomi was ready to take, but I had no idea that I’d being doing so much.
Your present to yourself sounds just like what I did a couple of weeks ago. The baby was asleep and the other two enjoyed playing in the mess while I tore apart and put their room back together. I had visited a friend and been very much ashamed at how boyish their boy’s room was. So I gave Jacob his own corner and stocked it with the most essential of his boy toys. For years I have been taking the advice of a wise momma-friend and only putting my kids toys in their room in shifts. Occasionally I load forgotten toys into a trash bag and stash it in the attic until someone says something like, “Hey, whatever happened to my tool box?” This usually takes a few months. Then when I pull the toys out, they play with them like they are brand new. It’s great! Anyway, happy parenting, birthday-ing, and blogging.
Thanks for the food details – sounds delicious :)
Sounds like a wonderful birthday. Aaahhh the sweet delight of emptying out the toy bins. My favorite is to find all the matching parts. Oy. Also thanks for the inside info for the dinner date. I can only say delicious, delectable, divine, and oh so repeatable! Thanks
YUMMMMO. Now I’m hungry. Glad you had a great birthday – I’m thinking I might need to do a toybox makeover/overhaul as well!
Oh my word, girl. That sounds DIVINE. Especially the ricotta ravioli and the warm asparagus salad. Divine. It does sound like a ton of food, but come on, it’s your birthday – splurge!
Wow…it’s 7:30AM here and I’m drooling over your dinner. That sounds FABULOUS.
And the toy box cleaning? Yay for you. I’m a purger. I’m still ruthless when it comes to cleaning my kids’ rooms. I throw away tons of stuff…and that’s why I do it when they’re at school. Fewer tears and drama that way.
Hope you have a happy Saturday!
Glad you found your camera!
My favorite task to perform when the kids are away is to purge the toy boxes. I feel just like a great burden has rolled away when I am done. So refreshing! I was explaining this to some friends the other day who looked at me like I had 2 heads. So it is refreshing to hear that someone else gets the same thrill. In fact I told Kent that if he ever died I would start a de-cluttering business where I would get paid to do that for other people for a living. I would so much rather do that then secretarial work!