Harvey Look-alike Meter

Always wondered who Matthias looks more like, but as previously mentioned, my faith in the look-alike meter is low. So this evidence can't be conclusive.

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Harvey Look-alike Meter

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I personally have no faith in the look-alike meter. Tomorrow I will post James 3 year old pic along with Taylor's 3 year old pick. Then you can see for yourselves.

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Results

The results are in from my four week tv watch. (Before you stop reading, I am refraining from stepping onto the tv soapbox. This was just an innocent study of the time my family spends watching television.) I always tell people, "we never watch tv" but was feeling like we actually watched more than I wished. So I kept an accounting of normal tv time over the last four weeks and here are our overall totals...

Matthias: 1 hour 20 minutes
James: 7 hours 15 minutes
Kristi: 1 hour 35 minutes

Which over a four week span works out to 20 minutes per week for Matthias, 24 minutes per week for me, and 1 hour 49 minutes per week for James. Honestly I little higher for James than I was hoping, but Taylor tells me I need to chill out.

This time includes all minutes watching the tv screen...be it a Jazz game, a Backyardigans dvd, a home video (which was 30 minutes of Matthias' time...amazed he sat through it all!), or Finding Nemo. All tv, dvd, etc was recorded. I don't believe tv is inherently bad, no. But I do believe that the world offers so much to enjoy and discover. Especially for these cute little boys of mine!! That, and we are all addicted to books which is our general entertainment of choice.

Other random numbers...
Largest amount of consecutive days with no tv...M: 9 days, J: 5 days, K: 12 days.
Total days (out of 28) with no tv...M: 24, J: 17, K: 23

Thus the statistics stand.

I'm dreaming of an orange table runner

I have wanted a table runner pretty much since we got married. But I am too cheap to just buy one. You would think after wanting one for 5 years I would break down and pay the $15-$20 to get one, but no. I have not been able to justify purchasing one yet.

So imagine my joy when I walked into Joannes last Friday and found this beauty...


2.4 yards of a remnant, for...get this...$0.91

I am not kidding. Less than one dollar for almost 2 1/2 yards! It was 75% off AND I had a 10% off coupon. SO exciting! Enough fabric to not only make the much coveted table runner, but also to make a couple pillows for my wicker chairs. And just the perfect match for my kitchen!

I'm sticking with 'Barn Raising'

Yesterday we spent a greater part of the day helping some friends' construct a garage on their property (visited previously). And by we, I mean Taylor. The boys and I did go up with him though, as did many other of the wives and children. The kids spent several hours playing on top of a dirt hill. One large dirt hill and about a dozen kids 8 and under.


The women sat around talking and eating. (Except Nannette the 8 month and 3 week pregnant one...she spent the morning attempting to induce labor by helping the men.) It really was a lot of fun I thought. And Taylor had a blast! He really loved working on the arches and putting up each one. They got 6 of 23 up in the five hours we were there. It was A LOT of work! The men are heading back up tomorrow for a couple of hours.

After the work was done three of the families were still there and we had pizza and swam in the slimy, grimy lake. The boys had a ton of fun playing in the dirt ALL day!

To blog or to swim?

Since my excuse for not blogging this week centers around the swimming pool...besides James' two swimming lessons we have only been swimming three times. That isn't even once a day...besides the swimming lessons. But when it is a beautiful 95 degrees outside and your husband forgets to turn the air on after turning it off, you really need to cool down. (Our house hit 84 yesterday before I finally thought, okay, I am feeling MUCH hotter than usual, which is saying a lot. Something has got to be wrong. Sure enough. 84 degrees.)

Sooooo, I guess I should post some swimming pictures so you can all enjoy the fun we've been having. I just have pics from swimming lessons, not from fun swimming, so none of Matthias today. But some will come. And both of my boys are very "brave" this year according to James. According to me, both of my boys are completely reckless and fearless this year. It's been a fun swim season so far...and it's just beginning!