this weekend is reminding me why i stopped posting everyday. when you have kids, it's a little gift to be awake after they go to sleep. so i want to make these weekend posts quick, but i don't want to not do them. because unfortunately, although i'm fairly good at sticking to a rule i make for myself, as soon as i start making exceptions, it's not long before the exception becomes the rule. so if i tell myself i will post every day, then, at least as long as i can keep it up, i'll do it. but once i start making a little leeway for myself, the posts just start dwindling away. so i know you don't need to read me talk about nothing every day of the week, but if i want to have this blog at all, i need to put a little something up every day.
so here's my little something today...
i spent a lot of time at the kitchen table playing uno. william beat me by 129 points tonight.
i spent a little of the day inside a couch fort henry built for me.
we read the first chapter of 'the neverending story' tonight. greg, who was reading 'treasure island' to the boys, said it was a little hard to understand and henry wasn't really making it easy for anyone to concentrate. it's supposed to be a really beautiful day tomorrow (53 degrees f) so we won't be spending it in a movie theater watching the royal theatre's production of it anyway. if all goes as planned we'll be touring about an old, tumble-down castle, and i will be hoping the forecast keeps its promise.
this is about the time of year when the u.s. (midwest, east coast) starts to catch up to us temperature-wise and then swiftly takes the lead. we'll steadily hang out in the 40's and 50's much longer than feels necessary.
a perpetual early spring.
3 comments:
I had no idea that there was a point system for Uno.
No, it's like this: we catch up to you, we fall behind; we catch up again, then fall behind; finally, in May, we catch up and surge ahead. But you really do have a longer spring. Ours is always comingled with winter, then with summer.
On the subject of posting, I always think there is an easy way out for those who want to post daily but don't always have the time for it: pick a photo, give it a caption and boom! You're done until the next day!
But, your words are always wonderful, so your keeping to the rule (of one per day) is just great!
Judy-- Yes, the person who wins gets the total points left in the remaining hands. I think the idea is to get up to 500 points and the special cards count more (20 and 50 points depending).
Nina-- I don't know... well, let's see how it goes. You're definitely pulling ahead of us this week, though we both have it pretty good. We have a longer early springtime I'd say. And a longer late-fall.
I agree-- a picture is always easy, always nice. I just didn't have my camera with me at posting time for this post. So you'll see I put my picture up the next day. =)
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