Random, Random, Oh So Random

• Where, oh where does the time go everyday!  Before I know it it's 10 o'clock.  I need a few more hours in my day.  I had a lot more I wanted to do today and now I'm about to fall asleep...
• If you see me around and notice that my hair is not in a ponytail or straightened and subsequently is a frizzy, ugly mess...I'm trying to take a break from ponytails because I have a lot of breakage from excessive use of a ponytail holder.  And, I am limiting how often I straighten because straightening is hard on hair and I know that coloring and straightening my hair is damaging it.  
• We started back to school today with just the basics and it went pretty well.  Next week we will get into full swing.  We are going to Williamsburg in April so we will be preparing for our trip with two lapbooks.  One on Jamestown and one on Colonial America.  We will also be reading historical novels from that time period, anyone have any good recommendations?  
• I didn't finish all 101 science experiments during Christmas break so I will be making it my goal to do 5 to 10 per week until we are done.  We will be having guests at the end of the month--my sweet SIL and family and we plan to do lots of the science experiments then too so hopefully by the end of the month I can wrap up that little goal.
• We are eating mostly vegan these days.  Except that we are still eating eggs and butter and fish.  I have a dairy allergy and we've decided to severely limit our meat intake for a number of reasons so that's practically vegan, right?  Tonight we had vegan shepherd's pie and although it wasn't as good as regular shepherd's pie it wasn't bad.  Everyone liked it and ate it happily.  Thankfully my kids are not picky and will eat almost anything.  I love that it is cold because soup is a great way to eat a whole bunch of vegetables.  
• I have a whole bunch of projects I want to do and almost NO time to do them.  Here's what I want to do--scrapbook the last two theatre shows, scrapbook the Christmas card photos from the last two years (I have an album that I add to every year and it's so fun to see families grow and change.), scrapbook our Disney cruise, help the girls finish the quilts they've been working on for two years, make a quilt or two for the Linus project--they send you a kit and you make the quilt and send it back, and do the four puzzles I have recently gotten.  The only one of those I have gotten started on is the puzzles.  I cleared a table that we have in the living room and have made it a semi-permanent puzzle table.  If I have a few minutes or I'm on the phone or something then I can work on my puzzle.  Having it out is also getting the kids working on it as well.  
• Almost everyone I know on Facebook has posted the color of the bra they are wearing today in their status.  Call me a prude but I just can't bring myself to share that information.  
• My Fiestaware makes me happy.  I now have 8 place settings and it's so fun to use them every night and pick which color to eat on.  It makes my cabinet look pretty too.  I have red, purple, navy blue, peacock blue, yellow, green, pink, and orange.  I think if I had brown my set could be complete.  Now I need some serving dishes and maybe one or two of those cute little pitchers.
• I have sooo many e-mails to write and I am just not into it right now.  If I owe you a response to an e-mail I apologize.  I'll get to it though.
• The next theatre show is Grease (the school edition--severely edited--fun songs, no plot) so I let the kids watch a few scenes today so they could see who the characters were.  Hannah thought the ending was absolutely awful.  She couldn't believe that Sandy became a "bad girl" instead of Danny being good.  She was funny.

Peace out peeps!