Here we go, 1 more week until school starts. This time one week from now the house will be full of activity. In fact if everyone is still sleeping (as they are now) we’ll be running late. This is also a big work week, and on Saturday we have a function/party up in Vail that the misses and I are going to. We asked Uncle T and Aunt B if they wanted the boys for a sleep over this coming weekend. If not, we’ll just drive down from Vail around 9pm and get home about 11. On Friday night we go to the ice cream social at school. This is the annual event where the kids find out who their teacher is for the upcoming year. To finish out the week, we have both boys championship football games Wednesday and the little guy starts soccer Thursday. There now, that doesn’t seem like too much, does it. Oh wait, let’s throw in the little guys work sessions with his new teacher (she told us early she has him in her class, yea!) today and Wednesday and I get my haircut tomorrow with both boys in tow. There has to be something else, I just can’t think of it right now.
Well yesterday was full of some yard work, an extra lesson for the misses on our Vitamix (more on this later), 3 loads of laundry, taking the dogs for some exercise and a swim at Grandma’s and 5 racks of ribs. We had invited Grandma a few days ago, (who couldn’t make it), the L.O.L. down the street (who is always up for an invitation but also passed after committing because she wasn’t feeling well) and our friends who took the boys tubing (who also had to cancel at the last minute as their 2 year old became ill). So, we had no company for dinner and 5 racks of ribs. Guess what we’ll be eating all week?
Now onto our Vitamix. I don’t know if any of you know what this is but it’s a food processor, blender and all around cool machine that does just about everything. The kids are eating tons of vegetables and not even knowing it. You see Mom secretly mixes cabbage and squash in with oranges and ice and a little vanilla and half and half to make the best orange sorbet/smoothie drink you’ve ever had. Then in a matter of minute, she throws some tomato’s, cilantro, pepper, a 1/4 of a bullion cube and a few other things in with a few cups of hot water and presto, you have the best tortilla soup you’ve ever had. (she does throw in some black beans, corn and tortillas at the last minute) This thing is so powerful that it will actually boil water after a few minutes due to the friction created by the speed of its blades. I guess your garage door opener is 1/2 horsepower and this thing is 2 1/2 horsepower to give you some idea. It’s built like a tank and we picked it up at Whole Foods so we got a huge discount on it. No matter what it costs, if it gets the kids eating veggies, it’s worth it. You can also make bread dough, ice cream, grind meat, like your own hamburger, and just about anything else you can think of, (I think it even does laundry!) it’s very very cool. They say nothing goes to waste. As an example, after you have chicken for dinner, you throw in all the bones with a little water and make a broth to pour over the dogs food, how neat is that!
I hear the misses stirring upstairs so she’ll be down soon. Oh yeah, she works Tuesday and Thursday and gets her hair done Friday (more to add to our week) and thankfully has a gift certificate from our friend at the salon that showed up in the mail the other day. We’ll also get our car back from the shop today. We were supposed to get it Friday but it didn’t get back from the alignment shop in time. I need to give it a thorough cleaning once it gets home.
Warren Buffet is saying in an op ed today how it’s time to have “shared sacrifice”. Now this is fine if you’re Warren Buffet, I mean how much money does this guy have? But I think the rest of us have “shared” quite enough. Even so, I know we’re all going to have to share some more to get us out of this mess, I just wish that our shared money would be used efficiently instead of wasted which the government is so good at. In fact, I don’t ever remember a time when we weren’t sharing by paying taxes, high gas prices, buying our own school supplies, and more. Ok ok I’m drifting into politics so I’d better stop now. I know there’s a fundamental difference in opinions between people and the two parties, one party thinks we can spend our way out of our problems and the other says we can’t continue to spend money we don’t have. Now this might not be totally fair if you subscribe to the first school of thought so to simplify, one is for big government and the other for small government. I personally think the goal should be to make government as inconsequential as possible in our daily lives. The government can’t run anything well, look at their track record, Â they’re just not set up for it. Think about it, what has the government ever taken control of that worked? They’re too big and have too many layers these days to run things properly. Alright I’ll stop now. I probably won’t change anyone’s mind anyhow.
We hope everyone is healthy and happy and enjoying life. Fall is coming and then winter will soon follow, get your house in order! It’s only 135 days until Christmas, wow! Take care and God Bless,