Life is Funny

Nils took Ava on a walk and she fell asleep. Two thoughts went through my head when I saw this: 1) A very Nils thing to do. 2) Good thing our house is a rambler. 

Yesterday was an exhausting day for some reason. I decided in the morning to sign the kids up for swimming lessons that started 2 hours later in Orem. While they are taking their half-hour lesson, I'll have to use that time to exercise, so I got on a treadmill at the rec center and ran as fast as I could for 30 minutes. Around 27 minutes I felt the vomit signals so I had to walk for a minute and I was ticked. There was a time a few years ago that I didn't heed the vomit signals... good thing there was a garbage can nearby. Anyhoot- Anders declared to me last week that he never wants to go to the gym again. This puts a major cramp in my style. I don't want him to be miserable every day, but mama's gotta exercise. Hopefully this two week swim lesson respite will cure him until summer is over. 

Then I had a dentist appointment in the afternoon. I've been dreading this for months, because I have problem teeth that have been worked on, but still give me some grief. They have both been root canal candidates, but when the dentist actually gets in there he manages to avoid a root canal- which I appreciate. He's warned me that if they start bothering me again, a root canal is the next step. I told him that they've been aching here and there, but nothing a little Advil won't fix. He did all of the appropriate tests and said they're fine. Yay! I really was expecting terrible news. This kind of goes along with our air-conditioner story a couple of weeks ago. We suffered through June with no a/c, and we had visions of costly repairs. My neighbor (thanks, Michelle) referred me to a guy in our neighborhood. He stopped by on his way home from work one night and checked things out. He scraped off some crud that had accumulated due to our lack of filter-changing- and voila! We have ourselves a cool house. He charged us a plate of cookies. I mean, seriously, we had never even met the guy. So two things that have been stressing me out turned out to be just fine. And now we know why changing air filters is important. So is flossing, but I've always done that.

Tonight I have been asked to teach a mini-class on cooking with dehydrated potatoes. So last night I experimented on the fam and made potato soup from potato flakes. Since it was a thousand degrees yesterday, this was an inappropriate meal, but whatever. I needed test subjects. Everyone liked it except Addie, who gagged and sputtered and spit it out. Love that. After dinner the kids went out to play, and we couldn't find Aani awhile later. Then I saw her little naked butt streak across the yard. She had gone to the next street over and stripped from the waist down. A few minutes and some clothes later, Nils found her again, next street over, this time playing in some random dog's water. Hand washing was swift. As was bedtime.