1. The Search for a New Show. A few years ago my friend RaeAnne recommended the TV show Parenthood. I watched a few episodes, but at the time, I had a baby and an angry toddler, and wasn't in the mood for a drama. So I stopped watching it but kept it in my Netflix queue for another time. Fast forward to last fall, when my sister Emma broke her ankle and was stuck on a couch for a few months. She watched it, and raved about it as well. Then my mom told me I should watch it, and a few friends on Facebook were going on about the finale, and I finally thought I'd give it a try. And oh boy, were all those people right! It was the best show, hands down, that I've ever watched. As the title suggests, it's about different parents and their relationships with their children. What makes the show so amazing is that none of the characters are static. Each family goes through real challenges and the characters progress at a realistic pace. There's a family that deals with adoption and infertility, one that has a son with Aspergers, a single mom with a deadbeat ex-husband and two teenagers with anger issues, and a bachelor with commitment issues. The show manages to be dramatic and interesting without becoming melodramatic like a soap opera. My point: Watch this show. Also, now I can't find anything decent to watch because everything seems kind of stupid after this one. Any recommendations?
2. I'm Old. This Saturday is my 20-year high school reunion. I'm pretty sure that makes me old. I have spent the last week scouring the stores in my area for something cute to wear that will magically remove 15 pounds and 10 years. I had absolutely no luck. I couldn't even find a pair of shoes I liked. I'm pretty sure there are decent clothes out there somewhere, but they aren't here. I found about 20 different dresses and skirts that were floral with clingy cheap fabric in neon colors. So those weren't super flattering. Fortunately, my sister has impeccable taste and has mailed me some of her non-floral, made of real fabric skirts. But no matter what I wear, I'm 20 years older than I was when I graduated from high school. But everyone else will be just as old as me. So who cares what I'm wearing, right?
3. The Office. Tim and I have been rewatching the first few seasons of The Office, and it reminds me that it was hilarious and clever at the beginning. What the heck happened at the end? It got ridiculously stupid in the second to last season, and it seems really weird in retrospect that they tried to continue the show after Steve Carrell left. It would have been the perfect end to the series. Which, by the way, was done perfectly on Parenthood.
4. Back to Crafting. I used to cross stitch like crazy. I have a stack of completed cross stitches that just need frames. And then I had kids, more specifically, toddlers, who always have sticky hands and want to touch everything and also have endless demands. So the partially done kits got put into a drawer and forgotten. Then something miraculous happened. My youngest child got older. He started keeping his hands somewhat unsticky, and understands the concept of looking with your eyes and not your hands. He plays with his brothers and entertains himself. I have entered a new phase of life, one that involves finishing cross stitches, pulling out my card-making supplies, and possibly learning how to knit. And this has come just in time, because it got really hot outside, and I have no desire to go out and weed my garden. (Also, my almost 10-year-old can totally weed the garden.) It's exciting. I've already finished one kit that has sat unattended for about 9 years. My house is going to start looking like an old lady's, with the amount of needlework that's going to hang from the walls.
Speaking of being old, it's my bedtime. Time to haul my aching joints up the stairs.
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