Here, There and Everywhere

After Brooke bore her testimony about Office Depot in her comment on my last post, I decided to follow her advice. I went knowing I wanted organization. Well believe me you, they have something for everyone. Twenty bucks and two hours later, I used this: and this:

to achieve this:

I got one item to organize the mail, one to organize everyone's myriad number of papers, and one item for pencils, pens, etc. Now the trick will be to see if everyone can play along. I gave the kids a briefing on how it is supposed to work. They seemed enthused. I'll take a picture in a week, spontaneously, and see what it looks like. Thanks for the motivation, Clair.

On a separate note, we have a horse trough in the yard where we keep some goldfish. It's our attempt at "pets". Anyway, we were asking around this fall about what to do with them once winter hit. We were assured that even though the trough would probably freeze over, the fish would "come back to life" when it warmed up. I'm more of a city girl than a country girl, so to say I was skeptical would be an understatement. But what does a city girl know? It warmed up, and I went out with a net to scoop up the dead fish that were sure to be floating on the surface. Imagine my surprise when I found this:

Four happy, albeit slow, goldfish swimming around in the water. I threw in some fish food and chalked this up as a learning experience. Then I emailed the picture to Skip and said WHATTYA KNOW? He is, like me, a no-pet guy. But he has a strange affinity for these fish. Here was his reply to my email:

Did they ask about me? They look kind of thin, are they okay? Do they remember you? Tell them daddy loves them and will be home later to tuck them in.

What a guy.

Anyway. It really made me start thinking about frozen foods, but I stopped quickly because I started to feel sick.

And lastly, here are the kids. Don't ask me what they're looking at. I don't remember.