Simple Sunday...actually, it's Monday.

I have renamed Sunday to be Simple Sunday.  I forgot that this was a long weekend, so it's actually Monday, but I did have a simple Sunday yesterday.  I plan on having a simple Monday too.  Then it's back to work. . . and kids . . . and worms. 

I got up early today so I thought I would write a little before the day really begins.  Today is my baby girl's birthday.  I can't believe that she's been in the world for seventeen years.  That seems just crazy.  So seventeen years ago, I was in the military hospital that she was born in, and a midwife had delivered my 10 1/2 pound baby girl.  I highly recommend a midwife, by the way.  She's been high maintenance ever since, but I love the heck out of her.  Today she has an appointment, then we are going to Lake Eola and walk around the lake.  The replica of the Vietnam Memorial is going to be there, which is not birthday celebration material, but we've never seen it and want to.  We already had her celebration anyway, over the weekend.  She's pretty easy to please.

I've been doing a lot of reading--as per my New Year's Wish List (not sure if I put that on the list I posted here, but it's on the list in my journal).  I'm on my fourth book of the year, and it's only January 16.  Pretty pleased about that.  The book I'm reading now is basically a list of projects to do around the house.  Pretty interesting.  Everything from making homemade mead (fermented alcoholic honey), to canning, to gardening, and anything else you can think of.  Even how to make your own composting toilet, which I will never do, but I know how in case anyone else needs one now.  Not sure why I find this stuff so interesting, but I sure am enjoying this book.  It's called "Making It--Radical Home Ec for a Post-Consumer World" by Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen.  They are homesteaders in Los Angeles.  I find that an interesting concept.

Yesterday I worked on organizing my sewing area a little bit.  I think I have a LOT of extraneous stuff that could go live somewhere else, so I'm sorting and trying to edit.  NOT easy.  But I know that if I want to spend time sewing, I need to have a pleasant place to go to do it.  And my sewing area is not very pleasant right now.  It's too crowded.  So I will continue working on that this afternoon when we get home. 

The house is cleaned up, and I think I'm going to go make myself a cup of coffee.  I hope my "fans" (all two of you) have a great day.