Five on Friday

1.  I’m taking the extreme measure of actually posting on my blog to avoid knitting.  I really love knitting, but I’m trying something new and difficult (for me), and am avoiding the mistakes that I am about to make.  It looks a bit neurotic when I type it out.  Hmm.

2.  Patrick is nearing completion of his master’s thesis at the University of Utah.  To give you a bit of perspective on how monumental this task has been, he has been working on it since before Timothy was born.  We are SO VERY READY to see the back end of this thing.

3.  We measured our boys’ heights on the wall yesterday, and at not quite 3 1/2 years old, Timothy is 41 1/2 inches tall.  Nathaniel is just a hair over three feet tall.  They certainly eat as if devouring their last meals, and it’s easy to see where it is all going.

4.  I bought a spiffy new wireless headset recently, which is just fabulous for talking on Skype with my dear sister.  I pretend to get things done, but sometimes I just lay on my bed and relax while we talk.  It’s quite nice to not be tied to the computer when we chat, because we tend to have extremely long conversations!  We talk during her mornings so I often get to talk to my niece and nephew (my youngest niece isn’t quite Skype ready yet).  Sadly, my boys are nearly always in bed when we talk, so she doesn’t have the pleasure of hearing them scream and destroy things.  On second thought, maybe this is on purpose.  I promise to have them civilized before I send them to college, but anything sooner seems like a stretch right now.

5.  This is supposed to actually be full of inspirations, as is Abbey’s post, but sadly I am not compliant.  Maybe after this thesis thing is over…we’ll see.  Oh, and Patrick, if you are reading this?  Rowsdower.  And I win the whole internet for that one.  (The game is to sneak Rowsdower into your normal conversation, e.g. “After you leave work can you stop at Harmon’s and pick up some ROWSDOWER?”  It’s great fun!  Play at home!)