Miscellaneous Monday

I know, I know.

Still:

• We had everyone from my side of the family over on Saturday for a Mother's Day/mom's birthday extravaganza. It was lots of fun, the kiddo was charming (vs. shrieking like an eel about to feast on human flesh, which has been common of late. Thank you molars.)
  
• I made the first round of ribs for the season. Gosh those are yummy. I will probably make them more often this summer now that the little one can entertain himself during the prep - it was a bit of a challenge last summer as I have a thing about working with raw pork and/or a hot stove with a baby in my arms/strapped to me. Go figure.
• The sand and water table has arrived! It's a big hit - and quite messy. And seriously, what is it about boys and eating sand? His little butt got nicely exfoliated today as I changed his first diaper.
• We also got him a splashy pool type thing that was slightly less of a hit. I think this is partially owing to the fact that it was a bit cool - pleasant, but not in the "gosh I need a pool" sense. Also partially owing to the fact that our yard is not what one could term "flat" really anywhere, so the water kind of runs out one side. We'll figure something out for next time.
• If you look at the picture of the splashy pool thing, you might, like me, figure it's fairly large. But in actuality, those children are tiny. I can't really fathom how more than two kids would play in it simultaneously. And the slide? You hold our petite child at the top and his toes are already at the bottom. It's still fun though.
• I haven't yet seen the winner of the Amazing Race. We'll watch tonight and I'm trying (very hard...though right now it's an uphill battle) not to go peek.
  
• I'm hoping the male contestant wins Hell's Kitchen.
• I injured the middle finger of my right hand and am having a hard time resisting showing it to people in a certain manner. I'm also fairly certain that I'm going to lose the fingernail.
  
• Do you have any idea how often you bang your middle finger without realizing it? Neither did I.
• The Beth-Reduction-Program has begun. Pray for me.
• We got the paperwork from our attorney in our email on Saturday so...we can start gearing up for number 2. It's normal to be half terrified and half excited, right?
• I got some feedback from my dissertation committee. I've made a lot of the changes already - and there's nothing huge (no "I don't really see a dissertation in here" comments like last time, at least) - but I do wish they'd make up their minds about where they want the research questions. I've moved them from chapter 1 to chapter 3 to chapter 1 to chapter 3 more times than I can count. They want them in chapter 1 again now. I'm gonna ask if I can put them in both places and be done.

I'm going to try to be better about some regularity around here again. I am! We'll see how it goes.