{"id":2702,"date":"2010-09-15T13:21:49","date_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2702"},"modified":"2010-09-15T13:51:22","modified_gmt":"2010-09-15T20:51:22","slug":"wednesday-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/barelycontrolledchaos.com\/wordpress\/?p=2702","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday Love."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Something about Wednesdays always makes me happy. I think it gets a bad rap because it is &#8220;only the middle of the week,&#8221; but here is the way I look at it.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday doesn&#8217;t have the craziness of the beginning of the week like Monday and Tuesday do, and it is the porthole, the first glimpse at the end of the week. I think that makes it a perfect day to take stock in all the good things going on.<\/p>\n<p>A few things I am loving this Wednesday:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A few hours of complete peace. No TV on, no girls asking for anything. Just the simultaneous hum of the dishwasher, washing machine and dryer, and the occasional rumble of a car passing by.<\/li>\n<li>Productive days. Getting stuff crossed off the never-ending list.<\/li>\n<li>A tub of cookie dough (bought by J.) which allows for spontaneous cookie making even at 8 o&#8217;clock at night. Even better when cookies are lovingly made by husband and consumed together while watching a favorite TV show.<\/li>\n<li>Madmen. The best show on TV right now. Possibly ever. If you are not watching it &#8211; go Netflix the first four seasons. NOW.<\/li>\n<li>Our new (in one and a half weeks!) Aunt JB. The girls already adored their Uncle Jeff. He pretty much walks on water in their eyes, and is second only to the #1 guy in our house, Daddy. But the fact that Uncle Jeff is marrying JB? And she gets to be &#8220;part of our family&#8221; (as Em loves to say)? And she is pretty incredibly awesome? Yeah, that pretty much sends<strong> all of us <\/strong>over the moon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0005.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4994076926\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4130\/4994076926_ba39c8bcf5_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0005.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>That Em is so very much like me, including (see above photo) her hunt for the ever-elusive curl in her poker-straight hair. As I put the curlers in her hair, I relived all of my bad perm stories with her. Sadly, they only offered her a glimmer of hope instead of deterring her. I may have to drag out some of the photos just to reiterate how very bad an idea getting a perm is.<\/li>\n<li>How Addie looks up to Em so much that she <em><strong>had<\/strong><\/em> to have &#8220;curly things&#8221; in her hair too. They didn&#8217;t even last until bedtime though before she took them out.\u00a0 I cannot imagine the Afro result if she <em><strong>had<\/strong><\/em> left them in.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a title=\"DSC_0012.jpg by Voris, on Flickr\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/voris\/4993471575\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4109\/4993471575_3bb4538397_b.jpg\" alt=\"DSC_0012.jpg\" width=\"800\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The girls doing their homework together.\u00a0 Of course this only lasted for a moment before some sort of shenanigans started up. But it was sweet while it lasted and while the new kitty looked on from her new favorite perch.<\/li>\n<li>A good run that makes your legs feel a little jello-y afterward and you leaves you feeling virtuous for the rest of the day. (Could also insert swim\/arms or bike\/legs into this equation and still get the same love.)<\/li>\n<li>Knowing that your good run (swim\/bike) means you can have one of those cookies again tonight!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Do you have anything to add to our Wednesday Love List today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Something about Wednesdays always makes me happy. I think it gets a bad rap because it is &#8220;only the middle of the week,&#8221; but here is the way I look at it. 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