Too little butter, too much bread

Today's theraputic blogging session has been brought to you by this quote from Lord of the Rings. Lately I have felt spread too thin. There are four of them and one of me and many days if I could clone myself I would in a heartbeat. I realize that there are the ethical ramifications of cloning to be considered and there's no guarantee that my clone would behave as I would wish her too (you know, being a creature in possession of free will and all that rubbish). **Side note, I particularly enjoy the word rubbish and feel I should use it more often.**


It's worse on the weekends and now that it is Monday and the older ones are off to school I can decompress.

Still breathing, that's good.

My prayer at the moment is that I could experience the miracle of the multiplication of the butter so that I have enough to spread to everyone. :) Maybe that's what grace is, though, a multiplication of the butter. Hmmm, is the metaphor getting spread too thin? One toast to rule them all...okay nevermind, lol.

Other thoughts for today....

My favorite thing after school when the kids come home, if I've managed to do quite a bit of tidying in the house is my eldest son's reaction.


"Wow, Mom, you did a lot today!"


Totally validating of all the work I put into cleaning up.


My other favorite quote from him recently: "You're driving everyone ridiculous!"


Also, upon announcing that I was leaving their grandparent's house and was ready to head home, the two year old says: "By yourself?" (clearly he wanted to stay there and was perfectly fine with me heading home all on my own).

Book Club Selection of the Month: 

I always enjoy being around books and it is a (not-so-secret) desire of mine to someday run a used bookstore. It's sort of a pipe dream with no real plan to make it happen, but it's fun to dream. But I do attend my library's monthly book club and that has been a great experience and way to find out about/read books that I might not pick up otherwise.

This month's selection is definitely one of those that I would not have necessarily picked up on my own.

Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption by Laura Hillenbrand - who evidently was the author of "Seabiscuit."

 Book club is tonight and I'm only about half-way through the book. It's not a fast read, but it is an interesting book.

It tells the story of a young man named Louis Zamperini who starts out as an olympic track star and winds up in the Pacific theater in the air force during WWII.

The prologue of the book gives it away that eventually his plane will crash and he will be trying to survive in the ocean on a raft.

I think if you enjoy true stories, or historical stories then you would enjoy this book. Also, if you like survival stories a la "I Shouldn't Be Alive." (Which, by the way, I watched a lot of while I was in the hospital with my PE last year - totally made me feel better since the people on the show were going through a lot worse than I was - hurrah for schadenfreude).

I will let you know how I feel about it once I'm finished (if I finish).