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Just a random blog for today.

Aidan has been doing well with the potty training. He successful went fifteen days (daytime only) with no accidents, so he got his "fishies." We got him a little aquarium with two goldfish, one gold and one calico, which he immediately, and with great originality, named Nemo and Marlin. It's been three days and they're still alive, so we'll see.

Liam is sitting up completely on his own now. He still doing the lunge and throw "crawl", not actually on his hands and knees, but he can get anywhere he wants with a lot of effort. Today we'll be moving the mattress down on the baby bed for the last time in our lives... at least for our own children.

School starts on Tuesday. I cannot get motivated to do anything. When I don't have anything rushing me, no grading or planning or reading or anything, I can't get motivated to do anything else, not cleaning or exercising or organizing. It's like I have to be on a crunch to get anything done. So I am hoping once school starts, I can get back on the housecleaning train.

I am in search of a hobby. One that isn't too expensive and that I can do while sitting with the kids. I bought a cheap-o knitting thing, but I lost the stupid book, and that isn't the first time I've tried knitting. I haven't given up, but I'm not feeling hopeful. I also bought a punch-thread kit from this cheap magazine for a few bucks, but that doesn't work worth a crap. That was disappointing. I can't read while sitting with the kids because I have to be able to talk to Aidan. Anyone have any ideas? Anyone know anything about cross-stitching? I wouldn't mind doing something crafty like that if it was easy to carry around. I wouldn't mind if it produced stuff as long as it's somewhat cute. Like, I could do baby gifts or pillows or something, or make scarves, but I don't want anything that is useless like hook rugs. I walked around Hobby Lobby, but it's so much and I know nothing about craftiness. It's not in my blood. Any ideas?

I'm also thinking about volunteering at the library, just a few hours a week. I've decided if I win the lottery, I am going to quit teaching and go get a job at Barnes and Noble. I just want to be able to run the computer or cash register, put stuff in alphabetical order, and be up on all the cool books.