variety's the very spice of life, that gives it all its flavor- william cowper.

today was a beautiful day. warm sun, cool breeze; we felt it through our windows. but today i needed to get some things done inside and that means not playing outside. beautiful weather is a great distraction. i said that.

so i convinced the kids that playing on my bed was an exciting change from playing elsewhere in the house. and they believed me. i also pulled out their lunchboxes which contain special toys. i keep certain toys in these roy rogers/dale evans lunchboxes and then put the boxes on my dresser. when we go to broadway or somewhere that i want them to be able to occupy themselves i pull out the boxes. and it worked again. there are the typical dolls for cassie and some astronauts for wyatt. but then there are some different characters, like the animals with interchangable body parts. they are an odd but intriguing distraction. they played on the bed long enough for me to eat breakfast and get the kitchen cleaned. another small success in the book of motherhood.