Another list for Cinderella

This morning I saw Rachael fervently dusting the furniture. Then I saw this written in purple marker:

(Again, she doesn't do the spacing, so I'll do it):

SWEP THE ASHIS IN THE FIR
SWEP THE CICHIN
GET US TDREST
CHEC THE MAL
NAPTIM
MAC THE MELS
SLEP IN THE ADIC

CORS FOR CINDURELU

Actually, she did get the mail later ... but I don't remember anyone making any meals for me today! :)

Hm, maybe I'm not needed after all ...

Tangent:
I'm sure not one reader knows what I'm talking about, but the expression "not needed" always reminds me of that Monkees episode where Peter copies a painting and adds Mike's hat:

Bad Guy: The hat's not needed.
Peter (smiling): It's Mike's hat. It's knitted.
Bad Guy: I know that it's knitted, but it's not needed.
Peter: How did you know it was knitted?
Bad Guy: I can see that it's knitted, but it's not needed!
Peter: Oh! For a minute I thought you knew Mike!

Anyway!

I had a fever for the better part of about three days, and am still not a hundred percent. Fortunately, it was the weekend and Robert could do everything!

Boy did he make me look bad. The house, including the kitchen, was spotless. He vacuumed, did 4-5 loads of laundry, had the girls completely clean their rooms and the playroom, packed everyone up and picked up several things at Target ... cheez! From what I saw and heard, everybody seemed pretty happy ... a little too damn happy, if you ask me! :)

The Day I Met a Princess

by Rachael, age six

I was waiting on the porch one time, and eating cookies that my mother cooked and brought outside for me to eat on a plate.

As I picked up one of the cookies, a girl with a dress, a crown, and a beautiful wand came by and sat down on the porch next to me.

I was feeling kind of bored by then, and the princess asked me why I was bored. My answer was, "Because there's nothing to do in my house."

The Princess said, "I can fix that! Show me around in your house."

I showed her my bathroom, my kitchen, and my room, and even my mother and father's room.

The Princess picked up her wand, set a potion, and suddenly the whole house was funner.

I picked up a toy that was new and starting playing. "Thank you, Princess," I said.

"You're welcome," said the Princess. And with a sparkle of her wand and a twinkle of her eye, she was gone.

And that was how I met the Princess.

THE END

Cinderella's List

I just found this, and a pen, on the table next to Rachael's bed. I don't know when she wrote it. I can probably safely assume it's a list of tasks for Cinderella.

She doesn't always space well between words, so I'll add that so it's more readable here:

MAC THE MELS

WOSH US UP

SET THE TABL

TAC THE TRASH OWT

SORT THE LONDRE

SWEP THE ASHIS IN THE FIR

Kit, an American Girl

I'm not sure how they found us, but a month or two ago, we got a catalog for American Girl dolls at our house. The girls love to look at and tell me what they want (which is almost everything.)

Since the dolls are about a hundred dollars each, then more for extra clothes and accessories, and since they're for ages "eight and up," I cheaply decided to get the books out of the library for now instead.

So a couple days ago we started reading about Kit, from 1934.

Yesterday Rachael put on a hat and pretended she was Kit. She got on the computer and typed and printed her own "newspaper story" like Kit does.

It looks like this:


the howrs are coming

i cant wat i hop we can bild a tree hows i hop wil hav los uv fud mad by kit


The book is pretty neat, by the way. I would loved all the American Girl stuff myself when I was about eight or nine.

I hope your dreams will come true

I HOPE YOUR DREAMS WILL COME TRUE
by Rachael, age 6

Once upon a time, there was a little girl named Anna Dayla. She loved her mom. She loved her dad. All that she could think about was sitting among the flowers, wishing wishes in the wishing well.

One day she asked her mom if she could go for a walk to find some sort of wishing well. As she turned a corner, she saw a misty flower forest. She said, "Maybe it will lead into a wishing well. Oh how nice it will be to sit among the flowers, wishing the wishes I always wished!"

"But oh, this is a so misty forest, I can't really get through!" But as nervous as ever, she still went into the forest, as misty as ever. When she turned a misty corner, she saw there was no more mist, and a circle of flowers, and right in the middle was a wishing well.

She ran over to the circle of flowers, sat down, and wished the wishes she always wished.

One of the wishes was, "I wish I was a mermaind." As soon as she put her head into the well and wished her wish, she had a tail. She struggled into the closest river.

But there was still one thingshe was worried about. If she was a mermaid forever, she would never see her mom and dad again.

So she went back on land, wished she was a person again, and she had legs. She ran back to her home and told her mother and father all about what happened.

She never wished that wish again, but still loved her wishing well.

THE END

It's enough to make me sick

I'm getting our paperwork together to do our income taxes for 2007 (which, by the way, was not the year that members of our family were hospitalized for months, that was 2006).

TOTAL COST IN MEDS: $1500

OTHER MEDICAL COSTS(DOC VISITS, LAB, ETC): $5800

Oh yeah, and did I mention that our monthly health insurance payments are more than our mortgage?

I don't know what the answer is, but it scares the hell out of me.