So Long Ordinary

We celebrated Maddie's fifth birthday yesterday...here's what she had to say about herself.  So cute! (I think Sean has been a little over-zealous in indoctrinating these kids in future career choices.  It's time for me to step up my game, apparently....) What is your favorite activity? Getting presents for my birthday.  Play with my other toys that are special. What is your favorite color? Purple. What is your favorite toy? My unicorn. Who are your best friends? Caleb, Reece, and Abby What do you want to be when you grow up? Pilot! Why? Because it's awesome. What does Daddy do all day? Go fly airplanes. What does Mommy do all day? Take care of kids. What do you do all day? Play. What are your favorite books? Puplicious and my Bible and my card that has two pages What are your favorite movies? Beverly Hills Chihuahua 2, Dumbo, Nemo, Pinnochio and Tinkerbell What are your favorite foods? Umm...healthy food?  Watermelon, grapes, blueberries, cherries, strawbe...

The sweet, smokey fragrance of incense wafts through the house... The incense was bought this morning in a desperate attempt to cover up the stench of rats living (or are they already dead?) in our attic space.  I seem to be the one who smells that death-stench most often - it appears to be concentrated right above my side of the bed.  Of course.  I'm not going to lie.  It's rank.  And because it is so rank, I am grumpy.  And I always feel somehow infected and creepy whenever I get a whiff of it - what is up with that?  It's just air, right?  Even if it is air that stinks.  It can't actually infect me with something can it? Something had to be done.  I'm not going up there to remove the dead rat or the live ones if they are there... and I think they are because we hear them at night...shiver.  Sean is not going up there to remove the dead or alive rats or any combination thereof.  We can't bring ourselves to ask a friend to do ...