If You Give a Cricket a....

If any of you have ever had a kindergartner in your life, you're probably familiar with the book, "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie". If you haven't, long story short, a boy gives a mouse a cookie and then the mouse asks for milk to go with it, which will remind him of something else, and then something else, and then something else. It's a whole chain of cause and effects and all that's left is a huge mess. Here's my version:

If you give a Cricket a Country Living magazine, she's going to want to decorate her house exactly like the cover.

While she's thinking about colors she wants in her rooms, she will remember that she has (for the past 6 years) wanted to frame her boys' hanboks that they came home with.

So, she'll take her current selections off the wall and put up the hanboks. When she takes the plates down from the wall, she'll remember that the diningroom needs something on it's walls.

She thinks that the plates would look good green and decides that she needs green spray paint at Home Depot.

While she's thinking about colors, she knows she has scarfs that she doesn't wear anymore that would look as pillows, so she pulls out old clothes and scarves and "dresses" pillows.

While she's pulling out old clothes, she'll remember that she needs new black pants and spends WAY too much time on LL Bean's site figuring out which ones would be best for her.

While she's on the computer, she'll remember that she's suppose to volunteer at her son's school.

While she's thinking about her sons, she'll remember that she's suppose to make a hot meal AND dessert for the cub scouts.

While she's thinking about cub scouts, she'll remember that she still hasn't sewn on a bunch of patches to her sons' shirts.

When her husband comes home, she tells him that ALL WEEK she has been running from one thing to the next with NO TIME to get ANYTHING accomplished.

While she's cranky and complaining, she'll remember that she hasn't had a green smoothie in DAYS.

While she's making her green smoothie, she looks around at her mess and realizes she needs to clean.

While she steps away from the blender, to start cleaning up her messy dishes, her blender freaks out (because she was in such a hurry assembling it, and therefore not entirely screwed onto the base).

While she's cleaning up said smoothie, she dies her white dishcloth a beautiful shade of green.

And chances are, when she sees a shade of green, she's going to remember that she saw a green pillow that she wanted in Country Living.



AAARRRGGHHH...must get it together and stop (not) doing a bazillion things at once and leaving gigantic messes behind. My mind has been soooo erratic lately and I KNOW it's directly related to my surroundings.

So, that day (actually happened last week) I decided to spend time getting my act together.  I'm happy with the results.  You'll see them in the coming days!

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