lists; accomplished, need to do and little things

i was trying to upload a video of sea dancing to this bluesy band at the swap meet but the video was over 3 minutes long and taking way too long...maybe later...i finally upgraded to flickr pro (you can see my photos under "sea and story's mommy") and hope to use it as both a back-up for my photos, and well, now that they have merged with snapfish maybe i'll even print out some photos before our birthdays (manuel's is the 12th, mine the 15th and story's is the 27th of this month)...my point was just that i'm uploading a bunch of photos right now so my computer didn't want to try and do a video at the same time...

so back to my lists...i still didn't put up my resolutions...maybe by midnight tonight (once wee ones are in bed)...but i thought i could handle listing what we did accomplish today, what i still need to do (that i hoped to do today) and then a few "little things" as i call sea and storyisms...so this photo falls under the little things category...sea likes to kick up her heels quite literally when she dances and i didn't want to forget to write about that...she also is really in to drawing with "permanent ink"...story has really gotten in to saying "HI!" and "bye" and even "hungee" for hungry...just now sea was on the phone with my mom who was telling her that dogs' ears hurt when a fire engine goes by and she said "except for dalmations..." oh the ties she is making...one more; she says to her daddy "dance me!" which of course means dance with me...story learned how to pedal a small bike with training wheels a month or so ago so the children quickly ride after each other through the house...they are talking to my mom on the phone right now...story has been so excited about "MIMI" recently and it has been way too long since we've seen her...another storyism...he says "bumbee" for bumble bee...

i have to stop or i won't get to my lists which indirectly record typical days around here and just general randomness i might want to re-read sometime in the future...

last night i had a lot of anxiety dreams about planning my high school reunion. i was thinking a lot about the past, the present and hopes for the future and so my status update on facebook was something about existentialism and "remembering yesterday, living today and hoping tomorrow"...sure i borrowed that from somewhere...anyway, i was just thinking how different people live in different "times" (myself included) and how one thing this reunion offers each of us is a chance to balance those things...

so i straightened that idea out somewhat upon waking...then began uploading photos to flickr (in part to clean up my computer that has had way too many photos on the desktop trying to make family calendars)...uploaded photos from both my camera and my iphone and videos from my flip (just used this for the first time at disneyland this past month)...fed the children, somewhat cleaned up...changed 4 poopy diapers!!...then after riding their bikes around, making drawings, reading a few books they decided they wanted to play in the backyard...i thought it was too cloudy and cool but the sun came out and it was in the mid-60's so i thought eventually i would get out to plant the seedlings (2 kinds of broccoli, snap peas, spinach, arugula, several mixed types of lettuce...that is all i can remember right now) i bought 2 weeks ago...nope...too busy reprimanding children, changing clothes, taking off clothes, cleaning up dirt, cleaning off dirt, sweeping up rocks...

i'm not going to get to finish this list...sea is having a meltdown over picking up her drawings and i have to start dinner soon...more later...