Honey Do....

Hahaha, this is a funny one!

Jay really has one consistent chore (that doesn't mean he only does one thing!), and that is to take the garbage to the curb on garbage day. Jay consistently forgets to do this chore. Inevitably one of two things happens come Wednesday morning, depending on my schedule: either I take the garbage down myself or I yell for him to ruuuuuun to get the garbage out as I hear the garbage truck passing by our house. It's usually the latter....

So today, I heard the familiar rumble of the garbage truck passing our house and I yelled out for Jay. He jumped up, and I went to check out the front window to see if it really was the garbage truck. And lo and behold, our garbage can is already on the curb! I ran to Jay and told him how sweet he was for remembering to put the can out last night. Awwwww, he remembered! But then he looked confused when I thanked him. He didn't remember putting out the can.... But he has a bad memory, so it's entirely possible that he just plain forgot he did it. I decided to go outside and make sure it was our can and not somehow a neighbor's misplaced (on purpose) can.

And I saw our neighbors dragging our can back up the cliff we call a driveway. They started laughing and saying they hoped we didn't mind. I said, "No, thank you for taking out our garbage!" And they said, "No, thank you for letting us use your garbage can!" Haha, they're in the process of moving and had too much garbage, so they needed another can. We keep ours out on the driveway, and they tried knocking to ask permission. I didn't hear the knock, so they used it anyway (which we, of course, don't mind). We had a good laugh over the mistaken garbage-taker-outer identity!


Things to be thankful for:

1. Small universities. I've experienced both small and large, and while small does have it's cons, the pros outweigh the cons by a mile. The personal atmosphere...nothing compares to it.

2. An unexpected hour to finish my homework sans kids. Now I have the afternoon and evening to spend with my family.

3. Homemade bread...soooo good! I don't really have anything to add to this =).