Yesterday…

• I made black bean soup. It was delicious.
• I worked through more templates on the SEO project. It’s not difficult, just very detail-oriented work.
• I searched high and low on the Internet for a source of emery in bulk… but not too much bulk. I’m interested in something like a ten pound bucket, not a fifty pound sack, and not a three ounce envelope.

Yesterday…

* I slept in. I was tired enough to unlock the TiVo to keep the kids quiet while I slept in. (The baby likes to sleep in. She would sleep until noon if I stayed in bed with her every day. But I can’t really do that.) When I got up, I kicked the kids outside to get some fresh air, which they did for four hours. Wow!
* I made my littlest sister’s Christmas present. We make things for each other, and then we give them to each other after Christmas. Lowered expectations!
* I did not make black bean soup.
* I actually put lotion on my hands. They were that bad.

Yesterday…

* I did not make black bean soup for dinner. My time management skills on that one were suboptimal. The beans will just have extra time to soak.
* I took the dog for a walk, chatted with the mailman when he stopped at the house on the corner, picked up one poop, and saw that yet another house on my route has a white foreclosure notice tacked up on it.
* I ate leftover chicken enchiladas for lunch with Matthew.
* I fed the baby a cheese sandwich for lunch, and nam tok beef for dinner.
* I worked on SEO for a school site; it’s a lot of reorganizing and moving templates around, but I feel like it is finally coming together. The worst part is always the first page. Everything after that is much simpler.

Yesterday…

* I stayed in my pajamas all day long.
* I upgraded six installations of [WordPress](http://www.wordpress.org/).
* I made baked lemon chicken, rice, and peas for dinner. It’s always a hit with the kids; the baby was especially thrilled with the chicken.
* I made it up to the thumb gusset on a mitten and had to frog a few rows for stupidity.

Yesterday…

* I folded and put away all of the laundry that came out of the dryer. I also made progress on my mountain of clean laundry.
* I brought Rebecca to her ballet class and met Elizabeth, the crunchy granola cloth-diaper-sewing founder of [GENY](http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5189827). Her diapers are drool-worthy and quite well-made. If I weren’t addicted to prefolds, I’d be all over the one-size fitteds. Maybe for the next baby. (No, I am not pregnant right now.)
* I finished the cuff of a [purple mitten for Rebecca](http://www.ravelry.com/projects/jmdodd/basic-mitten-pattern) while Deidre and I chatted about dance and ballet and Christmas and life and the universe and everything.
* I ordered another giant pail of Charlie’s laundry soap, since I am down to my last few loads. I love giant pails of laundry soap. I bought my last one in November of 2006.