Wednesday, November 29, 2006

One of Those Days...

Do you ever have those days where you're in your jammies all day long?
I don't particularly care for those days... just seems like the day gets away from me and I go from one "task" to another and never get to the "basics" of the day... like a shower...

And now it's time to go to the gym. I don't particularly want to go to the gym - but at least I won't be here with my screaming banchee children and my annoying babies' daddy...

So... I'm off to the gym with a new scrappy mag... Maybe I'll take a sauna and shower there.... yeah....

Tuesday, November 28, 2006

Food of My Soul...

Music. Can't imagine life without it.
I MISS making it! Especially this time of year... I'm actually thinking of attending a church on Sundays too just so I can sing with a good choir! (or maybe find a duet partner...) I just miss the challenge of a good choral work.

Anyway - I figured out how to add a little music to my bleck... um... I mean blog... so here's a little Norah Jones - one of my very most favorite artists... I could sing back-up with Norah... in fact I DO.

Don't get too attached - I'll probably change the song in a few days if I can find a nice Christmas piece...

(didjuh' see how I added those italics and bolds back there? I'm catchin' on quick... just something else to suck up my time and irritate my babies' daddy...)

Monday, November 27, 2006

Blessing on the babies AND the mama's!



He's done it again... Blessed us more than we deserve...
I sit on the school board at our church's private two-room school and we're in the process of bringing the playground up to code. About two weeks ago I asked the principal what plans we were making for the old equipment - thinking we could buy it from the school. Well... she said it belongs to the Adrian W. family at the church and they wanted it back after the school was done with it. Oh well... I tried.
Well yesterday Adrian called and said, "did I hear that you were interested in the old play equipment?" I said that we sure were and asked him how much they wanted for it. He said, "you can have it... just go get it today!"
We called in a solid from another friend at church, Mike S. It just so happens that Mike owns a crane... isn't THAT handy?! He brought it over today and dropped it in the yard with the precision of a Golden Knight paratrooper! Now we owe Mike a solid - even though we paid him with about 40 of the worlds best homemade chocolate chip cookies ;o)
We, (and by "we" I mean Daddy and Grampa...) still have some putting together to do - there's a bar for swings and a big sand box also. We'll finally have a place to hang the horse tire swing they got for Christmas LAST year!
God is good!

Sunday, November 26, 2006

Let the Madness Begin

It's officially the Christmas season! I'm up to my eyeballs, literally, in Christmas tubs and boxes and there is still much more in the shed to be brought in! It seems like just yesterday that we packed all this Christmas stuff up... but it was actually August. Yes - August... easily the LONGEST I've ever had Christmas decorations out. They weren't still up - just out needing to be packed.

So far we have one tree officially "done" and 5 more waiting to be completed. We went with a live tree (really dying... as soon as you cut it, it starts to die...) again. This will be the 3rd year in a row and the 4th year ever that we've had a live tree. We never had them when I was a child. I do like the live trees. I was finding that after 13 years of Christmas photos in front of the tree they were all starting to look the same. I was even hanging the ornaments in the same spots! That's pretty pathetic, no? So this year our tree isn't quite as tall and it's much stouter than the past trees and yes, it probalby has way too many lights - but we could use another lamp in the living room anyway...

Thursday, November 23, 2006

Teeth and Nails


I've fought it... fought it hard... and I just may continue to fight - but for now I've succomb to blogging... BLECK! what a word... sounds like something you have to clean up after a bout with the flu!But it's Thanksgiving today and I wanted to express how thankful I am for so many things...My wonderful Christian husband, forgiving and tolerating me for the last 16+ years. How he does it I've no idea...My impatient, entitled attitude, beautiful, (yet hopelessly selfish) children... all three of them. Our home, which I love and my tolerating DH allowed me to talk him into (which is now making us poor...) My wonderful Christian parents and husband's Christian parents living so close... it really is nice to have them near.My ability to stay home and educate my kids now... I have to keep reminding myself of this because at the end of most days I'm ready to sell them to the next passer by...My net friends. I don't think I'd make it long without them. Sometimes I need to take a break and step back from the business of other's lives, but I miss the contact. I don't have any close girlfriends where I'm living now - you know - the kind you call and say, "hey - wanna take the kids to the mall and stand in line for hours to get a shot with Santa?" or "hey - feel like coming over to scrap?" So my net friends keep me going... and I love them.
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