I really dislike being tired....

I'm
so tired tonight... it's 9:14pm right now.  This is very exciting
because for the last few many weeks I have not been tired when it's
time for bed and have been falling asleep around midnight.  Now I
am ready to climb in bed and fall asleep!!!

OOOO... one thing not to do when your tired.  After I wrote that
last paragraph, my 9 year old came in and asked me to get the
rubber bands out of her hair.  It's wet from the hot tub.  So
I went to cut the rubber band and save her some pain, but I accidently
cut a small chunk of hair instead... she took it well... YIKES! I better go to bed.

Good night ~me

P.S.  I took Val's soft cast off on Saturday Night and her arm feels fine!  PTL!!

Thanks girls -- I haven't heard of either of those singers so I am looking forward to checking it out.

Joy7 - to answer you questions
1) Wow -- greatest accomplishment?  I really have to think about
that.  Obviously anything I answer would imply glory to God, as
without Him, I am nothing.  It would probably the process of
sucessfully homeschooling my girls.
 
2) Without a doubt -- ROCKY ROAD is my all time favorite ice cream
flavor... I have no problem turning down any kind of ice cream but if
my hubby buys Rocky Road, I have no self-control and just pig out on
it!!  Love it in a cup with some milk (like a milk shake) with
whipped cream on top!

3) Let's see... I was living in Santa Clara by San Jose in No.
California and dating my neighbor, Dean.  Dean roomed with my
husband, Steve, at Chico State.  Steve was still good friends with
Dean's ex-girlfriend, Debbie, from Chico -- So whenever Dean would come
down here (to So. California) to see Steve, Steve would invite Debbie
over because he felt that Dean and Debbie needed to be together --
obviously I did not have good feelings towards Steve -- I rather
thought he was very annoying and I didn't like him at all.  Steve
was a Christian.

Skip forward two year and I became a Christian (I was about 24).
Dean and I went on a ski weekend in Tahoe with a bunch of other people,
including Steve.  I thought I would just avoid Steve -- as after
two years, I still didn't like him.   However, the first day we
went skiing, we got to the top of hill and everyone took off down the
advanced slops leaving Steve and I at the top of the hill together... I
remember praying "Oh LORD!  PLEASE don't make me spend the whole
day with this guy!!!".

By the end of the day we were best buds.  We had a wonderful time
and found we had a lot in common.   So for the next few
months Dean and I would come down here or Steve would come up and we'd
do this or that (usually a basketball game or baseball game). 
Dean and I eventually broke up as Dean was not a Christian and had no
desire to be one.  But the three of us continued to do things
together.

A few months after we broke up, Steve was going to Seattle to visit his
other roommate from college, Paul, who I knew too through Dean. 
They all were going to go to a Jackson Brown concert.  Steve
wanted us to go and but Dean was unable to get the time off of work and
-- but I had tons of money and vacation time, so I went.  While we
were up there Paul's wife commented on how much Steve and I got along
and was wondering why we never considered dating.  It was a new
concept to me -- it hadn't even crossed my mind - especially because we
lived 400 miles apart.  But all we needed was the seed planted.

6 weeks later we were engaged and 5 months later we were married. In March, it will be 15 years.

Thanks for your questions!

~me

Well -- it's hard to believe that it's
been 5 days again since I blogged.  Time sure does fly.  This
weekend was a lazy weekend -- I didn't do anything on Sunday --
literally.   I slept in till 10, then laid in bed until at least
noon, then played computer games all after noon.  I did make
dinner and cleaned the kitchen up from the messes of not being in there
all day.  But that was it.  I can't tell you how nice it was
to just not do anything.  I doesn't happen very often.

My girls made a video with the porcelain dolls.  It was this
"Extreme Make-Over" show.   It was totally hilarious!! 
They even had the before and after at the end....

Valerie, my 11 year old (well, almost 12!) -- you just got to know her
-- she's the type of girl that doesn't play sports, is very dainty,
etc, etc, etc... Well, she decided to play touch football with some
kids from our homeschool group on the CEMENT!  Can you tell how
this is going to end????  She got tagged a bit hard and fell and
hurt her wrist and her ulna (the outer bone in the forearm) real
bad... didn't break it, thank You, Lord!  She does have to have it
splinted for a week or so to help the healing as she was unable to move
it or rotate her arm the next day.  Here is a picture of her
tonight as she was getting ready for her ballet class.

(our silly kitty is in the picture too!)

Poor
Val.  She has broken her arm twice before this, pretty much in the
same area (last time was July of 03 when she fell off her bike) - so
when she was still having trouble moving it on Saturday morning, I took
her in.  Unfortunately, a splint like this is actually heavier
than a cast, but it is not bothering her, and for that, among other
things, I am thankful.

I am doing pretty good.  I have this darn eyebrow twitch thing
going though, and BOY! does it drive me crazy.  I haven't had it
in a very long time.  Seems to be associated with my
fibromyalgia.  Hopefully, as I get my immune system back in order
it will depart quickly. 

God is good -- all the time!!!
Blessings on your evening
~me

 

Found the camera.... it was hiding under my desk...

So.... Here are the pictures of the little girls room.  This first
one is a picture of the area I made in the closet part for Grace and
her baby dolls.

She's so cute... wanting to hang her broom and hats on the wall... not
to forget, however, the sword!!.  She also made a little table and
put books on it that she reads to her babies,
and of course a phone. I have to emphasize that the sword just really
cracks me up.  All this fru fru stuff and then... the sword! tee
hee hee

I know
this looks really busy, but as I said this used to be the play room so
all the games and toys are in there.  You can just barely see the
mirror I put behind the dresser and the hutch I added with all the
girls' porcelain dolls as well as other knickknacks.

Here is the last picture I took.  Nothing much to say about it.

As I was looking at what pictures I wanted to upload I came across this
one my daughter took today.  Our cat cracks us up.  If there
is a piece of paper on the floor, she will lay on it.  It doesn't
even really matter how small the piece of paper is.  So my
daughter got a piece of paper and put "Squeeker's paper" on it and laid
it in the middle of the floor... she took this a few minutes
later.  Kitty's got that "get that camera out of my face..." look!

Hahahahaaahahahaha... silly kitty! 

Love to you all
~me

Did I mention these are my two favorite colors... pink and yellow -- and yes, the darker, brighter side of pink 

Well I tackled the little girls room yesterday.  I should have
taken a "before" picture so you would be so proud of my after. 
And I can't find the camera this morning to post a picture of the
after.  But once I do I'll post it. 

Basically, for those of you who haven't seen their room, on the left as
you enter, they have bunk beds (so you are looking at the feet of them
when you enter). Then on the window wall (which you are looking at when
you enter) there were 3-yard wide drawer things two of which had doll
house stuff in them, and one that had babydoll stuff in it -  then
a large doll house.  On the wall to the right I had put
up 4-8ft long shelves on which all of their toys resided (because at
one point I had all the girls in one room and this room was the play
room).  Under it were boxes stacked with dress up clothes and
fashion pollys and a baby station (a plastic kiddie one - with a little
highchair, sink, and crib).  Then the rest of the wall under the
end of the shelves then poking out was a 9 drawer dresser.  The
remaining wall is a closet, with mirrored doors, and a 4 drawer dresser
with a hutch on top (which was so big it extended into closet area a
bit).  There is also a book shelf at the end of the bunk bed when
you first come in. 

They inherited from the big girls this container stand thingie and that
4 drawer dresser with the hutch - this is recent - since the big girls
just redid their room last week.

So, here's the main changes.  I took off the closet doors and made
one whole part of it a babydoll area.  I put in the baby
station and all their babydoll stuff.  Grace helped with this and
I don't think she's left that area since.

Then I removed one of the 4 shelves completely. Then I sawed (or should
I say my husband did) almost a yard off of the bottom one so that I
could put the hutch on the 9 drawer dresser.  Since now they
didn't have any mirror in their bedroom, I put one of the closet doors
behind the dresser - so it looks like a mirror hanging on the wall. I
moved all the doll house stuff to under the shelves, moved the dress-up
stuff into the closet, moved the 4 drawer dresser under the window and
the container stand thingie to the foot of their bed.

So now, on the top shelf I still have baby toys (which I have no where
else to put right now), but now added all four girls' beanie
babies.   The next shelf down has all the little girls toys
in different containers with lids and different houses (like hello
kitty and Polly), and the last shelf has the big box of polly stuff,
all the games and the "beauty" box (play stuff like - rings,
necklesses, etc).

I also moved all of their clothes into the 9 drawer dresser.  They
were in the 2 drawers under the bed, but I like it more now because
their drawers are sorted shirts, pants, ect. instead of everything in
one drawer.  I put the nighties in one of the drawers under the
bed and the other is a shoe drawer.  I moved from the 9 drawer
dresser all the video tapes and put them into the 4 drawer
dresser  (the 9 drawer dresser had all the kids' video tapes and
two shoe drawers).   I write this because it's the unseen
effort.  You wouldn't know that I spent an hour sorting and doing
that unless I told you.

I still have some sorting to do today -- but I'm so glad I got it all figured out and had the energy to do it.
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Today our homeschool group is going to a convalescent home for a meet
and greet - which mainly we sing some song and the kids play different
instruments and then we greet the residents. 

And then tonight is AWANA's and I think Steve and I and Elizabeth are
going to go see Finding Neverland, if I can get my neighbor to pick the
girls up from AWANA's (their kids go too) and keep them for a bit.

Well, that's about it!!  Not much else going on.  Have a good day!
~me

I fell off the face of the xanga earth for a couple of days.... but I'm back now. 

This weekend was fun. I played bunco with some friends on Friday night
and won $15 -- WOOT! WOOT!  We are making it a monthly
thing.  That should be fun -- I like it especially because there
are a few I don't know and I like meeting new people.

Saturday was for the most part quiet.  I did some cleaning and
then worked on some music then off to church Saturday
night.   Came home right after church (we usually go out to
eat) and watched the end of this stupid movie that was on, called "The
Core".  I'm glad I did not invest 2 1/2 hours of my time into
it... as one by one the cast, of mainly 5, died and it was really
depressing.

Sunday I drove up to Forest Home Retreat Center to check out our new
spot for this year.  It was a B - E  - A  - Utiful
day!!! Here's a picture I took.

Isn't
it so lovely?!!!!  After weeks of rain (and snow in the mountains)
it was just great to get away and it was even warm up there!!

This week is really busy (but pleasently I add that it's going to be in
the mid-80's all week!!!!) -- stuff going on almost every day!!! 
I
bought some material for my girls' room for window coverings and to
cover their closet area. One more thing to keep me busy!!

I think this afternoon I'm going to work on the little girls' room -
organizing, throwing away, etc.  Need to weed out a bit.

I hope you are all doing fine.   I haven't had an extended
moment to sit and read my subscriptions.  Hopefully sometime this
week -- but every day I just get further behind!!!!

Have a good one.
~me

Good morning!!!

What a rainy weekend we've had... not that I'm complaining - I like the rain - but I like 80 degree weather more .  We've had more rain this time of year than any year I can remember since I moved her in 1990.  Last year we had 3" of rain at this time - this year we've had over 20".

This weekend we painted my older girls room they picked the colors PINK and BLACK.  The black was really difficult to paint with -- we mainly did the trim in it.  It came out look really nice!  It's just with all this rainy weather, it's taking a long time to really dry.  I'll post a picture once they get everything back into their room.

We also went to see National Treasure this weekend - very fun.  The girls liked it, especially Grace.  When we were driving to the theather a very heavy rain cell was moving through and the freeway had a lot of flooding, both in the fast lane and the slow lane - and when we got off the entire right lane of the 3 lanes we have to drive in was COMPLETELY flooded.  Amazing - we just don't see that here in So Cal. 

Well, enough blabbering -- I've got to get the kiddos up for schooling.

Oh -- and, I have a friend that is having trouble getting onto my site - I was wondering if any of you are having that problem occassionally.  Please drop a comment if you do experience that.

By for now!

~me