So...I'm just gonna keep this one short and sweet because I'm EXHAUSTED from a wild and crazy Halloween weekend! We started our Halloween celebration by carving our pumpkins on Wednesday: This is the one I carved - inspired by Jack from Nightmare Before Christmas This is the one that Jerry carved - Nate picked it out and Jerry had no choice in the...
Last night I went to bed at 9:30. I am usually not one of those people who go to bed early but I've been extra tired these days (no - I'm not pregnant...I just have 4 small children) so I decided that calling it a night early wasn't going to hurt anything. I knew that chances were that I wouldn't do anything productive...
So, last week our meals went pretty well. Granted we had to move a few around and I didn't cook my Whole Roast Chicken on Saturday ~ but I did make everything else and I have 2 frozen casseroles in my freezer downstairs! So ~ on to this week's menu: Monday - Baked Meatballs (I'm using a recipe for my convection oven out...
I know it is early ~ it's only *almost* Halloween...but I've been thinking about Christmas already! After all...it's the 24th only 2 months until CHRISTMAS EVE! Now, of course, we have already started using the "Santa Card" around here - my husband more than me - HONESTLY! I was poking around different web sites and decided that I would look into other ways...
So ~ I have been wanting to post a blog post all week. Tuesday, I worked and then took the kids to the Good Shepard program at church (it's like CCD for little guys) and then went to my Mommy Group meeting (which was a lot of fun). Wednesday...I spent most of my time online trying to play around with my layout and...
So - I'm currently in that place where things are suppose to go back to normal but don't feel normal at all. I'm sure that is normal when you are dealing with a loss. The funeral for Memaw was a wonderful tribute to her amazing life. All the branches of her family tree were represented and those who were unable to be here...
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I feel like I spent the whole weekend waiting for a phone call. Very similar to when you are expecting a new life to enter the world and you are sitting by the phone waiting for it to ring. I wasn't waiting to hear that a new life entered the world, though. I was waiting to hear that a wonderful woman was finally...
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I swear my memory gets more and more faded every year. I was laying in bed last night trying to remember my first year of teaching. I remembered bits and pieces but nothing vividly. Then I tried remembering the big move I made from Kindergarten to Third Grade - again, I can't remember much. I blame it on the fact that I have...
I feel like I'm so close . . . but I feel like that a lot. Close to what, you ask. Close to not feeling overwhelmed. Close to getting it together. Close to feeling under control. I have to admit that feeling close is a lot nicer than feeling completely out of it. It's progress, I suppose. However, in my effort to get...
So - we are starting to fall into a routine around here (except this morning when I flew out of bed at 8:30 because the wonderful woman who drives Nate to school on M/W/F was knocking on my door - guess I'm going to have to switch the clock on my phone back to digital since I've forgotten how to tell time). With...
Who knows if this will stick - but today I had a brilliant idea about a weekly post that I could try out...since I'm working on trying to be a more "organized" blogger. My idea is to do a Sentimental Saturday post where I talk about something from my past that has a story that I am comfortable telling my children. At first,...
I said it here - my Happiness Project starts today. I'm not off to a very good start, though - I haven't had breakfast yet. I haven't purchased a multi-vitamin to take daily and I'm watching my niece this afternoon - which will require my attention and therefore not afford much time to start putting things in their place. However, I am posting a...
