Well this has been going around Facebook for awhile and I have read many others and I thought it was a great idea however, I do not want my information on Facebook. There are too many random individuals reading that stuff and I knew that since only close friends and family read this blog I felt it was more appropriate to post it here. However, I did enjoy reading others "Random things" on Facebook because I did get to know other friends and acquaintances a little better, but it is not for me. I think it is a good idea to make this list because it gets me thinking about what things I know about myself and to examine my likes, dislikes, interests and hobbies. So here it goes
-I love the idea of a vegetable garden but I do not want to maintain it
-I get very nervous when I travel a far distance from my kids
-I do not enjoy flying and usually end up thinking about what could or could not happen during take off/landing/and while in the air
-I like lots of snow and I like when it stays around for awhile
-I actually like to exercises and I like knowing that my muscles are in good shape and are being used on a regular basis
-If my family would cooperate I would cook vegetarian dishes everyday
-I love staying home with my kids, it is such a short time in our lifetimes to spend quality time with them.
-If I could change professional careers and go back to college as a singly young woman I would choose a more family friendlier career like physical therapy, nursing, teacher, photographer, social worker.
-when I have a weekend away from my kids I like sew, watch TV, and spend time with hubby
-My guilty pleasure is watching reality TV
-I love massages but do not like pedicures
-I love jellybeans, skittles, Mike and Ikes, Dove chocolate, Carmel nips and trident gum
-I enjoy cooking and trying new food
-I would like to "flip" an old house
-I love taking pictures of my family
-I dislike when my kids whine and ask for things constantly
-I have never spanked my kids. I am not against it I have just never had to.
-I do miss my part-time Planning job and my co-workers in Knoxville
-I miss my Friday playgroup friends and kids from Knoxville
-My house is never completely clean
-I love using cloth diapers and I wish I would have used them with my two older children
-we may or may not have another child
-I love fixing things around the house. I am a handy woman
-I consider myself a spiritual person whose is constantly striving to become a better person for myself, my family, for our world, and the greater good
-One of my dreams is to run a non-profit child/parent resource center where parents can get help, take classes, talking to others about the challenges of raising children and really trying hard to raise their kids an appropriate way
-My idea of a fun adult night would be to go to a nice restaurant then go and see a comedy show or play card games with another couple
Well I think that is it. I think I actually have 26, but who is counting
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-warmer days
-getting a close parking spot and a spinning pass last Friday (I usually never get into the Friday class)
-Having alone time with Nathan
-our sweet, lovable dogs
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Craft Time
OK so I have made it my mission to get back onto the craft wagon. I did lots of crafts with the kids before the holidays and I have not gotten back into it. They always enjoy doing the crafts, it helps them learn new things, I learn new things, I feel like I am actually doing stuff with the kids besides always cleaning up after them and cooking for them, and it keeps their behavior in check since they are occupied. So we started this weekend by dying silk scarfs. I got the idea from here and thought it would be a great activity and then the kids could play with them. The girls love to pretend play with anything and this was no exception. They have used these scarfs as blankets and beds for their Groovy Girls and Nathan has taken some interest in the scarfs.
So here are pictures from that event. The girls had fun dipping the scarfs in the dye and being in charge of their color.
The colors turned out beautifully. The Kool-Aid did wonders even though it still had food coloring in it and I should have just used food coloring. Oh well.
I also finally took pictures of the two dolls that I made for the girls while I was in Penn State with hubby. It took me about 10 hours to make both of these dolls. I enlarged the pattern by 50 percent so that these are bigger then the dolls I made during Christmas time. They turned out really cute and I may try to adapt the pattern for a boy doll for Nathan. The girls picked out their own fabric. Mallory chose the bright pink/blue one and Julianne wanted the yellow/pink fabric.
Additionally here is a picture of my birthday pillows my friend from Tennessee made for me. The are so adorable and I love the three fabrics together. Thanks again Katie.
Nathan is sick again. He started getting a fever on Monday so I filled his antibiotics prescription the doctor had given me when I took Mallory in a couple weeks ago. He had been taking antibiotics earlier in the month for an ear infection and ended last Wednesday. So it has been about 4 days and I can tell that it is back. He was sticking his finger in his ear and he has a mild fever. Monday night I went in his room and he was breathing really hard so I gave him a breathing treatment and slept with him so that I could hear his breathing patterns. I gave him another treatment on Tuesday morning and this morning. So this morning he still has a fever of 101.7, I gave him some Tylenol and he took a morning nap. He is still doing some belly breathing and his is coughing a ton so that is what he has going on now.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-good books
-sleeping in my own bed without my wiggly/loud sleeping/hot son (even though I did enjoy sleeping with him but did not really sleep)
-somewhat warmer weather
So here are pictures from that event. The girls had fun dipping the scarfs in the dye and being in charge of their color.
The colors turned out beautifully. The Kool-Aid did wonders even though it still had food coloring in it and I should have just used food coloring. Oh well.
I also finally took pictures of the two dolls that I made for the girls while I was in Penn State with hubby. It took me about 10 hours to make both of these dolls. I enlarged the pattern by 50 percent so that these are bigger then the dolls I made during Christmas time. They turned out really cute and I may try to adapt the pattern for a boy doll for Nathan. The girls picked out their own fabric. Mallory chose the bright pink/blue one and Julianne wanted the yellow/pink fabric.
Additionally here is a picture of my birthday pillows my friend from Tennessee made for me. The are so adorable and I love the three fabrics together. Thanks again Katie.
Nathan is sick again. He started getting a fever on Monday so I filled his antibiotics prescription the doctor had given me when I took Mallory in a couple weeks ago. He had been taking antibiotics earlier in the month for an ear infection and ended last Wednesday. So it has been about 4 days and I can tell that it is back. He was sticking his finger in his ear and he has a mild fever. Monday night I went in his room and he was breathing really hard so I gave him a breathing treatment and slept with him so that I could hear his breathing patterns. I gave him another treatment on Tuesday morning and this morning. So this morning he still has a fever of 101.7, I gave him some Tylenol and he took a morning nap. He is still doing some belly breathing and his is coughing a ton so that is what he has going on now.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-good books
-sleeping in my own bed without my wiggly/loud sleeping/hot son (even though I did enjoy sleeping with him but did not really sleep)
-somewhat warmer weather
Friday, February 13, 2009
We are back
We just got back from visiting Penn State University in Pennsylvania, hence the name Penn State. Home to the Nittany Lions and Joe Paterno. It was a great visit. The city is a very cute college town in a valley between two mountain ranges. We stayed on campus so I got to do a lot of walking around and visiting the campus. Most of the buildings had slate roofs and most of the architectural was very pretty and traditional. I was going to take pictures but the second day we were there the wind was very strong and I was did not think that taking pictures was the best idea. I pretty much staying in the hotel room sewing the girls some dolls, I took a few walks, ran and watch senseless TV. D and I got to go out to dinner the first night and then we ate dinner with his coworkers the second night.
We missed all the excitement at our house on Thursday night. We called around 5:00 pm. and we heard a man's voice and asked D's mom who it was and she said it was my friend's husband. So he got on the phone saying that D's mom had called him because there was an animal in the house. D's mom had not really gotten a good look at the animal and thought it was a lizard or a toad. So she called him and asked our neighbor to come over to help them get it out of the house. So the two men came over and the animal ran up the stairs and into Julianne room. It ended up being a chipmunk. They were able to capture it and release it down the road. I guess the kids were hysterical and really upset. I guess Nathan was the one that spotted it and showed D's mom. D's mom, aka Mimi, said that Nathan was really upset and his checks were so red from being upset. Additionally, the girls were so upset that night that they slept in our room and Mimi slept in Julianne's room and Mimi's sister slept in Mallory's room. So anyway, it is a really funny story and I am actually sorry that I was not there. I do remember kind of hearing something in the fireplace a couple of days ago so it may have gotten in there. We still don't really know how it got into the house. I thought that the boys would have tried to capture it or at least smelled it but I guess they were oblivious to the fact that there was another creature in our house. They laid in their bed the entire time the action was going on. I guess that is what we get for buying lap dogs.
I finally finished my purse's from hell, so I am no longer going to call them that I will just call them my new purses. They turned out really well and I am actually pretty pleased with them. I am pretty hard on myself when it comes to making things and rarely say that my work is great but these are pretty nice. The outside is quilted, there are inside pockets, a Velcro closure, a bottom support and I love the springy fabric. I think I owe most of the credit to my new "walking foot" that I bought for my sewing machine. It keeps the fabric together and just is flawless in sewing two pieces of fabric together. So that helped keep the corners square and fitted and it helped me quilt the front panel.
While in Penn State I got onto the Internet with our laptop which also has a lot of our older pictures. So I uploaded some pictures and here are some of my favorites.
I don't remember how old Nathan is in this picture but he is younger than 6 months since it was taken in Tennessee
This one is before Nathan was born
This is Mallory and I see some resemblance to Nathan
Here is Mallory in that snowsuit that I just posted a few weeks ago where Nathan was in it.
Mallory at a gymnastics party in Tennessee. She must be around two.
Mallory in her Halloween outfit. She is 2.5 years old and reminded me of ET.
Julianne and Mallory around Christmas time in Tennessee. Look at Julianne's poor face and Mallory did not have any hair.
Mallory getting dirty with paint.
I had two other pictures that I was uploading at that time of Julianne and it did not complete so I will have to do it another time.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-getting away with my husband
-being able to travel to a new place I have never been
-enjoying time to myself
-being excited to see my kids
-knowing that they were in good hands while we were away
-having great friends to help out while we were gone, Thanks Jess, Jill, Monty and Ron
-Having a safe uneventful car ride to Penn State and back
We missed all the excitement at our house on Thursday night. We called around 5:00 pm. and we heard a man's voice and asked D's mom who it was and she said it was my friend's husband. So he got on the phone saying that D's mom had called him because there was an animal in the house. D's mom had not really gotten a good look at the animal and thought it was a lizard or a toad. So she called him and asked our neighbor to come over to help them get it out of the house. So the two men came over and the animal ran up the stairs and into Julianne room. It ended up being a chipmunk. They were able to capture it and release it down the road. I guess the kids were hysterical and really upset. I guess Nathan was the one that spotted it and showed D's mom. D's mom, aka Mimi, said that Nathan was really upset and his checks were so red from being upset. Additionally, the girls were so upset that night that they slept in our room and Mimi slept in Julianne's room and Mimi's sister slept in Mallory's room. So anyway, it is a really funny story and I am actually sorry that I was not there. I do remember kind of hearing something in the fireplace a couple of days ago so it may have gotten in there. We still don't really know how it got into the house. I thought that the boys would have tried to capture it or at least smelled it but I guess they were oblivious to the fact that there was another creature in our house. They laid in their bed the entire time the action was going on. I guess that is what we get for buying lap dogs.
I finally finished my purse's from hell, so I am no longer going to call them that I will just call them my new purses. They turned out really well and I am actually pretty pleased with them. I am pretty hard on myself when it comes to making things and rarely say that my work is great but these are pretty nice. The outside is quilted, there are inside pockets, a Velcro closure, a bottom support and I love the springy fabric. I think I owe most of the credit to my new "walking foot" that I bought for my sewing machine. It keeps the fabric together and just is flawless in sewing two pieces of fabric together. So that helped keep the corners square and fitted and it helped me quilt the front panel.
While in Penn State I got onto the Internet with our laptop which also has a lot of our older pictures. So I uploaded some pictures and here are some of my favorites.
I don't remember how old Nathan is in this picture but he is younger than 6 months since it was taken in Tennessee
This one is before Nathan was born
This is Mallory and I see some resemblance to Nathan
Here is Mallory in that snowsuit that I just posted a few weeks ago where Nathan was in it.
Mallory at a gymnastics party in Tennessee. She must be around two.
Mallory in her Halloween outfit. She is 2.5 years old and reminded me of ET.
Julianne and Mallory around Christmas time in Tennessee. Look at Julianne's poor face and Mallory did not have any hair.
Mallory getting dirty with paint.
I had two other pictures that I was uploading at that time of Julianne and it did not complete so I will have to do it another time.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-getting away with my husband
-being able to travel to a new place I have never been
-enjoying time to myself
-being excited to see my kids
-knowing that they were in good hands while we were away
-having great friends to help out while we were gone, Thanks Jess, Jill, Monty and Ron
-Having a safe uneventful car ride to Penn State and back
Friday, February 6, 2009
Where does the time go?
I cannot believe my last post was on January 28th. We have been extra busy around this household with dad and kids being sick, I have been working on my new purse from hell, and I am finishing up work for my former employer. So with all that it means I have less time to blog. So D played basketball at the local high school last Thursday and fell into a bleacher and fractured his rib. What that means is that he is/was in a lot of pain and they can not do anything about it. Finally on Monday he was in lots and lots of pain and could not concentrate so he went to the urgent care and they gave him some pain medication, Tramadol. He took it for a couple days and then on Wednesday started throwing up, was nauseated and had the cold sweats and it took him 12 hours to recover. We do not know what caused his severe upset stomach/nausea. It could have been the pain medication he was taking or it could have been a bug. Anyway, he is feeling much better and will not continue to take his pain meds in case that was the cause. He said he was in Hell on Wednesday so he does not want to take the chance. Mallory and Nathan both have ear infections and are on Amoxicillin. They are both doing well and seem to be feeling better.
My purse from hell, is a Mini Miranda Bag from Lazy Girl Designs. I love the purse and I am excited for it to be done but it has taken me forever. I think it has taken me so long because I am making two bags from the same fabric so that adds on extra time; secondly, the outside fabric is quilted so that took some time and lastly there are a lot of steps to this purse. I started it this weekend when D's mom had the kids. So I had lots of time and I have probably put in at least 20 hours into making this purse, hence the name Purse from Hell. I am almost done, all I have to do is to put on the straps and the flap closure. So when I am done I will have two identical purses of which I will use one and either try to sell the other or give it to someone. When I get done I will post pictures. I am hoping to get it done by this weekend.
That is about it for now. I better go since the kids are throwing toys up into the air. I thought I would write a short post now but the kids are taking advantage of the free time so I better go.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-I am glad I did not get sick (knock on wood)
-I am glad that D is feeling better, it is no fun seeing your spouse in pain
-having a weekend to ourselves
-getting a good gym parking spot on an extremely cold day with two kids
-getting into spinning class, I have tried to get into this class the past two Fridays, only to arrive minutes too late to get a card and hauling two kids with me.
My purse from hell, is a Mini Miranda Bag from Lazy Girl Designs. I love the purse and I am excited for it to be done but it has taken me forever. I think it has taken me so long because I am making two bags from the same fabric so that adds on extra time; secondly, the outside fabric is quilted so that took some time and lastly there are a lot of steps to this purse. I started it this weekend when D's mom had the kids. So I had lots of time and I have probably put in at least 20 hours into making this purse, hence the name Purse from Hell. I am almost done, all I have to do is to put on the straps and the flap closure. So when I am done I will have two identical purses of which I will use one and either try to sell the other or give it to someone. When I get done I will post pictures. I am hoping to get it done by this weekend.
That is about it for now. I better go since the kids are throwing toys up into the air. I thought I would write a short post now but the kids are taking advantage of the free time so I better go.
Things I am grateful/thankful for:
-I am glad I did not get sick (knock on wood)
-I am glad that D is feeling better, it is no fun seeing your spouse in pain
-having a weekend to ourselves
-getting a good gym parking spot on an extremely cold day with two kids
-getting into spinning class, I have tried to get into this class the past two Fridays, only to arrive minutes too late to get a card and hauling two kids with me.
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