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Here’s another creation that I finished the other day. I took some old jeans from the kids and cut them straight across a couple inches from the crotch (couldn’t think of another word, sorry). Turned the jeans inside out and sewed the bottom together. Then, I took the red/white gingham clothe and cut it to fit inside the jeans. Those two piece were put insides facing each other and sewed them together. Since I had these handles from another purse that I have, I measured to see where the handle loops need to go. From there, I folded down the…
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Maybe I should be: cleaning, exercising, working, who knows! I love the smell of: pumpkin spice, Cool Water, hubby’s tomato sauce cooking. People would say that I: am shy until I get to know you. I don’t understand why: so many people are inconsiderate and rude. When I wake up in the morning: I try to think what day it is. I lost my willpower to: stay in shape. If there’s a dessert in the room: I’ll eat it, more than likely. Life is: full of surprises. My past made me: a bit paranoid. I get annoyed when I: am…
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Drew, who now wants to be called Lil’ Man, has for the longest time wanted a garden. Well with all the woods in our backyard it doesn’t really lend itself to that. I’ve seen how tomatoes grow really well upside down. And instead of spending $20 on the Topsy Tomato planter we decided to make our own and recycle at the same time. We used an empty ice cream container. I cut a hole in the bottom. In order to prevent the dirt from falling out of the bottom of the bucket we used some screen. At first I wasn’t…
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Well, I should be busy editing pictures of the 2 soccer teams & players I did this past week among about 2,000 pics I took at a soccer tournament last weekend. But….my computer decided she needed some time off. (she, he, whatever.) 🙂 Anyway, I’m praying that it is the Logic Board like the initially diagnosed, just in hearing my description of what it was doing. I’m so bad about backing stuff up that there’s no telling what I would lose and not realize it for the longest time. I was able to backup all of my photos since I…
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I was going to write a nice post about my younger child, but it has been literally a NON-stop day! So I’ll just let the pictures do the talking for now. Can’t believe he’s FIVE!
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We woke up to beautiful blankets of snow today. See more here.
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We went last week to Texas. It was a very quick trip to see Grandmother and try to get all my stuff from the house. We brought a ton of stuff back. Nothing of great value and really when you look at it all, it looks like a bunch of junk! But one man’s junk is another man’s treasures, right? And most of this stuff I brought back is treasure to me. If you asked me how you box up memories, I’d show you the boxes of stuff sitting in my living room. I emptied 2 of the boxes last…
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The title is written with such sadness, but at the same time I feel a comforting warmth over me… My Grandmother has been in and out of the hospital for a couple months now. Every time I talk to her lately she makes it sound like she knows the end is near. You know you hear of people who say there’s not much time left, but I’ve never really stopped to think about that person. I think about Grandmother and picture her sitting in a hospital room. I found myself trying to put myself in her shoes. How would it…
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I found a very cool site, which caused me to have a blast from the past because while looking at this awesome new site, I saw this: Anyway, when I saw this, my mind went retro and I just started thinking of all the things that I used to love to play with. Although some seem a bit obscure, they were still toys that I spent hours and hours with. So the picture above lead me to think of the Spirograph Toy. It seems they have a modernized one: I did love to draw and do artsy stuff, so this…
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Found this over on Tracey’s Blog. You copy and paste and then bold the things you have done. Looked fun so, here’s my list… Started your own blog Slept under the stars Played in a band Visited Hawaii Given more than you can afford to charity Been to Disneyland/World Climbed a mountain Held a praying mantis Sang a solo Bungee jumped Visited Paris Watched a lightning storm at sea Taught yourself an art from scratch Adopted a child Had food poisoning Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty Seen the Mona Lisa in France Slept on an overnight…
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I just can’t seem to get in a groove of blogging. Well…if I think about it, I really can’t get into a groove of anything! If that makes any sense! Anyway, today I’m gearing up for NINE 10 and 11 year old boys to come over and celebrate with Drew. We did it last year and it wasn’t too bad except for the noise of the air hockey table at 4 am! 🙂 I had planned on a full update, but time is ticking and he will be home with one party goer that is walking home with him….lateh!
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Today Drew is ELEVEN. I had to type that out to help it sink in. I just can’t believe it’s been that long. With this age comes a lot of change. He’ll transition into middle school in August for 6th grade. He’ll move up to boy scouts in May. In fact, he’s not able to have his birthday party tonight because he’s at a camping trip with the boy scout troop he plans to join. So we’ll have a house full of boys next Friday night. Thinking back to this last year in the life of Drew, he’s really made…
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Well I had written Drew’s birthday entry a couple days ago and you’ll see it in a few hours, but since I’m up and I was reading about Harper and Brayden and I couldn’t help but think back to this time 11 years ago. Wow! I get tears in my eyes thinking about it. No not because of the thoughts of the pain, but just thinking about how awesome it all was. After he was born, I remember the feelings that I had. From the day I visited my gynecology specialist who is a professional and has completed obgyn board…
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Yesterday a good part of the day was spent doing web work on my business site with Rob while watching Animal Planet. I think it was a Dogs 101 marathon. One of the shows that was on was about presidential dogs, which I found to be very interesting. It was probably inspired by the fact that the Obama girls are getting a puppy soon. The show talked about what type of dog would be suitable for them. One of the commentators on the show was from the Presidential Pet Museum, which totally intrigued me and I SO wanna go. Staff…
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Last Sunday we attended the contemporary service at church, my favorite! We also visited a Sunday school class, Footsteps. We had started visiting classes last year, but never got to finish trying some others out. I’ll admit it’s been awhile since we’ve been to church and it seems that when we go awhile without going, when we go back it’s like the messages that are taught are handpicked just for us. Both the sermon and the lesson in Sunday School just really hit home with both Rob and me. The sermon was really just about taking one day at a…
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I have a personal prayer request. I’m not one to ask for help normally, but when times are tough and you feel you have no where else to turn God is the answer. I need you to ask God to help Rob and me with our financial future. We continually hear about the devastation of the nation’s economy and then, even more about our state’s education budget and how it continues to go down the drain and that it’s not going to get any better. It all just leaves me with even more questions and a true feeling of hopelessness.…
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It seems that nearly every blog I read today shows people having fun in the snow. Well, either that or they’re sick of it! The thought of snow here…well in 70 degree weather, I don’t see it happening anytime soon. And if it does it surely won’t stick because the ground is so warm. Last year the weekend of Drew’s birthday, it snowed. They got to play in it for a little while, but it melted so quickly that they didn’t get the full enjoyment out of it like we’d like. Oh well…the joys of living in the south! (I…
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Every Christmas Eve, I let the boys open one present each. Drew always knows what it is, but never says it out loud until he opens it. It’s always a Christmas-y set of pajamas. This year these pajamas proved to be quite a conundrum for me. I was happy to find Alex’s PJs early in my shopping adventures. I could never find Drew any PJs, so I ended up pullin’ my self out of bed very early on Christmas Eve morning to head out and find some for him. I went back to Target, where they had some cute ones…
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After making the Gingerbread house, I had the boys go out in the yard and look for some pine cones. I painted them. Then pulled out some glittery thingys and some glue. The boys decorated them and we placed them on the table wear the food was going to be on Christmas Day. Making fancy pine cones for Christmas Day table decorations. This was before all the food got put on the table. We had 2 tables FULL of food! Good times! Family, food, and lots of fun.
