Here I am, Baby

Haven't seen me in a while? Well, I can see you. See, I passed my super power eyesight on to my kids, so even when you can't see us, we see you. Truly, though. Hunter's still trying to get the hang of his special gift, and still oooooos and aaaaas over his power.

Well, they're all like 5 now. And like they are like too cool for like words. At least like all words that don't like get prefaced with like the word like. Because Austin, he's all like, ah, and Hunter he's all like oh, and like they communicate like that. Don't know where they like picked that up, but it's all like driving Mike and I like nuts. Again, look back to the like bugging eyes.

This little man is so funny, and so sharp and so amazing. Austin is totally something, right now. Very sensitive, and emotional, and caring, and smart, and the word is AMAZING. He's in to being cool. He Jell-o's his hair daily because "Like the girls like it". Yeah, he's 5. No girl is worthy to be his woman, right now. He's reading books. Yes reading! Very little help needed on the big words. And he's all about being a jokester. He even owns not 1, but 2 Wooshie Cooshies. That would be Whoopie Cusions to you and I. I just can't get enough of him.

Now the little man below is getting huge. He's towering over his brother and is a full 7 pounds heavier than him. It helps when Austin is driving him crazy. He literally tackles and just lays on him. Very nice. He's still a grumpy guy, but so obviously by choice. It is easy to get a smile out of him, because like it or not, he's really a happy guy. He took his time wanting to learn, but he's done great. He's also one of the advanced guys in the class, and he comes home secretly singing learning songs from school. He hears it once, and he's got it down. Exercise is a bad word to him, so we're working on that one. What was once skin in bones is now chunking up. He's addicted to Star Wars, so instead of bike riding we are "pod-racing". Hey, whatever it takes.

Mama, well, I got the killer flu. I didn't realize how bad it was until I was in the ER. My potasium level dropped to a point that I went in to convulsions. Mike was on the phone with me picking up the boys, so he called 911, since I was all alone. Once I was rehydrated and my potasium levels were back up, I came home. It really put me behind at work, but my great new job says, "oh well, it will be there tomorrow". Yippeee. I'm used to working whatever it takes to get it done. It's a hard transition for me, but man, my stress level has really diminished.

Mike, well, it's busy work and busy hunting. It's amazing, the hours he works and all the times he's gone hunting, yet, I still feel like we are priority. Hard to find that balance. We went to Reno for our anniversary, and saw a good show, gambled entirely too much, and partied like we were in our 20's. Crazy kids. He took time off to take care of me when I was sick, and was amazing and getting the kids all cared for, bathed, homework, fed.... WOW. Just when you think guys are totally useless, they do something usefull, like open a jar of pickles. This weekend, he's off hunting, and lucky me we'll have full freezer of venison when he returns tomorrow. I hate the hunting, but at least he eats it.

Well, I think I'm all caught up. Well, that, and I made the 2nd cut of a design team search for I Dream of Scrapbooking. I wasn't sure if it was what I wanted to do right now. Now that I don't need to for Kitspirations, since they no longer have the store going. I'm still loving that message board, and am glad it's still going. I just love the ladies on there, they're wonderful friends. I don't know why I did it, the IDOS design team thing. But I really like the ladies on the IDOS board. Even a couple there from Kitspirations. It's funny how connected you can stay to cyber friends, but rarely have time for the human friends. Anyway, I love the challenges so far at IDOS, so let's see how that all goes. There's some nice stuff being turned in, let's see how worthy I am. Hey, at least it keeps me motivated and inspired.

As far as the 31 layouts in October. Well, I'm up to 2 already! LOL!!! I actually have some great ideas for some of them, so let's see how many more I complete. I'm trying to get my IDOS challenge to really match up to one of the 31 Scraptoberfest Challenges. The one above of Hunter was my, scrap something with a flower challenge for Scraptoberfest, but also met my IDOS challenge, which was to have some blue, at least 3 pictures and at least 3 buttons. The one above of Austin was a Scraptoberfest challenge which was to use a number in the title.

I'll keep you posted. Just don't hold your breath.

Anybody need a hug?

I love this. I'm sending you all big {{{{{{hugs}}}}}}.

Has Anybody Seen My Dog?

Notice in my last post, you know the bulletin board one… Well, notice Friday to Saturday I had blocked out a little Pam’s house time? Do you see it? Go ahead, scroll down and look. I even drew a picture of how lovely I imagined her home to be. Yes, there it is, I see it now. Well, said Pam must have read how much I like to cross things off my list.

Well, a little history that will drag you to present. There was a young girl (me. Yes, I was once young) who met a poodle. The poodle happened to be so cute and sweet and innocent. I just had to make it one of my own.

So I befriended it and found out it barks. It barks a lot. It complained that I didn’t play with it enough. It always would come to me, but it would bark because I wouldn’t come to it. So here I am, thinking, Mike will be hunting, I could go visit my little canine companion. Hmmmph. That damn dog turned me away!! And then called me a name that rhymes with witch, but is obviously more canine than human. I wonder who that name really belongs to????? Let me think. Oh, and if you happen to find my missing poodle, please give a big ol wa-kah kinda kick for me. But stand back, it’s liable to fall over or spill something on you.

She's Making A List.....

Checking it twice...

For those who know me from high school, I'm still making those lists. I love listing all the things I have to do, and love even more checking things off. Sometimes if I complete a task or accomplish something that wasn't on my list, I write it on just so I can cross it off. There's something about looking at all those checked off/crossed off/highlighted tasks that make me oh so happy.

I bought that really great weekly dry erase board from Target. And it's magnetic!! I put on all my meetings, appts, visits, scheduled things, and important reminders that may be lost on the paper list. On that one, as I accomplish, attend or complete I erase them off. Makes me happy to erase, almost as much as it does to cross off. I love those magnet shapes. They'll end up on a layout someday, but for now they make me happy where they are. Especially that big question mark. Not only is it totally cute, it also marks the most important day of the week. The one day where nothing is planned. I love those days. However, it doesn't stay empty for long.

I got a lot of scrapping done this weekend. That once clean room started out so tidy and nice on Friday, and by Friday night it looks like a tornado hit it. I just don't feel like I'm having fun unless I'm making a mess. I joined 3 new message boards this last week. Crazy! I have no time for that. I was just feeling like I needed that push back in to playing with all the stuff I've been collecting. I haven't scrapped much, and really wanted to be challenged. Well, I was. I joined 1 message board for the cyber crop they were hosting. It's a newer site with a small bunch of ladies, that I really enjoyed. The big ones can overwhelm me. I like a small community where you can really get to know the people on the board. I plan to keep checking that one out.

The other 2 I joined more long term. Lifetime Moments is doing a Scraptober Fest. They are posting daily challenges for the month of October. I found out about it late tonight, so I jumped right on to check it out. A layout a day for 31 days. You end up with 31 layouts in October! You don't have to actually do them daily, as long as all 31 are done by the end of the end of the month. Overwhelming, but just the push I need right now.

Tomorrow is grape picking day. Can you tell by the big old arrow? Just in time. We had our first rain of the season today. Not much, but enough to push us in to getting some things done around the house. I was sick all week and Mike was working out of town, so today was productive day. I was still sick, but I was also sick of laying around. I cleaned house, all but the floors and dusting the blinds. I did a TON of laundry and started decorating for Halloween (the most wonderful time of the year!). Mike cleaned the garage, back dirt (no yard yet), and mowed.

And speaking of yard. We should be getting the back yard this week. And for 1/2 the price we were expecting! Totally psyched about that one!

Anyway, it's late, I'm sick, have a full early day tomorrow and I'm just plain tired. Peace out.

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