May. 23, 2007 - My head hurts! and other ramblings!
Now, I'm not sure that my head hurts because of some hidden MSG in my Taco Bell food last night or the fact that I've been staring at a computer screen or two for 99% of my waking hours. So yesterday I went and picked up a MacBook for myself. I'm not so used to the way this mac works. Its so foreign. I feel a bit lost here. I tried to network my pc to my mac and it was going so well until my pc decided to not connect to the internet anymore. Its a simple cable modem, it isn't that difficult to work. Last night I had the Mac recognizing the files on the PC, sortof. This morning I had just the opposite and then kaput! What is up? I tried working on it for much of the day since Kelly needs the internet to be connected so he can update his ipod 4 times a day. Computers make my headaches so much worse than they really should be. I'm sure it'll get figured out, but it would be nice to just have someone do it for me...for free, I might add. Other than that, all is well. Ireland and I took swimming lessons together. She is amazing! She loved it when I would push her down in the water so her toes could touch the bottom of the pool in the 5' deep part. Dusty and Sage are just finishing up gymnastics until the fall. I think that we found Dusty's strength. Christopher is doing baseball again this year. He is so cute, even though he doesn't hit the ball. He asked me if I would pay him a dollar for hitting the ball and another fifty cents for getting to first base. I told him that I would. I look forward to summer. The kids aren't doing any kind of camp that I'd have to pay for, but we are focusing on swimming lessons for all 4 of them. Sage says he wants to be homeschooled so we will be working on behaviour modification for the both of us to see if it work for him to stay home. Dusty, the social butterfly, wants to go to school. I'll need to be better about having friend time for her. I plan on having each kid plant a little garden somewhere around here. I just can't seem to manage my time well enough to get everything done! Dusty still remembers her desire to plant a garden for a little friend that didn't make it far in this world. That girl amazes me sometimes. Ireland is constantly wanting to do school. The other day I was going over the phonograms with Dusty and Christopher when Ireland took a piece of paper, wrote on it, then said, "oooh, awww, ooohhh". I replied by saying, "Yes, sweetie. That's nice." But I didn't look at her paper for another few seconds. She had written an O. She said the sounds in the wrong order, but she got the correct letter for the phonograms! Everyday she asks me, "I do my very own school on the puter? K?" And then there's Christopher. What can I say about that boy? He is getting to almost as tall as myself. How could he do that? He'll be 11 in only a couple of weeks? How could he do THAT? Where has the time gone? God is good and I'm so thankful that He is faithful even when I am not. Isn't it good to know that He isn't like us and that as we walk with Him we are becoming like Him? Sometimes I feel like I know what I'm doing when it comes to walking with Him, then in the next moment I forget how to even walk. How is that happens sometimes? Its good that He is strong enough to carry us when we're too stubborn to get up from a little stumble. Sometimes I wonder what God thinks of me. When I was little I threw a fit in a Safeway store. It was a real temper tantrum. There I was wearing a dress and my little black shoes. I can't remember what I wanted, but I remember not getting it. I stomped my foot, started yelling, and threw myself on the ground. I looked up and my mom had turned the corner. I still throw that kind of fit in my heart sometimes. Does God move on the next aisle so I have to get up and look for Him or does He stand right next to me? I really don't know. I do know that I'd walk away from my kids just like my mom did. You better believe I didn't stay there for long. Well, I guess that's it for my ramblings. I guess I'll have to open a word document and continue all on my own. If you have any tips on my computer dilemma, feel free to send them my way!
