My Humble Life.....

• Nov. 30, 2006 - Hello and a Happy Thursday Everyone!!!

Good morning, to you all! Okay, so, good afternoon! Hehehe. It's a partly cloudy day again, but every time that sun comes out for a peek at the world, for a few minutes, I just love it. It's not that cold, but prolly in the lower 60's. I am thinking maybe a chance for showers this evening, but prolly not heavy. We had our AWANAs last night. We had more this time than we ever did! 9 Cubbies in our class last night!!! We normally average around 6 Cubbies, so we seem to be growing, praise God! Sparkies and Truth and Training age groups in AWANAs, total over 100 together, and then there is our teeny tiny age group for the youngest Awana age group with just 6 normally, so when 9 children show up in our class, I am exhilirated!!! On a dull point, I realize that when you do programs and you work with children, you also deal with the parents, some wonderful, some nice, some civil, some rude and some down right mean. I dealt with, for the first time ever, a mean one last night. A Grandma. Her granddaughter is in my class and she's not completely potty trained and so they always leave some pull ups in her bag with us when ever she has an accident. Well, the child had an accident a couple weeks ago, in which she messed her pants and were ruined, so of course, the logical thing I did was grab a pull up out of her bag and put it on her. Would you have done the same? Yes. That's what pull ups are for. Well, this lady was having a very bad day, as her husband, I found out later, he  was in surgery earlier that day and he did ok, but she was stressed. But, before I found this out after the Grandmother's ranting, I thought she was off her rocker. But really, I think I was a convenient vent for her to take out on. She chewed me out for using a pull up and said I was confusing her granddaughter..........well, I kept on smiling at her and apologized for the mistake and that next time she needs to let us know of any special instuctions so the rest of us will know, too. The grandma told me that the mother (her daughter)  "freaked out" because I put on pull ups. Why even put pull ups in the bag, if you don't want them used? Ugh.....what else was I supposed to put on her? There were no extra clothes and there were only pull ups, so I assumed they put in the bag  for accidents.....oh well. So, the other ladies that were in the class room with me were confused about this lady's reasons for chewing me out. Of course, the Grandmother pulled me off to a quieter location to chew me out and I later discussed it with the two ladies working with me. My theory is the lady thought I was just some teenager who was helping out in AWANAs, that she thought she could rant at and leave it at that. She didn't realize I was a leader and had a 5 year old daughter  and when I told her, she got this surprised look on her face and then just kinda looked at her shoes for a minute. I told her I understand how hard it is to potty train a child, that I have a 5 year old daughter who I potty trained and so I would do my best to remember not to put on the pull ups on her grandchild next time she has an accident, so as not to confuse her, but could they please put an extra set of clothes in her bag and leave out the pull ups, in case some one else makes the same mistake. I think the lady thought she could just grab some teen and take out her frustrations out on her, thinking she would just take it and not say anything to the leaders. Unfourtunately, she picked on the wrong person. I am not a naive and immature as I look. Oh well, I understand her being frazzled about her poor hubby going through surgery and so I forgive her for acting the way she did. I know it's easy to fall into  moments of weakness during hard times. I have been there. Later, after class, I was headed over to pick up my daughter from Sparks and I ran into the mother of the child the grandmother was chewing me out about. The mother was very nice to me and said nothing of any pull up- mishaps......Hmmmmmm.....
Anyways, so that was my night last night. Today will be a relaxing day today. I could use a nap this afternoon, though! Hehe. Oh, I talked to my hubby this morning and he's doing good! Two and a half more weeks to go!!! Yee haaaa! Lol.
I hope everyone's day is going well . Take care and God bless you all,
 
-Chris
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• Nov. 26, 2006 - Good Sunday, Ladies!

Good day everyone!!! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying this lovely weekend. I am enjoying it and relaxing today. I do have a little bit of laundry to put up, but other than that, it is a day of rest. We missed church today, though. I set my alarm clock for 8, but instead of setting it for am, I set the thing for pm....so needless to say, we slept in unintentionally. I woke up at 9 am this morning and was thinking I was till dreaming and was so confused as to why my clock was 9 o'clock and not 8 o'clock and then the sleepy hazy fog lifted and clarity set in. Oh my! I missed church!!! Cruuuud........so, I will be going to evening service at the least to try and make up missing out on Sunday school and church. I had homework that I even did for Sunday school class that I completed yesterday and for what? Nothing, now! Oh well....you win some, you lose some.

Oh, I can't remember if I mentioned this, but my hubby is coming home in three weeks!!!!!! I am soooo, so, soo excited!!!! We are in the homestretch, now. I got to talk to my hubbers last night and he's doing good, just tired of looking at the sand and the hot weather and all that work. He has the night shift, too, so double ick. But he's hanging in there because he knows he's gonna be here before Christmas. My daugther has so much to show her daddy that she has learned! She can write her name in cursive and knows her numbers 1-100 and knows how her math addition. Yep, she's doing so good, and yes, I can brag! Hehe. Did I mention she's 5 and in kindergarten?

So, how many of you gals braved the early morn the day after Thanksgiving to shop for bargains, bargain, bargains? I did!!! I never ever shop the day after Thanksgiving, but this time we had to get up early to take our new kitty, Dudley to the vet for vaccinations, and declaw and treatment of an upper respitory tract infection. Got to the vet at 7 am, and  figured, "Why not? Might as well run by the mall and Wally World (Wal Mart to those who don't know) and get some stuff. Got some great bargains. I mainly was in need of clothes for my daughter and I and was thinking of getting a portable DVD player for only $50, but I racked up on clothes and didn't have enough moo-lah left over to get the DVD players. Clothes to wear are more important. Would rather be clothed and not watching a movie on the DVD player, than naked and watching a movie on the DVD player! That would be just too wierd! Lol.

So, anyways, yesterday I cleaned the house up and it's looking so good, now. When I'm in a funk, which isn't often, but it happens for a few days every once in a while, I don't want to clean and then it makes me feel worse, but I cleaned and I am feeling great now. I guess no matter how bad I feel, I should keep the house clean, so I don't stay in that funk, huh?

Tomorrow's another busy day. Gotta run back to the vet for follow up on Dudley's declawing and his U.R.T.I., and then it's school for my daughter and I have school of my own I have to do, too. Studying to be a vet assistant. I have a good chance of being hired at the vet clinic my animals go to. One of the receptionists told me she told the Dr. about me studying for vet assistant and that I will be looking for a job soon, and the Dr. had me do most of the handling of my cat the other day, I think he was testing me. Lol. It went well, so we'll see......

Anyways, I am gonna hope off and get that laundry put up! Fun!!! I am thinking of running to Kroger's tonight after church and grilling up a steak. Yes, I love steak and have one about once a week. Yum! I am very carnivorous.

To those of you who have been so kind and stopping by and posting, I apologize for not getting right back to you. As you know, I had a hard week and so I will be stopping by to say hi to all of you very soon. Tonight or tomorrow. Love you guys and God bless to everyone! Hugs,

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 22, 2006 - Sorry about being MIA...But for those of you who don't know yet...

......I had to take my beloved cat, Barry to the vet on call the other night on emergency. He got major sick again and I couldn't figure out what was going on. I was headed to bed and I picked up Barry to take him with me and he was so having a hard time breathing and we was limp and cold and I could just tell that he was prolly going to die. All day that day he seemed to be doing okay, though his appetite was off but he still ate and he seemed lethargic and not active, but it's so hard to tell when he's already a non-active cat by nature and sleeps all day anyways, so I had to wake my daughter up and we took Barry to the vet on call. We just did this about a week ago and I couldn't figure out what was going on, because I did everything the vet instructed. He told me that he was prolly going to pass away very soon, so he should just go ahead and put him down, unless I wanted to have them put a tube him his stomach so they could force feed him and keep him there for intensive care, but he was so far gone, that it prolly wasn't going to do him any good and I wold lose alot of money. So, I had to make an extremely difficult decision with my daughter standing there and we had her dear kitty put down. I feel, I have failed my daughter and her cat. I am so attached to him, too and even our dog, Lacee is sad for the past couple days, looking for Barry and sleeping in Barry's house under his blankets to feel close to him and our dog won't let us out of her sight for fear she will lose us too. It's so sad and I am doing better today, but the past couple days have been so hard on me and my Daughter. My daughter, though, is handing this better than I am. It's almost like a reversed role and she's the mom and I'm the devastated daughter. My five year old is so much more mature beyond her years. She knows Barry is waiting for her when she gets to heaven to live with her in her mansion. My daughter has a maternal instinct and has been the one taking care of mommy. I haven't cried in front of her, because I am trying to be strong, but she knows I am sad and she will come up to me and just hold me and stroke my face with her hand and tell me it's going to be okay, then lay her head on my chest to comfort me. I am blessed to have such a wonderful daughter. This child that God gave me.

And God obviously knew this was going to happen and He lead me to get Dudley, another pet. The intention was to get Barry a buddy to run around the house with and be best friends. Now, I am struggling because part of me feels like this happening in the timing that is did, is just way to wierd. It feels like Barry is being replaced. It's gonna take a while for me to get used to a new kitty face around here and not have my dear Barry to snuggle with. True, I love Dudley and see him as a new member of the family, so he has no worries, but I still feel funny about all the past days event's and how the timing was so, I don't know, wierd. Barry died the day after we adopted Dudley and so we picked up Dudley the day after Barry passed away. How strange is that?!?!?!?????? I mean, really, really wierd. I know God had His hand in this and that is why we were lead on a spur of the moment to just go out and adopt a cat. I NEVER, never ever, do spur of the moment things........so I know this happened for a reason. While Dudley is settling in so well and my daughter is spoiling him rotten with lots of love and I just keep him comfortable and will cuddle and bond with him, I am still not completely opening up to getting attached just yet to dear Dudley, even though it's not his fault. I just lost a wonderful awesome friend the other night. So, in time, I will be fine. If I hadn't have adopted Dudley, I know it would have been quite a while before we considered adopting another cat. Don't get me wrong, I get very sad and depressed over people and loved ones, too, but animals are my passion. I grew up on a ranch and my mom was a vet's assistant and I am studying this next semester to follow in my mom's footsteps to be a vet assistant, too. My passion for animals is part of who I am.

Gals, I am sorry for not getting back to your posts on my blog and I will do my best to get back to everyone when I am ready to get back in the game again. I just miss my Barry the drama king very much. I just wanted to let everyone know where I was and what the deal was. Sorry again for being MIA! I hope everyone has a wondeful and blessed day today and HAPPY THANKSGIVIVING to you all! Hugs and God bless,

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 20, 2006 - No such thing as the Monday Blues around here!

Hello ladies! How was everyone's weekend? Sunday was an eventful day. I had to do the nursery in the a.m., and since my partner who was supposed to help me out, didn't show, it was interesting. Lol. Let's just say, don't drink any soft drinks when you are the only one watching the wee ones, because you don't have the luxury of getting to "go" when you want, but rather hold it till you pop! Lol. Just some friendly future advice! But, all in all, it went okay. The kids were pretty well behaved, save for a lil' bully who kept stirring up some drama with all the kids.

 It was a good Sunday, though. I even got an afternoon nap in after lunch, which, is rare for me, but I didn't get much sleep the night before, 'cause my lil' punkin' kept having nightmares. She's okay though!

So, I was thinking. My cat, Barry, the one you all know as the "Drama King" needs a buddy to share his drama with. Lol. Sure, Barry and Lacee, our dog, are buddies, but nothing beats having another feline friend to share your drama filled days with. So, off to the shelter we go this morning. We can do that, 'cause, well, we homeschool! Hehe. Besides' it's a really short and light week for school. I checked online with petfinder.com, and found a kitty cat who was on the urgent list and was going to be euthanized in a couple days. Oh! I can't handle that! So, we literally rushed to the shelter, after calling to make sure he was till there, waiting patiently to die, I guess, and they said he wasn't adopted yet. So, we got there and got a look at him and I fell in love. His name was Kiki. Okay, that's a pretty girly name, for a boy cat, don't you think? Yep, they actually mistook him for a girl! Hehe, so we got that straightened out and we renamed him Dudley, 'cause he looks like a Dudley with his sweet face and affectionate charcter, beautiful, long, orange tabby main and gold eyes to match his coat. Very pretty inside and out. What a waste that would have been and sadly, it happens too often to animals, but we saved one today! We didn't take him home today, 'cause he needs to be fixed, so tomorrow, we will pick him up, then take him to our vet to get his vaccinations and testings and what not. He's still a boy, but very soon after his neuter, he's gonna meow like a cat named Kiki! Hehe. ROFL, I laugh at my own lame jokes! Sorry, bear with me.

My daughter's so excited about having another and final pet to join our family. Only children need lots of pets, I think. Three's the max, though! Dudley, will prolly be running circles around dear Barry, since Barry's so laid back and mello, while Dudley still has a lot of friskey kitten in him. Should be fun to watch the pets get to know each other and become buddies. I was surprised at how fast our dog and cat got to be buddies. A matter of two weeks, in fact. So, I have high hopes that we could be successful with Dudley becoming friends with the other two. Our current Drama King and our dog Lacee are so good with other animals, so I am looking forward to this. It's a sad story on Dudley. Someone just threw him out! Breaks my heart.....

Well, I seem to be telling a lot of cat stories lately. "What's with that?", you are prolly thinking. And, "Wow, this lady sure loves cats! That's just wierd...I wonder if she's gonna end up like one of those old ladies who lives with 50 cats and dogs in her home?" Lol.....But, I know my limit. lol.

I am actually just very passionate about animals in general. I love cats, dogs, horses, cattle (yes, cattle. I raised and showed them growing up) and any other cute and furry critter, wild or domestic. My mom was a veterinary assistant for 13 years and I think she instilled that into me, not to mention growing up on a ranch/farm. I am studying to be a vet's assistant this coming semester, to follow in my mom's footsteps. So, cat's, dogs, and lots more talk on my lovable pets will come up in the future! So get ready gals! Hehehe.

What is everyone's plans for Thanksgiving? I would love to know!

I am going over to a friend's house to spend Thanksgiving with her family. There are supposed to be lots of ppl, so I am looking forward to yummy good food and wearing a long shirt, so I can unbuckle my pants for extra room for dessert! Lol. I am bringing over a rice broccoli cheese cassarole and maybe some soft drinks.

Oh! We put up our Christmas tree Saturday night and then we put on quite a few oranments last night. Tonight, we have more ornaments and decorations to put up, too, so we are having lots of fun listening to holiday music and putting up oranments and decos and watching a few holiday movies, too. Ahhhh, I do love the holidays! I may simmer some apple cinnamon on the stove to fill the house with holiday scents. What does everyone else do to get in the holiday spirit? What are your Christmas tree colors going to be? We went for silver and gold ornaments with white lights this year.

Whew! I sure had some catching up to do! Are your eyes crossed from all this reading? Lol. Mine are crossed from just typing.

Well, I hope you all have a wonderful and blessed day! Hugs to everyone!

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 17, 2006 - Going to be really Busy here in just a minute and also this weekend

....so, I am getting on, now, to say hello and get my post in when I have the chance! Yesterday, I took a lil' break from the 'puter, so I could get out of the house and have some fun and relax. All that rain keeping us cooped up in the house was getting to me! So, yesterday, I didn't post an entry and then I apologize to all of you ladies who stopped by to say hello and I didn't respond! I still haven't had a chance to respond yet today, but I will try tonight when things settle down. Let's see......what's in store for today......

Oh yes, well, school will begins in exactly 30 minutes-late in the day, I might add. We are getting a slow and late start on the school today, but that's okay. Then after school , we will be cleaning the house, from top to bottom! I don't know what it is, but sometimes I will be sitting on the couch and get to looking around and I start noticing lil' things here and there that need to be cleaned or fixed or something's just not settling right with me about it, so then it nags and eats at me until I actually do something about it. So that's what today is for! After house cleaning, I need to run back to the grocery store and get the rest of my groceries, since yesterday, when I went, all the groceries couldn't fit into my cart! So, I am gonna get the rest today. Then, when we get back, my daugther and I will pull the Christmas tree out. Not gonna set it up until tomorrow evening or afternoon, I think. I had originally planned not to set it up and decorate until after Thanksgiving, but my daughter asked me last night with sweet sparkling eyes and a pleaful expression that only a sweet innocent child could pull off, "Mommy can we decorate the Christmas tree when we get home?" And I just took one look at that innocent sweet face, with the rosy cheeks and nose from the winter weather and those big bright blue eyes and told her her that we will pull it out tomorrow (today) and get started decorating on Saturday. She's so excited! Hehehe. I just love that my daughter is old enough, now to really appreciate the holiday cheer! She helps mommy bake and decorate and she gets so excited. It really gets me excited and brings back nastalgic memories of my days as a child, waiting up for Santa to come down the chimney and fill the stocking and eat the cookies and drink the milk my brother and I set out. That was not only a treat of Santa, but to us, it was a lure to get Santa to come over to where we were hiding so we could see him! Hehe. Oh, those were the days, and it's so fun to get to make it that much fun with my child, now.

Oh, my hubby called last night! It was so wonderful to get to hear his voice! He's so ready to come home and so are we! But he's doing good and hanging in there.

Well, girls, I will stop by and return your beautiful messges and kind thoughts tonight! Not a lot of fun stuff will be going on today, just busy work, as you can see, but it will be a blessed day for my daughter and I, none the less! Barry, our cat, is doing much better, thank you, to those, who asked about the "drama king"! I hope all of you have a wonderful and blessed day, as well. Love all of you and God bless! Hugs,

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 15, 2006 - Clouds, Clouds, Go AWAY! And other fussy things like that today. Lol.

Heya Gals! Whatcha' all up to? It's so funny. I was writing a post to a friend, when all of a sudden I got a revelation. I have noticed for the past two months, for eight Wednesdays, including this one, it's a very cloudy overcast day. Picture it, if you will. You wake up, you stretch and you lay there in bed, talking yourself to get up and face the glorious day that God has blessed you with! So, you get up just for that and well, of course, the house would fall apart if you didn't, not to mention the litte five year old girl who needs to learn new things. Lol. And so, you get up out of bed, and you look out the window.....Yep, this must be Wednesday! Why? Because for the past 7 Wedneday mornings, you have ventured to peek out those frilly curtains, you see nothing but dark grey omnimous clouds that seem to yell at you to get your hind end back in bed and sleep in till Thurday. Hehe. It always ends up raining on Wednesday. It hasn't rained yet and I am so trusting in this prediction of the past Wednedays, that I just know it will rain this afternoon just as we head out the door for church. I also am theorizing on why the weather is like this. See, my moods are affected by weather, as well as my health. I get lovely annoying headaches and fatigue on these gloomy gus days. But, I realize that this is obviously a test, not only for me, but for the many church goers during mid week. God is allowing Satin to try to keep up from coming to church to worship Him! And God is letting that be my personal and everyone else's that is affected by this, test. Well, by golly, gee WIZ! I am NOT gonna let Satin bring me down and I am going to prove to my loving God that I will be there tonight for church! Yes, it is through Him that I have this streagth to show up at church to fellowship with other church goers to overcame the same battle, I did and to worship and praise God for the streangth He gave us to do it! So, today, even though I am tired, have a head ache and maybe just a lil' fussy from lack of sleep (I'll get into that, too! Sorry....), I am showing up for God. He died for me to save my soul, well, the least I can do it show up at church to praise Him and worship Him. And you know, the funny thing is, I walk into church feeling kinda worn out and fatigued, but I walk out feeling like a new woman filled with God's love and His healing on my tired body. PRAISE THE LORD!!! AMEN!!!! Am I right, ladies?

 

Okay, on to last night's events. I didn't get to bed till 2:30 am, because the beloved cat I was telling you all about yesterday got sick all of a sudden! And I do mean really sick. The messy from both ends kind of sick. Sorry, TMI....anyways, so I took him in to see the vet on call and turns out, the poor guy is allergic to the food we feed him. All of a sudden! It just hit him! I was in awe. So, Barry's ok, now, thank goodness and he's loving his new diet of boiled chicken, baby food chicken, pediatyte......he really does love it. Lol. But after two weeks, I will be buying the high quality cat food with no corn or gluten in it. It costs a whopping $30 for a 16 pound bag! Ridiculous, you say? I agree! Hehe. But, Barry's worth it and I will pay whatever we can spare to keep our daughter's lil' buddy healthy and alive. So, ladies, bare with me today, if I seem a bit.....out of it and even more scatterbrained than the norm. I am just walking around on pure adrinaline fumes. Hehe. I will be hitting the hay early tonight and I am pretty sure when I wake up tomorrow morning and look out my frilly curtains, it will be sun shiny once again, being that Wednesday will be over! Have a glorious day and God bless all of you! Hugs,

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 14, 2006 - Fall Weather is Finally Here! And a Funny Story, Too! Yay!!!

Hello all of you wonderful ladies!!!

Good day to all of you on this wonderful, awesome, spectacular, crisp, cool, fresh, colorful, sunny day! Ahhh, what a day. A blessed day! I feel so revived. Had a great night's sleep. Gave the cat a bath last night. He has allergies and his skin and hair gets messed up from it, so I have to give him a bath with some medicated shampoo. He's such a big, huge, flame point Siamese boy. His name is Barry. He's just a big lumbering teddy bear of a sweet heart. Not a mean bone in his big ol' body. So anyways, he's so good and never throws a hissy fit when he gets his meds and his bath. Well, last night was a tad chillier of a night than the norm and so I made sure his bath water was warm and cozy. He did great with the bath, even when he has to stand there with the shampoo soaking in his skin and coat for 10 minutes before I rinse him off. Not your typical cat, as any other feline would freak out and take off out of the tub, leaving a trail of water and soap behind him. Anyways, I towel dry him off and he decided he didn't want me to finish drying him off anymore, which he never does. He always lets me towel dry him, then blow dry him till he's completely dry, but not last night and so he lumbers off to finish licking himself dry. But a few minutes later, I hear him howling at me loudly and very pitifully. Because it was a colder night, I guess he changed his mind and wanted me to finish towel drying him and then blow him with my hair dryer. He loves that. So, he hops in my lap and lays there, howling and crying up at me, so sad. ROFL. Okay, maybe you are thinking I am mean for laughing at him, but he was really putting on a show of being so pituful! His situation was way better than he was putting on. Believe me. He was acting like he was dying or something! Drama King, that he is. Hehe. So, I finish drying the big doofus off, then I blow dry and brush him dry. He's warm and snuggly, now. But, he still wanted me to know how aweful it was for him to be cold and damp before, so he kept lying all over me on the couch meowing up at me with the biggest most pitiful as he could look, or fake it, blue crossed siamese eyes. LOL. So, to make him know I loved him and felt, oh so sorry for him and his traumatic experience, I take my blanket and swaddle him up in it and prop up a pillow under his big ol' head to make him comfy. He starts to purr and is happy with me for fussing over him. Lol. Of course, my lil' daschund doggie got a big kick out of the kitty wrapped up in the blanket and so she gets up on the couch and suggles right next to him. They love each other, BTW.

I just thought that was so funny, last night, my daughter's cat, Barry, throwing a huge pitiful fuss show, I wanted to share with you gals! Now, I wish I had gotten a picture of him all swaddled in the blanket with the pillow under his head. He acts like such a spoiled brat sometimes, hehe. Well, not in a mean way, but in a drama king sort of way. Lol. 

Well, anyways, I am on my lunch break with my daughter from school and we will start back up in about half an hour, so I am gonna hop off here and get some lunch while I still can! I hope all of you are having a wonderful and blessed day! Hugs to you all!

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 13, 2006 - Pics of me, my daughter and my hubby- Christmas 2005

Okay, I had these pics on this computer and they are the most recent that I have saved on here, but on the other 'puter, I have very recent ones, so when I get a chance, I will post those. Sorry, this is the best I could do for now, but at least now, you can put a face to my posts! My daughter is really the only one who's changed the most in a year. Lots of growing into a young little lady! My hair's past my shoulders and that's it. And yes, I was being silly there. I don't normally act so dorky as the pic depicts. My hubby still looks just as handsome. Hehe. Hugs and God bless,

 

-Chris



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• Nov. 13, 2006 - Happy Monday Everyone!

Well, it's been a wonderful and blessed day, albeit, a tad warmer than I would like. Ok, a lot warmer......See, I like the weather to match the season. Summer should be hot, but not too hot. Fall, should be cool and crisp and colorful. Winter, should have MOUNDS OF SNOW, but none of that wet rainy stuff all the time and spring should be lightly warm with lots of flowers and greenery and birds chiping. Right now, it's November and I would love for it to be cool and crisp with lots of leaves to jump in and mess all over the place. Not today! It's warm and muggy and has been for the past few days. Ick! It's also rainy. Ickier!

It was pretty fall-ish weather a couple weeks ago, though and for that, I am thankful. It was great! Nice and crisp and cool, during the day with the light jackets and the trees turning and then at night, Brrrrrr! Loved it! Oh, well, I figure, Mother Nature is just shaking out all the last heat waves left over from summer, so she can get ready for the real fall/winter weather, so I am being patient, though it's hard when I hear from other people from other parts of the country that it's cold and snowing!!! I am waiting to pull out the Christmas tree and decors when then weather calls for it. It would be so wierd to me to have all that out when it still feels like summer..... Siiiiigh.......

Well, I hope you all are having a lovely day today. School started later, but we breezed through it, though the load is heavier, due to my Daughter starting on reading. So proud of her! She's been practicing writing her first name in cursive. I don't remember starting cursive until second grade....and summer vacation lasted for three months when I was a kid, not two months, like how it is for today's kids.....Wonder why that is?.....

Anyways, I have to do some major dishes today. My sink doth floweth over.....Hehe...

My hubby's deployed overseas and so we are looking forward to his phonecall tonight!!! Yay! I got a surprise phone call from him last night. Totally unexpected and just such a pleasant surprise. He was waiting on one of his friends to go to lunch and he was killing time, so he gave me a call. I can brag. He loves me! Hehe. Seriously, it was so nice to hear his voice and I really needed that phone call. Our Lord know things and He knew I needed that call and I am sure, He laid it on my hubby's heart to give his lonely wife a call of encouragement. God is so good!

Well, I am quite the chatterbox, so I will hop off now and hopefully, none of you fell asleep while reading this. WAKE UP!!!!! Hehe. Hope all of you have a wonderful and blessed day! Till then........hugs,

 

-Chris

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• Nov. 12, 2006 - Let me introduce myself

Since this is my first time to post on a blog of my very own, I am very inexperienced, so please bare with me! A little about my family and myself. My name is Chris and I am 26 years old, but fixin' to be 27 come January. Is it me, or do the years just keep coming faster and faster?!?!?!

 

Anyways,  I am happily married for five, going on six years in April to a wonderful guy named Rodney. We have a beautiful five year old Daughter named Sierra. We use A Beka to homeschool our Daughter in kindergarten. She loves it and so do we! My husband is in the Air Force and so we are stationed in Georgia right now. Soon, I will be starting school myself to get my associate degree starting this next semester. I have been dreaming of becoming a veterinarian technician for a long time. Looks like it's finally coming true...........FINALLY, again, I say!

My life isn't so exciting and adventurous, but it's full of family and friends that I love and we are living for the Lord and the Lord lives through us! And yes, we are blessed!

My daily routine usually consists of waking up, having breakfast with my daughter, and then homeschooling. We break for lunch, then have about another hour of school, then my Daughter's "off the hook" and I have some "me time" and get on and post on a wonderful message board for homeschooling moms who love the Lord. The Christian Homeschool Corner. Then, after I am finished posting on the message board, I spend some time with my daughter, start on house chores run errands, get ready for church, if it's Wednesday and get dinner started. If it's a Wednesday, we head to church and my daughter to AWANA Sparks and I to AWNANA Cubbies, since I am a leader in that group. Then we would head home. After dinner, and my daughter's in bed by nine o'clock, I spend time with my hubby or watch a lil' tv., then I get more night chores done and I'm off to bed! See? Not exciting! Lol. Saturday holds more opportunities for excitement. That's my day to get the laundry and dishes done in the morning and then off to shop, the movies and dinner date with hubby, or go to a friend's or hang out around the house and veg out. Whatever the mood strikes me, is what I do that day. Sunday is church and the lunch and maybe a snooze, then back to evening church and then on home to relax and rest. Such is the life of a domestic Queen! 

 

Right now, my hubby's deployed overseas and this isn't the first or the last time either. The days are more relaxed because the chores can wait, the dinner doesn't have to be as extravagant and ends up being take out or something pretty simple to satisfy my five year old's tastebuds.

But, he's coming home in time for Christmas! Yay! I praise the Lord for that, because the first time he deployed a few years back, I will never forget; he was gone from Halloween through New Years. Sooooooo, so hard on my daughter and I.

For Thanksgiving, I am headed over to a friend's and her family, who graciously invited my daughter and me, knowing full well, that unless one of our friends from church invites us, we would be alone, so bless her for taking us in and letting us be part of her family's feast on Thanksgiving!

Well, I will try to have an entry every day, but two or three times a weeks, seems more realistic for me. Lol.

Once I get the hang of what I am supposed to do here, I will try to do just that! I am a newbie! Well, I can't wait to get to know all of you. Some of you I already do from my message board, so to you all you gals, "Hello, remember me???" Hehehe.

Take care and God bless! Hugs!

 

-Chris 

 

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