another no pic post

good morning...sitting in my sunroom in my nightgown and pink robe....kidlets are watching dora and eating pancakes i just made....i hate not writing on my little blog but just haven't had time to do much....been unpacking STILL and trying to organize amidst everyday life of fixing meals, doing laundry and taking care of a family....which i'm not sure i'm doing that great a job of anyway. the two little ones have ear infections and coughs....and now i have a head cold and cough. we've just been unpacking and trying to get things in a "home" for now....and that's slow going...and when your head, nose and throat is broken....ya know....it's not easy. anyway...i haven't forgotten you...i'm just soooooo busy....and not feeling well. i wish i had a way to upload some pictures because my dad and i spent all afternoon two days ago decorating the front porch with greenery and big red bows....and i love it. the house is s s l l o o w w l l y y coming along...i love it really...i really do love it. i love everything about it....i will post some pictures as soon as i can. today my parents are coming over to eat leftover turkey and stuffing and watch BEDLAM FOOTBALL....GOOOOOO COWBOYS!!! hope your thanksgiving was filled with blessings...i took a long nap on thanksgiving and didn't wear a stitch of make-up....my taste buds were broken that day too but i have so much to be thankful for....blessings to you and your family....lots of love!

hullabulo

there is no easy way to say this so i'm just going to tell you. i'm insane. really. and i'm fine with it. but...i want you to know so when you see me wondering around the teen section in target looking for a scarf with no make-up, dark circles and a two-year-old eating popcorn for a mid-morning snack and a four-year-old sharing red vines licorice with me...you will just snicker to yourself and carry on...maybe you'll say hi and then think....ahhhhh, how sad....someday that lady will be living in a mental institution for old people sitting in the corner playing checkers and singing the lyrics to every john denver song ever written in a little old lady violin-ish voice...probably annie's song....anyway...will you play checkers with me....really...who am i kidding...i am not a checkers girl....i am a pictionary or boggle girl....

we have moved. as i sit here now in our bed, which is only halfway made, i am literally about to fall asleep...there are boxes unpacked everywhere and i wonder how they are all going to get organized and unpacked. i won't tell you the whole moving in story....it's not too exciting...but i will tell you this....i feel HOME....i feel a little peace out here....it's dark and quiet and no one drives by hardly ever....and i love it...i (and by "i", i mean "dan") haven't set up our camera-to-computer thingy so i can't upload pictures yet....but my favorite thing so far....in this beginning part of living here and night number three.....is the view from my bedroom window...it's of trees and our big country porch (the edge of it anyway) and when i wake up in the morning and it's beginning to get light out (i could've said "dawn" there, huh?) it's just so peaceful and woodsy looking and i love it....i don't know....that's my favorite thing....i just look out my bedroom window, lying there under the quilt and i smile to myself....

we also had four deer in our backyard and a big buck the other evening....so beautiful....

anyway....sorry this is such a random post....i really feel a little nutty...nuttier than usual....it's all the people and help and little ones and boxes and cable guys and security guys and vacuum guys and plumbers....i need some alone time....i guess....but i'm pressing on....yes sir, yes ma'am.

love you....bless you....pictures soon....but i haven't decorated anything....but i will have pictures soon....okay? nighty night....

here we go

i'm almost computerless....been packing almost 'round the clock. just made pumpkin muffins and drinking my vanilla latte. thanks to those of you who laughed at my last post....i do love edward cullen. and to "anonymous"....i'm sorry....i know....i'm gross...feel free to "defriend" me.....i'm weird and abnormal....i'm flawed...i make sick jokes....anyway....that's me. but hey! i also love to decorate and read poetry and drink coffee with my friends and praise God for my blessings and i love my friends very much.....anyway....love you all...moving in two days....i'll be back...shuttin' 'er down for now...many blessings!! p.s. manatee's headband..I WANNA READ YOUR BLOG....PLEASE? I CAN'T LOG IN....PLEASE? WHO ARE YOU?? (begging!)...and...kris...you never know about miss amber....(well I KNOW about miss amber) but i'll try....she's a stubborn red-head...their kinda koo-koo...in a wonderful way.... : ) bye. really. bye....until we meet again....post move.

The Other Man

i just wanted to confess something...i'm in love...with another man....and i believe i'm going to start sleeping with him....YES!!! SLEEPING WITH HIM!!!! i cannot keep this secret to myself one second longer...i just have to tell you all what is REALLY GOING ON WITH ME!!! so....if you see pictures of me plastered all over the internet, curled up in my nightgown and snuggled up to my new man....you'll know....you heard it from me FIRST!!! i really just want to lay on my side with my arms wrapped around him....dreaming about how much he loves me....

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!!!!!!!

so...guess matel makes an edward doll now....i had to say something funny....we're moving saturday...i'm insane....i feel crazy...been packing up boxes all night and all morning...oh, and at lunch too....and i've got one child with pink-eye and another with an ear infection and using a nebulizer breathing treamtment thingy.....so, i'm lying here christmas shopping a little for the girls and GASPED when i saw mr. plastic edward barbie doll...and oh yes...I WILL BE SEEING NEW MOON VERY SOON GIRLS....very soon...right after i order him from amazon and look to see if he's anatomically correct and then curl up in a ball and snuggle!!!!

really...i'm insane. but edward loves me anyway...and that's nice.

I’d rather know what you’re thinking — even if what you’re thinking is insane.

Edward Cullen, Twilight...Chapter 9, p.185

october sky

With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson~

i haven't sat down on my laptop in sooooooooo long and i want to tell you everything that's going on in my day-to-day life...but i can't. IT'S A SECRET!!!! nope...it's not a secret. it's just boring ol' stuff...well...most of it is...are ya ready for it? here's what's going on: PACKING, COOKING, DRIVING AND LAUNDRY. yep! that about sums it up...

but i had to share this picture with you that i took last night...isn't it beautiful?????? i went out to the car to clean out some things and i looked up and this is what i saw....i just had to go back in, grab my camera and get back out to capture the moment...to live IN THE MOMENT of God's beautiful creation...i love the view of the sky...i just love it. i love that i can look back on this picture in four months, four years or forty years and remember it and the way it felt outside and wondered if anyone else i knew was looking at the same sky and how beautiful it was...and that i lived it and breathed it in...i just wanted to share it with you....

Having spent the better part of my life trying either to relive the past or experience the future before it arrives, I have come to believe that in between these two extremes is peace.

~Author Unknown~

nothing to say

hey...i'm exhausted. how are you? really. i wanna know. i've had some kind of stomach bug today and that's no fun is it? we're looking to move the weekend after halloween....can you believe halloween's here? i can't. because that means "christmas" and i'm not ready for that. i was telling a friend earlier this week i always have my pumpkins and fall decorations out and i have nothing out. i know i shouldn't worry about it...i'm not....i just miss it....anyway...i'm packing....but i didn't want to neglect my blog...i'll be back soon...the packing's in full swing now...we'll chat soon, won't we?

this post is for KVR

hey mommas...watcha doin? i'm chillin' in bedio with my babio watchin' Y&R...do you watch Y&R? if so...is it me...or is it getting REALLY STUPID??? i mean, adam? hello....blind...really? victor leaving the show and ashley's stupid visions and baby switching scenario? sharon's nuts or is she...the whole thing is just driving ME nuts. why can't the lovely soap opera folk just stay married, be lovey-dovey and be happy with bluebirds circling their beautiful faces and hairdos? why? why do they have to have 'issues' and use the show as a platform like miss america? why can't nick and sharon stay together and redecorate a mansion and have babies...and why does phyllis insist on getting bangs every now and then? the whole thing just bothers me. really. it doesn't. but it's the only one out of three shows i actually sit down and watch...and it's days may be numbered.


before i forget...i found a new love...a new bloggy love that i'm crushing on and guess what!...SWEDISH (NOPE...NORWEGIAN!!!...THANKS for the tip!!) !!! yeah baby....are ya ready...(i realize some people could really give a rats rear about swedish blogs and decor...but i'm in a phase that hopefully never ends...cuz i'm lllllllovin' it...anyway...i apologize if you don't like swedish things...really. i'm sorry. i aim to please.) so...here it is...go over there and peek through the window...then come back and tell me what you see...hopefully not the world's tiniest woman.

anetteshus

(i think that translates to anette's house....but i really have no idea)

and now for a little housekeeping...the sister of one of my dearest friends reads my blog....ha ha ha!! yes! you know who you are!!!! (wink, wink!) and i used to just admire the heck outta her because she was my older brother's age and she's sweet and beautiful and had that precious honey voice...i talked to her on the phone this morning and i just wanna tell you that i dearly love you and have always admired you and think you are just so beautiful and sweet. hearing your voice this morning was such a delight...i hope to see you soon...i hope you get beautiful carpet and the perfect scrapbooking room you so deserve...i know you deserve it because i know how precious you are...anyway...i really just love you and your whole family to pieces! (O.M.G. YOU COMMENTED!!! pigs are flying outside my window!!! hee hee!!)

wanted to share a small glimpse of the house...we're aaaaaaaaalmost finished! hooray!!!

and here's the kitchen looking in from the family room:

it's almost finished....no light bulbs in the chandelier that goes over the kitchen table...i think there's one light bulb in it...we're waiting on the stove and refrigerator and glass in the transom going into the sunroom...i'm thinking of putting an old-looking clock over the pantry door there on the left side of the kitchen...ya know...not old, but looks old....whatever that's called. i chose these darling little glass knobs for the cabinet doors...i love them.

anyway....that's about it...i guess you can see that we went with the black shutters...nighty night!

the latest...

nothing much going on with me these days...just noticed my wedding rings need a good cleaning...there's goo in the little crevices...what do you clean your rings with? here's something funny...when my husband and i first got engaged, i cleaned my ring with a jewelry cleaner and we would purchase more of this "special jewelry cleaner" just to supersonically clean my engagement ring...i hardly have time to look at my wedding rings anymore, let alone spend time cleaning them...but anyway...last year we had a little wedding ring "re-vamp" and the owner of the jewelry store that we used said they use WINDEX to clean their diamond jewelry!!! WINDEX!! who knew...not me. so ever since then i keep a toothbrush and some windex under my sink and brush my wedding rings...it works REALLY REALLY WELL!!

anyway...that's neither here nor there, i was just noticing my dirty rings...

we're spending a little much needed time with my sweet parents tonight. dan and my mom are playing some banana word game. i'm not big on games...unless it's pictionary or charades or something goofy and creative like that...if it requires pre-meditative thought and calculating and more thinking...then i'm out....like heidi says on project runway. "you're out".

my dad just fell asleep watching the yankees baseball game, the children are all asleep and i'm planning and afternoon shopping excursion with my daddy-o (i never call him that btw) tomorrow afternoon...oh! and i just ate a bowl of full fat chocolate ice-cream with chocolate magic shell and rainbow sprinkles...yes. i did. (that's what caroline says when i say, "did you pee-pee?" she says, "yes. i did." just like that. matter of factly. soooooooo cute!!!)

i'm tired. i'm exhausted really. i've been so tired lately and i think it's the weather change....it's so stinkin' rainy and cloudy and gloomy and COLD. burr!!! the normal high here is around 70...the high here today was about 46 or something. and also it's so dark in the mornings....isn't it? that doesn't make me wanna jump outta bed and do much of anything except look at the clock and go back to sleep.

i've been a little off kilter these days. nothing seems right or in order in any way. everything seems hurried and chaotic. it's kinda bothering me...but then i really try not to let much of anything bother me....things usually roll right off my shoulder or wherever and blah....i'm fine with it. i think a lot of it has to do with the house building, don't you? i hope things become less chaotic and hurried once we are moved and some sort of organization occurs...i don't know...my girlfriend, christine, came over last week and helped me pack up anna's room. i got really fired up and tried to continue to sterling's room but i only got his room cleaned up and not packed up...we HAVE to move by the end of october and so that means i HAVE TO start packing more...but i haven't. . . blah.

ever wonder what your life would be like if you owned a sewing machine that you knew how to operate and did so? i do. my mom taught me to sew one summer...the summer after my freshman year in college...BOY WAS THAT FUN!!! i had an old cheapy sewing machine for a while when dan and i first were married and i hemmed a few things but that was it. now i see things...easy things...and i think, "i could make that...only WAY cuter!!!" if i had a sewing machine....and then i think...wow, i don't even have time to scrapbook lately or sleep....sometimes i forget to eat lunch even...how would i EVER have time to sew....but still, i think it would be so fun (and dangerous) if i had a sewing machine. (note: if you are related to me...DO NOT BUY ME A SEWING MACHINE!...also, since we're on the subject. do not buy me a pistol, or any sort of firearm--i don't think my husband reads my blog....but just in case--also...NO ANIMALS OR PETS...this has been a recording...i'll think of other things relatives should not buy me later.)...anyway...my point is...wouldn't it be fun to have a sewing machine?????????

guess that's about it....nighty night.

LET THERE BE LIGHT!

my husband called me this evening and asked me to come out to the house...i packed up my daddy (who later brought me some home-made tabouli!!), my three children and headed out there...we now have lights on at the house!! yippee!! i didn't get to stay long because the children needed to eat and get to bed. so i came home, made dinner and got them tucked into bed. my sweet husband called and said, "i'm coming home. why don't you go out there and see what you think." so i called my momma and we traipsed out there in the wet, drizzly night wading through little rivers and praying no snakes showed their ugly faces. i got a glimpse of the front porch as we were leaving.

Your word is a lamp to my feet and a light for my path.

I have taken an oath and confirmed it, that I will follow your righteous laws.
I have suffered much; preserve my life, O Lord, according to your word.
Accept, O Lord, the willing praise of my mouth, and teach me your laws.
Though I constantly take my life in my hands, I will not forget your law.
The wicked have set a snare for me, but I have not strayed from your precepts.
Your statutes are my heritage forever; they are the joy of my heart.
My heart is set on keeping your decrees to the very end.
Psalms 119: 105-112

a bad case of the stairs

hey...sitting here in bed, just tucked all three children into bed and i have a heating pad on the back of my neck...i have one'o'those "cricks" (that's what we call 'em) in my neck...(i.e. the muscles in my neck are stiff and tight and make me appear to have an invisible neck brace on, a la "neck brace girl" in the sixteen candles movie, even though i don't)...anyway, i went to step class this morning thinking the sweating and moving would help...didn't help. didn't hurt either but certainly it's no better. aren't those dang "cricks" the WORST???

so...a lot has happened since our last confession...ha ha ha! i just wanted to say that...i'm not catholic...i just felt like it "went" so well there. SERIOUSLY!!!...serious now. a lot HAS happened....here's the gist...(again with the spelling, i haven't the foggiest idea how it's spelled) okay, seriously....keep reading IF YOU DARE!!!!!!!!!!


i go out to the house last week to have a looky-loo at how our hardwood floors were coming along...almost our entire downstairs is hardwood flooring. and we selected a light-medium distressed wood sample when we chose it with the owner of the company...medium brown...pretty basic. i didn't want too light or too dark (too dark shows dust and every little thing....and dust...and too light just isn't the look i'm going for) so the men working out there are doing a pretty good job when we go look at it...only guess what...IT WASN'T DISTRESSED!!!! it looked great, mind you. color was good, but there was no look of natural wear and age...get me? so dan calls the guy the next day (the owner guy) and a whole entirely new "crew" is sent out to distress and finish the floors....oh my goodness....guess what...i go out there to look at these floors and i couldn't get past the front stairs in the entry (only stairs in the whole house btw)...they looked just so WRONG and TOTALLY ABNORMAL...i had NEVER IN MY LIFE seen any kind of distressed (naturally aged or made to look naturally aged) floors look the way our stairs did...they looked COMPLETELY RUINED...i just stood there and sorta cried a little...and I'M AN OPTIMIST!!!!! I'M A POLLYANNA...THE on the verge of ANNOYING KIND!!! and they looked so sadly horrible...so terribly deliberately wrongly distressed. there were HUGE BLACK (already stained and finished in the 'distressors' eyes) gouge marks that looked like four to five inch stripes going up the stairs against the grain in a very non-random, deliberate, fake pattern...it was HOORRRRRRRIBLE!!!!!!! so what do we do? do we sit down together as a couple and pray? do we expect the best and know in our hearts that ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER FOR GOOD? even minuscule doesn't amount to a hill'o'beans in the grand scheme of life things???? Nooooooo!!!!!!! WE COMPLETELY FREAK OUT AND THINK THE WORLD HAS ENDED due to our poor, sad looking wooden stairs....and to make this long, dramatic story shorter like it needed to be in the first place....


1. dan called the owner the next morning;
2. the owner went out and viewed the hideous job on the stairs (and the floors were over distressed and wrong too...that's another tangent);
3. owner agreed WITH US!!!! (thank you God!!!!)
4. owner met with us that afternoon to explain exactly what they were going to do to fix them and also told me "we're not going to stop until we get it how you want it!"; (wow, what a smart man...i don't think he's married either!)
5. they sanded down the stairs and the random marks along the floors;
6. they re-finished one step to see if i approved;
7. i went and pigged out with my parents and two youngest children for dinner;
8. dan took anna on a father-daughter camping trip;
9. the one step looked GREAT!!!;
10. the floors should be finished tomorrow;
11. i'm breathing better and praising God that we were blessed to have such an easy ordeal that could have been a HUGE MESS!!!!

how was that for a story?

it's not really true...i made it all up just so i could post something on here...cuz amber told me too...she's kinda pesky that amber!!! now she's got me making up stories!...kinda like anne shirley did when marilla couldn't find her amethyst brooch!!


okay....it's real. it IS TRUE and it really happened. i think my blood pressure went up and i grinded half my teeth off last week...good times....i was just making a joke...for my own benefit cuz those are the only jokes i get...stupid ones. anyway...it all happened...i had zebra striped gouge stairs for one day. that picture's my photoshop creation of what it kind of looked like since i didn't get a picture of it before it was re-done...and it was BAAAAAAD!!!! (and not to the bone). that is about as close as i can get to what i saw when i walked through the front door...nice, huh? (those aren't our stairs by the way, i just found a picture on the internet so i could get the effect of the hideousness across.)

SO...THANKFULLY...i had THIS TO LOOK FORWARD TO THE VERY NEXT DAY!!!!...tell you about it next time...i'm tellin' ya...we had us some FUN!!

.nighty night.