What my next 10 days look like

I kinda feel like Eeyore! Glad I picked up some books and plan to be heavy on the homeschooling for the next couple of weeks!

I'm surrounded by used kleenix, bottles of medicine and half drank glasses of water. There is an almost empty jar of vicks on my window sill and cough drop wrappers are still scattered from my daughter's coughing fits in the night.

Our crew is sick. Mommy has walking pneumonia, little bean has a sinus infection. Daddy has an appointment for 6:00 PM tomorrow to see what he's got and both the cats have diarrhea and a 4:30 appointment with the vet. HAPPY FEBRUARY!!!

After a busy start to the month, I'm ready to get back to our routine, whatever that may be, one of which is catching up on school work again. Life just seems to be all out of whack right now and I've put my foot down on making commitments for awhile. It's time to pull in the reins and regroup and figure things out. I know you have to roll with the punches in life but sometimes? Ya gotta punch back and tell life to slow down!

Now I'm going to go set up a lemonade stand from these lemons life is giving us, so I can pay the medical/vet bills.

The money counter

Okay, there are times like this where blogging comes in handy, because I'm pretty sure Grandma is the one who is going be looking for these pictures :)

This was definitely Rebekah's favorite birthday gift. I wish the two blurry pictures would have turned out better but I was taking them with my cell phone in a dim room with lots of movement! You get the idea though...

Blogging burnout

At this point, I really just want to load every picture I have taken into snapfish and order one of each and be done with it :)

I've been cleaning house since we got back from Minnesota, yes, thanks to a little unknown flea problem we had brewing here! In doing so, I set our photo albums in the living room. Rebekah has had such a good time paging through them and I like having them out too. But most of the pictures stop when she was about 3. I'm guessing that was about the time I started heavy duty blogging.

I also think that when I started blogging, facebook wasn't being as heavily used. The blog was a way for me to keep my Minnesota family posted on our doings...but now the blog feels a little redundant. So for those one or two people who read this, and are lamenting an update, that's what's going on in my pointed little head!

Now back to facebook :p

Surprise trip to Minnesota 2011

My last post was a bit of a spoof. I wrote it while we were in the middle of Montana, and I wrote it to make sure my Mom wasn't going to suspect anything...we were on our way to surprise her! And surprise her we did. Thanks to Rory, we were on the porch before she suspected a thing and in the house before she had a chance to process what she was seeing!

Rebekah was so excited to be in Minnesota, but she didn't grow up in cold weather. Apparently she's fairly numb because the next morning my Mom found her out on the porch and took a picture of her, and then a picture of the thermometer....

Really, bare feet?

So much to learn about Minnesota in the winter. The concept of ice fishing produced a rolling belly laugh from the back seat when I asked her if she knew what those little houses out on the ice were, and explained it to her. Then she thought she needed to take off her heavy coat to go into the store because she would look like a "dork". Also? Make sure you leave your regular pants on when you put snow pants on :) The education continues...

I have one picture for December in my picture file. Sad. I will try to fix that this week, I promise! I do have pictures on my phone, I just have to email them to myself and save them to files and get them uploaded here. Don't you think with technology there should be an easier way?

Everyone is so busy this time of year, us included. But Grant had a nice birthday on the 17th, Rebekah just had a Christmas party for gymnastics that she raved over (I have a couple of pics of that on my phone) and I've been busy with church stuff and getting packages sent to loved ones across the miles.

The house is never clean all at once these days but if you drop in you might find one room clean at a time...lol

Then along comes January with a birthday party for Rebekah and the February my Mom comes to visit and we take her with on our trip to Tucson to visit Ashley...I have a lot to look forward to! I better figure out a better system for the pictures! :)

Sick for a week...

Sunday night marked the first clue of my not feeling so well...we are now at Saturday morning and though I'm better, I'm not 100%. I very rarely get hit this hard with anything but man this week has been tough!

So, no pictures, no crafty wonderfulness, no recipes. Just crickets and tumbleweed.

Some things are going to HAVE to get done around here today. Like the bathrooms NEED to be cleaned! I NEED to wrap some gifts and get them in the mail. And some baking NEEDS to happen! I have way too much to do to be sick.