Hello cyber friends...

Well I've been remiss again. I'm sorry about that. We had a wonderful weekend. Well, mostly wonderful. We put up our tree and other decorations on Saturday and I got a little sad but I'm fine now. I love decorating for the holidays. The only problem is that I don't have enough yard decorations and I don't have the money to get all that I want! So I've been obsessing about that.

Today we have been homeschooling and finished our last day with the F.U.E.L. program. I really enjoyed doing it but am relieved that it is over. I'm hoping to be able to get more done at home with the house and the schooling. That one day's interruption sometimes threw us so out of whack that we never got back in the groove. So, today we are working on the groove thing.

How are everyone's Christmas plans coming? I seem to have booked myself a little too much which is very typical of me. Hopefully all I have planned will be fun though and stress free.

Well, that's about it here so I'll leave you for now but will try to be more regular. Thanks Kate for pulling back into the blogosphere!! Have a wonderful day!

Day after....

Good morning dear friends.

I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family, friends, food, fun and lots of thanksgiving.

I have so much to be thankful for and thought I'd share it here. I'm thankful for my wonderful family and all of my friends. I have a wonderful husband who loves me and takes care of me and supports me. I have two beautiful, healthy and just plain great kids. I have friends who care about me and support me. I have a beautiful home with clothes in the closets and food on the table. I have good transportation and I have places I can go. Oh, and I have an absolutely adorable dog. What more could I ask for?

We had a good day yesterday. We turkey with all the trimmings and yes I ate way too much!! I need to go get on the treadmill and walk some of it off! We invited my DD's best friends family over. Her dad is deployed as well. The kids enjoyed playing together and I enjoyed visiting with their mom.

It was a very nice day. We worked on a 500 piece puzzle and although it is very frustrating, I thoroughly enjoyed it. I had a very hard time sleeping knowing it wasn't finished!! I need to get in there and get to work on it.

We watched "It's Thanksgiving, Charlie Brown" and Charlie Brown's "The Mayflower". Then DS and I watched the original "Yours, Mine, and Ours". He loved it! It was so funny to watch him watching it. I've always loved it. Then we finished off with "Without a Trace" and the news. We didn't really want to watch the news but I couldn't stop working on the puzzle!!
Then, as I was heading to bed DH called again (he'd called earlier) to see how my day went and make sure I wasn't too sad. He's so sweet! I just love him.

I hope you all had a great day and that you don't get lost in shopping this shopping day. I'm not really into the day after Thanksgiving Shopping. In fact I hate it! So I'll be home today finishing cleaning up after yesterday and getting ready to start pulling out my Christmas things. And yes, working on my puzzle!!

Have a wonderful day!

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

Good Evening, Cyber Friends!

Hello dear friends. I've been remiss and I'm sorry. I guess I've just been very busy or maybe lazy or just some of both. Now I'm preparing for Thanksgiving. I've spent the day really cleaning the kitchen. I've tried to rid it of all my terrible clutter. I have to say that I've done a very good job of it too. I'm not sure my kitchen has looked this good in a very long time. Well, it might be safe to say that it hasn't looked this good since we moved in.

I'm feeling pretty good today. I had several down days for a while there (probably why I wasn't posting) but I'm feeling much better. Things are going well for us. If only DH were home it would be pretty near perfect!

I love the holidays. I really do. Every part of it! I love the cooking, the decorating, the movies, the music, the shopping, the giving and well just every part of it. We rented "Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving" today and I can't wait to watch it. I also can't wait for all the Christmas specials that come with Thanksgiving.

Well, I hope you have a wonderful night and just in case I don't make it back before.....

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

Love...

Okay, call me crazy or silly or whatever you want, but I am always looking for creative ways or different ways to say I love you to my husband. Especially when he is way from me. It seems I can never come up with the right words, or good enough words to express the way I feel. So.... I've been scouring my favorite online bookstore today for just the right "words". I've found a few and put them in my shopping cart but haven't checked out yet.

My DH thinks I'm crazy. He says he knows I love him and I say it fine. He's not the most romantic although he does try for me. I, on the other hand, am a hopeless romantic. I love the books, the movies. I love romantic pictures and of course romantic words. I have a poets heart but not the talent.

Just about every night, I lay in bed after I put the kids to bed and try to write a love letter to DH but they usually just say, "I love you so much." It sounds like a first grader! Surely I could come up with better words to say what I feel. Hey, maybe I could put a thesaurus by the bed. I doubt it would help but... you never know.

Anyway, with Christmas coming I want something super special to send him. It's so hard. I mean what do you send a soldier in the desert for Christmas? I feel like I need to express my love even more with him gone. I can't just give him a hug or kiss or any of that so ... He always says a movie is the best thing to send over there or money {;o)} but those don't exactly say "I love you!" Oh well. He thinks I'm nuts anyway (in a good way of course) so it probably won't matter too much. I guess it's the thought that counts anyway.

I guess this is kind of personal to be posting on the internet but oh well. It's what I'm thinking about today.

Veterans Day

Thanks to all our Veterans!

I'm so dumb!

Okay just so you all know, I have not been moderating my comments and not letting you guys comment! I didn't realize that that meant they wouldn't show up and they would just sit in cyberspace waiting for me publish them! I'm really dumb, stupid, slow or something. Sorry!!! I guess I just tried to be too techie and well... got kicked in the pants!

I couldn't believe that no one had commented! Especially about the stolen stuff!! I thought you guys all deserted me. I should have known better. hehehehe I'm just a little slow... I did publish all your posts so you can go see them and read my replies. AND! I fixed it so that won't happen again.

So now I'm off to bed. Sleep tight cyber friends and pleasant dreams.

...

Well, first, we will not mention the previous post because it just causes my blood to boil and get very, very,..... angry!

So, that said, today is a much better day. I slept better last night and feel better too. DS and have been working out this week and we are really enjoying it. He is especially. I asked him if it made him feel better or if he was feeling like he was getting stronger and he said, "No, it's just fun." haha. Kids. I was looking for some deep meaning behind his telling me he liked it. It was just basic fun! That's probably the way it should be.

Tomorrow is a day off of school here for Veterans day. Yea!! My kids and I love days off. Don't we all? Tomorrow night we are having a kind of ladies night out for the military spouses of deployed soldiers with childcare provided at my church. I'm really looking forward to it. I didn't realize until I was so grumpy last night, how badly I am in need of a break and night out. The only thing is that I'm helping to organize it so I'll be cooking a lot tomorrow to get ready for it. I'm still looking forward to it though. It should be a lot of fun.

As usual I have lots to do around the house. I think I need a maid service! But I can't afford one so I just need to learn to get it done myself. Quit being Lazy!!

Well, having said that I guess I should get off her and get to work! Take care, my cyber friends. Until next time....

GRRRRRRR

Well, I am just furious! DH just called and I sent him box last week and he got it yesterday and the box had been cut opened and then re-taped and stuff was stolen out of it!! How wrong is that!!! I sent him some candy and some skoal and some other stuff but the candy and skoal were stolen!!! I can't believe it! It was insured but how do we prove that it wasn't there when he got it??? UGH! I can't believe how awful people are! Man... sometimes it's hard not to say a lot of bad words!! I want to stomp on someones toes right this minute. (For those of you who don't know, that is what I want to do when I get upset... stomp on toes!) If I knew whose to stomp on, I would!!! People can be such inconsiderate jerks!

Update: DS read about me wanting to stomp people's toes and asked he should "put on protective gear" before we started school! He's so funny... Gotta love my kids. :o)

Good Evening!

Hello cyber friends! How are you all this evening? I'm doing fine. We had a fairly busy day today. I'm trying to type this and watch "Medium" at the same time. It's not working too well.

Anyway, I've been on the phone most of the afternoon and evening. This afternoon we went to the library and before that we had to fill the F.U.E.L. bags at church. It's a great program to help feed children who might not have food to eat on the weekends. DD had a friend over after school today. That always makes me feel run ragged even though they really entertain themselves.

Well, I'm getting the feeling that I must not have much to say today. I had something I wanted to say earlier but I can't for the life of me think of it now. So, I guess I'll sign off for now. Have a great night everyone and come back and visit again soon!

Good morning, cyber friends!

Well, it's another beautiful day in my world! Come sit on my porch and we'll chat a spell. I've got the tea kettle on and I'm ready to start my day.

I read recently that hot water and lemon are really good for you and it helps in weight loss too so, that's what I'm having. What would you like? I've got some peppermint tea, and berry tea to name a few. Oh and green tea too. I've also got some hot chocolate. Come on, sit a spell!

Well, DH called bright and early this morning. It wasn't a long call but what better way to wake up than to hear, "Good Morning" in that sweet way only the one I love can say. I was going to sleep in and tried to go back to sleep but decided to just get up and start my day. I figured it'd be peaceful right now since the kiddos are still sleeping. ~~OH! The kettle is whistling, be right back!

There, now it has too cool a bit for me, it's way too hot! Anyhoo... the kids and I went to dinner with a friend last night and then went back to her house and watched "Because of Winn Dixie". It is such a cute movie!! A real heart warmer. I'd love to have it in my video library. We had a terrific time visiting with our friend too. She is great and we really enjoy her company.

Today the kids and I are cleaning house again. We've really let it go the past few days. If we work together it shouldn't take too long. I have laundry to do too. Then I think we are going to go do some Christmas Shopping for DH. I won't mail it for a while (I'm afraid he'll open them early) but I want to get it done. I always send him a Christmas Tree decorated for him to put in his room when he is away so we will look for that too. It will be fun and sad all at once.

I just love the holidays, don't you? I love the weather change, the cooking, the shopping, the decorating, the movies, the music. Yes, I love it all. We always try to invite friends over for the holiday meals. It's fun to share with other people. When DH is home he invites the single soldiers over. They very seldom come though. He invites families too that he knows aren't going anywhere.

When DH is gone I try to invite the other wives I know and their families over. I love to cook the meal and I cook a huge one whether anyone extra shows up or not so I figure I might as well invite some friends to help eat it. Plus, it helps me feel better to have people over. I feel a little less lonely for a few minutes anyway. Some wives go to see family over the holidays when DH is gone but I just can't seem to leave when he's gone so, it just makes sense to invite those that do like me over. (Okay, I realize I'm starting to ramble about this.)

Well, I guess that's about all the ramblings I have this wonderful morning so I better move on. I hope all of you have a wonderful weekend! ;o)

I'm not a big spider fan!

And we found one very similar to this one in our backyard on the kids jungle gym thingy. YUCK!!! They came in yelling. They aren't big fans of spiders either. Of course we killed first and then came in to look it up and find out about it. It's not harmful to humans and eats lots of insects. It said they are good to have around but we don't think so. ;op

OOOHHHHH MEEEE......

yes, that's a very big sigh. It's a little how I feel today. DS is still not feeling well. He was up most of the night complaining about not being able to breathe out of his nose. Poor guy. I feel so bad for him but there's just not much I can do for him! He takes Zyrtec everyday already, he uses nasonex, saline, and he takes sudafed when it gets really bad. I just don't know of much else I can do for him. He doesn't have a fever either so... Today, I just let him rest and made him drink lots of water. Which reminds me it's time for more water!!

There... that's done. Anyway, I'm feeling... well, I guess better. I had lots to do today so I've been busy. My head aches but I'll live.

I'm sitting here now waiting for DD to get home from school. A friend picked her up for me and it is so nice to not have to sit in the school parking lot for an hour. So, friend, if you are reading this.... THANK YOU!!!

Well, I really have lots more still to do so I guess I should get with it! So to all my many cyber friends ;o) have a great evening!

Allergies!!

Yuck! I'm usually pretty good at not getting too sick but I feel uckie this morning. It could be the clouds too that are making it worse. I feel tired and my nose is a bit stuffy. I'm sure I'll live though.

DD complained of her ear hurting during the night but seemed fine this morning. I hope she stays fine!!! DS is miserable with his allergies. His nose is clogged. Yes, I said clogged, it's like the drains in your house. Poor kid.

Anyway, I'm off to run errands. Don't feel much like it but they have to be done! Have a great day!