Busy, busy, busy! I've been so busy the last couple weeks I haven't had time to do much of anything extra. So, finally...here I am. Actually, I went to work today and when I got home I was so sleepy. I don't know why. Maybe the weather? I slept good last night, but I was just so tired.
Jourdan had already started dinner when I got here. What a sweetheart. So we had dinner, and I could hardly keep my eyes open. After we cleaned up the kitchen I sat in my recliner under my blankie and I was out like a light. I woke up at 7:40 pm. So, I slept for over an hour. I guess I was really tired.
I'm laughing because I asked Jourdan where Scott was and she said he'd gone to bed about 40 minutes ago....so he was in bed at 7pm. I can't get too upset because he gets up at 3am and then works 12 hours, so it's a long day. Jourdan had the kids showered and in their jammies. All I had to do is take a shower and tuck in the kids. So, tonight I was spoiled.
Now, my only problem is that it's late and I'm not sleepy in the least!
We had a great weekend. Friday, Sami and I went shopping to buy gifts for the TMAT Christmas party we're having Wednesday. We have a list of 12 categories and the movers vote. And then Rob usually goes out and gets gifts and gift cards that we hand out to the winners. Last year, he talked me into doing the talking and passing out the gifts. This year, he talked me into doing the shopping as well.
Hopefully, I did a good job and everything will turn out good. So I spent all day Friday running around looking for the perfect gifts for each category. Then I went out on Saturday and spent most of the afternoon doing the same thing. I had just a few things left to get and Scott and I went on Sunday to finish up all the gifts. You have to realize, these need to be decent gifts, but also comical and ironic. We have categories like: "strongest mover", "fastest mover", "biggest schmoozer", etc.
I think I did a good job. I was taking ideas from Scott and Jourdan and I think that between the three of us, we did a great job.
Our party is at Craigs Cruisers. If you don't know what that is, it's like a Chuckie Cheese on steroids. Our guys love it! They have an indoor go-kart track and there is alot of competition between our movers. Friendly of course, lol!
So, with working on that for the last three days, and then working today, I have neglected everything I need to do. I still haven't wrapped a single gift. I planned on wrapping gifts all day Friday while I was doing laundry. Didn't happen. I have my Christmas cards all addressed but haven't had time to go to the post office to buy stamps. I've had them done for about two weeks and they are still sitting on the counter ready to go.
I haven't done Christmas cards in several years. For quite a while we couldn't afford them. This year, I bought smaller cards that will take one regular stamp to send. That's not so bad. I saw someplace on the news...maybe Fox News that they were saying the cyber Christmas cards are replacing regular cards. Scott's mom was big into the e-cards. I love the Christmas ones that you have to click on something for another thing to happen. They are so cute.
My friend Kathy already sent one like that to us. I guess they are ok for internet buddies, but I wanted to send out actual cards this year. Jason was having a fit because he wanted to put a picture in the cards for some of the family. I told him I could take a picture of the kids in front of the tree and within an hour, they would have them ready at Meijer. Well, he can't find the time to do that for me so I don't know what I'll do yet.
I think he feels especially bad for his Grandma Miller. Both kids told me that she doesn't have any recent photo's of the kids. The only ones she has are super old...makes me feel bad. I ran into her at Meijer and she told me that nobody stops to visit her. I think she's just lonely. So, if I can't get a picture of the kids in the next day or so I will just print a couple that I already have that are really nice and put them in a card for her. I have Jason's senior pictures, which are awesome, and then Jourdan's pictures from her dance she went to. She looked so beautiful!
New topic: My whole thing with Christmas....I LOVE snowmen. Aside from my villages, everything is snowmen in my house. I even have fleece snowmen blankets. I just happened to look over at the dog and she has moved a blue fleece blanket that has snowmen all over it and made a nest. She is out cold! I would take her picture, because she looks so cute, but if I get up and go in my room she will follow me.
It's the oddest thing. She has been stuck to me like glue lately. She's always been a "family' dog and she'll lay over on the floor by Scott's side of the bed. But lately, she is attached at the hip...with me. The other day, I was in the shower and when I shut if off and pulled open the curtain, she was laying there on the rug next to the tub. She must have pushed open the door and there she was. So, I start shutting the door and when I open it, she's laying in the hall right outside the bathroom door.
I've been spending a few nights in the recliner lately. You may not know this, but Scott has a little snoring issue....lol. So, I'm out here in the recliner and then when he gets up at 3 he wakes me up and I go in to bed. But more than once, she's jumped up into the recliner and slept on top of me. She's 115 pound german shepherd. And if she's not on top of me, she is laying on the floor right next to me. And she snores, for crying out loud!
When I go to bed, she jumps up on the bed and sleeps on the foot of the bed on Scott's side.
I guess she's a mama's dog!
Anyhow, just wanted to stop in and say hello. Christmas is always busy for me. I tend to go a little overboard, I admit it. But it's sneaking up on me faster that I'd like. I have alot to do, and I'm running out of time to get it all done. I haven't even done my holiday baking yet. I planned on it for Saturday, but ended up shopping for Rob. C'est la vie!
Until next time.....
Monday, December 13, 2010
Sunday, December 5, 2010
Let The Festivities Begin
Sorry, it's been about a week since I wrote. I haven't really had any great topics to write about and I'm sick of bitching about this, that, and the other thing.
We had a busy weekend! Jason worked all weekend and Jourdan was gone to her dad's. It's the first time in weeks that she's been over there. Probably been closer to over a month since she's been at her dads, but I think they were going to decorate their Christmas Tree.
So, on Saturday Scott and I went to Indiana to look at a boat. I didn't really want to go, but Scott wanted me to go.....so I went. It was a really nice boat, a 25 ft Sea Ray....I think that was the brand. Doesn't matter. Anyhow, was nicer than the boat we used to have, but not as deep. Our Thompson had really deep sides and I felt so much safer. The sides actually were about waist high on me and in this boat, in the back, the boat was much shallower. Probably thigh deep. It's a deep V bottom boat, but the floor has alot of storage in in, and then you go down two steps into the cabin.
So, I don't know. Scott told me that Thompson's are much deeper boats and most other boats probably won't be that deep. The thing I liked about our boat is that I felt safe with the kids on it because John couldn't even see over the side because it was so tall. And Sam would be the same way right now. The boat we looked at this weekend was clean and bigger and beautiful, but the sides just aren't as high as what I'd like.
I told Scott it's hard for me to compare anything because I've only ever been in our boat for any length of time. So, I would prefer something deeper. We found a couple more Thomspon's but are waiting to get pictures back from the owners. The bad thing is, one is in Cleveland. There is another one down by Toledo, so that's not so bad. But Scott sent me another one today that's for sale and I can't remember where it is, but someplace in Ohio.
It sucks to run all over Ohio to look at boats, especially right now. The weather sucked on the way down. It was foggy and it snowed and we were in the Focus, how stupid are we, lol. Anyhow, we made it back safe.
The kids stayed with my mom and dad. They don't spend much time with my parents so it was really nice that they got to spend the day with them. After the drive down to Indiana, I was so happy we'd decided not to bring the kids. They would have hated all the driving. We were gone from 8:30 -4:00. That's a long day for two kids in the truck. When we went to Ohio a couple weeks ago, they drove us crazy and that was just over four hours. And we had the Excursion so they had the TV to watch movies.
Remember when we were kids and all we had for entertainment was an 8 track tape player. I remember driving up north to Mackinaw Bridge in the Valiant. We listened to the Meatloaf 8 track tape over and over and over. I remember after the fourth or fifth time, my dad said...."ok, that's enough Meatloaf". Lol
Now the kids have Nintendo DS to play with, DVD player in the truck with heated leather seats that recline. They have IPod's and handheld games, even the laptop. How did we survive???? I can't even imagine one of my kids having to drive into Grand Rapids (20 minutes) without watching a movie in the truck. It cracks me up.
Many many years, my parents took us kids up north in our old black and white stiped van. We just sat on blankets in the back because there were only two bucket seats up front. I even remember one year my parents borrowed my grandpa's green pickup truck, put a topper on it, and Tina and I sat in chaise loungechairs in the back. There was no back window to open, so we had a notebook and my mom had a notebook and we wrote notes back and forth on the trip up to the Bridge and back. I'd have to ask Tina, but I think that's the year we hit a skunk! Talk about gross!
It's so funny to think about how things were when I was a kid. A movie I love to watch at Christmas time is Christmas Story. Look at their life and compare it to ours as children and we had it much better. Now look at our childhood and compare it to our kids. I'm wondering how it will be for John and Samantha's kids someday? Kids are so spoiled in todays world as it is, I wonder just how much more spoiled they can be?
Well, not a real exciting topic tonight, but interesting to think about. I'll be posting some pictures of my Christmas decorating around the house. I keep telling you how Christmas crazy I am, so I went around the house and took some random pictures of my decorating. I'll post them here or on my facebook page.
Scott worked today, so it was just John, Sami and I at home. We had Christmas music playing and we put our gingerbread house together and decorated it. Well, I lied.....I actually assembled it a day or two ago. I was telling Beth the best way to get the house put together is to use caulk, and I wasn't kidding. It's stickier than the frosting they give you. Plus, they barely give you enough for decorating. Anyhow we had to let that dry and today we put all the decorations on it. I'll be posting a picture of that too.
We had a great day today. It's very festive around my house right now. My shopping is coming along nicely....I just have to get wrapping. I haven't wrapped a single gift, and when you have four kids....you should be wrapping in October, lol.
Until next time.....sweet dreams!
We had a busy weekend! Jason worked all weekend and Jourdan was gone to her dad's. It's the first time in weeks that she's been over there. Probably been closer to over a month since she's been at her dads, but I think they were going to decorate their Christmas Tree.
So, on Saturday Scott and I went to Indiana to look at a boat. I didn't really want to go, but Scott wanted me to go.....so I went. It was a really nice boat, a 25 ft Sea Ray....I think that was the brand. Doesn't matter. Anyhow, was nicer than the boat we used to have, but not as deep. Our Thompson had really deep sides and I felt so much safer. The sides actually were about waist high on me and in this boat, in the back, the boat was much shallower. Probably thigh deep. It's a deep V bottom boat, but the floor has alot of storage in in, and then you go down two steps into the cabin.
So, I don't know. Scott told me that Thompson's are much deeper boats and most other boats probably won't be that deep. The thing I liked about our boat is that I felt safe with the kids on it because John couldn't even see over the side because it was so tall. And Sam would be the same way right now. The boat we looked at this weekend was clean and bigger and beautiful, but the sides just aren't as high as what I'd like.
I told Scott it's hard for me to compare anything because I've only ever been in our boat for any length of time. So, I would prefer something deeper. We found a couple more Thomspon's but are waiting to get pictures back from the owners. The bad thing is, one is in Cleveland. There is another one down by Toledo, so that's not so bad. But Scott sent me another one today that's for sale and I can't remember where it is, but someplace in Ohio.
It sucks to run all over Ohio to look at boats, especially right now. The weather sucked on the way down. It was foggy and it snowed and we were in the Focus, how stupid are we, lol. Anyhow, we made it back safe.
The kids stayed with my mom and dad. They don't spend much time with my parents so it was really nice that they got to spend the day with them. After the drive down to Indiana, I was so happy we'd decided not to bring the kids. They would have hated all the driving. We were gone from 8:30 -4:00. That's a long day for two kids in the truck. When we went to Ohio a couple weeks ago, they drove us crazy and that was just over four hours. And we had the Excursion so they had the TV to watch movies.
Remember when we were kids and all we had for entertainment was an 8 track tape player. I remember driving up north to Mackinaw Bridge in the Valiant. We listened to the Meatloaf 8 track tape over and over and over. I remember after the fourth or fifth time, my dad said...."ok, that's enough Meatloaf". Lol
Now the kids have Nintendo DS to play with, DVD player in the truck with heated leather seats that recline. They have IPod's and handheld games, even the laptop. How did we survive???? I can't even imagine one of my kids having to drive into Grand Rapids (20 minutes) without watching a movie in the truck. It cracks me up.
Many many years, my parents took us kids up north in our old black and white stiped van. We just sat on blankets in the back because there were only two bucket seats up front. I even remember one year my parents borrowed my grandpa's green pickup truck, put a topper on it, and Tina and I sat in chaise loungechairs in the back. There was no back window to open, so we had a notebook and my mom had a notebook and we wrote notes back and forth on the trip up to the Bridge and back. I'd have to ask Tina, but I think that's the year we hit a skunk! Talk about gross!
It's so funny to think about how things were when I was a kid. A movie I love to watch at Christmas time is Christmas Story. Look at their life and compare it to ours as children and we had it much better. Now look at our childhood and compare it to our kids. I'm wondering how it will be for John and Samantha's kids someday? Kids are so spoiled in todays world as it is, I wonder just how much more spoiled they can be?
Well, not a real exciting topic tonight, but interesting to think about. I'll be posting some pictures of my Christmas decorating around the house. I keep telling you how Christmas crazy I am, so I went around the house and took some random pictures of my decorating. I'll post them here or on my facebook page.
Scott worked today, so it was just John, Sami and I at home. We had Christmas music playing and we put our gingerbread house together and decorated it. Well, I lied.....I actually assembled it a day or two ago. I was telling Beth the best way to get the house put together is to use caulk, and I wasn't kidding. It's stickier than the frosting they give you. Plus, they barely give you enough for decorating. Anyhow we had to let that dry and today we put all the decorations on it. I'll be posting a picture of that too.
We had a great day today. It's very festive around my house right now. My shopping is coming along nicely....I just have to get wrapping. I haven't wrapped a single gift, and when you have four kids....you should be wrapping in October, lol.
Until next time.....sweet dreams!
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