Hello! Hello!!
Well, I am back from lunch and thought I would visit. I came by earlier but then patients showed up so I had to do some work. I have tomorrow off. I am excited about that, but not so excited that another year has passed in my little boys life. Ugh!! Tomorrow is going to be a busy day. I am making Ethan biscuits and gravy for breakfast and we are watching the Hannah Montana movie. I have to go rent that tonight, although I do believe he is getting it for his birthday tomorrow. I am only renting it. I have a free rental from Blockbuster I think, I hope. OKay, I checked and I do. Yay! I'll have to get that movie tonight. Then eventually we will head out to see G-Force at the theater. he might take a friend or might not. We'll see. Then eventually we will head up to Seattle to meet family for dinner and then a Mariners game. His name will be on the reader board after the 2nd inning. I'd better not forget my camera. That will be awesome. It comes with a package of stuff, and then for his birthday Derek and I are giving him Mariners gear to wear to the game. A hat and a jacket I think. My momm has it. She went to the team store and picked some stuff up for me. Then he will go home with my parents for about a week until we head over the mountains for the Dave Matthews concert. He should have a pretty great birthday. Not to mention he's getting Miley concert tickets from my parents and sister. He's not going to care about much after that. The poor kid was having a heck of a time last night. he is testing for his yellow belt at TKD tonight (it is supposed to be tomorow but because of his bday he is doing a makeup). One of the things they have to do is write an essay on the given topic for that belt level. This time around it is Morality & Ethics. How do you explan ethics to a 6yo?? So, I just stuck with morality and he had a really hard time with it. But he came up with a pretty good little essay. It is really long at a whole paragraph. LOL!! We got it all written up last night and then he just had to get it copied and written out nice today. I'm excited for him.
So, why is it that when I am happy and content with life dh doesn't seem to be? I think it is because I am making an effort to make our life better and he's not in t he same spot as me so he's being a bit destructive so that he doesn't feel left behind. Not sure, but he has really been a brat for a few days. Not thrilled with it but I am NOT letting him pull me from my mission. I hate cleaning but I am feeling so much better getting stuff done. I feel like I have more time, even though I don't. Same with the finance stuff. I feel more empowered like anything is possible, like we could actually one day be out of debt. That in itself is incredibly freeing...but dh is kicking a screaming the whole way...but in his crabby silent way. Ugh!! Okay, enough ranting about that. Personals...
Chris - Is today really the 2th?? I say that in my head and it sounds funny. the secoth or secondth?? Either way it is funny. Sorry, I saw that and it amused me. I hope you find it funny too. how is Caitlyn's quilt coming? I hope work went well.
Dawn - You poor thing. the flu sucks!! I'm glad you came by to visit anyway. Isn't it nice to visit with people while you are sick with no fear of getting them sick?? That is cool that you do the ironing of your scrubs. I HATE ironing so I just don't do it. It is usually no big deal for most of my scrubs but I have a couple tops that get funky around the nexk. But I still don't really care. You are so much better than me. I lost ironing cool points.
I am totally coolwith that though.
Sally - I am so glad that you are starting to feel like joining the land of the living again. Slowly, maybe but still. I hate feeling like that. I hope it is totally gone by tomorrow. I always drink lots of peppermint tea when I feel like that. I am still in awe at your home schooling. Usually homeschooling annoys me because I have met so many people who homeschool but don't really provide a good education to their kids. But you put so much thought and energy into it and care so much about what ther are learning. It is so awesome. I could never do that for my kids, but if I ever move to Houston I may have to enroll them in Sally's School of Silly but Caring Children. That is awesome that you are recruiting people into digiscrap-land. Did you worn them that it is in fact an addiction? That isn't really fair to get them involved without the disclaimer. LOL!!
LindaW - You sure stay busy busy when dh is not working, huh? Sounds like you got more accomplished today than all the FLYgirls, even if you didn't finish your list. That sounds like a rough situation with you step daughter. I would actually do some clean up around her, although not necessarily in a good way. I would also have your dh talk to her. After there is a discussion I would wash her sheets, but leave them on the bed so that she 1...know that you made her bed and 2 makes her own stinking bed. I would also not keep her bathroom stocked with anything, soap, shampoo, towels, etc. And I would clean the room she uses (taking out the trash can of course from the bedroom and the bathroom) and throw away anything of hers that gets left behind. I wouldn't make a big fuss about it, but if she is suddenly missing something say, oh, oops I must have thought it was trash...it was on the floor. Or if she asks about a trash can just say you don't use those areas and so you forget to empty the trash cans so she'll just have to throw things away where everyone else does. It doesn't have to be a big deal. She's 21 and the world revolves around her (or at least she thinks it does since she didn't get the memo that it revolves around me and Chris) as does every other teenager/young adult. I'm 31 and just now starting to understand cleaning up after myself. So, that is what I would do.
Kat - yay for relaxing some today. I'm glad Nick is so excited for school. that is so cool. I love how excited kids are to start school. Ethan is excited too. I love it. Football tonight should be fun. I'm sorry your life is in chaos right now. I hope you find your way out of it soon.
Well, I am off. I need to do some Dave Ramsey budget homework. we just finished lesson 3 about budgeting. If any of you need some help learning how to manage your money I would definately suggest his program. he's funny but logical and it all makes sense. Check it out.
