Colonial Days

Poor M - had this musical at school with a speaking part (he was thankful for popcorn) - he said mom and nana and dad were taken ;) And I couldn't go. So Kev gives K the camera....and I get a bunch of blurry ones back. LOL

Here's one of my son! Right before he was going to speak :)

Looks real thrilled right? Did I mention that on Black Friday it was a black day here at my house? Seriously! First Katie tells me she has to make a 3D model of an atom and not just any atom but a magnese one or something. With 35 protons and electrons, etc and 3 rings. After $25 if she doesn't get an A the teacher is getting an email. Who thinks of assigning these things- esp to parents over a HOLIDAY. So I braved Michael's to get the items and they had asked to put up the tree..I said yes..tree only- not a big deal..figured we do the actual other items later...Kev admits they dragged it all out and he wasn't keeping an eye on them. Now let me set the stage for how *I* do my tree..it's never a norman rockwell scene that's for sure but I spend hours schoozing it just right ya know? And I have a HUGE priceless collection of hallmark ornaments...so I come home to find all 6 of my xmas tubs OUT and in various states of disrepair and all my hallmark boxes on the FLOOR..after almost sobbing I calmly realized that Katie had ditched the project when her friend came over and some boxes weren't even empty. The boxes ANNA was STEPPING on. So I quickly finish the tree...and complain because they put the lights and everything on without fixing the branches so it doesn't look artificial...I know I'm anal...I guess after all that it didn't turn out half bad right?

I have more photos to share..hopefully tomorrow morning or later tonight!

One more time now

here we go again scrapping makes her happy you know ;)

Happy Fake Birthday to ME

Yep today is my BIG day. My fake birthday. Kevin refuses to acknowledge it..says that it doesn't exist except in my mind..hello it's MY bday of course it exists...

So my birth certificate was miraculously changed when I was young because I missed the cutoff by 4 days (Dec 5th - the actual day of my appearance) to the 1st...for years I thought it was the 5th - which it is but then had to bring my b.c. into school for some stupid project and was "really" annoyed that it said the 1st....and from that day on celebrated with my friends on the FIRST..and they coined it my FAKE Birthday. Hey double the presents and double the cake..what's not to love as my friend Carole told me ;)

Since no one else cares about this day it's back to the cooking and cleaning for me! I did spend a lot of time today scrapping. I LOVE my new desk..right next to my dining room windows..so bright and cheery. The dumb letters fell off and ruined a picture...go figure they'll stick to a photo but not to the dang wall! So those are down now..but it's still my room. I got my "friends" canvas that Bonnaroo and I both have and my beloved ipod above it and I can *almost* drown out the kids in the next room playing video games I'm gonna load you down with photos now that it's working again ;) I fully expect it to break once more!













See how nice it looks with all my ribbons and flowers stacked? And those iris carts from the Container Store rock! They are drawers but when you pull them out each "drawer" is a case that is totally lockable and closed. YAY And they are deep and 12x12! The whole system is from The Container Store and it's their Elfa system. I highly recommend it. One more for this entry of Anna at her new desk.....she tells me all the time now...Scrapping makes me happy Mama, me too baby, me too!!!!!

Ok so it's broken..I'll do anna's desk later maybe..stupid blogger!

Poor neglected soul!

this Blog..that's what's neglected ;)

I used to LOVE blogging but unfortunately every time I came it would never upload photos..we'll try again today and see if it's better...we'll start with the photo of my father I wanted to upload last time..if I still have it! AHA It works..I was almost going to switch to the beta version but that one scared me..anyone else do it yet?

So that's Dad..at my brother's wedding..he looks ok..but to me personally he looks so sick..not the big, stocky guy he always was. I had a nice dream of him last night..where he wasn't dead anymore...not that it was a miracle or anything he just wasn't dead but we had already put the house in probate, etc and I was explaining why he had no change of clothes..but I was SO relieved to see him. And he didn't look sick like this anymore. I think he was coming to me in my dreams to tell me he was ok. I'm glad I could tell him I'm doing ok too! Love you dad!