Scrapbook Page - Ethan's 4th Birthday

Scrapbook Page - Ethan's Birthday

Scrapbook Page - Ethan's 4th Birthday

5 question Friday

1. What is your favorite Halloween candy? Fun Size Snicker bars, yum!!

2. Do you fold your socks? I fold the long socks but ankle socks I match them up and then put one inside the other

3. What is something that you wish you had been warned about? Oh, that's a tough one. I'm going to go with how hard marriage is and how hard you have to work at it the first couple of years.  Our first year was more stressful then others and not as stressful as some, I'm sure. My husband's mother died and we had a doctor tell us that my mother would die within a year. Thankfully, that doctor was wrong and almost 8 years later my mom is still alive and healthy. But aside from that the adjustment is hard.

4. What is the most significant difference between you and your significant other? Our love languages - mine is touch and his is receiving gifts. He doesn't like to hold hands and cuddle

5. What are three words you would use to describe yourself? (And, just for fun...if your significant other is around, ask him/her what 3 words they would use to describe you!!)

1. the thing that defines me the most these days, mom

2. quiet

3. friendly

Scrapbook Page - Ethan's 4th Birthday

Scrapbook Page - Ethan's 4th Birthday

Welcome Home

I'm sitting here waiting for the bread to bake and watching the rescue of the Chilean miners live on CNN. 3 of the 33 are up now and I find it amazing.  I really think that sums it all up. It's amazing that they lived in the collapsed mine for 69 days.  Amazing that they were able to be rescued and way sooner then expected, remember the estimate was they would be down there until Christmas and it isn't even Halloween yet. Amazing that it is, so far, going so smoothly with 1 miner an hour. I'm so antsy and wish they could do it faster but I understand that they want to be safe. The emotion on the awaiting families are amazing. The first man whose son burst into tears when he realized that his dad had reached the surface, OH MY GOD, my heart burst for him. A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

Welcome home guys!!

Eleven + 1

I saw this on a fellow Spark People members blog today and I liked it. She said that it was part of a speech that Bill Gates gave but after looking at Snopes I found out that is was actually written by a man named Charles J Sykes and instead of 11 rules it was 14. So here are the 11 that I read from the other blog plus one of the three that is not normally printed but I liked it as well.

Rule 1: Life is not fair - get used to it!

Rule 2 : The world won't care about your self-esteem. The world will expect you to accomplish something BEFORE you feel good about yourself.

Rule 3 : You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

Rule 4 : If you think your teacher is tough, wait till you get a boss.

Rule 5 : Flipping burgers is not beneath your dignity. Your Grandparents had a different word for burger flipping: they called it opportunity.

Rule 6: If you mess up, it's not your parents' fault, so don't whine about your mistakes, learn from them.

Rule 7: Before you were born, your parents weren't as boring as they are now. They got that way from paying your bills, cleaning your clothes and listening to you talk about how cool you thought you were. So before you save the rain forest from the parasites of your parent's generation, try delousing the closet in your own room.

Rule 8: Your school may have done away with winners and losers, but life HAS NOT. In some schools, they have abolished failing grades and they'll give you as MANY TIMES as you want to get the right answer. This doesn't bear the slightest resemblance to ANYTHING in real life.

Rule 9: Life is not divided into semesters. You don't get summers off and very few employers are interested in helping you FIND YOURSELF. Do that on your own time..

Rule 10: Television is NOT real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs.

Rule 11: Be nice to nerds. Chances are you'll end up working for one.

Rule 14: Enjoy this while you can. Sure parents are a pain, school's a bother, and life is depressing. But someday you'll realize how wonderful it was to be a kid. Maybe you should start now. You're welcome.

Reason 4,932 why I can't take a bath when Craig isn't home

Craig doesn' t understand why I always tell him that I can't take a shower when he isn't home. For some reason every time I try to take a quick 10 minutes shower all hell breaks lose. Shortly after closing the door I hear the back door slam. Ugh, crap, forgot to lock it. I streak  (literally) through the house and stick my head out the door. In the seconds that have passed Ethan has laid out a tarp on the back porch, lathered Emerson's hair with shampoo, and is spraying her with the water bottle. Seriously!! I swear I bathe my kids! Why would they think that is okay? They crack me up. Gah, maybe in ten years I'll be able to take a shower when I need to until then I'll keep waiting for Craig to get home.