Life as I know it.

Can you believe it's almost February, where does the time go. It has been snowing like crazy around here. We literally have more than a foot of snow on the ground. The piles from the plows and shoveling are enormous, we could now sled down them. I love the snow but it is starting to be a bit much.

So far I am having an interesting but Happy New Year. I hope you all are also having a nice start to your new year. But my hubby wants a massage so i will have to update you all a little later.

Merry Christmas or at least merry Christmas eve. Bug is sleeping in this morning so I figured I would catch up on my blogging. Everything is basically ready around here. I do need to go pick up a few food items but other than that everything is done. Of course just as a I write that i think of 5 other things I need to do: wrap a couple more presents, stuff some stockings, get a goody tray ready for Blue's work, etc.... We will be having Christmas at our house tomorrow, the only downer is that Blue has to work today and tomorrow. You gotta love the transit system around here, (he is a bus driver, if I haven't mentioned that before). So today we will run around and finish things up, then go to our Christmas Eve Church Service at 5. Then when Blue gets home we will cook up some pizza and after dinner we will open our stockings. In the morning we will just be hanging out until he gets home around 1 then we will have a nice lunch/brunch and then the gift frenzy will begin. Actually...

Can you believe it is Dec 1st already? Thanksgiving went well around here, we ended up with 10 people after all, enough to feel festive but not too many to be crowded. Black Friday shopping went well, I even got myself a new laptop (which I am currently using to type this). I picked up a magic bullet for myself and a couple small gifts for Blue and Bug. Black Friday is mainly about pre Xmas gifts for me. My husband is not a big gift giver so this way i make sure i get at least a little something. We have started the Christmas prep around here, we have up the tree but haven't finished decorating the rest of the house, maybe tomorrow. Bug went to a class where he made gifts for family and friends today. He has been sequestered in the office wrapping up his treasures since we got home over an hour ago. The 1st 2 have come out (for me of course, Bug is such the momma's boy). They are wrapped in baby shower tissue paper with 2 kinds of tape (about a roll a piece) and looked like ...

Can you believe it is already the week of Thanksgiving? I am so excited! I will be hosting this year, we will have my mom and uncle (who both live with us), my cousin who doesn't have her boys this year and my friend Brenda and her family. So there will be 9 of us. I love hosting things but always worry about things going smoothly. We will be having the "traditional things:" turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, yams, fruit salad, rolls and a crudite plate. It's funny though you ask people what they are having and they always answer "the traditional things" but if you get them to really give you an answer their traditional things are always a little different then yours. But everybody just assumes that what is traditional for their family is the same with everybody else. When I was a teenager I always loved going to other people's houses for Thanksgiving, not only because there was never anyone home at our house but it was always just fascinating to see wha...

Life is good. But very busy. I am still working 2 jobs, unfortunately the 2nd one hasn't picked up like I hoped it would. I keep going back and forth on whether I should stay with it or not, I'm still only doing 5-8 massages a week so the paychecks pretty much suck. But I figure every penny helps, especially right before Xmas. So at this point I think I will stick it out. I guess I will re-eval in January. My hubby Blue is also working 2 jobs right now, he has a friend that runs a muffler shop and he has been having a hard time with employees lately and since Blue was always there helping out anyway they have decided to pay him for his time, it's not much but as I said every penny helps. We had a fabulous time over in Seattle for Halloween, usually when we go there we are so rushed, but this time we went for an entire week. We had time to see all of our friends and family, go to NW Trek (It's like a zoo, where the animals roam free) and the Pacific Science center. It wa...

It has been too long since I last posted. Life has been very hectic the last month and a half. 1. My husband did buy his new car and is loving it. 2. My son had a beautiful 5 th birthday party. It was a pirate party and we ended up with 35-40 people, everything went fairly smoothly. We had a small accident with the pinata but it was quickly fixed and the kids loved it (see pic, this is from right after the pinata). 3. We started homeschooling my son on the 27 th (so technically he started Kindergarten when he was 4). HSing has been going great, we are well ahead of the projected goals they set for us. My son has been doing well in all the subjects so far. Most of the phonics is review at this point. But I really enjoy how they teach it. They don't teach it that this letter says _, because as we all know very few letters in out ABC's truly only say 1 thing. So they are teaching all of the sounds and then will later connect those to particular letters and letter blends. 5. M...