It's A Yucky Rainy Sunday

and everyone is taking naps except me, surprise surprise! I've been on the computer ordering Christmas cards, shopping, checking email. Wow! Just think what did we do before the advent of computers? I don't know about you but they sure do make my life easier. I apologize for not blogging these past few days, but I've been enjoying the holiday weekend. Thanksgiving was nice. Of course, I ate to much or at least I felt that way. I hope everyone enjoyed their Thanksgiving as much as we did.

On Friday, Kevin and I did something we have never done in the past eight years of marriage - go shopping the day after Thanksgiving TOGETHER!!! I still can't believe we did it. We went to Target, Toys 'r Us and Best Buy. I told him we were really testing our marriage because we both have two totally different approaches to shopping. I like to take my time looking and he has his list and goes directly for what he wants. It drives me crazy because he usually doesn't deviate from what it is he needs. Everything went well and we were in and out in a reasonable amount of time. Afterwards, he then took me to my mom's house where I spent the rest of the day shopping with her. (The girls had spent the night at Grams and Buster Bud's house the night before.)I did get a little of my Christmas shopping done, which was nice. I have finished the majority of it of for the most part. My goal this year is just really to slow down and enjoy the season - I'll let you know how it goes.

Here are pictures of our family Christmas tree and then the tree that is in our bedroom. I finally finished decorating everything last night...yeah!!!

"Our" tree in our bedroom - it's decorated in aqua blue and brown


The Family Christmas tree - decorated in traditional red and green

A Day With My Girls

Today was the first day of Thanksgiving Break for the girls. And would you believe that both girls were up before the crack dawn? I'm not really sure what time Lela got up but best I remember Lacey was up before 7:00 am. Come on girls, we can sleep late? No school this week.

Since we are off this week I had promised the girls that I would take them to one of their favorite places to play - Jumping Jellybeans. So yesterday afternoon after most of the laundry was done and the house was somewhat picked up, we head over to play. The girls had me climbing, jumping and sliding for about an hour. Talk about tired, but they had a good time. Afterwards I promised them I would take them to Rita's Italian Ice. It was a little chill for ice, but hey you only live once, right? Lela got chocolate, me strawberry and Lacey got coconut cream which she ate about the entire cup. Yuck! I won't tell her but that definitely wouldn't have been my choice.

So what's on the agenda for tomorrow? Well, after I finish teaching we are going to the movies. What to see you might ask? High School Musical 3, of course!!! (Again not my choice.)

It Was Cold!

(It's not quite 7:00 am and I have been up since before 4:00 am. For the past two nights I've been having a hard time sleeping. I'm wondering if it's all this medication I'm on from the doctor. I so hope so. I really want one night of good sleep. So, I decided to be productive and work on the blog...)

Yesterday, we took the girls to Stone Mountain for their annual Christmas "stuff." I think I would be correct in saying that it was COLD. The girls had a good time. We rode the skylift, which the girls appropriately called "the box." I find that funny because that is exactly what it is "a box" going up the side of a mountain.

We played mini-golf. Well, Daddy and Lela did while I sipped hot chocolate trying to keep warm and pushing Lacey in her stroller with 3 blankets piled on top of her.

My favorite part of the day,though, was seeing the Polar Express in 4-D.Not only was it warm inside but I just love that movie! It might have to be one of my favorite Christmas movies of all times. We got to experience the rumble of the train, the smell of hot chocolate and have snow fall on us. What fun it was!

Thanksgiving Feast

Lela had her Thanksgiving Feast at school this morning. It was so cute! The 4 year old preschoolers and the kindergartners all get together and put on a little program for everyone. They sing songs and dance and then we get to have turkey and dressing all of this before 10:30 in the morning. It's always fun having turkey and dressing at 10:00 in the morning as you can imagine. Gram, Paw Paw Phil, Gigi, Daddy and me were all there for the performance. Lacey was in her classroom, so I opted not to bring her up for the program. Somethings (or should I say someone) are just better left alone, if you know what I mean?

Moving Slowly These Days

Christmas decorating is slowly but surely coming together. I'm still not feeling a 100%. I went back to the doctor this morning in hopes of finding out what was wrong with me. He mentioned a few times I could have "whopping cough" which has made a resurgence in adults. Comes to find out that if that is what I have it just has to take it's natural course. There is in nothing they can do and the stuff usually lasts up to six weeks. Well, I've had this "stuff" now at least four weeks, but who's counting? The only way to determine if that is what I have is a blood test, which I opted out of because does it really matter if they can't treat it? So, now I'm on round two of antibiotics and steroids, please pray this knocks it out! I don't know how much longer I take of this.

Here are some pictures of the girls' Christmas trees. They decorated them themselves. Not bad for three and almost six years of age, uh?






Lacey's tree

















Lela's pink tree

I DID IT!!!

I actually fixed our oven. I'm so pumped! This calls for a celebration. I think I'm driving Kevin crazy because I'm so excited that I actually fixed our oven for half of the price the man quoted us. If I'm not gonna toot my horn, who is?

Oven Update

Well, as of this morning still no oven. How do people function without one is my question? It is driving me crazy. The repair man finally did show up on Friday afternoon close to 5:00 (told you it would be after 4:00). He figured out that it was the igniter(?). Said that was pretty common for a gas oven. Then he goes out to the van to get the part comes back in, takes the oven apart, removes the new part from the box and guess what??? It's broken!!! Just the luck I have, a brand new part broken. I told him that I really needed my oven fixed by the first of the week and the earliest he could come back would be this Friday....a little late, that won't work. I have a cookies to bake for the Thanksgiving Feast at school on Friday and a cake to make for the auction at church on Wednesday. Why, oh why me? (I so hate being behind the eight ball.)

He apologized about the part being broken and asked me if I was good at putting stuff together. Um, I guess so? He then proceeded to tell me where to go to get the part and walked me through of how to put the part on the oven. I was a little nervous about all of this but he reassured me I could do it. Of course the appliance store where we needed to get the part was closed on the weekend, so today is the earliest we could get it. Kevin is picking it up today and then this evening hopefully he and I can do this thing. If we can't get it working, oh I don't even want to think about it. I guess I will be making some trips to the bakery.