Category:Family

WOW!!

What a busy month.  My oldest son had a birthday on the 5th.  It was a quiet evening. My son made 3 cheesecakes to take to school.  Then my birthday was on the 10th.  I had breakfast with my hubby and then went shopping with him with money my mom sent as a gift.  Got a few gifts and had a really good day.  On the 12th was my youngest son’s birthday.  Since I had to be out of town that night, I stopped by a donut store one the way home and picked up a few cake donuts.  My hubby met me with a candle and a lighter at the door, and on the way to school, I stuck the candle in the donut, lit it, and gave it my youngest.  He called me insane, but I could tell he loved it.

After that, I had to go out of town for a meeting with my dad about starting a webstore.  Looked promising until i googled the outfit.  Yeah, bad results.  So, wound up  not doing that, but getting ideas for starting one up on my own.  Still working on that, and its coming along fine.

As of the 23rd, I’m off for the year.  I’m enjoying the time at mom’s.  Christmas has been wonderful, and although it wasn’t the biggest, it has certainly been a good one.  I  can’t remember laughing this hard any previous yr.

It is now Christmas afternoon.  The boys got a Wii system and games from my parents and they are enjoying that.  Hubby and the youngest have gone fishing.  It’s a lovely 78°f here.  So I think I will grab a glass of wine and retire to the patio to contemplate the passing year.  Hubby and I will prob leave for home tomorrow.  We have plans to clean out the attic and wash the front of the house.  Hopefully the warm weather will hold till we get the outside work done.

I’m looking forward to a nice New Year’s Eve, not sure if we will go out or not.  Cash is still on the scarce side, so we may just go to bed.  I have to go back to work on the evening of the 4th, so I still have a signifigant amount of time off.

I hope everyone had a great Christmas and has a memorable new year 🙂

Due to the income evaporation at my house this year, I have decided to make all the gifts I am giving.  I like to bead and crochet, so, coming up with ideas should be fun.  I already have some awesome pictures of what I want to do in mind.  Any donations to the cause would be welcome 😉

I like to use natural materials for beading.  Stone, bone, wood, shell, precious metals, silk, leather, pearls, horn, precious and semiprecious stones especially.  I dont like glass and abhor plastic beads.  The only exception would be vintage beads, and unusual ones at that.  I hope to have a bit to spend later this month so my hands will be very busy.  I will post pictures of my wares when I finish with them 🙂

Pay bills, go shopping, cut up dear meat, cook beans, start dinner, finish insurance paperwork, finish insurance enrollment forms… eeek!

And at some point get some rest…

Sleep is not a common commodity for me at this point.  Thank goodness the family is heading to the parents house for the week end.  The kids are out of school the whole week, and I’m off for most of it.  And hubby will be home too, so I hope to get a lot done.

The manga scanlation group that I participate in can also use my help, so, I hope to at least get some things done in photoshop.  Its a great way for me to unwind because I get to exercise my meticulous patience.  No rush, no hurry, just perfection (or at least as close to it as my meager skills can get it).

We will not be spending Thanksgiving at my parents’ house.  This is a first.  We have always spent the holidays there, and we will spend Christmas with them.  Eventually, we may even have them here for the big feast.  There is usually sooooo much work involved in the making of the meal that I think it may be getting to be too much for just one person to deal with.  I have older children that will help me, but when we are at Mom’s, they don’t usually do anything.  So, my sons will learn the fine art of turkey roasting.  I am making sure the men I raise will be able to cook for their beaus… nothing quite like a guy cooking dinner for you…  The girls will love them. 😀

Well I had better get packed…