PJs

I finally snagged a photo of my girl in her full length PJs that I made her for Christmas. She doesn't remember saying she wanted a pair of full body jammies with feet in them, but I remember. And you know, you can't really buy them in teenager sizes, only for toddlers. So I improvised and made my own pair with fleece lined feet even. Can't even find a pattern for such a thing, so they are super improvised. Jacob had to try them on a dozen times during the making as a comparison model. She has been completely uncooperative in posing for a picture in them! That's one long zipper!

A Little Crafty Fun

We had a little crafty fun this evening. Here are the results. There will be a few "chicken fights" going on with these guys. My only advice to them was don't get the strings tangled up, we'll see how long it takes.

Not Something You See Everyday

One of the benefits of living on the edge of town in an orchard/agricultural area is that the neighborhood farmer comes by with his tractor to shovel his driveway and our street after a huge downfall of snow - 4 inches in 2 hours. No waiting for the city street plows.

I'm Whining

We survived Monday, but Monday evening and Tuesday morning were much worse! Those are the days that snuck up on me and bit me in the butt unexpectedly, and at this point my butt is hard to miss. I thought it would be all smooth sailing after Monday, but sometimes life is just a little more challenging than at other times. And the sky is dumping more snow on everything! I guess it sort of covers up the mess and makes it all white and pretty, that's what I'd like to do with some of my days. But it usually leaves a big melting mess later on :) Thanks for listening

Monday Morning

We've survived half of Monday. Well we'll see how the kids do once they get home from school. Brownies are a bakin' in hopes that it'll help the adjustment. I did all my errands this morning and it took 3 hours! They were sort of piling up! I like to turn the page on a new calendar month, and shockingly hadn't even hung up 2009 until last night. Ahh.. the blank page of January. So I started filling in all the important dates and things going on so I don't forget anything. When I looked up my soccer schedule and team standings to add the times to my calendar, I was shockingly surprised to see my name in the standings. Check this out! I was sort of proud of myself, not in a bad sort of proud way but more in a shocked disbelief! I know it won't last long on that list, so thought I'd share my moment of glory with you :) Flower Power (our sponsor is a greenhouse- how awesome is that?!)

The Night Before

Arggh.. back to school tomorrow.... And the routine. No one wants to do it. Wouldn't it be great if we could just always do what we want, sleep in, eat bad meals all the time, and just be lazy?! I suppose it might get old too, but just for tonight we'd like to stay the way we've been, in our jammies!
We did have a rip snorting good time the other night doing one of our last holiday fun things- night time sledding! Staying up then super late drinking hot chocolate!

2009

I haven't posted since 2008, so I thought I better get on it. I really have nothing to say though. My mind is a blank canvas, maybe someone can paint something on it. I had a girls' night last night and we watched the Traveling Pants #1 movie. It was so fun, very cute movie, I thought of all my friends I had back when I was young and single, in high school and beyond. There were 5 of us there last night and most of us hadn't seen the movie. We tried to peg ourselves as a character early on in the movie. I pegged myself as the nerd who goes to Greece for the summer. I liked her, definitely had the best story outcome in the movie. I won't ruin it for you. I definitely am most like her, responsible, nerdy, intellectual, OK who I am kidding? I am totally the gorgeous, blonde soccer playing one. Kind of funny how you like to put yourself into a role or stereotype.

So a few things I am excited about for the upcoming months:

• Going to Mexico with my hubby in 2 weeks barring he doesn't break his leg and we have to cancel the trip - it's been 3 1/2 years since we tried to get away together.
• Spring- any day now would be good- I'm tired of freezing my buns off in the barn every week during Erin's lesson
  
• Maybe applying for a new job this month
• Getting in shape, again this is my New Year's goal, andI didn't wait til Monday, I started today
  
• Spring- Oh I said that already.
• Taking the kids swimming this afternoon
• Doing a half marathon this summer, that's the plan, maybe we'll start with a 10 km.
  
• Starting on my living room quilt once the kids get back to school
• Going to CA this summer!

Got to run, maybe I'll think of a few more later....