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Monthly Archive for December, 2003
Yes, 2003 is coming to a close… :-)
I’m sitting here now, basically waiting for E to wake up. He’s been in bed since 11:30 last night! I can’t believe how long he’s been sleeping at night. I’ve actually been able to eat and shower already this morning, and do some laundry, hehe.
Last night I helped Sarah with a webpage, she’d been wanting to do one. So everyone should go sign her guestbook. sarah.holifieldweb.net is the address. I did the typing, etc, but she told me what to do. :-)
Um, had to go to the dr yesterday. Got some medicine I have to take for the next week. 14 pills on that, twice a day; then another one was just one pill. Guess which was more expensive? Lol. No generic for the one. Oh well. Almost walked out of Walmart without paying for something, again. Ha, the last time it was a pair of gloves, and they’d gotten under my coat in the cart and when we started to head out, I put my coat on and found them. So we gave them to the cashier and I just bought some later. Same thing this time only it was the leave-in conditioner I was getting. I broke another comb/pick on my wet hair the other day, so I decided it was time for a detangeler of sorts. I think that makes 4 now I’ve broken. Well, it’s not beyond use, but it’s missing several “teeth.” Same with the other one I have. :-)
Started E with some baby food last night as well. Some sweet potatoes. The formula’s just not cutting it anymore, he’s eating a ton and we’ve gone through and extra gallon of liquid and one can of powder this month. We’re on a 2nd extra powder can. It’s crazy. So someone suggested to go ahead and start him on that because he doesn’t seem to like the baby cereal. He did like those better and ate quite a bit last night.
Arg, I have to go downtown and pay our year end taxes today. Didn’t get there in time yesterday… I hate doing that because I have to drag E along and it’s in and out of the car with that stupid car seat thing. And with my back, that’s not always easy. I had another back spasm the other day at mom’s - this was one of those that renders you useless for a few minutes. Blah.
Tomorrow night is New Year’s Eve. We’re not doing anything special, but I’ve invited over our families. I know Steve’s family is coming, well at least Mary and the girls and then Jim after he gets off work at 11 (yeah, rotation schedule sucks), I don’t know about Chris and Jon - knowing them they won’t be here though. Then I also invited my family, but my mom and dad were going to go out, so she said she’d talk to him and see if they wanted to go out another time or not. So they may or may not be here. Regardless, I told everyone to come after supper and we will have snacks. I’m not cooking lol :-D Maybe I would have if I’d had more notice, but we just invited them all on Sunday.
Um…. the side of the crib had to go up to it’s highest position… Yesterday E rolled on his stomach and was looking over the edge of the crib and through the bars where he’d pulled down the bumper. It was quite funny and I took pictures of him. Earlier around 8:15am, I thought he was awake but when I went in there he was asleep on his stomach (he sleeps on his back, hates his stomach, and back is better protection against SIDS) with his face in the bumper breathing real heavily. I moved him away from the bumper so he could breathe better, but left him on his stomach. I’m surprised he’s still sleeping on it an hour and a half later.
Anyway - later!
What a week I’ve had…
This is quick for now, I may post more later.
Had such a week that we slept right through the alarm and didn’t get up for church this morning. I hate it when that happens. Even Elijah didn’t wake me up when he usually does, but about 4 hours later. Another reason I didn’t get up in time. Steve even slept past noon - I don’t think that has ever happened before.
Been working on the layout of this thing - what do you think? No, I didn’t do it all myself *blush* - but I’ve had to totally edit over what was given me. I still have more to do, but can’t finish right now.
Anyway, going to go get ready to head for church tonight. I guess I’m going alone?? *sniff*
Well, Christmas is over… well, almost. I still have another family gathering on the 27th, tomorrow.
Um, just a quick low-down, cause I’m extremely tired.
24th - went to candelight service at church, G sang “O Holy Night” in it. I’m so proud of her, she has such a beautiful voice. Then from there we went to China Buffet for dinner. Funny thing, I’ve never eaten “out” on Christmas Eve like that before. I had to change E’s diaper on the nasty bathroom floor because there was no changing table and let me just say that he HAD to be changed. So I laid him on a blanket, it was the best I could do. The food wasn’t that great, I would have preferred Lam’s, but it was good.
Then we went to mom and dad’s for more “stuff.” R got us a hermit crab. I love him. :-) Already today we went out and spent like $42 on him hehe. M got me a pillow and a battery powered massager, G got me some pajama pants, M2 got both of us some black and white film and three matching picture frames, Mom and Dad got Steve some kind of saw thing and me an electric gridle and Elijah got a giant snowman (R), toy turtle that he absolutely loves (G & M), some outfits etc (Mom and Dad). I also got some nice earrings and a camera tripod. Steve got Toby Keith’s new cd and he wants to listen to it constantly. I think there’s more, but I’m so tired I can’t think.
25th - we stayed home. I cleaned lol.
26th - we left E with Sheila and went shopping for some things we really needed. Since Steve got an extra big check this week because of the prevailing wage and got to pick it up early because of Christmas, we decided this was appropriate. That’s how we spent so much on the hermit crab. He needed a whole new habitat. The one he came with was pretty dang small. So now he has a 10 gallon acquarium to himself, hehe. Next week I plan to get another one though, I read that they live in colonies in the wild.
Steve ended up getting two pairs of jeans, a pair of boots, some socks, and various piddly things and I went for two pairs of shoes (buy one get one half off, hehe, much needed), socks, jacket/coat (considered my present from Grandpa and V, since it’s the giftcard from them that bought it), some Victoria’s Secret.
The coat - it’s jean with what Sheila calls dog hair on the collar and wrists, I can’t remember the breed she said right now… It was over half off and when I went in, I didn’t know what to get with my gift card and I saw that coat, and they actually had one in my size, so I went for it. I like it. :-) Then the VS - I’d swipped this coupon thing from my mom from the gift from G&V that she’d gotten and if I spent $45 I got $10 off and a free gift. So yeah we did that. I spent $36-something and got over $70 worth of stuff, so that was cool.
Um, I am working on a new cool layout for this thing. Well, not totally my idea, but hey, I still gotta make it work hehe.
Um anyway, enough boring you….
Gonna go now cause I am beat and have yet another big day tomorrow. Hopefully after the 1st, things will calm down for a while. No, let’s make that after the 3rd, after L’s baby shower…. ah, no the 10th, after I have that thingy here at the house… no, the 17th after Wired starts back up. Arg.
Burr, it’s cold in here - but it was warm today, warmer than I ever remember a December being this close to Christmas.
Went to my Uncle’s tonight for De. family Christmas. Had fun. Aunt J is still sick and feeling bad. :( Met C’s new guy, he seems cool. Saw the gang from CO. Will see the rest of the gang again tomorrow at the Easter gathering.
Did not mention yesterday - a woman that used to go to our church several years ago and worked with the youth - her husband died from a heart attack the other night. A big blow, he wasn’t very old at all, and the last time I saw him did not look at all like someone you would expect to have a heart attack. I guess you never know. I bought a card today to send, now I just have to figure out what to say.
Took E’s 5 mo pictures today.
I think a certain friend is avoiding me for some reason…
Very tired, going to bed, have a lot to do tomorrow, too.
Today was a full day.
This morning I got up and headed to church by myself. I almost didn’t make it, the alarm not waking me up when it was supposed to. Silly thing does this occasionally. I only made it to service. I went up to the tv control room and did the times for them then was asked if I would come back tonight to help tape the Children’s Christmas Program. I agreed and since they didn’t need me anymore in the morning, I went downstairs and sat with my families.
Then after service we went downstairs (me, Sheila, Sarah) and got our assignment for the Angel Tree Ministry (is a prison ministry that gets some gifts for kids who have parent(s) in prison) - there ended up being only 7 kids, so we just got one that was basically on our way home. We dropped off his gifts and then went back to my house where we ate and got ready to leave again.
From there we had to go over to my in-laws so that Sarah could change. After I told her not to get chili on her dress (after church before we left for the gift-delivering), she went and did it anyway. So she changed into jeans and got her other Christmas dress for the program. We went up to church at 4 and dropped Sheila off for her class and the rest of us went Christmas shopping.
We got our remaining people’s presents bought: my mom, R, M. M and mom weren’t too hard, R told me what mom wanted. But R - I had NO idea what to get him. So I hope he likes what we got. Or he can take it back. :-P
From there we went to church and I ran camera 4. Camera #4 is the one in the back of the sanctuary on the platform. I hate platforms. I’m not afraid of heights or anything, but with my bad balance, I keep feeling like I’m going to fall or pass out. It was okay though. Not as bad as the time I Had to tape graduation at the college on one of those. I had to stand that time (this was my first taping while sitting experience) and the platform there was not a permanent one like this one, so it kinda wobbled - it may have been higher, too. But it was good to be behind a camera again. :-) Camera 4 is also the only one that is not digital, so it has more limitations than the others. Funny thing was, it was me and K (he does camera #2, because he is awesomely steady and walks around with it) and two kids running cameras. :| I don’t really like the ideas of those kids running them because, well, most don’t know what they are doing, and certain kids I am thinking of take advantage of doing this to get out of other things they should be doing instead. However, tonight we had no choice. Oh well.
So from there, Steve and I went to Gordon’s and then came home.
You know, a little bit ago, I put Elijah to bed, and he was kinda awake, so I sat in the living room a bit before coming down here to see if he’d wake up or not. I got to looking at the Christmas present to us from Steve’s parents. It’s a thing called Adorenaments and I hadn’t really gotten a chance to really truly look at it until now.
This is what they look like:
And what they are is a set of 12 ornaments, board book style, that open up. They are each about a name of Christ. The set is designed to help you start a family tradition. There’s also a guide book to go along.
Anyway, I totally love this! I’ve got some great ideas for next year on incorporating these - hopefully by then Elijah will be able to understand better. I figure we can do one a day until Christmas Eve.
Also to go along with that I can use our “family ornaments.” Every year we buy one of those metal Walmart ornaments - yeah, I know, they’re not that expensive or anything, but they are special because we pick one out specifically every year and they each have the year on it. Like 1999 we have “Our First Christmas” with two hearts on it. 2000 has two doves. 2001 is different from the rest and has a heart, I think it says “love” inside of it - we engraved the year on that one. Then 2002 has three angels on it (our little angel was coming) and 2003 has three deer: a male, female, and baby. :-) Okay, so you are thinking “you are so sappy.” :-P to you, I enjoy it. I think it will be neat to see them all in 20 years or so. :-)
Anyway, I think I’m gonna go make some necklaces and bracelets for my family members… either that or go to bed. I got another full day tomorrow. Gotta get Elijah’s 5 month pictures, make a dirt cake, buy some stuff that I forgot like film, and then go to my uncle’s for the “De” family Christmas.
So this is another quickie, cause I’m tired.
Went to the St. Louis Mills today - totally cool, as far as malls go. Was so big there was so much more we didn’t see. However, I did accomplish getting G’s presents and some for M2. So now all I have to do is get R, Mom, and something else for M2. I also bought Elijah three children’s classics books. They were only $3 and the list price is $10. They had the whole collection, maybe I’ll go back for more later. I also bought one for Sarah that she picked out, with the promise that she would read it.
Then we headed home and Sarah washed dishes while I made a mess making Chex mix and ice cream pie. I wasn’t too happy with the ice cream pie, from what I remember, it’s supposed to taste more ice creamy, but it tasted more pudding like. Oh well.
So then we went over to Steve’s family’s house. We had supper and opened presents and hung out, basically. & I hope everyone enjoys what we got them!
Steve was excited because he got that Orange County Choppers sock hat and the West Coast Choppers stickers he wanted. I got Elvis stuff. :-) Elijah got a “toy” bulldozer thingy. That’s not everything, of course, but I’m tired, lol.
Oh, it was pretty funny later though, we had Elijah laying on the floor playing with some toys, and the puppy, Axil kept trying to play with him. It was hilarious, he kept jumping at him and trying to bite his feet. We had to stop him though, I didn’t want him poking E in the eye. I also learned what “Axil” sounds like when you yell it (he wet on the floor) - yes, Sheila says she’s going to change his name lol.
We also picked up our pictures today, they can all three be seen on this post.
So it is 1:57am - gonna put this baby down and go to bed…. :-)
Just a quick entry before I go wrap some presents and go to bed.
Today has been nuts trying to get ready for this weekend it seems. Just trying to get some Christmas presents together that I am making has taken nearly all day. And then I had to go to the grocery store and I went to Country Mart and said, holy crap, I’m not paying that much for cereal! So I headed to Save-a-Lot but forgot before I left that they closed an hour earlier than Country Mart, so I get to go there when they open at 8 tomorrow morning.
Then I have to meet Steve’s mom and sisters at 9 to go to that new mall in St. Louis. And since I don’t have all my ingredients for what I’m taking to their house tomorrow evening, I’m going to have to probably get home and make those really quick before I go to their house. Arg, it’s going to be a heckuva day. :-)
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