So, I’m totally inspired by a Flickr contact of mine: Jamie. However, in specific, some images you’re most likely not allowed to see, since she’s got them marked for friends & family. But what she’s started doing is creating digital scrapbook pages (some are public). A light went off in my head, you see, because I’m about two years behind in my scrapbooking.
I used to do these great pages, but I was in high school and then college and the newly married then. As time went on, my scrapbooks got smaller and less… fancy (?) until I was using a 6×9 spiral book. I really do love these, but I don’t guess they’re made for the long haul. A lot of it ended up being a single 5×7 photo with some decoration and text around it. Yeah, I know… w00t.
So I’ve been messing with this today and yesterday and here’s what I have so far, not counting the few I did with the collage maker that I’m not uploading (think I’m gonna try and re-do those):
Do we like? The first is E decorating the gingerbread house last week and the second consists of only cell phone shots. Do you think I’m over doing the graphics?
Earlier today we went shopping in order for the boys to spend their Christmas money. I kind of got screwed on the gift card from my grandpa but then again, I did willingly give it to Elijah. He got a radio control Jeep and six more Cars die cast cars and doubled his collection.
Anyway, at the first store we were at where Steve was using his gift card from my parents, there occurred the following conversation:
Steve: Elijah, you want a BB gun?
Val: No, you’ll shoot your eyes out! (It was a Red Ryder)
Steve: Did you even get to watch that movie this year?
Val: NO! No one lets me watch it anymore! (It’s true, everyone’s so mean to me.)
Steve: *haha neener neener* Elijah, you want a BB gun?
Elijah: A db gun?
Val: See, he doesn’t even know what a “db gun” is.
So I worked out this morning. I’ve not worked out since right before or after Thanksgiving, somewhere in there. It was that last day that Elijah went to that preschool. Which, I don’t guess he’ll be going back there, either. I think they start again on January 15, but heck if I’m going to sit in class with him, so I guess he’ll not be going back. Maybe my friend and I can move our workout to Mondays after our class… if we can just find something to do with the boys for an hour or so.
So yeah, I drug my fat butt to the gym here this morning and put E in the tot drop. I started with the treadmill, then the cross trainer, then the bike for a total of an hour when all was said and done. And my blood pressure? Awesome. Yay! I started to get that same old headache, but it didn’t get really bad.
And, you know what was even more awesome? When I picked up E at the tot drop, he started to complain but then didn’t throw that same old fit and went with me very good! He just whined a bit, but it wasn’t the full blown screaming fit like the last two times.
But I’m not making any New Year’s resolutions, so don’t ask. This is the time of year many people say they’re going to get in shape, and maybe they go and work on it for a month, but then it all falls apart. I resolved to do this in August, I guess it was, and I know it’s not going to happen overnight, but I’m not going to make any resolutions now to go on a certain day or do this or that, I’ll just take it as it comes.
Merry Christmas, everyone, I hope your day is a good one!
It is Christmas Day, the day that we have been preparing for for the better part of a month and the day that has had all the children - especially mine - tied up in knots. Elijah is playing on the floor with the gifts from Steve and I that he opened this morning. It’s funny how it turned out, every one of them is from the Cars movie… five of the die-cast cars, two shake-up cars, and the Mater game (race to put him together before he blows his parts again). He’s having a ton of fun down there! I’m sure his sugar high will come to an end before long…
Many moons ago we were just driving around town and happened to see a cute brick home for sale by owner. I knew it was probably unaffordable for us, but I was really curious anyway (we’re always looking for deals, too, you never know what might happen), so a few days later I called and left the guy a voice mail asking about the house.
A few days after that, the guy called and it ended up being a conversation about me, and who we are, what we do, etc. I don’t know why I kept answering his questions, but he found out more about us than I did about the house. And the real kicker? He refused to tell me the price he was asking for the house. Refused! Said he’d rather we come look at it first, could we do that this weekend? No, I told him for the fortieth time, we’re not serious right now, we’re just looking around. Because, to be honest, I want to know the asking price up front because I don’t want to fall in love with something and then find out I can’t afford it, amongst other reasons. I don’t even remember everything he did tell me about the house, just that I knew they weren’t living it anymore, they’d already moved an hour north of here. Continue reading ‘almost makes me feel like I’m being stalked’
Today we went to my friend T’s for a play date and my other friend, L, came, too. We all three have boys about the same age (though the other two are both about six months younger than Elijah). My friend L also has an 8-month-old.
We were all in the other room and the boys were supposed to be in the playroom. T went to check on them because they were quiet. I heard her exclaim, “Oh, my, gosh! Just kill me now!” I went in there and passed her in the hallway - she went and laid down on the couch. I couldn’t tell if she was laughing or crying or what. I then had my “oh my gosh” moment and had to get the camera. Not because they were cute but for… I dunno, blackmail purposes later or something. There they were, all three of them, laughing and giggling and taking leaves from my friend’s plant and shoving them into the running fan. By the time I got back the second time, L’s kid was hiding under the bed. Mine stood there and grinned for the photo (that I took very quickly) as he apparently had no idea he was going to get in trouble for it. The plant, though? I do think it will live, hopefully the losing of nearly all its leaves won’t shock it to death, but it was a sentimental thing for my friend, from a funeral.
Time’s getting short before my family is coming over for a Christmas gathering so today I had Sarah over to help me out a bit. I had asked her a couple of weeks ago if she’d like to earn some money by cleaning Elijah’s room, and she accepted. Man, that kid, meaning my kid, is a friggin mess. That room used to be so cute when he was born but, wow, when Sarah pulled his bed away from the wall I was horrified. I mean, it’s obvious, of course, where he’s pulled off the paint from the walls but I had no idea that we hadn’t already gotten it all thrown away and that he’d shoved it between his bed and the wall. Nor did I have any idea that he had been taking bread, eating one bite, then hiding the rest of the piece in there, either. Talk about yick!
I tried to fix the blinds, too, but that was quickly found to be impossible. I had to take them down and now neither of his windows have blinds, only curtains. That’s aggravatting because I’ve told him countless times to leave them alone and because those were good blinds, keeping the sun out of his room in the early mornings. Continue reading ‘Crazy Child’
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