Changes

Changes they are a happenin'! In case you haven't noticed I changed the design/pattern of my blog page. It's spring ya know and I just felt the need to change the looks of my front page. Let me know if you like it...

I've also added Google Adsense to the blog to try to earn a couple of bucks...sometimes I just get the urge to have "my" money... not "family/our" money. Call me selfish if you must, but I wanta see if I can earn some money of my own.

DeeDee tagged everyone for a meme today. It is for us to name 6 unimportant things about ourselves....I said, "gosh only 6! this might take me a while to narrow them down". Anywhoooo, here are my 6 unimportant things in no particular order.

6. I am a terrible housekeeper, although as a kid/teenager I was the one who cleaned the house, cuz I hated the fact that it was always a mess.

5. I am nosey. I always want to know everything about everyone. Although I am pretty private about sharing about my own life.

4. I love taking pictures of "stuff" although I don't do anything with the pictures once I take the pictures....

3. I sit on my couch "watching" local news for an average of an hour and a half a night, but if you ask me anything about what is going on in the news locally I probably couldn't tell you more than 2 or 3 things.

2. That Other Kid beats me every time when we play Tennis on the Wii. I beat him "almost" every time when we Bowl.

1. When I was a kid, I was in LOVE with the BeeGees.

Now aren't you glad I shared????

If you wanta share all your "unimportant facts" consider yourself tagged. Please leave a comment and let me know if you decide to play!

Oh...please pray for my dad and his doctor tomorrow afternoon, as he finds out the next step in his Chemo and Radiation treatments. He has gone through 8 weeks of Chemo and hasn't had any problems so keep those prayers coming! Radiation/Chemo combined is the next step according to what he was told in the beginning. I'll let you know tomorrow night after I hear from my mom and dad.

Thanks....for everything!

My Baby...

won with a photo contest with this picture!! We get a photo session with a professional photographer and a free photo! I'm so excited....








Mary hosts a Tiny Talk Tuesday every week. I usually read it and think to my self I should post something cute That Other Kid said this week, but I never can remember anything at the time...so it passes and I forget to come back to it and write something later....

This week I'm writing stuff as it comes up! That way when Tuesday gets here I'll have quite the list of "funnies".

That Other Kid's favorite saying right now whenever he is mad at me about something -- "I'm not your mommy!" and of course he says it with such an attitude. And who am I to argue with that??

Whenever someone gets ready to leave That Other Kid has to have a hug and he says, "I might miss you". When we come back we have started saying, "so did you maybe miss me?"

Well that's all I've got for today...It's been a slow week!

Free Music

Get this you can win a free CD by a wonderful Christian artist, just by going to this website and filling out a form about yourself and your blog....that is if you have at least 50 visitors per month. I think most everyone should qualify for that one, don't you? I'm always looking for new music to put on my ipod and now I get this one and last week I received another one. I'll tell you about that one in a bit. I've gotta go make lunch for the dh and take a shower and be productive, ya know just the normal stuff of a wife/mom!

This Is SOOOOOO ME!!

I just had to share this with you. I copied from one of my regular reads Laurel. There have been many days lately that this is precisely how I feel.... how about you??

Teenagers!!!

Are all teenagers destined to turn their parents off?? Do they all want their space to the point of ignoring the rest of the family they they used to hang out with??? Or does this "stage" come with the invention of text messaging, internet usage and other communications that transpire through the use of the computer and cell phones??

I was hanging out with a friend today and we were discussing how both of our teens sit at the dinner table and text friends, instead of having a conversation with the rest of the family. Then as soon as possible they go to their room, turn on their computers and spend the rest of the night texting or instant messaging on the computer.....UGHHHH...I have finally gotten fed up with the constant texting and phone usage when sleep should be happening and through Cingular/AT&T's wonderful aid turned off the text message and phone usage capability from 12 a.m. to 7 a.m. This has definately helped cut down some of the phone usage, but it is still being used excessively....Should I just cut it off all the time??? How do I teach him to be responsible in this area?? Apparently, I am clueless!!!

So, how do you deal with teens and excessive cell phone use???

I'm A Book I've Never Heard of.....

You're Confessions!

by St. Augustine

You're a sinner, you're a saint, you do not feel ashamed. Well, you
might feel a little ashamed of your past, but it did such a good job of teaching you
what not to do. Now you've become a devout Christian and have spent more time
ruminating on the world to come rather than worldly pleasures. Your realizations and
ability to change will bring reverence upon you despite your hedonistic transgressions.
Florida will honor you most in the end.


Take the Book Quiz
at the Blue Pyramid.

My friend Karen posted "her book" and I thought it would be fun to see what kind of book I would be...so I took the quiz, cuz ya know I just couldn't find anything else to do at 10:45 p.m. last night and the results came back with this Confessions book. I've never even heard of it...which just goes to show how learned I am, huh? I retook the quiz a couple of times and changed my answers and finally came back with a book I had not only heard of but had read! It was Huck Finn, which showed I was adventuresome! I would say that I am adventuresome when I am not "bogged down" with day to day manusia of being a SAHM trying to raise a teenager who knows it all and a 4 yr old who knows it all, too!

So what book are you??

In other news...I just made another doctor appointment to try to solve this sinus problem. The nurse told me if this has been going on this long it may require a visit to an ENT and surgery to clear it up once and for all..At this point I think we are all ready for such drastic measures. I'm tired all the time, and I snored last night so badly that I woke up dh and That Kid. DH told me to do whatever it took to solve this problem, so that may require more doctors and a surgery. I'll keep you posted!

Well I'm off to play Wii with That Other Kid! Maybe I can beat him this time!!!

Another Hockey Player

This morning started That Other Kid's hockey career....beginning hockey classes, called Pre Hockey. He was supposed to wear a hockey helmet and hockey skates. He was decked out and sooooo proud of himself. However, when he got on the ice he discovered that it wasn't much different than his "skate school" classes, but there were other kids on the ice with hockey sticks, and soft pucks actually passing the puck and skating like "real" hockey players. This frustrated him since this is what he wanted to be doing....I tried to appease him by telling him he had to work really hard and learn to skate faster so he would be able to "play hockey" with the other kids....maybe next semester, which starts in June!

In other news...I talked to my dad this morning and he had just finished walking 1 1/2 miles at the local rec center....He has done this ALL week and said he felt great. By the way, this is more than I have walked the WHOLE month of March, thankyouverymuch. I thought he was supposed to be the sick one.
He will go in and try to start his last week of chemo on Monday....please pray that his white blood counts are high enough this week that he can complete this last week. He already has an appointment scheduled for another MRI on the 9th and a doctor's appointment to discuss the next stage on the 10th. Please keep these dates in your prayers.

I started my new immune boosters today....thanks to Melissa for telling me about them! I will keep you posted as to how I feel over the next couple of weeks.

Well I'm tired...since I have gone/busy for the past 3 days and I'm still not 100% I better get to bed so I can continue to recouperate from this latest illness.

Thanks for visiting and listening to me babble! Have a great night!