December 2, 2008

• Tuesday’s Tease

  *I’m* not teasing anyone, but our weather in Oklahoma is teasing us!  SOOOO windy yesterday with temps in the low 40′s and feeling more like the 20′s. 

  Today’s forecast?  Low 60′s with a warm, south wind! 

  Tomorrow?  Back to the 40′s with a north wind!!!! 

  No wonder there is so much illness in our state.  The weather mocks us and catches us unawares!

  Yesterday, after Luci’s doctor appointment, we did some shopping for Jesse’s birthday – just small stuff.  He’s buying the big gift himself – a remote start for his truck.  I also picked up some wrapping paper and boxes.  There will be more boxes, than gift bags, this year because of the type of things I’ve bought – which means more work, right?!

  I was in the den, waking up with my cup of coffee, when Rissy came out and told me Stormy had thrown up in the hallway outside of her bedroom door.

  I sat down at my desk with my cup of coffee to relax.

  Next, I was shown the bedspread from Rissy’s bed.  Stormy apparently had gotten sick there, too.
   

  Mind you, I haven’t eaten yet and this was displayed right by my desk where I’m sitting!  Even Chirper gagged!
  

  Guess I’ll be washing a bedspread today . . .

  Last night, to be *helpful* (while I was watching TV in my bedroom), the 3 girls all pulled their laundry baskets to the kitchen and combined their clothes into one huge pile.  Helpful, you say?  No!  Not at all!  I NEVER wash their clothes together.  Since they all wear hand me downs, I can never remember who is wearing what this year and neither do they.  So, I’ve started washing one child’s clothing on one day, another child’s on another day, and so on.  They also said they had divided it into piles of lights, darks and whites.

  Here is a picture of what awaits me after they “divided” things into “piles” . . .
   
  Do you see divided piles??  Because, I sure don’t!!!  I see a huge pink mountain and my own whites next to the washer!

  Yesterday, the girls found (on top of the dryer) a toy I had bought Jesse-boy and Stormy.  Jesse-boy was never interested in “toys” because he knew they weren’t real.  He was smart, that way.  Stormy was afraid of the toy, so it has been in the utility room for over a year.  The girls asked me to turn it on so they could show it to Chirper. 

  It’s a ball that makes itself spin and has a long furry tail attached, that flops around as the ball turns.  I bought it at Cracker Barrel Restaurant.

  They turned it on near Chirper and it eventually worked its way to Chirper’s tummy and he DID play with it.  At least my purchase wasn’t a complete waste!

  Admittedly, he wasn’t sure of what to think as it inched its way towards him!
      

  

  He had to pay attention when it worked it’s way under him!
   

  The toy left him, headed for the foyer, and he went after it.  I think he lost interest when it continued on a path away from him.  He pawed at it for a while, but it appeared to have lost interest in *him* – so off he went.
  

  The girls were somewhat disappointed in school yesterday.  I had told them we would be doing something a little different through the month of December.  They nagged and I replied it was a *surprise* and they’d find out this week.  I pulled out the “What a First Grader Should Know” book and read:  rhymes, asked them riddles, read a story (using different voices for each character – I’m such a ham!), talked about the Nile and pyramids and pharaohs, talked about primary colors and what colors you mix to get a new color and gave them a color code sheet, and then we sang pages of traditional Christmas carols.  They each did one page in their math books. 

  After it was all over with, they asked, “When do we get the surprise?” 

  I explained that *was* the surprise.  They looked at each other (confused) and told me they didn’t think it was a *good* surprise.  So, I asked, would they rather do pages of math, spelling, language, history, health, science, and Bible?????  They decided the new way of school for the month of December was a “good” plan, after all!!!!!

  I’m not sure what they equated a “surprise” to be in their minds, but our reduced school hours and my new book fell short of their expectations!!!

   
  I HAVE to clean up our house today.  Things have been left out, here and there and everywhere, because of my not being home long on Sunday and again yesterday.

  My “To Do” List:
  *  Put china and silver away (it’s still on the dining room table!)
  *  Move garland and decoration bins back to garage
  *  Wash dining room tablecloth
  *  Wash the pink mountain of clothes & bedspread (!!!)
  *  Dust & vacuum
  *  Teach school.  
  *  Make turkey noodle soup for tonight’s dinner OR, I may make the soup and heat it tomorrow night and fix something different tonight.

  Heated up soup might be a perfect idea for Wednesday.  Wednesday, around 4pm, the home study gal will be back out to show us what she has typed and have us sign it.  She still has to collect my signed medical releases giving her permission to ask the girls’ therapist about the girls (to make sure they aren’t killers, I guess!!!)  AND, Jesse had to have his boss (the man he’s working for these few winter months) sign a sheet saying how long he’d know Jesse, etc., etc.  That’s a good reference, because the friend has been a friend of Jesse’s since before Jesse and I met, AND he is also the one doing our roof replacement.  Not only does he know Jesse as an employee, but also has been in our house and has seen us interact with our girls.

  Our caseworker (the one who’s been out having surgery) called last night.  He wondered where we were at with the home study.  I told him she was coming Wednesday night for us to sign our approval.  He said he had 8 couples that were still not ready to be stamped with approval and we were one of those couples.  The others were kinship placements (for children who were already living with their relatives) and they came first in the court’s eyes.  I’m not worried, and I told him we would simply look forward to receiving children in January.

  

  I suppose that’s my exciting life (today) in a nutshell – not very news worthy – but *my* life, nonetheless.

  Be blessed  ~

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