January 19, 2010

• Snowy Pictures

  (Today I'll share pictures of our Christmas Eve blizzard.)

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  It's been a busy day!  A day that was started VERY early by me!

  I woke up earlier than usual and found Jesse sleeping on the formal living room sofa. 

                        

  It's a sad statement when a sofa is more comfortable than your own bed.

  I think we will be buying ANOTHER mattress when our tax refund comes in!  Not because we want to, but because it's become a necessity.

   

                       

                           (Snow angels weren't as fun as they had anticipated.  VERY cold!)

   

  Both of us are having a horrible time with our backs, and my hips and shoulder blades hurt.  My skin literally feels bruised, like I've been hit or slapped.  We're pretty sure it's the mattress.

  We have been using a memory foam mattress topper - I think 3" or thicker - that I bought at Target a few years ago.  It's guaranteed for 5 years, but I think ours is about done after only 3 years and, of course, I don't have the receipt!.

  We took it off the bed last week and that's when our horrible back aches started.

                          

  I woke up this morning on my left side with my left arm asleep.  It went all the way down to my fingers.  I poked my left thumb with my fingernails and could feel nothing.  I'm talking seriously numb!

  Jesse said he woke up in the early morning hours with a headache and felt it was the mattress and pillow pulling on his neck and shoulders.  We're going to put the foam mattress topper back on and pray until some money comes in! 

                          

             (Stormy checking out the snow that fell off the front door.  One of the last pictures of Stormy.)

   

  This is the second king size bed we have purchased in the past 7 years.  Sounds a little excessive to me.  Fortunately, Jesse's cousin worked at a furniture store and we received a huge discount on both beds.  The first one was too soft (Annamarie has it, now) and this one is too hard.  Do I sound like Goldilocks?!   We'll be on our own with our next purchase.  His cousin moved out of state!

                          

  This week was supposed to be warm (upper 50s and low 60s), but today was overcast and damp and now it's become very windy.  The house felt chilled.  Rissy mentioned something about being cold, so I knew it wasn't just me.  Not one to sit in a chilly house, I mixed up a batch of peanut butter cookies this afternoon.  AND put on a zip up sweat shirt jacket!  I feel much better!

                          

  The girls were thrilled by the cookies AND the fact some American Girl Books I had ordered from eBay arrived today.  I'm so pleased with the purchases.  They are like new books for about half the cost of new.  I ordered 23 or 24 in all.  The one set was mixed stories about different girls and the second set was all Kirsten's 6 books.  I should have had my camera when they saw the stack of books on my desk!  I'm so glad my children like to read.

                           

  I had to let go of my computer again yesterday.  The guy that erased everything and reloaded our computer (when it had that virus) forgot to reload MicroSoft Word.  I had no way to type a document and no Excel to make charts.  I'm back in business today.

  My new cleaning gal didn't come today.  She called to say she had a really runny nose that she thought was allergies, but couldn't promise me she wasn't coming down with a cold.  Of course, I can't be around people who are sick . . . so, my house didn't get cleaned today.  Her next day to work will be on Friday.  I hope she feels better.  I'm looking forward to taking a lot of cleaning responsibility away from the girls.  They really do A LOT around here.

                            

  Yesterday Jesse had the girls with him.  He passed a Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant and Rissy said she'd buy if he'd stop and get some chicken wings!  ALL of the girls said they'd chip in.  Tonight I've put up the ground beef that was going to be spaghetti and Jesse has gone to pick up wings!  They are on sale for 40 cents each, today.  Each girl chipped in a bit of money.  I don't think we've ever let them do that before, but I think it's nice for children to have the opportunity to do something for their parents or family.  (I put a $5 bill in the heap, myself!)

  Jesse is helping me get the stack of textbooks I want to sell together.  If any of you know of anyone who can use some school books for children just starting in school (either homeschool or needing extra practice at home), I'll be listing my books by the end of the week.

                          

  I took a discarded bookcase from Rissy's old room and put it next to my bed (next to a bigger bookcase) and the shelves have remained bare.  I haven't gotten around to getting to the bedroom to organize the books.  I'm thinking of putting them on the shelves by subject matter - much like a library.

  I should go and put away the dishes I left to dry on the bar, from baking cookies this afternoon.  Jesse will be back soon with our chicken wings.  The prospect of no dishes tonight is music to my ears!

   

  Be Blessed

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