February 7, 2010

• Hello! Hello! Anybody Out There?

  This has been a weird Xanga week.  Hardly anyone has visited my site (5 or 7 footprints a day, compared to 100+ on a daily average.  And, no comments.  I mean ZERO!!!

  If you wouldn’t mind, please send a short comment like, “Got it!” if you are reading this.  I’ve heard of weird Xanga problems where people’s blogs are dropped clean out of sight and people have to resubscribe.  I’ve also heard that a couple of people have had someone leave ugly notes to their subscribers – making the subscriber think the blog owner has been rude or crass to them.  Anyway, let me know.  There hasn’t been much activity at all, as far as new posts by others, so maybe it’s just a slow Xanga time for everyone.  I hope people aren’t abandoning Xanga and picking up Facebook, instead!

                           
                                  (See the little doggy around the corner of the loveseat?!)

  Jesse’s toe is VERY slowing improving.  He still can’t wear a shoe comfortably and has to keep his foot elevated.  He saw another doctor on Friday, who gave him two more prescriptions – ones actually used for gout, rather than him only take the pain pills the first doctor prescribed.

                          

  We didn’t go to church, today.  Between Jesse’s medications making him ill and the fact he can’t wear a shoe and the church parking lot is muddy . . .

  We stayed home this morning and are hunkering down, preparing for the next storm, due to arrive tonight.  The last I heard, the ice shouldn’t be an issue, but there will be another very heavy snowfall.  The snow has been gorgeous, but this time I will have to get out in it; and, I may not enjoy that part of it, as much as I do watching it from inside my house!  My surgery is early Tuesday and it’s supposed to snow all day Monday.  We will have to leave extra early to get the girls to their grandmother’s house AND allow for slow driving through the snow to get to the hospital.  At least our Suburban has four wheel drive!

                         

  We are doing NOTHING for “Super Bowl Sunday” today.  I used to buy “party foods” and that was our one day a year to eat good tasting, high calorie foods without worrying.  I didn’t have the energy this year to plan any purchases, and last year we were super strapped for cash.  Jesse is hanging his head (not really!) because there will be no “Super Bowl Sunday Food” – AGAIN!

  I bought Rissy a couple of dresses and shirts on eBay for her birthday.  I also bid on and won real American Girl dresses at a fraction of the price new.  There is one American Girl doll coming up for auction tomorrow.  If I don’t win her at a cheap price, we’ll spring for the doll new from American Girl.  Annamarie has bought Rissy a little gift and Luci still needs to shop for something. 

                      
          

  Speaking of dolls, I need to send our American Girl doll “Samantha” to the American Girl hospital.  Annamarie broke her leg off a couple of months ago.  She used to be Stephanie’s doll and is one of the original dolls made.  They will fix her arms & legs, style her hair, and clean up her skin for $24.  A VERY reasonable amount to restore her.

                                

  Anyway, there will be no big birthday parties for Rissy, anymore.  In our family, those stop after your 8th birthday.  She can pick out her dinner menu and flavor of birthday cake.  That’s the extent of celebrating until one of them turns 13 years old!  THIRTEEN??!!!  That’s sounds so far away! 
  
  I look at them now and am amazed at how much they’ve grown.  Yesterday, Luci was wearing a shirt that used to be Annamarie’s – years ago.  I can’t even remember when Annamarie was that small!

                                       

  Yesterday, I was cleaning my dresser and found a picture of Luci from a couple of years ago and was amazed at how much SHE has changed!  Where does the time go?   Makes me want to be sure to not waste one single second of my life.  So much happens everyday and then it’s gone forever.

                                      

  The girls are continuing to make and disperse Valentines to each other, each day.  This has turned into a very fun project for them AND for me.  We rarely do “art” kind of things and I’m thinking we should incorporate art into our school lessons more often!

  That’s about the all the news from around here.  I continue to find small piles of junk to clean up here and there.  Things sure pile up in a hurry if you don’t put them in their proper place immediately!  I’ve read quit a bit this past week, too.  I’m back into a reading mood, I guess!

  Be Blessed  ~

  CHERYLYN

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