October 20, 2010

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                                                                                   Picture #1

  October is such a beautiful month in Oklahoma.  The leaves are changing colors and a few leaves have begun to drop from the trees.  The temperatures consist of warm days (in the low to mid eighties) and at night it turns chilly. 

  It’s all just a tease of the cold weather that will come after Thanksgiving and hang around until some time in April.

                              
                                                                                 Picture #2

  Everything is rocking along at a steady pace right now.  The neighborhood children are on fall break today (through the weekend).  Much to the delight of my three children, I cut the school lessons short this morning and let the girls go outside to play. 

                            
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  I’ll most likely only have them do their spelling exams, their oral reading, and a page or two of language and math for the rest of this week.  Nothing much.  I kinda like the whole idea of a fall break, and I’m enjoying being finished with school lessons before lunch time!

                             
                                                                         Picture #4

  Last Friday, true to my word, I put on a CD of Bach – a narration of his life and some of his musical compositions in the background. 

                              

  I pulled out the tempura paints, filled little cups with fall colors and gave the girls a large sheet of paper as a practice sheet.  They were told to make fall trees, dotting the leaves with their fingertips in fall colors and using long fingertip strokes for the trunk and limbs.  Their final pictures were painted on a smaller size piece of poster board.  It all turned out nicely and nothing horrible happened with the paints.  I have a vinyl snowman tablecloth that’s older than the hills and there the remnants of our fall project have left their mark!

                  

  The girls wore their “mostly worn out” play dresses to paint.  I know it’s supposed to wash out, but I didn’t want to take a chance. 

  Luci cracks me up with the little rear end “problem.”  Her and granddaughter, JanaLyn, always have problems with their clothes riding up on one side!  I don’t know how they can stand it!

       

  Yesterday Rissy took some pictures of me.

   
     
                                                                              Rissy

  AND MY HAIR!!!  I needed to update my profile picture and I thought people would like to see it and how it’s grown.  This time last year, I was bald!  Maybe a few whiskers of hair, but basically bald.

                                
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  It’s difficult for me to wear a headcovering everyday, because my hair is so fine and thin.  The snap clips that hold the cloth on my head tend to make my hair break off.  Despite all the new growth, I already see short pieces that have broken.  It just makes me sick to have hair that is brand new and already ruined. 

                          
                                                                       Picture #6

  I usually cover when I go out in public, and always for church.  But, I get home and take the clips out and scratch my head to get the blood circulating again.  Then, I leave my head open to the air.  I stopped by someone’s house to drop off a meal, a few weeks ago, and they didn’t know who was standing at their door.  No one usually sees my hair!

                                 
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  I dry it with a brush (to straighten the tight little ringlets, I’ve always had) and I haven’t cut or trimmed my hair. It’s grown, naturally, into a nice layered shape.  Still have that bald spot at the back & top of my head.  I’ve always had thin hair there, and now (with age, I guess) the crown is so thin, you can see my scalp.

        

  My dining room table is a wrapping network.  Paper, boxes, and ribbon strung out all over the place. 

  Our second oldest daughter’s birthday is next Monday and I’ve been busy wrapping gifts for her.  Since I can’t be on my feet long or bend over like I used to, I had to take one block of time to put the gifts in tissue paper and boxes, then again to decorate the gift sacks with tissue and ribbon, then I wrapped a few boxes.  I still have a couple of boxes to wrap and decorate with bows, then I’ll be finished. 

          

  I chose all silver and an icy blue, this year.  I love looking at (and buying) different/new paper and ribbon. 

  This year; Jesse, the 3 youngest daughters, and I all shopped together for Nikki’s gifts.  It was fun and I was glad Jesse was involved and made some choices regarding what gifts were purchased.

                                 
                                                                        Picture #8

  Jesse called me , while I was typing this post, and said we are definitely getting new carpeting.  An off white (maybe champagne?) color, we picked out last weekend.  He asked if I wanted the whole house done, instead of just the front rooms and hallway.  Without a moment of hesitation, I said, “Sure!”

         
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  Now I need to figure out where to put all the heavy stuff the day they install the carpeting! 

  We have that new fish tank (I wish it was on wheels, but it’s not) and the china cabinet is full of breakables that will have to be emptied.  The garage may be the best place to put up tables and hold the china cabinet contents during the installation.  Then, ALL of my bookshelves, I just arranged, will have to be emptied!

  Our king size bed is heavy, but Annamarie’s king bed is UNBELIEVABLY heavy! 

  When Jesse called about the carpet news, I asked if I could buy a plane ticket to California and stay with my mom, while this all happened here at home.  Without a moment of hesitation, he said, “NO!”

                               
                                                                            Picture #10

  I started a new book last night.  Another one about the Civil War – specifically the battle fought in Franklin, TN.  I’ve already finished half of the book.  It was *that* good!  I had to put another battery in my reading light because I used up all the power, staying up late to read.  Last night, I had quite a bit of trouble falling asleep (neck pain) and read to distract myself.

  I have a few things left on my “To Do” list today.  I need to divide the large quantities of meat we bought on Monday into smaller portions for the freezer, I need to take a bath before church tonight, and I need to finish the sheets I’m washing.

  Then . . . I THINK I’LL READ some more in my book!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  So, which picture do you think I should use for my profile pic?  I like picture #8, but also like the black and white version, picture #10. 

  Be Blessed  ~

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