Ornaments…

 

Happy Journaling…

December Third

Picture of the full moon from last week…

Maple and Indy; Goose and Moose…

Son3, son2 and Hubby decorating the tree…

Decorating Maple…

Indy taking a nap on the ladder that hubby needed…

Son2 decorated the little tree to put in the gaming room… plus he is hosting the annual eve before Christmas eve party with his friends at our house this year… of course plans could change before then…

I had a day off today and it is over…

Hubby got son3 off to school, we had breakfast, I made a list for Christmas cards, got distracted on Facebook looking up friends, played My Zoo 2 on Facebook, checked email, took a shower, hubby-son2 and I went to Target, Christmas shopping is just about done as we are mostly just getting for son3, with a couple of things for son2 and groceries for son1, then home from Target, son3 came home, he has been doing homework, I made pizza and pasta for dinner, now we are going to eat dinner, and son3 still has homework to do after dinner…

Since they are having benchmarks next week the teacher is piling on the worksheets so they can practice for the tests… He has twelve worksheets of all subjects, 13 reading workbook pages and spelling words… now not all of this is due tomorrow, it’s due on different days of the week, however every day this week he will bring home more homework added on to this…

When I was looking up friends on Facebook this morning, I actually found a couple of friends I knew… I wonder though why no one ever searches me out and requests me to be a friend… I’m sure if I click on them they will accept my request, but that’s not the point… anyway only one did I request as I was very excited to find her. I worked with her at Sears before I became pregnant with son2… I also found out that hubby is a great uncle… I was searching for some relatives and found hubby’s niece and she had a profile picture holding a one year old… I did not request friendship with any of the relatives I found today as once again why don’t they request us… I’m very disappointed in hubby’s family at the moment as they haven’t contacted him since his cancer surgery… of course I tell hubby he could contact them too…

I had so many plans of things to do today… Christmas cards, finish decorating the tree, watch Joyce Meyer, clean out the fridge, make dinners for the week, clean the kitchen, wipe down the bathrooms… I did check shopping off my list and I’m almost done with laundry… I wanted to take pictures in the backyard and fill the birdfeeders… now I’m not off again til Saturday…

I was in a better mood at work yesterday… probably because my three days of closing were coming to an end… I now have two days left to get ready for the visit… Target’s shoe department was so nice and clean when we were there today… of course they had a much simpler way of displaying the shoes and their shoe department was one fourth the size of mine…

We are done with dinner, watched a Masters of Illusion and now son3 is back on homework… Will send him to the shower once he’s spent another hour on it… he spent ninety minutes working on it before dinner… and then if he is done with everything that is due tomorrow we will continue on tomorrow… he did do some things that we’re due later in the week too… he’s on math now, that takes the longest…

I’m off to finish the laundry…

Today

Partly Cloudy 63° Precip 20%

Tonight

 

 Mostly Cloudy 48° Precip 10%

Tomorrow

 

Partly Cloudy 67° Precip 20%

Happy Journaling…

December Second

 

It’s very windy this morning and just starting to sprinkle… we’re supposed to have rain all day…

Hubby made blueberry pancakes for breakfast and hot chocolate…

The cats keep wanting outside and then inside… they don’t like the wind… but then after being inside for a few minutes they think let me go back outside, maybe it’s sunny now… and then five minutes later they are wanting back inside again… and never at the same time… one comes in the other goes out… the changing of the guards… Maple is in at the moment and Indy is out…

Hubby and I both put up a tub each of ornaments this morning… still a couple of tubs to go… I’ve been taking pictures… I’ll share tomorrow on my day off…

On this day, God wants you to know that...

...faith soothes all suffering.

Nothing is that difficult when you have God on your side.

I close again tonight… we are having our last friends and family event of the year… extra 5-20% storewide at Sears from 6-9pm…

Saturday I got all my counts updated for the week, Sunday I got all the kids shoes mated back together and today I plan on opening all the boxes that came in this week… I had several call outs this weekend and we are crazy busy so we just keep getting messier… and I have the MOD phone every day for at least three hours…

This always seems to be the case when we have a visit coming…

I’m sharing God wants you to know today as this is what I always tell myself when getting ready for these visits… if it’s his plan for me to fail then I can only do my best… however I always beat myself up and the more I freak out to be perfect the more things go wrong… after almost two years of being the lead you’d think I’d quit beating myself up… the visitor has already seen me at my worst and even once he complimented how great we looked and couldn't find anything to comment on as needing fixed… so he should expect at this time of year for us to be at our worst… as long as we have a plan for recovering which we are doing… it’s just not going to be all recovered by time he comes… however there are a few things we do need to be ready for, and those are what I’m freaking out about… but then I remind myself all in God’s plan as long as I don’t give up… but then I get mad at myself cause I forget and beat myself up once again…

I need to watch Joyce Meyer every day… I have over 40 of her lectures saved to the DVR… but then I watch Ghost Adventures instead… lol… but she reminds me that God wants me to be happy, that is why he gave us life… not to be miserable and beat ourselves up over stuff we can’t control… what can I control, thanking him every day for my job and everything he gives me… and for the messy customers I can use as an excuse for not being ready…. no…?

It’s raining now… both cats are in, except Holly but she is probably in the garage…

Son2 and son3 are on their video games… son3 is supposed to be finishing his Christmas list… he and hubby are taking the toys to the Toys for Tots Marines today…they got a police car, fire engine and ambulance that light up and make very loud siren noises…

Happy Journaling…

Today

 Rain 63° Precip 100%

Tonight

 

Scattered Showers 54° Precip 60%

Tomorrow

 Partly Cloudy 63° Precip 20%