TGIF

I am so glad it is Friday and this week is over... My house is a mess... I've gotten nothing done this week... Well I have almost finished reading Twilight that son2 borrowed from his friend... And son3 studied his spelling words all week. This week's words: people, easy, busy, taught, picture, listen, follow, focus, effort, computer, correct, details, review, noun and verb... Son2 had to pick his classes for next year and potential electives... Son1 had jury duty so I had to check the computer each day, but he never did have to go in... I forgot to mention when he came over for son2's bday that he told us he got another dog, a Dachshund/Terrier Mix, a girl dog... He already has Danny... And he has a hamster too.... Son3 has had a cold all week and now hubby is getting it... Hubby is still working his day hours, but didn't check the schedule and found out when he went in today that he was scheduled late, I don't understand how people don't look at their schedules to see what they are working... Hubby of course just assumes it's the same every week... But the people I work with don't even look until the day before... I like to know for the whole month, lol, but only know for the week... And now they are having to move people around again at his work, so he may have to go back to closing a few nights... I have mixed feelings... On the one hand I like him home earlier in the evening but he has not been getting any of his chores done... So we will see when he goes back to nights if between the two of us we get this house back in shape... I have had to get up several times to referee son2 and son3 who are bickering with each other and me.... grrrrr.... Son3 has still not pulled his tooth that has been loose since December, so I told him no games until he wiggles it... Oh the drama, just for him to wiggle it... Work has been dramatic this week too... On the one hand I have gotten lots done... However the company is going through some restructuring due to the economy and so three managers were let go this week at our store... I realized today that is was the same positions that replaced mine after I was restructured four years ago... It's unsettling what other changes we will go through this year... Meanwhile with hours low for it being only January and medical insurance going up, my paycheck is not much anyway... But I am fortunate to have it... And I am lucky to be here... On the way home today I was sitting in a long line of traffic waiting for the light to turn green, when out of the corner of my eye I see a flash of the car behind me as he has to slam on the brakes and swerve to the shoulder to avoid hitting me as he was going fifty and not seeing that the cars were stopped... At first I thought it was a young guy but after he got back in line behind me I saw it was a middle aged man... And then I noticed the lady behind him talking on her cell phone, last year they passed the law of hand free cell phones only, hers was not... Then to the left of me a truck drives past, going the wrong way, as it is only a two lane road, he continued driving past all of us waiting for the light until he reached oncoming cars and then he merged back in line with us... I'm so glad to be home where I can curl up comfy cozy and finish reading Twilight and watch some TV when hubby gets home and get a good night's sleep and wake up refreshed to tackle my list that has been waiting all week.... I miss Raisin....
Happy Journaling...

A-Z Photo Challenge-U

A-Z Photo Challenge - The letter U

To Play Visit Martha at Menagerie

Looking UP...

Happy Journaling...

Ignore hubby's comment, lol, we lit the candles before son2 was ready...

Son2 Opening Present Movie

Son2's 15th Birthday!

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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So Much To Do

Saturday morning... Hubby is off to work. Son3 is conquering empires on his computer games. Son2 is reading The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury. I have been clicking around Facebook... I like clicking around on the applications, lol... Holly is sleeping next to me... It has been raining for days, yay! And tomorrow is son2's bday and I have lots to do today!!

This is going to be an organize my thoughts entry... I have so many to do lists and so many things I want to get done this year... But then things keep getting added to my to do list before I have a chance to check others off, lol... Some of it's hubby's to do list but I have to maintain his list too, so that's a job in itself... He put the tree away but still has all the ornaments to box up, he still has to make dentist appointments for the boys and take them in, but with his new work schedule he no longer has time in the morning to run his errands and do his chores before work... He also needs to make him and son3 eye checkup appointments... He has his yard chores and around the house chores to work on... Plus a few craft projects he started that need finishing... And he got a jury duty summons for next month...

Tomorrow is son2's bday, he'll be 15! I only have to work til 10am to set the ad and then it's just us having family day... Don't know yet if son1 is able to come or he has to work. I still need to make his chocolate cake with chocolate frosting and put up the decorations and balloons... We got him a game chair that hooks to the game systems and has speakers... Instead of wrapping it we are planning to have a treasure hunt so I will need to make clue cards to hide... Son2 has been texting a lot with his friend who is a girl that is a girlfriend to his friend... We tease him that shouldn't his friend be jealous... Anyway she was telling him what college she was thinking of attending and what she wants to be, so I guess he became worried cause he came to me last Saturday wanting to know what he was going to be and where he was going to college... So we talked for an hour or so and didn't make any decisions on what he was going to be but how to figure it out in the next few years... And that he will be attending Fresno city college for all his basic classes and to help him figure out what he wants to do before transferring to a University... She has also gotten him into reading again... He is a very good and fast reader and I tried over Christmas break to get him to read some books but he wasn't in the mood... Anyway they raced the other day to see who could finish Romeo and Juliet first, she won and so he had to drink the pickle juice, lol... Now he is reading The Illustrated Man so he can finish and read Twilight that she let him borrow... I may borrow it too but I'm not sure if I'm going to like this version of vampire... I've heard some love it but then a few don't know what all the excitement is about either...

Son3 did well on his spelling words this week but then there were only ten: playful, loudly, quickly, quietly, thankful, foxes, branches, dresses, churches, and brushes... He may have only missed two on the final test yesterday... She never sends home the final tests so don't know how he does... He did get his report card yesterday: Reading C, Language B, Writing C, Spelling C and Math C... Everything went up except Math went down and that's his best so don't know about that unless it is because a lot of math is reading now and that may have hurt him... She said he is doing better each day so we may hold off the intervention awhile longer... As long as he is improving, I just hope he is able to keep up... Meanwhile he has had a loose tooth since before Christmas that is just hanging there... The other tooth has already come in. He is the most dramatic person when it comes to teeth, will not even let us look without all the screaming and yelling and wrestling just to see.... Yesterday due to the rain we had two power failures... The first just a minute but he is deathly afraid of the dark and was freaked out for the rest of the night... I handed out flashlights which was good cause just as hubby was getting home they went out again for about five minutes... But son3 had his flashlight on instantly so he was good, lol... He slept with his flashlight and his glasses, just in case... No more power failures though... The sun is coming out a bit now...

I want this to be the year to finally get organized and get on a routine... something like wash floors on Monday, clean bathrooms on Tuesday, etc... not save everything for my day off and end the day with a headache cause I didn't get it all done.... I also want to make more time for me to have a morning and nightly me regimen of manicures and facials and exercise and such... I've been reading more on the St. John's Wort and I am going to start taking it at night before I go to bed and then in the morning take my multivitamin and a vitamin D to battle the lack of sunshine... I so can't wait for the days to continue to get longer as then I will be sure to get more done... I was back to falling asleep at 8pm this week while I was watching my shows... I taped them all though so we are all caught up except Ghost Whisperer and I missed taping CSI cause Bones came on twice, last weeks and this weeks... But I already found CSI online so we can watch it...

My goals for the year so far: clean the laundry room, clean out all the drawers in the house ( I had hoped to do one drawer a day throughout January, but that never happened), clean out the kitchen cupboards, steam clean the carpets, reorganize the art/computer room, get rid of the paper piles, organize all the boys greeting cards and mementos into keepsake boxes, scan cards to use as graphics, reorganize my bookcases, put all my books on Shelfari, make the sugar cookies from Christmas, clean out the fridge, defrost the garage freezer, there must be thirty birds in the backyard finishing the last of the birdseed so add buy birdseed to list, shred old files from file cabinet (another January goal that didn't get done), wash laundry, wash dishes daily, keep the island and dining room table clear, vacuum, save all my pictures to CD's, daily homework reading and studying with son3, new plans for dinners now that hubby's work hours are different, pay bills and keep up on checkbook weekly not monthly, clean bathrooms, pull all papers together and file taxes, get ready for Valentine's, yard ready for spring..............

Today's list: wash dishes and pans, wash son3's sheets (did son2's on Wednesday), put away laundry, clean bathroom sinks, watch Ghost Whisperer, watch The Christmas Cottage (son2 and I still have not watched Gone with the Wind), put up decorations and balloons, make cake and make present hunt cards for son2's bday, run a scan and defragment computer and fill out bday cards for February...

But first have breakfast or is it time for lunch as I've been the computer for three hours already, lol... and we wonder why we get nothing done... I did fix son3's breakfast already though, waffles and chocolate milk... and what does son2 want for his birthday dinner... tonight's dinner is easy, since hubby is no longer home on Saturday morning for our weekly family breakfast, we just have it for dinner now...

I'm off to eat my Cheerios...

Happy Journaling...

Thank You

Thank you to everyone for all your wonderful thoughts and comments for Raisin.... Being an original AOL kitty he was loved by many... I still can't believe he is gone... I cry... I get mad... I'm just glad we found him or we would still be wondering where he is... I thought I would be mad at Holly but she has been a comfort... I did ask her though if she sent the mob after Raisin as they really didn't like each other... That's what makes me the saddest is that Raisin's last few weeks were spent being mad at Holly for taking over 'his' house... I have already cleaned Raisin's stuff out of the house... His boxes, his bags, his toys... I downloaded the pictures from my camera yesterday and forgot I had taken some pictures of him and a couple of movies... :( I did go to Target yesterday and got Holly a pink litter box that came with a pink bowl and pink scooper... But she hasn't used it yet... and she barely goes outside unless we are with her so I don't think she does those things, lol.. or just has a bladder of steel... She gets to stay in the house at night now and will probably be a true indoor cat... I did tell her though that we will no longer be buying anymore Whiskas pouches as those were Raisin's, so she will just have to enjoy the dry and can food... Yesterday I planted the bulbs finally and she was outside with me... Why do long hair cats think they are dogs, lol... Kirby did too... I had dug the holes for the bulbs and was covering the dirt back over them and she started to help me... Not just scratching in the dirt but actually putting dirt back into the holes... She is such a character with her little grumpy self... I feel like I am betraying Raisin by accepting her so much... I know... It's ok....




One good thing finally happened this week... After 66 days, Chuck finally came... I still have a headache and my head and ears are burning off though... I have to tell you though it is a relief... I know I'll be 45 this summer and it's all part of the change and hubby has been snipped but God does have a sense of humor and you just never know... But I do know that I do not want anymore babies please... No carseats, diapers, formula, daycare, school, homework... I'm ready for me time and hubby time in my old age, lol... So we've been a bit stressed about that lately and snapping at each other, me and hubby... I was having nightmares even and wondering if that was the reason for gaining 9lbs... But no it was just from eating too much over the holidays and Chuck not coming... As I've already lost 3lbs this week... and started back to doing crunches... no excuses any more!

Speaking of hubby, remember when he was sick, we think it was from the peanut butter recall... He went grocery shopping on Monday and bought some Little Debbie nutty butty bars that I made him throw away cause $1.50 was nothing compared to dieing... We did a bit of research online of the recalls out of curiosity and a bit of discussing over that little box of nutty butty bars... And then moved on til Tuesday night when hubby realized that we had a package of Keebler peanut butter chocolate cookies that he had eaten two of right before getting sick... Ya think! I threw them away yesterday...

Lots more to share for the week but The Simpsons are over and it is time for homework... Not too much tonight and son3 did good this week with the spelling words having only two days to study and me yelling last night... And lots of good shows on tonight: Bones, CSI, Smallville, Supernatural....
Tomorrow is Friday and more time for playing...
Happy Journaling...

Sad News

We are very sad here tonight.... We've lost Raisin... He never came in last night when I called him... I was worried cause it's still been getting cold at night but he's spent many a night outside... But then this morning he wasn't waiting to come in... I even looked up and down the street thinking the worst... I worried about him all day while I was at work, the last I had seen him was Sunday morning and maybe a bit of his tail as he wandered through the backyard on Sunday afternoon... I just had a feeling all day that something had happened... It's normal for him to stay out all night but come right back in the morning, yelling at me for leaving him out... About 4pm I told son2 to ride his bike around the neighborhood to see if he could find him... Well he didn't get far as he opened the garage and from the angle he was at could see Raisin under the bush... Getting in and out of the cars in the driveway all day we hadn't seen him... We don't know what happened but it probably happened last night as he had been gone awhile by time we found him.... I'm thinking maybe he got hit by a car but we'll never know... And an odd thing is we lost Kirby just about this time last year... Hubby will take him to the SPCA in the morning... He would have been ten years old this summer... I'm gonna miss him so much... I can't stop crying... He was my best boy...

Happy Journaling...

Meme

Snagged from JoAnne...

Just boldface the items that you HAVE done, and leave the rest normal…

1. Started your own blog
2. Slept under the stars
3. Played in a band
4. Visited Hawaii
5. Watched a meteor shower
6. Given more than you can afford to charity
7. Been to Disneyland/world
8. Climbed a mountain.
9. Held a praying mantis
10. Sang a solo
11. Bungee jumped
12. Visited Paris
13. Watched a lightning storm at sea
14. Taught yourself an art from scratch
15. Adopted a child
16. Had food poisoning
17. Walked to the top of the Statue of Liberty
18. Grown your own vegetables
19. Seen the Mona Lisa in France
20. Slept on an overnight train
21. Had a pillow fight
22. Hitch hiked
23. Taken a sick day when you’re not ill
24. Built a snow fort
25. Held a lamb
26. Gone skinny dipping
27. Run a Marathon
28. Ridden in a gondola in Venice
29. Seen a total eclipse
30. Watched a sunrise or sunset
31. Hit a home run
32. Been on a cruise
33 Seen Niagara Falls in person
34. Visited the birthplace of your ancestors
35. Seen an Amish community
36. Taught yourself a new language
37. Had enough money to be truly satisfied
38. Seen the Leaning Tower of Pisa in person
39. Gone rock climbing
40. Seen Michelangelo’s David
41. Sung karaoke
42. Seen Old Faithful geyser erupt
43. Bought a stranger a meal in a restaurant
44. Visited Africa
45. Walked on a beach by moonlight
46. Been transported in an ambulance
47. Had your portrait painted
48. Gone deep sea fishing
49. Seen the Sistine Chapel in person
50. Been to the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris
51. Gone scuba diving or snorkeling
52. Kissed in the rain
53. Played in the mud
54. Gone to a drive-in theater
55. Been in a movie
56. Visited the Great Wall of China
57. Started a business
58. Taken a martial arts class
59. Visited Russia
60. Served at a soup kitchen
61. Sold Girl Scout Cookies
62. Gone whale watching
63. Gotten flowers for no reason
64. Donated blood, platelets, or plasma
65. Gone sky diving
66. Visited a Nazi Concentration Camp
67. Bounced a check
68. Flown in a helicopter
69. Saved a favorite childhood toy
70. Visited the Lincoln Memorial
71. Eaten Caviar
72. Pieced a quilt
73. Stood in Times Square
74. Toured the Everglades
75. Been fired from a job
76. Seen the Changing of the Guards in London
77. Broken a bone
78. Been on a speeding motorcycle
79. Seen the Grand Canyon in person
80. Published a book
81. Visited the Vatican
82. Bought a brand new car
83. Walked in Jerusalem
84. Had your picture in the newspaper
85. Read the entire Bible
86. Visited the White House
87. Killed and prepared an animal for eating
88. Had chickenpox
89. Saved someone’s life
90. Sat on a jury
91. Met someone famous
92. Joined a book club
93. Lost a loved one
94. Had a baby
95. Seen the Alamo in person
96. Swam in the Great Salt Lake
97. Been involved in a lawsuit
98. Owned a cell phone
99. Been stung by a bee

Happy Journaling...

Friday!!

The boys walked in the door from school today and went straight to their games, lol... son3 said he had a great day! and then son2 said I had a good day too, lol.... They then came back out, each got a chocolate chip muffin and went back to their games... I had teriyaki chicken, rice, veggies and tomato soup... They said they weren't hungry... Of course in a bit when I tell them to take showers, their response will be, 'but we didn't have dinner'... My dinner was yummy, however I spilled teriyaki sauce on the floor, then on my sleeve, then I dropped chicken on the floor, and spilled my soup.... Sheesh, lol...

This week went by so fast at work... I have so much to do, which is good, makes the days go fast... The last two days I have spent putting all the men's work boots back in their boxes and matching up all the pairs back together... And making new displays... Next week I have two more rows of men's work boots and then I can move on to men's dress/casual shoes... Meanwhile the boxes are piling up waiting for me to open them... I only worked on them for about a half hour today... Now I am off tomorrow and then Sunday is set the ad day...

I have had a headache today and my head and ears are burning... I'm sure I could stick my head in a snowbank and burn off all the snow you all are having, lol... Isn't being a girl so much fun... I am also on day 63 of no chuck... And I am mad at myself for gaining nine pounds over the holidays... I was one pound away from my first goal and now I am back where I was and then some... argh... But just gotta get my head back in the right place and back to whatever it was I was doing that was working... More moving at work, heave those boxes... and get out of the eating habit I got into during the holidays... and I have slipped back into too much soda, not cola but just different flavored sodas... More Water!! Back to crunches!!

We watched Smallville and Supernatural last night... They were both very good!! Still have to see CSI and Bones... Tonight is Ghost Whisperer and Numbers...

Lots on my to do list tomorrow... It has been so nice lately with temps almost to 70degrees... I'm just happy the sun is out! I know, I know... You guys have snow and you are freezing... I'm sorry! We could all of a sudden turn cold again and get gray skies... No seasons here just different temps... At least when the snow melts, you know it's spring, lol... I'm trying to decide when to plant my bulbs before I miss spring and we go right to summer of 110 degrees... That's our seasons: 42 degrees, week of spring, 110 degrees, week of fall.... So I'm thinking maybe tomorrow plant the bulbs, but hubby hasn't finished raking the leaves yet, see still fall here too... And a bit of baking... a bit of cleaning... a bit of reading with son3... and a lot of blog reading...

According to hubby's new schedule he will be home any time now... No late night for me on the computer any more on Friday's...

Happy Journaling...

Back to Reality...

Here I am on this nice sunny day off from work with hubby back to work and the boys at school.... It seems I lost control of the last three days... Saturday night hubby came home from work sick... We thought he had eaten something that didn't agree with him as he felt better by Sunday night... So Monday he did tons of yard work but then had a fever that night... Tuesday he wasn't much better so he called out from work but did manage to get to the grocery store and pharmacy and pick up a few items... Finally last night he was back to eating full meals and his chipper annoying self, lol, so today he was off to work...

Sunday the boys were way too overexcited for two boys that had to go back to school on Monday, where I was tired from being back at work and hubby wasn't feeling well... So I was back to yelling after not having to yell for three weeks... Turns out they were excited about going back to school to see their friends but didn't see the importance of getting ready for school and getting to bed on time the same way I did.... Son3 and I did manage to do 23 pages of his practice book over the weekend, with him fighting it all the way of course and me thinking oh great I can see how homework is going to be already... And he did read his library book all by himself: Henry and Mudge....

Monday the boys did great at school and each did their homework but I was still yelling... hmmmmm I have discovered that it is not work and driving to and from work with the crazy people that make me grumpy... It is school, teachers and homework that make me grumpy and I just take it out on work and crazy drivers.... Cause I was not grumpy for three weeks and I was going to work then and driving with crazy people... Sure I might have been annoyed at times but not yelling at the family grumpy... School, teachers and homework take up a big chunk of time and effort... For example son3 has already received ten of his fifteen spelling words, we have written them five times each and written them in sentences and last night he studied them more after his shower.... but today we will get five more and tomorrow will be the test and He Doesn't Know Them Yet... the words so far are costume, polished, handsome, discover, solve, mirror, traced, grown up, smear, creation and whispering... I don't remember son2 having these big of words in second grade... Actually tomorrow is the practice test and then Friday the test, but when he sees that he misses most of them tomorrow that just discourages him from even continuing.... He's such a perfectionist and expects to know them the first time...

Son2 is back into the swing of school and already lost his student ID card, hopefully he finds it today, he think it might be in his PE locker... Then yesterday he wanted to go the school soccer game that starts before school even gets out so by time he gets home and I was to drive him there (the game is not at the school) it would be half over plus it costs five dollars to see half a game, plus by time I drove back home, it would be time to pick him up as it takes twenty minutes just to get there.... So he wasn't see any reason to all this..... and was just mad... it was the same girl from the cabin in the snow texting him to come... I'm like how is she texting you if she is playing soccer.... lol... and then I ask him if he likes her, so he says she is seeing one of his other friends, but does admit he has a bit of a crush on her....

Sunday I was back to work, hoping for a quick day... I set the ad with the luxury of taking my time as it wasn't a big ad... Went to lunch and then after lunch worked on athletic mismates and then cleaned up the mess that was left from those that helped open boxes while I was gone... Monday I scanned the floor for the display report, talked with the supervisor to get caught up, filled the men's work boot table, as no one had stocked or cleaned men's shoes the whole week I was gone... Seems that is my area so no one touched it the whole week and a half I was gone, not even to clean for the customers at closing... I then began the task of putting all the boots back in their boxes and stocking but only got one row done... So Thursday and Friday that is my priority to have all work boots cleaned up and stocked... Before I went home on Monday I also cleaned up the stockroom, again cleaning up after the associates who did some things I normally do but left the mess... Then on Tuesday we had a surprise at work... I had completely forgot all about it... Actually figured it was passed and not gonna happen... Well Ty didn't come but Michael Maloney did and actually he was probably more fun than Ty...

He was so crazy and funny and down to earth... He talked with everyone and answered any questions and was just like a regular person... Of course the first place they filmed was the store entrance right into shoes... So supervisor and I were quickly clearing the clearance tables out of the aisles and making the clearance woman's boots look presentable... Of course when the show airs it will be March 8th and we will have all the sandals out by then... They did three takes but liked the first one best... It was all women who were friends and family to the family of the makeover... They were pretending that they just arrived to shop with Michael... Of course all the shopping was done last week, however they did buy about four more carts of stuff before they left... Even Michael bought some socks and things for himself... We Sears groupies followed the crew around from 7am til the store opened at 9:30am, however they were not done filming to a bit later... Next they filmed the woman entering the brand central area to look at washer and dryers, of course that was by the men's work boots that you remember was way messy cause I was gone a week and the men's underwear, that's why Michael was shopping... Then they went to the washer and dryer area where they stayed for over an hour doing take after take... It was so funny cause nothing is rehearsed, Michael just comes up with some ideas, of course he does this all the time, and then they try to see what works best... They then went back to do one more take of the entrance into the store by shoes and then one more take of entering the brand central department by men's boots... By then the store was opening so I had to go to work... They went to film the woman and Michael going down the escalator to Home Fashions and then more filming in Home Fashions... So we will see what actually airs when they premier the show on March 8th...

Then I spent the day doing price changes and stocking athletic shoes a bit... When supervisor went to lunch she said on the news they were saying that Extreme Home Makeover is at the store right not and she is thinking, no they left already... So when she came back and I went to lunch shoes was getting paged tons of times meaning we got busy while I was gone... you think maybe all the people who saw the news and came running in only to find they had left so they stayed to shop, lol... Tomorrow supervisor is off so it is just me working all day by myself... Hopefully we won't be busy and I can get work done and that everyone is at the house waiting for the family to come home and for them to say "Move that bus".... they suggest you get there at 10am and they move the bus between 2pm and 3pm...

Today I have been getting the house back in order and trying to relax but that has given me a headache, lol... I was up at 4:30am cause son3 had woken up and was afraid.... So I messed around with his TV for a few minutes trying to find him something to watch to get bad dreams off his mind but he gets the least channels with all this digital stuff... I told hubby I think I realize our mistake, we started the digital too soon since it has taken effect yet... So I think we are going to unhook the digital boxes and put the boys old TVs back in their rooms and when they finally start the new digital we will change over... I also realized that son3's TV was going a different direction than all the other TVs in the house so we moved the antenna to match the others and he is now getting a few more channels... Son2 was just telling me that it isn't any better going back since they are doing half and half with the analog and digital, so I don't know... So I got son3 back to sleep but I was up so came on the computer, got son2 off to school, got son3 up at 7am and ready for school... Hubby got up and got ready for work and took son3 to school... Then since I haven't really seen hubby for the last five days, I talked his ear off over breakfast until he had to leave for work... I've cleaned toilets, done four loads of laundry with two more to go, watered the plants, straightened up the family room from all the toys when the boys were on break, vacuumed, had lunch, read a few blogs, added a few blogs to read, picked up the boys from school, put teriyaki chicken on the stove to cook and I have been working on this entry off and on since before noon and it is now 3:30pm... Now I'm gonna go straighten up the island and kitchen table, do the dishes, finish making dinner of rice and stir fry veggies, eat dinner and do homework with son3...

This week starts hubby's new schedule at work again... He doesn't have to close any more on Fridays and Saturdays... But he goes in later each day and gets home a bit later... So we won't be having dinner all together every day again but then I can get the boys fed and then do homework and into showers... Before we were trying to get homework done before hubby got home and waiting til 6:30pm to eat dinner and that is just too late for me and the boys being we are at school and work way before hubby gets to work... So I'm hoping not to feel as rushed in the evenings now...

We did make time to watch Star Wars and Ghost Town... I can't believe I stayed awake and made it all the way through Star Wars, lol... And Ghost Town was so funny and had a few twists and turns... I did tell son2 if it was so funny, why was I crying, so there was a sad part or two also.... Next we have Bangkok Dangerous, The Illustrated Man and The Christmas Cottage...

Son2 did not find his ID card at school today and the rest of the spelling words are: threw, touched, pour, kitchen and radio...

Happy Journaling...

Son2 sledding at a higher level

Me and the boys sledding

Hubby and son2 sledding

Me sledding

Hubby sledding at a higher level

A-Z Photo Challenge- T

Time for Martha's A-Z Photo Challenge for the letter T...

To Play visit Martha at Menagerie...

I started thinking about T as soon as I had finished R and found myself at a block... You would think there were a lot of things that start with T, right... I figured since I was on vacation I would find something really great but there was nothing in the house or in the yard... Of course I thought of tummy, teeth, toes, turtle... but none of them were very exciting or available to photograph... So when we decided to go to the snow for the day I told everyone to be on the lookout for T's...

Of course we weren't on the road ten minutes and son3 started naming everything that started with a T and then son2 and hubby started in also, lol...

Did you notice the sign above... It doesn't say 'Not a through road'... It says 'Not a through toad'... It's a real sign, I didn't alter it... How many times have we been on a picnic and did we never notice this sign was wrong, lol, or that it would be perfect for Martha's Photo Challenge...

So as you scroll through the slide show as we travel to Yosemite National Park for a trip to the snow in Wawona at the Yosemite Pioneer History Center; notice the palm trees, the tundra, the twisty turning roads, the trucks, the trailers, the treacherous roads, the towns of Coursegold and Oakhurst, the pine trees, the tree tops, the mountain tops, two trees, ten trees, twelve trees, twenty trees, two hundred trees, taunting, teasing, torturing, train at Yosemite railroad, picnic tables, throwing snowballs, teaching of throwing snowballs, trails, tipping trees, toppled trees, timber, telephone poles, tinkling toilets, temper tantrums, turnouts for passing, teepees and don't forget to support our troops....

Make a Smilebox slideshow

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The Secret

I know you are patiently waiting for the secret... But don't worry cause we didn't miss out on anything cause the secret didn't show... Before I left on vacation the supervisor told me that Ty was coming to our store to tape for the Extreme show here in Fresno but that we weren't supposed to know... Originally he was coming last Sunday but then they changed it to today... I was like darn, I'm gonna miss it... So after the supervisor came back from helping the other store getting ready for the VIPs coming to their store, this week we were getting ready for the VIPs coming to our store, Sears's VIPs, not just Ty... So I called the supervisor this morning to find out how it went and she said Ty didn't even come... Just personal shoppers who were supposed to come at 7am and they didn't show til 8:30am... They won't even be back til Monday to pick up their purchases and do any filming for the show... So on the up note I'll be back on Monday but Ty probably won't be coming... Meanwhile the store manager is still in a tizzy to get the store in ship shape as we are still expecting Sears's VIPs too between today and Monday... So there is the secret, sorry I got you all excited and then it was cancelled, lol...

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Son2 and Son3 sledding videos

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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

The house is in Fresno!! I haven't seen anything on the news yet, or if they are even going to show them arriving at the house although there is directions of where the media is to park... The house is only six miles from my house... Of course we will be back to school and work, but it would be nice to get a peek one of the days.... For more details go here... http://extremedeyoung.com/location.php
and here
http://extremedeyoung.com/schedule.php
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