December Eleventh

Today was a nice quiet day… Didn’t get much done… although I’m tired… even got to sleep in… Getting ready to have some chicken soup I made with corn bread… and watching Shrek Forever After…

I straightened up the house a bit… laundry… and put up some Christmas decorations inside… need to take more pictures outside as hubby added a bit more… the tree is almost done being decorated… one more box of ornaments, the skirt and the angel… hubby raked all the leaves up in the front yard… tomorrow need to read a book and work on the mission report with son3 after work…

Today son2 played XBox all day… and son3 played Playstation 2 all day… son1 worked his full time job today and didn’t find the part for his jeep so had to order it online… he is using one of our cars for work til the part comes… hubby has a doctor appointment on Tuesday for usual blood pressure check so he will have to get up very early to take me to work so he can use the van since son1 will have the car… now girlfriend has picked him up and they are off to have dinner with friends…

Dinner is ready… off to watch Shrek…

Happy Journaling…

December Tenth

Waiting for the turkey burgers to finish cooking… also having curly fries… a hot dog too if you are still hungry… some beans and chips… son3 finished off the lasagna as he didn’t want a turkey burger…

We have Big Bang Theory, William Shatner, F Troop, Smallville and Supernatural to watch tonight… and if hubby and I can stay awake we have CSI too… Shrek Forever After comes from Netflix tomorrow…

Son1 is replacing the starter in girlfriend’s car… he didn’t have to go into his part time job tonight… and he needs to replace some ball bearings for a pulley in his Jeep…

Son2 is playing XBox…

Son3 is eating dinner and watching Simpsons… he wanted to go to a friend’s party tonight but we had to say no as he didn’t get an invitation but kind of invited himself, plus it was a sleepover but he was only going for the evening as the actual bday party part is tomorrow and he doesn’t have a gift… plus this was a friend that he had an altercation with last month that they ended up in the principal’s office…

he’s moved on now from being mad and is climbing up and down ladders while hubby is putting Christmas ornaments on the tree… hubby broke two ornaments today while decorating the tree… I put ornaments on the tree on Wednesday…

I have been busy at work this week, not with customers but getting all the shoes ready for them… I got in over 20,000 steps today… 10,000 of them were by lunch, 17,000 of them before we walked to pick up son3…

I have lots to do tomorrow on my day off… clearing off the kitchen table and island, mission project with son3, putting away all the laundry I did this week, mailing out the birthday/anniversary cards for the month, to start the list……

Dinner is ready……

Happy Journaling…

December Ninth

 

I originally started this entry on December First and now here it is December Ninth already… Son3 did not have any homework today so taking a minute to catch up… December so far is a roller coaster of a month… Hubby and I are all over the place with our emotions during his job hunting… We continually have new places to apply at and new plans of applying but no call backs yet… With it getting dark at 5pm and all the Christmas sentiments this month I was in a slump up til Saturday, so wasn’t really in a mood for writing… And now since I have been feeling better I have been a busy bee getting caught up with everything so run out of time in the day for writing…

On Saturday I decided to put the new mattress cover that I purchased with my winnings from CVS.com on the bed… But I got a bit carried away and took the bed apart…

Vacuuming under it, washing all the bedding and skirt… and dusting the headboard…

New mattress pad…

All clean bedding and hubby put up Christmas decorations…

I also put some pillow cases up temporarily in the kitchen til I find some curtains I like as I want hubby to take down the blinds as they are very dirty and hang crooked…

We can’t believe how colorful all the trees are this year… usually all the trees start to change but then the leaves fall so quickly… but this year the leaves are staying on longer and showing off all their colors…

These pictures are from our backyard…

I’ve also been stressing myself out with thoughts of changing my job at my work… I still keep going back and forth on whether I should go work in the next town for my friend who is still in need of a lead… but then I feel I would be doing it for her and not me… It’s a way smaller store… and farther to travel… and getting used to being a lead and learning a whole new store… So I silenced my mind back to my original plan of posting for the shoe lead position if my supervisor gets the position she applied for… however I also heard that our signing lead wants shoes… so I also wouldn’t mind having the signing lead position as it is more similar to the last lead position I had… but nothing will happen til January so back to concentrating on getting hubby a job…

All of the Christmas shopping is done… we did very good only getting gifts for the boys and sticking to our plan… Hubby has put up all the Christmas decorations… should have the tree finished decorated by this weekend… The Christmas cards are done and going out in the mail tomorrow…

Son3 and I are almost done with his mission project… have two more paragraphs to write this weekend, find a few more pictures… they only have one more week of school… then on Christmas break we will type up all the paragraphs, color pictures and put everything on the board… the board is due Jan. 14th… next Wednesday his class is going on a field trip to see the new Narnia movie…

Miss Holly in the backyard… she does not like this wet cold weather we have been having… she wants to be able to sit outside sunning and bird watching… I am loving the rain and cold weather just not the darkness so early…

We watched Eclipse, The Sorcerers Apprentice, How to Train Your Dragon and Ice Age 3 this week… We just finished watching F Troop and having dinner… Hubby is cleaning up the kitchen… we have an agreement that until he gets a job his chore is dishes… Son2 has been watching all the animated Avatar: The Last Airbender episodes online on Netflix… Now the boys are getting ready for bed and school… Bones, Fringe, Big Bang Theory, William Shatner and CSI all come on tonight… Hubby and I started watching Hogfather last night but we fell asleep… Time to clean up so I can watch the shows….

Happy Journaling…

November Twenty Seventh

BRRRRRRRRR… I’m freezing…. It’s 46 outside and 68 inside, but I’m shivering…. Love it though, better than roasting in the 100’s…

The four days of crazy Christmas shopping are over and only three more days to go til I get a day off…. I’m tired today… and I have a headache… We got tore up yesterday but didn’t make our day in sales… we made ten times as much as they expected us to on Thursday… Saturday morning after is usually pretty slow but we had a few customers first thing at 7am who were still mad from yesterday that they didn’t find what they wanted as we ran out… and by 11am we were getting busy and they were tearing up the store again and we hadn’t even recovered yet from Friday…

Son2 is playing a computer game, son3 is playing son2’s XBox, son1 should be getting off his part time job about now and hubby has been putting up the outside Christmas lights…

I have been eating…. I have noticed since I am not tracking what I eat for the blog that I am not as aware of what I am eating and just eating everything plus there are extra treats with Thanksgiving… I am heating leftovers up now and had to make more stuffing and mashed potatoes… So keeping track of what you eat actually works….

Pedometer steps: just sharing cause I was amazed…

Saturday: 0ver 12000

Black Friday: 19090-only 1000 of these were at home…

Thanksgiving: 11206

Wednesday: 7124

Last night we watched How to Train Your Dragon… so cute and funny… son3 watched it twice yesterday and then again today… we ended up watching the new Star Trek the other night instead of Narnia… We have Prince of Persia Sands of Time for tonight…

Son3 and I got all his paragraphs caught up yesterday for his Mission report, even the one he is supposed to write in class on Monday… just have his weekly reading to catch up on tomorrow… and then Monday is back to school for three weeks and then they have three weeks off for Christmas…

I’m off to switch the laundry around and eat dinner…

Happy Journaling…

November Twenty Fifth

I survived working on Thanksgiving Day… Worked 6-1pm… We were open 7-12pm… there were already people lined up outside waiting for the Electronic specials… We made 4x our predicted day in sales… It was 12:40pm when we had to stop taking more customers and ask them to leave and come back tomorrow at 4am… or they would have stayed and shopped all day…

Now I just have to get through tomorrow from 4am til noon and then it’s home to work on the mission board with son3… my next day off is next Wednesday…

Hubby made cookies yesterday using cake mix… they are yummy…

Hubby did all the cooking this Thanksgiving… The turkey… we also had yams, creamed corn, mixed veggies, mashed potatoes, stuffing, gravy, cranberry sauce with apples, beets, green bean casserole, rolls…

Son1 ate with us in between being with girlfriend at her dad’s and then going to her mom’s…

Danny stayed close by hoping for a bit of a taste… he did of course… Holly had a bit of turkey too… she is sleeping on the back of the couch now all toasty warm on her blanket…

Hubby did have a mishap or two… I came home and helped with the mashed potatoes as he was going to make four times as much as we needed… he was fine once I got them started as he finished the potatoes while I was on the phone… he then said he just had the beets to heat up… I was like WHAT… you don’t heat up the beets, I put them in the fridge to chill… he said the can said to heat them up… since I’m the only one who eats the beets, I voted no for the heating up… then I noticed that the toaster oven light was on… I asked what’s in there and I don’t see a timer set for it… it was the green bean casserole that he had forgot about… so I took them out realizing they had no onions, so put in the onions and put them back in… he had asked earlier if I used the water in the cans with the green beans or if they should be drained… I said lets check the can of onions for the recipe… three cans of green beans, drained… um that would be a yes to the draining… he said well they would be a little watery… so we had green bean soup, instead of casserole… although once I put the onions in and it cooled it was more like gravy and it was very good… I had three helpings…

Everything was yummy!! and we are so full….

Son2 made Monkey Bread yesterday… I’ve been nibbling on it…

And hubby made three pumpkin pies last night that we will be having in just a bit with a movie that hubby is picking… I think he is picking Narnia with Prince Caspian… Hubby taped the Macy’s Day Parade for me this morning too that I can watch this weekend…

Hubby also did all the dishes and washed all the pots and pans…

Happy Journaling…

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

From Our House To Yours……..

Happy Journaling…

November Twenty Fourth…

Two more hours and I gotta get ready for work… I knew my two days off would be spent mostly waiting around to get to work today so we can get these three days over with… work wise anyway… Got another message from work to not come in at 1:30 today but back to regular time of 3pm… So much for a plan of any kind… I will get all the signs together and start separating them for the next three days… I don’t know if we start putting them up when we get there or after we close tonight… then two sets of signs to go up on Friday… and tables to be stocked… and hopefully I can open some more boxes to find more shoes we need… I spent time yesterday going through my work clothes and shoes… my pants are too big and my shoes are too small… I dyed my jeans again black yesterday so will just wear them until I get some new work pants…

Hubby has been making pumpkin pancakes… we have had them three mornings now… they are so good… son3 loves them!

Thanksgiving cards I have received!! I have not been sending cards to save on stamps til hubby gets a job….

Here’s where son2 has been all week on his vacation… Playing Xbox on son1’s TV… He has a picture for art class he has to finish drawing… He also has an essay for English on a poem he is supposed to be writing that is due next Friday…

And son3 playing his computer games…

Who has a Mission Board due on January 14th on San Luis Obispo Mission that we are already two weeks behind on… He got a detention for the map and timeline above last week because he hadn’t done them yet… We got behind when he was out sick the two days and then they had four days off for Veteran's day… So last week since he got the detention and the teacher called me at work… so I finally got the project sent home so I could see what all needed to be done and we could get caught up… Did I mention that the project states that all research will be done in class… son3 doesn’t get his class work done to have time to do his AR reading tests never mind research his project… I’ve been yelling a lot the last few days… I even researched homeschooling since I spend so many hours doing homework I could probably home school and work full time… was too difficult in California with too many laws… we even mentioned to the teacher we still didn’t think he was mature enough to be in fourth grade but she said the parents aren’t allowed to hold the child back the school has to decide… while working on the mission project in between all the yelling, son2 and I realized we could let son3 fail the regular way and stop helping him do all his work…. anyway…

we finished labeling the map… he is arguing with me of what a time line is so I don’t think it is done but he said it is so we moved on… we spent an hour each yesterday and today answering a question sheet the teacher supplied with history print outs on son3’s mission so we could write the first two paragraphs… then we have to write a paragraph on physical features, info sheet also supplied by teacher… all of this was due last Friday… I couldn’t find some of the answers to the questions and was looking online… so far we have just answered the questions and still have to write the two paragraphs… which will be easy now that we have all the info… so on Friday after I get off work we will write the three paragraphs to get caught up to last Friday… then we are also going to write the paragraph on the soldiers, also supplied with an info sheet, that is due Tuesday when he gets back to school on Monday… the entire project has to be mostly done to be checked off Dec. 17th before they go on Christmas break… 11 more paragraphs to write, with pictures and such… then on Christmas break all need to be typed and put on mission board…

It rained all day yesterday… Hard to see the rain in this picture…

Hubby made sugar cookies… not what he planned though… so this was his practice batch…. he has plans to make more cookies today and pumpkin pies for tomorrow… I don’t feel I have done anything to help get ready for Thanksgiving… hubby has done everything…

The pans came yesterday that I ordered for my thirty years with Sears…

Hubby and I are watching Emergency… the boys are on their games… son1 is working both jobs today…

another hour and I can get ready for work… I don’t like working at night only for all the waiting to be time to go… hubby is going to tape the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade for me tomorrow while I am at work in the morning…

What I ate and Pedometer steps will resume again next week… and yes Betty there is still candy left… no chocolate left but I have been eating the little sugar smarties leftover from the trick or treaters…

Happy Journaling…