West Virginia Miners

My heart goes out to all of the family members and friends of those miners who did not make it. It is so unfortunate there was miscommunication to the loved ones.

Dear ones, please know that many. many people are praying for you and the loss of your loved ones. All of us feel your pain tonight. May God wrap you in his loving arms and help you heal.

Computer woes

Thanks to my youngest daughter, I am experiencing computer problems once again. She likes to visit game sites that bring in spyware and pop ups. Arrgh! I am currently running three spyware programs, and yet some pop ups still prevail!

We have one computer at our house (my laptop) and yet everyone else finds reasons to use it. Does anyone else suffer from this problem?

SavvyMom rants a bit

Good grief. My husband had shoulder surgery this morning. It was done on an out patient basis and my father-in-law was kind enough to take him and bring him home from surgery so the girls and I would not have to go and hang out in the waiting room all morining. Hubby rested all afternoon and seems to be OK so far (meds must be working).

Around 6:00 he announces he is going to go out and rent a movie. I flipped out! "Are you kidding me?! You just had surgery this morning You can't drive!" He said "Yes I can, I'm not groggy or anything." Mind you folks, he has one arm in a sling.

I finally got my daughters to convince him that he was not allowed to drive for 24 hours. I went out and rented some movies for him. Sheesh--you'd think a grown man would have better sense! Hopefully he will have apain free and restful night.

The saga continues tomorrow.

Birthday too close to Christmas

Today my oldest daughter turns 15. She is, of course, excited. This means she can soon get her learner's permit to drive.

It is hard to have a birthday so close to Christmas. I shop for gifts for both occasions throughout December, but it is sometimes tough deciding what to give for Christmas and what to save to give as a birthday gift two days later. I hope she will have a fabulous day!

Here is my wish for everyone who has a birthday at this time of year, I hope you enjoy your special day and it is distinctly different from Christmas, a day just for you!

My girls...

Christmas Eve, Eve Antics

At last! Here I am, taking a break.

Early this morning I started preparing food for the 16 of us who will be together tomorrow night for Christmas Eve. OK, so I took the easy way out and did slice and bake sugar cookies. At least I made homemade icing and my youngest and I quickly iced and decorated 2 dozen cookies in a frenzy of icing and store bought sprinkles. (I never said to put a dash of all 4 kinds of sprinkles on one cookie--Sheesh!) Oh well, most of the food items are ready, and much of it is coming from all of the relatives who are coming. Thanks be to God.

Needless to say, I should have been busy cleaning the house--the whole crew arrives tomorrow afternoon around 4:00. Instead, I headed to the nail salon. It's been 3 weeks since I last had a fill. It usually takes an hour to have my nails done and in an effort to entertain my 11 year old, I thought I'd treat her to a polish job ($5).

"Miss Cutie" begged me to treat her to a pedicure. "I've always wanted one" she pleads. I know this is true, however, I've never enlightened her to the fact that a pedicure runs about $25 bucks and I don't think an 11 year old needs one.

"I've never seen a young girl get a pedicure at one of these places" I explain. (Holy crap! Here is a mom, grandma, a 10 year old and a 7 year old, all getting a pedicure and a manicure!! My little darling points to the young thing with her toes dangling in the water--"She's getting a pedicure!"

OK, so I'm an easy touch. I relented. The HUGE smile on Miss Cutie's face after her toes were done was enough to melt my heart. "This counts as an early Christmas gift" I say as we leave the salon. I dread what my 15 year old will say when we get home and she sees what lil' sis got done! I am so sunk!!

Ho, ho, ho!

Here I am!

Hello all!
This is my very first blog entry! I have only recently discovered blog sites. I've been inspired by a teacher/friend who is also a blogger. I've enjoyed reading her post and checking out the sites she visits. Blogging looks like it can be as addicting as posting and reading message boards, a guilty pleasure of mine.

I love computers and I love to read, but I'm not sure if I'm a writer. I'll do my best. Perhaps by sharing my thoughts, I'll meet new people who are also new to blogging. I am a teacher assistant (6 1/2 years) in the computer lab at an elementary school. I am amazed at what our children can do!

I've been married for 26 years to a very nice man and we are lucky to have adopted two beautiful girls at birth, now 15 and 11 years old.

Enough of the introductions, I'll share some of my crazy life story very soon!