Interior Decorator

Yaaaayyyyyy the interior decorator/designer is coming today and I am so excited. We had the painter come last week and we are waiting on an estimate, we need the colors and then we will start. So stoked!!!!

Early Christmas

Today we had Christmas for Angela and Chase. The big present for Angela was a DS and she loved it. I almost think she liked the little presents better. One of them was Shrinky Dinks......If anyone has seen these they are really neat. Its a piece of what material I have no idea, you color it then bake for 3 minutes ( love that number) at 350 degrees. It gets smaller and smaller, it bends and it looks like it is going to bake together and then it unfolds and gets smaller - its really cool to watch. Chase's gift was part of a family gift. We got the kids a Kinect for the XBOX 360, now normally I hate the demon box and anything that has to do with it. But I really like the Wii because it promotes I don't know more movement than your thumbs. So I wasn't thrilled when Steve said he was getting something for the demon, but then once he got it home and told me what it was I warmed up a little bit, but I still had reservations, just because I have hated that thing for so long, the promise of it being good in any way was hard to believe. Well today it was connected and Mia of all people played for hours, she was jumping and jumping and didn't break anything. So its nice, we have the Wii upstairs which the kids still play and I use it for Netflicks, and then downstairs is the Kinect, and thats not hooked up to the internet, I'm not too keen on the kids being able to watch Netflicks without supervision or at least some way for us to know what they are watching. Mia watches upstairs with Angela alot but she uses her laptop that Grandma got her for Christmas which by the way is really nice! She watches, but she has to ask to use the laptop since its an electronic, we don't have problems with her so she gets to use it alot, and she is always good when we tell her she has had enough TV time on it or playing games. She loves that Bejeweled game. Don't tell her but for Christmas we got her some girl games that can only be played on her computer. She has done some research for school on it and she really liked that she could do that in her room and not down here at the main system and have all the crazy noise. She is going to love it next year when her papers are going to start coming in. So completely off topic but Angela and Chase will be leaving on the 23rd to go to Texas, even though their real mom lives in Washington, her Mom has cancer and this is probably going to be her last Christmas so everyone is going to her in Texas. They are excited. We are not. As hard as it is for us, its much harder for them. They are children, divorce is never pretty.............Praise the Lord that the other three are going to be home and with us! The next couple days are always hard for us, Steve suffers in silence, while I give lots of hugs and kiss's and cry. But Christmas is about giving, about the birth of our Savior. We are sacrificing, we are giving our children time with both of their parents, knowing what we know about their mother - It is one of the hardest things I've ever had to do and I didn't bare them, I can only imagine what it does to Steve. Keep them in your thoughts this Christmas, and pray for their safe arrival, safe visit, and safe return. Their just kids............ their our kids..........

Rainy Day.

Today the winds were so bad I had to pull over. The wind was going the rain was falling, crap was flooding all over the place. I wanted to just sit in the house but I couldn't. As I was out today I could feel my joints ache and my bones get cold inside. Hunter didn't take a normal nap today so he is in rare form right about now. I can hear Mia telling him to listen to the rules in her room. Hahahahaha if he did that then I would get her as much chocolate as she could handle. Well at least she's trying :)
Barbra got out of the hospital today. She has to wear a helmet till she gets a plate put in.

Lovely Disease

The other day I was feeling so good, I had been feeling good the past coup;e of days. I even took Hunter to a Moms Club event. He had a blast, so when we were invited to go again I thought it would be so much fun. I could spend time with Moms around my age and the same things with Hunter, getting that social interaction. We were both having a really good time and then it came out. It's not like I didn't know it was there, its awalys there. But never the less Lupus still felt the need to say Hello! I'm here!!!!

Sleep or Wake

I used to go to sleep excited to wake up for a new day, and wake wanting to go back to bed for a few more minutes.......now I stay awake because I'm afraid to fall asleep. I never know how good or how bad my day will be. Even right in middle of the day sometimes. So do I wasnt to stay up, go to sleep, or wake up??? Weird

Downstairs Bathroom

I painted the bathroom in one day. I thought at the time I rocked it out! It went from a baby blue powder, old chipped paint to a neutral tan, and very white white trim. I thought it smelled great and looked great. Once it dried was a different story. I found the reason I do not own my very own painting business - pretty much because I suck at it. I figured out what and where I went wrong. Now i am going to sand and touch up. Its been about a week now since I started the project. Working that one day on it took me out for about 2 days. I've slowly been regaining my strength. I couldn't take Hunter on a playdate today because I'm still not up to par after the bathroom.. I hate being sick! I hate looking fine, and screaming inside with pain. Just because I look the same I should be able to do the same, at least thats what I think, so to not be able to finish painting in the same day let alone week has been a hard reality check for me. Before Thanksgiving thats what I want, to have it done before then.

Cheerleading

Yesterday I dropped my girls off at their first cheerleading practice and I was a little freaked out. the coach looks like a skeloton, had a huge oddly shapped hat, sunken in black eyes. I at first thought that maybe her makeup was smudged or she had been crying but as I looked closer I realized that that was the color of her skin!!! I told the girls if they were too scared to stay they could come home with me - they just laughed and told me to go ahead and go. Tonight I dropped them off and Mia was trying to explain to me that its a shadow because her eyes go inside her head so much..............either way. She is creepy looking. And yet again I left my girls with her :O