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Attention Men!

Generally speaking we know whom takes care of the house, you think that the women do. And you are correct, we do. However-the HOUSEHOLD is a completely different situation. And by household I am talking structure and all that is contained in it, on it or with in the walls and studs and insulation and whatever else you use to build a house. But my point is, I can clean, dust vacuum, polish, scrub-but when something breaks-don't walk out the door, state something about that being a problem and head off to work.

So in explanation - I woke up this morning to my refrigerator hissing. This is funny because normally we get along fine. I asked Nathan what was happening with the fridge (he gets up early and had been sitting in the same room with it for over an hour) he wanted to know what I was talking about. I told him the thing that we get food from, is hissing what is happening? ((Crickets)) then I lean down to inspect-there is water coming from this hissing monster. Well what do you do? I went and got a towel, told Nathan and he still sits. Anyhow it is Friday and the day that everyone has to go to work, school or work at school. I call Daddy T on the way to school and ask what I do, Daddy T is my father in law that knows everything about everything. He says I should call my insurance company.And when I am done with school Daddy T comes over and we get the water shut of, clean up the standing water,discover that it has gone under the wall and into the laundry room and I call USAA they tell me they are sending out the .........

Water Mitigation Team! What? I just have some water and I thought that you only mitigated in a courtroom. They come-climb under the house in the haz mat suits, take picture, and finally set up a wind tunnel in my kitchen and Laundry room. They leave stating that they will send someone out on Monday to take a look....If I had an infant the white noise would be a welcome visitor, now it just hinders us from hearing one another.

And you know what? I handled it all myself, with a generous helping of Lend a Hand from good ol Daddy T! And Nathan did have a good day at work, thanks for asking.

Choir

So I mentioned last night that I was looking forward to the kids getting back to Wednesday night suppers and choir at church. And recall when I said that I would like to take a class. Well I found my class.....

My class is the Kindergarten and First grade choir! I believe that we are called the "Singing Angels" YEP! And it really would not be a BIG deal other than the other mom's all have girls, and you know who they look at when the corner of boys starts misbehaving, well they look at the mom that has two boys.

So I was stuck in the corner with a bunch of nasty little boys for a half hour. And you know what I learned? My kids are not that bad and I am REALLY glad that I do not teach any kids in school!

Sorry that it has been so long!

Sorry for the delay in posting to my blog....I have been a busy person!

We just got home from the Baseball field and it is 9PM. I do not know who thinks that 7PM is a good start time for a six year old's game but- 7PM is closer to bed time than start time. Ethan scored a run! I am so proud!

I had scrappin on Friday night. I love my group! We have such a good time with one another. I made a couple of cards and laughed my way through the night.

Saturday brought quite a few tears in our household. It was my Daddy's 65th birthday. I wish that he could have been here to celebrate with Sarah whom turned 32 on Friday.

Sunday was lunch at MeMommy's house and then we went to play with Noah and Carson! What a fun way to start the week!

We have also had another loss in the family. As most of you know we take pet ownership VERY seriously in our family. And when one of our pets dies, it is a loss for all of us. Sarah had to put her cat down today. "Hightops" was truly Sarah's first baby, he was raised on the bottle and remained a steadfast friend through all of his 15 years of life. But I know that Grandaddy is loving having Hightops in heaven to spoil.

Also in the news-Christopher started Kindergarten! Watch out for the BIG man on campus. We are so proud and happy for this new beginning for Christopher and his family!

We start Choir again as First Graders at church tomorrow night. We love Wednesday night supper. It is such a nice time to catch up with family and our church friends. I think this session I may take a class. I really enjoy Wednesday nite classes as well.

I will be e mailing out baseball schedules soon. I hope all is well.

Chao!

Food for thought

OK-the real post is below this-

We know how I am lovin' the baseball thing correct? (for those of you that do not know, I DO NOT love the baseball that my kids are playing)

I have an observation:

If you (coach) cannot manage to put your baseball cap on straight and centered on your head- your IQ goes down at least 10%

Food for thought for my peeps!

Ok so now that we have that done-

Ok so it is a fact that I do not know how to post pics and explanations. Therefore-I shall post many pics and try to explain myself as not to look like a complete moron that just goes out looking for nature and snaps pics. Oh I believe taht you may call them a nature photographer.

SO the first pic is my rabbit hole. They are gone and I, their rabbit mommy is sad. However I keep my eyes peeled and the garden ready for whenever they would like a nibble.

The next picture is the kids in johns room pre-paint. And I pose this questions, how come I take their picture for the bare walls effect and they take the best picture, I take OH a Christmas picture and they are enemies? I would just like to know. So this MAY BE our Christmas Picture.

The next pictures are post paint. John has blue walls and EE has the brown walls. I think that it turned out wonderful. The kids are excited and Nathan is still alive- good news all around. I will take more pictures once we have all the pics hung, furniture in place and whatever.

The final picture is of ANOTHER hummingbird whom thought that their idea of cross continental travel included a trip thru M'boro and in my garage.

Well I have to go, I am waiting on the appliance man to come get a door stop out of my drier, don't ask, it is my fault-perhaps I will take some pictures of the kind man and blog about it later.

So Tired!

I must confess, I am tired!

Painting for three (one of which lasted until 1AM) days, watching the Olympics and having a sick boy- (whom I let stay in my bed last night-while I resorted to the couch)I am pooped!

Ethan went to bed at 5PM yesterday. Then he woke up this morning and had a fever of 101.6. We took John to school and headed to the Dr. He has strep. Little man had a shot and hardly cried. He is now sleeping-again and willbe home for another day or so.

Oh and I also wanted to brag about my neighborhood. We have had two neighbors die in the last few months. And the way that our neighborhood snaps together to help the family is beyond! I do not know of any other 'hood that does such a thing. We have been known to supply familys with food, house sitting and given memorials. Each time I hear of something else that is happening in the hood, I am so happy to live here. These things just do not happen anymore. And our neighborhood is rather small so we have a real sense of community. So for the time being I will not mention the over indulged teens that think that they rule the place.

Nathan has called me in the last hour and metioned that he is not well. I told him to have a safe drive home and the sheets are clean.

More later.................

Fresh Coats of paint

Well we did it, we did the painting weekend. We managed to get like 95% of the kids rooms painted. I love it. I will post some pics once I have the rooms set up. All of the furniture is in the middle of the room-so not so pretty.

One of my daddy's cousins was is this weekend. He was in to see GG (Dad's mom). They had a wonderful visit. GG is tired. It was neat to be around him. He reminds me so much of daddy. Just the way that they both talk, carry themselves and act around the kids. Makes you know that genetics has soo much to do with who we are as humans.

Nathan and I managed to work well with one another. We actually had a nice time in the rooms painting. The kids really needed some attention-in other words-they were acting up. But nonetheless-they will like their rooms once mommy finishes putting them together.

And finally we will have a bunny update...

so my babies have moved on. They have moved out of their hole and into the wide world.

til we meet again.