The once a month blogger???

Perhaps this is the trend.. I blog once a month!

I'm thinking the title for this blog should've perhaps been "A week at the Doctor's office"! That's what it amounted to. I'm so glad this week is over! Still no answer on Emilee's stomach pain though. It's beyond frustrating. I can only pray that it is something psychological.. but we still have to get to the bottom of that.

I'm getting surprise visitors this morning. How do you know, you say? Well.. it was a surprise as of last night! For me.. that's surprise enough. After a week like we just had, my house is in ruins. So I'm about to go on a huge cleaning burst! I'm excited to see my two best friends.. we've been together since the fourth grade! We usually make it a point to see each other every year in December, as a Christmas get together, but the past two years became too busy. This is the first time I'm seeing Pam in two years. Shameful!! Donna I saw in January, but that was the first in over a year and a half. Sigh. We'll have a great time chatting it up today!

Well this was so unexciting, I even bored myself. And it certainly wasn't creative. Maybe next time! I have a headache..what can you expect!?

New Year, old sickness

As I type, Emilee is still sick. I don't know what to do anymore. The Dr. doesn't even seem to know what's wrong. Now today, she has a fever to add to her belly pain. But I'm thinking that's with the stuffy nose, and she probably has a cold on top of everything else. I'm just not happy. And on top of that, I already had to call in sick on only the 10th day of the new year, lol.

I am happy that I finally got my scraproom re-organized. I moved down to the basement over a year ago, and was initially happy with my set-up. BUT as so often happens, when I actually used my space there were things that needed to be changed. So I did an overhaul. I love what I did, and can't wait to get busy down there.

Tanya's bone scan was negative. So.. back to the orthopedic Dr. to find out what next?? She still has pain. Something's out of whack. She was allowed to join an indoor field hockey league. He said as long as it's just once a week.. she should be fine. It's not good to keep that girl inactive. She's a mover and a shaker!!

Well.. A sad little update I guess, but I'm trying to get more regular with the posting. I'll add pics of my room. won't that be fun!?

Yep, that's what I thought

Not a very good blogger am I. Here I am.. more than a month after my first Blog! Hello all! It's the day after Christmas.. just barely, and I've survived. I dont' know what I whine about. Compared to some folks, our Holidays are positively tame around here. BUT.. I DID accomplish making all the Christmas Cards..AND getting them in the mail on time. Making several scrappy type gifts for friends and family.. not only that.. PLUS the girls and I made cut out cookies on Christmas Eve. For some reason this year, that to me, seemed the epitome of being the 'good mom'. I just had to do it. The fact that I did it very very (VERY) poorly doesn't matter much. In the end we had a BLAST, and had Daddy looking over his paper at us more than once in our silliness.. that's what it was all about. Oh.. and we got about 10 yummy (ugly) cookies out of the deal too.. and lots of raw dough. ergh.
Later today, I have to take Tanya for a bone scan. I hope to heaven that this will be the last test needed to diagnose her back pain! Poor girl. No 14 year old should be in such pain all the time, and I want to get to the bottom of it already. She's nervous about the test, but I understand it's painless other than the IV they start. She's a trooper, and she'll do fine.
Emilee.. she's suffering a stomach virus that just won't quit. Thank goodness today she had mostly good spells with a few owie spells thrown in just to shake her up a bit. I hope she's much better tomorrow! Because I'm sad to say I have to venture into the world of 'returns' tomorrow. ERGH!
Being the less that perfect mother that I am I got some shirts for my son that he feels will shrink too much as soon as they're washed, so I must get gigantor sizes for my very slender son. ergh again. I feel I dissapointed him, and this saddens me. I hope he'll be happy with what I can find in exchange.
Maybe, now that the big holiday is past..we really don't do much for New Year's... I'll get some actual scrapping done. I've missed it. I consider cards mini pages, and I did A LOT of them in the past month.. but they don't satisfy me for a long time like a good page does!
Tanya's getting excited to start sewing again. We got her an excellent basic sewing book for Christmas, with patterns and everything in it, so she'll go back to the foundations. I felt she needed a better base to jump off of. Basically, she just jumped into sewing all on her own, and I guided her a bit here and there, but I'm quite rusty on the basics myself anymore. 4-H was a LONG time ago! (we'll be quiet about exactly HOW long)
Well.. It's past my time. I could turn into a pumpkin soon! That's all for now folks.

The Beginning

Here is where we find if I really have anything of interest to say. Perhaps I just love the act of typing, and talking to basically, myself. That's the most likely answer.
I started to make my Christmas cards tonight. I love to do that.. it's just such a great creative outlet, and it's manageable little projects that I can spread out over more than a month. If I make a few every night, it gives me something creative to do, and I just really enjoy it. So many people say it's too much work, but to me it's not, it's an act of love.
I'll scan some soon, and post them.
It's going to be a challenge to figure out how to work this whole blog thing. I'm up for it! I'm a modern woman, right?! (When I first typed woman, I accidently typed worm. Not a good sign. sigh.)