Saturday, February 20, 2010
Watch out!
Shareen got her license! Yes, her driver's license! So watch out everybody, she's on the loose. Yay, Shareen, I'm so proud of you! Love you!!!
Monday, February 15, 2010
One Great Weekend
Well, last Friday, Moody Alabama was blessed with some snow! It was perfect too. It started Friday around 10am or so and it came down all day. Just around 1 1/2 inches. It was great for the kids to play in and make snow angels (click here for photos), yet we never lost power or Directv. The girls could go out, play, come in, warm up, and go back out as much as they wanted! Lovely! We even made homemade snow ice cream that was pretty tasty. The snow hung around until Saturday morning so Marlee got a little extra snow time early Saturday.
Saturday turned out to be a great day also. We got up early (the norm for Marlee, Jeff and I but Shareen slept a while) and let Marls play in the snow. Jeff and I got ready and took Marls to Barnes and Noble to let her play at the train table and read books together (while he and I drank coffee). Then we had a practically free lunch at Joe's Crab Shack using a gift card my brother gave us for Christmas (thanks Bub!). Then, icing on the cake, we got home and put Marlee down for a nap and actually sat down TOGETHER and watched tv AT THE SAME TIME, something we rarely get to do. Of course the teenager, Shareen, slept in, watched tv while we were gone and then once we got home she left to go babysit for a friend. We barely saw her Saturday, but I have a feeling she preferred it that way!
Sunday (Happy Valentine's Day!) was a little crazier just because of church but ended up being a really relaxed day. We all chilled out yesterday afternoon and watched The Watcher in the Woods. If you don't remember that movie, it is an old Disney movie released in 1980 that use to creep my friend Missi and me out! Shareen had never seen it and I have a bad habit of making her watch movies that I use to watch when I was younger. I mean, she doesn't know what she's missing! And she actually admits that a lot of 80s music is good so she should appreciate some good 80s movies, right? Right! Ok, I'm not going to say the special effects were equivalent to any movie released today, but for an eleven year old in the 80s, Watcher was pretty spooky!
So our whole weekend turned out to be pretty fabulous!
Saturday turned out to be a great day also. We got up early (the norm for Marlee, Jeff and I but Shareen slept a while) and let Marls play in the snow. Jeff and I got ready and took Marls to Barnes and Noble to let her play at the train table and read books together (while he and I drank coffee). Then we had a practically free lunch at Joe's Crab Shack using a gift card my brother gave us for Christmas (thanks Bub!). Then, icing on the cake, we got home and put Marlee down for a nap and actually sat down TOGETHER and watched tv AT THE SAME TIME, something we rarely get to do. Of course the teenager, Shareen, slept in, watched tv while we were gone and then once we got home she left to go babysit for a friend. We barely saw her Saturday, but I have a feeling she preferred it that way!
Sunday (Happy Valentine's Day!) was a little crazier just because of church but ended up being a really relaxed day. We all chilled out yesterday afternoon and watched The Watcher in the Woods. If you don't remember that movie, it is an old Disney movie released in 1980 that use to creep my friend Missi and me out! Shareen had never seen it and I have a bad habit of making her watch movies that I use to watch when I was younger. I mean, she doesn't know what she's missing! And she actually admits that a lot of 80s music is good so she should appreciate some good 80s movies, right? Right! Ok, I'm not going to say the special effects were equivalent to any movie released today, but for an eleven year old in the 80s, Watcher was pretty spooky!
So our whole weekend turned out to be pretty fabulous!
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Busy, Busy, Busy
Wow! So much has happened since the last time I blogged.
I found out I was pregnant (yay! due in Sept), had tons of blood work done, had a 'my baby is not viable' scare, got put in the hospital because of my blood sugar (I'm a type 2 diabetic), got put on insulin (5 injections a day), got to hear my baby's heart beat, started potty training my 2 yro daughter and my oldest daughter turned 16! Whew!
In the midst of all of that, I have also changed the way I view my family. I feel more of a need to put them first, which is actually hard for me to do. I always THINK I'm putting them first, but really I don't. I end up sacrificing them because I put myself at the beck and call of everyone else. My mom use to do that and I remember as a child thinking "I wish she spent as much time with us as she does running around helping everybody else!" and telling myself I would never be that way, and yet I am. It is so hard for me to tell people no. No, no, no, no, NOOOO! Feels good. Too bad I can't do it in person...
Oh well, more to come soon I hope.
I found out I was pregnant (yay! due in Sept), had tons of blood work done, had a 'my baby is not viable' scare, got put in the hospital because of my blood sugar (I'm a type 2 diabetic), got put on insulin (5 injections a day), got to hear my baby's heart beat, started potty training my 2 yro daughter and my oldest daughter turned 16! Whew!
In the midst of all of that, I have also changed the way I view my family. I feel more of a need to put them first, which is actually hard for me to do. I always THINK I'm putting them first, but really I don't. I end up sacrificing them because I put myself at the beck and call of everyone else. My mom use to do that and I remember as a child thinking "I wish she spent as much time with us as she does running around helping everybody else!" and telling myself I would never be that way, and yet I am. It is so hard for me to tell people no. No, no, no, no, NOOOO! Feels good. Too bad I can't do it in person...
Oh well, more to come soon I hope.
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