Thursday Thirteen #28
Here's what I've done so far. I'm going to try changing the background to either red or green, and then take a couple more pics. Using quick clicks is really fast and easy. The background,elements and word art I used Holiday Magic from the Shabby Princess, and the EZCard template Designed by: Marsha Zepeda.
With the End of The Year Quickly approaching, and I do mean QUICKLY, I've been looking back over the year at things I'm just amazed that my kids have done that really have touched my heart and have given me such joy. Starting with Josh, he is a whiz at the computer. He has been one since he was 3. Before this computer was all mine, we shared (me and the kids) it with my husband, and my husband really didn't like my son downloading any free games. One day my husband comes home from work and asked me WHY I had downloaded some games for Josh. Of course I didn't do it, Josh did! Another thing that amazes me is, I just found my husband's 2nd grade report card. The teacher noted that my husband needed to work on his math facts up to 20!! I remember when in K, all I needed to know was my ABCs, and counting up to 10. Now, my 3yo is counting to 20, and Josh is doing simple addition and subtraction and needed to count to 100 in K! Just blows my mind how much is expected of our children now adays to keep up with the world. What really touched my heart yesterday, and I don't even know how to work my cell phone except to answer it and take pictures, but my oldest, Marissa, she set my phone with a Christmas song ringtone, and a date reminder to what time she needed me to pick her up from school. So at lunchtime I got her message!! I wouldn't forget her, Well maybe not yesterday, but she knows I seriously need a schedule to keep up with everything! It's not any one thing my kids have done, but these are a few little things, that I'm so proud of them!
For more PTT stories you can find them HERE!
Here's a picture from the Pyramid of the Sun outside of Mexico City. There are two pyramids with very steep steps as you can see. The view from the top is breathtaking. The Valley of The Kings is so green and lush. Very gorgeous. Nothing like the dusty border towns of the SouthWest.
Yesterday my husband was looking through Craigslist. He found someone posting some Free Rose Bushes. He knew I wanted some, so he told me. Now here's where the catcher is. I would have to dig them up myself, and the woman lives about an hour from me. I asked her how the ground around the roses was, and she said it wasn't Too Bad. There were 5 bushes, and she would help me dig them out! To know me, I don't like things of beauty to die, so I decided to go and SAVE the Rose Bushes. When I got there, she wasn't there. The ground wasn't at all like she described. It was covered in grass, and a couple of the rose bushes were dead. The ground was rock hard, so I flooded the one rose bush, that was worth saving. I made the trek out there, so I wasn't coming home empty handed. After about an hour and one mud hole later, I pulled it out of the ground. Just as I've got the rose bush in the van, the woman pulls up and I told her I was only taking one, because it was getting late, and took longer than I thought! With my rose bush in tow, I head home. This is definetly a 3 hour tour!! Just as I am exiting the freeway, something comes off my car and gets trapped under my wheel. I'm scared half to death and shaking! Get out of my car which is still running fine, I decide to drive the mile home and check it out when I get there. What it was, was my tire separated and the top portion came off! So the end of the story, my tire from the Van I just bought was a 2001, and I'll probably have to buy 3 more tires! Free rose bush= 4 New Tires! Oh well, at least I'll have something pretty to look at!!
Everyone have a great Monday!
I'm still working on my Christmas card, but I figured them out to cost $6.00 total with postage. I'm using Marsha Zepeda's EZCard #2 . I haven't decided on a background, and I still need to take 4 pics of the kids, but I thought this would be a great way to do my cards this year!!
Christmas Cactus Flower Detail, Washington, USA
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Hope everyone had a Wonderful Thanksgiving filled with family, food and FUN! We were all stuffed. Nana put on a spread and announced this would be her last time cooking, so she went all out! She makes the best stuffing, and her Turkey, Great Grandpa said this was the best one EVER! It just fell off the bone!! She made whipped poatoes and this awesome green bean/onion with cheese casserole. There was fresh fruit, and I made a Pomegranate Salad with mandarin oranges and walnuts. For dessert we had apple and pumpkin pie. My MIL feed the baby who just loved the mashed potatoes. Lindsey ate half her plate!! She also took a very long nap! Which was a plus for the Momma, who is just loving this 4 day weekend!
Yesterday my Mom came over and baked cookies with the kids. I went and rented Monster House and The DaVinci Code. I was surprised that Monster House was PG!! I really wanted to rent CARS, but I was too late! Katelyn was a little scared, so I put on Little Einsteins for her!
Marissa and I watched the DaVinci Code. It was good, I liked National Treasure better! Tom Hanks is great! Then we just kicked back the rest of the weekend!
No GTS post, but I've been digi scrapping again, and I'll post a Christmas Card layout I've been working on later. Sometime next week, I'm going to take the kids Christmas picture!
Cacti Decorated for Christmas, Phoenix, AZ
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One hundred and nineteen
Kelly at Pass the Torch, started PTT for bloggers to praise our children, or another child we see, for the good things they have done or are doing. Whether it be something small, or something out of this world, it's something we're proud of!
I've mentioned before that my daughter Marissa, plays the violin! She's had a couple concerts I've been meaning to post about, and this post would fit how proud I am of her! Last year, was her last year in Elementary School, and she had to pick out her classes for Junior High. As the Summer came to an end, and she was pre-registered for her Fall classes, all of the sudden her best friend did NOT want to be in Orchestra! So what do you think my daughter wanted to do, She wanted to Quit with her friend! I was a little upset, because she is very talented, more than I ever was! I'm good at Math and English, she's artistic and very musically inclined! So I gave her the speech about NOT QUITTING, and WHAT IF her friend moved, she'd be giving it up for nothing! What it really came down to is my trying to change her class with the counselors, but because it was so late and all the other classes were full, she'd have to take Orchestra anyways!Last week she had a concert, and she told me she was glad she didn't quit! I'm relieved she didn't either. I'm hoping she continues and one day can get a scholarship, and thinking how great it would be if she was in a Symphony! I love listening to classic music, and I love listening to her practice. It is one thing that calms me down, believe it or not! HERE and HERE are a few of the pics from her concert! They are a Mariachi group! Isn't her Sombrero gorgeous!
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Trying to get through Mondays and survive the rest of the week, I thought I'd give myself a little something to remind me of how lucky I am and to be Thankful for the Life God has given to me, and so I'm dedicating part of my Mondays to something Motivational. A poem, a quote, or a story! If you have a favorite poem or quote or story that lifts you up, let me know in my comments, and if you post it, let me know, so I can visit yours! Also today, I'm posting a great Monday Memory, and More!
Hope you all had a great weekend, and Here's to a Great Short Week! See I'm allready looking forward to Wendsday!
Ralph Waldo Emerson~
For flowers that bloom about our feet;
For tender grass, so fresh, so sweet;
For song of bird, and hum of bee;
For all things fair we hear or see,
Father in heaven, we thank Thee!
For more of my Green Thumb Sunday pics visit HERE.
Kudos to Denise for the banner!
For PTT, Kelly started,you catch a kid being good, about the little things we witness everyday, that make us proud.
Between the time the children come home from school, and dinner time, I would say is the busiest time of day! Homework is finished, and then they can go outside and play until I call them in for dinner! Last Weds. my son was finishing up his homework, and Katelyn the almost 4yr. old, comes over and wants him to write her name for her! He was so thrilled to be the big brother in showing her all the letters in her name! That he was having more fun teaching her, than riding his bike outside. Then at dinner, they were going back in forth counting their numbers, and when they got over 15, Katelyn wasn't too sure of what number came next, but Josh would tell her, and she'd say," Oh, yeah, that's right!" It's always nice to see them get along and help each other, which doesn't happen very often.
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We had a surprise visit from our family from CA, this weekend. When I took Josh bowling, they showed up at the bowling alley to show their support! Josh was so excited and happy to see them that he bowled a 110. Better than his Mama for sure! My husband's Aunt and her son who is a year older than my daughter is like an older brother for Josh.My husband's Aunt and I were talking about our almost teenage children, and compared notes as to what they do. It made me think how much I appreciate my Mom, and not knowing what she went through while we were growing up, I'd hope my children would appreciate everything I do , and am sacraficing not working to be home with them, and my son would one day look back and remember everything we went through taking care of him. I don't mean to sound like they owe me, or expect anything from them, but all that it would really take to make me smile would be a small Thank you MOM, we Love you, and I would be the happiest Mom in the World!
Getting back to why I've been thinking about all of these things, the Blogosphere is very small indeed, after my company left after lunch, I read a comment from Chaotic MOM about a contest she was having, fit perfectly with what was happened today! You can visit Chaotic MOM to read all the details of the contest!
My mother is a very quiet person. She's slow to anger, and very loving! She is the most patient person I've ever met, and she has a heart of gold. She has a Green Thumb and we had the most gorgeous garden in our back yard growing up. Right now she's sewing a costume for my daughter who has a Violin Concert on Monday! She's an awesome and very thoughtful grand-mother!
My Mother-in-Law, has always been like a second mother to me! When I was faced with things I couldn't talk to my Mom about I'd confide in her, and when my Dad passed away, she's always been there to comfort me! Which is fine, because my Mom didn't know how, she was dealing with her own grief at the time!She's quite the opposite of my mother as far as being patient and very quick to anger, but she's very straight forward, and lets you know what she's thinking without holding anything back, which can be a good thing! She's a wonderful Grandma too!
I'm thankful for my grandmother. She was always so much fun to be around, and still is. Since I am her first grand child, she sort of spoils me I think, but I love this woman to death. She loves to play with my kids, and always sends packages in the mail, which they love getting packages in the mail from Great-Grandma! She's an awesome baker. She bakes my husband all these cookies and spoils him with them! My mom doesn't like to shop at the Malls, but when I go up to visit my Grandma, we go Shopping!
My husband's GrandMother. She is NANA to my kids! She's alot of fun to be around too. My husband is the first grandchild for her, and since she has 6 daughters, when my husband was born, he was like her first son. She is an awesome cook. She's having ThanksGiving this year. Her stuffing is incredible! She's a very active 70 yr. old, who up until last year bowled in a league with my husband. Josh wants to bowl with her, which is so COOL! She's always treated me like I was her grand daughter, and we both check up on each other every day! She's concearned about her whole family, which includes the 13 grand children , and I think she has 15 great- grandchildren, which is only about half of the grand children with kids! So she's very family orientated! She's also a giver, and whenever we go over to visit, she wants you to feel like you're home.
These are the women I'm very Thankful for in my life. Not forgetting my sister-in-law who is like the sister I never had. Even though she's six years younger, since she's had her children, we've gotten much closer!
Thankyou to my father who fought in the Vietnam War, and my brother who has served his country. Thankyou to all the Veterans who have Protected our country, and to their families who have Supported them!
Thursday Thirteen #25
For PTT, Kelly started,you catch a kid being good, about the little things we witness everyday, that make us proud.
After Dinner, I have Josh and Marissa help empty out the dishwasher, so I can load it. When here comes Katelyn, chiming in she wants to help too. My son is always trying to get out of putting the dishes away, so I thought he'd pass it all off for Katelyn to do . I was genuinely surprised, that he was showing her how to sort the silver ware, and to have her pass the plastic bowls and cups to him for him to put them away. I would have never expected him to help her, in explaining to her what to do and where something goes (that task usually belongs to me). To be honest, I didn't think he had the patience to show her. He WAS getting a little impatient at trying to tell her where the silver ware goes. She was just tossing them all together in the drawer, but you could tell they were both having fun together helping each other.
You can read more Pass the Torch Stories Here. Here's one of my own favorite PTT stories "Patience".
1. In a bowl mix all ingredients except chocolate well. Pat into buttered 9x 13 pan.
2.Melt Chocolate Chips. Pour over top, and refrigerate for 10-15 min. Cut into small squares and refrigerate again until solid.
JDRF has made its Artificial Pancreas Project a priority because research confirms that current diabetes technology is inadequate: some studies have found that even patients who aggressively manage their disease- managing their blood glucose an average of nine times a day- spent less than 30% of the day in normal range. The rest of the time, their blood sugar levels were either too high or too low.
Which is something I've learned about perfectionism. Here I am trying to make a life without fault for not only myself, but for my family. In taking care of my son, it's a roller coaster ride. The highs and lows my son feels through out the day, "will over time, lead to severe complications like heart attacks, kidney failure, amputations, and blindness," said Dr. Richard Insel, JDRF's Executive Vice President of Research. Even with my attempts to monitor his blood sugar levels, I'm not perfect, and neither is life. Diabetes has helped me, to better accept that fact, and to enjoy life as it is, and the best I can do is live life one day at a time, and to teach my son how to live his life by taking care of what he eats, and in turn has helped us to watch what we eat! Diabetes has been a blessing in disguise and helped me also rely on God for daily strength, and thanking him for his plan for my family's lives, even though I don't see what his purpose is for Diabetes in my son's life. Only God knows, and only time will tell!
Thank you again everyone for your encouraging words and thoughtful comments!
The chef is on vacation this week for Friday's Feast from now until Nov 17! Memes are great, because I get to visit so many great blogs, but than my day gets really busy, and I'd like to post something about the kids, or what's going on, or something funny that happened, that by the time I get around to it, the day's gone. It'll be a nice break. This weekend, I've got the Walk for a Cure for Diabetes, and as far as I know, not any family visiting this weekend. My husband wants to go see the New Santa Clause movie with Tim Alan. I think I'll take the kids to the park where they can actually play now on equipment that won't be so Hot to play on, and to the Library!
What ever your plans are, you all have a nice weekend!
T13-#25
I found this 'lil pink kitty cat costume for the baby. I looked for Pumpkins, but they must have been sold out. She kind of looks like a 'lil Pink Panther! :P
I'll be posting pics of the other kids, my son didn't want to put his costume on , and it was really late to do the other 2 girls, so I'll try for later tonight or tomorrow.
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