31 Days - Day 9

Love, hugs and prayers for Elizabeth's family.

The following was posted on her Caringbridge site tonight by her dad, who is a pastor:

+ Elizabeth Hope +
May 31-Oct 8, 2011

And when Elizabeth heard the greeting of Mary, the baby leaped in her womb. And Elizabeth was filled with the Holy Spirit, and she exclaimed with a loud cry, "Blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb! And why is this granted to me that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For behold, when the sound of your greeting came to my ears, the baby in my womb leaped for joy. And blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfillment of what was spoken to her from the Lord." Luke 1

31 Days - Day 8

It was a busy day.

Ladybug's children's choir sang for the Fall Festival up at the college. They did a lovely job!

Following the performance, we had lunch at home. I put on some 80's music and cleaned the kitchen and then messed it up again by baking. I baked some bread and some chocolate chip cookies so that we could have food to take on the road tomorrow instead of eating out before going to Ladybug's clarinet lesson.

It has been chilly and RAINY all day today (woo hoo - we NEEDED this rain), therefore, my plans for sausage potato soup fit perfectly.

After that I checked my email messages and found out that my dear Looper friend's baby daughter's health is declining. She posted that dear little Elizabeth will be with the Lord soon. I really wish I could be there to hug her.

I posted this verse of a hymn on her Caringbridge site:

Who so happy as I am, Even now the Shepherd's lamb?
And when my short life is ended, By His angel host attended,
He shall fold me to His breast, There within His arms to rest.

(I Am Jesus' Little Lamb, vs. 3, LW 517)

31 Days - Day 7

Whew! Almost missed day 7, so I'm going with a photo. Who can resist a photo of this cutie-patootie? This was right after Panda lost her first tooth.

31 Days - Day 6

I found a joke today that I thought would be great on my blog:

There are three ways a man wears his hair - parted- unparted or departed.

Good thing my dad has one hair left...

31 Days - Day 5

Whew - almost missed today.

I have to work tonight. Well, I work every day and night, but I get PAID for this job. It's not an extraordinary wage, but it is something and it is a fun job.

I was waiting for a new round of facebook re-posts because the new timeline was supposed to be coming out. I figured that would send people in a frenzy really quickly. But, apparently, there is some company with that name and facebook is now on hold for that one.

So... I really have nothing to blog about. I should have title this month "31 Days of Nothing."

I would post a picture, but it's getting close to time to leave - so no time for that!

31 Days - Day 4

Uh oh... it's day 4. What should I blog about? I made it 3 days already.

I guess this could be the "Seinfeld" blog post. The blog post about nothing. I'll just randomly type .... NOTHING important.

Well, gee... a phone call just gave me a subject.

It amazes me how much work some people will go to in order to NOT do any work. If they would just buckle down and do the job, it would get done. But, instead, they chase their tails and everything else trying to find ways to get out of what they should be doing.

Maybe that wasn't really a subject. I think it was more of a rant. Well, back to your regularly scheduled lives.

31 Days - Day 3

The 4th Commandment

The other day my friend's daughter was here visiting and Panda was wound up and running circles through the house. I told her to stop running in the house as she continued her lap around the house. The next time she came by, I said, "Panda, what is the 4th commandment?" (ha ha ha - this was the memory work for this week) She paused, looked at us and said, "Um... I think I'll walk."

31 Days - Day 2

Alrighty then. Sister, Angela thinks that I should blog 31 days in a row. We'll see about that. But, hey, since I blogged about blogging - that was day 1. :)

I think for day two I'll cover one of those lovely Facebook status reposts. This one was about to make me shut down my account due to the number of people who reposted it! (NOT because I believed it!) I decided to consume chocolate instead.:

FACEBOOK JUST RELEASED THEIR PRICE GRID FOR MEMBERSHIP, $9.99 PER MONTH FOR GOLD MEMBER SERVICES, $6.99 PER MONTH FOR SILVER MEMBER SERVICES, $3.99 PER MONTH FOR BRONZE MEMBER SERVICES, FREE IF YOU COPY AND PASTE THIS MESSAGE BEFORE MIDNIGHT TONIGHT. wHEN YOU SIGN ON TOMORROW MORNING YOU WILL BE...PROMPTED FOR PAYMENT INFO...IT IS OFFICIAL IT WAS EVEN ON THE NEWS, FACEBOOK WILL START CHARGING DUE TO THE NEW PROFILE CHANGES, IF YOU COPY THIS ON YOUR WALL YOUR ICON WILL TURN BLUE AND FACEBOOK WILL BE FREE FOR YOU. PLEASE PASS THIS MESSAGE ON IF NOT YOUR ACCOUNT WILL BE DELETED IF YOU DO NOT PAY

1. It amazes me to think that some people would believe that you have to repost this stuff instead of receiving an official notification on your Facebook account. Other times that they have added or changed things that needed our action, there was a note at the top of the page after we log in. Oh, maybe they forgot how to do those notes while they were reprogramming, that's it...

2. It is interesting to think that Facebook wouldn't charge any of it's members who reposted this statement. Really? Why not? For how long?

3. Someone pointed out that all the icons on Facebook are blue... so... how could you tell you are "safe"? Nice one.

4. What on earth is the Gold, Silver and Bronze membership grid? That's kind of funny. Do you only get one status update a week for a Bronze membership? Or maybe they limit the number of friends you can have.

5. "Copy and paste before midnight tonight..." When is tonight? Maybe it was last night. What time zone? Bummer.

6. "When you sign in tomorrow morning, you will be prompted for payment info". I've got that one covered... DON'T SIGN OUT. Problem solved.

7. "It was even in the news" Really? Did you know that there's a link button and you can link that little story right there in your status update? Funny... I never saw even ONE link to a news story.

I have to wonder if there's someone in "Facebookland" making this stuff up and then monitoring how many people will actually repost. I've always wanted to make up a ridiculous one of my own and see how far it would go.

Is there any interesting thoughts that I missed on this one?

31 Days

I read on a blog linked to another blog, which I believe was also linked to another blog that there is some sort of 31 day blogging thing. I pondered the idea (for about 30 seconds) and then laughed to think I could possibly keep up every day. I'm not sure I've blogged 31 days THIS YEAR. So one post a day... INCONCEIVABLE!

Furthermore, it would disrupt the commentary in my comment sections. I'd hate for my family to get lost going from post to post trying to find each other.

So, I think I'll continue being lazy here and go back to facebook and try to figure out how to follow the new news feed and ticker.

Oh wait... there's an idea... 31 days of stupid reposts on facebook. I could post my "favorite" dumb status reposts. Hmmmm....

But, of course

Panda has a wiggly tooth. I can't believe she's old enough to start loosing teeth, but she is 5 years old. I asked her how she got so big.

Her reply: "Well... I just keep having birthdays."

I found it!

I finally found the card reader! The timing was kind of funny - Dad just called today and said he had an extra one if I needed one and I had just found it this morning before my hair appointment. These are the delayed first day of school pictures. That's the day I officially promoted them to kindergarten, 3rd grade and 6th grade. Where has the time gone?!

Panda - Kindergarten

Butterfly - 3rd Grade

Ladybug - 6th Grade

What?!

5 year old: "I love it when the dorks on Snow White....."

Mom: "The what?!"

First Day of School Pictures

Well, use your imagination as to what the pictures would look like. I can't find my card reader...

We started the day after Labor Day. School was actually going better until I announced that it was the first day. Next year, we won't talk about it - we'll just keep going.

I might have posted this post about no pictures sooner, but I was busy reading all the emails from the comment box.

(We just won't tell the main people commenting - they think I don't visit my blog.)

Labor Day Weekend Projects/Activities

Hey, it's September. Guess I should do another post. When in doubt (or boredom), Dad, refer to YOUR post. :)

Most people rest on Labor Day or at least do something fun over the weekend. Most often we tend to take the holiday's name literally and put in some work. Brian is usually a few weeks into school by this time and we end up finding all the things that we didn't get done over the summer (which is far more than usual this year).

The big project this weekend was the bathtub. We've hated the caulking since we moved in. It was some sort of no-caulk caulk (although oddly enough, it had caulk behind it... not sure what the point was). It did not seal well and looked like it had mold or mildew collecting behind it. Furthermore, if you tried to take a shower in there, the water would go behind the caulking and then tunnel out the side of the tub, which would end up on the floor and ultimately in the basement. (yeah, ask how we know THAT one...)

We finally dug in and pulled that junk off. After that Brian and I spent a considerable amount of the day cleaning up the leftover caulk and other "junk" which had collect behind there. Wow. That was a huge difference already! Brian re-caulked the tub and I cleaned up the edges. I think it looks great! No, it's not "professional", but it's clean and it does NOT leak anymore. We have another functional shower.

In addition, we cleaned out more corners of accumulated "paperwork". I collected another entire box of paper recycling. Brian reorganized all the girls' games (since they like to sneak up into the closet late at night and pull the games down instead of going to sleep...)

Meanwhile, the girls and the puppies enjoyed the 20 degree cooler weather by playing outside. Ladybug discovered that Snuggles loves the soccer ball. She kicks it, Snuggles chases it. There you have it - easy entertainment. Lucy just gets in the way of the ball or chases Snuggles as Snuggles chases the ball.

The Squeaky Wheel Gets the Grease

HI DAD! I LOVE YOU!

There. Now if I don't post for another month you have something nice to look at everyday. :)