School days....

Well my oldest DD has been really depressed about not seeing her old buds from Germany. A lot more sad than what DH and I had thought. So after about 2 months of discussion we decided to place her in a private Christian school that's run by our church. Its a great little school and her teacher is wonderful! Here are a few pix.

Man! You must think they super conservative with everyone in black dresses and aprons! LOL not! It's Thanksgiving and of course they *have* to dress the part of pilgrams and Native Americans!!

This is my DD in the purple coat w/out so much as a "good-bye" for Momma. sniff sniff...

And for those cat lovers (such as myself) out there, a parting shot of "grey ghost". He stuffed himself in the basket and was content for DD to carry him around. LOL too cute

Happy Feet!

Well, my DH's feet will be happy anyway. These are my first pair of felted clogs! As you can see my DH's fav color is black, followed by grey. LOL


I am in the process of making a second pair for my MIL. And then I am thinking of making a winter hat for my Bubbah. Allena made him a cutie hat when he was born and well, his noggin is a bit bigger now. LOL I tried it on him today and it looks more like a yammaka now. :-)

And of course I need to show off some pix of my DD #1's bday party! My lil Sweet Pea is now 5 yrs old! sniff sniff. I can't believe that!!! Anyway, she had a "princess party" where her friends came dressed as...you guessed it...princesses!!!! It was a fun time...and girlie to the core!

And a final parting shot of my 2 newest cats. Sissie is the smaller one laying ontop of her bro. Cute!

Kitties!

So DH finally let me...er the kids get some new additions to the family. LOL Here we have 2 6 month old kittens...Grey Ghost and his sister Sissie. They are the most snuggly cats I have ever had, and they are great with the kids...letting DS lay on them and pull their tails. Of course I try to teach him to "be nice!" but really, how "nice" can a 1 yr old be? They have no concept of anyone/anything outside of themselves at this stage of development.










I have finished one clog for Dh and have started on #2. I will post before/after pix for everyone to see! I also have another pair to make for MIL and some fingerless gloves for my mom. (anyone know of a good pattern for that?)

DH is gone again for a few days so I have the house to myself; well. besides the 3 rug-rats anyway. ;-) DD#1 is turing 5 on Friday! Sniff sniff I can't believe my first born is getting so BIG! But now that she's older planning parties becomes more involved. When she was younger it was easy...a few balloons for entertainment and cake and she was good. NOW she wants certain friends and a theme and games. Phew! But it makes it more fun for me too....this year it's a dress-up party with a princess/Barbie fairytopia theme. Everyone is coming in their best dress-up clothes. We are making Princess hats and playing some games. Lunch will be provided tea-party style, if it's nice then outdoors as well. I figured i'd make little finger sandwiches and cut them out into shapes. Some cheese and veggies with dip and of course punch. I think I am as excited as she is! and everything is made MUCH easier for me cause I ordered a party kit from www.birthdayexpress.com I love that site! Everything you need at your fingertips!

Well, speaking of rug-rats...I have to go see what they are tearing up now! LOL TTYL

Ok so I'm not that great of a blogger

You would never believe that I used to have a journal in high school and wrote in it everyday!!! It seems as though that phase of my life is over because as you can see, it's been a month since I have felt the need to update this thing. But who am I writing to anyway? ECHO!! Is anyone out there? LOL I am sure if I ever had any "fans" out there they are long gone by now...tired of waiting for SOMEthing to happen

Well it's past midnight and here I sit. My DH is gone again with his job and I am here with the laundry to keep me company (yawn). I have been a little overwhelmed with housework lately so I joined the "Flylady" group that sends you regular emails every 5 seconds to remind you to do this or that or to take a break or do your dusting or whatever. It gives me ideas as to what to do around here....for instance I have quite forgotten to turn and flip the mattress until the email told me too. :-)

My son just had his first birthday sniff sniff. No longer is he my little baby. I wonder if I will ever have any more babies. I don't know why I am so insane but I am still holding out hope that God will bless us again with another kid. Most days though I think I need mental help feeling that way, but perhaps it's just the estrogen talking, who knows. My DH is adament about NO MORE rug rats!!! He says he "can't handle it". Can't handle what? He's been gone 85% of our marriage. The jist of taking care of his son is 10 minutes of play-time at night.

Granted I am not complaining about him...it's good ole Uncle Sam that is always calling him away. Well, maybe after he get's out of the Army he can have a more "involved" roll in the kids' lives.

I have not been slacking in the knitting dept like I have in the blogger world! I have been working on my second felted creation ever....a pair of clog slippers for my DH's tired feet. I have one almost complete already in only 3 days time. (and that's with taking care of the 3 youngins and all that scheduled housework I told you about. Flylady doesn't have an email reminder for knitting....hence my nightowl syndrome). I will post a pic of my project when I get around to it. LOL

Well, I should get to bed and get some beautyrest. I need all the help I can get in that dept.!!!