by Sarah | Oct 27, 2010 | All About Home, All About Me, Holidays
Oh, who are we kidding? I’m definitely insane.
It’s not even Halloween.
But I have 85% of Christmas shopping done. (The girls shopping IS done).
I’ve been knitting like mad, and just started sewing…and have many Christmas gift items completed/made in the crafting area and a decent head start on others.
Two days ago I started something. Cookies/Treats for Christmas. My obsession with baking many, many Christmas Cookies has been documented in the past.I make a lot. And every year (especially last year it seemed) I get really overwhelmed at the first of December. I have a tendency to put too much on myself and try to accomplish more than is possible. I think that’s why I started so early this year.
Really early.
The first Christmas gift was purchased in June.
I’ve started making cookies that can be frozen and stored. So far I’ve made the base for the Oreo Truffles (new this year), and I’ve baked 1 of 3 cakes for cake pops, and I’m getting those centers prepared. I’m trying to figure out what cookies can be pre-made and frozen with little trouble. Hopefully all I’ll have to do in December is bake a few batches and frost/candy coat the others.
Final stage is finishing up with the Christmas presents. I’ve given myself more time to do this than I have in the past…hopefully this year I’ll not freak out and over-stress again.
But I still am a little insane.
by Sarah | Oct 26, 2010 | All About Me, Photography
I admit. This week I flaked a bit on Flip Side and considered not doing it…but I ended up with a couple of pictures after all. I call them hiding because in both…well, you can’t really see much of me :)….
Talk to the Hand
*Set this picture up for another post later in the week. Liked it enough for this ;).
Misty Morning
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by Sarah | Oct 19, 2010 | All About Me, Photography
For a theme this week I chose Improving Self. Between my attempts at the C25k, and an impromptu (and much needed), very refreshing mini-vacation with the husband, I think Improving mySelf is a good way to describe these….
Tired
*After Day 1 of Week 2 of C25k. Made it 2.35 miles.
Refreshed
“At Home”
*Outside the Indiana State Museum w/ my home state. Also being used for Aiming Low’s Shadow-play challenge.
Tousled, Soaking Wet, Proud
*After Day 1 of Week 2 of C25k. It was raining, I got soaked, I wanted to give up several times, but I pushed through.
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by Sarah | Oct 18, 2010 | All About Erik, All About Marriage, All About Me
For 45 hours….
There was no autism.
No CF.
No band practice or concerts.
No grades.
No screaming.
No tattling.
No doctors.
No therapists.
No tests.
No school.
No homework.
No racing, pounding little footsteps.
No punishments.
No attitudes.
No worries.
*****
For 45 hours…
We crossed a wine tasting off my 45X45 list.
We had adult conversation.
Toured a museum at our pace.
Walked the streets of the city we live so close to but hardly ever see.
Watched what we wanted to.
Ate at new places.
Held hands.
People watched.
Slept without alarm clocks.
Laughed.
Reconnected.
**
Our anniversary was this past week. This weekend we dumped the kids with their grandparents and had 45 hours to ourselves. It was wonderful, peaceful. We plan on doing it again much sooner than later.
It isn’t until you get away from it all that you realize how wrapped up in it you are.
Everyone needs a break. We took full advantage of ours.
And.
It.
Was.
Wonderful.
by Sarah | Oct 16, 2010 | All About Me, Crap
Day 09 – Someone you didn’t want to let go, but just drifted
It was middle school. The bowels of Hell.
I hated my life. I had one friend. I hated the way I looked, dressed…my acne, my glasses. Just two years of torture and teasing by my former friends and classmates had sent my fragile self-esteem into a nose dive.
My brother was on college visits with my dad, leaving my mom and I to find something to do. She decided that visiting her good friend at their camper would be a great idea. “Besides,” she informed me. “David* has a cousin about your age.”
I was oh-too-thrilled with that prospect. If she was anything like David (who may be reading this and I’m sorry, but you used to be…well, you remember)…I wanted nothing to do with her. If she wasn’t – well, she’d want nothing to do with me.
And so it goes that I met Julie*.
When I first saw her I figured I was done for. There was no way anyone with those looks would want anything to do with me. She had that it factor. You know the one. The one that screamed ‘popular’. Blonde hair, blue eyes, built like a….well, you get the idea. A year younger than me, she was taller, and far prettier. Yup, she’d classify me as the nerd everyone else did. My weekend was going to suck.
But it didn’t.
And she wasn’t.
She became my best friend. Instead of staying at David’s family’s trailer with my mom, I stayed at Julie’s. We talked, we laughed.
She LIKED ME. For who I was. Not knowing anything about my life at school, she didn’t treat me like those that decided in 6th grade that I was uncool (before I got the nerd markers of acne and glasses, they must have been psychic).
I begged to go back the next weekend, and the next. I begged for a trailer – and we got one, and a seasonal site just a few weeks later right at my birthday. Julie and I were always staying at each others trailers, sleeping in the tent. Eating Doritos and drinking hot chocolate (yes, together. Sounds yummy, doesn’t it?). Staying up into the night, never once passing gas and laughing (really, EVER). Sneaking out to be with the boys in camp, goofing off with nothing but the light of the moon.
We were inseperable.
For 3 summers, into winters.
Then I moved.
We did really good for a couple more years. I’d always visit when I got back to New York. Then she started college, I moved again. My visits to NY became less frequent. Our phone calls dissipated. Then she moved to Florida.
Time and distance separated us for many years. Then she found me again. Called me. Updated me on her life. That she was expecting a baby. For a month or two the communication resumed and then faded again.
Now, through the wonder that is Facebook we’ve found each other again. But it’s not the same.
She was there for me at a very important point in my life. She will always be remembered as my best friend. She will always be counted as a best friend. I know that if we saw each other face-to-face again it would be like old times. That is the wonder of true friendship.
Knowing now that she’s much closer to me than Florida (she moved again), I hope to see her again sometime soon. To meet her child, to get close to her again.
I never wanted us to drift apart. Life had other plans.
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*Names have been changed. These people are all my friends on FB now, so they know who they are, but I never use real names without permission 😀
by Sarah | Oct 12, 2010 | All About Me, Photography
For a theme this week I chose Reflections. But I didn’t want the typical mirror reflection….
With my new obsession
*It is intentionally the knife in focus…I was after my reflection, after all…not the delectable sweet goodness that is Nutella.
In the kitchen tile
With the kids
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Oh, who are we kidding? I’m definitely insane.
