by Sarah | Feb 17, 2010 | All About Family, Crap
When your BROTHER calls you out.
*sigh*
Yup, my brother called me out on my failure to get my project 365 going beyond where it was in my last post.
If I were TRULY evil, I would post that picture I have of him when he was 10 wearing earrings and a shawl…but I won’t.
I would also take this post to introduce my new Nephew (via my bro) and Niece (via my SIL) – but I don’t post pictures of others kids on my blog!!
So…instead I’m left with a rather empty post announcing that I’ve been called out. So I must pick up my camera and begin anew 365. I think I know exactly what my first picture will be tomorrow. It’s truly sad, but I’m so excited about it I’ve been posting it all over twitter and facebook all day. I got my beautiful NOOK today. I already have several books on it and lots of poetry.
January was a month of illness. We all got sick. Riley first, who gave it to me…then Angel got sick…we feared a hospital visit but were blessed to have that fear lifted…for now. Her levels were WAY down at her last visit so we must return to have her levels checked again.
As I said, February has been a fruitful month. I became an Aunt (again) twice in the past two weeks. First a gorgeous nephew that has been struggling a bit with jaundice, but is coming out the other side finally! Then a beautiful niece…who happens to share a middle name with my Angel.
Otherwise I have been doing a LOT of writing…just not in cyberspace as you can see. A story hit me and demanded to be written. When that happens I end up consumed and so I was. Now I need to take the drivel of unpublishable material that comes from such a spurt and attempt to make something viable from it. That is the challenge. The story is told, now it needs to be formed.
In other news our month of sickness from January to now ended with a literal bang. Hubby gave himself a concussion. We are unsure if he slipped or passed out, but he hit his head on the way to the ground and gave himself a mild concussion. That was two days ago, he’s showing improvement but he’s still a little out of it…
Tomorrow I pick up my camera again, okay, bro? If I miss a day I’ll just fill in with you in girly clothes and earrings.
by Sarah | Dec 30, 2009 | All About Me, Crap
Wow it’s been such a long time since I posted! An entire month, actually! I’ve been so very busy doing stuff around this house prepping for christmas and actually taking part in it. That I just havne’t posted.
Sad thing is, I’ve been online…I just have not been motivated or inspired to post. There are some things I have simply NOT been able to post about, and everything else seemed trivial, to trivial to post.
Excuses aside, I’m starting to come out of my hole again, I think. I hope. I just paid for another year of my URL, and it would be a shame to waste it as much as I did in 2009. My amount of posting really dropped off and died for a long time…think I can revive it again? Gosh, I hope so.
I have a lot of little (and big) projects going on. I have pictures of my massive crafting expidition and resulting Christmas day to post. I have a lot going on, and hopefully I’ll be sharing a lot more of it with you again! And yes, this involves visiting your blogs as well!
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*Paraphrased quote from Slap Shot.
by Sarah | Nov 21, 2009 | All About Me, Crap
There is nothing I can write.
Not at the moment.
There is too much.
It can’t be said here. It can’t be said there.
I am on a trip. I’m visiting my best friend Jess. We are meeting for the first time and that is wonderful…but the reasons behind it are too heavy to divulge right now.
I will be back. Soon. I will be posting.
Eventually it will come out, but for now when I return the posts will focus on the joy of this trip and my children.
The rest will wait until I am in a better place to explain my absence.
I have not forgotten you. I just cannot put into words where I am. Or I could, but I won’t. This isn’t the place for it. It isn’t the time for it.
Please forgive me this brief break of posting that I had this week. The events were coming for a while, but hit suddenly as all things do.
I hope to return by Monday if I’m recovered from my long drive home on Sunday. If not, Tuesday. Then you will be able to see and hear of the joy I have felt in being here in this place, surrounded by the love of a dear friend that I have known online for six years – but have just now met face to face this week.
Until then.
by Sarah | Oct 21, 2009 | Crap, Random
Watch that last step it’s a doozy!
I had no intentions of ending up disappearing for this long. I have at least a dozen half-baked and sometimes half started posts in my head and on my dashboard waiting to be written. I have no good explanation except…”oh hai, I have blog?” Yeah – I could just never hit publish or wrap my head around actually completng a post.
On a good note – real life has been absolutely packed with stuff. Our October calendar was packed full of activites of which we’ve only done about 1/2…because we also had some illness creep through and things like cruddy weather getting in the way.
Instead of blogging I’ve been driving my wonderful husband Archie nuts with the crafting supplies now absolutely overflowing out of their previously neat and tidy corner. I’m making presents and decorations for the upcoming Yule/Christmas season!
I have made several of the decorations. Two adorable little pettiskirts, and overskirts. I’ve got the materials nearly completed for two twirly skirts for which I’m making my own pattern and hoping to let them both be free and overskirts for the pettiskirts. I’ve also started other gifts, but I can’t say what they are on this public area 😉
Brandon has been going forward in school like wildfire. He has been doing his afterschool program and loving it. His grades are (mostly) holding on great and we went to his first band concert this year! I actually got to go on a Field Trip with him this year – to the zoo! It was great finally meeting some other parents in his grade and getting to the zoo. I’m getting ready to go in a few weeks to the formation of the new parents group that’s forming along the lines of a PTO…I’ve been painfully aware over the past few years that I’ve never been involved enough in these things – so I’m trying to be now.
Today I finally got the girls to the new homeschool group. Riley got stung by a bee, but it didn’t hold her back. They had a blast and I had a nice time socializing with the moms….and being able to come home and tell Archie about the large group of (successfully) homeschooled kids from the girls age up to 17! I think I can learn a lot from these women and look forward to going again next week!
I’ve also been really busy doing some behind the scenes stuff online…I have a lot more work to do in that area, but hopefully I won’t forget this place again!! Or any of you! I feel like I’ve gone to no blogs at all lately…and it’s time to rectify that right now!!
by Sarah | Sep 10, 2009 | Random
Brandon started school a couple of weeks ago and since then I just have been in the midst of a whirlwind. It’s not that I haven’t had time to blog…I’ve just had so much to talk about, I couldn’t seem to focus on one thing! So, for today you get some bullet points of things that have happened over the past few weeks and hopefully in the next few days I’ll get back into my posting schedule again.
* Just a few days into school, Brandon came home with a note. It was an invitation into his schools “Odyssey of the Mind” program. It’s a Talented and Gifted program that focuses on Literature, Art and History. Only 15 students are in this program. After 3 years of advanced math and science programs – this kid is just rocking school! I’m so proud of him!!
* My aunt came in to visit from Buffalo. She’s the “Cool” aunt we had when we were growing up…6 years younger than my mom and always was about keeping the kids happy – no matter what the parents say. Nothing’s changed. Not that I ever fight her when she wants to do things w/ Brandon…but sh emakes it seem like I’d object *lol* It was so wonderful seeing her again!!
* When she was here we all went down to Nashville, IN. I love that place and really need to make an effort to get there more often. Next time w/o the kids and a photog friend would be perfect…so many things I missed out on capturing.
* Speaking of which – I have 400+ (maybe 500+ now) photos sitting on my camera and hard drive waiting to be edited and shown off!! I swear Ive been so blog-lazy the past couple of weeks. Hopefully I’ll dole those out nice and slow for you…instead of bombrding you with tons of pics!!!
* I have absolutely NOTHING planned for Halloween – not even costumes…but I might let the kid have a halloween sleepover. I’ve got some nasty Halloween recipes that are perfect for the gross out fans that are 10-11 year old boys.
* Archie actually broached the subject of homeschooling with me – something we haven’t dared discuss in months (hot-button issue in this house 😉 ). The results of our latest discussion is that homeschooling may be the best thing for Riley – but only Riley. He thinks Angel would thrive better in a social situation – and I tend to agree. We’ll see how this progresses.
* While I have nothing planned for Halloween, I’ve already started with Christmas plans/decorations/presents. Tomorrow I resume sewing on the girls clothes that I started a little over a month back. I have purchased some stuff for Christmas presents for the in-laws/parents/Archie…but that’s all I can tell you because they all read this 😉
* Hopefully we sell the mustang in the next couple of weeks. It goes in the Auto/RV this coming weekend, and we know the neihbor is interested in it. If we sell it, we will be discussing just how the money will be divided…including Christmas and something Archie wants into there along with getting our truck repaired. It won’t go far-but I’m sure it will go far enough…
* Living in the middle of nowhere does not lend well toward great craft supply shopping. I got exceptionally frustrated tonight – might have been less so if I’d gone out earlier and really been able to spend time in JoAnn. Oh, and WalMart recently remodeled our store…it now SUCKS. Not only is everything moved around and no longer cohesive (seriously, no rhyme or reason to how they did this)…but their stock is SERIOUSLY down – they have NOTHING. Stupid WalMart.
* I’m so excited that the fall is here. I really get my baking mojo on in the fall…and it’s already started. I cannot wait to get to the orchard and get some baking pumpkins for this year. I have lots of pumpkin to freeze for use later. Cookies, breads, cakes…yummmmm…
* I know I’m missing a lot, but I can’t remember now. hopefully you’ll get a new post from my husband tomorrow…he has this week off for vacation so he has no excuse to NOT write one (*nudges Archie* HINT)
by Sarah | Aug 20, 2009 | All About Kennedy, All About Me, All About Molly, Crap, Cystic Fibrosis
I spent the better part of the weekend (from Thursday to Sunday) sleeping. I was sick, sick, sick…and have just now started feeling better. The worst part of being sick was having two sickies with me (*thing 1 and thing 2*) that were just as miserable as I was.
Riley recovered fast, but it clung to my Angel like glue. The cough lingered and she was put on antibiotics (drugs…woohoo). She recovered a bit, but continued to cough. And cough. And cough – waking up at nights. It wasn’t continuous – just lingering. So, as luck would have it we had our regularly scheduled visit to the CF clinic yesterday. Her lung functions have gone down, so the pulm has extended and increased her antibiotics….and added steroids.
So after all of this, I’m finally back. Still keeping an eye on my baby – but I’m here! Sorry I was so MIA. Whateer this summer cold was made of, it kicked my ass!
And the Rock and Roll?
Well, it’s RIGHT HERE!!
