You know when you get the opportunity to stay in your jammies all day and not do much. Kim had me up at 6:30 so sleeping in was out. But I was able to get the little bit of cleaning I needed to do done quickly and spent the rest of the day really not doing much at all.
Kim had a friend over to play for a few hours, so that kept her occupied. And I just kicked back and watched a movie and did a little reading. I got most of March's menu together. Still have to figure out a couple of nights and get my grocery list together.
Tomorrow we have church in the morning. Then I do have a couple of loads of laundry to finish up in the afternoon. And I will need to hook up with my sister to figure out how I'm getting Kim to school and myself to work this week. Hopefully my car will be ready early in the week rather then later.
Saturday, February 28, 2009
Friday, February 27, 2009
Weekend Plans
Oh I'm so ready for the weekend. After all the excitement yesterday with my car I'm just ready to kick back and relax and do very little. Although I do have a few things I need to get accomplished. There really isn't to much house work to get caught up on. A few loads of laundry and a little clean up here and there. So I was thinking of tackling the closet in my room and clearing out some things. I need to get our menu in order for March. And I have a ton of reading to get through as well. And then getting transporation lined out for next week. I'll have to call my sister for that one. But that's really about it. What do you have planned for the weekend?
Thursday, February 26, 2009
Have I mentioned.......
how much I HATE WINTER????? Well in case you have missed it before, I hate it. I hate everything about it. The cold, the snow, the ice, the roads. Everything. And today was certainly no exception.
This morning we got up to it snowing. After we had such a nice weekend last week I was certainly hoping that we were getting a reprieve from this awful weather and looking forward to spring. But I suppose we have to endure a bit more. We headed out the door and on our way. Kimmie needed to get to school and I usually get in an hour at the gym before heading off to work. But instead, we got down the road and ended up in a snow bank. Actually we ended up on the other side of that snow bank. There is this awful corner down the road from our house that even in the summer makes me nervous and when I started to turn to make the corner my car decided it would continue on the straight path we were on. Up and over the snow bank and through a 4x4 post holding a street sign. There we were. Of course (as any mother in an accident with her kid in the car) I had a heart attack. I checked on Kim to make sure she was ok. She said she was but the seat belt had gotten tight and hurt her neck. "Oh thank God it did it's job," I said.
I called to get an officer and a tow truck. I couldn't see what kind of damage had been done to my car because of the snow we were in but I knew it couldn't be good. My friend (the chief of police) was on duty (the same one that plowed my drive way). And another friend was driving the tow truck (I love being in a small town and knowing everyone).
My sister came and picked us up and took Kim to school and me to work. And then loaned me her car so I could get home from work. I'll have to use Larry's truck, thankfully he has Fridays off right now. Then for next week my sister said she would help me figure out what we need to do to get Kim to school and me to work.
It's just a car and that can be fixed. I'm just so greatful that my sweet girl and I are both ok. But I still HATE WINTER!!!!
This morning we got up to it snowing. After we had such a nice weekend last week I was certainly hoping that we were getting a reprieve from this awful weather and looking forward to spring. But I suppose we have to endure a bit more. We headed out the door and on our way. Kimmie needed to get to school and I usually get in an hour at the gym before heading off to work. But instead, we got down the road and ended up in a snow bank. Actually we ended up on the other side of that snow bank. There is this awful corner down the road from our house that even in the summer makes me nervous and when I started to turn to make the corner my car decided it would continue on the straight path we were on. Up and over the snow bank and through a 4x4 post holding a street sign. There we were. Of course (as any mother in an accident with her kid in the car) I had a heart attack. I checked on Kim to make sure she was ok. She said she was but the seat belt had gotten tight and hurt her neck. "Oh thank God it did it's job," I said.
I called to get an officer and a tow truck. I couldn't see what kind of damage had been done to my car because of the snow we were in but I knew it couldn't be good. My friend (the chief of police) was on duty (the same one that plowed my drive way). And another friend was driving the tow truck (I love being in a small town and knowing everyone).
My sister came and picked us up and took Kim to school and me to work. And then loaned me her car so I could get home from work. I'll have to use Larry's truck, thankfully he has Fridays off right now. Then for next week my sister said she would help me figure out what we need to do to get Kim to school and me to work.
It's just a car and that can be fixed. I'm just so greatful that my sweet girl and I are both ok. But I still HATE WINTER!!!!
Tuesday, February 24, 2009
How much is $789 Billion, really?
I've been thinking about the "stimulus" package that our Congress and President passed this past week. As I'm sure most everyone has been thinking. And that of course leads to the question, how much is $789 Billion, really? How could anyone really put that amount of money into perspective. Most of us will never see that amount of money in our life time. Even if we added our yearly salaries together it still our never come close to that amount.
I was listening to the radio on my way to work the other day and they said that if you started the day that Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 Million dollars a day. You would still have spent LESS money then what Congress and our President spent last week. 1 Million dollars a day, EVERY DAY for 2009 years. That is absolutely insane to me.
If they had taken that money and divided it up amongst the 300 Million people that live in this country we would have each gotten roughly $2600. But instead out government thinks that giving money to big business will help the little guy and the bottom of the pile. And now that they have passed this bill. With the unbelievable amount of money spent. That we as tax payers are going to have to pay back at some point, our President admitted on television last night that this is only going to be a short term fix and in the long run it isn't going to help our economic down turn. So then why prolong the inevitable?
I guess I will never understand how our government can rationalize spending more money when we don't have any to spend. You and I would never get away with printing more money to cover what we want to spend even though we really don't have it. And why on earth are we bailing out these big companies that have screwed up their budget and gone in the hole. If we do that no one (especially our government) is going to give us money to fix the problem. Especially to give them money with no stipulations for getting it. Like they did with the money that was give before Christmas. Who in the world would give $850 Billion to someone and not put terms on it? Well I guess our governemnt does because of course when they run out of money they can always print more.
Wow this post has really gotten on a venting path hasn't it. Sorry didn't mean to go that way with it. Just was trying to put that HUGE dollar amount into perspective for myself.
I was listening to the radio on my way to work the other day and they said that if you started the day that Jesus Christ was born and spent $1 Million dollars a day. You would still have spent LESS money then what Congress and our President spent last week. 1 Million dollars a day, EVERY DAY for 2009 years. That is absolutely insane to me.
If they had taken that money and divided it up amongst the 300 Million people that live in this country we would have each gotten roughly $2600. But instead out government thinks that giving money to big business will help the little guy and the bottom of the pile. And now that they have passed this bill. With the unbelievable amount of money spent. That we as tax payers are going to have to pay back at some point, our President admitted on television last night that this is only going to be a short term fix and in the long run it isn't going to help our economic down turn. So then why prolong the inevitable?
I guess I will never understand how our government can rationalize spending more money when we don't have any to spend. You and I would never get away with printing more money to cover what we want to spend even though we really don't have it. And why on earth are we bailing out these big companies that have screwed up their budget and gone in the hole. If we do that no one (especially our government) is going to give us money to fix the problem. Especially to give them money with no stipulations for getting it. Like they did with the money that was give before Christmas. Who in the world would give $850 Billion to someone and not put terms on it? Well I guess our governemnt does because of course when they run out of money they can always print more.
Wow this post has really gotten on a venting path hasn't it. Sorry didn't mean to go that way with it. Just was trying to put that HUGE dollar amount into perspective for myself.
Sunday, February 22, 2009
It was a very nice Sunday
I got to sing at church today as part of the worship team and I really enjoyed it. It was so nice to be able to get up on the stage and hold that mic in my hand and sing for HIM. There is something about singing in public that really lifts me up and to be able to sing for His glory makes it all that much better.
Then we got the priviledge of sharing some wonderful fellowship time and great food with a potluck this evening.
And now it's back to another work week. I can't believe there is only a week left of February and March will be here. Spring is around the corner and will be here before we know it. Thank heaven for that. When I brought Kim home from school on Friday the tree in our front yard had a load of robins in it. A wonderful sign of warm weather to come.
Tuesday I get another wondeful day to myself. Hopefully this week will be better then last week. My poor sweet girl is still having to deal with the bully problem at school and last week she spent the entire morning in tears. Her teacher finally called me and I went and got her.
Quite frankly I think that the children who are the problem should be sent home but I went and got her and took her out of the situation. I did get some good advice from my Pastor though. She suggested that I talk to Kim about it and explain to her that the reason these 2 kids are so mean is because they don't have Jesus in their hearts and they don't know how much He loves them and how much He loves her.
So she and I talked about it and she understands all those points. And I asked her if there was something really special she could pray to Jesus and ask him to give to the kids that are being mean to her, what would she ask Him to give them. My sweet girl said "I would ask Jesus to give them a great big hug like I give you momma". I couldn't be more proud of her. Even with these 2 kids making her feel sad she understands (atleast a little bit) that they need His love. I'm going to keep reinforcing that with her and helping her to pray for these 2 kids. If at the very least she will have a different perspective on them and hopefully she will be able to move forward and not be so sensitive to the taunting.
I think it's just appauling that in Preschool we have to deal with the issue of bullying but we will deal with it the best we can. I keep asking myself what ever happened to parents teaching their children how to treat others and how to be kind and conciderate of others.
Then we got the priviledge of sharing some wonderful fellowship time and great food with a potluck this evening.
And now it's back to another work week. I can't believe there is only a week left of February and March will be here. Spring is around the corner and will be here before we know it. Thank heaven for that. When I brought Kim home from school on Friday the tree in our front yard had a load of robins in it. A wonderful sign of warm weather to come.
Tuesday I get another wondeful day to myself. Hopefully this week will be better then last week. My poor sweet girl is still having to deal with the bully problem at school and last week she spent the entire morning in tears. Her teacher finally called me and I went and got her.
Quite frankly I think that the children who are the problem should be sent home but I went and got her and took her out of the situation. I did get some good advice from my Pastor though. She suggested that I talk to Kim about it and explain to her that the reason these 2 kids are so mean is because they don't have Jesus in their hearts and they don't know how much He loves them and how much He loves her.
So she and I talked about it and she understands all those points. And I asked her if there was something really special she could pray to Jesus and ask him to give to the kids that are being mean to her, what would she ask Him to give them. My sweet girl said "I would ask Jesus to give them a great big hug like I give you momma". I couldn't be more proud of her. Even with these 2 kids making her feel sad she understands (atleast a little bit) that they need His love. I'm going to keep reinforcing that with her and helping her to pray for these 2 kids. If at the very least she will have a different perspective on them and hopefully she will be able to move forward and not be so sensitive to the taunting.
I think it's just appauling that in Preschool we have to deal with the issue of bullying but we will deal with it the best we can. I keep asking myself what ever happened to parents teaching their children how to treat others and how to be kind and conciderate of others.
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
Losing my motivation
I know it's the time of year. Winter has gone on long enough and I always tend to get a bit sluggish about now. I just feel blah. I don't really want to do anything. I'm tired and if I could get away with staying in bed. I forced myself to go to Curves this morning but I tell you I didn't really work very hard. I need to get some sunshine and warmth back. Any tips to get over the winter humbugs?
Wednesday, February 11, 2009
"Without faith there is no hope"
I heard that quote this week and it got me thinking. Without faith there is no hope. And if there is no hope there there is nothing to dream about or to look forward too. So if you have nothing to dream about or look forward too then I have to ask what's the point.
When that whole thought process was going through my head I began to think about a few people I know that don't believe and how they look at life. How they think that everything in life is stacked up against them. How they always get the bad deal. And it was like a flood light went on. They have no faith. They have no hope.
If they have no faith then they don't see that there are good things to hope for. And good things to look forward too. They only see the lows that happen in life and aren't paying attention to the highs.
We all have ups and downs and I now see that having faith really does make the difference in how you see those ups and downs and how you react to them.
When that whole thought process was going through my head I began to think about a few people I know that don't believe and how they look at life. How they think that everything in life is stacked up against them. How they always get the bad deal. And it was like a flood light went on. They have no faith. They have no hope.
If they have no faith then they don't see that there are good things to hope for. And good things to look forward too. They only see the lows that happen in life and aren't paying attention to the highs.
We all have ups and downs and I now see that having faith really does make the difference in how you see those ups and downs and how you react to them.
Saturday, February 7, 2009
Busy Weekend
Since my boss is in Hawaii on vacation and it's been pretty quiet at the shop we decided to take yesterday off and enjoy a three day weekend. So after Kim got out of school yesterday (she gets out at 1:30 on Fridays) we headed to town for a little shopping. We needed a few things so I took advantage of the free afternoon.
Fist stop was at the Christian book store. I needed to pick up a new Bible. Since I started going to church again the Bible I have been using is one that my Grandma gave me. And it was printed in the Republic of Korea. I have been worried that something would happen to it. So I got a very pretty pale green one. I just love it. We also picked up Valentine's cards for Kim to take to school and Kim had to get a new little pink Bible for herself.
Then it was on to Shopko for a few things that Larry needed. The pet store to get a new "Sharky". Sharky is an algae eating fish and the one she had unfortunately didn't make it the last time I cleaned the tank and inadvertently put to hot of water in. My bad. Last stop was the dollar store to pick up some little things for Valentine gifts for Kim's classmates. I always try to do a little something extra for her friends on Valentine's in addition to their cards. We grabbed pizza from Papa Murphy's and back home we went.
Today the weather seems to be a little better. I think it's warmed up quite a bit. The snow has been melting off the house and the cat has been eyeing some robins that were flying out the window. I've been busy cleaning, organizing and clearing out some clutter. I went to the hardware store and grabbed the stuff for Larry to put up some shelving above the washer. I have been wanting them for a long time and decided that today was the day to just do it. It looks so much better in there now with all those cleaning supplies and Kim's craft stuff put up and off my washer and dryer.
I've got a couple of bags and boxes of Christmas ornaments and clothing that Kim has out grown in the car now. I'll drop them off at Goodwill tomorrow after church. When I grabbed the mail today I was pleasently surprised to find that the new pillows I had ordered arrived. Those will be nice to sleep on tonight. It's really quite sad to admit how long we have had our old ones. We were way beyond due to replace them.
I got the space cleared out and ready for a new stationary bike that should be here sometime this next week. Larry had been wanting one and I suppose it will make for a nice addition to the treadmill. I even reran the cable lines to hook the tv up by the treadmill so now we can watch whatever we want while on it. It had been connected to the bedroom digital box with a splitter so we had to watch the same thing on both tv's. So now that has been fixed.
I got all the laundry finished. Just need to fold it all and put it away. Will get that finished up after Kim goes to bed.
Got the fish tank cleaned and moved away from the heater vent. The algae was growing like crazy. More then the cleaning fish could keep up with.
So now dinner is ready and I can sit back and relax a bit. I'll finish up the laundry folding after Kim goes to bed and enjoy the quiet of the evening.
Fist stop was at the Christian book store. I needed to pick up a new Bible. Since I started going to church again the Bible I have been using is one that my Grandma gave me. And it was printed in the Republic of Korea. I have been worried that something would happen to it. So I got a very pretty pale green one. I just love it. We also picked up Valentine's cards for Kim to take to school and Kim had to get a new little pink Bible for herself.
Then it was on to Shopko for a few things that Larry needed. The pet store to get a new "Sharky". Sharky is an algae eating fish and the one she had unfortunately didn't make it the last time I cleaned the tank and inadvertently put to hot of water in. My bad. Last stop was the dollar store to pick up some little things for Valentine gifts for Kim's classmates. I always try to do a little something extra for her friends on Valentine's in addition to their cards. We grabbed pizza from Papa Murphy's and back home we went.
Today the weather seems to be a little better. I think it's warmed up quite a bit. The snow has been melting off the house and the cat has been eyeing some robins that were flying out the window. I've been busy cleaning, organizing and clearing out some clutter. I went to the hardware store and grabbed the stuff for Larry to put up some shelving above the washer. I have been wanting them for a long time and decided that today was the day to just do it. It looks so much better in there now with all those cleaning supplies and Kim's craft stuff put up and off my washer and dryer.
I've got a couple of bags and boxes of Christmas ornaments and clothing that Kim has out grown in the car now. I'll drop them off at Goodwill tomorrow after church. When I grabbed the mail today I was pleasently surprised to find that the new pillows I had ordered arrived. Those will be nice to sleep on tonight. It's really quite sad to admit how long we have had our old ones. We were way beyond due to replace them.
I got the space cleared out and ready for a new stationary bike that should be here sometime this next week. Larry had been wanting one and I suppose it will make for a nice addition to the treadmill. I even reran the cable lines to hook the tv up by the treadmill so now we can watch whatever we want while on it. It had been connected to the bedroom digital box with a splitter so we had to watch the same thing on both tv's. So now that has been fixed.
I got all the laundry finished. Just need to fold it all and put it away. Will get that finished up after Kim goes to bed.
Got the fish tank cleaned and moved away from the heater vent. The algae was growing like crazy. More then the cleaning fish could keep up with.
So now dinner is ready and I can sit back and relax a bit. I'll finish up the laundry folding after Kim goes to bed and enjoy the quiet of the evening.
Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Gotta Love Mrs. Potato Head
Our lovely cable system sold our Super Bowl slot to some Canadian network. So we got to watch the game but missed all the good commercials and most of the half time show. So I took advantage of the internet and in my own time watch what really is the best part of the game anyway. The commercials. I think this one has to be my favorite. I mean I can't even begin to count the number of times I have had to "put on my angry eyes" and give Larry the look.
Monday, February 2, 2009
I'm SO ready for summer
You will NEVER hear a complaint from me about how hot it is during the summer. I am not one of those people who gets all miserable while sweltering in the heat. I LOVE the summer. So it's a bit discouraging when the darn groundhog pops his head up on February 2nd and sees his shadow. For telling another 6 weeks of this cold miserable weather.
Who ever said he had the power to control the seasons anyway?. Stupid groundhog.
I know I sound a bit hateful today but I'm just tired of freezing. I've never been a big winter fan. I once thought that I would atleast force myself to enjoy it more when Kim was big enough to want to go out in it. But she's my girl and while the occasional moment of building a snowman has come about she would much rather be inside snuggling with a blanket and a good movie.
So I guess I'll spend another six weeks of starting my car 20 minutes before we have to leave in the morning. Six more weeks of scaping my windows so I can see. Six more weeks of tredging through snow to get where I need to go. Six more weeks of bundling up with layers to keep warm. I guess the only good thing is that the way time flies these days that six weeks will be hear and gone before we know it. Well time does slow down when it's cold though.
Who ever said he had the power to control the seasons anyway?. Stupid groundhog.
I know I sound a bit hateful today but I'm just tired of freezing. I've never been a big winter fan. I once thought that I would atleast force myself to enjoy it more when Kim was big enough to want to go out in it. But she's my girl and while the occasional moment of building a snowman has come about she would much rather be inside snuggling with a blanket and a good movie.
So I guess I'll spend another six weeks of starting my car 20 minutes before we have to leave in the morning. Six more weeks of scaping my windows so I can see. Six more weeks of tredging through snow to get where I need to go. Six more weeks of bundling up with layers to keep warm. I guess the only good thing is that the way time flies these days that six weeks will be hear and gone before we know it. Well time does slow down when it's cold though.
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