Mama Kat gave some good prompts this week. I thought long and hard. I decided to do #1. Write from the point of view of a glass at the edge of the table.

"Oh, she is so rude. She just grabs me off the shlef, hitting me in places where I don't need to be hit. If I get chipped, I'm gonna cut her lip. She hits the ice dispenser so hard. It's going to come out, why so rough. She's on refill #2, must have been thirsty. There she goes to her "spot". On the couch, with the TV on. Me on the table. At least she has the decency to put me on a coaster. Doesn't want me to leave a water mark for her to clean up later. She's so lazy, but I admire her smart thinking. She wants me again, only for a drink but still she wants me. She can't even move her body to take a drink. She can't turn away from the computer. She just pauses typing and reaches her short little arm behind her to get a drink, she misses her grasp on the cup, I topple, I hear her cuss, is she gonna drop me yet again?"

This is a true story. It happens almost every day at 4:15 when I get home from school. GO join Mama Kat for her weekly writing assignment.

Carving Pumpkins

We carved pumpkins this weekend with our friends. Here is my picture story. Enjoy! This is Nick working hard to cut the top of his pumpkin. Now Harvey takes the easy way out.

Using the saw. He got 3 done to Nick's one.

Here's Nick and I working hard to design and carving our pumpkins.


And here is our final projects all lit up. This is Nick's spider and my goofy guy.

Here is Harvey's Case-IH symbol and baby Lane's pumpkin.

Go join Angie for Wordful Wednesday and SITS for their Halloween Parade.

A Walking We Will Go

We went on a walk last weekend. It was beautiful day out. There was a slight crispness to the air, sunny and no breeze. We wanted to "explore" so there is a park with trails, hills, and creeks that aren't paved. We headed there. I had my camera out at the beginning, but didn't take a lot of pictures. Nick gets disgusted with me. Here's him walking ahead of me.

We started on a trail that looked pretty intense. Hills, bumps, crossed over a little creek. Jumping over rocks. Went back up the hill and discovered this sign.

After a short discussion on the pros and cons of continuing on this trail or the one to the left that said no hikers and no bikes we decided to keep going. Until we saw another one. We then decided to head back and find a "hiker trail."

We did and were having fun. There was a stream to the left of us that was really calm and then we went around a corner and saw this

it was gorgeous. It was a really good time. We're just bummed that we didn't find it earlier in the fall season. If it ends up being pretty nice this weekend we might go try another trail.

Grand Plans

I have this week off. I've had grand plans for this week for a month. Stick to a routine, keep cleaning, cooking, doing school stuff, a little more blogging, a little more reading. A couple appointments, a haircut, massage. But mainly "me time!"

Day 1 has been successful. I stayed in my jammies all day. I did comb my hair out and brush me teeth-carpet fixit guy came.

I made pumpkin cake, strawberry pretzel jello, getting ready to make chicken parmesean for dinner.

I read a book. Yes, I said an entire book. I zone when I read. I think this is the main reason I haven't read the Twilight series. I would neglect EVERYTHING!

I uploaded pictures for several posts to do later this week.

Check Day 3 off my list. 6 more days to go! I love these weeks!

I got Tagged

I got tagged last Sunday. I was thinking that I would do it when I could get onto my main computer. I'm supposed to go to my sixth picture folder and get my sixth picture. I'm thinking to myself, the desktop has all the pictures. Not so much. It has one folder. There are 12 pictures in it. So here's the sixth picture from that folder. . This is Nick and I on our last day of our honeymoon. We are posing with our "fun guy Mario". Mario met us when we got off the bus from the airport and helped us check-in, gave us a tour of the resort, clued us in to everything and was just an all around amazing guy! Funny and honest. His wife and children lived like 3 hours a way and he only got to see them like once a month. It made it painfully real to me how hard some people worked for their families.

On a side note. Look how skinny I am and look how long my hair is. I need to pretend I'm getting married again, maybe that would motivate me to lose weight and grow my hair back.

Lazy Days

Today was beautiful.

Woke up to a cuddling husband. Showered. Didn't put make up on or do my hair. Threw on jeans and a sweatshirt. Went to a craft fair with my mom. (She apologized, I accepted. I moved on.)

Came home, pulled up a quilt, ate candy corn, watched football and Lifetime movies-a great combination. Played on the laptop, entered almost all my grades for 1st quarter.

Took a cat nap. Got motivated to pick up the house, do a load of laundry that's still in the washer/dryer.

Made dinner. Left the dishes in the sink.

Watched more football. Ate the rest of the candy corn.

Watched Forgetting Sarah Marshall-extremely dirty, but funny. My favorite line was "If God was a city planner he wouldn't build a park next to a sewage system." Just get your mind in the gutter and you'll get it.

Watched more football. Heading to bed to cuddle with the husband.

This was the Saturday I needed.

SISTA LOVE

SITS is having a blogfest today. While I'm somewhat of blog-stalker I have several gals that I read on a daily basis and I've found them through SITS. I'll link to them at the end of the post, but to win a prize I've got to post and then comment on SITS. So while I've never done this, there is no day like today to start.

When Tiffany and Heather first started SITS I found them through my friend Mrs. S. I would read occasional posts and when they had a feature blogger that intrigued me I'd read their posts and comment on one every once in a while. The Sista's are amazing. They are so encouraging, leaving comments and returning visits if you visit them, while I don't proclaim to be a writer, because I'm not and my posts aren't thrilling and adventurous, the Sista's are almost always a gurantee to put a smile on my face. I've gotten some great crackliture recommendations from them. And I always leave their blog with a smile.

So today the prizes I REALLY want, now all are great, but the ones I REALLY want are the Photofiddle canvas print, the spooky banner and the $50 gift card to Tiffany's shop.

Here are my Top 5 blogs I found through SITS; in no particular order.

1. Mama's Losin It-photoshopping skills, crazy sense of humor, daycare diaries....love it all!

2. Insane Mama- I don't know how she does it, but she does and it's beautiful.

3. Heather- SITS founder and funny gal

4. Mrs. R- My Crackliture hero

5. Stretch Marks- heartbreakingly honest and amazingly funny

Oh what a day! We held a surpise retirement party at my home for my grandma this afternoon. It took weeks of preparation and lying to her and two days of cleaning my house. Well the party was a huge sucsess and went off without a hitch. She was moved to tears. ( I don't have any pictures my mom had a friend of hers take all the pictures.)





I was good until about 2:30. My brother and his girlfriend, who have a 13 month old decided to announce today of all days that Chelsea is pregnant again. I watched my mom almost scream and jump up and down in excitement while they were surrounded by relatives and family friends. I quickly feigned a happy congratulations. And ran. I hid in the bathroom in the dark and just cried. Then I had to clean myself up and fake it for the rest of the day.



I'm so hurt by mom. She knows that we are officially dealing with infertility. She knows how worried I am, she obviously doesn't know how hurt I am today. I was kind of rude to her and shrugged her off the rest of the afternoon, but if I wouldn't, I just would have lost it.



I am the oldest, I should have been the first to get married. (which I was) And then the first to give them a grand child. (which I wasn't.) Who knows if they will ever get a grandchild from Nick and me. I don't know how I'm going to deal with this for the next 9 months and I just don't know if I can handle it.



God bless, Nick, he's trying so hard to understand, but he just doesn't get why I'm so hurt and upset.

Tomorrow is a new day and maybe tomorrow the hurt won't be so severe and I can not think about it so much.

'Fraid So

So some weeks I feel no inspiration for Mama Kat's writing assignment and other weeks I can write about 3 or 4 of them. The list ones are the easiest ones for me. I love lists. So...

10 things that I'm afraid of. In no particular order.

#1-Amusement rides. I despise them. I don't know if it's the speed, the height, the feeling of losing control. I hate them.

#2-Needles. This is valid. It's not just I don't like them b/c it hurts. When I was 7 I had an unexplained fever. I had 3 spinal taps in 6 days. Blood draws every 4 hours for 6 days, 1 a day for like 2 weeks and then 1 a week for 6 weeks. It was not easy. I was scarred. Then when I was 12 I had stitches and my dr was a dick head and didn't give my anthestic nicely.

#3-Losing my husband to an early death. He travels so much and is around so much huge machinery. I just have awful visions of getting a phone call or a visit.

#4-Not being able to have a child. This one is self explanatory. I don't have the energy to explain this now.

#5-Creepy crawlies. We live in the "country" and they are all over. UGH!

#6-Not teaching my students effectively. I always wonder if I'm really doing this right and the kids are really learning.

#7-That blogging is an addiction. What happened to faithful TV watching, reading books, doing school stuff.

#8-Not pleasing people. I'm a people pleaser. I say YES to much, it's so hard for me to please myself over somebody else, especially family or friends.

#9-Losing some friendships. After 16 months of marriage, I'm realizing that while I've gained so much; there are some things that I've lost and I will continue to lose and I've finally started to say goodbye. Yet there are some friendships that I can't say goodbye to ever and truly hope that I never have to.

#10-I can't think of anything. I guess I'm only afraid of 9 things.

Quotes from Kindergarten

As I sat down in my comfy fish director chair it squeaked.

My student Dizzy asks?

"Is your bottom to big for that chair? Because it makes noise when you sit down."

Thank you, guess I won't be having ice cream after dinner tonight.

Countdown time

I'm stressed. Hiding it well though, cuz even I don't think I look stressed.

In 4 days I get blood work done. I don't like needles, at all.

In 7 days I'm hosting a party at my home for 60+ strangers.

In 9 days I have conferences.

In 11 days I have more conferences.

In 17 days report cards must be done.

In 17 days I have off school for one whole week.

In 23 days I find out the results of the blood work.

There's more. I just can't remember...or maybe choose not to remember.