I put my shovel away on Saturday and we had flurries for three days.
I put my flannel sheets away today and redressed the bed with the 3 season sheets. Rachael texted me a photo of her spring break in Blacksburg COVERED in snow.
I was clearing the flower beds and I was roasting in my bed last night, but clearly I didn't wait long enough.
So sorry!
Friday, April 5, 2013
Thursday, April 4, 2013
Christmas shopping can make me laugh.
It is the season where we have to purchase items for Christmas. The store that I work in has a combination of handcrafted and commercially crafted items. I'm the Christmas Decorating Goddess at the store that I work at, so they've been taking me along for some input. They took me last year for the big buying trip down south, took me this year for a day longer, had me in for a rep the other day and are having me join the buying team in a couple of weeks for a day trip.
Lovely!
At any rate, occasionally, my kicky side gets the better of me. (Also known as, the ADD runs away with my better judgement and sometimes my true thoughts come out.) I had to share a few with you:
1. I have an issue with any "head" of anything without a body. I mean, decapitation doesn't spell Christmas joy. My coworkers know this and now avoid all floating heads.
2. The rep was really trying hard to sell us a Santa bowl the other day. It was Santa from his waist belt down to his feet. The top of him wasn't there. My coworkers were going for it until my mouth opened wide and said, "Oh look! Snacking from the bowels of SANTA!" We didn't buy the bowl and the rep told me that she'd never think of that bowl in the same way ever again.
3. There were 4 of us involved in buying the other day. There was one ornament that 2 people wanted and my boss and I did not. I couldn't figure out why it was bothering me so much. "I don't know, L-, I think it looks kind of like an eye." "To me, it looks like a submarine helmet from a deep sea diver." "THAT'S IT!" It looked like an undersea, old time helmet. No, we didn't buy it though the others were very disappointed.
4. I'm laughing that my boss is now saying, "Amy, you can make that! You just need to do another demo!" It looks like I'll be having tree demo day again. It was a success the last time I did it.
We're on spring break. K- has kicked back and slept in today. I did some cleaning, but am getting on with the rest of my cleaning so that we can have some science fun.
Pardon me. Spring Break is calling!
Have a great day!
Lovely!
At any rate, occasionally, my kicky side gets the better of me. (Also known as, the ADD runs away with my better judgement and sometimes my true thoughts come out.) I had to share a few with you:
1. I have an issue with any "head" of anything without a body. I mean, decapitation doesn't spell Christmas joy. My coworkers know this and now avoid all floating heads.
2. The rep was really trying hard to sell us a Santa bowl the other day. It was Santa from his waist belt down to his feet. The top of him wasn't there. My coworkers were going for it until my mouth opened wide and said, "Oh look! Snacking from the bowels of SANTA!" We didn't buy the bowl and the rep told me that she'd never think of that bowl in the same way ever again.
3. There were 4 of us involved in buying the other day. There was one ornament that 2 people wanted and my boss and I did not. I couldn't figure out why it was bothering me so much. "I don't know, L-, I think it looks kind of like an eye." "To me, it looks like a submarine helmet from a deep sea diver." "THAT'S IT!" It looked like an undersea, old time helmet. No, we didn't buy it though the others were very disappointed.
4. I'm laughing that my boss is now saying, "Amy, you can make that! You just need to do another demo!" It looks like I'll be having tree demo day again. It was a success the last time I did it.
We're on spring break. K- has kicked back and slept in today. I did some cleaning, but am getting on with the rest of my cleaning so that we can have some science fun.
Pardon me. Spring Break is calling!
Have a great day!
Sunday, March 31, 2013
Saturday, March 30, 2013
The Easter Egg Hunt
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| You have to get into all of those cooks and nannies to get all of the eggs that the kids passed by on the first trip. |
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| And my girl, she felt bad that there were kids with no eggs, so she shared some of the small lot that she got. Here she is "skinning" her eggs. She got some good chocolate loot and even shared it with me. :) |
Any egg hunt news out your way? We had 2500 eggs and had to have 500 kids show up. It was our biggest attendance for our church ever!
I'm not Catholic, but . . .
I really don't understand the heat that the new pope is receiving about washing feet of two young women. I don't get it. Again, I'm not Catholic so some clarity here (constructive, please) would be wonderful.
I think that it is wonderful that he is willing to take on a church that was (sorry) seemingly a hot mess for a while with all of the ick and garbage that was coming out. He seems to be a very humble man and that by his example, perhaps people can see that life is about living and being a servant, not about the person with the most toys winning at the end.
He is an example that extravagances are unneeded and that instead of lavishing upon ourselves, we should move forth and share among the masses. Again, I'm looking at this from a non-Catholic point of view, but to say that I don't pay attention to the pope would be a lie. My grandmother LOVED Pope John Paul. I recall her love for him and how she spoke of him. No big offense to Pope Benedict, but I don't believe that my grandmother would have been as enamored with him.
So please explain, if you can and if you would choose to, how a humble man who requires literally very little and is willing to move amongst the masses minus the popemobile and all, how he can be criticized for being who he is and how he is conducting business.
Be constructive and be kind, please.
I think that it is wonderful that he is willing to take on a church that was (sorry) seemingly a hot mess for a while with all of the ick and garbage that was coming out. He seems to be a very humble man and that by his example, perhaps people can see that life is about living and being a servant, not about the person with the most toys winning at the end.
He is an example that extravagances are unneeded and that instead of lavishing upon ourselves, we should move forth and share among the masses. Again, I'm looking at this from a non-Catholic point of view, but to say that I don't pay attention to the pope would be a lie. My grandmother LOVED Pope John Paul. I recall her love for him and how she spoke of him. No big offense to Pope Benedict, but I don't believe that my grandmother would have been as enamored with him.
So please explain, if you can and if you would choose to, how a humble man who requires literally very little and is willing to move amongst the masses minus the popemobile and all, how he can be criticized for being who he is and how he is conducting business.
Be constructive and be kind, please.
Monday, March 25, 2013
The hazmat tent has fallen with a great thud.
It's here. The YSF. What is that, you ask? In our house, it stands for the Yucky Stomach Flu. (A virus, but there is better ring with the "F.")
K woke me up on Friday morning at 5:30 AM by going into the bathroom and turning the light on. She never does that. I knew that something was up. She said that she was just going to the bathroom, but that she hadn't slept well all night. She asked that I come lay with her and rub her back.
Absolutely!
I snuggled in and noticed that K was warm in all of the wrong places. She was toasty on the tender skins, the undersides of her arms and her under pits. I took her temperature and it was 99.8, still in the normal range on our thermometer. I gave her Advil, she felt "so much better, Mom" and skipped off to school.
I was at school delivering some things to the classrooms and her teacher mentioned her saying that she wasn't feeling well. I looked in on her, asked the teacher that she was with if I could speak with her in the hall for a minute and that is when K's cheeks looked like Hatty the Hamster and I went running for the trash can. The teacher complimented me for knowing.
I took her home and Hubs came home early so that I could go back to help shuttle the frozen pastry items out for the fundraiser pick-up.
Hubs kept texting me. The news wasn't good. I came home to the sound of the laundry going and to the smell of disinfectant.
That's never good.
She fell asleep Friday night at 8 PM and didn't wake again until 7 AM. She felt like a new kid and decided that archery was a doable thing. She opted to ditch on swimming because she was certain that the warmth of the air + the amount of water that she would inevitably swallow made her think that wasn't a good mix for the pool. Normally, we don't skip, but she made a good case for it. Instead, we window shopped for Hatty.
Saturday, she continued to have a few bouts of nausea (she didn't have those until after archery) and so we laid low. She slept well that night and Sunday was a new day.
Sunday gave us Palm Sunday Service, a church meeting, laser tag and then roller skating with her sister. She was doing okay until she did splat cat on the roller skating floor. Her stomach hurt and I started freaking out that there would be some sort of internal damage.
Yes, I went a place I shouldn't go.
She took a bath, started to calm down, we watched Hatty and she said she was feeling a little better.
Fast forward to 1:20 AM when Hubs was standing over me saying, "Didn't you hear her calling for you?" I hadn't slept real well in the last few days, so no, I didn't and I felt like a louse. I jumped up, ran to her room and found her leaned over the garbage can.
Shoot.
She stayed home with Hubs, who reported that her low-grade fever had kicked back in. I phoned the nurse at the ped office who confirmed that it is the stomach virus, not to force fluids, it is 3-5 days and it isn't internal bleeding. (I had her laughing when I told her that I panicked and thought that but, "She wasn't vomiting blood so I thought we were okay!") Tomorrow is day 5. She may be staying home. The unfortunate thing is that it is the last week of the grading period and her teacher is less than forgiving with any unfinished work. What can we do? She doesn't send it home. She expects it to be done in class when they don't have time to accomplish the things that they are trying to do in there on a regular basis anyhow.
ARGH!
I'm hoping that tomorrow works for her. I really do. We've reviewed all through everything that we know was done. She has a make-up reading test to take when she gets back, a different reading test, spelling test and a math quiz for Thursday, plus research for a beaver project that she'll have due.
Oy.
K woke me up on Friday morning at 5:30 AM by going into the bathroom and turning the light on. She never does that. I knew that something was up. She said that she was just going to the bathroom, but that she hadn't slept well all night. She asked that I come lay with her and rub her back.
Absolutely!
I snuggled in and noticed that K was warm in all of the wrong places. She was toasty on the tender skins, the undersides of her arms and her under pits. I took her temperature and it was 99.8, still in the normal range on our thermometer. I gave her Advil, she felt "so much better, Mom" and skipped off to school.
I was at school delivering some things to the classrooms and her teacher mentioned her saying that she wasn't feeling well. I looked in on her, asked the teacher that she was with if I could speak with her in the hall for a minute and that is when K's cheeks looked like Hatty the Hamster and I went running for the trash can. The teacher complimented me for knowing.
I took her home and Hubs came home early so that I could go back to help shuttle the frozen pastry items out for the fundraiser pick-up.
Hubs kept texting me. The news wasn't good. I came home to the sound of the laundry going and to the smell of disinfectant.
That's never good.
She fell asleep Friday night at 8 PM and didn't wake again until 7 AM. She felt like a new kid and decided that archery was a doable thing. She opted to ditch on swimming because she was certain that the warmth of the air + the amount of water that she would inevitably swallow made her think that wasn't a good mix for the pool. Normally, we don't skip, but she made a good case for it. Instead, we window shopped for Hatty.
Saturday, she continued to have a few bouts of nausea (she didn't have those until after archery) and so we laid low. She slept well that night and Sunday was a new day.
Sunday gave us Palm Sunday Service, a church meeting, laser tag and then roller skating with her sister. She was doing okay until she did splat cat on the roller skating floor. Her stomach hurt and I started freaking out that there would be some sort of internal damage.
Yes, I went a place I shouldn't go.
She took a bath, started to calm down, we watched Hatty and she said she was feeling a little better.
Fast forward to 1:20 AM when Hubs was standing over me saying, "Didn't you hear her calling for you?" I hadn't slept real well in the last few days, so no, I didn't and I felt like a louse. I jumped up, ran to her room and found her leaned over the garbage can.
Shoot.
She stayed home with Hubs, who reported that her low-grade fever had kicked back in. I phoned the nurse at the ped office who confirmed that it is the stomach virus, not to force fluids, it is 3-5 days and it isn't internal bleeding. (I had her laughing when I told her that I panicked and thought that but, "She wasn't vomiting blood so I thought we were okay!") Tomorrow is day 5. She may be staying home. The unfortunate thing is that it is the last week of the grading period and her teacher is less than forgiving with any unfinished work. What can we do? She doesn't send it home. She expects it to be done in class when they don't have time to accomplish the things that they are trying to do in there on a regular basis anyhow.
ARGH!
I'm hoping that tomorrow works for her. I really do. We've reviewed all through everything that we know was done. She has a make-up reading test to take when she gets back, a different reading test, spelling test and a math quiz for Thursday, plus research for a beaver project that she'll have due.
Oy.
Sunday, March 24, 2013
The fundraiser surprise.
He lives! He breathes! He has a full name-- first, middle and last thankyouverymuch. For the blog, we'll just call him Hatty.
K is in love.
PS To bring yourself up to speed, I don't want you to think that Hatty arrived in a box of fundraiser goods. The scoop is here.
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