Homeschoolin' and Scrappin Mom in KY

Good Grief

2010-01-09T11:56:00.006-05:00

Benjamin opening gifts. He wouldn't stay still long enough to get a good pic of him.

Kevin and PattyJesse on Christmas morning

I can't believe I haven't blogged for this long. Not much going on around here just trying to pay bills, buy food and stay warm.

We didn't think Christmas was going to happen but thanks to a wonderful friend Jesse got gifts and had a wonderful Christmas. Thanks.

We had dinner Christmas day and had friends over. Later on that day Bobby, Chris and Benjamin came by. They had their girlfriends with them. So we got to see the grandbaby anyway. He's growing so much.

We took 3 weeks for break. I think we were both kind of burned out on school so we took an extended break for it. It has helped some but I don't know. I've been wondering if I should put her in public school. I don't know. It's hard making those decisions.

New Year's we were home by ourselves. Bob was out on the road. He works all thwe time and we are finally getting things caught up a little. So maybe it'll turn around soon. I hope so.

Well peeps take care and stay warm out there.

Hallowen

2009-11-01T15:45:00.002-05:00

Well another Halloween is over with. This will probably be her last year. We took her to the mall this year and to a church for trunk or treat. She won't walk up to the houses to trick or treat. A couple of years ago she got the bejezees scared out of her so now she's scared to walk to the doors. So I won't have to be aggravated by it anymore unless it's a party to go to.

Bob started another job. I hope to God this one is a better company and the checks will be consistant and not up and down all the time. This last company he worked at , I don't know how any of the drivers made a living driving for them. They don't give them enough miles. He sat a lot with them and when a driver is sitting they are not making any money.

Other than that not much else going on.

Bad Blogger

2009-10-18T11:39:00.003-04:00

I can't believe it's been over a month since I blogged. Not much really to blog about I suppose. We just been sitting at home not doing much. At the end of September we had the family reunion. It was fun. Quite a few people came this year. Several of them was the first time they had come to it.

We just stay home and compute and homeschool. She's working harder on math right now. Maybe she has finally come to realize she has to learn it and may as well try anyway. LOL That wouldn't be my luck.

Our furnace has been on the nlitz so I've been using the kerosene heater. It gives me headaches though. But it does warm it up.

I guess that's about it. Oh Jesse has been dog sitting this week. She made 50 bucks for it though. So she's in money heaven right now. LOL

See ya later

Oh What A Day (Yesterday that is)

2009-09-03T22:51:00.002-04:00

Well I did a good one. I thought I had a blackhead on my face. Yes I am a masher, can't stand it. If I know I have one on me I just have to mash it. Well I went to the bathroom morrior and looked and it seemed to be one. NOT. I mash it and blood starts flowing out of the place. I have blood running down my cheek on my blouse and the floor and even my toe. LOL No it's not funny but now that you think of it you have to laugh or I do. So I have blood pouring and can't get it to stop and I have toilet paper in my hand applying pressure and it still isn't stopping. So I call mom. Mom what do I do? I can't get it to stop bleeding. So she tells me keep the pressure on it and lay on the couch flat. So I do that. I've went through toilet paper, 3 paper towels and laying on the couch with a fresh one. Jesse keeps bringing me a fresh one. So the next thing I know, knock, knock. It's mom and my step dad. So she looks at it and all and tells me you need to put ice on it. So Jesse gets some ice and a wash rag. I put that on there for a while. It starts to alow finally. I manage to get a little band aid on it and it flows over it. So I put another one on top of it. So now I really look freaky. I have a bloody shirt on and two band aids on my face. But it did stop bleeding . The only I can figure is instead of mashing a bump I cut a blood vein.

Then we go for a walk every evening. So I go do my thing to go. As I'm walking down the darn stairs I fall. Yep I fell down the porch steps. So my left leg goes up under and behind me at the same time, my right leg does something else and my hand is trying to catch the fall at the same time. Let me tell ya I had no idea my limba could even move into those positions anymore if they ever did. So I don't know what happened to make me fall. But I got up today and my feet are hurting, my anklles, my legs and my right hand. My middle finger is swollen and hurts like hell. So I guess I sprain it or bruised it badly.

Oh well days like this happen but it had been quite a while since it happened to me. LMAO

Fair

2009-08-28T19:50:00.002-04:00

We went to the state fair on Monday with Michelle and Kaya. We went to the World Championship Horse Show and she loved it. It wasn't my cup of tes but the reason I went was for her.
It was my first time going to it. I have never wanted to go and didn't have the desire to go to it but it was kind of fun.

The rest of the week was spent at home just hanging out and homeschooling. Nothing glamorous. Oh we did go to Mom's for two days.

I got her health book and a new World History book. So we start those next week. Now I need to find her a good reading list.

I started getting more scrapping done, finally. I have been in such a funk lately and haven't really done any. I have kept up with my 365 and it has helped to scrap about thigs that have happened.

Well til next time
Be safe and be good

Tanner

2009-08-20T17:44:00.002-04:00

Well we finally had to make the awful decision to have Tanner put down. He had two seizures Monday and another one Tuesday. They really did a number on him this time. He was acting different this time after having them and it lasted far longer than it had before. He wouldn't lay down, eat or sleep. He didn't use the bathroom for a day and a half. Do I called the vets office to take him in. I knew this time we would have to do it. We had thought of it before but never went through with it. I just couldn't don it, ya know. We got to the vet's and he looked at him and said he was healthy. Jesse told him about him being hit by the car last year and then he started having the seizures about 6 months later. He said that was probably what caused them and it was brain trauma. Well I kind of knew this. He talked to us about the seizures and meds. he said they may work or may not that he couls still have them. He also started talking about brain damage and that was why he probably didn't eat or go out. That the nerves in his brain had went haywire and he forgot how to. So he said it was more humane to have him put to sleep. (don't ya just love that damn term) So we decided to. Tanner seemed like he came around for just a few seconds and he looked at me with those big brown calf eyes he had as if to say It's ok mommy. Then he went back to the staring . So the vet gave him a sedative and when it started taking effect he had a small seizure and I held him in my arms and told him it was OK just go to sleep and the pain will stop. You won't suffer anymore puppy. He went to sleep after the sedative took effect. Then the vet gave him the shot. He layed in my arms til he went to sleep forever. He took three deep breaths and he was gone. Forever. I'll never see him again. God I miss him too.

A boring Saturday

2009-08-15T08:32:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone. Good morning. It's early for me and usually I'm not up this time but around 10 or 11 am. I was up til 3 am and up at 6 am. Bob had to leave. Bobby and Benjamin stayed the night because Bobby was going to take Bob to Sellersburg, IN to pick his truck up. It had to be worked on. So early day.

Not much has been going on. I started walking a few months ago. I figured I needed to get off my fat ass and get to moving. So I have stopped so many Cokes and snacks. I did it for my diabetes so I could get a better grip on it. It still runs high but not as high as it was. Instead of being in the 2 and 3 hundreds now it's like 150 to 191. So that's good for me. Plus I have lost 33 pounds now. YAY me.

We started back to homeschooling this week. I can't believe it went as smooth as it did. She did great. No complaining, crying or a fit. She did everything even math. So good job to Jesse.

So I guess today I'll clean house since Bob is gone. Need to finish up the laundry. Joy joy. LMAO

Talk later

Monday

2009-07-13T22:50:00.002-04:00

Nothing new going on. Just sitting at home chillin with my hubby and daughter. She has a friend staying this week.

We finally got out of school. She passed all of her end of year tests. She did good in all of them except for math so I'm making her do 'summer homeschool' for that to help her. Hopefully she'll get it.

Other than that not much else I suppose. Bob's birthday is on Thursday. He'll be 59 this year. So we didn't know if he'd be home or not next weekend so we fixed his cake this week.

See ya later

Well it's Over

2009-06-24T12:32:00.002-04:00

Well the funeral is over and now everyone has gone their seperate ways and trying to deal with it all. For the ones that don't know my granny Opal died on the 19th. It was 3 days after her 77th birthday. They think it was a massive heart attack. I'll miss her cause I was visiting her in the nursing home and she wanted me to feed her. I never thought I'd ever be feeding my grandmother one day. But now I am so thankful I got to do a little something for her.

Talk to ya later

Busy, Busy, Busy

2009-06-20T00:19:00.003-04:00

I can't believe it's been this long since I've wrote on the blog. A lot has happened. Jesse's play was wonderful. She and the other kids did a fantastic job on it. All of them had their lines down. They had a great time after the play just playing and running around.

tanner is still having seizures. He had two the other day and even quit breathing with the second one. I just know one day it's gonna kill him.

I had my birthday on the 10th. I turned 41 this year. Ah where does the time go?
I've been giving Jesse her end of the year test this week. So far she's done good on the ones she has taken. Next week she'll be finished and we'll be out of school til August.

Well that's it for now. Talk to ya later

Tanner

2009-04-29T11:39:00.002-04:00

As a lot of you know we have a Sheltie named Tanner. He's a goofy dog but I love the piss out of him. He's a loving dog and loves Jesse. She bugs the hell out of him and he never bites her and loves to play with her. Bob gets him going too. He likes to grab his pants leg and tear holes in them. LOL
But he started having seizures a few months ago. I called the vet about it a few minutes ago and they recommend having him put to sleep./ That's tearing me up. I hatew to think of it but I know he's just suffering when he goes through one of them. They're getting woirse too. So now we have to make a decision.

Talk later guys.

Derby and Rain

2009-04-29T10:37:00.002-04:00

Well this week has been all about the KY Derby coming up on Saturday. It'll be the 135th run for the roses. So of course Krogerr is busy making the garlands. I hope it doesn't rain. It has been some this week and it's in the forecast. Let's hope the weathermen are wrong. I don't go to it. I have lived here all my life and never been to a derby. I just don't have any desire to go up there among the madness.

Worry

2009-04-05T16:41:00.003-04:00

Hey everyone. Well most of you know I homeschool Jesse. I've been homeschooling her since she was three. Of course 'officially' it's been about 4 years. Our school year will end June 12 and I'm already worried about next years curriculum. A wonderful Mom and Friend, Michelle, had us over and let me go through her stuff and she gave us a lot. As a matter of fact I have just about everything for next year. I guess a health curricula is the only thing I'm missing and I don't know if I have to teach it or not every year.
I drive myself crazy about this every damn year. Am I teaching her the right things, what should I buy and on and on it goes. So this year I'm not going to stress out about it as much as I usually do. That's what I'll keep telling myself anyway. LOL

She's doing good in all subjects except for math. So now I'm faced with this question, to advance her to 5th grade or keep her back? I'm totally arguing with myself on this one. Of course Bob says do what you think is best. Jesse is just tee totally pissed off about it. She was so mad at me when dshe heard me talking to her daddy about it. So solution still not found.

Oh well enough for today.
Take care

Rain Rain go away

2009-03-26T07:51:00.002-04:00

It's been raining for two days now. It's doing the grass wonders, growing and will probably have to get the mower out this weekend.
Last night Mom and Chester came over for dinner. IJesse and I fixed lasagna and salad. We had garlic bread to go with it. Mom brought a peach cobbler. It was very nice and she even complimented me on the lasagna. LOl

That's about it my hum drum life. Take it easy

Comments and such

2009-03-19T20:18:00.002-04:00

Hey all. I know it's been a few since I've been here to write anything. But thought I'd hop on and write a few things.
Not much going on right now. The doctor took me off the insulin and put me on pills. My sugar has gone down but it's still too high. I hope it keeps going down. I think he'll increase the dosage when I go in next month. I started alpha lipoic acid supplements too. Michelle from crafty scraps blogged about how it had helped her so I figured what the hell I'd give it a try. I haven't been on it long enough to tell yet but hopefully it will help. I think I'm going to start taking Estoven again too. It helps with the freakin night sweats and all the other lovely things that go along with menopause. JOY JOY JOY. You know what I'm talking about.

I also wanted to give DSG a shout. Thanks to the fantastic ladies who run it for making it an AWESOME site and the wonderful ladies who comment their asses off on the beautiful LOs that are posted everyday.

See ya

Sunday

2009-03-08T20:05:00.002-04:00

Hey everyone. I know it's been a while since I've been here but thought I'd post something.
It's freakin 71 degrees here in KY today. There was tornado watches and warnings and some storms. Thank goodness we just got a little storm here.

I haven't really been up to anything but doing some LOs for DSG. I pretty much just go there now. Some of the other sites are getting bored. At DSG the gals leave wonderful comments on the LOs all the time and we carry on and are a bunch of Goffy Dorks there. I have a lot of comments and at the other sites I haven't got close to what I have there. I try to leave comments on the sites but when you don't get any you don't care I guess. But I really love the DSG site.

Tomorrow is another drama club meeting. They're going to read through the play again and suppose to bring what costumes or outfits they have from home. So it should be a fun oine.

Talk later

I Guess I'm a Bad Blogger

2009-02-18T20:03:00.001-05:00

It's been a while since I've been here to write anything. It gets discouraging when no one stops in though and says HI. I try to also but I know life gets in the way.

Jesse's drama club is full steam ahead for the play. It may be called Just Imagine or The Daydreamer. Their not sure yet. She's having fun though and she's so expressive. I just can't believe it really.

Other than that nothing's going on. Just boring old stuff.

Later

365 Project

2009-02-04T14:26:00.003-05:00

Well I don't think I'm gonna put anymore of the 365 LOs on the blog. It's too time consuming for one thing so I'm calling it quits with posting them.

Thanks are slowly getting back to normal around here but I'm still not back in my normal routine.

Lynn did the ADSR challenge 10 and she had to ask me questions and do a LO. She did a fab job on it. It's really awesome.

Talk later

Ice Storm of 2009

2009-02-01T18:27:00.003-05:00

Well it's been a hell of a ride this week. Monday we had an ice storm to hit. We got about three inches of ice here. Then it snowed a little. We didn't get as much as they thought we would. Thank goodness for that.

The power went out Tuesday night. So no heat or lights and of course no internet. LOl I missed it some but not as bad as I thought I would. Thankfully we had a kerosene heater and that was a lot when there's no heat at all. Of course we had food in the freezer and fridge. So I was worried about that and the fact we couldn't drink the eater. I had ran three gallons as soon as the power went out though. I also ran water through the good old Bunn coffee maker to get a pot of coffee and put it in the carafe for the next day. I gotta have my coffee. I am very grumpy without it.

I was running low on kerosene and had a half tank and my little brother said well hell that'll only last 6 hours. So he brought me some up Wednesday night. He filled the heater and left me some. Then I talked to Bob and he was close enough that he said he thought they'd let hi come home. So he got home about 1 am. I feel a lot safer when he's around. He had to go out though so Jesse and I went to Mom's to stay. We got a shower and god that felt so good. I took what we had in the deep freezer over to her house. She cooked all of it. I was so glad it didn't go bad. That was a relief.

Kentucky has been called a disaster area now though. The govenor called the National Gaurd out and they were suppose to start checking door to door today to check on people. Western KY got hit the hardest they said. Tree branches are down everywhere and electrical poles have been snapped in half and we saw one that had been broke in three parts. It was just unreal when I first saw all of it. It's amazing what mother nature can do. I feel so sorry for the lineman out there fixing the lines. And anyone else in it that's helping folks out. The American Red Cross has set up two or three shelters here in the county to help out too.

But we're home now and have heat and can use the water but still have to conserve on it.

What a day

2009-01-27T12:58:00.004-05:00

Day 23; Credit Kimberly Stewart

Day 22: Credit Wetfish Designs QP

Day 21: Credit; Wetfish Designs QP

The latest LOs of my 365.

Well today and last night we got round 1 of the snow and ice storm. It's a hell of a system moving this way to bring more later on today. Now we have freezing rain falling. Joy joy.

I haven't been up to much the past few days. I was sick last week and I had a couple of bad headaches. I got over it though.

Monday we had a play and drama club. The play sucked and the drama club was interesting. The kids wrote scenes for the play and all I can say is it'll be funny and they seem to really be pleased with how it turned out.

More ADSR and 365 Layouts

2009-01-17T17:38:00.004-05:00

Day 17: Credit Rebecca Labbe QP made with kit from Wetfish Designs

Day 16: Credit scrapteamphotofiltre

Day 15- I love the effects on the photos in this one.

Credit: dreamer paula QP febbie at chat

Day 14- Credit Angelflight Scraps: Jesse when we were doing school

Day 13 Credit: paula dreamer QP

ADSR challenge 4: Credit DeDe Smith Paint Your Rainbow

I really like how this one turned out. I even made the paint splats at the upper right my self. We were to use artsy elements. I think it looks good.

See ya tomorrow hopefully.

More 365

2009-01-13T17:40:00.004-05:00

Day 12; Credit: Michelle Powell's kit A Blue Christmas . She tried for the teacher role and got it. It isn't the lead role but one of them.

Day 11: Credit: Michelle Pieters chat QP

Day 10: Credit: scrapteam photo filtre QP

Day 9: Credit: CJs Scrap with an attitude

There's my last few days 365 layouts. I'm enjoying it but I get to thinking am I going to have that much stuff to take pictures of this year? We'll see.

Jesse got the lead role of the play yesterday. She'll be the teacher and has a lot of talking to do. But that shouldn't be a problem for her. LOL

See ya tomorrow

365, ADSR and Etc...

2009-01-09T00:25:00.003-05:00

Hey everybody, hope your having a great day. It's cold here but other than that everythings fine. jesse's doing good in school. Tomorrow is test day so that's all she'll do. Which is good because I think she has 4 tests.

The ADSR is going good still. Lynn and I got our challenge 2 done and posted.

Day 8- Cindy Ritter

Day 7- Angelflight Scraps QP

Day 6- Credits: Carena's Desings for the template; Ladybug Graphix and Flutterby Designs Sweet Dreams

ADSR and 365

2009-01-06T15:10:00.003-05:00

Day 1 - Credits Katie Mann

Day 2- Credits: Amanda Thorderson

Day 3- Credit: Rowena Field

Day 4- Credit: Silivia Romeo

Day 5- Credits: Ninis Notions; Donna Lebrun

I'm doing both of these. The ADSR I'm doing with Lynne. i like it so far. I'm having fun with it.

The 365 I started and I'm doing good so far keeping up with it. I take a photo each day and scrap it.

Have a great day!

Boring Day

2009-01-04T16:18:00.002-05:00

Not much going on here just sitting around. It's wet and I hate to get out in it. But we did earlier cause I had to go get my insulin and a few groceries. We got out of WalMart without spending 100.00 and that's rare.

Ya'll have a good day. Gotta go work on some LOs.

365

2009-01-03T02:49:00.002-05:00

Well I have 3 LOs of the 365 pages for 2009 done. They look pretty good too. I'm doing the Resolve To Scrap over at Digitals. They have a wonderful challenge for it. Divine Digital does also but I figure I better not get too much on my plate.

Has anyone else noticed that more of the scrap sites are going to points or things like that for posting bonuses instead of a mini kit or a QP? I'm not really liking the idea all that much but trying to get use to it. Gotta Pixel I think was the latest one to do it.

Bob will be getting home sometime tonight well early this morning now. So I'll be glad to see him.

Have a great day!

An End

2008-12-31T22:58:00.005-05:00

Well 2008 is almost at an end. I want to wish all of you

A HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you all have a good night and be safe.

I gotta start taking pics at midnight cause I think I'm going to do the 365 challenge this year. I don't know if I can keep it up all year long but I'm gonna try.

See ya next year.

Christmas

2008-12-28T18:23:00.002-05:00

We had a great great Christmas! We went to Mom's on Christmas Eve. We were all in a good mood believe it or not. Someone usually isn't. Everybody loved the calendars I made them. Of course the bragbooks went over real good. Jesse got a lot of toys of course. She was happy with everything she got.

On Christmas day I cooked dinner for us. Later on that day the boys came up and ate. We had a great time. Jesse got a horse blanket and a 50 dollar gift card to Barnes and Noble. She loves to read.

Friday Brenda and her husband came up. She brought her oldest daughter with her. It was a great visit. It was a very emotional reunion for them after 25 years of not seeing each other. We all cried and snotted. LOL She and I even had a great talk by ourselves. She's a beautiful girl, well a woman. They had to leave Saturday though and that was hard. We tried to talk them into staying another day but they couldn't.

Happy New Year everyone

Not Much

2008-12-23T19:10:00.003-05:00

There's not a whole lot going on today. We have some freezing rain right now. Today when we came back home I was slippin and slidin coming up my steps and my sis was laughing at me and I told her Yep un-uh laugh at me again.

I got the rest of Christmas dinner fixins. Cornish hens, ham, stuffing, mashed potatoes, deviled eggs and I don't know what else. Cheesecake and cake for dessert plus all the fudge. I think I may have to take extra insulin. LOL

Mom's house is all clean for tomorrow. So that's done anyway. Everyone will be there except her mom and brothers I guess. So that sucks but what are ya suppose to do?

But anywho if I don't get back on by Christmas, everyone have a very

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Too Much Work

2008-12-22T01:30:00.003-05:00

Hey gals, sorry I didn't get on here earlier today (or yesterday now). I made some more fudge and the peppermint balls. They were more like a biscuit. I guess that's the word. So not bad but not my first choice.

I didn't get to talk to Malik today. So missed him. LOl Bobby called and we talked for a bit but not as long as we did the other day. I have found out though I like talking to him esp. recently. We're both more open with each other about the last 18 years.

Bob was layed over in Memphis, TN. over the weekend so we've talked quite a few times. Every time he talks to one of his kids now it's like he's just more in 'awe' at the idea that he has all 5 of them in his life now. He told me tonight that he'll be glad to get his arms around them and give them a hug. We can't wait to see them. I hope we can get the money together soon for a road trip to visit.

I cleaned house today. Not the regular cleaning but major house cleaning. I moved the living room around. Of course Bob gave me down the road for that. I should have waited for him to be home before I did it. But I see his point because my damn shoulder is killing me tonight. Then I moved the table in my office. It was that big a deal but it made my shoulder scream more. So I downed the ibuprphens. LOL I took 4 of them and wish I had something a 'wee' bit stronger for it. But oh well....

I started reading Eclipse, again. I think this is the 4th time now. What is it about these damn book. But I love them.

Hope ya'lls Sunday was great.

Sweet SATURDAY

2008-12-20T16:22:00.005-05:00

Bob and me

Credit: Amanda Thorderson

Bob and me LO for lyric challenge at DSG.

Credit: Ladybug Graphix

The top one is me when I was 9.

Credit: Ladybug Graphix Bellisimo kit

Here's some LOs I wanted to share. I need to do some of Malik and Brenda but need to see if it's OK with them first.

This is a QP by Alessandra Designs. I love it.

Today i've been making fudge. I have butterscotch and peanut butter gone and still have 4 batches of white and a chocolate to go. This year I'm gona try a new recipe. It's called Peppermint Snowballs and they look so good. It's from Kims Scrappin. So I'll give it a try and let ya know.

Last night I chatted with Malik for a while. Then Bob called at 1:45 am and we got off the phone at 4 am this morning. I tell ya his kids finding us I think had changed all of us. We're just intune more with one another and I didn't think that could happen with the two of us.

So yesterday I talked to all my Ricketts men except one.

Between two of them I talked for 5 hours. LOL The battery on the phones ran down too. LOL

Arlington

2008-12-19T06:57:00.003-05:00

This is a photo that was in an email I got. But it just hit me so I thought I'd share it with ya. It sent cold chills all over me.

Then I thought last night as I went to bed well at about 3 this morning, have a comfy nights sleep. But OH NO. The cat decided to piss and shit in the bed. I couldn't believe it. I have no clue why she did but UGH. So I stripped the bed and went and slept on the couch.

The wind and rain woke me this morning and I was laying in a pool of sweat. With the diabetes and insulin, my sugar bottomed out on me last night. So of course when I tell hubby later he'll 'lecture' me. LOL Naw he just worries.

Last night my step son called me at about midnight and we talked til 1:30 or so this morning. I told him I was gonna slap him when I saw him again. LOL He's driving a truck now also and I worry about him out there. He was in Chicago and the best of weather is not up there ya know. We had a great conversation though. The best we've had in quite a while. He can hear a difference in Bob too since the older kids found him. He sounded happy about everything too.

Well ya'll have a great weekend!

Terrible Thursday

2008-12-18T20:31:00.003-05:00

Oh god days like these make me wish I'd stayed in the damn bed. The dog has been puking, the kids just oo ugh %?*& you know.

She didn't want to do school. As a lot of you know I homeschool her and today was one of those days that made we wish I'd sent her to public school. She's just been so difficult today to put it nicely. LOL

But I did talk to Bob for a while tonight. So that made me feel better til he told me would probably be out over the weekend. He's on his way to Texas now. So that kind of screwd the day. But oh well when he does get hom he may be home til after Christmas or the first of the year. it's hard telling with him being a truckdriver. This is the first year he's had a 'regular' truckdriving job. The last 12 years he'd been on a dedicated run so we knew what his runs were going to be. Then he started going to Canada and he left on Tuesdays and home on Saturdays. Now he usually leaves on Sundays and who the hell knows when they'll send him home. But trucking is all the man knows so line of work is of out of the question. Good grief he's been doing it off and on for about 32 or 33 years or longer. While at the one company he got over 1 million moiles while he was there. So he has driven a lot of miles. And I love him, always have always will.

My no bake cookies turned out good this year. I was glad. Last year they were YUCK so I threw them away. LOL

I'll 'see' ya tomorrow.

Wonderful Wednesday

2008-12-17T15:11:00.004-05:00

Well yesterday Malik didn't email and I really missed not talking to him. What do ya think that mother hen building up more?

But he wrote today and we IMd back and forth. Had a great conversation (I feel like anyway). I really am finding myself looking forward to hearing from him and Brenda though.

Jesse and I made some sugar cookies and going to make chocolate no bakes after while. Then I have 5 batches of white fudge to make. All the nieces and nephews on my side love that one. I'll have to find what the grandkids on Bob's side likes and make batches next year to send them LOL.

Here's a photo I wanted to share of Bob when he was in Vietnam. I didn't think it was him when I first saw it and had him doubting it too. It doesn't look like the same person to me. I told him he was better looking in the second one. LOL

Some LOs

2008-12-16T00:34:00.005-05:00

This was our anniversary of 18 years. I'm proud of that LOL
Credits: Chris Greiser and Cindy Ritter

This was a two pager I did at Digitals and DSG.

Credit: NinisNotions

This was for the lyrics challenge at DSG. This was our wedding.

Credit: Ladybug Graphix

Play and Weather

2008-12-15T21:47:00.002-05:00

Today we went to see a Christmas play. It was really good. Jesse loved it. It was called The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. It was really really good.

Then we all went to lunch and went back to the theater for a behind the scenes tour. It was very interesting for all of us since we're going to be doing our own play and production.

The weather is really sucky right now. We had rain today and then freezing rain. Now it's ice falling and then we're suppose to get some snow. YUCK!!!!!!! So I'm not going outside til it's gone. LOL

Still In Shock

2008-12-15T16:56:00.004-05:00

It seems like the shock of all that happened over the weekend is still with us. Last night Bob and I were laying in bed dead ass tired and we couldn't stop talking about the kids. We just keep saying I can't believe it to each other. I know I'm only a step mom to them but I really hope they will accept me also into their lives ya know cause I love them too even though I haven't met them or anything I do. If that's understandable. they mean a lot to me too. I suppose because I've been on the journey of looking for them with Bob and seen the pain that decision of long ago caused him but he thought it was best. They are so different than his other two kids. I've tried to build a relationship with them over 18 years but could never get close to them or know them but with the two just finding us you can tell they 'care' for lack of a better word. I am still just so happy for all three of them.

Bob has got 5 kids all together. We only have one and of course you all know that's Jesse (like you haven't seen enough scrap pages of her LOL). I wish we could have another but we can't cause he got 'clipped' and he said it was too dangerous for me. So I have to live with that. But I am blessed to have her and lucky that we're both still here. I shouldn't complain because a lot of people can't have any children. She means the world to me and I'd do anything in the world for her and I am so lucky to now have all 4 step children too.

Thanks for listening.

Til tomorrow
Tab

More Christmas Miracle

2008-12-14T22:20:00.002-05:00

Last night Bob's daughter called. He hasn't seen her since she was about 3. He has had a fabulous weekend talking to his two first born kids. Todat his son set up a conference where we could see them and talk to them. It was amazing. I just still can't believe it. For the last 18 years we've been together it was my journey too helping him look for the kids. I could never find them and then his son was messing around on the computer and typed his name in the phone number came up and he said what the hell and called. He was surprised and his dad was too when he told him who he was.

It's just been a wonderful weekend.

Christmas "Miracle"

2008-12-13T23:10:00.002-05:00

That's the way I really do feel about it. Friday night we were eating dinner and the phone rang. Bob went and got it and said wireless caller so I figured it was a friend of us. But it wasn't. It wasn't. It was his son that he hadn't seen for about 29 years. He told us who he was and who he was looking for and we looked at each other with our mouths hanging open and said well you've found him. They talked for over an hour. I jumped in too. I was crying and a friend of our's who was here was too. We just couldn't believe it. We have been trying to find them for years. We never could just kept hitting brick walls. But the feeling was just so awesome ya know. I just still can't believe it. Bob is just on cloud 9 and not coming down anytime soon.

Then today his daughter called. He was crying and she was too. She couldn't believe it and all that was happening. They talked twice today. So I just really really hope they want to be in our lives cause we sure want them in ours.

We're all still in shock with all of it. Bob said This is the best Christmas ever".

I am so happy for them.

ADSR

2008-12-12T01:30:00.002-05:00

I'll be doing the race this year with Lynn. I'm a little intimadated by it but I'm just gonna relax and have fun with it.

The Tree

2008-12-11T03:11:00.002-05:00

Well the tree is all done and she put the village under the tree. It looks pretty good. Here's a photo of it.

Tuesday

2008-12-09T10:43:00.002-05:00

Jesse getting the lights just right. It did turn out better than I thought it would have. She had fun decorating it. I'm just in a bah humbug mood this year I guess. I'll get a photo of the finished tree up soon. She put mostly home made ornaments on it and it's really cute.

Christmas Tree

2008-12-08T17:13:00.002-05:00

Well I wasn't even going to put a tree up this year but we decorated mom's for her and Jesse wanted to put our tree up. So that's what we did today. It looks okay but I swear that tree is the ugliset shaped one I've ever seen. So I think another one will be bought for next year. It looks pretty good. We put a lot of lights on it but I'd still liked more on it. We put all homemade ornaments on it except for about 10 store bought ones.

See ya tomorrow. I might post a photo of the tree.

Finally Friday

2008-12-05T23:05:00.002-05:00

Well Friday has finally got here. DH got home early this week. So we had a good day today. Earlier this week we celebrated 18 years togehter and the damnest thing is we both forgot it. LOL But then again we usually do. That's awful ain't it?

Jesse had 3 tests in school today and got 100s on all of them. So that's all I made her do.

Cath ya'll tomorrow. Have a good weekend.

Anniversary

2008-12-03T16:12:00.002-05:00

Well today is out 18th anniversary of being together. We've been married 10 of them. We didn't get to do anything as he is stuck in Pennsylvania at the moment. But he'll be home this weekend hopefully. I just can't believe we've been together this long but then sometimes it's like we've always been together . Here lately I don't what the hell is going on with me. It's like my body is turning against me. I don't know if it's turning 40, menopause or hormones. But he's liking whatever it is. I swear since I turned 40 though it's like a switch has been turned on. I have the feelings and stirrings of a 'younger' woman or a horny teenager. I dn't know which but he loves it of course. He tolds me it was like I woke up and realized I had a husband.

I love him more than anything and always have always will.

UGH!!!!!!!!

2008-11-29T00:41:00.002-05:00

I am so getting in the Grinch mood with Christmas coming up. i just can't get in the spirit of Christmas this year. Don't know what it is but hope it passes soon.

thanks for 'listening'.

Funky Friday

2008-11-28T21:58:00.001-05:00

Well I didn't go shopping this year. I didn't have any extra money so I stayed home in bed.

I've just sat around the house all day. I made some peanut butter fudge and some Hello Dollies. Jesse has been wanting some so I fixed it for snacks on Monday for the drama club.

Have a great weekend. I will as soon as hubby gets home on Sunday. Tomorrow I get to go clean my mom's house. Woo Hoo

Happy Thanksgiving

2008-11-27T07:42:00.002-05:00

HAPPY THANKSGIVING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope you have a fun and blessed day today.

Bob got home early so we had dinner yesterday. Now he's on his way to Texas.
I'm THANKFUL for:

Bob
Jesse
rest of my family
digi scrappin friends I have made
and of course the basics.

Have a great day

Damn Viruses

2008-11-24T14:56:00.001-05:00

UGH! This morning at 5:30 I was hit by some viruses. Damn they just kept coming up one after the other. Then adware. Good grief I thought I was never gonna get done with scans and deleting. But I finally did after 3 hours.

OK enough of my rant.

Jan thanks for letting me know about the movie. In this hick town I might be lucky to see it three or four weeks. Glad you enjoyed it.

Have a great day All.

Wandering Thoughts

2008-11-23T11:52:00.001-05:00

Hey everybody

Nothing much going on here just on the puter. My speakers quit working yesterday. UGH Now I need to get some new ones.

Bob leaves today. He's going to Ohio on his first load. Then who knows. Hopefully he'll be home for Thanksgiving Thursday but if not I always wait and cook the big dinner when he is home.

So I guess that's it for now.

Have a great day!

Saturday

2008-11-22T20:54:00.002-05:00

Well another boring day here in Kentucky. I had to go get my insulin and needles. We dropped the water bill off and went to get hubby's stuff out of the truck. We didn't get to see Twilight again. So we're just going to wait for a week and try again. Hopefully I'll get to see it. hell I may just wait for it to come out on DVD and buy the damn thing.

Take care

Twilight

2008-11-21T20:28:00.001-05:00

Dear hubby tried to take me on a 'date' tonight to see the Twilight movie but it was sold out for the last two shows. So he said he'd take me tomorrow. So I hope it won't be.

See ya

Lots of stuff to do

2008-11-19T11:07:00.002-05:00

I didn't sleep worth a crap last night well I couldn't go to sleep. I went to bed at 4 thirty this morning finally. I made some of my Christmas gifts. I made three calendars, two brag books and another ornament. I am almost done with most of these.

Is anyone ready for the Twilight movie? I can't wait for it. I hope I can get to see it tomorrow but I probably won't. DeDe Smith is having her book chat tonight on it. Twilight was on our reading list so that chat is tonight at 9 pm at Divine Digital.

Well gonna go get some mundane things done around the house like washing and vac and things like that. BORING. I turned my matress over yesterday and knocked a lamp off the nightstand and a picture off the wall. Go figure.

Have a great day all.

Tired

2008-11-18T12:28:00.003-05:00

Hey ya'll. Not much on today, just sitting around right now. i need to do a lot but no energy for it right now.

Yesterday we had drama club. The kids did some brainstorming on the play. They had a lot of fun. Their excited about the play and getting to do it all themselves.

Bob didn't get to go out yesterday but instead this morning. Freight is really slow right now they said. I hope it picks up soon with the holidays coming up.

Have you got all of your Thanksgiving dinners and visits planned? I have all my stuff now for dinner. Now we just have to wait so I can start fixing it.

Have a great day!

2008-11-16T18:04:00.005-05:00

Here's some photo ornaments I made for Christmas gifts this year, I like them and I hope all of them will too.

Credit for LO's: 1st one: Lisse Scrap Navidad kit

2nd one: WaterLo Project Christmas kit

2008-11-16T13:48:00.002-05:00

Well today is just a lazy Sunday afternoon. I just did my emails and blog hopping. I found some grerat QPs for Christmas.

I have made so far, three brag books, 3 photo album ornaments(I need to put them on here so you can see them) and some cards. So I'm trying to get ready. Boy it's a lot of work. But it's worth it all when I see their faces as they look through the books.

We got most of our Thanksgiving dinner stuff yesterday. I'm looking forward to it. In school we'll only have two days that week and I think since I h0omeschool we're going to take the whole week off. It's kind of like what's the point?

See ya tomorrow.

2008-11-13T12:14:00.001-05:00

Nothing much going on. I woke up this morning with a stopped up nose and head. I hope I'm not getting sick. It's been raining here for two days off and on. Their calling for snow showers or flurries on Saturday. I can't wait to see the white stuff falling.

Other than that it's a quiet day so far.

New Layout

2008-11-12T11:19:00.003-05:00

This is a LO I did for Michelle Powell's challenge at Divine Digital. I CT for her there but this was at her Monday Mixer chat.

Credit: Michelle Powell Spring Season kit

Stephanie Krush for the torn paper action

2008-11-11T00:29:00.001-05:00

Hey ya'll. Well I know this is sad but I have read all the Twilight books again. I'm on the last one again. This is the 3rd time I've read them. I don't know what it is about them but....

Not much going on here. It's got colder than it was. We go from sunny and warm to cloudy and cold. I guess that's fall weather though and it's Indian summer also.

Well I guess that's about it for today.

Twilight

2008-11-05T19:45:00.003-05:00

I had this book on DeDe Smith's reading list at Divine Digital. It's about vampire's and I was like well I will not like this. But guess what? I LOVE this book! I am so serious about that. I have already the whole saga twice now. I never ever read a book twice. this is the first time I have ever read one book twice not to think of reading the whole series twice. They are by Stephanie Meyer. I've read reviews about her writing not being 'all that' but I like the way she wrote them. I hope though that she'll write more about Jacob and Renesme which is Edward and Bella's baby. I love the stories and I'll probably read them again, at least Twilight. I loved it and Eclipse.

These are for young adults but I am 40 years old and loved them. I don't know what it is with them though cause I can't get them out of my head now. It's like I'm a little obsessed with Edward and Bella and the whole Cullen clan now. LOL I can't wait til the movie comes out. I'm gonna be sure to go see it.

I haven't been up to much more because I've been reading these and everything else has fell to the wayside so I could read, read and read some more.

Have a great day all.

I'm Home

2008-10-24T16:53:00.001-04:00

We're back home. We had to go to Mom's. She hurt her foot and can't walk on it at all. It's swollen from her ankle to her toes. She had me get on the internet and look up gout and that's what we think it is. She did go to the doc and they thought maybe it was too. So they took blood to test her kidney functions and for the uric acid. They said the results should be in Monday. So til then she has to keep it up and put an ice pack on it.

Other than nothing too much going on here.

Take care ya'll
Tab

2008-10-15T08:48:00.002-04:00

There's nothing going on here really just everday life. Bob has been home since Friday night. He's a truckdriver and they didn't call him all day yesterday and when he finally called they said freight was slow. I hope this don't continue. That makes very small paychecks.

Talk to ya later

2008-10-10T08:13:00.000-04:00

Not much going on. I've been doing some new LOs of the vacation and Jesse's field trips. She had her first drama club Monday. They had to do a small skit and she was really good at it. I thought hse'd be really nervous but she wasn't or at least she didn't showit.

We also had her birthday party at mom's on Sunday. She got 51.00 in cash, a necklace and an egg that she put in water and it 'hatched' a baby dino. LOL she was tickled with it.

See ya later.

I'm Having a Blast at the Bash

2008-10-04T08:57:00.000-04:00

Digitals turned 4 this month. They are having so many things at the forum. I'm having a blast with the treasue hunt and blog train.

When they party it's well worth going too for sure!

We're Back

2008-09-29T10:57:00.001-04:00

Deer

Jesse

The Old Mill

Hello everybody. We got back from TN Thursday and I've been busy as heck getting everything put up. That's a job. I don't know when I'll go on vacation again but I had a great time.

We got there Sunday afternoon. We went to the cabin and were disappointed at first. It was smaller than what the web site said and there wasn't a lot of the things they said was there. The 'mountain view' was a hillside. It had a hot tub but it didn't work right so that ticked me off. The jacuzzi tub worked though and it was nice. It had a big porch though with rocking chairs. Mom and me set out there a lot.

We went to Cade's Cove on Monday. It was a long ride but we saw deer and Jesse loved that. There was a small 'village' and we walked around and looked at that.

There was the Old Mill. Jesse really liked that.

A few more things

2008-09-17T08:16:00.000-04:00

I've been in a rut with my scrapping lately. I've been doing a lot of challenges on the scrap sites and I have been doing that for a year now and I guess I've just scrapped myself out right now. I hope when I get back from TN. I'll be good as new.

I've been using templates a lot. I finally figured out to use them. LOL I love it because my LO is done all I have to do is put my papers and elements on it and I'm done.

Trying to get ready

2008-09-17T07:26:00.000-04:00

Good Morning! Well we'll be leaving Sunday for vacation. I can't wait. I know it's just to Pigeon Forge but I haven't been on a 'real' vacation my whole life. LOL I'm not kidding. I've been trying to get Bob to take me down there for 18 years and he never has wanted to go so when my Mom asked me I jumped on the offer. Jesse's very excited about it. We're going to the Dixie Stampede too and she is so in love with that. Mom got her a ticket and told her that's for her birthday.

Wwell I guess that's it for now. See ya later.

First Day

2008-09-10T19:37:00.000-04:00

Today is my first day in blogging here. As a matter of fact I just got it set up.

I'm not a desinger or anything but I love to scrap!

My name is Tabatha and I live in KY with my husband, Bob and our daughter, Jesse.

I homeschool and we love it.

This will just be a place where I ramble about our little piece of Earth. I will probably post pictures of school, field trips and maybe some LOs every now and then.

So if you want to leave me a Hello.