A New Site

Well, I am now a double blogger! Holly and I have started a Graceful Designs blog that lists all of our products and all of that. Our business is growing and it is so much fun! So, if you don't currently receive our emails, check us out at our new blog:
http://gracefilleddesigns.blogspot.com/

Hiding in the Bathroom

Well, it is only a little after 2 and I think I'm going to call it a day and go lock myself in the bathroom with my bubble bath and a good book! Gee, so much has happened today - where do I start?

-Today was the first day with my new haircut; I think we all know how awkward that is. Do they really like it or do they just know that they have to say something because of how drastic the change is?
-I was asked out on a date and propositioned by a furniture salesman with too many tatoos and more piercings than I have - and yes, I was wearing my wedding ring.
-I went to the dentist and will have to fork out oodles of money for a crown for a tooth that I broke while eating a harmless bag of low fat popcorn.
-I almost got ran off the road on the way to get Tyler by someone who was obviously not paying attention.
-I have been blessed out via email for some forms that I hadn't turned in yet that I actually did turn in a few days ago.

My husband will fuss at me if I don't also list some positive things about my day - thanks Dennis!

-I joined an online Bible Study this morning that I'm very excited about. I'm missing not doing the one at church, but just feel like for right now that I'm not supposed to do that.
-I went to work and also got paid today.
-I got to bake muffins last night and take some to Tyler and Kayla's teachers today - that was fun. Something so incredibly small means so much.
-I just got my socks blessed off by the entry of Angie Smith's husband Todd on their blog. See the link - "Bring the Rain" under my blog list. Do I still have a blog list since I changed my background and messed up all my settings?
-Graceful Designs is busier than we have been ??ever??
-My kids start Kids Choir tonight - yea!

There you go - the go and the bad! Hope everyboby is having a great day!

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Okay, not sure what is going on with this background and if it is something bad, you'll have to forgive me for being ignorant. I just liked the purple and then I realized it had words on it. ??? Oh well.

So, we have been, once again, at a standstill with home improvements. I can't remember if I posted about the mess up with the cutting of the countertops. One countertop came out right but the rest of them were either not cut in an acceptable fashion or they weren't cut the right size. Lovely. So, I do have to say though that Lowes has been wonderful. They called today to let us know they would be in this week and that the managers were talking about how they were going to compensate us for having to wait so long. My hand shot up like that little annoying child who always sits in the front row and always knows the answers --- "ooohhhhh, me, me, me, pick me, you could give them to us for free!!!" Actually, I told Craig that they could just give us a new tape measure and I would be ecstatic. We had no idea that they were even thinking about cutting us a deal. So, more to come on that...

We had a rough afternoon today. Kayla's homework took her about an hour and a half. Not because it was difficult or because there was so much there, just because this is how things go sometimes. One spelling sheet and one page of math problems, and an hour and a half later there was gnashing of teeth and tears. Then she wanted to know why it was that she just couldn't come home from school and just relax after having worked so hard all day. I wanted to ask the same question for myself. Actually, I wanted to stomp my feet and have a tantrum, but I decided that was not mature. THEN, we started dinner. Now, let me tell ya'll what I cooked for dinner tonight. Seriously, I was so proud of myself because I have not been in a cooking mood lately, so tonight was pretty good for me. I cooked a pork roast with potatoes, steamed squash, and broccoli casserole. Craig was complimenting me on how good it was and I was thinking to myself, "hey, this is pretty good". Kayla asks if she can have more pork roast and I look at her plate to see that she still has quite a bit of bro. casserole left and some squash left. I am a firm believer that if you want seconds you have to finish all of your firsts. So I tell her to finish what's left on her plate first, to which she responds, "can I just be excused?". Sure, I say, but don't ask for a snack after school tomorrow. To which her face falls. I explain that if we don't eat our dinner, we don't eat snacks either. "Mom, please, I need to say something, it's just that you used to cook these really good meals..." It is at this point that my husband interrupts her to let her know that her conversation doesn't sound like it is going in a very good place. More tears and teeth gnashing.So there you have it. I used to cook pretty good and now my cooking stinks! I had to laugh! The night did get better after that and I actually think that I have done enough laundry and ironing today that we will be able to postpone naked day tomorrow. I know that is very disappointing to at least one of my blog readers - sorry bames!

Where Did My Babies Go?

Okay, so I am having a bit of drama over my children growing up. Eeeesh. I don't know why, but somewhere in the last month my children went from being babies to adults, or at least they think so!:) Tyler will start Kindergarten next year and then what will I do with myself. Next year will be Kayla's last year of elementary school. I think I would just like to freeze time right now and let my kids stay this age for the next several years. I took Kayla shopping tonight b/c she had lots of birthday money to spend. Oh my --- have ya'll seen what kind of clothes they have for 9 year old girls? They look just like the clothes that they have for 29 year old girls. What is the deal? I'm so thankful that Kayla is mostly a blue jeans and T-shirts kind of girl, but still... We finally settled on a new dress for church that was right at the minimum length requirement for Churchill girls. Then let's see, after that we entered Hannah Montana world. Can I tell you that I'm extremely sick of HM and Zack and Cody. Hello? What kind of parents raise their kids in a hotel? Don't even get me started on the Cheetah Girls. Last night was our first experience with them and it will be our last for a looonnnnnggggg time. If you let your kids watch CG please continue on - I'm not saying that your wrong, just saying that for us, they are a no. Okay, I'm getting off track. Anyway, we came home with, among other things, a Hannah Montana purse, a Hannah/Miley CD, and a Miley book, oh, and the Princess Diaries. I tried so hard to get her to buy the adventures of Tom and Jerry, but, no, Princess Diaries won out. Where did my baby go?

You know, I know that my kids are going to grow up and while that makes me horribly sad, I expect them to grow up and leave my little nest one day. My thing is - am I doing a good job? Am I leaving them with baggage and scars that will have to be dealt with later in life? Are they well rounded? Am I going to feel guilty for doing too much of this and not enough of that? I guess I just what to do the best that I can by them. I want them to walk away with happy memories of home. Oh, I know there are always hard times and they will have bad memories to, but I just want so much for them. Ugh, parenting is hard, there is no doubt about it. Oh,oh, I forgot to tell you the other thing about tonight - Kayla wanted to go to Starbucks!!!!!!! I offered her ice cream from Chick-Fil-A and she wanted Starbucks instead and you know what else? She drank the whole thing. Her drink of choice tonight was a tall vanilla creamer with a decaf shot of expresso. I'm going now - I think I'm going to cry!:)

6:39 a.m.

Yes, that is what time my son got up this morning wanting to know if he could go and get his fishing rod. You see, Tyler gets hooked on one toy and he will play with it for several days before switching to a new one. He has done this since he was a baby. So the toy for this week is a baton with a yo-yo attached to the head of it - better known as a "fishing rod". We will be eating fish for the next year with all of the huge fish that he has caught all over the house!

So, here I sit, trying desperately to make my eyes open and wake up. I thought this would be a GREAT time to blog!

We had a great time with my brother and his family last weekend. I will try to post some pictures soon. They brought Luke, the puppy, with them, and let me just tell you - he was a serious cutie! They got here late Friday night and my kids were up at, I think, 6:30 on Saturday morning. Since they were sleeping in our room I made them stay in there in their beds until I was ready to get up! Pretty soon the cousins were up too and the fun began. The five of them get along so well and play great together. So we hung out Saturday morning and then we packed a picnic and took the kids to the park for a little while. We came home later in the afternoon and the guys watched the Olympics while my sister-in-law and I went and had pedicures. That was nice! Saturday night we went to dinner - Sadonna - you will be happy to know that we finally tried the new Mi Rancho! It was yummy! After dinner the real fun began. We went to Adventure Crossing. I'm thinking of embroidering some T-shirts for Ad. Crossing to sell. Something like "My parents brought me here and spent all the money they had saved for my college education" or maybe "My parents went to Ad. Crossing and went in debt and all I got was this lousy T-shirt". You catch my drift, right? My sil and I are pretty frugal so we spent about the first 20 minutes just trying to play the system and see how much we could do for the least amount of money. Let me save you the trouble -- THERE IS NO PLAN LIKE THAT!!! You will do one thing and pay dearly for it! Okay, maybe it wasn't quite as bad as all of that. It was very fun for the kids. They all rode the go carts and then we went in to the arcade area and let the kids throw money into the trash can, oh, I mean video games. Then comes the excruiating point where you have to turn your tickets in for "prizes". I won't even go down that road! It was fun though - the guys got to ride the go carts with the kids several times and that is always fun to watch. Sunday was church and then they headed home and we headed to AWANA. Sunday was the first night and considering that they have changed some of the material, I think everything went surprisingly well!

Today is my first day with both kids in school and I don't have to go into work. I'm very excited about three hours of running errands by myself. I'm having serious issues with my kids growing up right now. I will have to post more about that later. Right now I have to go and see if I can change the breakfast conversation going on right now. Kayla is explaining to Tyler about skulls and brains and how the brain is mushy. Gross.

A New Churchill Holiday

Well, life has erupted around here and things have been crazy. We are full into our school schedule and there seems to be little time for blogging these days. As a matter of fact, my husband gave me a hard time yesterday because I hadn't updated my blog in days! Probably because this seems to be our only form of communicating with each other lately! Okay, I am kidding about that, but you know how it is. We fight for a few moments of interrupted conversation in the evenings - we have to demand time out to keep our sanity!

The biggest news around here is that I have decided to create a new Churchill Holiday. Maybe it will catch on and go nationwide, but that might be a little scary. My biggest struggle lately has been laundry - can I get an amen from any other moms out there? Where does all of this stuff come from? I'm not kidding when I tell you that I have been trying to get all of my laundry caught up for days!!! Days people!!! I continually have at least one load of clothes on my floor - do you know how annoying that is? So, I have declared next Tuesday to be Churchill Naked Day. None of the members of our family will be allowed to wear clothes of any kind until ALL the laundry is done. How do this holiday come about you may ask? Well, last night I was telling Craig that I just cannot seem to get caught up on the laundry. His response, "honey, you are never going to be caught up with the laundry, even if you get it all done, there will still be the clothes that we are all wearing." Hahaha - I will have the last laugh. Next Tuesday, padlocks come out for all dresser drawers and closets. School and work will be on hold - hello, we are not streakers - just people desperate to get the laundry caught up! So, please don't come by my house on Tuesday as I will not be answering my door, due to the fact that it will be Churchill Naked Day! Desperate times call for desperate measures!

Yea -- I did it!

Okay, so really, I am a little technologically challenged, but I just want ya'll to notice my new slideshow - I'm so proud of myself! Now if I can just figure out how to get some music on here it would be great! A project for another day!

I had orientation tonight at Kayla's school. Her teacher really seems very sweet. I think she is going to have a good year. She came home yesterday and told me that her teacher cut their homework in half because she thought there might be some people who go to church on Wednesday nights! How cool is that! I was very impressed and extremely thankful. God always has a plan doesn't He?

My brother and family will be here tomorrow. We are so excited! We look forward to a fun weekend with them. Other than that there has not been too too much going on this week. We are in the middle of a Graceful Designs purse promotion and that has kept me pretty busy all week. Oh, and our countertops came in today. Except that Craig didn't like the way the edge looked on the bar because it was a little sloppy, so they are redoing that. Then they cut the hole for the sink in the wrong place so... We do have the countertop that goes where the stove is so maybe he might get that in tomorrow night. We'll see. It is very pretty though! I will post pics when it is all done.

First Day of School

Kayla's first day of school went great! She had a good day and made a new friend.
She came home in a great mood. I was so happy. I knew she would be okay, but there is still always that little doubt in the back of your mind! Today starts homework!

Fun with Grandpa(Pop)

Craig's dad is so funny with the kids. He is in his 60's and still runs around the house like a maniac chasing the kids and being crazy with them! They love it and I think he does too!:) Here is a video of him playing outside with Tyler from this weekend. I'm including some pictures too but they are kind of fuzzy since they were running!

Back to Normal

Well, tomorrow we start back to our "normal" routine. Please define normal! Seriously, the past couple of weeks have been so hectic so I am looking forward to settling back into school and work! Kayla starts tomorrow and she is in a much better frame of mind and knows that God has something planned. He has certainly done a work in her heart over the past couple of days about the year to come. Thank You Lord! It will seem so strange to just have Tyler home this week and I will miss Kayla like crazy. We have had fun this summer. Tyler will start his school next Monday and he is excited about that. We go for his open house on Wednesday. So maybe by the end of next week we will be back in the school year groove.

We have enjoyed having my in-laws here this weekend although my mother-in-law hasn't felt well and I know that is not enjoyable for her. But still they have enjoyed the party and the kids. Tyler has taken to calling Grandpa "Pop". It's kind of like him calling Craig "buddy". It has been too cute. Today was promotion Sunday and Tyler is old enough now to go to Children's Church. That was hard. No more scanning my ID tag to check him in and out of nursery - he is officially a big kid. It makes me sad. My kids are growing up so fast and while it is great in some ways it is so sad in others.

So my inlaws leave in the morning, Kayla starts school tomorrow, and Tyler and I have a whole lot of nothing planned this week! My brother and his family will be here on Friday and he just called tonight to tell me they are bringing their new puppy! My children are going to go nuts. Thanks Brian - when ya'll leave I will probably have to get them a dog. From what I understand "Luke" is six weeks old and is a beautiful chocolate lab with blue eyes! That will be tons of fun for my kids - they have been begging for a pet. So, we look forward to their visit this week. After that our next big thing is Craig's hunting trip. It will be here before I know it. My m-i-l will be coming to spend those couple of weeks with us and we have already been talking about projects that she can do while she is here. She is a seamstress extraordinaire! I am fully convinced that she can make just about anything that I can dream up! Craig is really starting to get geared up for his trip and is trying to get his list together of everything he needs before he goes. I'm so excited for him and his dad - they are going to have a blast.

The Best Birthday Party Ever

Kayla's birthday party was a huge hit! She had so much fun and thanked me profusely for "all of my hard work". How sweet is that? She is a great kid and I can't believe that she is nine years old today. Where has the time gone? Before I tell you about the party I just have to say that God has blessed me with a wonderful daughter. She is so compassionate and kind hearted. She has her daddy's laid back personality and her mama's dramatic tendencies!
The party was so much fun. Thank you Shannon and Ruth for helping out. We started out by washing hands in this wonderful sugar scrub stuff. Then they donned their personalized head bands and we gave them their warmed up neck wraps. Some of them started out in the foot baths. We did facial mask, painted fingernails and toenails. They got a neck massage from Ruth and Aunt Shannon painted flowers on their toes. I lotioned them all up and they all got to take turns on the foot massager. They had a blast!
Kayla got her ipod. That is what she was really hoping for. She also got an idog and carrying case and a bitty baby high chair from American Girl. Her friends got her all kinds of cool, girly gifts and she basically just had the best day ever!

Stinky News

Okay, before I start this, I would ask that you please not ask Kayla about anything to do with this. When it gets better, I will let you know.

We went to Miyabi's for her birthday tonight and then on to Open House. And then she cried the whole way home. She doesn't have any of her old friends in her class with her and she has several friends that she has been in the same class with for the last couple of years. She also got the one teacher that she didn't want. AND, when we walked into the classroom it was like stepping into another world. Gone were all of the fun cutsie things of grades past. We are talking tall desks and big chairs here and text books. I wanted to cry. And I still might before the night is over. Kayla hated all of it. It was very... sterile. Her teacher seems nice, but not your bubbly "I'm so excited to see you" kind of nice. So, Kayla has literally cried all the way home. She is still crying. I let her cry and let her vent and then finally told her that she had a choice to make. Dread it and make herself sick over it and walk into to school on Monday with attitude the size of Texas OR accept that God had a different plan for her this year, new friends, new adventures, and just try to make the best of it. Right now I think she is taking Option number 1. Okay, for all of my female readers who remember what it is like to not get the teacher you like or not be in the class with all of your friends, you know what she is feeling right now. I'm feeling it. I just want to vomit for her. Actually, I want to storm the principal's office and demand that they move her to a new classroom with her friends, a grandmotherly teacher, fun books and posters on the walls, and LITTLE desks. I'm not ready for all of this. It is, like, so pre-middle school. So, I'm going to take my own advice and accept that God has a plan in all of this... right after I have my tantrum and my five minutes of feeling sorry for myself and for my daughter.

Uh Oh!

Is it a bad thing that it is not yet 9:00 a.m. and we have already had two drama episodes. Yikes! I really hope that is not a sign of how the day is going to go.

I have a confession to make. I wasn't going to admit it, but I think I need to. I am raising a tree hugger. We are about to go green people! Seriously, Kayla has this very intense desire to save the world one tree and one light bulb at a time. Craig and I have been noticing this for while and to be perfectly honest with you - it was really annoying me that my 8 year old was telling me that I needed to not drive so much to conserve gasoline and that I need to turn the lights off, etc, etc. However, I have since become convicted that maybe this is something that I need to encourage -- a little bit. I am all about conserving, but when you get right down to it I guess I just think that God has this whole earth and universe in the palm of his hand and by the time it begins to fall apart I will be in Heaven with Him looking at the plans He has for a NEW heaven and a NEW earth. That being said, I still felt the need this week to really talk about this whole environmentalist thing with Kayla. I'm not even sure I spelled that "e" word right or not, so from now on I will refer to the "e" people as "greenies". So, I told Kayla that maybe we needed to make a better effort at being greenies by starting out doing something small like recycling our Coke cans or something. If you are a greenie, please don't freak out, but we don't recycle. (gasp) But, I started thinking to myself, how hard is it to throw a container out to throw our cans in??? But then that poses the question of where does this said container sit and what color should it be -- should it be green? Oh, and what kind of material should it be made of? Okay, I'm kidding, but, honestly the dilemma of where to put said container is weighing heavy on my mind. If I put it in the garage will I remember to take my can to the garage or just throw it in the trash can out of habit? And if I do that, I am not about to go digging through the trash to pull out all of the cans that I have accidentally thrown in there out of habit. Dilemmas, questions, oh my!

Okay, so onto the morning drama. I went into Kayla's room to run the vacuum cleaner and I opened her blinds and turned on the lights. AAAHHH!!! Major faux pas! That little girl walked right in behind me and turned the light off! At this moment I lost all sense of greeness. I just saw red! How terrible that something so little set me off. Actually it wasn't her turning the light off that upset but what came next. I said, "Kayla, turn the light back on". To which she replies, aghast, "But Mom, you are wasting electricity." Huh? This is where the red began to flash before my eyes! Only because we have come home after dark numerous times to find that her bedroom light has been left on. Oh, and the fact that I pay the electric bill every month and I know how much it is also flashed through my mind. Well, I must admit that I lost my temper. And I hollered. And then I had to apologize for screa, er, hollering. However, I also sat down to explain that there are many ways that we can conserve electricity but for the purpose of vaccuuming I need as much light as possible to see all the crud on the carpet. I also asked how many times she had left her light on when not in the room and, bless her heart, she said, "but mama, that was before I wanted to save the world." I'm sorry, but it was all I could do to keep a straight face, because this so goes along with Craig and I's talk about this the other night. In the same conversation that we had about encouraging her to be a greenie, we also talked about acting classes and/or modeling of some sort. And I could just see the Ms. PreTeen USA Paegant - I want to save the world and I also want world peace. Please forgive my warped sense of humor, but it really did crack me up.

And just so that I don't have to feel guilty about talking about my child in a negative way and bashing the "greenies", let me tell you this. I am all about finding my children's gifts and talents and encouraging them in their beliefs. Tyler is so easy - he wants to be a monster truck driving fireman. I can make that happen! Have you seen how many toy monster trucks and fireman gear that there is out there on the market. We can take trips to the fire station, we can go to the monster truck races! However, with Kayla it has been a little more difficult. She has tried lots of sports and stuff and just doesn't seem to LOVE any of that, but she has been expressing an interest in going green for quite awhile. I really feel like I need to let God lead me in this and lead me in encouraging my daughter to become who He wants her to be and in helping her to follow her interests. So, if you see me at the grocery store and I am carrying my reusable grocery bag just know that I am doing my part!

Update

I hate when I don't have a clever title for my blog entry. It just really irritates me and sets my blog off on a bad tone. I mean "updates" - where has my creativity gone? I'm so disappointed in myself:(. Okay, and now, I'm over it!

I have worked my fingers to the bone today. I spring cleaned the living room. I enlisted Kayla's help - that child is a whiz at wiping down molding, and she really had such a sweet attitude about helping that I'm probably going to have to pay her or something! I have molding from the chair rail down and it collects dust on purpose. That is it's function in life - to collect dust for me to clean when I have nothing better to. I got everything done - the dry wall that was sitting on my pictures and molding is now long gone. Family pictures from months ago that have been taped to the frame (to ensure proper placement in the collage) have now actually been placed IN the frame. We ran errands before and after church and got much done! Whew! More of the same tomorrow. Craig is done with the drywalling for a good little while so I finally feel like I can clean and it won't get messed up a few days later! Oh, let me tell ya'll - the kitchen is just coming along really well. Our countertops should be in on Friday. Maybe by the time my brother comes we will actually have them installed. Yea! For my inlaws' visit and Kayla's birthday this weekend I am just excited to have paint on the walls.

So, Kayla's birthday, that is the next thing. We are in birthday mode. Did I tell ya'll that she was having a spa party? My friend Abbie did the invitations and they are so cute. I would love to tell you where to view her cards, but I have no idea how to do that cool hyperlink thing. Abbie, HELP!!! Anyway, then I had another sweet friend who is a consultant for BeautiControl that just brought me over all kinds of goodies to use for the party. Thanks Heloise! So between all of that and the stuff that I was able to get through our embroidery vendors we are going to have a spa party like you have never seen! Kayla is so excited! Tomorrow night we are doing our annual trek to Miyabi. We are going it alone this year because we have Open House at school tomorrow night and we are going to be pushing it to make it through dinner and on to school in time. I hope she has a good class this year. Last year was great. No problem students, well, not really anyway and her teacher was so sweet. I'll keep you posted.

Tyler has his teacher "meet and greet" next week. Guess who his teacher is going to be? Aunt Janna! Yea! We have already told her that we expect for our child to get all "A's" and be teacher's pet. Kidding of course. Actually what I told her was, "look, I know he is going to be in time out ALOT, and we promise not to have any hard feelings toward you for making him mind!". Oh, I hope he does better this year!

Gertrude went home with Holly today. I'm so glad she is back from vacation. Gertrude was getting so lonely for her after being at my house for a month. It's so nice to look over in the corner of my dining room and see...NOTHING!!! She has been a trooper this month and worked very hard!

Okay, I think if I continue to type I am going to begin to babble, if I haven't already. I hate to babble, but I do it way too often!

What Lisa Has Been Doing

So, I just had to post a picture about what I have been up to this week. It seemed much more impressive in real life and I added at least two more boxes to this stack after I took this picture. Did I mention that I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE ebay! This is the back of my van after a good bit of my stuff ended yesterday and today.

More Beach Pictures

Every time we go to Myrtle Beach we HAVE to eat at Friendly's. I must admit that Craig and I are as bad as the kids. They love it, we love it... One day we are going to open one of these around here.

Pictures Galore

Okay, so remember that family fun day that I blogged about awhile back, you know, the family fun day gone all wrong? This is the fall that started it all! Tyler's crash and burn at the fountain.

Pictures Galore

Sparklers on the 4th of July - Yes, we let our kids play with fire - they loved it!

Pictures Galore

Did I mention that Tyler loves to sleep???

Tyler Talk

Well, my little guy has been full of talk this week. All kinds of interesting things going on in his little life! First of all, just to bring you all up to date - John Peter has a girlfriend or a sister. Her name is "marshmallow". No, I'm not kidding. She started out as a sister and somewhere along the way turned into a girlfriend. No, we do not live in Alabama or Arkansas or any of those states. We are southern but not that southern! Aunt Shannon was privileged enough today to get to meet Marshmallow. Goodness, she seems like such a sweet girl. I do hope she will hang around for awhile.:)

Next, I have to tell you about stinky feet. Thanks to my father, some of our family is blessed with a very aromatic foot odor. People have been known to drop dead to the floor if in the same room when certain members of our family take off their shoes. Tyler has possibly the stinkiest feet of anybody I know with the exception of my dad. Sorry dad, but you know it is true! So, yesterday, the kids had been at Shannon's while I was working and they had got to go swimming. So I was on the way home with them after they had just gotten out of the pool and Tyler says, "mama, my feet don't stink anymore". I said, "really". "Yep, I just took my shoes off, and then I put my feet right up to my nose, and I took a deep breath, and they don't stink anymore." "Well, not too much anyway." Poor kid, he couldn't even convince himself. I think the chlorine in the pool just disguised it for awhile! Shannon, ya'll may need a new filter or something - extra chlorine? Just send me the bill!

Onto today...I was rocking Tyler tonight. I love to rock him when he hasn't had a nap. And, yes, for those of you who are thinking "Nap?, what's that?", he does still take a very good nap most days. Anyway, I love to rock him and sing to him when he gets that tired just because I can and he is just so still and sweet! So, tonight I was singing that song "You are my strength when I am weak". When I got to the part where it says, "when I am dry, You fill my cup", Tyler said, "Mama, why does somebody need to fill your cup"? So I explained to him that we need Jesus to fill us up with the strength to do all the things that we can't do on our own. His response, "oh, okay, I was just asking --buddy". Oh my goodness he can be so sweet. My m-i-l has said many times that when he is sweet he is just really really sweet, but when he is bad, he really is rotten. So true!

Ebay

Okay, I really am going to bed, but had to post one more thing! My ebay stuff is selling like crazy! I just added up my "watchers" and I have 59 watchers spread over the 26 items that I am selling. I have 26 bids and 8 items that have sold! I'm so pumped - I love ebay!

Scrapbooking

Well, we finally did it! My group of scrapbooking friends have been talking about going away on a scrapbooking retreat for several months and this weekend there were six of us that went to either scrapbook or just relax. The majority of us scrapbooked. It was so much fun! We had this great cabin up in the mountains and we just hung out there all weekend. I didn't even put makeup on until we got ready to leave this morning and yesterday I did NOT fix my hair. I just scrapbooked and ate. Do you know how much junk food you can consume in one weekend??? We had a huge bowl filled with just various kinds of chocolate that was probably over half gone when we left. Junk food, scrapbooking, no hair, your favorite lounge pants -- it just does not get any better than that. I scrapped about 250 pictures and did about 60-65 pages. I was so pumped! I'm still about a year and a half behind, but, hey, I definitely made a dent! I was up until about 2:00 a.m. the first night and up until about 4:00 a.m. last night, so, needless to say "I am tired"!!!

After I left on Friday, Craig got really nasty sick. Poor guy - I offered to come home, but he said there was nothing I would be able to do for him. He had a yucky flu/cold bug complete with fever and body aches. I felt awful to be away while he was sick. Hopefully he will be feeling better tomorrow.

I'm trying so hard to load a video to show you all, but I keep getting an error message. Friday morning before I left, I recorded a LLLllllooooonnnnnggggg conversation with Tyler about a trip he was taking with John Peter. Apparently I wasn't going to get all of the fun of going out of town, he was going to go out of town too. He told Craig, "I won't be here to have fun with ya'll two." Anyway, I'm not going to tell you all about it, because I am determined to get it loaded.

Alright, my eyes are beginning to droop and I'm not sure that I am making any sense at this point so I'm going to bed. Hope everyone had a great weekend!