Monday, January 24, 2011
Girls day
We are rounding the corner to getting our income tax refund. I can almost taste it. I am super excited like always. However, more so this year. I am looking forward to spending the day with my daughters doing girlie things. Each year I try to treat them to a very special day. This year, I am trying to figure out how to make everything fit into one day. I would love to take the girls to a nail place and have them either get their first real mani and/or pedi. Brooke-Lynne is the obstacle here. She wants to do the girls day and the boys day. I am thinking what we are going to have to end up doing a family day where we go bowling, movies, dinner, Seattle, etc. And a girls day where we go shopping, lunch, mani/pedis, dancing brush. Brooke-Lynne loves the dancing brush but, she also wants to experience paint balls, golfing and the batting cages. Guess she will have to decide which one she wants to do more. I hope she chooses the girlie day. But, I will understand if she chooses to go with Dad because after all my daughter loves sports more than nail polish. I want to venture down to Centralia and check out the outlets. My oldest is very much into shoes and clothes and makeup. We don't permit her to leave the house looking like a clown but I will allow her to use a little. I was her age when I started to wear makeup. I was wearing makeup before shaving my legs. Ha! Now, that is just a little weird, yes? Anyway, Allison is all girl so I know she would be down for getting her nails done, having lunch, doing the dancing brush thingy, and shopping. I know my girls can shop. Not me so much but I do want to check out the outlets and maybe the super mall? I told my husband that maybe, just maybe, the girls and I would do great wolfe lodge. He didn't like that idea to much because he has always wanted to do that too. But then, that would require purchasing bathing suits for the whole family. Well, we do need them. I wonder if they make them long enough to cover me from neck to knees. ha!
Thursday, January 6, 2011
Jan. 6
Dear Diary........
So today is a gray day outside. Not much happening this week. Thank God. I have the flu or a really really bad cold. It has been kicking my butt this whole week. Luckily, I have several children that want to take care of me. The only problem, some of them are now sick with the crud. Even my husband is feeling not to hot. I can only pray that this leaves quickly.
I feel a little more peace in my life. My sister Amy is somewhat talking with me now in a positive manner. Not sure how long it will last but I am grateful for this stretch of road. It is very refreshing.
This is the first year that I failed to capture Christmas with the camera. It saddens me a little because I would like to show my children as much as I can how they were when they were young. I know we have memories but pictures are always so much fun to look back on. I also didn't care to think of any new year resolutions. I always seem to maintain the same ones year after year and so this year I decided to not think about it.
I have long term goals in my mind and that has caused a lot of excitement and pipe dreaming. I used to think it was odd as a child that my parents used the phrase "pipe dreaming" however, it fits. I love to dream. I love to achieve my dreams. The hard part is getting the wheel turning but once it is turning I keep on rolling until it is accomplished.
My ever growing list of lists is still determined to keep adding up. I swear I must have an accordion file full of lists; all in my brain of course. Have you ever sat down and just thought about the things you want to accomplish in your life; your bucket list? Oh I have. Many many times. I have so many fantastic adventures on this list. I have been able to cross some off but not many. Not yet.
My birthday is this month. I will be turning 36. My mother told me I am getting old. Thanks! What does that make her then? I don't feel 36. I surely don't act 36. However, I must say I look 36 and then some. Aging is not something I am doing to gracefully. BTW I want to try the Olay product that "allegedly" can erase or lighten dark spots. I did a lot of tanning in high school and now I have these spots showing up on my face. Back in the day I think people referred to them as liver spots. I also had some really weird stuff happen to my skin when I was pregnant with the twins. I think those two situations probably have caused these spots to appear. I refer to it as my Michael Jackson syndrome accept I am turning black and not white. I only have 4 spots but they bug me. So I am hoping in the next few weeks to get this product and try it out. It can't hurt, right? If I had money and by money I mean over 100k in the bank I would seriously consider plastic surgery. I would love to get certain parts of my body back to where it is suppose to be. One of my lovely daughters asked me why I had 4 chins. 4 chins?!?!?!? I looked at her and I said "What did you say to me???" She replied "Why do you have 4 chins" I bluntly stared at her with a bit of hurt and anger in my eyes. I calmly asked her "You are in 3rd grade, and you do know how to count, so how can you say I have that many chins?" Her reply "Because you do" Then she proceeded to touch and count. Good grief! I got up and ran to the bathroom. I know the weight has crept up on me this past year. I do by all means, intend to get it off. It is alot harder to get it off then to put it on. I will do it though. So to help me with that, I am going to take a before picture (not visible to people on the internet, muahahahahahaha) and keep a chart of my weight loss. I might even measure inches. We will see but I will do it and my start date will be posted in another blog. I might even break down and put a before picture.
So today is a gray day outside. Not much happening this week. Thank God. I have the flu or a really really bad cold. It has been kicking my butt this whole week. Luckily, I have several children that want to take care of me. The only problem, some of them are now sick with the crud. Even my husband is feeling not to hot. I can only pray that this leaves quickly.
I feel a little more peace in my life. My sister Amy is somewhat talking with me now in a positive manner. Not sure how long it will last but I am grateful for this stretch of road. It is very refreshing.
This is the first year that I failed to capture Christmas with the camera. It saddens me a little because I would like to show my children as much as I can how they were when they were young. I know we have memories but pictures are always so much fun to look back on. I also didn't care to think of any new year resolutions. I always seem to maintain the same ones year after year and so this year I decided to not think about it.
I have long term goals in my mind and that has caused a lot of excitement and pipe dreaming. I used to think it was odd as a child that my parents used the phrase "pipe dreaming" however, it fits. I love to dream. I love to achieve my dreams. The hard part is getting the wheel turning but once it is turning I keep on rolling until it is accomplished.
My ever growing list of lists is still determined to keep adding up. I swear I must have an accordion file full of lists; all in my brain of course. Have you ever sat down and just thought about the things you want to accomplish in your life; your bucket list? Oh I have. Many many times. I have so many fantastic adventures on this list. I have been able to cross some off but not many. Not yet.
My birthday is this month. I will be turning 36. My mother told me I am getting old. Thanks! What does that make her then? I don't feel 36. I surely don't act 36. However, I must say I look 36 and then some. Aging is not something I am doing to gracefully. BTW I want to try the Olay product that "allegedly" can erase or lighten dark spots. I did a lot of tanning in high school and now I have these spots showing up on my face. Back in the day I think people referred to them as liver spots. I also had some really weird stuff happen to my skin when I was pregnant with the twins. I think those two situations probably have caused these spots to appear. I refer to it as my Michael Jackson syndrome accept I am turning black and not white. I only have 4 spots but they bug me. So I am hoping in the next few weeks to get this product and try it out. It can't hurt, right? If I had money and by money I mean over 100k in the bank I would seriously consider plastic surgery. I would love to get certain parts of my body back to where it is suppose to be. One of my lovely daughters asked me why I had 4 chins. 4 chins?!?!?!? I looked at her and I said "What did you say to me???" She replied "Why do you have 4 chins" I bluntly stared at her with a bit of hurt and anger in my eyes. I calmly asked her "You are in 3rd grade, and you do know how to count, so how can you say I have that many chins?" Her reply "Because you do" Then she proceeded to touch and count. Good grief! I got up and ran to the bathroom. I know the weight has crept up on me this past year. I do by all means, intend to get it off. It is alot harder to get it off then to put it on. I will do it though. So to help me with that, I am going to take a before picture (not visible to people on the internet, muahahahahahaha) and keep a chart of my weight loss. I might even measure inches. We will see but I will do it and my start date will be posted in another blog. I might even break down and put a before picture.
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