Are you ever alone?

not that it's a bad thing.....everyone needs time alone....but I have such a hard time sleeping when BD is away. I end up sitting on the couch watching television until I start to nod off...then I have to drag my half asleep ass into the bedroom. I can't just go and lay down in our room cause then I won't fall asleep...crazy. I end up so tired that I have trouble getting up early in the morning...usually I can get up before the kids...not when he's gone though. I usually get up when I hear them acting up in their room.....like today.

It's not going to be a good day when you wake up to the sweet sounds of "get offa me" and "mommy's gonna be cross with you" ... cause chances are that if one of them is doing something that the other can actually tell is going to make me mad....it is something that will definitely make me mad. Such was this morning...on the monitor I hear those sweet words...and as I trek down the hall I hear the *boom* of a 2 year old jumping off the top of his dresser.

Now if you don't know my kids...they are big...not fat...just substantial for their ages. They are both very tall and at the top of the growth charts. Most people who don't know them think that they are much older than they actually are due to their sizes. So the sound of my 2 year old jumping off the dresser sounded more like dropping a lead weight off the roof onto the driveway.


Since it's Tuesday they knew that they had school so after putting thier room back in order (they rearrange the furniture daily) they ran out to get dressed. Since BD is gone I had to get their outfits together for school (oh the humanity!) and get lunches together. I didn't realize how much BD did around here until he wasn't here to do it...(thanks BD). Of course the whole getting ready for school thing is pre-empted by the gotta go potty and feed me I'm starving (cause you know I never feed my children...they grew simply from an excess of sunlight and water).

Somehow we managed to get out of the house without any casualities and with everyone wearing clothes that match. They have learned how to get their own lunchbox out of the fridge and put it in their backpacks, so they have food for the day.....now I can sit back...drink my coffee....and get my street festival work done.

At least I can be thankful for the few hours that I have to myself to get things done....I might even unload the dishwasher the day is going so well!!

Not enough hours in the day

There are not enough hours lately....if I could just pick up an extra two or three I'd be set.

I need to finish the street festival assignments...last minute booths coming in and I need to fit them in somewhere.

I have to do the news next week....but there's a conflict with my son's school parent's lunch. I haven't missed an event at school since they started 2 years ago. I really hate to miss any now. Hopefully I can swap a day with someone else and not have to miss the lunch just becuase I am scheduled to be on television.

I need to really get hopping on my business. I need to schedule my open house and get that moving and then get some workshops scheduled after that. Time to make a little christmas present money!!

and of course I have my normal weekly stuff....church...sunday school...MOMS ministry...book club...bunko...street festival meetings...

just a few more hours...

and it's crunch time.....

The street festival is looming ahead and there is sooo much work still to be done. We have members who are retiring from the board and if we don't find new membership there won't be a festival next year. I would love to have a booth next year either as a SU! rep or just to sell my cards and crafts...but I don't know how that would work..as a crafter I can't promote SU!...as a SU! rep I can't sell at the festival only take orders....it's a bit of a quandry...I'll have to think about it some more.

BD is going on another trip...only for a few days though. Hopefully the boys and I won't kill each other while he's gone. Most days we all get along so well...but then there are those days (like yesterday) when they just don't listen and are so contrary. Nothin like having children that are just like you! Since he'll be gone for 4 nights I'll actually have to cook too...that should be interesting...better stock up on dino nuggets...the boys like those.

This friday is the monthly crop...I didn't get to go last month so I"m hoping that this week goes well enough that I can make it. I really need to get some stuff done...I've been slacking.


My SU! kit is on a truck as I type to be delivered today...I am so PSYCHED!!! I'm really looking forward to this being a business for me rather than being a hobby demo. I would love it if I could contribute to the house in some way (other than contributing to it's spending!!). Maybe if I do really well then by next year I can be paying for the TT's tuition on my own...that would be vundebar!!!

well all...gotta bounce..TTFN!!

I've seen it all.....

I went to the local BK this morning to grab some coffee. I pull into the drive through lane after I order and there are two cars in front of me. The lady is out of the first car and standing at the driver's window of the second car. She is asking the driver of the second car if she's been saved and if she knows Jesus. She kept going on and on and sticking her head in the window. The driver (who I soon saw was someone I knew) finally came back at her and told her to get back into her car and leave. The woman kept going on and on...if it had been me my response would have been that she had better have Jesus with her when I get my ass out of my car....cause she's going to need his help. After the driver of car #2 opened her door and started to get out the lady got in her car and drove away.

I found out later that this lady had almost hit the other car not once...not twice..but three times. When the driver of car #2 said something (not realizing that she had said it so loudly that the other person could hear her) the lady got out of her car and started trying to prostelytize her right there in the drive through lane!!!

I was amazed at the brazen attitude of this woman...I'm all for being enthusiastic about your religion and giving a word or two to a person who needs it...but to do it in the drive through?? I have no idea what the heck she was thinking....but I bet she won't be doing that again anytime soon......

Prayer for 9/11

I am going to be a complete basketcase for the next 18-24 hours, so I plan on saying this several times during that period ~~~



Come Holy Spirit of Love and Peace,
we long for your healing touch.

On September 11, 2001,
our country was scarred
by hatred and revenge...
we long for your healing touch.

Hearts were broken and lives were lost,
and fear and anger prevailed...
we long for your healing touch.

Awaken in us, Holy Spirit,
a deep and respectful remembrance...
that you are a God of love, not hatred,
that you are a God of forgiveness, not revenge,
that you are a God of peace, not war.

Remembering these things, we ask you to
bless our country and all those defending
its ideals of freedom and liberty
and bring them safely home.

May your gifts of peace, love and forgiveness
transform our hatred, anger and fear,
so that peace on earth will be possible once again.

Come, Holy Spirit of Love and Peace,
we long for your healing touch.

Amen.

I'm gonna do it!!!

I'm signing up to become a Stampin Up! Demonstrator. I finally just decided that I will have a good customer base in my area and it will be so much fun to stamp with my friends. I have enough room here at the house that once the new family room is finished I can hold classes here or stamp camps. This is going to be such fun!!! I'm really excited...

It's Just one of those days....

Where ya don't wanna wake up
Everything is fucked, everybody sucks.
You don't really know why
But you wanna justify rippin' someone's head off

anyone else like Limp Bizkit?? I know ... old school .... bad language .... but as long as my kids aren't listening to it (and repeating it as they of course would at the most inopertune moment) ... it's not that bad.

But back to the topic...

Ever have one of those days?? I seem to be having them more and more often. No rhyme or reason, I just want to be able to tell everyone to go to hell. I end up acting like a complete bitch and piss off everyone around me.

My day will only get better when that happens, right?

Yeah, right...........

Maybe tomorrow will be a better day....

Tutorial on Unmounted SU! stamps

I have had so many people ask me how I mount my Stampin Up! stamps since I don't use the wood mounts that come with them.

The stamps come with the foam cushion already attached to the rubber. When I get my stamps I apply the image sticker to the foam cushion and then trim my stamp.


After I have trimmed the stamp I then coat the foam side with Aleene's Tack It Over and Over adhesive. This allows the stamp to be placed on an acrylic mount time after time without losing the tack on the stamp.

I also use CD jewel cases for storage for my stamp sets. I am able to see the stamp images through the cases and I also use the box labels on the cases so I can easily flip through my cases when they are stored to find the sets that I am looking for.


This makes storage so much simpler when you don't have a ton of space for all those stamp sets you just couldn't pass by. I love SU! stamps...I just don't have the space to accomodate all the wood that comes along with them.

Hope this helps explain the way I mount my stamps. If you have any questions feel free to send me an email!!

FREE TO A HOME:

Two Preschool aged sons.

That about says it all doesn't it??


**eta***
yes...I know that I didn't say "Free to a GOOD home"... we figure why should we send them to a good home? To let them know what they've been missing all these years? I think not!!