"Stole" this one from Kat.
INSTRUCTIONS: Remove the blog in the top spot from the following list and bump everyone up one place. Then add your blog to the bottom slot, like so:
1. Last Minute Lyn
2. melsdream
3. wading through my stream of consciousness
4. kat’s random thoughts
5. one foot on a banana peel
Next select five people to tag and tell them:
more about this later.
Now answer the following questions:
What were you doing 10 years ago?
Hmmm…..the kids would have been not quite 5 and 10 so it was the year we took them to Disney World/Sea World/Universal Studios. I would have been a mere 32 (where have the years gone?) and it was the beginning of the period that saw us as church leaders.
What were you doing 1 year ago?
This exact week? I was on vacation, blissfully lounging about on the beach. Sigh.
Five snacks you enjoy:
(Sadly) any kind of chip, popcorn, pretzels (the big hard ones), gala apples with cheese or peanut butter, anything chocolate.
Five songs to which you know all the lyrics:
Piano Man by Billy Joel, Love Me If You Can by Toby Keith (and a lot of his other songs, too), How Great Thou Art, every favorite song my daughter listens to because I have heard them so many times….currently it’s Ticks by Brad Paisley, and Good Directions by Billy Currington.
Five things you would do if you were a millionaire:
Pay off everything, buy Tim a new truck, move to the country, pay for the kids’ schooling, and give (money and time) to changing conditions on the poorest Native reservations.
Five bad habits:
Biting my nails, eating junk food, procrastination, pride, laziness.
Five things you like doing:
Reading, blogging, gardening, spending time at the shore, volunteering.
Five things you would never wear again:
A bikini, spike heeled pumps, parachute pants, shoulder pads, and big 80s hair jacked up to jeezus!
Five favorite toys:
My computer, my digital camera, my cell phone, my stereo, and all my crafty stuff (even though I’m no good at it).
Okay, the rest of the rules are to tag five people, but I have long ago stopped tagging people. If you want to do this one, borrow away. Just let me know so I can read your answers.
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Okay, I’ve been playing with my digital camera. I think I might have it figured out…..well, at least enough to share some pictures with you. There must be a more efficient way to do it than what I did, but I’ll have to keep working on it. In the meantime, enjoy this little peek into my world.
My boy, Scooby.
Elvis being his adorable self.
The pool.
Funny sign by the pool.
Megan and her lamb.
Fourth of July
Just a few of my sunflowers.
The shadynook.
I was checked into Orlando Regional Medical Center (along with about 500 other pregnant women) waiting for the arrival of our first child. It took all day, but at 7:20 p.m. we finally had our bouncing baby boy.
HAPPY 20TH BIRTHDAY, MATTHEW!
I know they’re, like, two months late and that you’ve lost all interest in my vacation, but I just finished the last couple of pictures on the film and finally got it developed. This is why I soooo need a digital camera.
These characters lived in the pasture next to our rental house’s backyard. They loved carrots and turned up at the fence to mooch as soon as they heard us. The kids loved them!
Matt, Megan and their friends, Rachelle and Matt, loved going out with their boogie boards. The surf was pretty calm this day.
Not sharks….dolphins! A group of them swam along with our boat one day. You can’t tell in the pictures, but I’m pretty sure there was a baby in the group.
Our Matt pulling crab traps out of the bay.
Megan and Rachelle at the beach.
Tim and our charter boat captain enjoying raw oysters they harvested fresh from the bay. Ewwwwwww!
I took this picture when we were walking along the shore of Wallops Island. I like it so much I’m going to have it enlarged and framed to put in our livingroom when we get done with the remodel.
Tim and (the other) Matt fishing in the bay.
Me pretending to be an astronaut at NASA’s Wallops Island visitors’ center.
I can walk through my house. Barely.
Yesterday, my wonderful husband decided to rip tear smash remove a major source of contention from our marriage. After something like 8 years, he woke up and decided it was time for the fireplace-that-I-never-wanted-in-the-first-place to go. And just like that, plastic was draped over the furniture, which was pushed to the far end of the room, the pictures came down off the walls and out came the sledgehammer and crowbar.
It really was a nice fireplace. Tim built it himself. It was just much to big for the space and I didn’t get a vote even on where in the room it was placed….on the lone long, solid wall in a room riddled with doorways and windows. I was looking at and dreaming of a small woodburner or pellet stove when the fireplace made its appearance completely unannounced. I wasn’t thrilled and it’s been a sore point from the beginning when it took months to complete (four months later we were attaching the final stones 30 minutes before guests arrived on Christmas Eve). The attached entertainment center and bookshelves were never completely finished. And of course there was the space issue. Finding a comfortable furniture arrangement was difficult due to lack of wall space.
So, now it’s gone. Ripped from my life in less than a day. I’m now facing the task of remodeling the livingroom and adjoining kitchen. The walls where the fireplace frame and the shelving were attached need repairs and so does the ceiling/roof where the chimney used to be. Currently the roof is sporting a temporary patch made of, of all things, a Christmas patterned vinyl tablecloth. How perfectly white trash is that? Gotta love it. The carpet has been ripped out. The old wood trim is going. Yep, it’s a major project. And much like the Grinch’s Christmas, it came without boxes or bows or even any warning.
And how was your Sunday?
Megan is the big 1-4 today.
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I am NOT an organized person by nature. In fact, I’m pretty sure after dealing with two kids who have diagnosed A.D.D., that I have a mild form of it myself. My son’s behavior mirrors my own to a great extent, so putting two and two together….
That’s why I am so excited about the organizer I bought today. It’s called Amy Knapp’s Family Organizer. It has weekly and monthly planning grids, inspirational quotes (I need all the inspiration I can get), weekly menu and grocery planning with perforated list. It also has stickers to flag birthdays, vacations, payday, anniversaries, school holidays, medical appointments and more. There is a 2008 planning calendar, room for notes, a budget planner, an info sheet for baby-sitters, a page for info on your children’s activities, one for your activities, a section for addresses, and one for web addresses and logins. There’s even a section of tips to help you get the most out of the organizer.
Man, I am going to be sooooo organized and things around here are going to go so smoothly you’ll be calling me Ex-lax.
