The blinky binge continues

Only I made these two....so I was bored *grin*  The first one is my life verse...it is what keeps me sane.

So, I'm up...I have MAJOR insomnia.  Its the curse of being of the paxil I believe.  Which is rather intriguing.  And of course theirs no one on the boards this time of night.  So.....I make blinkies. 

Today was a good day.  Well most of it.  *grin*  I went to the dentist today and got full mouth xrays taken.  (ICKY)  Have a very small mouth at which the hygenist was really wanting to curse at.  *snicker*  But we both survived...and the result is 4 cavities.  2 I knew about...one is actually a second cracked filling.  The other 2 suprised me...caught them soon enough that they aren't hurting.  This is probably a good thing. 

So every Friday for the next month....I have a dentist appointment...except next Friday..Rob gets his eval done. 

Gotta love it.

After the dentist I met Rob at the pier with Frugal burgers.  (this is a local fast-food restaurant with scrumptious and reasonably priced food)   We ate and then explored the pier.  It was cold, but nice.  And so relaxing to be a family for awhile.

We recommited ourselves to making this a priority.  Fun, local outings.  I was so tired that they got nixed for awhile...but its time to start...we just have to think smaller.  Shorter drives, closer destinations, shorter hikes.  We can do this. 

Tomorrow Lord willing, and rain ain't pouring we plan to burn.  This is the on going yard improvement project.  We've been wanting to do it since oh June...but the fire danger was so high...and then it was too wet...and finally we're re-inspired.  *grin*  I LOVE to burn.  So hope we get to.

Basically I was offline until evening.  It was a nice little break...but one I don't plan to repeat too often

Hey...anybody have any suggestions as to how to get a 22 month old to ride quietly in the car....we can only feed her for so long....and then she screams.  This is the other reason we no longer do family outings.  Rainee is a HORRID traveller.   And its getting worse.     As long as she's eating/drinking she's fine.  But eventually she gets too full...and then the screaming begins.   And you can only take so much of that.  We were pondering if she was getting car sick....but leaning more towards bored. 

All my other kids LOVE to drive...so this one is a major quandry to me....

WHY am I still awake?

What mischief can I cause....

If only I could clean house this time of night....I could just get so much done.

Well now that was intresting....

She says staring at Sha'tris Th'ysn.  Crisia was poking me about Cat not liking Callan....something I've rather wondered about myself...*snicker*

I've come up with several theories...but none of them made too much sense.   So I was laying in bed trying to ignore my pain (and day dreaming over the question..or is it night dreaming??)  And decided to get up and work it out.

It was worked.  LOL   Funny how characters take twists you don't expect.   This one definitely wasn't..........

I suppose in many ways it wasn't a major revelation...but it felt like one for me when i wrote it.

*thinks*  Nods.  Yup...definitely intresting.  Have no idea how or if it will effect anything...but was a fun write.  

Oh...and I protected this just cause I didn't want to force my none r/p subscribers to have to read it.  snigger.  

Now if the stomache cramps would just go away...I could sleep...
        

        

 

    

 

    

 

 

   

 

Okies....so I had a bit of a blinky binge.  Some I made some I lifted.  *grin*

Its been a day.

My kids and I had it out....and I won. 

And my yard is clean.    I paid Zeria to collect yard toys and put them back in their rightful place.   And Rob took the nativity scene down.  And I collected garbage.  *grin*

All in all profitable.

Oh and we also did a "better" clean of the hot tub.

I have energy these days....I'm suspecting its the lack of paxil in my body.  Its been a month, and so far its mostly going ok.

If I end up back on a med, I think I will ask the doctor for something else....to see if I can combat the side-effects a bit more.

And that's all folks. 

 

              

We had a gorgeous day today.  And I actually got out with my kids and went for a small walk.  This was our destination.  And no they didn't get wet...not for lack of begging. 

Sometimes when we're really lucky we get to see fish by the culvert (theirs a deep spot there)  but not today.

We spent today squinting as we actually had blue sky and sunshine.     It was all quite novel.

              

This is the alder woods that we walk through.  Amazingly pretty somehow....even though asleep for the winter still.

               

And some ferns along the creek.  I was in a scenery mood or something today.....

                   

And my house....can you tell kids live here???    The yard is a never ending LOSS!  And yup the nativity scene is still up...blushes.   Must put that away tomorrow.

             

Okies gotta git to Awana.  Enjoy the Washington scenery. 

 

 

                 

The purdy I made tonight for a friends site. 

Ode to the five minute errand.

4.5 years into being a mom...I still miss it. 

You know when you ran into a store bought the eggs and or milk and came home.

So today I did a "five" minute errand.  First of all I checked all of the kids.  "Get your shoes on,  their upstairs,  no over there.  Get them on."  Five minutes are up.  *snigger*

And then I eye Kaylin her pants and shirt are currently on backwards...you know zipper up the butt.   So we switch those.  Now the ketchup stains from lunch are on her shoulder blades.  *sigh*  We'll ignore those..maybe her hair will cover them.

Get in car.

Zeria my wallets on the computer go get it. 

Zeria comes back.   We buckle up...forget something else "important."  Zeria does another run and I buckle up 2 sets of car seats.

We drive to town.  Discuss ad nauseum our "great" errand.   Get to Safeway.  Wander around parking lot 2x before we find a parking spot that will fit the 15 passenger van. 

Undo 3 sets of buckles.  Pick up the garbage that fell out of the van onto the floor.  Give the standard get back over here, no touching lectures.   Carry Rainee hold Jamari and Kaylins hands.  Tell Sam to get back here 4 times.

And we haven't even entered the store yet.

Find a cart...thanks the lady who DIDN"T put it away.  Load Rainee in.  She screams at me 'cause I don't put her in the "right" spot.  She prefers sitting in the big basket.  "Move her"

Take 3 deep breaths and go into store.

Grab the eggs and ice cream (hey it jumped into my cart) 

And then head to let the kids pick out doughnuts.   Remind Zeria 2x to keep up.   And tell Sam to look out he's gonna bump...nevermind he did.

Ten minutes to allow each child to pick out their doughnut.  Only Kaylin doesn't "like" doughnuts" she wants a cookie.     Put the doughnuts in the cart.  Rainee cries unh unh dony.   "I know sweetie you can have it AFTER we pay for it."    This turns unh unh into full fledge screams.   I pick her up so as to not get everyone in the store looking at me. 

So now I'm pulling the cart...and holding the baby.  We go grab a case of pop...and we're done.  Rainee is calm now, and goes back in the cart.

Eye the check-out line.  LUCKY us there's a bored checker.

We unload our treasures.  Talk casually to cashier...I used to deliver her newspaper in another life time.   I can't remember if I gave her my safeway card.  She snickers at this. 

Head out to the van.  Zeria stops to look at the videos.  I have to give the come here lecture.   We get to the parking lot.  Loose Sam and Mari for a moment.

Get kids, stuff, and me in the car with the appropriate doughnuts.

And sit in the van contemplating...what ever happened to the five minute errand????????

Oh and why I'm so stinking tired....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

            

So, this is what I did this morning....Yup I was bored.  LOL  Actually what I was is exhausted..I barely have the energy to sit at the computer soooooooooo tired.

We DID get the machine about 7:30 last night.  So this was cool.  Unfortunately its a slightly different machine.  And it alarms when the oxy is too high....we didn't realize this.....and I'm not entirely sure why it does it....and the setting wasn't one that we would have picked.   Just didn't know enough about the machine...do now.     

We WILL adjust it tonight ROFL.   Cause it went off like 5x.  Nothing like loud beep, beeps to make you jump quite high.  This alarm we can hear in the living room.  This is VERY cool....but I'm hoping it has a quiter adjustment for when we're sleeping talk about scare the crap out of you.

Rainee is ornrey ORRRRNERY.   And Kaylin is sick.  All she's done is sleep/lay down 98% of the day.

I wish I could do that. 

Wishing I could wave a magic wand over a friends computer.    But glad she figured out something to get her online....I was gonna go through serious withdrawals LOL.

and thats about it for my exciting life today.....

DETERMINATION....

or sheer stubborness.

So I was trying to figure out how to write a e with two little dots on top.  Yup its for roll playing.  *giggles*

I've spent the last two hours in between kissing boo-boo's, making lunch, and so on trying to master it.

Its easy just type ALT and 0235 Zanzivou says. 

So I do and I get this really itty bitty font.  *giggles*

So I do some searches on my computer and online.  Several different phrases of search and no-go can't figure out how to do it. 

It becomes more and more annoying.  So   Tracie comes on and I tell her what I'm trying to do....she does it.  I TEACH her...but stil can't do it myself.   We giggle hysterically over the insanity of it all.

And then I found this   OOOO  if I use the number pad...instead of the numbers on the top...ba da bing such a simple step....

ë ë

VICTORY!!!

sniggers madly........its the small steps that throw us for big irritating loops.   You know use the number pad instead of the numbers on top.

The paper cut, not the broken arm.

There's an analogy somewhere here, if I had half a mind to think about it.

But I'm too distracted and thrilled that I can do this  ë

bwahahahahaha

Morning...can you take some more??? LOL

Firstly one...was just cute.  Its the only animal picture I took at the zoo....too far away for most of the critters, or glass between which makes for icky pictures....

             

This is Kaylin and my youngest niece Katie.   She was her parents very unexpected blessing.   Proof to the world that their is no such thing as a full-proof birth-control plan...they were using two forms.     

                

And the brothers duo....oh Mari's bald cause he gave himself a haircut...and mommy had to rescue it.  And can you tell Sam's a lefty elbowing his brothers eye.  *snicker*                             

                            

So today holds nothing great.  Except a sick Rainee and whiny kids.     Rob fought with the health care company...and they "promise" they'll have the machine here by 8 tonight.....For those who missed this little saga.   We're trying to change companys due to the other ones having had a probe on back order since September.   This company hasn't proved itself much better.   And we've been without a way to monitor Rainee at night for a week.......With her sliding downhill this can NOT continue.  So he got more agressive.  May it work!

My prayers go out to Emma and the surgery her daughters facing.   Its just sucky to have to wait through that....wish I could fly down to New Zealand and distract her.......

                                    

Pictures.    In no particular order.  This is my sick bug with the broken leg.   She woke up this morning with a cold.  Can you tell?   She ended up napping on me through all of SS and half of church.  She NEVER naps.    She's maxing out her meds....oh please let them work

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And now the birthday boy...once again in no particular order.  Here's Mari opening a pressie from grandma bower.  We had a joint family party today...4 birthdays my niece, my nephew (the one I blogged about) and a friends son.   It was held in my sisters very tiny house.  We survived...and that's all I'm gonna say about that.

                                 

And here are Kaylin and Mari watching the elephants.  I basically took no pictures at the zoo too cold, too many kiddos to watch.  But this one is priceless as it captures how intense the zoo was for them. 

                         

And here we are checking out the cake...it has Dora and dinosaurs on it....to satisfy the male and female.  ROFL

           

And one more....

           

A small amount of the group...most of them are related to me.  sniggers