Dear mom,
I can’t talk yet. So sometimes when I whine I’m trying to. Today was one of those moments. Please next time you hear me whining, look around and find out why. Cause its really hard to hang like this for long.
Oh yes, and if I do get stuck some place new, just rescue me instead of getting the camera out and laughing really hard.
Thanks,
Jeremiah
Flexeril and Midol make a looooooooooooovely drug cocktail.
My sister says I should not do it again. My friend thought
I was the life of the party. And I actually
didn’t “truely” mix-them, but they had to blame something on my
goofiness.
This morning I woke up in pain…well I’d gone to bed in pain so it
wasn’t that big of a suprise. And a hour into the morning I
was absolutely on the verge of hysteria. I decided it
was the pain and took a Flexeril that the doctor gave me for my back,
and told Rob I was heading to bed. This was
9′ish. I woke up at 11 to find I had a
visitor. After a 8 or 9 month Hiatus Aunt Flo is
back. Much was explained about the crying when I saw that.
I went back to bed. It was necessary LOL
But this afternoon there was a gingerbread tea for Awana and my girls
very very much wanted to go. I was not
excited. The flexeril has a 4 hour life
expetency and it had been 3 hours 45 minutes or so.
So, I decided if I was going to survive the party I should take a
Midol. Usually it makes me dopey. Apparently
NOT today. I was just rather boingy. Like my
dippsy wipsy pixie charries. Sis just
kept staring at me. ROFL
My friend said it was great. *giggles*
I made a snow-man that looks like Gonzo.
Seriously. I wish I had a picture. Its a gingerbread
house snowman, not a “real” snowman. The tea is part
fun, and part work. We have a nice little tea thing, and a
speaker, and then we break up in teams and build gingerbread
houses. The houses are pre-made we just do the
decorating. They are then sold at the Awana Christmas Tree
festival. My sis, sil, a friend and I
worked on one. The kiddos had graham cracker houses they
could decorate and take home. They all chose to sit
together at a non-adult table…which was just fine with us 
Our house turned out lovely, and I really should have brought my
camera. LOL Anyhow my snow man was 3 marshmallows on
top of each other. Redhots for buttons. Pieces of
gumdrop molded into circles for eyes. And a orange gumdrop
molded into a carrot for a nose. It really was quite
cute. *honest*
But everybody that walked by started snickering. We decided it was either E.T or Gonzo. *giggles*
The serious creating I did was the fence, and walk-way.
They were quite lacey and pretty. The fence was out
of square pretzels, and red/white mints. I also made a
street light, and candy cane gate. In otherwords I did the
sugar-landscape. LOL
At least I didn’t build a out-house. My friend did
that. Complete with a little half-moon. It sits in
the yard of our gingerbread house…*snigger*
So, in other words I had fun. Silly adult, non-brain
fun. No fights, no squabbles, no whiney kids, just fun.
Man you have no idea how badly I needed that…actually I had no idea
how badly I needed it. Because quite honestly I absolutely
didn’t want to go…and I’m soooooo glad I did.
Drug-cocktail and all. *snigger*
Rob made a ton of phone calls, we now have garbage, satelite
dish, telephone number, and PUD lined up for the
30th. Oh and mail service. Lots and LOTS
of phone calls. Other then that it was a low key low stress
day that we both needed.
This afternoon we went geocaching and found too “treasure”
sites. The kids were quite happy with this. And
tonight was our second to last date night. I know it
will be a bit until we find as good a babysitters as we’ve
had. Soooo gotta enjoy them while we can.
I took this tonight just before we drove home from our date night. It turned out quite well I think.
There’s a beautiful almost full moon, and the air was so clear so it was reflecting off everything.
Morning,
I’m leaving the good off it. LOL
My back spasmed last night a LOT. I finally broke down and
took percasset, which took the pain away, but didn’t enable me to sleep
well. Sleep came about 12:30, and morning came at
6:45. Well I use the sleep in a relative term.
Lost somehow creeped me out last night, and I ended up having nightmares. *snort* Which means I slept at somepoint.
I’m just drrrrrrrrrrrragging today.
Good news; The appraisal came through for the house in
Clallam Bay. The loan is approved. We are
moving.
More good news; We finally have the sceptic tank lid.
*snort* Now we’re on the hunt for a little tiny red cap to cover
the sceptic pump’s alarm system light. Here we go
again….
Remind me again why I have children. LOL
Oh yeah.
So
I’ll
never
be
rich.
*snigger*
I had a lovely read on a link that Silverthorn posted. Go
follow it was absolutely fascinating, and written
well. I LOVE that kind of history. World
War II in England told from a boy who grew up there’s
perspective. A rather umm ingenious and
mischieveous boy I might add.
Tomorrow we are intending to do as little as possible. We
both promised each other we would do NOTHING house related.
I made cookies with the kids on Tuesday. Just fun and relaxing. The kids thanked me for two days.
It would seem…
their feeling a bit neglected. Really can’t blame
them. Moving a family of 8…is
just time consuming.
So, this weekend all that needs to be done is caught up. And we are just going to be a family.
Saturday is the Gingerbread tea. I might take the girls. I might not. We shall see.
Moving day Is November 30th. A Wednesday. My
bil & bro are both off. My husband isn’t.
He won’t be sleeping. And won’t take the night
off. Its a good thing he won’t have to drive far to
work. LOL
December 2nd…my in-laws are showing up for a planned
visit. *shrieks* We’ve warned them the house
will be in a shambles. The (new) house.
LOL They said that would be fine. We told them
they could take the kids to the beach so we could unpack, or help us
unpack. Their cool with that.
December 3rd. Is our churches Awana Christmas Tree
festival. Its a MAJOR event, and all of my kids except for Jer
are supposed to be performing in it. *sigh*
Life is just gonna be crazy for awhile. we need this weekend to prepare for it LOL
and what a absolute roller coaster
While we. the buyers real estate agents, and our real estate agent, and
the escrow company were scurrying around trying to speed up everything.
The buyers were debating with their lenders and getting the date moved back to the original closing date of NOvember 29th.
*snort*
We were also in contact with the land owner out in Clallam Bay,
and nobody apparently told him we wanted to close November 29th…and
he hasn’t finished upgrading the sceptic. *screams*
He also hasn’t moved his huge amount of crap out of the
garage. And the houseowner is NOT out of
the house like they said they would be.
So, we won’t be moving until NOvember 30th. Which is mostly fine. At least we know whats happening, and when.
But in the meantime….I just have this desire to scream over all the work that was done today!!!
so here goes
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
I feel better now.
God *is* in control. And does have plans to prosper and not
to harm us. If this move is to happen he will
guide. If its not…I love the house I live in.
Aiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!
The buyer’s lender somehow flaked and locked in the intrest rate for
the loan until tomorrow. The buyer *has* to close tomorrow
or loose the loan.
So…we said yes.
Which means we have two weeks to move out by tomorrow.
Of course…we don’t know if our loan has gone through yet, won’t until tomorrow. *snicker*
We could end up homeless.
I actually don’t see that happening. The *worst* they could
require is us to put a roof on the new house. We are quite
willing to do that.
We have a HUGE equity deposit. Its all a formality at this point. We hope.
Anyhow apparently we’re moving…Friday.
Hey did you know Xanga has a scrapbook page challenge?
I got brave and am entering. I will retake a picture of it tomorrow to actually enter, but had to share.
And no the G isn’t cut off…that would be xanga that did that.
The challenge was to do a blog about Thanksgiving using recipes. I used my moms bread recipe.
And when I had it alll laid out but not glued, Jer reached up and
yanked the page and dumped it all over the floor. The green
bean salad recipe I was also planning on using has now vanished off the
face of the earth. Thanks Jer I love you too.
I think if you look at the picture in the big screen you can read the words…I hope so anyhow.
I just remembered why I haven’t scrapped a lot recently….
Good morning,
Today is brought to you by frantic and multiple minor decisions to make *snort*
Oh yes, and don’t forget I’m supposed to be homeschooling through all of this.
Anyhow we have to retest our well water. The first test
didn’t do so hot, but they are 99.9% sure that was due to our testing,
not our well. We have bleached our well as a extra
precaution, and are running the bleach out of it at the
moment. And yup we’re doing bottled water right
now. LOL
The multiple little details ya know.
I finished packing my China Cabinet last night. Which
all in all was rather a major production considering how much stuff was
in there. I have four BIG boxes sitting on my kitchen
island with be very very very careful with stuff. And two
big boxes from it in the lean-to with yes their breakable, but I won’t
cry if they break stuff.
Phone Calls are breeding around here. OUr sceptic passed,
but we have to have the vents blown out, and it pumped.
There goes another $600 We knew about $400 of
that…so *shrugs*
The current working theory if we can work it all out is to move Friday. HAHAHAHA
We have to talk to the people we’re buying from and see if we can rent
from them or arrange something so we can move out a bit
early. This then gives us time to clean this place before
closing.
Of course, the renting is contigent on wether our buyer got his
appraisal totally approved. Which is contigent on the appraiser
coming back out here for another visit. Which we rather
thought he’d do Friday….so we shall see.
Oh yes, and final approval of our appraisal on the house we’re
buying. We thought we had that last week, but alas it was a false
alarm. Life is like that ya know.
But in all this. I was doing my devotions…and read this.
“The Lord shall preserve your going out and your coming in. From this time forth and forevermore.” Psalms 121:8
I’ll cling to it for awhile. God does give gifts when you truely need them. *grin*
and life moves on.
We celebrated my moms, Jer’s and my youngest sisters birthday last
night. Normally this would have been done at my house, but
my house is getting rather torn up. LOL So, my sister
volunteered.
We had a lot of fun. And yes its a bit early to celebrate
JEr’s, but it made more sense to celebrate them altogether. Here
he is with his birthday cake. It was very intresting and
very serious business somehow.
Mommy has gotten smart after six kiddos, and stripped him down to his
diaper for actual eating of the cake. And ironically he
didn’t get NEARLY as messy as the rest of my kids did on their first
birthday. He took a couple swipes a couple bites, and then
was done. But then he’s teething and cranky, so we werne’t
suprised. Hopefully on our family celebration of his “real”
birthday he’ll be in a better mood.
But nevertheless here’s the messy little boy.
And one more picture this is Jer in his birthday clothes. I
haven’t actually given him his gifts, as it felt silly celebrating a
week and a bit early. Want to savor him being a baby as
long as possible. But I did let him wear the outfit I got
him. Its sooooooooo cute.
I got it at Gottchalks which I don’t usually even let myself go
in. But they were having a one day sale, so I got it on
quite a good buy. Plus I got Zeria a new winter coat for
50% off, and then 
15%
off that. So I was quite happy all in
all. And yes he has a strange look on his
face. I took 25 pictures of him trying to get one “good”
one. He was NOT intrested in cooperating. He
kept turning his head, baling off, putting his hands in front of his
face etc. It was actually quite entertaining.
*snigger*
The ellusive perfect picture for me continues to be just that ellusive.
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Do you ever try to tell yourself that your making a big deal out of
nothing, and just don’t buy it? I keep trying to do that
about my now missing blog. And somehow…I just am not
listening. I absolutely KNOW I made the right
choice. Just wish I could shake the residual
feeling of ick. Its sooooooooo hard to walk away from
something. And I am the queen of second-guessing.
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Zeria is sick, and Jer is teething so mommy stayed home from church to
take care of them. It is weird to be home on
Sunday.
