17 Nov 08-I had a wonderful day today! I accomplished so much!! I got all of my Christmas shopping today and are you ready for the kicker??? I GOT EVERYTHING WRAPPED TOO!!! Whoo hoo! What a fantastic day! It is going to be so nice to not worry about shopping anymore. I got Harmony's birthday stuff too so I have no more money left but it's done. LOL I can actually start paying off Christmas BEFORE it gets here. Yay! Now I can just relax and enjoy the holiday season.
15 Nov 08-I had to go to work this morning but thankfully my 0800 meeting was finished at 0758 and I was home by 0830! LOL They had nothing for Ammo so I got to make all the calls for people that were in to go home and to brief the Chief and Captain. Now my day is not lost. My laundry is started and we'll be working in the yard today. Bulk pick up is on Monday so we'll be cutting tree limbs and stuff. It should be a nice day. I just got the e-mail from my mom that they are heading out to Arizona and they will be here on the 26th! We are all so excited to see them!
13 Nov 08-Today was the day from hell. Yikes! Work has just been a little nuts and I'm getting irritated with people making decisions to do things that affect my accounts and my custodians. That drives me nuts! Other than that, it's been a very quick week. It has just flown by which is great. I'm on Ammo super standby this weekend so I've got to work on Saturday but I'm going to finish my Christmas shopping afterward so that will be really nice. :) I have Monday off so I'm looking forward to that. Tomorrow is going to be rough. I have my annual maintenance training and it is "death by videos". Some of the videos are older than my time in the military and it's awful. LOL I get through it every year but God is it boring. Wish me luck!
11 Nov 08-It was so nice to have a day off in the beginning of the week. Happy Veteran's Day to everyone serving and everyone who has served. I had a "girls day out" with Harmony today. She has been getting a little worse in her behavior and has been getting 1-2 yellow lights a week at school. It's been frustrating and yesterday, I got a little carried away while trying to talk to this child who is jumping up and down, flailing arms, etc and I wanted to take her out today to apologize to her and explain calmly why she cannot behave this way. She needed new undies and she really likes ankle socks (but doesn't have a whole lot) so I took her to Target to get those things. After that, I took her to Starbucks so we could sit and have a drink. She was so thrilled and it was nice to get to sit down with her away from the house and talk to her about what has been going on. I think she understands better now and we just enjoyed being together. Then, out of nowhere, I decided I would take her to finally get her hair cut that she's been wanting. She asked for an A-Line cut and I wanted to give her what she wanted. She looks ADORABLE with her new "do". The pictures are on the website. She is so happy with it. She was just glowing. We got home and she let me fix it a little bit and then hugged me and squealed and asked if she could go see her friends so she could show it off. :) It was a great day! I spent quite a bit of time in the garden today. Everything was dead so Chris finally got in there with the weed eater and I came behind him and broke down all the corn stalks and sunflowers. That was hard work! Unfortunately, we have a rodent problem. We found another mouse in the garden and it came from another yard. Chris got some stuff to seal up the crack to try to keep these rodents from coming in our yard! Yuck! (Don't worry Mom, we'll have it taken care of by the time you guys get here. Ha ha!) We set up our compost bin finally too so we were able to put stuff from the garden in the bin instead of in the trash! That was fun! It's late here but I am finding it hard to unwind. Chief results come out tomorrow morning and I am waiting for a name to show up on that list. I've felt in my heart that it would be there for a long time. It is my friend Ralph who is one of my mentors and I am so excited for him! I think that's it for today. :)
09 Nov 08-I apologize for the break again. I had a 3 day seminar I attended this past week and I didn't realize how much NOT doing anything could just take it out of me. I need to be busy to keep my energy up and 3 days of sitting in a classroom sure did not do it for me. I have been busy with school too. I did not like having to do the majority of my work on the day it was due so I am trying to do a little bit each day which has definitely been beneficial. I have half of my assignments done that are due next week and it feels great to be ahead. Now I just have to pray I can keep this momentum up! Everyone has been doing well. Miles just got new undies and that's probably one of the most exciting things we've done lately. Ha ha! That kid is so easy to please. We will be getting their progress reports this week and I'm sure there will not be anything in them we don't already know. Technology is wonderful. I am in close e-mail contact with both of their teachers and I can even see Harmony's grades online. It is helpful to see when there is a subject she might need some extra work in so we can catch it before it is too late. I signed up for the Black Friday website and received an e-mail Saturday morning about a sale at Walmart. Normally I am not up as early on Saturdays because I sleep in due to getting up at 4:45 all week but for some reason, I was up earlier than usual and I'm sure glad I was. Walmart had a pre black Friday sale and I was able to send Chris to get some gifts for the kids that were a steal but we also got a laptop (for Chris) that was $650 on sale for $298!! What a steal! He came home with it and I smiled and told him Merry Christmas! LOL Now I don't have to worry about his gift. He really did need a new laptop as the old one he was using was in bad shape after Miles stepped on it after I got back from Afghanistan last year. Chris will be much smarter with this one and make sure it doesn't sit where it can be damaged when it is not in use. We couldn't pass up that deal. We put the old ratty one (that works fine, it's just in bad physical shape) in Harmony's room so she'e excited to have her own computer. All we need is one more an they'll all have their own computers which will stop some of the fights that go on in this house! I'm sure there is more that I could post about today but can't think of any more right now. I am anxious to get back to work after 3 days away to see what I have missed. We work Monday and then have Tuesday off so it will be a nice break during the week.
02 Nov 08-Nothing special happened today. I was able to catch up and get all the laundry done. I finished up my homework and was happy to see the all the grading caught up and I have a 92%. :) Other than those 2 things, I just watched football and got another 3 miles in today. Laundry took tons of time though so I had no free time today. I also updated the website with the kids Christmas wish lists finally!
01 Nov 08-Today was a good but busy day. The kids were beat of course from last nights festivities. I went with Elise to some type of home show where they showed all about how to use items you already have that you might be ready to throw them out and make them new. It was eye opening for sure and made me want to go out and yard sale! LOL It was a lot of fun. It was just nice to sit and chat with Elise. I forget how much I miss good conversation with good friends until I have it. I got 2 miles in tonight and only 2 because I got started about an hour later than I usually do. I missed the last couple of days so I really wanted to get it in. I still have some homework to do tomorrow and loads of laundry but it was so worth it to get out today. Oh, before I forget, we stopped at Walmart today so that Elise could get some yard for the kids to keep them occupied. (David was on call so she had to bring them along.) Anyway, they learned how to finger knit in Girl Scouts and Harmony learned in after school care so I picked some up for her too. She was so excited when I gave it to her today. She had been at a birthday party for part of the time that I was gone and it was a nice surprise for her to come home to 2 new things of yarn. She's really good at it. It's too cute. We have our sports fanatic (Miles), our scientist (Cody) and our creative one (Harmony). It's so fun to see how different they all are.
**Mom, I don't know if it's too late but I am going to make their Christmas wish lists tomorrow and post them on their bio pages. Sorry it's taken so long! :( If it's too late, I'm sure you already got them something great. You always do! Now that it's November, the kids already sense it's clsoe to your visit and we can't wait to see you guys!!
