Life is Good!

Wow! It is really amazing to me what a difference a couple of weeks can make. About a month ago I was really on a downer. I don't think I dwelled on it too much in here, but I knew I had to do something, so I just hung on til my scheduled appointment with my doctor on the 14th. After talking with her, she agreed that things weren't quite right and increased my medication. I also talked to her about my hip trouble which seemed to be getting worse since I had started to exercise and so she had me set up some visits with a physical therapist. Well, is has been two weeks and I feel like a new person! I feel more motivated than I have in a long time. I'm not crying all the time and even if it is cloudy outside, I don't have a cloud over my head. Things just seem better, easier, less overwhelming. I am even feeling like my being "just a mom" is okay and important. My hip is feeling 100 % better and that is truly amazing, since it has been hurting since Annie was born. I have to use a foam roller of all things on my hip and using my body weight, I can stretch the ligament that runs all the way down the outside of my leg. It is so nice to not have that constant pain! Life is good, baby!

The Eyes Have It!

The other day, I walked into the kitchen the same time as Kellie, to find her with my camera in her hands. I said, "Hey! Whatcha takin pictures of?" To which she said, "Oh, stuff, inside and outside." Hmm, I thought, I need to see what caught her eye out there, and well......

Find the Joy in the JOurneY

I'm not sure if you can see the drawing on the van...but, everytime I go to get in the car(which is several times a day), I am greeted by this sweet picture drawn by Annie. Rainbows and happy faces make me smile everytime I see them. A small reminder that my simple life is a good one. (And now, I have a great reason to NOT wash the car!!!) Here's to noticing the wonderful things just waiting to be found and enjoyed by those who will just look!

Friday Night Football!

I am so excited!
I haven't been to a high school football game since, oh, I don't know, 1985 maybe!!!
Tonight is our high school's Homecoming Game.
And, it just so happens we are ranked #2 in the state and our opponent is ranked #1...
so it is going to be a heck of a game.
Lindsay's best friend is in the Homecoming Court! Yeah, Jen!
Kellie and Annie can't wait to see her riding on a car!
(Gosh, I did that um....22 YEARS ago....yikes.
It's a scary thing to go down memory lane sometimes...)
Anyway, fall is is the air and I am ready for some football
Go Redskins!!!

UPDATE: We lost, 21-14, but it was a good game. It was fun and loud and we had a good time! Saturday was the dance, and here's a pic of Jennifer, Lindsay and Kathryn before the dance.

Happy Monday!

Well, I got a little behind on the everyday thing, but I am not giving up! Thanks to my sister, Laurie, blogging is way more fun! I've got a cool background and can put up pictures and change colors and stuff! Fun!
The weekend blew by as usual. On Saturday we all went to Lindsay's last soccer game in Buchannon-Upshur. It was a beautiful day and the leaves are changing. Unfortunately the girls lost, but It was still nice to all be together for once! Sunday for me was a weird day. I woke up at a normal time, took a shower and then felt like a ton of bricks hit me. I went back to bed and didn't get up til 6 p.m. Scott held the fort down for me and got everyone to church and fed. I haven't crashed like that in a long time. I'm back to being me today, although there is no school, so the house is full of friends and little people! Lindsay is actually vacuuming and cleaning her room. Will miracles never cease? Anyway, there is a really neat art project in the new Workshop issue by Stampington that I want to start today....that's my plan, oh and of course LAUNDRY. Now, there is one battle I know I will never win, but I have to try. You should see the pile in the laundry room........yikes.

Rats!

Well, i missed yesterday. Dang! It was Lindsay's birthday and I wanted to write a little about her on her ACTUAL 16th birthday! I have to admit, I thought about it around 11 p.m., but I was pooped. Anyway, I'm back and I have to give myself a break. It WAS a busy day. Besides that, I didn't see her again after I dropped her at school. She had a soccer game a couple of hours away, and didn't get home until midnight (yikes, a school night, too). But, I did make a pan of "Fudgey Oatmeal Things" for Scott to take to the game and she said everyone loved them. And, this morning, the little girls and I gave her the presents we all bought yesterday. She seemed truly happy about the e-pet Annie picked out (so they could play on the computer together, which I thought was sweet of Annie to think of), the HUGE white sunglasses Kellie picked out--really, they were perfect, a cool belt and some pearl earrings from Natalie and Emily and a waver from me. Daddy's in charge of getting her a new cell phone and I'm taking her and her 5 best buds to Hibachi tonight. It is just crazy to think she is 16. I hardly act older than that myself! She's just such a great kid. I have always felt that way about her. I hope she always knows how much I love her and how blessed I am to be her mom.

Day Three

Mama's on a roll! Today it is raining.....I went walking anyway and what a gorgeous day it really was out there on the trail, with a light rain. The leaves are changing and is was just so peaceful....even with my ipod and bon jovi!!! Came home, knowing the house would be empty and straight away vacuumed all the floors-i know, shocking-and now I am sitting here dutifully writing. I still have my ipod on, maybe that helps keep me moving. I have been checking out other blogs and found a neat art journal challenge, with a theme for each week of the year. I am trying to get started on doing that in my journal, but I thought it might be good to write about them in here. So, the first one is , "Something I am proud of"......I have started a page in my journal of this one with a picture I took of the girls. I am really proud of my girls. I know I can't take much of the credit, because they were pretty much born good! But, I have to believe my staying home and raising them has helped. If I didn't believe that, then what am I doing? I am grateful that these sweet girls have been entrusted to Scott and I. It is hard to believe that our oldest is going to be 16 tomorrow. What a neat young woman she has grown up to be! I don't think I have ever heard a negative thing about her from anyone (well except her sisters of course!) I am sure she will never let us or herself down. She has come a long way. (note to self: figure out how to get my pictures from the other computer over here!) More about her and the others tomorrow and so on!

Another day, another post

okay- I did it. two days in a row. even i am impressed. ok. well today was a hard one. I have been having a hard time dealing with all the girls being in school this year. I can hardly stand being in the house alone. I hate the quiet. I have been seriously considering getting an indoor dog to help with the lonlies. I thought I had found one, (Stanley, a terrier mix, so cute,) but he already has two applications in on him, so i kind of gave up. I actually cried about it. I'm just pitiful, huh? This morning, Scott was gone when I got back from taking the girls to school and exercising and he has been here most mornings til 11 or so, so when I came home to an empty house, my motivation evaporated and I decided to get caught up on Heroes. Around noon I showered, ran to the store, did the dishes, made cupcakes and put another load of laundry in, all before Kellie and Annie hopped off the bus at 2:30. Since then I have been making sandwiches and hot dogs for my starving kids and decided to take the 10 minutes I had left to write in here before it is time to go get Nat and Em. Haven't really had too much get and go lately....is this normal to feel so blah right now? I have all this time now to do art or quilting and all I feel like doing is........well, nothing. I need to talk to my doctor, but will she just tell me to forget myself and get to work? Well, Curious George is half over, time for the taxi to leave for another pick up....til tomorrow then....

Ok, I am going to do it this time!

I have tried to start this blog a couple of times now, but I end up deleting it. I am just going to have to force myself to keep going. I am too worried about doing it right or not at all, and the key is to just hang in there and it will begin to evolve on its own. Right now, I just want a place where I can write down some of my feelings and maybe show off a few pictures of my girls and record my favorite books, or just keep track of all the little things that happen in my day. So, I am pretty sure no one will ever see this first post, so I am not going to worry about it too much. As usual, I have to go and pick up one of the girls, race home and then take off again for a meeting. Well, that is my life and that's okay. I'll be back this time....not sure when, maybe after I color my 6 years-olds hair with Hannah Montana hair glitter sticks......