Today's post is just a bit of blathering.
We had a freak thunder storm here yesterday that lasted all of 10 minutes. This storm rolled in late afternoon. Shortly before it actually hit my internet started acting funny. I opted to go do other things since I couldn't get online, when I looked up I saw the storm cloud coming in. The lightening struck the house down our drive way just behind my friends house. Struck the ground! we felt the whole earth shake. Wow what a site.
Since then my net has been off and on, touch and go. I was all set to post about my beef stew and I can not get this net to stay on long enough or load my pictures. So instead I find myself just blathering.
I wonder if there is anything you, my 24 loyal followers, would like to ask me? is there a question you have been dying to ask but never did? or perhaps there is something you would like to know about me that I never talk about? Here is your chance... Ask away in the comments section and I will gladly answer them.
I hope that tomorrow the net works more like it is supposed to. I have a lovely post all set just need to ad the pictures of the stew. I Can't do it until the net is back to normal because it would take me just far to long to upload pictures when I keep getting errors telling me the server has stopped working.
Have a lovely~
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Night
where ever you are and what ever time it is where you are.
Now off to make my healthier for you Mac & Cheese for dinner. My Cuddlebugs favorite!
Showing posts with label randomness. Show all posts
Showing posts with label randomness. Show all posts
Friday, August 12, 2011
Thursday, July 14, 2011
Summer Random-ness
Well we are all fighting off a summer head cold in this house. Yet that is when my youngest two suddenly decided to grab work books that have been sitting on a shelf since we moved in.
They worked from about 9pm last night until about 10pm when my groggy snot filled head just couldn't focus any longer to help them. They both completed about 30 pages or so in that hours time and just flew through the books. We have not done any formal book work in well over a year. I do keep these types of things on hand for them. But they have had neither desire or drive to bother. This morning they both had "saved" their spots in the books they were working in and both of them continued to do work this morning. Each of them working at about the same pace and just cruising through the books. At one point Spitfire turned to me and asked "how many pages do we have to do?" I just chuckled and said "O as many as you want to do" they had both already done well more then what would normally be "required" if they were sitting and doing book work all day long.
Yesterday my Bookworm and I sat here watching Youtube videos and were completely amazed by this lady doing her LONG (like she sits on it kinda long) hair up in these fancy do's We want to give a couple a try so perhaps later today I will break out the ribbon and get to braiding and sewing our hair, or plating it as it was called in the days gone by.
I have had several people ask to about my shopping bags that I crochet. While out shopping at walmart the other day two ladies asked about them and one was amazed at how much stuff I had in them! Then when I told them that I made them she said I should sell them! I asked her how much she would pay for such an item and she looked at me straight faced and said "ME?!" Well yes lady YOU who seems to think that I could sell them, how much would you pay for them? ahh she never gave me a number but seemed to think others would certainly buy them. So that left me pondering. each bag if I sit and work on it consistently and don't get distracted or goof it up each bag takes about 2.5 hours, so one good movie. Each one takes about 1.5 skiens of cotton yarn depending on the price that is about $3.50 for the materials. IF my time was only worth 5.00 an hour that would bring us in at $12.50, add in the cost for materials and that brings each bag to $16.00 a bag. Would you pay $16.00 for a crocheted bag?
I must say that I am not sure where I would even begin to sell these at. Being new to the area makes it hard to find the little spots where you might find such niches.
On to other things... do any of you use a blog editor other then the one directly on blogger? Do you create your blogs somewhere else and then just simply upload them to blogger? Or are you like me and just create a lovely little blog spur of the moment right here on blogger and send it out into the world?
I think the cold is making me rather loopy as I am rambling a bit more then usual. So I will send this blog into the bloggosphere and let it be what it will.
Enjoy your today's for that is what your memories are made of.
They worked from about 9pm last night until about 10pm when my groggy snot filled head just couldn't focus any longer to help them. They both completed about 30 pages or so in that hours time and just flew through the books. We have not done any formal book work in well over a year. I do keep these types of things on hand for them. But they have had neither desire or drive to bother. This morning they both had "saved" their spots in the books they were working in and both of them continued to do work this morning. Each of them working at about the same pace and just cruising through the books. At one point Spitfire turned to me and asked "how many pages do we have to do?" I just chuckled and said "O as many as you want to do" they had both already done well more then what would normally be "required" if they were sitting and doing book work all day long.
Yesterday my Bookworm and I sat here watching Youtube videos and were completely amazed by this lady doing her LONG (like she sits on it kinda long) hair up in these fancy do's We want to give a couple a try so perhaps later today I will break out the ribbon and get to braiding and sewing our hair, or plating it as it was called in the days gone by.
I have had several people ask to about my shopping bags that I crochet. While out shopping at walmart the other day two ladies asked about them and one was amazed at how much stuff I had in them! Then when I told them that I made them she said I should sell them! I asked her how much she would pay for such an item and she looked at me straight faced and said "ME?!" Well yes lady YOU who seems to think that I could sell them, how much would you pay for them? ahh she never gave me a number but seemed to think others would certainly buy them. So that left me pondering. each bag if I sit and work on it consistently and don't get distracted or goof it up each bag takes about 2.5 hours, so one good movie. Each one takes about 1.5 skiens of cotton yarn depending on the price that is about $3.50 for the materials. IF my time was only worth 5.00 an hour that would bring us in at $12.50, add in the cost for materials and that brings each bag to $16.00 a bag. Would you pay $16.00 for a crocheted bag?
I must say that I am not sure where I would even begin to sell these at. Being new to the area makes it hard to find the little spots where you might find such niches.
On to other things... do any of you use a blog editor other then the one directly on blogger? Do you create your blogs somewhere else and then just simply upload them to blogger? Or are you like me and just create a lovely little blog spur of the moment right here on blogger and send it out into the world?
I think the cold is making me rather loopy as I am rambling a bit more then usual. So I will send this blog into the bloggosphere and let it be what it will.
Enjoy your today's for that is what your memories are made of.
Thursday, March 31, 2011
So much to do...
So why do I find myself unmotivated? I think I am simply overwhelmed with everything that needs to be done.
I have planned out our route and chosen some things we want to see on the trip.
I have sorted through stuff and decided what I want to keep and what I want to get rid of.
I have listed things for sale on the ever popular Craigslist.
I have sold a few things.
I still have more to sell.
My husband and older children have gone to storage and sorted through the massive amounts of things we have there. We have things there that have to get sold as well and had to figure out how much had to go in the truck.
Now comes the task of packing up the things we use a whole lot. It is hard to determine what can get packed how much has to stay out until the last minute and how much we can fit in the truck.
I have to figure out seating for 4 kids, 4 dogs and 2 bunnies. I think I have it figured out but who knows! we have not tried to fit them in the car yet.
what will I do if the dogs freak out about the rabbits being in the car?
Or perhaps the rabbits are going to freak out and have a heart attack on the drive over.
How will I make sure the rabbits have water we will be on the road for 7-8 hours at a stretch.
ahhh the things running through my brain.
O and I must find my new paypal card that came before we moved in here. where in the world did i put it so it wouldnt get lost? ha ha ha.
ok that is enough rambling for today. On with the work. Wish me well folks.
I have planned out our route and chosen some things we want to see on the trip.
I have sorted through stuff and decided what I want to keep and what I want to get rid of.
I have listed things for sale on the ever popular Craigslist.
I have sold a few things.
I still have more to sell.
My husband and older children have gone to storage and sorted through the massive amounts of things we have there. We have things there that have to get sold as well and had to figure out how much had to go in the truck.
Now comes the task of packing up the things we use a whole lot. It is hard to determine what can get packed how much has to stay out until the last minute and how much we can fit in the truck.
I have to figure out seating for 4 kids, 4 dogs and 2 bunnies. I think I have it figured out but who knows! we have not tried to fit them in the car yet.
what will I do if the dogs freak out about the rabbits being in the car?
Or perhaps the rabbits are going to freak out and have a heart attack on the drive over.
How will I make sure the rabbits have water we will be on the road for 7-8 hours at a stretch.
ahhh the things running through my brain.
O and I must find my new paypal card that came before we moved in here. where in the world did i put it so it wouldnt get lost? ha ha ha.
ok that is enough rambling for today. On with the work. Wish me well folks.
Friday, February 4, 2011
Kids are so cool!
With all my public schooling friends on the east coast, in the midwest, and well anywhere that is being pounded by snow complaining about how many days off their kids have had and how they just can't wait to send them back to school I am reminded just how much I love my kids! I love spending time with them. I love just hanging out with them. I love just being in the same room with them and listening to how they work things out.
By no means are my kids perfect but man they are cool! I love getting to hang out with them. I love listening to them. They are interesting people who have learned to form intelligent opinions about the world around them. They are fun to listen to and fun to talk to.
Why is it that so many parents out there do not think that their own kids or anyone else's kids are cool? Why is it dreaded when they become teens?
I have two teens. A 13 almost 14 year old and a 16 year old. They are both really cool kids. The 13 year old is embarrassed by us in public a lot but thats pretty normal. He can build all sorts of things and he loves to take things apart and see how they work. He is interesting to talk things over with and think about how things work with. He is so cool. My 16 year old ahh she is a blessing to me in so many ways. She is a sweet girl, A girl who knows how to take care of herself. She wants my advice and loves to draw. She is artistic and like most artists often is to hard on herself. She is an avid reader and in her spare time likes to cuddle with me on the couch. I just don't see whats so bad about teens.
With the way people talked I always feared my kids becoming teens. I can't be sure if its just that mine have some special touch, or if I just did something so right that they did not become what everyone else fears. I can't tell you where I went right because I don't even know. I just know that I enjoy getting to be the mom to these kids. O yes there are days they drive me crazy. There are days when I don't want to answer the million and 1 questions they have to ask. there are days I don't feel good and wish they had somewhere else to go. But those days are less then the days that I LOVE being with them.
I wish more parents loved spending time with their kids. I wish more parents could see just how awesome their kids are! If you are a parent please go and spend time with your kids, do something crazy together. take something apart, build something back up, do a puzzle, play some cards, laugh hard enough to almost tinkle your pants together. LOVE one another.
By no means are my kids perfect but man they are cool! I love getting to hang out with them. I love listening to them. They are interesting people who have learned to form intelligent opinions about the world around them. They are fun to listen to and fun to talk to.
Why is it that so many parents out there do not think that their own kids or anyone else's kids are cool? Why is it dreaded when they become teens?
I have two teens. A 13 almost 14 year old and a 16 year old. They are both really cool kids. The 13 year old is embarrassed by us in public a lot but thats pretty normal. He can build all sorts of things and he loves to take things apart and see how they work. He is interesting to talk things over with and think about how things work with. He is so cool. My 16 year old ahh she is a blessing to me in so many ways. She is a sweet girl, A girl who knows how to take care of herself. She wants my advice and loves to draw. She is artistic and like most artists often is to hard on herself. She is an avid reader and in her spare time likes to cuddle with me on the couch. I just don't see whats so bad about teens.
With the way people talked I always feared my kids becoming teens. I can't be sure if its just that mine have some special touch, or if I just did something so right that they did not become what everyone else fears. I can't tell you where I went right because I don't even know. I just know that I enjoy getting to be the mom to these kids. O yes there are days they drive me crazy. There are days when I don't want to answer the million and 1 questions they have to ask. there are days I don't feel good and wish they had somewhere else to go. But those days are less then the days that I LOVE being with them.
I wish more parents loved spending time with their kids. I wish more parents could see just how awesome their kids are! If you are a parent please go and spend time with your kids, do something crazy together. take something apart, build something back up, do a puzzle, play some cards, laugh hard enough to almost tinkle your pants together. LOVE one another.
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