Hi Robyn....I emailed you friday. Did you get it? Huh, huh?
Hi Joann.....I got your email, and will reply sometime...hopefully....if these kids leave me alone long enough to think in coherant sentences.
Any one want some children? They are sorta useful. They give good hugs.
I need a vacation!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Friday, April 25, 2008
Pressing life questions
why does it feel like my life is just zooming by at 100 mph? Is this a sign of getting older? Really, I feel like I have one foot in the grave or something. Every day it seems like I just got out of bed, and then it's time to get back in. When I was younger, the days and months just D-R-A-G-G-E-D- by...not anymore. I don't like it at all. Is this common? Am I experiencing a mid life crisis or something? UGH!
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
where have I been today
This is what we have been doing today....all morning was devoted to this, the $3700.00 (no insurance)smile.
Saturday, April 19, 2008
Garage sale over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yippee....or something like that. I did it! I had the yard sale. ITS OVER!!!!!!!!!!! We made 853.00 and blessed 3 families with completely free stuff, and donated the huge leftovers (that took a car, a truck and a van to carry) to a mission benefit yard sale. Have huge amounts of clothes left, but will consign those at a consignement shop in May. Big massive yard sale. 10 tables from church, 2 tables from me, a card table, buckets and boxes were not enough, and lots of things probably weren't seen until wayyyy later, but it's all good. Next project is to work on the huge amount of computer stuff in the garage and make several computers to sell. See, Robyn....it was worth it, and we blessed people in the process. Besides being cheap stuff, you can't beat free either. My husband passed out his business cards to lots of people, so he got his name out there. My kids learned how to negotiate, and help people.....and talk to people. No one can ever say my kids are not socialized. That's a bunch of malarky! These pictures were taken very late in the day, so you can see the sheer number of things that were still left. We stopped selling at 7:00 pm. Seriously......... And one picture of Rachel, shopping. She was checking the stuff out from her walker...cute? (pictures later....internet all wonky)
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
randomosities....... (is that a word?)
Woot! I had the big exam today. No, not THAT one....my eye exam. They have gotten worse, go figure. My pregnancies are hard on the little things. My eyeball is very healthy though...just blind. I would like to believe that Lasik would work for me, but I am skeptical....
Still trying to figure out when to hold this silly yard sale. Last week was perfect, but my kids wanted me to hang out with them at the art fair. To make it better for me, they found 7.00 worth of quarters in the big dirt pile that they have every year for the kids to dig in. They got very messy, but it was all fun. We then went and ate our fill of 10 cent hot dogs. Then we came home with enough time for the older ones to turn around and attend a free college football game. Soooo, here we are, still in a holding pattern. The good news is I am still finding more stuff to put in it.
Still trying to figure out when to hold this silly yard sale. Last week was perfect, but my kids wanted me to hang out with them at the art fair. To make it better for me, they found 7.00 worth of quarters in the big dirt pile that they have every year for the kids to dig in. They got very messy, but it was all fun. We then went and ate our fill of 10 cent hot dogs. Then we came home with enough time for the older ones to turn around and attend a free college football game. Soooo, here we are, still in a holding pattern. The good news is I am still finding more stuff to put in it.
Monday, April 14, 2008
Baby girl
One of the rare times she laughs. We can tickle her on one day and not faze her...but the next, she just laughs until she can't breathe. Typical girl....
rant rant rant.......
This is an extension of my dumb people post. I have had it with customer service. In no less than one week, we have left messages to DHS, Dentist, Company who owes Tony money, Doctor office, Lady who needs some items that I have, and someone else who I can't remember. All of these people will not return phone calls. Is this a thing of the past? If someone calls you, call them back already! This is one of my worst pet peeves, right behind being late. I hate being late. No one is so important that they should make people wait on them, except God. My husband ALWAYS makes people wait, and that one thing right there has made me contemplate bodily injury many times.
But, about the phone calls. Several of these people are working for me. If they want to continue getting my money, don't you think they would want to keep me happy? And another of these people have dragged their feet on a goverment thing for over 2 months. Can they legally do that? They claim that they don't know how to deal with a self employed husband, a self employed child who has a large bank account, homeschoolers, and all that jazz. It is not my fault that they are clueless....is it? The one who owes us money is really ticking me off....because I hate to be owed money for a job my husband did, only to have him do another job for the same company. It seems like fraud.
Boy, I am in a mood today, huh?
But, about the phone calls. Several of these people are working for me. If they want to continue getting my money, don't you think they would want to keep me happy? And another of these people have dragged their feet on a goverment thing for over 2 months. Can they legally do that? They claim that they don't know how to deal with a self employed husband, a self employed child who has a large bank account, homeschoolers, and all that jazz. It is not my fault that they are clueless....is it? The one who owes us money is really ticking me off....because I hate to be owed money for a job my husband did, only to have him do another job for the same company. It seems like fraud.
Boy, I am in a mood today, huh?
Friday, April 11, 2008
My Canon affair
Have I mentioned I love this camera? Well, I do. I used a telephoto lens just now and stood in my driveway and took a clear shot of the license plates of the guy on the next block all the way down. WooHoo....
Oh, and a shot of Chewy, with Conner.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
speech graduation!!!!!
Today, we had a graduation from speech therapy party! It was a big hit in our house. All 4 middle boys were in speech therapy, with the same problems amazingly enough. Conner got out about 1 and 1/2 months ago, Braydon and Aaron got out 1 month ago, and finally Adam got out today. We promised them that when they were done, we would celebrate. And celebrate we did. We got a cake, and lime sherbet ice cream for the food, and then had a huge banner with tons of star wars stuff. Surely you remember that star wars is a little big in our house?? They got much stuff, and were thrilled. Then we went out for happy meal thursday and ate at McDonalds. Then, we went to party warehouse to buy Nathan a "saber" too, and to the Dollar Tree to look around. All in all, a good evening. We love surprises, and a surprise this was as well. No one had a clue!
Songs for Thursday
rain rain, go away, come again some other day......seriously!
Our garage-flooded (nothing damaged though, because after the last time, I put everything on plastic buckets.
Our laundry room-flooded. I guess God wants me to do laundry
Our back yard-flooded. No one gets to play outside and that makes a cranky momma
We have had enough rain, God. Thanks for it, but take it away now. Please?
Our garage-flooded (nothing damaged though, because after the last time, I put everything on plastic buckets.
Our laundry room-flooded. I guess God wants me to do laundry
Our back yard-flooded. No one gets to play outside and that makes a cranky momma
We have had enough rain, God. Thanks for it, but take it away now. Please?
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Aaron
This little toot was just caught reading a story to his younger 2 brothers. It was soooo sweet. The three of them were all curled up in the chaise lounge chair in the library/rachel's room, just having a good time. He is such an awesome big brother.....
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Catching up on a Sunday....
Well, what a week! There is so much to get done when you try to declutter, have a garage sale, feed children, and sleep! I haven't finished the garage sale stuff....there is so much more to do. I am out of hangers! I still have more to put in from my home. I vacillate between having certain people in need come and "shop" through my stuff and take what they need as a blessing, to having anyone from my church come look and take what they need, to having the sale and using the money to fund a vacation or possibly use it to fund a trip to see a very distinquished doctor in the field of microcephaly to find out what his opinion on Rachel is. This doctor is in Chicago, and is probably very hard to get in to see. What to do??? I am waiting on God's direction, and we still have time before we get all the enormous tables.
I can't believe how much I allowed myself and my family to wallow in. There has to be some psycosis involved as to why I bought soooo much stuff, and then couldn't figure out what to do with it. It's almost as if I enjoyed being surrounded by stuff. It was a shelter to protect me from the outside world, partly, but then I do think there is something to only knowing where an item is when it's all over the place. Brilliant people are often cluttered people. You clean their space, and they can't function. They probably didn't have 8 children though, so I can't use that excuse.
We are getting ready for summer. I want to go camping for the first time in my life. I have never been! Can you believe that? I have either been a working mom with no time, or pregnant, in which case I just didn't feel like camping. Or I had a new baby that just didn't seem like the camping type yet. Or the baby who was crawling everywhere, and didn't like to be held, so I thought said children would be eaten by a snake or fall into a river somewhere. But now!!!! I have zero excuses to use, and we WILL BE GOING CAMPING! Come hell or high water. My children are so excited. We have had everything one could possibly need to camp forever, in anticipation of this. So, now is the time. We will probably be coordinating this with another family in our town, who enjoys noisy children, and likes us. That in itself is odd. We aren't real sought out people around here. People either think we are weird, or contagious. LOL!
I really need to figure out what I am going to do about some birthday parties that certain people are wanting. I let them have a cake and punch at the church with their respective youth/children groups, but that doesn't seem to suffice. Are they greedy and only want presents, or do they just enjoy a smaller gathering? I hope it's the latter, because the former makes me sound like an awful mother. I told myself that when Ashley turned 13, that would be it for the parties, but she is saddened by that idea. I would LOVE to have the kind of party the Jeub family has. A big birthday bash for the whole family, once a year. Cook food for everyone, and just have a big shindig. Except my house would not fit that many people, and what are the logistics of presents? Do you just get one from someone who is around your age? What if they all have the same friends? Surely you dont expect one for each kid from a guest? I just know it would be so much easier to do it all at once, and get it over with. Huge parties are fun....Maybe soon I will start to implement something like it.
We are now the "proud" owners of a handicapped placard for our vehicles. It will make things easier the bigger Rachel gets, being closer to stores and doctors offices, but it will feel corny with all the kiddos piling out of this huge van in the handicapped stalls. I hope people are kind and not stare or ask us which one is the disabled person. That would be tacky and put my children in an embarrassing position.
It's funny, but in closing I just thought of this....Yesterday, my children did their paper routes, and saw a couple of garage sales they wanted to go to. I have taught my children to be frugal and look for good deals, and now we are really concentrating on what we NEED instead of just getting all the good stuff. Lord, I don't want them to be like me when they get out on their own. Anywho....this one they went to had a big sign out front that said "Dave Ramsey made us have this yard sale" Isn't that funny? Well, maybe not if you haven't taken Financial Peace, but to those who know....he advocates selling everything that isn't breathing to get rid of your debt. Don't buy stuff just because...and stay away from credit cards. They kill you!!!! It seems everyone we meet lately is taking Financial Peace. It's a great course, but one that will probably need a repeat time to soak it all in.
Love you Robyn, and JoAnn, and MamaArcher( Kristine) and Jane. If you have read this far, your good friends.
Oh, oh!! One more thing! We got that awesome camera I think I talked about before. Did I talk about a camera? I hope so. Anyway, a customer of my husbands has this awesome Canon 30D SLR camera and he wanted Tony to figure out how to use it and teach him. Well, Tony brought it home and I promptly fell in love with it. He figured out some stuff and took it back. Well the guy said it was too complex, and wondered if we wanted to buy it, and he would buy something else. We asked how much? Its about a 1200.00 dollar camera! He wanted us to make an offer. We prayed and each of us came up with 500.00. We told him, and he agreed. But in the meantime, he wanted to be able to use it for family gatherings until his new one came in. So we were borrowing it for free until then. One day he called and said he had been thinking about the camera and how much it was worth, and would we reconsider? He wanted 650.00 We said we would think about it, and came to the conclusion that we were obviously told by God to spend 500.00 and nothing else. I guess Tony told him that it was above our budget, and that we were sorry. 2 weeks pass and he calls us and tells us that he will sell it for the original price. Either God worked on him to hold to his word, or he just really wanted to sell it for this new one. Either way, we have a blessing! This camera is so awesome!!!! I am usually such a penny pincher that it was a huge deal for me to agree to. However, I love taking pictures of my children, so they are worth it. This is a camera I have seen professionals use, so woohoo!!
I can't believe how much I allowed myself and my family to wallow in. There has to be some psycosis involved as to why I bought soooo much stuff, and then couldn't figure out what to do with it. It's almost as if I enjoyed being surrounded by stuff. It was a shelter to protect me from the outside world, partly, but then I do think there is something to only knowing where an item is when it's all over the place. Brilliant people are often cluttered people. You clean their space, and they can't function. They probably didn't have 8 children though, so I can't use that excuse.
We are getting ready for summer. I want to go camping for the first time in my life. I have never been! Can you believe that? I have either been a working mom with no time, or pregnant, in which case I just didn't feel like camping. Or I had a new baby that just didn't seem like the camping type yet. Or the baby who was crawling everywhere, and didn't like to be held, so I thought said children would be eaten by a snake or fall into a river somewhere. But now!!!! I have zero excuses to use, and we WILL BE GOING CAMPING! Come hell or high water. My children are so excited. We have had everything one could possibly need to camp forever, in anticipation of this. So, now is the time. We will probably be coordinating this with another family in our town, who enjoys noisy children, and likes us. That in itself is odd. We aren't real sought out people around here. People either think we are weird, or contagious. LOL!
I really need to figure out what I am going to do about some birthday parties that certain people are wanting. I let them have a cake and punch at the church with their respective youth/children groups, but that doesn't seem to suffice. Are they greedy and only want presents, or do they just enjoy a smaller gathering? I hope it's the latter, because the former makes me sound like an awful mother. I told myself that when Ashley turned 13, that would be it for the parties, but she is saddened by that idea. I would LOVE to have the kind of party the Jeub family has. A big birthday bash for the whole family, once a year. Cook food for everyone, and just have a big shindig. Except my house would not fit that many people, and what are the logistics of presents? Do you just get one from someone who is around your age? What if they all have the same friends? Surely you dont expect one for each kid from a guest? I just know it would be so much easier to do it all at once, and get it over with. Huge parties are fun....Maybe soon I will start to implement something like it.
We are now the "proud" owners of a handicapped placard for our vehicles. It will make things easier the bigger Rachel gets, being closer to stores and doctors offices, but it will feel corny with all the kiddos piling out of this huge van in the handicapped stalls. I hope people are kind and not stare or ask us which one is the disabled person. That would be tacky and put my children in an embarrassing position.
It's funny, but in closing I just thought of this....Yesterday, my children did their paper routes, and saw a couple of garage sales they wanted to go to. I have taught my children to be frugal and look for good deals, and now we are really concentrating on what we NEED instead of just getting all the good stuff. Lord, I don't want them to be like me when they get out on their own. Anywho....this one they went to had a big sign out front that said "Dave Ramsey made us have this yard sale" Isn't that funny? Well, maybe not if you haven't taken Financial Peace, but to those who know....he advocates selling everything that isn't breathing to get rid of your debt. Don't buy stuff just because...and stay away from credit cards. They kill you!!!! It seems everyone we meet lately is taking Financial Peace. It's a great course, but one that will probably need a repeat time to soak it all in.
Love you Robyn, and JoAnn, and MamaArcher( Kristine) and Jane. If you have read this far, your good friends.
Oh, oh!! One more thing! We got that awesome camera I think I talked about before. Did I talk about a camera? I hope so. Anyway, a customer of my husbands has this awesome Canon 30D SLR camera and he wanted Tony to figure out how to use it and teach him. Well, Tony brought it home and I promptly fell in love with it. He figured out some stuff and took it back. Well the guy said it was too complex, and wondered if we wanted to buy it, and he would buy something else. We asked how much? Its about a 1200.00 dollar camera! He wanted us to make an offer. We prayed and each of us came up with 500.00. We told him, and he agreed. But in the meantime, he wanted to be able to use it for family gatherings until his new one came in. So we were borrowing it for free until then. One day he called and said he had been thinking about the camera and how much it was worth, and would we reconsider? He wanted 650.00 We said we would think about it, and came to the conclusion that we were obviously told by God to spend 500.00 and nothing else. I guess Tony told him that it was above our budget, and that we were sorry. 2 weeks pass and he calls us and tells us that he will sell it for the original price. Either God worked on him to hold to his word, or he just really wanted to sell it for this new one. Either way, we have a blessing! This camera is so awesome!!!! I am usually such a penny pincher that it was a huge deal for me to agree to. However, I love taking pictures of my children, so they are worth it. This is a camera I have seen professionals use, so woohoo!!
Friday, April 04, 2008
Where I have been all week
this is why I have been absent again. Finally getting all the stuff organized for the yard sale. One rack alone has 185 clothes on it. If I sell each one of those for a dollar, I will make 185.00 on just that rack. Its name brand baby stuff...name brand girls stuff...and just generic boys stuff. All those boxes on the other picture hold stuff in half, and books in the other half. They are 2 deep and floor to ceiling. This doesnt even show you the other wall filled floor to ceiling with book boxes, or the full sized bed with boxes of clothes that still need to be hung on hangers. I have NEVER had a yard sale this big in my life!
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
Quality hair cuts?? April Fools
Braydon
Adam
Aaron
Nathan- who is always covered in boo boo's
Conner--ha ha. You can see the hairs on his chin!
It's the semi annual hair cut of the boys. Except this year, Rachel got in on the action. She had lots of fly aways on the side, so they are gone now. Its still sorta long on the back. Let the sweating begin!! only pic we are missing is Austin...
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