Archive for July 14th, 2008

Life Goes On

July 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Family News | No Comments »

Life has seemed to go on, without much involvement from me. I have been busy studying, and hope to take my final exam for medical terminology this next week. Cross your fingers, and send a few prayers heavenward for me please!!

Girls have been doing well on their schoolwork as well. Lots of reading that we were missing out on when I was working all the time. Des is having a great time not only reading her schoolbooks, but reading many other books. Her favorite right now is Boxcar Children #1. Meg’s reading has come a long way as well!! Writing nicely is still a challenge for Meg, as she mixes capitol letters with lowercase, and sizing is still an issue. Des is doing okay, as long she is paying attention. Math is going well!! It’s not all textbook stuff though…We played monopoly the other night and had a great time!! Where is math in monopoly?? Monopoly is full of math…you add the spots on the dice, you count the spaces you move, you use money to buy your cottages and castles (we have the Disney version), you use your money to pay the rent and such….It all went well. I will warn you though, it does make for a longer game when you are taking time to let the little ones do the counting and adding….but it’s great, that’s real quality time.

My cousin came down yesterday!! I haven’t seen her in over a year. A few years ago, okay, so it’s probably been more than a few, but anyway, she and I were as close as sisters….and you know, it’s still pretty much the same!! She’s great!!! So grown up and responsible…it’s kind of hard to imagine…I still see her as a young girl, a preteen….We had so much fun!! We played baseball and soccer with the girls, went out to eat, and chatted….I think the chatting is what I miss most. We, years ago, growing up, would take LONG, and I’m talking LONG walks and just talk about EVERYTHING….It was much the same yesterday, without the walking part (too hot outside). We have plans again in acouple of weeks. I’m so excited!!!

*yawns* I’m tired….I haven’t slept much the past week. I can’t count how many nights I was up all night, or how much sleep I’ve had in the last week. I thought when I quit working that I would actually be able to have a normal sleep pattern…*LOL* I should have known better!! I’ve always been a nightowl, staying up until 2 or 3am before I was even a teenager…And it’s not that I haven’t tried…there have been nights that I’ve went to bed at 10 or 11p, and I spend the night tossing and turning….So this past week I spent many of my sleepless nights cleaning house and such. Not that my house shows it…*LOL*

It still amazes me that we can clean the house one day, and by the next it doesn’t even seem to show it. We’ll have laundry and dishes piled up again, and these carpets are pretty rotten, so it always looks like I need to vacuum. In any case, we do try!

Well anyway, I finally got a personal entry in here….Now I think it’s time to make a sandwhich (yep I’m eating dinner at 11p), and get back to studying. *hugs* to all my friends, and know that even though I haven’t made the blog rounds, I still am thinking of you, and miss you dearly!!!

Travel Health Insurance

July 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank | 1 Comment »

It seems that they have insurance for everything…life insurance, health insurance, flood insurance, renter’s insurance, home owners insurance, and even travel health insurance. I’m not saying that all of these kinds of insurance are a bad thing, but yet I wonder how people like me are supposed to afford it all. I’m doing good to afford life insurance, to help the girls should anything happen to me, and of course I have car insurance, but there is no way I could afford renter’s insurance and all that other stuff.

Crib Bedding

July 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank | No Comments »

I have a friend, well okay, I don’t know her that well, so we will call her an aquaintance, in any case she is due to have twins in January. We haven’t talked a lot about what theme she will do for the babies, if any. I never really had a theme for my girls, but than money was an issue too. She is having a baby shower in November and I was thinking about making a couple of afghans for her babies. However, I’m kind of afraid too, because I want to do something nice for her, and I don’t know how to crochet any of the fancy things…If I had money though, I wouldn’t mind buying some crib bedding though, because as far as I’m concerned you can never have too many crib sheets and blankets! We’ll just have to wait and see though.

Vessel Sinks

July 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank | No Comments »

By now you would think I would learn to just give up on keeping up with all the different kinds of “things” nowadays. However when I came to a link that said vessel sinks, I hadn’t a clue what they were talking about, so just had to, of course go check it out…Now I had heard of stainless steel sinks, porcelein sinks and like….Round sinks, oval sinks, square sinks…but never “vessel” sinks…Apparently vessel sinks are made of stone, which I have to admit is pretty neat!!

Orovo Detox

July 14th, 2008 -- Posted in Piggy Bank | No Comments »

Working at the Orovo detox center was one of the most rewarding jobs she had ever had, but it was time for a break. She had put her life into the center…day and night, weekends and holidays for over 2 years…Now, she was busily packing for her first vacation in that time. She was on her way to the mountains of Wyoming for some camping, fishing, and peace and quiet with only her, the animals, and God for company. It was an exciting time.