Dancing Lessons

Soo... the 4 of us have been taking dancing lessons the past few weeks. I think we're getting quite good, but you can SEE FOR YOURSELF BY CLICKING HERE

Whatcha think? Are we ready for the big leagues?

Happy Thanksgiving!

May your stuffing be tasty
May your turkey plump,
May your potatoes and gravy
Have never a lump.
May your yams be delicious
And your pies take the prize,
And may your Thanksgiving dinner
Stay off your thighs!

Growing Much?

Hmmm... I think Blondie is going through a growth spurt.

Reasons being:

* She's eating everything not tied down
* She's complaining of leg pains at night (I've been told by the doctor they are "growing pains".
*Her favorite dress has reached the point of being too short.... what a sad day :-(

Yep I think she's growing!

Hopefully the eating will stablize or we may have to take out a loan to feed this kid! lol.

I'd post pics of her but guess what... I lost my battery charger for my camera. Thus the lack of pictures lately.

Playing Santa

As most of you know, we do not have Santa visit our house. Our reasoning is simple. We don't need Santa. Santa came about to give presents to poor children and I do not think we fall into that catagory since Hubby and I are able to buy Christmas presents for our children. Seems funny how the modern "Santa" brings huge expensive gifts to already over-blessed children while most of the needy children get cheap dollar store toys just to help the giver sleep better at night about spoiling their children. Nothing makes me more mad than to see someone have these huge $$$ toys in their buggy for their children and then throw some piddly little thing into the Toys For Tots box.

Since "Santa" doesn't visit our house, we play Santa for other children. Hubby got 2 kids through his work for us to sponser through his work this Christmas. Either one or both of their parents are incarcerated. We have an 11 year old boy and a 7 year old girl this year. At first I was beside myself trying to figure out what to get an 11 year old boy. 7 year old girl wouldn't be too bad. We took our kids shopping yesterday and Blondie was thrilled at "Playing Santa" and helping shop for clothes, shoes, and a couple toys for the children. For the boy we found a nerf ball set, slinky, and an electronic handheld game that Hubby insisted would be popular called Guitar Hero. We also got him some brand new sport shoes, 2 nice dressy shirts and 2 pairs of jeans. Throw in a Pink Alligator basic hat and some gloves and he will be set. For the girl we got a Crayola Art Kit, shoes, 2 complete outfits that Blondie helped pick out, and I will be making a cupcake purse and stuffing if full of lipgloss, body splashes, lotions, hair accessories, etc. I may go back out and get the girl a book or 2 and get the boy some comics or something. Not quite sure what an 11 year old boy would want to read.

Brief Update

We're all doing well - hubby is studying for his corporal exam in December. I've been rather busy crocheting up a storm.

Blondie is doing great in school - the only thing we're struggling with is differenciating between coins, but I'm printing a few extra worksheets on coins so we should be up to par soon. I am getting the worksheets from Enchanted Learning.

Bear is doing well - he's about 90% potty trained at home. However, when we go out, he does not want to even try. Sooo... we'll just keep at it. I'm sure he'll come around in time. At least we're using far less diapers at home!

That is all for now!

Penny Pig

Unfortunately we haven't seen Isabelle for a while now although our neighbors have seen her. I'm guessing she will remain wild.

On the other hand, Penny Pig is doing very well. She's put on weight and started running a few days ago. We were thinking maybe she was just older but apparently she was having a hard time moving from being undernourished. Anyways, judge for yourself on how she's doing :-)

And then here's Bear

An Intriguing Blog

In my recent searches to find out as much as I can about the man becoming the next president, which I must to say scares the life out of me, I came across a very interesting blog. The writer is a retired accountant and veteran. His posts vary from silly crime reports and factual articles on politics. Stop by and check it out - you may be hooked like I am!

Cave Views

Cancer

Such a scary 5 letter word. We heard it yesterday to describe one of Blondie's best friends. Surely this word couldn't describe a 6 year old redhead full of life, right? And yet it does.

Blondie has been friends with Kaylee since she was 1 1/2 and Kaylee was 2 1/2. Kaylee's mom is a teacher and her dad is a police officer. Just an everyday family living the American Dream. It breaks my heart to know what they are going through.

This all started about 2 weeks ago. Kaylee's mom got a call from the school that Kaylee was in immense pain and to come get her right away. Kaylee's mom took her to the doctor where they diagnosed her with a UTI and gave her meds. Nothing seemed to help, so she was taken to the ER. They eventually did a scan and found a tumor so they sent her to Atlanta to the children's hospital.

The tumor was on her ovary. They took out the tumor along with the ovary. They just got the results back today that it is cancer. They should know treatment options in the next few days.

Please PLEASE pray for Kaylee and her family. If you want their address to send a letter or card of encouragement, Email Me.

Christmas is Coming!

With Christmas coming fast, I needed to make a decision on what we are getting the kids for Christmas. As you all know, we just give them 3 gifts each, but we don't "skimp" those gifts. After much thought and deliberation, hubby and I finally came up with a plan yesterday.

Blondie:
1. Books - including I Spy, Magic Treehouse, and maybe a few others. She's getting into chapter books now and I caught her reading my big book on training pot bellied pigs.
2. American Girl Stuff - Christmas Dress for Kit (ordered this yesterday from etsy - why pay 24.00 for a "name brand" when you can get one that's just as cute handmade for 8.00!), AG craft kit (found this at Sam's for almost HALF the price in the catalog.
3. Baking Set - including her very own mixing bowl, measuring spoons/cups, a few mixes, etc. She loves to bake.

Bear:
1. REAL kid's tool set - basically a minature version of what Daddy has. Hubby is going to be working on building a deck on our house and Bear is going to be thrilled to be able to "help".
2. Boys Dress up clothes - such as police man, cowboy, etc. Hubby is tired of seeing Bear wearing Blondie's tutus.
3. Powerwheel - IF we can find a good used one for cheap. If not, we'll come up with a different gift for number 3.

As for me, I'd really like a whistling teakettle. I'd also love a more advanced bread machine, the one that you can make jam and all kinds of things in it. But I think that will wait until later. Other than that I am just very thankful that Hubby will be here to enjoy it this year! He actually gets Christmas off!!! And he has Thanksgiving off as well!

My thoughts on the Election

Well, I wrote a huge long post on my thoughts and frankly, I don't think you all want to read them so I hit the delete button. To say the least, I'm dissapointed in this election and shocked at what American's view as important.

Just my 2 cents....