I NEVER Want to Put In My Mouth
1. McDonalds
2. Any type of melon (watermelon, cantaloupe, honeydew, etc)
3. cat/dog food
4. super spicy anything
5. cheap grocery store cupcakes
HH's Five Things He NEVER Wants to Put in His Mouth
1. slime
2. scorpion
3. poisonous spider
4. radioactive material
5. human feces
Saturday, January 1, 2011
Back from NC
My newphew John...so cute!!!
John "playing" Scrabble.
New Years Eve 2010
I've wanted HH to stand in front of this sign and get his picture taken since I saw it last month. This is the slogan for Bojangles Restaurant. Seriously? It's BO time? Not so much!!!
We kept with last year's theme of seeing a movie on New Years Eve:
I would like to thank HH's brother for the AMAZING dried strawberries. I have consumed the whole bag that I won, and I got home to find I had another bag that was delivered to our condo!
My hair is BEYOND needing styled and colored. I am going to get it fixed Monday after work. I cannot wait.
Wednesday, December 29, 2010
December 29th
Describe what happiness is to you in just six words.
YIKES! I want more than happiness, I want joy.
Joy in knowing Jesus Christ.
YIKES! I want more than happiness, I want joy.
Joy in knowing Jesus Christ.
Tuesday, December 28, 2010
Day 28
What's your biggest Life responsibility right now, and how are you handling it?
I decided to do the blog a day thing like ChiTown Girl is doing, and I'm starting at the end of the month.
My biggest life responsibility right now is being sole financial provider for our family. (We do get some funds from my MIL, but mainly it is on me.) HH has been very supportive. He is willing to work, but there are a lot of variables that must be considered when taking a job. Since he is going to be a pastor, there are a few jobs that he cannot do. Also, he needs to be available on weekends to preach, which is difficult for many entry-level jobs that are currently available to him. His undergrad is in theater and theology, so he doesn't really have a lot to fall back on there. I really try not to bring it up that much. He desperately wants employment as a preacher, and is doing everything possible. I know it wears on him mentally seeing how tired I am at the end of the day, and bringing home work that extends for into our evening time.
As for how I'm handling it, I guess pretty decent. Teaching has gotten significantly more demanding in the last five years. I am a super efficient person, yet there are easily adding ten hours to my work week from required paperwork. It is hard talking with someone who "used" to be a teacher, because while it was demanding then I know....there is nothing like how cut throat things seem to be now, and how every bit of a child's achievement (or lack thereof) is completely my fault. Yes, I do make a huge difference, but the worlds my students are coming from ARE different from even moderate class homes.
I decided to do the blog a day thing like ChiTown Girl is doing, and I'm starting at the end of the month.
My biggest life responsibility right now is being sole financial provider for our family. (We do get some funds from my MIL, but mainly it is on me.) HH has been very supportive. He is willing to work, but there are a lot of variables that must be considered when taking a job. Since he is going to be a pastor, there are a few jobs that he cannot do. Also, he needs to be available on weekends to preach, which is difficult for many entry-level jobs that are currently available to him. His undergrad is in theater and theology, so he doesn't really have a lot to fall back on there. I really try not to bring it up that much. He desperately wants employment as a preacher, and is doing everything possible. I know it wears on him mentally seeing how tired I am at the end of the day, and bringing home work that extends for into our evening time.
As for how I'm handling it, I guess pretty decent. Teaching has gotten significantly more demanding in the last five years. I am a super efficient person, yet there are easily adding ten hours to my work week from required paperwork. It is hard talking with someone who "used" to be a teacher, because while it was demanding then I know....there is nothing like how cut throat things seem to be now, and how every bit of a child's achievement (or lack thereof) is completely my fault. Yes, I do make a huge difference, but the worlds my students are coming from ARE different from even moderate class homes.
Monday, December 27, 2010
Christmas Fun
Baby Kate enjoying her first Christmas in the States.
Here I am with my Gran. She is 85 years old. We had Christmas at her house. She cooked almost all the food, and boy was it great.
I love it when HH and I take pictures dressed up together.
Christmas Carolina Style
HH put ribbons up everywhere for the boys to get to their "big" Christmas surprise. They boy got electric vehicles.
Our flight was a bit delayed coming in, but not too bad. We will do a more formal Christmas dinner on Wednesday. HH and I are here until Saturday.
Here is the trailer to the movie of the book series I have been reading:
Saturday, December 25, 2010
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas everyone!
The Holy Spirit really spoke to me last night, and I had a tearful few minutes concerning my sister and BIL. Going to the hospital has been hard. Jolting every time the phone rings not knowing if this is "THE" call is hard, hearing my sister cry has been hard. We've been at the hospital Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and will be going later on today. I became grateful last night. Everyone wants to be there when life is good...anniversaries, birthdays, new babies, the promotion...but times like these are when most people fade away. I'm really thankful that I can be here and help share in her suffering, although I cannot begin to understand what she is going through. HH and I could be half way across the country, and I could be helpless to be there for her.
Today I do have to talk with my brother. He has been working like a madman, but I need to tell him that he has got to get to the hospital and see Matt again soon. He has been faithful in calling my sister to check in, but I know she needs him to come up.
He almost went back on a ventilator after we left last night. If he doesn't improve significantly in the next two days he will. He has not been on a ventilator since the first week of the accident.
The Holy Spirit really spoke to me last night, and I had a tearful few minutes concerning my sister and BIL. Going to the hospital has been hard. Jolting every time the phone rings not knowing if this is "THE" call is hard, hearing my sister cry has been hard. We've been at the hospital Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and will be going later on today. I became grateful last night. Everyone wants to be there when life is good...anniversaries, birthdays, new babies, the promotion...but times like these are when most people fade away. I'm really thankful that I can be here and help share in her suffering, although I cannot begin to understand what she is going through. HH and I could be half way across the country, and I could be helpless to be there for her.
Today I do have to talk with my brother. He has been working like a madman, but I need to tell him that he has got to get to the hospital and see Matt again soon. He has been faithful in calling my sister to check in, but I know she needs him to come up.
He almost went back on a ventilator after we left last night. If he doesn't improve significantly in the next two days he will. He has not been on a ventilator since the first week of the accident.
Friday, December 24, 2010
Wednesday, December 22, 2010
It Comes in Threes Right?
1. Two weeks ago HH got a ticket for running a red light. Yeah, the cop just didn't give the ticket, but he had a major attitude and was nasty to HH. When he told me, he was very upset. We have NC tags. When our tags came up for renewal in September of 2009, I told HH "lets chance it." By that I was thinking we could be moving any time to another state where we will have to turn right back around and get it registered again. In Kentucky you pay for your tags based on their worth every year. The cop found this out, and we have to the registration updated by January 7th, which comes out to be about $1000. The ticket will probably be between $150-$200. This registration will only get us til June, then we have to pay about $350 for the next year.
2. HH didn't get a job with the bank he applied for. I attribute this to the toughness of the job market, and how many people who were competing for this position.
3. Our electricity craziness: Remember how we lost electricity because they cut off power while we were in North Carolina? HH has been pursing getting us some sort of reimbursement because it was wrongfully shut off, and we lost our entire refrigerator. As part of the insurance process, they have to come out and make sure everything was wired correctly. Our boxes were wired in reverse. That's right for 5.5 years I've paid for her electricity, and she has paid for mine. So they are doing a reversal to see if we have paid the correct amount of money to them. I know that we have gotten away with murder in this department because the lady next door is often gone for weeks at a time, and has put her condo up on the market twice. If she had half a brain, she adjusted her thermostat accordingly for when she was gone.
The electric company will backdate for the last TWO YEARS, and we will receive a detailed account of this, along with a whopper of a bill. I am estimating that we have easily underpaid $30-$50 per month. The electric company is not required to make sure that everything was wired properly to the right box, but only that it will not catch fire or pose some other threat. They have made sure they are off the hook of being liable. We called the place that did the original electric work for the condo, and they are no longer in business. We don't have a very strong homeowners association (they meet once a year), so I'm not sure they would be any help either. We might try to pursue legal recourse, BUT, come January we are still going to be liable for this GINORMOUS bill. The electric company in their charitable spirit said we could have 24 months to come current with our account.
Throwing in a fourth thing for good measure....
4. I went to the hospital today, and it was great timing for me to be there for my sister. She just found out that after Christmas they are moving my BIL to a nursing home. We knew this would eventually happen, but no one was expecting it anytime soon. He is not sick enough to stay in the hospital (WTH?), and my sister has eight nursing homes to choose from with insurance. That was narrowed down to four nursing homes because he has a trach.
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