phermion's Xanga

archery!! Woohoo!

Thu, 25 Oct 2007 14:41:40 GMT

(or "woot!" *laugh* an old friend typed that and I thought it was the weirdest thing and then I come to find out that a lot of people "woot". crazy people. )

Anyway, back on track - archery! (again, Woohooo!) I'm very much a beginner, but I am loving it. Well, I'm not loving it when I don't bed my elbow and the string smacks the crap out of my arm. Otherwise, in my feeble attempts to relax, I am loving it.

I'll post more about it later. I know that someday, after much work I'll be able to come back and read this and laugh at myself.

two songs

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 16:08:21 GMT

...echoing my heart.

Brandon Heath

The Swift (I Need You)

I praise my Father for the good work he is continuing in me...softening my heart.

Mabel, Mabel, please give me labels!!

Tue, 23 Oct 2007 17:23:47 GMT

Thanks to Bonny's link I read about this label give away over at Table for Eight. I love labels and the idea of having labels that don't come off every other week for each of my kids just makes me GIDDY!!

Anybody else out there feeling the label love? Check out Mabel's Labels.

juice, water. and two birthdays

Wed, 12 Sep 2007 03:00:43 GMT

Amazing yummy things happen when I make juice out of fruits and veggies with water. Dd drinks things she wouldn't eat much of before. Not because she doesn't like them; she just doesn't eat more than a couple bites of anything. Liquify something and more goes down in a swallow full. Now to get a really good juicer....

I've found some good recipes lately. I'm going to print a few of them out to add to our "real" food menu notebook. It really is true that if you eat crap you feel like crap. Lunch today was crap - dinner was real and it made such a difference.

Thursday is a birthday. We'll have a party on Saturday. Sunday is also a birthday. We'll have a party on Sunday as well. I love planning birthday parties. I love it more when things go as planned and all the food is ready when I need it to be without sweating over it because I started it too late. So, I've got the food planned and I will be making it all the day before. I've got the music planned. I've got the games planned. (yay, fun games!!) I've got the drinks planned. (yum, yummy drinks!) I think it will be a lot of fun. Party time at my house!!!

I'll add recipes and what not later.

ok...coming back to Xanga

Tue, 11 Sep 2007 16:14:22 GMT

I've played with some other blogs, but I think xanga's newer features have won me over. So. There it is. I'm back to xanga.

do I smell vinegar?

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 03:58:24 GMT

greener cleaning!
A paste of borax and vinegar works miracles on nasty shower tiles. I'm going to try it out on my porcelain tub. I got the tip from Kim and Aggie of How Clean is Your House? fame. They have great tips that cut through serious muck.
So now my cleaning arsenal includes borax, vinegar, salt, lemon juice, olive oil, hydrogen peroxide, rubbing alcohol, and some essential oils. (tea tree oil and peppermint)
I cleaned some wood furniture today with a 1:1 mix of lemon juice/olive oil. Beautiful.

never measuring up

Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:47:24 GMT

It is painful to never measure up in the eyes of those with whom you should be closest. Being a disappointment is a sorrowful state. Pisser.

not exactly the kind of thought to be nurturing....some salt water might kill that.

wouldn't we all love to win!

Sun, 06 May 2007 16:26:55 GMT

"The Mommy Uprising"

Wed, 27 Dec 2006 23:20:36 GMT

For those who think I'm some sort of dried out crunchy fruit cake in a world of my own creation:

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/articles/the_mommy_uprising

The 11th paragraph ....

I'm doing my best not to stick my tongue out at anyone....for the moment.

Thursday, October 19, 2006

Thu, 19 Oct 2006 17:15:14 GMT

Ok. I'm finished fluffing my ego with quizzes. *laugh*
I have work to do, yet I'm supposed to be resting today because of the contractions I had last night. The thing is, we're moving Saturday! *hissy-fit* I have a timeline I'm working with! At this point I'm not sure that moving before the baby is all that I thought it would be, but then, I'm not sure moving with a new baby would be any easier - I just wouldn't have to worry about pre-term labor. *frown* I am definitely older. This pregnancy hasn't been so easy on my body - not that it's protesting, it's just more that my body is so very tired it seems. *sigh*
So, here I am, on my left side in the bed at almost 1pm.*grumble* The kids are happily drawing pictures, watching cartoons, and eating cereal.

On a good note - I just saw a preview for a new Rowan Atkinson movie - Keeping Mum. *thumbsup*