Shopping is 98 percent done. Working on food ideas for family get togethers. And most importantly, talking with the girls each evening about the TRUE meaning of Christmas. Love to hear it in their words.
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Testing
The Android app is installed. Works well but I will have to be very careful of autocorrect. Or just shut it off……
Off to get ready for work after peeking in on my Sleeping Beauties.
Vacation input needed
I think we’ve settled on Gulf Shores as a destination this summer. Now we are looking for your input. Any must see/must do thing/places? Any place to avoid?
Whirlwind Week
Wow, the past week has been wild. Basketball practice on Monday and Thursday, swimming lessons on Wednesday and I decided to go ahead and take the girls to the Tuesday evening vaccine clinic. Friday was a relief, nothing planned so it was family movie night.
I can only imagine life as the younger girls become more involved in activities.
Frugal!
So, I had planned to have leftovers for dinner tonight after swimming lessons but since I programmed but forgot to start the crockpot yesterday there were no leftovers. Late last night I pulled my ‘container’ out of the freezer. I throw small amounts of leftover veggies in the container. Added broth, some fresh onion I had cut last eve for a salad, some spices, etc…it’s now veggie stew. From veggies I would have once just thrown away. 
. To go with it, we are having some ham & cheese quesadillas. What kind of cheese? A big variety quarter cup of this, couple tablespoons of that, the little bits of shredded cheese that tend to accumulate in our fridge. All on some white corn tortillas that I had picked up for another recipe and were also just hanging out in the fridge. Now, cross your fingers for me that they will eat it.
Has it possibly been that long?
On October 26th 1998, I got up and went about my day. Headed to work, my 1st full week in my new role at the hospital I was working in at the time. I was also right around 22 weeks pregnant with my first baby (Alexa). About mid morning, the RN I was working with got a call that a vendor was at our offices and we needed to come back over from the nurse unit and talk with him. In actuality, my husband was waiting in my new boss’ office with news to completely rock my world. A very close friend of our family and member of the Gibson County Rescue Service and local volunteer fire department had tracked Matt down and had him come find me. Since I had switched departments a week earlier, HR couldn’t get a call routed to me. Matt had the worst job in the world. He had come to break the news that my Mom had been killed in a car accident that morning. I only remember bits and pieces of the next couple days really.
My mom was a rural carrier for the USPS. She was on her way to work and less than 1/2 a mile from home. She had to turn from the county road they lived on onto the highway. She had to make a left. It was the Monday following the fall clock change. The sun, instead of gradually changing position in the sky for that time of morning like the rest of the year was in a markedly different location. I’m sorry but I really feel that played a big part in being blinded by the glare. She pulled into the path of a coal truck. The driver of the coal truck said he saw her holding her hand up to the side window as if to block the sun, apparently it wasn’t enough. She never got to hold her first grandchild.
To top all that, my dad was/is a volunteer firefighter and member of the rescue service too. And he was the closest to the accident. He responded to the accident having no clue that he would find his wife of 30+ years involved in a fatal accident. I still worry about what that did to him. I’ve never really been able to get my little brother to open up about how he felt/feels. My mom’s sisters and brother were devastated as well. She was the oldest of 8 and they had just lost their mother in January to Alzheimer’s.
Small communities can be wonderful. She knew and was known by so many and there was SO much support from the entire community. I was so blessed to have her in my life for 29 years and to still carry her influence today.
I don’t know that I’ve ever written this much about that day 11 years ago. I may add more later but I don’t think I can at the moment.
sweet
Just wanted to share a picture of my little girls being so sweet with each other
Labor Day = Family time
Matt and I took the girls to Mesker Zoo today and then to Denny’s afterward since everyone was “starving”. Maybe they really were starving because Alexa and Piper ate EVERYTHING. Tori….didn’t eat much of her meal but plenty of everyone elses.
Yummy grilled shrimp ceasar salads tonight (except for the 2 kids that decided to have ranch instead of ceasar) and now getting everyone down for the night. Tomorrow is full swing back into the grind. DH & I must go back to work, A & P have school, T has pre-school and A has an ‘away’ cross country meet after school. Here we go!
