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Some days you feel like if you had a camera or a tape measure you could actually watch your children grow. In the last 10 days both of my children have filled out to the point where pants that fit are too tight. On top of that they both probably grew about an inch. Treanna seemed to have grown about an inch in the length of her arms alone. With ...

There is a blanket of dead leaves over my grass. There seem to be dead dry leaves everywhere around my house. It took quite some time to clean them out of the carport today. There are lots and lots of spiders and their little egg sacs everywhere too. I cleaned off the cobwebs and what spiders and eggs I could find while cleaning up today. I spent ...

I really should have updated more just was not sure which of the many things to update. We went to an Aquasox game in Everett the beginning of the month. We even saw the Goodyear Blimp and I took a picture. Otherwise we are just ramping up for school in about 2.5 more weeks. We in fact just got their teacher assignments in the mail on ...

I am writing this blog post on my regular desktop computer. I have a good start to things being back in their places. To be sure things are upgraded and I still have many more programs and things to get set up. For some odd reason my calendar and contacts did not transfer well. I don't want to lose them off my handheld so am holding off a sync ...

I know its been a while. 1st off my main computer is still not quite working. It is rebuilt and installed and ready to receive my profile. However that is where we seem to be bogged down. It is not liking transferring my profile. So now we need to figure out a different way to transfer all my data and settings over. However I did get a chance to ...

Today is just a good day. I did well going to yard sales this morning, the weather is beautiful. I picked up yet more clothing for myself, a gorgeous heavy glass cake plate cover and a rolling duffel bag to replace the giant suitcase we have that almost always goes overweight.  I don't feel as beat up by the allergies. Its just ...

Yes my shoes are still staying tied! This past week was interesting as it has involved far more paperwork than usual. I have been working steadily on the files, made sure Taxes got done, organizing my desk, and made sure everything got out for clean up. Wednesday I decided my kids needed a day off, especially Treanna who is doing the ...

I am currently sick with a nasty cough and cold. Luckily Alaric got over it mostly and also got over his double ear infections. Amazing how that curtails your activities to have a sick child.  The week before Spring Break, which started Monday the 9th, he missed the majority of the week of school since he had a fever. By the end of the week ...

Yesterday and today were just beautiful. Today it got over 70 degrees outside according the thermometer in the shade on my front porch. My garden is looking awesome and I am pleased with my progress. I have slowly been working on getting my Garden ready for spring. I have mown the lawn, and done a touch of weeding here and there between torrential ...

This is a big Hello to Andrew who is currently on the road. Though we just talked to him on the phone a bit ago. We are slowly watching Battle Star Galactica season 3. We finally finished all of season 2 in the last few months. This is really an awesome TV series, not enough to quite make us want to get cable but almost. Why don't the cable ...

Today it was drizzly and rainy and grey! However everything was green. Devin is home again until the end of month when he goes off to more conferences. The last few days have been spent getting my chores done. Like paying bills, laundry, kids had half-days, that kind of thing. Oh and the kids had a bouncy birthday party on Thursday evening. It ...

Yeah! Alaric is feeling better so went back to school yesterday! It is so nice to see him better since he was pretty sick. Just Saturday morning all of the sudden he seemed to breathe easier and everything. He still tires easily but not as bad as he was. Friday night my brother Jon and sister Becca came to visit and spent the night. It was ...

Our new guest room is in place. Our friend Nick finally got all moved out so I worked on the front room. I borrowed Treanna's trundle bed, found an old off white nightstand, and then put a banquet table and a chair in there. Once everything got in place it was a little bare but very lovely. I used my queen sized quilts on the bed, put a ...

Over all I am feeling better. Still sick but now it feels mostly like a cold. The kids are mostly better as well just needing extra sleep. I slept most of Thursday and that seemed to help as well. I did some kitchen stuff this weekend but it was a slow process. I made little mini raspberry tarts. I made several batches of them. They seemed to ...

Today was a day I have long been dreading. You know the one where you wake up tired with a headache and head off to wake up the children. Of course it took you a good 15-20 minutes to be able to drag yourself out of bed. You think "What is wrong with me, I felt fine yesterday?" You head off to wake up children and realize that the ...

Today was a rather productive day. I finished all the laundry and there was a lot! I also managed to keep the kitchen mostly clean. I did a few other chores. The big icky one I did was clean the trap for the upstairs bathroom sink. Not sure I really want to do that ever again. I did not quite figure out how to reattach the stopper though. I also ...

It smells like cinnamon buns and chocolate chip cookies.  I needed some sort of roll but was out of white sugar. I had a recipe from an online friend for cinnamon buns that used brown sugar. So I started the dough during dinner and let it rise. Nick ended up getting some white sugar so I could make chocolate chip cookies. So I made those ...

This week has been a bit busy. I ended up picking up 2 lovely medium blue armchairs for Devin's office. I still need to head over and give them a good cleaning before he can use them but they will look very nice in his office. Treanna had a choir concert last night which was quite lovely. I could tell that the kids have been working very ...

Or at least this one wasn't. I had a nice quiet day at home alone. Did laundry and made chocolate chip cookies. Of course I made dinner too. I had to clean the kitchen and the fridge.  Before I could make cookies I also needed to clean out the oven a bit.  I also checked out a band I had heard on the radio while scanning ...

I am just currently kind of proud of myself and amazed. Not only have I been able to do more crafting but the house has not suffered from neglect while I have been doing so. Even after some company I only need to do a few dishes. Granted the kitchen and bathroom could use a sweeping but they could almost always use a sweeping so no big deal. I am ...

Today was an odd day but good. This morning I had to take the kids early to school so Treanna could go to choir. On choir days Alaric goes to a friends in the morning to go to school with him on the bus so I don't have to head up the hill twice. Well it was snowing. School was still on time and in session but it was really snowing this ...

I have been working on long neglected tasks in the last 2 days. My entire goal for the weekend was to clear off the top of my craft table. It took quite a lot of work and I am not finished with the area but I hit my goal yesterday. See!!! I don't think it has been that empty for months. That bright glow is the lights reflecting off a clean ...

Unfortunately it has been slightly crazy. I forgot to post a picture of the yummy dessert my girlfriend S brought me for my birthday. It is a mousse filled chocolate teacup! Plus she had a gorgeous little teacup wall pocket for my dining room wall as well! Here is the teacup, it was yummy and very rich! The cup part was dark chocolate. ...

Today did turn out to be a wonderful day even if I did discover that my turn signals were not functioning that well on my little mazda. I ended up going into the office with Devin. Partly so I could have lunch at the Olive Garden with him but also so I could help him put up his office decorations in his new office. We had a wonderful lunch where ...

This is a quick update for those we did not tell in person. No we did not lose power except for maybe a couple of minutes. We just shut down all the computers and other stuff in the house and went to bed. There was no damage from falling trees or anything either. There are still many tree limbs all over the yard but that will slowly get cleaned up ...

I meant to blog much earlier in the week but have been busy. Friday when I went to Snohomish to buy some tea. I did not come home with nearly as much tea as I thought. I also placed an order for our favorite teas from Bonnie Rose of Tea Time Garden.  Our tea order showed up a couple of days ago and we even had some of the Black Orange ...

Today I started working on my to-do list for the week. High on that list were several projects that were on the MUST do portion of that list. I have been dreading doing these tasks and honestly figured on at least an hour for each one of them. Well I decided to just get started on them with the kids after school. So we started on raking the ...

A couple of weeks ago I picked up some magazines from Freecycle. I am not one to normally just go pick them up but I saw that special keyword of "Victoria" so off to Sammamish I went to get them. It was a nice drive and when I got there the piles were huge! I ended up picking up all the Victoria magazines hoping to fill in the last 4 ...

I used the very last of my Black Orange Spice tea to make my morning pot of tea. It was a pour out the dust on the bottom of the container sort of use up. This is just sad and a bit perplexing. Normally I would have run into my wonderful tea supplier but she was not at the show in September like she normally was. I noticed looking around that I ...

It seems that just when we think we are done with some major project or another, something new comes up. We have done so much rearranging that at times I think we must have tried everything. Nope of course not. This time our project is again Devin's office. He has had many incarnations of his office depending on the current projects, current ...