It's not the best picture, but it's hard to get a good angle on this particular room. There are some funny corners involved. That being said, here it is, DONE!
Thursday, August 19, 2010
Finished Bathroom!
It's not the best picture, but it's hard to get a good angle on this particular room. There are some funny corners involved. That being said, here it is, DONE!
Chickasaw Cultural Center
Sam and Awyn admire the water feature at the Cultural Center. We decided to go see what the fuss was about. I enjoyed the exhibits, as did the kids. I don't think I had quite enough time to read everything, as the kids don't stay still for long. The Spirit Forest was, well, interesting.
Sandcastle
Awyn insisted her sandcastle have a colonial Spanish flag because it was for the dragonflies. What? You don't understand? Awyn would explain to you that dragonflies speak Spanish, and they love their new home that she built for them.
The Before picture
If I really loved you all, I'd post a picture of Mojo after his summer shave. He looks somewhat like a demented chihuahua; definitely like a dog who's lost his, well, mojo. It will grow back. For now, it's easier for keeping ticks, poop, and burrs off him.
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
Every Day, It's A Gettin Closer
We have a date, and we'll be moving very, very soon. It's become more real with each step. First we put the house on the market, and now we have our travel authorization. It's time to make reservations for temporary quarters and hotels/motels along the route we've selected.
I know I'm bad about keeping this blog up, and I am promising to get better. We've decided to spend more money and find a cheap laptop so we can stay connected with the internets (and our banking and bill paying). So that means I should be able to update from the road.
I also tend to post more on facebook than here. Eric's better at posting pictures than I am. For some reason posting pictures to facebook doesn't throttle our satellite internet bandwidth restriction like posting pictures here does.
I was asked why I blog. Well, I started this mostly to give family a place to keep up with us, especially our kids. I was pregnant with Awyn, and our Sam Spam emails were clogging up people's inboxes. I used to post many, many pictures. I've slowed down since moving to Oklahoma, and that's for a few reasons, like our lousy internet connection. That's probably the biggest reason, but also my readership has dropped dramatically as we post so much on facebook and more and more of my relatives have found me there. I think I only have one set of parents who even read the blog anymore, and maybe one sibling. I do have friends who visit here, but again, most of my friends have found me on facebook.
Also I work all day on a computer, and by the time I get home, I don't want to sit in front of a computer any longer. It takes me 30 minutes or longer just to open my email, and roughly 2 hours to post a single picture here. I don't have that kind of patience. Some of it is our computer at home. It's older, and fairly cranky anymore. It could use some updating and probably a defragging. It's very slow.
I do keep promising pictures, and I dare you to nag me about it. I have some fantastic pictures to post! So maybe tonight, after I get home, feed the kids, and the sun goes down, I'll post something. Maybe not, though, as the AC is out upstairs and we're waiting on a part before it will work again, and it's at least 100 degrees up there, sitting at the computer, and I don't like to sweat that much. Eric has a fan aimed at the computer, and if we wait for the sun to go down, open the windows, blow the fan straight at us and wearing a bare minumum, we can bring it down to 90. Last night I got it down to 85, but that was staying up waaaaay too late.
I know I'm bad about keeping this blog up, and I am promising to get better. We've decided to spend more money and find a cheap laptop so we can stay connected with the internets (and our banking and bill paying). So that means I should be able to update from the road.
I also tend to post more on facebook than here. Eric's better at posting pictures than I am. For some reason posting pictures to facebook doesn't throttle our satellite internet bandwidth restriction like posting pictures here does.
I was asked why I blog. Well, I started this mostly to give family a place to keep up with us, especially our kids. I was pregnant with Awyn, and our Sam Spam emails were clogging up people's inboxes. I used to post many, many pictures. I've slowed down since moving to Oklahoma, and that's for a few reasons, like our lousy internet connection. That's probably the biggest reason, but also my readership has dropped dramatically as we post so much on facebook and more and more of my relatives have found me there. I think I only have one set of parents who even read the blog anymore, and maybe one sibling. I do have friends who visit here, but again, most of my friends have found me on facebook.
Also I work all day on a computer, and by the time I get home, I don't want to sit in front of a computer any longer. It takes me 30 minutes or longer just to open my email, and roughly 2 hours to post a single picture here. I don't have that kind of patience. Some of it is our computer at home. It's older, and fairly cranky anymore. It could use some updating and probably a defragging. It's very slow.
I do keep promising pictures, and I dare you to nag me about it. I have some fantastic pictures to post! So maybe tonight, after I get home, feed the kids, and the sun goes down, I'll post something. Maybe not, though, as the AC is out upstairs and we're waiting on a part before it will work again, and it's at least 100 degrees up there, sitting at the computer, and I don't like to sweat that much. Eric has a fan aimed at the computer, and if we wait for the sun to go down, open the windows, blow the fan straight at us and wearing a bare minumum, we can bring it down to 90. Last night I got it down to 85, but that was staying up waaaaay too late.
Thursday, June 24, 2010
And we're moving...
Yes, we're closing in on the end of our Oklahoma adventure. Eric has accepted a transfer to Andersonville National Historic Site where he will be Chief of Interpretation and Education. I know he's excited. I am too. I'm looking forward to our next adventure. Sam and Awyn are sad to be leaving friends behind. I've heard good things about the schools and the resources available in the smallish college town we're moving to. They are supposed to know quite a bit about Aspergers and Autism, so we'll see.
We don't know the timeline exactly. I'm hoping for mid to late August so the kids can get in school there ASAP.
I have lots of pictures to post, and more to say than I have the patience to sit here and type, so hopefully I'll be back.
We don't know the timeline exactly. I'm hoping for mid to late August so the kids can get in school there ASAP.
I have lots of pictures to post, and more to say than I have the patience to sit here and type, so hopefully I'll be back.
Mojo is ready for a ride!
Mojo loves to go for a ride, and this time he hopped in and made himself right at home. "If I'm cute, you'll take me, right?"
More wallpaper stripping...
This time you can see the new tile floor, or at least part of it. Awyn was a big help with the under-sink area. Paper-tiger? Worthless. In the end, we just peeled the outer layer, and then a little spraying of water & fabric softener, and it peeled off mostly ok. It would have worked better if the drywall had been primed prior to walllpaper application. That is also likely part of why the walllpaper quit sticking properly and was not re-glueable.
Hammock Time
Eric gets a chance to relax in the hammock. We love the hammock. I hope our new home will have a place as nice as our oak trees and hammock.
Putting up the Pool
One of the highlights of the summer season is the pool we set up. The kids get to play and get wet, and after they go to bed, we get to relax and watch the stars. Very nice.
Princes Horse Bride
Awyn adores those filmy scarves that were once worn to keep your hair in place. I buy them at the drug store since she seems to have worn out a couple that used to belong to my grandmother (or great-grandmother?).Awyn's Birthday
Awyn's birthday was a busy day, and I had to work. Sam and Eric had dental appointments, so Awyn got to pick out a cake at the store. She found a very princessy cake with plastic rings on the cupcakes.
Awyn strips wallpaper
Awyn decided she wanted to help with the work in the bathroom. This is after carpet, before tile, and before I've pulled off the wallpaper. It was blue and silver feathers. Kind of pretty, really. It just wasn't sticking to the walls anymore.
Saturday, May 01, 2010
My kids are Geniuses.
Well, it's a fun title, anyway.
For those of you who have witnessed my daughter's picky eating (or lack of eating) and then tried to figure out how she's not all malnourished or at least stick-figurey-thin, and then scoffed at my statement that she can eat her weight in food when she's of a mind... Awyn ate 11 blueberry pancakes this morning. She eats like a bird, when that's her mood. She eats like a pig when she decides she's really hungry and loves whatever it is. And 'favorite' is more dependent on her mood than on what I've actually cooked. I could fix pancakes tomorrow for breakfast and she might only eat 3 bites, declaring it disgusting. She's a drama queen, and master of her universe.
Sam seems to be doing really well lately, but I really don't know if it's better at school. I'm hoping next year goes much better. At this point, I'm betting we'll still be here when school starts in August, but who knows.
So I'm pondering the fact that school is out in 1.5 weeks, both kids are moving into the next grades, (2nd for Sam, Kindergarten for Awyn), and I haven't got a thing planned for Awyn's upcoming birthday. It falls right after graduation, and because they bumped up the last day of school by a week, it also falls during Summer vacation. I have NO idea what I want to do for her. I'll get her a giant bunch of balloons like I did for Sam, but a party? I got nothin.
Do I send invites to her entire class next week, and hope only a couple of kids show up? I hate planning kiddie parties because somebody has to entertain them at this age, and feed them, and keep them out of trouble. I could buy all sorts of outside games, but then I'd have to help them play them. I could get a new volleyball/tennis net and put that up (I have poles, and a HUGE yard), and then the kids could run around hitting each other with the rackets and balls. I could make a whole bunch of water balloons and let them fight it out.
It's May 1st, (Happy May Day), so some time soon we'll set up the pool. I don't really want to have a pool party for Awyn because it always takes me a week or two to get the chemical balance right, and lots of unknown kids means lots of peeing in my pool. Yuck.
Plus, I didn't throw a party for Sam at all, and I feel guilty for even pondering a party for Awyn.
I need to post some pictures or videos of me brushing Mojo. He hates it, and bites the tar out of me and the brush or comb. I have to, or the burrs and sticky grass mat up his fur. The whole time he's growling as ferociously as a Pomeranian can. I laughed at him last night, until I noticed that one of his teeth landed on the side of my pinky-finger right next to the nail, and tore some skin. I have actual blood from a Mojo bite! I even needed a bandaid! Awyn kept trying to pet him and soothe him, and I kept telling her she really needed to stand back, because I didn't want her to get bit too.
For those of you who have witnessed my daughter's picky eating (or lack of eating) and then tried to figure out how she's not all malnourished or at least stick-figurey-thin, and then scoffed at my statement that she can eat her weight in food when she's of a mind... Awyn ate 11 blueberry pancakes this morning. She eats like a bird, when that's her mood. She eats like a pig when she decides she's really hungry and loves whatever it is. And 'favorite' is more dependent on her mood than on what I've actually cooked. I could fix pancakes tomorrow for breakfast and she might only eat 3 bites, declaring it disgusting. She's a drama queen, and master of her universe.
Sam seems to be doing really well lately, but I really don't know if it's better at school. I'm hoping next year goes much better. At this point, I'm betting we'll still be here when school starts in August, but who knows.
So I'm pondering the fact that school is out in 1.5 weeks, both kids are moving into the next grades, (2nd for Sam, Kindergarten for Awyn), and I haven't got a thing planned for Awyn's upcoming birthday. It falls right after graduation, and because they bumped up the last day of school by a week, it also falls during Summer vacation. I have NO idea what I want to do for her. I'll get her a giant bunch of balloons like I did for Sam, but a party? I got nothin.
Do I send invites to her entire class next week, and hope only a couple of kids show up? I hate planning kiddie parties because somebody has to entertain them at this age, and feed them, and keep them out of trouble. I could buy all sorts of outside games, but then I'd have to help them play them. I could get a new volleyball/tennis net and put that up (I have poles, and a HUGE yard), and then the kids could run around hitting each other with the rackets and balls. I could make a whole bunch of water balloons and let them fight it out.
It's May 1st, (Happy May Day), so some time soon we'll set up the pool. I don't really want to have a pool party for Awyn because it always takes me a week or two to get the chemical balance right, and lots of unknown kids means lots of peeing in my pool. Yuck.
Plus, I didn't throw a party for Sam at all, and I feel guilty for even pondering a party for Awyn.
I need to post some pictures or videos of me brushing Mojo. He hates it, and bites the tar out of me and the brush or comb. I have to, or the burrs and sticky grass mat up his fur. The whole time he's growling as ferociously as a Pomeranian can. I laughed at him last night, until I noticed that one of his teeth landed on the side of my pinky-finger right next to the nail, and tore some skin. I have actual blood from a Mojo bite! I even needed a bandaid! Awyn kept trying to pet him and soothe him, and I kept telling her she really needed to stand back, because I didn't want her to get bit too.
Tuesday, April 13, 2010
Princesses and a castle turret
Well, it's really just Lincoln bridge, but hey, it's very castle like.
Wednesday, March 24, 2010
No Cleaning Just Candy
Awyn's been making signs for her door. She elaborated on it after I took this picture. It now reads, "No cleaning just candy for Awyn. No supper, only bread with Nutella."
Hot Springs
Eric took the kids camping in Arkansas for Spring Break. Brave man, well behaved kids. Much fun was had by all. I stayed home and worked. Yay.
Saturday, January 16, 2010
Awyn's ready to go play in the Snow?
Yes, she's got her new sweater on upside down. It was just gorgeous. She sets her own fashion style.
Turning on an ornament
Sam turned on the Christmas tree and the battery-operated Star Trek ornaments. Wouldn't be Christmas without them...
Snow Sam
We had snow 3 feet deep in places, and bare in others. It made for a lovely white Christmas.
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