Right now, I am at my parents' house. We came here on Xmas day. I had worked the night before, went home and packed, and then travelled to come here...so I really don't remember much of that day!!
Last weekend, as in the 20th, we opened our Xmas presents at home. We don't teach our children about Santa Claus. Since I was scheduled to work on Xmas Eve and we were travelling Xmas day, we decided to open them early. Shane was very excited to finally get his John Deere Tractor and John Deere square baler!! Now he wants a kicker wagon to go with it... thank goodness his birthday is only a month away! Kirsten got her new bicycle that she has been asking for very patiently for months. And Heidi got an MP4 player. They got other stuff, too...but those were the "main" gifts.
Yesterday, here at Mom's, we had our holiday dinner. My brother Todd, his wife Sue, and 2 little girls came, along with my Gramma! She is 94 years young, and does amazingly well! We had a wonderful turkey dinner with all the trimmings, and lots of desserts. Todd made an amazing peanut butter pie. How did my brothers get to be such good cooks/bakers? Anyway, that gene missed me, I think. Anyway, back to the subject, we had more people come for a "snacky supper". It was great to see some of my cousins that I don't often see. We were all so close as kids. Now it is fun to see the next generation of cousins playing together. If only we all lived much closer so they could be as close as we were as kids! Hopefully as the kids grow up a bit we will be able to travel and do more things together. It is tough with toddlers that is for sure. And somehow, my kids are the older ones in the group. I do know how that happened (duh), but it still seems sorta wierd.
So, we are enjoying a couple relaxing days here at Mom's. Leigh and dad went to the shooting range to try out Leigh's new Blackpowder Flintlock rifle. It is now Blackpowder season, and Leigh is going to go out hunting when we get back home next week. Mom and I are going to see if we can go out this afternoon and leave the kids at home with Dad and Leigh. Think it will happen? Well, you can hope for us anyway. I don't have much hope that it will happen, but hey, we'll see.
Hope you all are enjoying wonderful days with family and friends. Pretty soon it will be a new year, with new hopes, dreams and goals. Rest up...you may need it for 2009!!!
Saturday, December 27, 2008
Saturday, December 13, 2008
Boring Blog
Well, things have been pretty quiet around here since Thanksgiving. Of course that is all relative. Our house is NEVER quiet. It just hasn't been the stressful chaos that it was for awhile.
After our lovely Thanksgiving weekend, deer season started. Monday Leigh went over to his dad's. My brother in law Jason shot a doe. Everything else was misses. I don't remember what days things happened the rest of the week, but Leigh did get two little button bucks. Between them both, we have the equivilent of 1 deer's worth of meat. We took it to a butcher, a neighbor of ours. In the past I have done up the deer myself. I don't have the full day it takes for that anymore, so we decided to have someone else do it. So, off they went to the neighbor's. We didn't think to ask if he packages it or not! Well, he doesn't....so now I get to package it all! bummer. That is 1/2 the job. So, that will be part of my project for this afternoon. The steaks and chops are packaged I just have about 50 pounds of hamburger to package!! yukky job.
We spent last weekend in NJ at Garrett and Mickie Marshall's house. It was lovely. The kids all played so well together, that we could just be adults. Very little referreeing to be done! YAY! We went to chuckeecheese, which was pretty fun for big and little kids alike! Then grabbed a pizza for lunch and then back to hang out at their house. After meeting on Sunday we went back to their house for a wonderful dinner. Then left to come home. We stopped in Williamsport at Jeff and Connie's so that Leigh could pick up his new muzzleloader. I guess this is his latest hobby. Thanks Jeff. Leigh really needed another one! snicker.snicker. It was an awesome weekend!!
Next Friday night we are going to a cookie exchange, so we are making Monster Cookies this afternoon. It is such a large batch and contains ingredients I don't keep on hand, so I gotta go visit the grocery store! :D
This past week I worked just my normal 3 12 hour nights. Ahhh. so nice to be back to my own schedule after 4 weeks of 4 nights a week! This week, we had needy patients. 2 of the nights I had patient's that were crashing, and required many many calls to doctors to get them stabilized, in addition to support families who hadn't addressed code status yet, and weren't sure if the patient would want extra medical interference!! :D This tends to drain me emotionally. But it is very rewarding when they recover and the family is so incredibly happy. We form special bonds, which are very inspiring to me.
Leigh and the kiddoes surprised me this week by cleaning!!! leigh cleaned my kitchen up for me. Kirsten and Shane cleaned Shane's room. And Heidi got started on hers! It is an awesome way to start my 4 day weekend, with the house partially caught up!! I am working on laundry this morning. Leigh and Heidi can run the washer and dryer, but never seem to be able to fold and put away. So, it gets stockpiled so that MOM can do it on her days off! oh happy joy joy. Anyway, I'll put on some boogie woogie music and get it all done up and put away. Leigh had the idea of putting all of our family's clothes in one spot. So we have cleaned out our large walk in closet so that all of our hanging clothes can be there. We moved all the dressers into our bedroom, for all the other clothes. I think it will work very well. The kids don't have the space in their rooms for all their toys and clothes, so now they just have their beds, toys, and books. MUCH easier for them to keep clean.
So... I have the next few days off. I go back to work on Tuesday night.
After our lovely Thanksgiving weekend, deer season started. Monday Leigh went over to his dad's. My brother in law Jason shot a doe. Everything else was misses. I don't remember what days things happened the rest of the week, but Leigh did get two little button bucks. Between them both, we have the equivilent of 1 deer's worth of meat. We took it to a butcher, a neighbor of ours. In the past I have done up the deer myself. I don't have the full day it takes for that anymore, so we decided to have someone else do it. So, off they went to the neighbor's. We didn't think to ask if he packages it or not! Well, he doesn't....so now I get to package it all! bummer. That is 1/2 the job. So, that will be part of my project for this afternoon. The steaks and chops are packaged I just have about 50 pounds of hamburger to package!! yukky job.
We spent last weekend in NJ at Garrett and Mickie Marshall's house. It was lovely. The kids all played so well together, that we could just be adults. Very little referreeing to be done! YAY! We went to chuckeecheese, which was pretty fun for big and little kids alike! Then grabbed a pizza for lunch and then back to hang out at their house. After meeting on Sunday we went back to their house for a wonderful dinner. Then left to come home. We stopped in Williamsport at Jeff and Connie's so that Leigh could pick up his new muzzleloader. I guess this is his latest hobby. Thanks Jeff. Leigh really needed another one! snicker.snicker. It was an awesome weekend!!
Next Friday night we are going to a cookie exchange, so we are making Monster Cookies this afternoon. It is such a large batch and contains ingredients I don't keep on hand, so I gotta go visit the grocery store! :D
This past week I worked just my normal 3 12 hour nights. Ahhh. so nice to be back to my own schedule after 4 weeks of 4 nights a week! This week, we had needy patients. 2 of the nights I had patient's that were crashing, and required many many calls to doctors to get them stabilized, in addition to support families who hadn't addressed code status yet, and weren't sure if the patient would want extra medical interference!! :D This tends to drain me emotionally. But it is very rewarding when they recover and the family is so incredibly happy. We form special bonds, which are very inspiring to me.
Leigh and the kiddoes surprised me this week by cleaning!!! leigh cleaned my kitchen up for me. Kirsten and Shane cleaned Shane's room. And Heidi got started on hers! It is an awesome way to start my 4 day weekend, with the house partially caught up!! I am working on laundry this morning. Leigh and Heidi can run the washer and dryer, but never seem to be able to fold and put away. So, it gets stockpiled so that MOM can do it on her days off! oh happy joy joy. Anyway, I'll put on some boogie woogie music and get it all done up and put away. Leigh had the idea of putting all of our family's clothes in one spot. So we have cleaned out our large walk in closet so that all of our hanging clothes can be there. We moved all the dressers into our bedroom, for all the other clothes. I think it will work very well. The kids don't have the space in their rooms for all their toys and clothes, so now they just have their beds, toys, and books. MUCH easier for them to keep clean.
So... I have the next few days off. I go back to work on Tuesday night.
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
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