Bad & Good news

Well, Aaron did get laid off today. It is effective today although they gave him a fairly good package & insurance through Feb. He's going to work for his Dad starting Monday so we should be fine and just have to tighten up a bit $$ wise - which we needed to do anyway! I think it will all turn out better in the long run but it is unsettling for now.
It has been a tough day communication wise though, I was hurt that A didn't come to me right away and I had to learn things about it from other people. He wanted me to have a fun time at the Creative Festival and was taking it on himself. I reminded him that we're a team in this life and what happens to him affects me too, so we're going to work on getting better at that.
So i did find some gorgeous sweater kits that I bought my self for my birthday today but i'm pretty worn out emotionally. I'm itching to wind my yarn on my fancy ball winder and get to knitting but I'm just too tired to do it so I'll have to wait for another day.
I really do appreciate all of you who prayed and called and posted here!!! What would I do without you all???

Prayer please

Hi friends.
it was a long, tough day today with the memorial service and then a long day helping clean up and get ready for awanas. then a mix up with cubbies & I had to miss our Bible study outing. So i'm pretty tired and then Aaron just let me know that there's a fairly good chance he'll get laid off tomorrow. Not sure if that is being paranoid or not. Anyway, it is an unsettling though for me at the least. He can go be an electrician for his dad so we're not on the streets or anything, but it is a lot for me to bear right now.
i need some prayer and strength please.
thanks!

Monday

Hmm, not really much to share this morning. Nothing deep or especially meaningful. Just figured it was time to update here. I'm really just avoiding catching up on Quicken. I'm way behind, acutally waaaaay behind on entering receipts and reconciling my accounts (like July way behind) and I want to get caught up before I do my taxes so I don't miss any deductions. But what I really want to do, besides surf the web for nothing, is work on my funny felted snowmen. But I'm cracking down to work here for an hour - just an hour! I can do that!

Love to all my friends here!!! The memorial service this week reminds me to hug on my kids and my other loved ones as much as possible - you really do mean a lot to me! (ok, so maybe a bit of meaningful stuff.)

Home again!

Well, our trip was really great except that Katie was really sick the whole time. Poor thing was just miserable but still was as cheerful as she could be. What a neat girl we've been blessed with! It was really great visting with Mom & Dad and my sister & her family! I got some neat Christmas presents and got to give mine out so that was lots of fun. I went to town at the knit shop near mom's house and loaded up on some really fun projects - wheeee! And we went to Ikea and only spent $55! That's pretty good for us! I just love that darn store - I really hope the rumors are true that it is coming here!
So now we're back and the weather is grey and yucky and my sinuses hurt and no one's taking care of me and I'm having a tough time not having a big ol' pity party. AND I'm having my period. Boo for me! Why is it so tough to be a mom and a woman sometimes??? I know I'm so blessed but I just can't get past the blues and the mountain of things I need to get done just to get by every day. Maybe someday one of us will figure it all out. :-) sure!
In the meantime I'll just keep knitting cute sweaters for Katie and funny felted snowmen!
Love you all!!

Traveling today!

I love to travel but I hate getting ready. I get all anxious and my tummy gets all rumbly. Once I'm on the plane and settled and we're not going to miss it then I'm just fine. Until then, though, I'm a bit of a basket case. I do finally have some pretty darn great drugs I can take that really take the edge off. We call them the Happy Pills and they really really are! I'm trying to hold off taking one as long as I can though so I don't fall asleep before I get all packed. What a dork I am!! I have like 14 things to do in the next 2.5 hours and here I am blogging :-)
Please pray for a calm flight there & back for the kids, Katie seems to be either teething or coming down with something. It will be a great week with my family once we are there though!
Ok, now I'm off to wash the stinky dog so my in-laws don't hate us forever!

day 2 of potty training

Oh, today was day 2 of potty training (day 1 was a couple of days ago, but still this week). Got some toy story undies at the Disney store on sale that Andrew thinks are cool. Made it all morning without an accident & actually went pee pee on the potty (yea!) but then he was wet when he came down for lunch. Oh well. I guess it is good progress. Tomorrow we're going out so we'll just try undies for a little while in the morning.

boooooored

Yep, I'm bored. I finally boxed up presents and too small clothes to send to MN and I need more packing tape. I should wake up the kids and make dinner but nothing sounds good. I didn't even have lunch until 3:30 because nothing sounded good then either. I could quilt but my bottom 2 fingers are all poked and it doesn't sound interesting. I have some socks I could knit on but I'm at the heel so I have to think too much to work on them. I should enter receipts into quicken or update my teacher schedule for this quarter but nope. Aaron's at a building meeting at church so who knows when he'll be home, hopefully soon.
I've been pretty much wasting time today doing nothing because I just can't get myself going and I'm totally unmotivated. I feel like a kid whining to mom that I'm boooooored! Bleh.
At least Kendra's coming by soon to get me out. And I have plenty to do tomorrow so I won't be a slug for two days in a row. Then I'd be having a pity party too! :-)