Motherhood

My friend, Ruth sent me this video in an email. It is so great!! Enjoy!

Auction

Yesterday my neighbor, Dawn came to my door and said, "You've got to see this!!" I walked outside thinking there must have been a huge car accident or something since there were cars and people everywhere. This is what I saw:It was actually my neighbor's house being auctioned. I'd forgotten they were doing that last night. They had 6 houses to auction, this house being the last on the list. Here's the front:

You can se the auctioneer standing in front of the house. The couple who actually bought the house plan to fix it up and sell it again. The wife is in the first pic, slightly to the left wearing jeans, a light teal sweater and flip flops with short dark hair. The husband is in the second picture, but you can't really see him. He's in front of the guy right in front(jeans and blue plaid shirt). I'm sure you're wondering by now how much it sold for. Let me give you a bit of background info...The house is 3bedroom 2.5 bath, 2411 sq. ft., built in 2002. Zillow.com estimates its value at $511,181. They opened the bidding at 50k. Are you ready to know what it sold for?? Drum roll please...

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Isn't that insane??

TWINS!!

My amazing mother and father-in-law just got their twins!! They adopted sweet Tihune and Mikyas from Ethiopia. Craig went over there last week and brought them home yesterday. They are both absolutely beautiful and I can't wait to meet them. Ian's parents have always shown such sweet charity, so this is yet another example of that. But what's interesting is to hear Craig's sweet thoughts on the adoption, the kids, their family, the orphanage, etc. What an amazing man he is! And what sweet thoughts he shared with us from Ethiopia. And to listen to Laurie's excitement and all of the energy and effort she's put into getting ready for these beautiful kids. I thought I knew before what amazing parents and people they are, but this experience has really shown that even more so. I just hope that Miki and Tihune can see how much Craig and Laurie already love them and that they will all adjust to being a new family easily.

New bows

Megan B...thanks for taking me to the ribbon store!!!

The true definition of Willie off the Pickle Boat

Annie

Alert

I HAVE PLANTAR FASCIITIS.











That is all.











OK that's not really all...I just wanted to be dramatic. The name sounds much more dramatic than what it really means. It's super common so most of you probably either know what it is, or have it yourself. Basically it means my heels hurt and I need new shoes. But they really hurt. Especially in the morning when I get out of bed. And more so now since I've been walking Emma to school and going on hour long walks after on M/W/F's.

I have flat feet so when I walk, the ligament that goes from my heel to my toes gets stretched too far and it is now tearing and becoming inflamed down by my heel. Once I get good shoes, it should get better, but I also need to add some foot excersizes and stretches to my daily routine. It won't be so bad, I need to stretch more anyway.

It's actually good and bad. Bad - because I've really been enjoying my walks and am worried that this might affect them. Also, I'm going to do the Breast Cancer 3-day where you walk 20 miles a day for 3 days (60 miles total) next year and I don't want my feet to be in bad shape for that. Good - because I was planning on buying a new pair of shoes for the walk, so this will just get my bum in gear and make me go out and buy some.

ANNOYANCE

I have this curse where I think of absolutely wonderful responses long after I should have actually said them. However it just might be a blessing in disguise because if I actually said some of the things I've thought of, I might end up worse off than if I never said anything in the first place. You following me? Example:

Today I went to pick Emma up from school. There's a system to how you are supposed to drive when you pick your kids up from "the loop." If you are to be turning left into the loop, most people get in the left turning lane about a block before you turn. Today I didn't do that because there were no other cars in the turning lane yet and I thought I'd get into it when I got closer in order to not cut off any other cars ahead of me that may be wanting to be there as well. I put a lot of thought into this... So when I did enter, there was a car behind me that had gone into the lane before me. Now this car was not right behind me, it was far enough away that I was in NO way cutting them off, probably 2-3 car lengths behind. Apparently they thought otherwise because when we were in the parking lot a bit later she said, "So do you teach your children to cut in line too?" I actually didn't hear her at first, so by the time I realized what she said she had already walked away. But even after I realized what she said, I still couldn't figure out what she was talking about. I was ahead of her anyway, regardless of when I entered the turning lane. So, had I actually realized what she'd said, figured out what she was talking about, and thought of something to say...man she would have gotten an earful, let me tell you!!

Good thing I'm cursed.

Sweetness

I don't know what came over me...

Yesterday we walked Emma to school, went on a 45 minute walk after, went grocery shopping, came home, unloaded groceries, picked up Emma, had lunch, put the younger kids to bed, did all the laundry, helped Emma with her homework, made cookies and zucchini bread, cleaned downstairs, made dinner, did the dishes & wiped down the kitchen, took a shower, went to Enrichment, crashed in bed. Oh yeah and somewhere in there I nursed David about 10 times...at least it seemed like it. What's weird about all that is that when Ian was almost home and it was almost time for me to go to Enrichment, I was praying for an extra hour at least because there was still stuff I wanted to get done. I honestly don't know what made me want to be so productive - whatever it was I sure would like some more of it!! Here's a cute pic of Emma and David: