So Many Things To See and Do

What a weekend! I was here there and a little bit of everywhere. I did go to Ashburn Family Scrapbooking to pick up my prints of a scanned lo and ended up staying there to finish a project. Luckily there was a chair for me because that will be the last time I get to scrap there. Tomorrow is their last day in business. I did NOT stay up until the wee hours when I got home so Saturday was not another draggin' day. I attacked the laundry that was smothering me and got substantially all of it done. Who would have thought I'd measure success by how "done" I get the laundry - how times have changed!

Kate had dance class and she danced! I am so thrilled - not much else to say there except she got a little more brave and got out there and tried. Next week I'll take the camera that shoots video and get her in action so she can watch at home, practice, and build her confidence a bit.

Today I woke up with the headache that I went to sleep with last night. After breakfast I napped - talk about ambitions! I did manage to shower and get to Joya's CAbi show and bought things even though I don't "need" anything. The Spring stuff is great. I'm not buying anything similar to pieces I already have but if I can wear it for both work and casual occasions it's a keeper. I could still add more from the Spring line but I'm not going looking for opportunities to buy more, that's for sure.

I have so much on my mind with the double booking of a baby shower and a birthday party for one of Kate's friends. I'm going to end up having to buy the gift for the shower tomorrow, wrap it to mail on Tuesday, and send my regrets that I can't be there because I can't miss the birthday/tea party with Kate. She would not be happy without me and I can't ask Jeff to do it. He has the Corvette in a car show on Saturday anyhow.

The invites have been ordered and the date booked for Kate's birthday party at Great Country Farms. Should be exciting - it's a farm/petting zoo/ and they also have this "better than a moonbounce" jumping thing for the kids. We've been talking about Kate's "farm party" since before Christmas.

Well the dog is outside barking to come in and my ScrapLair is calling me to come make some cards or finish a lo. That's right, suddenly I make cards. I've made all of 1 but that counts. I even sent the card to the person I made it for and he really thought it was cool. So off I go to silence the barking beast and do something creative with myself.

Tags: laundry birthday party crafts

Hating Me

So immature yet so on the money when dealing with someone of that mentality.  This is why I wish I'd starting reading "A New Earth" several months ago...to help me deal with the disingenuousness I've come up against.  I prefer not to dwell on that aspect but on the fact that once the light shone on the situation and I had clarity I did what I needed to do and received the help that I could rely on to get to a healthier place.  I'm not perfect so I still find this bumper sticker amusing.  But it's also a reminder that I'm better than this childishness.  The behavior of others toward me and their opinions don't define.  Even my own inability to withstand it over the long term does not define me. 

I feel so drained this week

I'm just tired tired tired this week. That's it - too tired to write any more and must go pick up the kids. Jackson qualifies to test for his green belt so that is the news we've been waiting for. Master Lee is leaving TD and that is news we could have done without...

Jeff is coming home tonight YAY

Resurrection Day - I'm Feeling Saved

 

To everyone celebrating Easter today hope it is a terrific and blessed day for you! If you're not celebrating hope it's a terrific and blessed day as well! 

We are all up.  The kids found all of the eggs I filled and hid around the house last night.  They've inspected their Easter baskets which had minimal candy this year...sampled a few jelly beans, and now everyone's waiting for the Blintz Brunch Bake to come out of the oven (http://www.kraftfoods.com/kf/recipes/recipedetail.htm?recipe_id=54201)

This is so yummy...I've been making it for Easter the past few years.

Next I'm baking an angel food cake to fill with a pudding & fruit mixture for our dessert - then the ham will go in.(into the oven, not into the cake, LOL)

Mass at either 12:15 or 2:00 then hopefully a little scrapping to relax.  Can't believe it's back to work tomorrow so trying not to think about it.  I should be excited because this week marks the beginning of the next chapter at work (change = opportunity for me) and we got some great news last night - in two weeks one of our favorite teachers from the kids' daycare is starting as our nanny for the summer and possibly beyond.  This should make for a really fun summer for the babes as well as make life a little easier on us because we won't have the picking up and dropping off before and after work - which is time consuming and a bit of a pain at times and WE LOVE HER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

so YAY for us!

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Holy Saturday

Today we're dying eggs and I'm making potato salad and putting the kids' baskets together.  Alex was here for Easter last year so is not here for this weekend - which is kind of a bummer - the three of them like to dye the eggs together and it's just not the same giving her a basket after the fact.  This evening I'm going scrapbooking with a friend.  Tomorrow will be Mass and hopefully we'll all go like we did on Christmas then home to hang out and have a nice Easter dinner - basic - ham, scalloped potatoes, asparagus with an angel food cake filled with pudding/whippedcream/crushed pineapple and strawberries on top for dessert.  Back to work on Monday. 

Rain is in the forecast for today but the sun is out right now.  My daffodils and some tulips have been blooming and the front and side beds were just mulched so it's a good feeling to look outside right now. 

Here are a couple of pics I took of what's going on out front...  

 

 

CJ Clarke

 

...and so every day I get into my car to drive to work thinking to myself "I'd rather be scrapbooking"

 

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Tags: Spring flowers Easter Bunnies

This is so exciting

I really should be sleeping HOWEVER this is the quiet time that I enjoy so gonna go get a cookie and when I finish this I'm going to bed!  The exciting things are that I still have 3 days of vacation left this week!  I am able to stop going into DC to work starting next week and if I can avoid going next week so much the better!  I'm getting a new work computer on Monday, YAY!  We're talking to someone tomorrow about being our nanny for the summer so the kids get a break from all day at camp/daycare/whatever you want to call it it's not home!  Celebratin' with that cookie now!

My Soul Magnifies the Lord

And Mary said

My soul doth magnify the Lord,

And my spirit hath rejoiced

In God my Saviour.

For the that is mighty

Hath done to me great things;

And holy is His name.

Luke 1:46-47, 49

 

Maybe ecstatic is pushing it a bit but there was no option for elated to describe how I’m feeling.  I don’t typically get all religious on my blog but had to stop and testify to the fact that just as God carried me through a previous bad time on the job He’s led me to the right people to have the right conversations so that I can be in a better spot once again.  “My work here is done” is about right to sum up my current gig and I have something in the works but in the interim there appears to be some project work to keep me busy (and out of trouble) and so I can transition next week rather than playing the waiting game to see if the new position pans out or not. 

I am so eternally grateful that God has not only shown me that the only way to go is to rely on Him completely but has delivered the right thing yet again.  There’s no need to fear or panic….so now I’m off to make dinner then try out a kick-boxing class. 

And in my head I’m singing Boston’s

 Don't Look Back

(Scholz)
Don't look back
A new day is breakin'
It's been too long since I felt this way
I don't mind where I get taken
The road is callin'
Today is the day

I can see
It took so long to realize
I'm much too strong
Not to compromise
Now I see what I am is holding me down
I'll turn it around

I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Far away and left behind

It's a new horizon and I'm awakin' now
Oh I see myself in a brand new way
The sun is shinin'
the clouds are breakin'
'Cause I can't lose now, there's no game to play

I can tell
There's no more time left to criticize
I've seen what I could not recognize
Everything in my life was leading me on
but I can be strong

I finally see the dawn arrivin'
I see beyond the road I'm drivin'
Far away and left behind