My teeth hurt!

I had a dentist appointment today for my 6 month cleaning/check-up...and my teeth hurt! Hmm, maybe some ice cream will help - yep, but it would. :-)

I'm also procrastinating...I need to be in the kitchen cooking, but I don't like to cook, so I'm putting if off. I have 2 occasions to cook for tomorrow. First is food for a funeral dinner we are having after my great aunt's funeral tomorrow and second is for a New Year's Eve gathering at a friend's home.
Seems kind of strange to think about attending a funeral tomorrow afternoon, then ring in the new year a few hours later.

I also need to do some laundry, run the sweeper, and take down the Christmas tree and all the other seasonal decorations. So, there's a whole lotta procrastination going on here.

Shopping with kids

Took Holly to the mall yesterday after church to spend her Christmas gift cards - tried to talk her in to waiting until today, so then we'd only have to make one trip. Abby wanted to wait until today because she didn't want to miss youth. No such luck! So, today was trip #2 to the mall. Now, normally, I would love to go shopping - but I think I'm shopped out for awhile. Both of the girls had gift cards for Old Navy and Rue 21 to spend. Now, normally, Abby doesn't have a problem and Holly is the one that takes FOREVER! Just the opposite this go 'round. Holly was in and out yesterday and got just what she wanted. Today however, Abby couldn't find anything to fit her, got frustrated, and then exhibited the typical "teenage attitude". So, after about 2 hours at the mall and a headache...we headed home.

In Abby's defense though - I understand her frustration...why is it that t-shirts now days have to fit skin tight or are made for stick people???

Promise Land

So today I "observed" in the 2-3 year old room at FFC as I have been asked to teach for this group for the month of January. I've had mixed feelings about it since being asked...I love kids of all ages and being a Mom and veteran Girl Scout leader - teaching isn't a new concept to me. But, I've never had much confidence when it comes to teaching from the Bible - no matter what age the students are. I've helped out in Big KidZone and even did a couple of teaching gigs for Lil KidZone when we had the Saturday night service (I think 2 was my highest attendance) :-) For some reason though, I've just been very nervous about this go round. So, I agreed to observe this week and see how it went.

I have to admit, I didn't have the best of intentions when I showed up this am. I kinda had the "show up, do my time, then turn down the request" intention going. But, by the time noon came around, I'd had a change of "intentions" I guess you could say. Don't get me wrong, I'm still nervous and kind of freakin out at actually being in charge next week...so pray for me this week - ALOT please! Fortunately, my oldest daughter, Abby, has been helping Neva with Lil KidZone for over a year and has been in the 2-3 year old room since they seperated and moved into the new areas, so she knows the routine and most of the kiddos...and she's been informed that her assignment has been "extended". LOL. Which, if fine with her, she loves it in there.

So, if you have little ones in the 2-3 year old room at FFC, forgive me if I call them by the wrong name or don't recongnize which child is yours at first...as soon as the butterflies leave my stomach and I stop stressing on the "teaching" stuff, the names/faces will start to register and stick with me!

Christmas reflections

It's over...well, almost anyway. Have my family Christmas to attend tomorrow, which just happens to be 6 months to the day that my Dad passed...so I'm sure it will be even more emotional. It's been really weird for me this season. Between our marriage issues and my Dad not being here - I've just kind of buried myself in shopping and work - it keeps my mind occupied. I miss my Dad tremendously and think about the traditions we had started, like he and Mom coming out to our house Christmas morning for breakfast. But, they are like treasured memories, not sad. Mom came out and spent the night with us Christmas Eve and she was really having a bad time - I could tell she was trying to hide it. I didnt' want her to be alone, so I'm really glad she decided to come out. She did really well Christmas morning too - I'm very proud of her and the way she is trying to move forward without Dad.

As always, Holly was the first one up - around 6am I believe. She couldn't wait for everyone else to get up...I think she finally got me out of bed around 7:15. We saved the girls' main presents for last - because we knew if they got them first, nothing else would really matter. Abby's face when she opened her IPOD Touch was PRICELESS - as was Holly's when she opened her DS. I'll be the first to admit that they got entirely too much this year - but it was the first year in a long time we've been able to spend more on them, so we did. We followed that up of course with "don't expect this next year!" :-) Abby of course has been glued to the computer downloading to her IPOD and Holly has pretty much been glued to her DS. I have managed to get on the computer a few times to mess with my new gadget - a new mp3 player - and managed to get extremely frustrated and threaten to throw it out the door! I don't have a lot of patience - if you know me very well at all - you already know this! (LOL).

David's kids also came out Christmas day. It was also Heather's b-day - she turned 28 and Ryan is 26. That's a whole nother blog someday...

I hope everyone had a very Merry Christmas. I've enjoyed 2 days at home in my jammies with my girls' - gotta get outta this tomorrow though! Oh yeah, great Christmas Eve service at FFC too - props to Pastor Kris!

Newby

Ok, so I thought I'd actually jump in and give this bloggin a try. I like to read other people's blogs, but never started my own cuz...well, I really don't know. Don't know much about setting them up (as you can tell)...but I'm learning. Guess I thought my stuff wasn't intereting enough for others...but I guess if it's not interesting, then they'll just move on to the next blog. I always say you never know until you try...so here goes...

Baby it's cold outside...

Brrrrrrr - it's like freakin Antartica outside - seriously. It should be against the law to be this freakin cold.