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Kathleen  !

It’s fun to find some new blogs to read and from the little I have visited, I’ve enjoyed Kathleen’s.

I had a hard time getting the little imp to smile for the picture and finally just gave up and used what I got.  He wasn’t in to acting natural, just too silly and talking without moving his mouth.

We’re headed out to do wedding-related things.  I got that cold that is going around and feel rotten but am going to wear my sweats and just do what I have to do, no driving. 

Congratulations, Kathleen…I’ll send off your package as soon as I get your mailing address! ( I don’t think the mailman can get it there from your driving directions on your blog!  lol)

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We started our day earlier than usual because it was our Sunday to serve bulletins.  The little imp was a little off target today, he had to be constantly reminded to actually give them to people rather than stand there staring at anyone who stopped in front of him.  He was sleeping so soundly when we woke him up that he apparently never really arrived.  That’s ok, I have off days, too.  He did get to go help with the candy bags for new visitors again today and was more with it.  Dad told me to go look at the graduate clipboard, we’ll be honoring those soon who graduate…and guess who had put his name on the list. I don’t think anyone will believe he’s graduating from high school, though.

We had another shower for the bride today.  It was held at the groom’s apartment so we didn’t have to move things over there later.  Here’s the pre-shower prep.

I got sent to Walmart 30 minutes before the shower because they didn’t have a ladle, but otherwise these girls had it all together.

This is one side of the room…I didn’t get a good picture the other direction because I always manage to get someone really looking awful so I won’t show them. 

We had a game where they had the bride go in the other room and then everyone had to write down everything she was wearing.  This ended up bringing ridiculous laughter because the girl who won is a friend who all their growing up years, has been momentarily mistaken for our girl.  They have the same build and often the same hairstyle.  Well, look how she came dressed to the shower today!

Couldn’t have planned that one better!  And as an aside, these girls will be auntie to the same baby once the wedding takes place so they’re family by marriage.

Before opening gifts, our #1 daughter wanted to pray for her sister.  She started to thank everyone for coming to share in the joy of the upcoming marriage and to bless her sister.  She broke down crying and it was some time before she was able to go on.  Lots of tears wiped away all over the room.  As a mom, I cannot tell you how blessed I was.

Here was a particularly hysterical moment when the bride opened some knives and thought she heard the giver say they were really good ones.  She turned and said, “They’re really good knives?”  The giver said something on the order of she hoped so.  Bride said, “oh, I thought you said they were really good” and the whole room exploded in laughter.  She was so embarrassed, but she handled it well.

And then…as soon as the shower cleared out, several of us started making flowers for the wedding.  I’ll tell you more later about how we’re going to use them.

These were taken when we were still fresh. Below is my stuff before I got going.  I shared the table with the girl who was assembling all of the flowers and I was cutting leaves and gluing them to wire.  We made over 100 and they had 2-3 leaves on each one.  I am a little sick of green right now.  We had a lot of fun, though.

We took a little break for the girls to practice getting the bride into her dress..it’s a big deal.  We won’t talk about what I had to go through to get the dress to the apartment today. She neglected to ask me to get it from it’s current home when it could have been done easily.  But, we got it there and the girls managed to get it on her.  I don’t think the shrug looked quite right with it and am going to encourage her to just use it for something else…and I’m ok with it.

Then we must have worked on flowers for another hour when I decided we needed to eat.  The mama-to-be called the local pizza parlor to order delivery and somewhere along the way, we started falling apart and the poor girl could barely talk, she desperately wanted to tell the clerk on the phone that we weren’t all drunk because the lady had to keep waiting for her to pull herself together.  (I guess it was a day for falling apart all over the place!)  Here she is after the phone call:

and

This is the groom’s mom sharing the couch with her and she is never going to let this girl forget how silly she looked running into the room waving her hands through the air trying to get my attention as I was running from the room to the little girl’s room because it had all gotten so ridiculous. 

And then…the pizza order was wrong, instead of half and half, we got everything mixed together into one.  And I about fell over when the bill was $25 for one large pizza! (next time, we ask)  So, one of the girls called the pizza parlor and told them the order was wrong and they brought us another and let us keep the one we had.  Almost $30 for 2 pizzas felt a little bit better.

I am so exhausted and I’m sure I could have told the events much better if I’d waited until tomorrow but it’s going to be a VERY serious get- things- done day after we do the blogiversary drawing.  Depending on what’s going on, I’ll post as soon as I can.  I plan to sleep in and then we’ll see how much of the day we have to do what we need to do.  But for now, this tired mama is going to crawl up the stairs to bed…and I hope and pray I don’t wake up at 3 or 4 like I’ve been doing!

And thank you all who have participated in the contest!

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I’ve had so much baby stuff and wedding stuff that I wanted to show a little bit of knitting that is slowly happening.  Mostly I work on this at work, but sometimes I bring it in the car when we’re headed somewhere. 

I think I might have shown this before.

I haven’t knit with self-striping yarn for awhile so it’s kind of fun again, just a generic sock pattern that I always do.

Just a reminder that tomorrow is the last day to get yourself entered for the blogiversary drawing. I’ll take all comments that happen by Sunday night at midnight…and then have the little imp draw on Monday morning.

And I did win someone else’s drawing!  Susan was also having a blogiversary and her daughter drew my name so I get a cute little notebook from England!  Thanks, Susan!

Tomorrow I have another wedding shower so I need to get rested up, maybe I should go help hubby make dinner first!  Have a great weekend!

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What a day!  The little imp and I got to go with the new mama for her midwife appointment…and we got to hear the little sweet pea’s heartbeat!  (yes, I got tears)

We got up early and were on our way by 8:15 after our first stop, Starbucks.  :)  The little imp likes ice water so that’s what he got.  There is a funny thing about him.  He will not tell you when something is amiss, it’s been a  strange thing we’ve always dealt with (i.e.:  I’m hungry, I have to use the bathroom, etc) 

Our first stop was Michael’s to get some wedding things.  They were taking so much time getting out of the car that I told them I’d just run in and start looking for what we needed.  Wellllllllllll,  when they came in and found me, the little imp was walking soooo funny.  He had spilled his water all over himself and never said a word.  He was soaking and you know what it looked like!  So, the sis took him out to the car.  He took his pants off on his own and we had to get him back into them so we could run into Target and buy him new jeans before we went to the midwife appointment.  I won’t even go into the details of that trip, but let’s just say it was interesting.

We did make it on time to the appointment.

We love to ask him what he’s going to be when the baby comes. He always gets this huge grin, looks at the floor and whispers “Uncle”.

I haven’t been able to capture the best of the smile, but this is the closest I’ve gotten.  It really makes me want to cry it’s so sweet.

The room was very pleasant and the little mama, the teacher, showed him posters of a developing baby and made the most of the opportunity.  He hangs on every word.

He also likes to copy.

And here is the big moment!

I want to be sensitive to the mama and the midwife, but here is the little imp enjoying hearing that heartbeat!

He started playing  imaginary drums because that’s what it sounded like to him.

After all that excitement, we stopped at the new Carl’s Jr for a very nutritious lunch and raced home.  I was only an hour late getting to the shop.

REMINDER: 

Don’t forget to sign up for the blogiversary drawing, it runs through April 6 and on the 7th I will have the little imp draw the winner’s name!  All you have to do is comment to earn an entry!

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Wow, it sure seems like a lot of people are celebrating their blogiversaries right now.

I didn’t want to post my contest until I got my domain renewed…wouldn’t really do now, would it, to have it go offline when there is a contest going on!  To be honest, I had one heck of a time getting the credit card info changed.  If you recall, hubby lost his wallet a few months ago and the day after he reported the card missing, he found it and now I have spent months getting the number changed with all the companies that have it on file.

Anyway….

Simple rules because since we are in wedding time, I don’t have the energy to come up with something creative.  All you have to do is comment between now and April 6th, the date of my first post on my new domain. 

The prize?

This is a great book for sock knitters and the yarn is almost local (an hour away from us). 

So, this is my thanks for all the fun I’ve had over this past year….comment away and tell your friends, I would love to find some new blogs to visit!

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The little imp and I were headed to the car to go to the bride’s new home-to-be when we saw the box on the porch.  The new tuxedo!  We put the jacket on him and he wore it over there to show sis.  While modeling, he told us he looks like the President….and made sure we knew he meant “of the United States”!

A little later, they came to see me at the shop because they wanted my sister to take a look at it so she could decide if she wanted to do the altering.  He popped in to show me the full deal.

Note the pose! He goes into another mode when he’s got a role to play.  He did comment that he needed to get to the White House!

We woke up this morning to a dusting of snow.  I know most of the country has been buried in snow all winter, but it’s rare here.

And so weird the end of March.  We are supposed to get accumulation tonight.

Right after I took this picture I saw the sun pop out for a minute with the ominous dark clouds headed our way.

Isn’t that a beautiful view out my front window?

I’ve actually been knitting.  I have misplaced the sock I was working on last week, (it’s not lost, I just don’t know where I put it down) so I started another.

I just love these colors.

My blogiversary date is April 6 and I’ll be having a contest, stay tuned for details.

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I did not take any pictures Easter day, I was just way too lazy but that’s ok, sometimes you miss out on what’s going on when you’re too busy taking pictures.  We did have good food and good family fun.

We did color eggs Saturday night.  I am touched all the time by #1 son.  He is the traditionalist in our family.  If it weren’t for him, we wouldn’t have “birthday breakfast” or half the other things we do.  He is the one who notices that we do something  and it becomes “What We Do”.  He asked me every day this week when we’d color eggs.  I, personally, just couldn’t get it together enough to tell him when.  Well, Saturday evening, he came in with his girlfriend and was *ready*!  He’s fun and I appreciate that side of him.  The girls always love that he’s like that because they aren’t.  So here’s Mr. Dunder Mifflin and a little imp. 

We didn’t do anything exciting and the dye this year wasn’t very cooperative, but it was fun hanging out at the table.  One little imp got tricked into dying a white egg, he never got it that there was no dye in the water.  lol  

Church Sunday was great.  We all came home with miniature Etch-a-sketches because we had a play about “God’s Eraser” and how He washes our sins completely away.  They work, too!

And of course, hubby did a great job on the worship team!  He taught us all a great new song and there was a very sweet spirit in the room.  Only one troubling event.  Partway through the service, an usher came to tell us they had spotted a little imp wandering in the hall.  Our church building is big and it’s been a problem in the past when he played escapee.  He hasn’t done it for a long time and I’ve been trying to let him become more independent.  Turns out, some of the kids wanted to come see the play and he got up to leave with them.  When questioned as to whether he was sure that’s what he wanted to do, he said yes.  By then, I’m sure the other kids were gone and he really didn’t know what he was doing so he was just walking around, probably without a care in the world.  We have a great usher team, though, and they’re on to him.  The thing that alarmed us, though, was that the other kids had crossed the parking lot by then to go for some Easter games and we thought he’d taken a wrong turn and how in the world does someone not notice that?  Won’t happen again, the director felt worse than we did.  He also learned that the imp will answer yes to anything you ask him so you can’t ask yes or no questions. 

Yesterday was a day and a half.  I was on the phone all morning between insurance and the doctor’s office regarding the orthotics.  Insurance won’t pay for it, but we have to jump through all of their hoops so they can deny us.  If we don’t, then it never gets to the medical coupon that picks up whatever our insurance doesn’t.  Our state has a Department of Developmental Disabilities that I never thought I’d ever have to use.  That didn’t last for long, these kids have all kinds of things go on that insurance doesn’t see as necessary to cover.

Then we raced off to therapy, got a call on the way that we would meet up with the other therapist to get the orthotics and we’d have to make an appointment with a store to get special shoes for them to fit in.  Right now this is feeling a bit much to me.  (not to mention expensive!)

We did all kinds of wedding errands that didn’t really feel productive.  We ended up our time by meeting the other therapist who fit the padding into the orthotics in the parking lot of a Starbucks!  I was really mad that I forgot my camera…quite a sight and it was so cold and the poor fellow had bare feet.  Nutty.

The lines are where I am supposed to cut off the excess.

By the way, you are looking at orthotics that cost: $622, fitting: $297, insurance coverage: 0,  having a medical coupon as backup: priceless. 

On the way home, we left sun and dry and hit pouring, pouring snow/rain, saw a car off the road with slush on the road all of a sudden for about a mile, then rain rain rain…..to dry and clear.  It was weird. We woke up to a dusting of snow yesterday morning, too. 

Today I am asking myself why I blog.  When I first started, it was going to be a record of my knitting.  That was boring really fast.  It took me awhile to decide to bring my kiddos into it, but they are so much a part of my life.  Hubby and I are so blessed, 33 years and 4 beautiful children.  But today I was thinking about the journey this has been and I realized, I do it for me.  It’s been helpful to go back and look at how I was thinking before wedding #1 and here I am again, less than a year later planning wedding #2.  As most bloggers will probably tell you, they know all the under the surface stories and feelings that don’t get mentioned in print.  I think it’s been a help to me and as I’ve said before, brought many great new people into my life.  I’m all about relationship and caring about people.

I’m still planning to do some kind of blogiversary celebration but not sure what yet so stay tuned!

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When I closed my post the other night, I commented that I’d search for an old picture of the little imp…and not 5 minutes after I published the post, he walked in the room looking like this:

Who knows what he was doing that made him think he needed to do this.  Note the dirty face.  lol

Just to prove he does smile these days…

blurry and dark but a smile nonetheless.

What a lazy day.  I am so tired today that after church, I came home and put my jammies back on and I have not done one thing that required any amount of energy.  When I got to bed last night (a little too late), my iPod was stuck in disk mode so I had to get up and restore it to factory settings and then reload it.  let me tell you, it is definitely pushing my buttons these days.  I watched a few hours of the old Andy Griffith show this afternoon and then listened to a Star Trek podcast that some friends of ours did last year.  I am NOT a trekkie, just thought it would be fun to listen to someone I knew.  Impressive.  I didn’t know the wife was a closet trekkie, though…which is probably why I listened to it. 

Hubby did the sermon this morning on “Here I am to Worship” and did a great job.  The little imp and I stayed through 2nd service, too.  He liked seeing Dad speaking so I didn’t send him back to Kids Church.  We wrote notes to each other through part of it…but yes, I did pay attention.

We’re working on addressing the wedding invites to go into the mail tomorrow.  I wrote until my hand is cramped last night and the bride is working on the last page today.  I’ll finish off her list as soon as she can’t write any more.  Then we bag them up and give them to the groom to mail, that’s his contribution.

Tomorrow we have our last therapy until after the wedding.  Hubby is going along, much to the delight of the little imp.  He doesn’t go very often and the imp loves to show off for his hero.  Then we’ll go get fitted for the tux, pick up a bridesmaid’s dress, go to Party City, Cash n Carry, and where ever else we think of tonight. 

My one year blogiversary is coming up in a few weeks and I am considering having a contest.  I’ve actually blogged for 2 years now, but my domain is almost a year old and I’d like to do something for that.   However….I am in wedding time so am asking myself how wise that might be.  Stay tuned ~ on the chance I don’t go off the deep end between now and then, I will come up with something and let you know.  It’s hard to explain to those who aren’t inclined to blog how fun it is getting to know people and what they bring to your life. 

Hubby very kindly went to Starbucks and bought coffees for us this afternoon and I got an iced latte…coffee-flavored ice is the best!  The family is heavily glued to the tv watching Borne Ulitmatum…I hate these movies with a passion so I’m going to stick my iPod back in my ears and listen to some knitting podcast.  Or, oh yeah….invitations.  lol

later….

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