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June 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment

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HappySailorweb

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I’m learning a new trick- for whatever reason my picture won’t post from my blog gallery so I uploaded it to Flickr and I’m posting this picture (including typing this comment) direct from my Flickr account… did you know you can do that? Boy, it’s so easy it took me less then 5 minutes from upload to post.

It even lets you choose the layout of the post and where the picture will be and after I post from Flickr I can always go back to my WordPress dashboard and add more text, html or links and fill out my plugin data. What do you think?

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My Little Navy Man

June 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Our beloved nephew who shipped out to the Navy in Great Lakes at the end of March has now officially graduated his boot camp. While he still has another couple years of training left, he did get liberty for his graduation weekend. What did that sweet boy do? He went shopping! Well….of course, he ate and slept…but to my kids the most important thing their big cousin did was call them and get to talk to them (it’s nice having a close family) and sent home gifts.

Here is my three year old so proudly wearing his Sailor hat that he only takes off briefly when he sleeps.

Doesn’t he look like a poster boy?

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Battle of the Day

May 25, 2008 | Leave a Comment

Yesterday was a productive day for me off line. I’m not sure but maybe the fact that my husband was home all day made me a bit more productive since I was being held accountable for getting my To Do list done. And of course, I couldn’t be on the computer since he hates that. Of course, for some reason the kids had an awesome day playing outside all day- it’s great to know you can get something accomplished when your not playing referee 9 hours of the day although the husband then asks why I have such a hard time getting anything done….like they play that nice every day.

Three kids rooms cleaned and organized- do you realize how long it takes to sort Polly Pockets, American Girl shoes and Legos???
Laundry is completely caught up and put away. This is an accomplishment in itself since I have been out of detergent for four days and laundry from 6 people is enough to bury anyone.
Three closets cleaned out - winter clothes packed away and snow pants/mittens/hats washed & stored
The bathroom I use for our 4 Foster Kittens was washed down, disinfected and re-organized. They are getting so big I bet we will only have them for another week, two at the most.

The result? No stubbed toes, four bags of clothes for donation and three trash bags of stuff the kids won’t miss anymore.

What to do today?????

Okay, I’m posting to see if I can be held accountable to myself.

It kills me to be inside on such a beautiful weekend but things need to get done.

I need to figure out why half the images on my blog have up and disappeared…. out of the clear blue.. just jumped on and poof they were gone.
Why my theme doesn’t update my “About ME” because I’m finding that very annoying
Why my plugin for the footer gives me a fatel error message
Switch my wholesale form over to an aweber contact form with auto messages because I can’t keep up this manual work of emailing every body that wants information.
Finish Eben’s videos- I can multi task that with packing todays orders

Better get started!

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Parenting Moments to Remember

April 23, 2008 | 1 Comment

This is a random post of appreciating the small things in life that make you smile. It is only 9:30 in the morning and this has been the day of smiles for me:

First, I awoke before the kids. This might not sound great waking up at 6 a.m. but really, it’s been a long time since I’ve been able to wake up and start my day when my body is ready and not when I have someone kicking the side of the bed ready to go downstairs and have their breakfast as I pry my eyes open. Best yet, I was able to take an shower without being a referee of shouting matches.

Second, I went to get the check on the baby again before going downstairs and I could hear her cooing and babbling from the hallway. I found her lying in bed with Taylor having cuddle time with her big sister and singing to each other. Soo sweet, maybe the eight year difference will lead to a very special relationship.

Next, the kids made their own pink pancakes and sausage. I told them I would clean the kitchen - if you can imagine what it looked like after three kids make pancakes..:))) IF they fed the animals. The priceless comment, they wanted me to pay them $20.00 to feed the animals! Serious?? I would feed all the animals in the neighborhood if they paid me that! Needless, to say, I fed the animals.

Finally, the icing on the cake at 9:30 this morning was watching all four kids hang out on the floor as we try to teach Drew (who is 6) to blow bubbles with his bubble gum. I know.. why would I want to teach my kids to blow bubbles? Especially at 9 in the morning? I don’t know, I went with the flow and everyone is happy and giggling and we are just enjoying down time. Taylor keeps blowing bubbles for the baby who is fascinated and watches so intense while licking her lips then leans forward and tries to lean forward and eat the bubble.

It’s the small things.

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