What was I thinking????

This is going to be the first Christmas in our new house and so I got this bright idea, or so I thought so at the time, to invite everyone on our court to our house for a dessert party. Obviously I was not thinking this through because our court has 21 homes on it, I must now begin to put up Christmas decorations in preparation for this event so our house is partly decorated already and its not even Thanksgiving. I did not decorate the outside of our house, its bad enough the inside is already done. We don't want the neighbors talking about us like we do the house down the road who already has every shred of Christmas decor out, every light on, every wreath hung, and every reindeer posing in the yard. They have had that stuff up since the day after Halloween. No sir-re, I'm a closet decorator, I wont pull out the big guns till its time and then every bush will have twinkle, every window will have a wreath, but until then its indoors only. I must be out of mind!!!
P.S .Dear Hubby-your not allowed to comment on this post, I already know you think Im crazy and out of my mind!

First snow

Winter is here in Ohio. Its been cold for a while with temperatures in the 30's but I never really think its winter time until the first snow. This morning we got the first snow. It snowed a bit yesterday but none of it stuck. This is what we woke up to this morning.

Why I love you so....

My husband and I are coming up on our anniversary soon so I thought Id share the reasons why I love him so and tolerate him most days......just kidding I love him so!

• He has driven 45 minutes to surprise me in the morning with fresh Hot krispy kreme doughbnuts that are only found on the other side of Columbus.
• He brings home flowers just because.
• He has bought me chocolate on many many occasions.
• He still provides me my needs and most of my wants.
• He is a wonderful father.
• He calls just to hear my voice or to tell me what he wants for dinner, either way he calls.
• He makes me laugh.
• He lets me sleep in on the weekends and he takes care of the kids breakfast.
• He encourages me to get out , do things, make friends, have new hobbies and have fun.
• He takes care of me each day and even when Im throwing up or have snot running out of my nose.
• He still loves me, tolerates me, wants to spend time with me, and wants to be my husband for now.....

spiders are gone

Yesterday I finally got the stitches out of my knee. The doctor also showed me pics of the knee during the surgery and compared the two pics of my MRI that I had 3 weeks before surgery and those that were taken the day of surgery. The tear went from being something slight to something large and he showed me that I had arthritis in my knee as well. Great. I decided to celebrate getting my stitches out by going for a run for the first time since I tore it back in the summer. The run was a little painful but well worth it. Ask me tomorrow and I may have a different answer.
My son thought that my stitches looked like spiders coming out of my knee so yesterday when he went with me to get them removed he watched the nurse and kept saying "where are the spiders going, why are you taking the spiders out, your going to cut the spiders legs off, your going to throw away the spiders". Afterwards he looked at me and said no more spiders on your knees mom and you can chase me. Start running little boy cause momma's back!!!

History has been made

That's all I seem to hear all over the TV this morning. You should know that I did not vote for you, I do not believe in your beliefs and the fact that I'm pretty certain that you wont turn to God and pray about those tough decisions that each President will have to face, makes me scared. Twice now in the past month I have been in line behind someone who has a welfare card and twice now the system was cheated. Wasnt welfare created to help you for a short time, to help those that needed it the most, to be a stepping stone so you could get back on your feet? Yesterday the woman had 2 buggies, with 213.00 worth of groceries that ranged from steak, to the most expensive juices and food. After swiping her card her total was 24.00 dollars out of pocket. I kept my mouth shut and did not say anything but I cant say the same for the woman behind me who out loud after the woman left made the comment of where can I get a card like that, surely that's for 2 to 3 weeks worth of groceries. The checkout lady heard the comments and said nope its weekly. The lady and I both sat there looking at our buggies, looking at our coupons in hand, generic items in cart and no steak in sight. Something definitely isn't right about that picture.
Granted we aren't poor but we aren't rich either and I cant help but wonder how things are going to be now that you are President. You want to share the wealth of those that work hard for it, you want to give to those who don't even try, who chose not to work, who can work and just plain don't because they are provided for.
I only hope that I am completely wrong about you, I hope that the book of Revelations in the Bible isn't talking about you, I hope that you prove me wrong but I'm not going to hold my breath. Good luck to us all.

Halloween

I believe this year was the best Halloween that we have ever had. It was the first Halloween that we had in our new house and what a difference a neighborhood makes. First of all let me say that this was also the first year that we had Trinity on Halloween so it was so much fun getting to see her dress up. Second we had friends over for dinner and to trick or treat with us and we had a blast with them. Then after dinner we took all 4 kids out and hit the streets. The weather was beautiful and in this neighborhood everyone sits in their driveways to pass out candy so you never have to knock or ring a doorbell. They not only passed out candy some of them even had tables set up where you could make your own smores with a fire pit that they had on the driveway. There was even a dancing clown that had dancing contest on his driveway. Later in the night after we were settling in we got "Boo'd" by one of our neighbors who rang the doorbell and ran and left us even more goodies in a bag. We couldn't of asked for a better night with such great neighbors, friends over and the weather. I cant wait to see what happens next year. Happy Halloween!!

Here is pic of Preston as the Hulk, Trinity as a witch and our good friends who dressed up as the good and bad Spider man.