Happy New Year!!!!

So, this is the time for reflection. Ok, I'm done.

I'm hoping for the year of 2010 to be great for everyone! I'm sure there will be bumps in the road, there always are. I'm looking forward to having a good year in my new home. I'm ready for all the moving and picture hanging and curtain putting up to be over! I can tell you this, I'm so thankful I've had the chance to move into this new house! It's so warm I can't believe it.

Now, remember the 40 new things to do my 40th year? I forgot about it and I think I only got to #4 or #5. Sis #2 reminded me that I should add spending Christmas away from my parents. When she mentioned that I said, "Oh yeah. I forgot all about that!"

I have trouble sticking with something for very long. Y'all know that about me already, but I just thought you should know I know that about me too.

There's a New Year's resolution. I'm gonna try to stay with a project til the end. Notice I said "a project". I shouldn't set my goals too high!

Happy New Year!

Home Again

I made it back to my neck of the woods last evening. WAHOO! I love my sister and her family. I would do anything for them I could. But let me tell you th is, being home is good!

Sis #2 and I didn't get as much accomplished as I had hoped, but how much can 2 girls get done when there is a 6 year old, a 3 year old, and a brand new baby? Maybe if we hadn't watched 42 movies at all hours of the day and night we could've gotten more done. But I think we both needed a little movie watching time.

Speaking of new baby, what a sweetie! His name is gonna be Snort on this blog. This baby is a snorter. He really gets after it when it's time to eat which is just about all day long. I definitely think he's gonna have red hair! Bro-in-law#1 that's for you!!!!!

Speaking of the bro-in-law's, sis#4 brought up a point that I don't really know how to remedy. She says her husband should be bro-in-law #1 since he was the first one. I had it in mind to list them 1,2,3 in order of the sister's they're married to. I thought this out a little bit when I started writing this silly blog, but obviously, not enough. Any thoughts on this subject??? I could use some unbiased input here.

There's piles of snow everywhere still. Usually, our snow doesn't last this long. Yesterday on our way back here the further west we went the less the snow got. However, when we turned off the highway on the road towards our place it was a different story. Then the closer we got to our place the more there was yet. It's a good thing I have a 4-wheel drive pickup.

Ok enough about all the snow. I'm glad to be home. Snow or no snow!!

Wishing a Year Away(subconciously)!

Everyone knows this isn't the best time of year for me. I really try to make the best of it, but I just get stretched a little thin. Oh if that were only true!

Case and point. Last night I meant to do some baking. I always do food type gifts for my employer and their families. It wound up being about 9pm before I got to the house. The kitchen was a mess. Full Wal-Mart sacks of cooking stuff were all over the kitchen floor. So, I just did some cleaning and decided to skip the cooking. Maybe I'll get it done for New Year's instead. While I was watching the news I thought I'd write up a few "belated" Christmas cards.

This morning I was listening to the dj and trying very hard to get out of bed and not hit the snooze button one more time when I realized something. The dj mentioned something about nearing the year 2010. At that moment it hit me like a brick that I'd written "Have a great 2011" in most of the cards I'd written the night before.

What a numbchuck!!!!!

All of a sudden I'm in my 42nd year and didn't even get to cry about it!

I didn't mail them this morning. I just dropped them all in the trash. I couldn't remember which one's I'd actually written that in, and I'm just a little afraid of what other message I may have inadvertantly sent to some of my dear friends I rarely get to see.

Oh well, there's always next year!!!

A Strange Christmas

Well, this is definitely not gonna be a normal Christmas! Actually, we never have a "normal" holiday time anymore.

I wound up not going to sis#2's to help with new baby last weekend as planned. Things just didn't work. So, I thought I'd go Christmas afternoon or Saturday. The weather looks like it's not going to be good for travel, or at least not for me to travel! I'm gonna go ahead and leave on Wednesday. This will be the first time in 40 years I will not be with my parents on Christmas day. It feels strange just to say it. I'm sure it'll be fine and they won't even notice. They might enjoy the peace and quiet!

So I'll be in Eastern Oklahoma with my sister and her in-laws. That will be very strange! I told her I didn't have to go with them to her father-in-law's house on Christmas day. She said there was no way she was gonna leave me at her house all alone. I told her it might feel like a little mini vacation!! She agreed it might, but we both know I won't do that.

I'll let you know how it goes! I hope I don't make one of them mad. I'll try to keep my mouth shut. That'll never work, besides, they all know me to well for that.

Merry Christmas everyone!!

Nephew #6

We have an addition to the family! And I'm talking a "Big" addition!

Sis#2, bro-in-law #1, Buzz, and Woody and a new boy in their family. He's a cutie and looks like he's ready for a football uniform already! Mom and Baby are doing really well.

This morning the truck left for T-town with my Dad, Grandma, sis#3, Jessie Jane, and myself loaded for a day at the hospital. My mom was already there. She's in what we call "Super MaMaw" mode! She'll be staying at the hospital with sis #2 and big boy for a few days while bro-in-law#1 takes care of Buzz and Woody. I'm gonna go back over this weekend and stay a few days after they get home from the hospital. I can't wait!

I was the first one in the family other than his mom and dad to hold him and know his name. It wasn't on purpose, kinda happened by accident, but I was so happy! Nothing's sweeter than a brand new baby. My dad said they should call him Bruiser. He looks like he could take out the big brother's already!!

So, it's brother and sis-in-law's turn next. They're having their first in January. After being married for nearly 10 years they are in for a wonderful shock! They're suppose to be having a girl. I think Jessie Jane should have a girl cousin to have tea parties and picnics with.

I hope they'll invite me!!!

I Love Rudolph!

Rowdy loves to sing! I'm just learning all the songs he has in his little head. Apparantly, "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" is a favorite. I've always loved this song. Probably mostly because Gene Autry wrote it and sang it first. And I always loved those little cartoony shows with Santa and Rudy they played when I was a kid.

However, when I hear the sweet voice of my 4 year old nephew singing this song it brings joy to my heart!!!

Course, when he sings "Home on the Range" a hundred times in a row I don't mind that either. I just like it that he sings and is happy while he's doing it. Communication with Rowdy is hard so any little bit of common ground I can find with him I love.

I got to hear these songs and loads more over the weekend while sis#3 was recouping from her "sickness". We're assuming it was a flu thing. I'm glad she's better for her sake, but I'm really glad she's better for my own. I know it's selfish, but a 40 girl who's never been a mom doesn't run on the same amount of sleep that a real mom who's use to running on fumes!

Ok, guess I better get some of that sleep I've been hoping for!!

I ain't that crazy yet!

So, sis#3 is mega sick. Trying to figure out how to shuffle her 3 kids is difficult this time of year. My employers are gone to our biggest show of the year and I'm getting ready for one here close.
As I'm writing this I'm trying to keep Jessie Jane happy and roll the ball to Josey Wales. I guess you could say I'm babysitting both of them at this point.

Jessie Jane didn't want to go to sleep til late since she took a really good nap til about 9 last night. Long about midnight I'm getting very, very bleary eyed. She finally went to sleep. This morning I had to gather all her stuff to bring her to work with me. This isn't a very child friendly environment I work in. There's tools and breakable stuff everywhere. I brought a pen to keep her in, but she's not digging it! I don't think she's had many boundaries in her short life so far. And another thing, she REALLY didn't like staying in the pick-up while I was feeding the horses this morning! It was way too cold to take her out with me. When I got back in she had pulled her hat off, tossed the bottle, peeled back the blanket and was sobbing. Not a pretty sight!

After we got all the stuff unloaded, I'm using the word "we" very loosely, Jessie Jane needed a DP so we headed to the store down the road. Unfortunately for me they don't take cards in the drive through so I had to pull around and go inside. No wonder my sister's get mad about that stuff. Just take the cards already!!

I hear these stories about women who choose to have a baby by themselves if they haven't found Mr. Right by a certain age. What are they thinking!?! There's not a snowball's chance in Houston that I'm gonna "choose" to have a baby and then raise that baby alone. It's way too hard!!! It's hard enough when there's 2 parents who are willing to bear the whole brunt of the load. And joy, I'm know there's loads of that. But how would one be able to appreciate all the joy if they're wiped 24/7?

Believe me, if there was one inkling of that thought in my head, which there wasn't, it's gone now!!! I ain't that crazy yet!!!!!