Diarama

We are currently working on a diarama for Ryan for school. This is the one project that I have hated for all of the years the kids have been in school. I think this is why God only allowed me to have two kids, had I had to do more than 2 diaramas, I may have gone off the deep end.

Ryan read the book, "The Magician's Nephew" from the Narnia series. He is doing a scene of the forbidden study. Jim has done A LOT of the work for the project, thus, it will be done well and do the finest detail. Today we took a picture of some books on our book shelf, cropped it down to very small, then printed 130 pieces on one page, so you can imagine how small these pieces are. Jim built book shelves and we glued the pictures (after trimming away all the white) on to the book shelf. I am not sure how many there are but in the book it talked about all the books that were in the study. He took a fireplace picture from a catalog he had and made a mantle for it. I had some scrapbook embellishments that looked like picture frames. He took a photo of flowers from our yard and printed it and put it in the frame to look like a portrait on the wall. I will post pictures of the whole project when we are done. I think coloring Easter eggs could have been less painful!!

I will keep you posted.

Wednesday

You know, even though I really desire to create a scrapbook page, I have not gotten the idea on to a page. I think I have too many distractions. Today I woke up once again with my neck killing me. I didn't sleep well, which is fine since today is a sleep day so I can make up for it and not feel guilty, however, if the pain would leave me forever, I would be very happy.

Not much else to update on, just waiting for something to change.

Suffering a Loss in My Life

Wait, before you start to worry, no one died (well,...) but I have suffered a huge loss over the weekend. I worked nights on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. On Thursday and Friday on my way to work, I just drank regular old coffee from my new Keurig Coffee maker. Love it, it is so convenient. On Saturday, I started work at 7:30pm so I thought I would stop at McDonald's and get a Frappe. I had had one earlier in the week and thought it was pretty much as close to the best thing in the world as I could imagine. Drank it all down and enjoyed it immensely. While at work, my boss said to me, "Hey, Christine, you know, I stopped at McDonald's on my way to work tonight and got one of those Frappes." Hmmmmm, I thought and said, "So did I!" She proceeded to tell me that for some stupid reason unbeknownst to me (the telling me part), she had looked up the nutritional value of the drink. Now, for someone who wants to know this kind of information, it is wonderful that the internet provides a vast supply of information. For those of us who would like to remain clueless and drink these things thinking, "What harm in a little bit of coffee (plus some extras)?" we do not want nutritional information. If you go to the McDonald's web site and look it up, it is nearly criminal. Granted there is not a lot on the menu at McDonald's that is nutritionally sound, maybe a salad without dressing or the Dasani water, but beyond that, not much. However, nothing at all comes even close to putting a person in pure ecstasy as the Frappe. I almost had a coronary when I saw what she pulled up. Nearly 700 calories, something like 96 grams of carbohydrates, and the fat was so high a number, I can't even recall it. I wanted to cry. I wanted to kill her for telling me this. I saw right then, I lost any thought of stopping every night on my way to work for something to comfort me and keep me awake.

So, there is the story of the loss in my life. Not a total loss, I plan on having one once in awhile, but a loss nonetheless.

Oh, here is my new car. I am loving it, I really prefer driving a car over a van or SUV. Not OVER like I am driving over something, but in reference to my preference. It is bedtime and I am getting a bit punchy.

Goodnight and thanks for stopping by.

SERIOUS

Someone told me on Facebook that God must want me to be serious. I had lost two status updates and one was quite funny. When I post that, an older lady from the Baptist church told me that God was telling me to be serious. I replied with, "If God wanted me to be serious, he would have created me serious." I think he did not......

I am swaying as I write this as I have taken my sleep aid and it is working. Best head to a horizontal position before one is forced upon my head.

Night night.

My Tuesday :(

We got a new car yesterday. I will post pictures later. I have been begging to get back to a car ever since we went for the SUV/Van type of vehicle. I don't like driving the bigger vehicles and I certainly don't like the gas mileage.

I am feeling a bit yucky today. There is stuff going on at work and people accusing me of saying things I did not say. I hate that, it is like you can't have a normal conversation without someone twisting what you say and telling someone else that you said it. I guess I really need to learn to just not say anything to anyone that concerns issues at work that exist. I need to learn to just sit back and watch it all take place and see what happens.

We now have to do self-evaluations at work. I hate the thought of that. If you don't say you are doing a really good job, then they can use that against you but if you say you are doing really good, then where is the room for improvement and also, what if management does not agree with your own thoughts of yourself? It is kind of a catch 22 if you ask me. I think it is a really unfriendly way for the company to not give as much of a raise as they could. If it weren't for the longevity in the place I work, I would so like to leave and find something different. I make too good of money to do that, but if I could not drive 80 miles a day, that may save me a lot too. What to do, what to do????? If only if only if only......I know we cannot live by if onlys!

Thanks for listening.

Funny Picture

This picture showed up the other day among some stuff on the kitchen table. I have no idea what year this was but I think the picture is a HOOT. It is obviously in Leila' kitchen but I am thinking it was the year Jim took the boys to KS without me because I had to work Thanksgiving. Not even sure what year that was, probably 2001.

Weight Loss

I am so tired of thinking there is a way I can lose weight on my common sense. My will power leaves my body and is taken over by cinnamon lattes and cinnamon rolls. I am going a new way and we will see what happens.

I have the first and most recent cousin on the couch pictures to scrap. I have to figure out how to put all of the years on a layout. Wish I had a live is sister to show me!!

Wednesday

Too tired to really know what I would say if I could actually type. Yes, you may think this is typing, but it is typeuntyping. Where a person types about 2 to 3 letters and has to backspace and fix the word. Wow, I got word on one try. Time to go to bed. "Another Picture you all cry" I hear you saying, I wish she had one more picture to show us. Well, here it is, my prize possession.

Laudromat

This has absolutely nothing to do with a laundromat either. I am going to learn to put the pictures first, the tell what they are about. For some reason, it will work better that way.

Here is something...a start of the cabinet my DH built for my basement storage for scrappybooking.

Work before Pleasure

I went back to work tonight for the first time in a week on a night shift. I am so tired now. Really ready to find a day job. Please, pray for that day job to show up soon.

Today's calendar

On my calendar from the book "The Power of a Praying Parent" it says, "No matter what age your children are, it's never too early or too late to start praying for their salvation. We want our children to open the door of their hearts to Jesus and experience God's kingdom, both in this life and forever after."

That is basically the just of my whole life as a mother. I do not care if they become successful in this world as much as that they find true peace and a relationship with Jesus. That is far more valuable than any degree or career they can have.

Jim spent the night at the homeless shelter on Friday night. Dan was asking all about the people who were there. I was surprised by his interest. Ryan hung out for awhile at the shelter and visited with the men. I think he may have learned a bit about homelessness, etc.

Dan went to church with us yesterday (it is a requirement of free room and board). I was a little taken back though that he got in line for communion. I hope he really understands the meaning of that and truly believes in his heart what the meaning is. I really wish he would confess his belief if that is really what he believes instead of making such strong statements against it. I guess he will have to decide if being hypocritical is really what he wants to be.

ok, gotta stop blabbbbbering.

Here are some pictures from our Easter. We had Renee, Tom, and Michele over for lunch....oh, and Grandma too (I forget, she is not really here all the time).

Ryan got a duck that quacks "Here Comes Peter Cottontail". It is very cute.....I love that Easter Bunny for bringing such a cute gift to Ryan.

Saturday Before Easter

What is this day called? If Friday is Good Friday and Sunday is Easter, Thursday is Maunday Thursday, but Saturday has no special name?

My niece from Michigan is here visiting. We watched "Princess and the Frog." Not one of the better Disney movies in my book, but tolerable. Of course, I was tired while watching it, that may have helped it not be as good.

Happy Easter!!! Happy Resurrection Day!!!!!!!

Reflections of the Day.....and a day or so ago

Today, what an interesting day. Reflecting on what the day really means, Jesus became sin for me so that I did not have to suffer the death caused by my sin. There will never be a complete understanding in my human finite mind of why this would be. I am thankful that it happened.

We nailed our sins to the cross tonight and tomorrow they will be burned. When we celebrate the resurrection, we will celebrate the forgiveness of sin.

I got my hair cut this week. The next day Dan asked me what I did to my hair. I told him I got it cut. That is really all I had done. He said, "Well, it really 'youthenized' you." I said, "Euthanized?" He said, "Euthanize is what I wanted to do to you before you got your hair cut." He is a funny funny young man.

I love vacation so much, that last night I called my boss and quit my job. Don't really know how we will live, but I am so happy to be free!!






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