13 years of wedded bliss!!

Ok so not all the years were blissful but that’s ok. That is what makes a marriage-real life and living it. This is one of the first years that Phil hasn’t taken the day off for our celebrations. That is because next weekend the boys will be going to Brit and Jonathan’s for a few days so we can have the house to ourselves. We will have to kick Lauren out for those days, but she already knows that. We also warned her if she stops by, we aren’t going to pay for any needed therapy for what she might see! lolol…

Ok, enough about that. Saturday evening was hard. Joyce’s memorial service was a tear-jerker. Christy played a song she wrote herself and it was lovely. Walt had a lot to say and told the story of how they met. The boys all shared as well. Then church friends, work friends and others told of their memories of Joyce. She definitely touched a lot of peoples’ lives.

Sunday was church and after lunch, Phil took the boys sled ridding down at the big Hinckley Hill. They had a blast. Poor Jake wrecked into others a few times.

I had a life altering memory come to me on Saturday evening. I went for prayer concerning it after church. I am still in shock about it. I need to not stuff it but deal with it. There are other issues going on as well but Phil and I are dealing with those. We keep plugging away.

I gotta make a dr.’s appointment for Jake. He is very stuffed up in his head and constantly clearing his throat. I am sure it’s a sinus infection. Poor kid.

Oh well, I will wrap this up with a statement of how good Hershey’s Special Dark chocolate is-Yummy!!!!!!!!!!

What a conference!

I was gone Thursday evening and all day and evening on Friday to a conference at our church. It was for women but there were several men there as well. It was all about relationships and inner healing. Very good stuff, as my priest would say! My counselor was the speaker so I got to hear all the good stuff he tells me in sessions, take notes and not interupt with my own junk. Very cool. I was really blessed and healed of some things. I learned a lot about relationships and how they are to work. It takes time to figure it out and work on things. All I can say is that I am truly blessed and thankful that Phil and I have hung in there for almost 13 years! We will make it!

Brazillian bikini wax….

Found on a message board!

Brazillian Bikini Wax story…All hair removal methods have tricked women with their promises of easy, painless removal - The epilady, scissors, razors, Nair and now…the wax. My night began as any other normal weeknight. Come home, fix dinner, play with the kids. I then had the thought that would ring painfully in my mind for the next few hours: “Maybe I should pull the waxing kit out of the medicine cabinet.” So I headed to the site of my demise: the bathroom. It was one of those “cold wax” kits. No melting a clump of hot wax, you just rub the strips together in your hand, they get warm and you peel them apart and press them to your leg (or wherever else) and you pull the hair right off. No muss, no fuss. How hard can it be? I mean, I’m not a genius, but I am mechanically inclined enough to figure this out. (YA THINK!?!) So I pull one of the thin strips out. It’s two strips facing each other stuck together. Instead of rubbing them together, my genius kicks in so I get out the hair dryer and heat it to 1000 degrees. (“Cold wax,” yeah…right!) I lay the strip across my thigh. Hold the skin around it tight and pull. It works! OK, so it wasn’t the best feeling, but it wasn’t too bad. I can do this! Hair removal no longer eludes me! I am She-rah, fighter of all wayward body hair and maker of smooth skin extraordinaire. With my next wax strip I move north. After checking on the kids, I sneak back into the bathroom, for the ultimate hair fighting championship. I drop my panties and place one foot on the toilet. Using the same procedure, I apply the was strip across the right side of my bikini line, covering the right half of my *hoo-hoo* and stretching down to the inside of my butt cheek (Yes, it was a long strip) I inhale deeply and brace myself….RRRRIIIPPP!!!! I’m blind!!! Blinded from pain!!!!….OH MY GOSH!!!!!!!!! Vision returning, I notice that I’ve only managed to pull off half the strip. CRAP!!! Another deep breath and RRIIPP!! Everything is swirly and spotted. I think I may pass out…must stay conscious…Do I hear crashing drums??? Breathe, breathe…OK, back to normal. I want to see my trophy - a wax covered strip, the one that has caused me so much pain, with my hairy pelt sticking to it. I want to revel in the glory that is my triumph over body hair. I hold up the strip! There’s no hair on it. Where is the hair??? WHERE IS THE WAX??? Slowly I ease my head down, foot still perched on the toilet. I see the hair. The hair that should be on the strip. I touch. I am touching wax. CRAP! I run my fingers over the most sensitive part of my body, which is now covered in cold wax and matted hair. Then I make the next BIG mistake…remember my foot is still propped up on the toilet? I know I need to do something. So I put my foot down. ACK!!!!!!!! I hear the slamming of a cell door. *hoo-hoo*? Sealed shut! Butt?? Sealed shut! I penguin walk around the bathroom trying to figure out what to do and think to myself “Please don’t let me get the urge to poop. My head may pop off! What can I do to melt the wax? Hot water!! Hot water melts wax!! I’ll run the hottest water I can stand into the bathtub, get in, immerse the wax-covered bits and the wax should melt and I can gently wipe it off, right??? *WRONG!!!!!!!* I get in the tub - the water is slightly hotter than that used to torture prisoners of war or sterilize surgical equipment - I sit. Now, the only thing worse than having your nether regions glued together, is having them glued together and then glued to the bottom of the tub…in scalding hot water. Which, by the way, doesn’t melt cold wax. So, now I’m stuck to the bottom of the tub as though I had cement-epoxied myself to the porcelain!! God bless the man who had convinced me a few months ago to have a phone put in the bathroom!!!!! I call my friend, thinking surely she has waxed before and has some secret of how to get me undone. It’s a very good conversation starter - “So, my butt and who-ha are glued together to the bottom of the tub!” There is a slight pause. She doesn’t know any secret tricks for removal but she does try to hide her laughter from me. She wants to know exactly where the wax is located, “Are we talking cheeks or hole or who-ha?” She’s laughing out loud by now…I can hear her. I give her the rundown and she suggests I call the number on the side of the box. YEAH!!!!! Right!! I should be the joke of someone else’s night. While we go through various solutions. I resort to scraping the wax off with a razor. Nothing feels better then to have your girlie goodies covered in hot wax, glued shut, stuck to the tub in super hot water and then dry-shaving the sticky wax off!! By now the brain is not working, dignity has taken a major hike and I’m pretty sure I’m going to need Post-Traumatic Stress counseling for this event. My friend is still talking with me when I finally see my saving grace….the lotion they give you to remove the excess wax. What do I really have to lose at this point? I rub some on and OH MY GOSH!!!!!!! The scream probably woke the kids and scared the dickens out of my friend. It’s sooo painful, l but I really don’t care. “IT WORKS!! It works!!” I get a hearty congratulation from my friend and she hangs up. I successfully remove the remainder of the wax and then notice to my grief and despair….THE HAIR IS STILL THERE…….ALL OF IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. So I recklessly shave it off. Heck, I’m numb by now. Nothing hurts. I could have amputated my own leg at this point. Next week I’m going to try hair color……

Junk email

We all get them. Let’s post them. Here is today’s junk email from bright and early this morning.

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Boring day

Today wasn’t very exciting. I am just extremely tired. Phil says it’s the other side of the mood swing. I guess. He is exhausted too. I forced myself to make some pancakes and sausages for dinner for us. Believe me, I didn’t feel like it at all. I took Jack to the vet today. He is just having some tummy trouble. We have some meds for him and will change his feeding habits. That’s about it.

List of things…

Today I am just going to list my thougts.

1. Caleb has it right when he asked why he had homework after spending over 6 hours it school. I, too, question the validity of the stupid concept of homework. He is a smart 10 year old boy, even if his hair is long.

2. Jake is doing good today. This is good news as last week was troublesome. I guess he had a great day at school. He came home with a smile.

3. Brit called and offered to watch the boys while Phil and I have some alone time in a few weeks in celebration of our anniversary. Hopefully the first weekend in Feb. works out. Caleb and Jake love to hang out with their brother-in-law.

4. Lauren is doing ok. Her good friend’s mom died on Saturday of cancer. We are all saddened.

5. Phil and I are doing really good. We had that great date yesterday. We are working at paying off our debt and saving for emergencies. It looks great on paper/computer so let’s hope it works!

6. I am going to a conference at church from Thurs. evening to Sat. morning. It’s mainly for women who have had abortions, but also anyone who desires healing from childhood and life traumas. I feel that I am going to deal with the grief of losing my childhood by becoming a mom at 16. Then a wife and being abandoned while pregnant again. I know there is some healing deep inside that needs to take place. I am looking forward to this. My counselor is the main speaker/teacher. It will be good.

7. I wish I could plan a menu for even 1 week. But I just don’t know, I don’t want to fail. I think I will try to work on that soon.

8. I have a longer list of blogs that I like to check on daily. I don’t always comment but I read. I need to seriously update my blogroll over there!

9. I love being a grandma. ‘Nough said.

10. I like doing laundry, really, once it’s going, it’s pleasing to see it get folded and put away and done. I guess that one makes me weird.

People watching…otherwise known as a date with my hubby…

Yes, that is what we do. We went out on a date after church. We went to Panera’s for a sandwich then on to Barnes & Noble for coffee and chit chat. We spent almost 2 hours sitting there people watching and chatting. One guy came in, took a whole table and 3 chairs to himself while a dad with 3 kids had to stand at a tall table with 2 chairs. The table/chair hog guy was strange. He did lots of note jotting in a journal and a lesson plan book. Then he left his table and sitting on it was an Apple laptop, a folder, journal, and a lesson plan book. He was gone for almost a whole hour! Anyone could have taken that stuff. We were amazed. I kept daring Phil to move one of his books but he wouldn’t.

Then Miss fashion plate walks in. She is older, wearing a brown coat, purple velvet shirt and orange pants. Oh yeah, let’s not forget the black and gray suede shoes! The purse she carried was the size of a small suitcase and was jade/blue. Hmm…she gets up, walks away, comes back for the purse, leaves again. Then she finally sits. Mind you, she has 2 tables to herself and on one table sits the humongus purse and on the other, her espresso and danish. She was a strange bird.

The father of three that I mentioned earlier left his 2 older children, who were about 5 and 3, alone while he carried the 1 year old around and looked at books. Why are some people so stupid when it comes to their kids???

All in all it made for an interesting afternoon. It was fun. And I do have pictures, I just have to upload them.

Pinewood Derby 2006

Tonight was our Cub Scouts Pack Pinewood Derby race. Jake did ok but he won an award for most colorful car. Caleb won 3rd place in his den overall and won an award for most futuristic car! It was a fun night, even if it was long and boring when the boys weren’t racing. Here is Caleb, 2nd from left, holding his car and ribbon.

Doggie troubles…

My poor doggie keeps throwing up and of course the vet’s office is most likely closed now. I guess it will have to wait until Monday. Here is a picture of my puppy dog, who is not a puppy but 7 years old.

Swinging again…

Ok once again I am in the midst of a mood swing. I totally broke down and lost it at my counseling appointment today. Not sure what triggered it this time, I just know I am angry. Angry about a lot of stuff I can’t do anything about and some that I can. I am just trying to function. Ugh, Ugh. and Ugh.

And oh how I wish I looked like the princess on her swing during mine!!! It ain’t happening!!