Trick or Treat Girls

My Girls

S's Black and Red Fairy

Her Wings

M as a Southern Belle

The Witch is In

This is what you see when you walk in my front door.

What a couple of weeks. What we thought was a cold/virus for DD#1 was, but it was also the beginning of appendicitus. Late Tuesday afternoon DD's dr sent us to Children Mercy Hospital, the downtown one, to run a couple more tests. We arrived at 4:30 by 8:30 she was in the OR having her appendix removed. The Dr. said it had been inflammed for a week or more and had adhered to her colon. She now has 3 little holes in her tummy. Less than 24 hours after her surgery we were home. Children really do recover faster than adults. When I had mine out 2 years ago, I was in the hospital for 3 days an 2 nights.

I did manage a Happy Dance this week. M's afghan, and here she is enjoying it.



I hope that you all have an enjoyable Halloween, Eat some candy for me. :o)

A few pictures

The last few weeks have been a blur, not because we have been really busy but because my allergies have been so bad I don't remember much. Here are are few pictures of the DD's having fun and the Halloween Project I finally finished.

Their favorite ride at the renisance festival, the human powered swing


Eating lunch and listening to the music



S in her puppy mood. :o)


The haunted Castle sent to the girls by my dear friend and M's birthday twin


My finished San-Man Halloween ornies set, It only took me a year.

Happy Birthday my Darling

This week was all about getting ready for and celebrating M's birthday. She turned 6 on Thursday. We celebrated by going to build-a-bear and shopping for a new outfit for her snow lepard.

Then we met DH at Rain Forest Cafe for dinner.
Then home for presents.

On Saturday we had a few friends over for lunch and to eat cupcakes with us. It was a great time and M was thrilled to have so many friends around at one time.


Today has been spent doing nothing. The blitz cleaning I did on Friday and Saturday tired me out. So I took today off and will start again tomorrow.

Happy Birthday Baby Bear. I love you so much !!!

Three Weeks Since my last post

And what a three weeks.

S joined not only band, she plays flute, and meets during school hours but also twice a week after school at the high school. I have been shuttling her and three of her friends to rehearsal. Thankfully this is the last week for that.
She also joined Choir, which has rehearsal two mornings a week. She really seems to be enjoying both of these very much, for which I am eternally grateful.

M is really enjoying school, her favorites are bus, lunch and recess. She says her teacher is more strict (her word is meaner) than her preschool teacher, but she still likes her. We have been counting the days until her birthday, which is this coming Thursday, when she turns six.

Last week was DH and mine 20th wedding anniversary. He let me purchase this antique desk a couple of weeks ago as my present, can’t you just envision it stuffed full of little stitched items, buttons and fibers and and…

We didn’t do much on the day because he had band practice and the girls both had gymnastics. On Thursday my Mom and her boyfriend stopped by on their way back to Iowa and took us all out to dinner at the Blue Moose. Very nice, good food, a little noisy but even the girls liked it.

It started raining on Wednesday and finished only yesterday, I believe the total amount of rain was over 4 ½ inches. This was very important because DH and I planned a road trip on Saturday in honor of our anniversary. I asked our old babysitter to come home from college and stay over night with the girls 3 months ago. Who would have thought we would have October weather in September. So instead of riding the motorcycle, we drove the van, not as much fun but definitely drier. :o) DH planned all of it and wouldn’t tell me where we were going. It started out with us going to a bar and watching the Iowa State/ Iowa football game with a lot of other alumns. They lost, but we are used to that. Then we headed east, and ended up at a little B&B in Lexington, MO.

There were roses and Chocolates in the room for me when we got there.

Did you know that they roll the streets up in that town at 5:00 on Saturday? LOL We had a really nice time, with dinner, a movie and DH taught me how to play Gin Rummy, I lost. No TV no girls, just quiet. Very very nice !!

We found tired but happy, girls when we arrived home. With painted finger and toenails, new movies watched and a new puppy friend (Ashley’s) that they played with. So today we begin the count down to Birthday Palooza, M is not happy that I keep reining in her plans for another HUGE b-day party. But those only happen every 5 years in our house. So we are going out to dinner on her birthday and will have friends over on Saturday for hot dogs and cake.

I have finished a couple small Halloween ornaments and the pictures are in my Webshots album. http://good-times.webshots.com/album/566671740DBdXCD

Until next time, Thank you for stopping by and please take care of yourselves !

Back to School !!!

I know I promised you stories about family reunion and I will provide them.... Later. :o) Last week was so busy getting ready for school, that I hardly sat at the computer at all.

School Started today. M is in Kindergarden and S is a 5th grader. It felt really funny in the house without them around. Here are a couple of pics.

DH and the girls before school

M and her friend getting off the bus

M at her Desk

S in her Safty Patrol hat guarding the hallway.

We're packing again.

Good Morning everyone,

I'm doing laundry and packing again for a week and 1/2 trip to Mom's. This will be the last trip of the summer since school starts for both girls 3 weeks from today. I have been busy with the smalls again.






I also finished the stitching for my TGOS Christmas ornament (Hint: buttons) and started the January project. (hint: Yellow on Dark blue)

Now I have a favor to ask. I am running out of ideas for next years designs. If you have anything you would like to see. Let me know, PLEASE OH PLEASE. :o)

I need to get back to the packing and laundry. Next time I will have family pics to share.