Diary of a Woman Learning

So we had nearly 80 degrees the other day, now today is getting much colder and it looks like we will get a decent amount of snow starting tomorrow afternoon/evening! Oh well, like they say in Oklahoma, "If you don't like the weather, just give it a minute...it'll change!" Tomorrow afternoon Kiddo and I are traveling to pick up my niece (Angel) and bring her back for the weekend. I'm sure that I will have lots of photos to post next week, but I figured I wouldn't get a chance to blog for the rest of the weekend so I'm doing it today! (By the way, if you wouldn't mind, I covet your prayers for traveling mercies as we go out tomorrow and return tomorrow night...I do not like driving in bad weather and it looks like the spring snowstorm will be about as big a mess as it gets. I want to get us all home safely! Thank you in advance!) Well, on a totally unrelated note: I asked Hubby the other day to download and install some free learning games from a site I...

Quite frankly, life has been busy and I just haven't had a chance to get caught up READING my favorite blogs...much less posting on my own! Quick snippet of my last week or so: Kiddo's shots; Mom came into town and stayed the night with us; my Aunt's memorial service; NOVO Evaluations (which I passed, PTL! :o); Spring Break festivities with Mrs. Pink and the two younger kids - to the OKC Zoo on Wednesday (before Wednesday night at church) and the Science Museum of Oklahoma on Thursday; and Kiddo's birthday which involved a very last minute trip to Tulsa! And THAT was just Monday through Friday last week! I didn't get to go to church on Sunday as I was battling a migraine - I think it was due to a lack of REST since I went nonstop nearly all week. It just caught up to me...but by evening yesterday I was doing MUCH better and slept okay last night. Today we went to get Kiddo's shots and then came home - now we've been home the rest of the day...except for a qu...

First let me warn you: I am absolutely NOT a TV personality, I do NOT like being in FRONT of the camera or especially HEARD on the video. I LOVE my fridge, stove, microwave, dishwasher(s) - it's that two-drawer dishwasher where you can run one or both! :o) and can opener...I do NOT like my kitchen paint color, counter tops, floor and/or lighting. It always looks so dingy and there are chunks of the lineoleum missing - YUCK! :o( Now, that said, I am goofy and silly most of the time and I hope you enjoy me just being me...BUT I AM OUT OF BREATH! I have been cleaning like a mad-woman and have been scrubbing, sweeping, running back and forth (because it seems that I have house-cleaning A.D.D. Is that a real disorder? If it isn't, I bet if a psychologist/psychiatrist saw ME cleaning house, they'd make it one! :o) and I was so excited to be SO CLOSE to getting the video on my blog! *P.S. Please ignore the stupid little watermark/advertisement/blurb on the middle of the screen...b...

I am at a total loss for words at this moment so this will be very short and to the point. I had a wonderful night at choir practice and fellowship with great Christian friends. I got home and my sister called...long story made very short: my mom's youngest sister was in the emergency room in a nearby city. Hubby and Kiddo and I hurried over and by the time I got there, she was gone. My aunt lived a miserable life and was very, very sick. She battled with mental illness (SEVERE mental illness) for probably at least most of her life. I chose to go back to the room to see her body and I realized (and this is the part that is hard) that I had never, ever seen her look peaceful before. Then on the way home, I got the sense that she was looking down on all of us. But what I saw was that she saw through HEALTHY eyes with a HEALTHY mind and a HEALTHY body...and I could sense that she was saying, "I am SO sorry..." So many of the choices that she made were because her mind and bo...

Well, a pregnancy this month was not to be, however, I don't feel discouraged at all. Honestly I didn't feel that it was "right" this time and am totally at peace. I have several friends who are trying to get pregnant at this time as well and I feel that we are a pretty good support group! (The biggest amount of pressure I feel is that in this group, I am the only - at least "active" - Christian...I put the pressure on myself, though. I know all that I need to do is let the Holy Spirit do His thing through me - and I am entirely okay with that! :o) Sunday was a wonderful day of being in God's House with fellow believers...oh I LOVE my Sundays! :o) The song we sang, A New Hallelujah...well, I'm a perfectionist and I wasn't happy with my performance, but I realize that it was entirely for God and not for man, so in light of Him working on me (and proving to me that I am harder on myself than ANYONE else in the UNIVERSE!) I feel that we did what we ...

Today was a rough day. One of those days where you just think "it just gets better and better" (sarcastically...of COURSE!) and it just keeps going downhill. You know, I'm sure. So I didn't sleep well. No one seemed to last night. I had to wake Kiddo up...and that rarely happens. So then I thought, "Well, our appointment's at 9 and we'll get in and out...so we'll just have breakfast after..." Yeah. Right. We get there at 8:40am and at 9:25am I walk up to the receptionist's desk to ask if she might be able to tell me when we'll be called as we should have been some time ago. I was nice. As was she...and then told me she put us under the wrong doctor. Two weeks ago we were there for 45 minutes before I reminded her to even TELL the nurses we were there...she had forgotten. I am starting to get cranky but I am NOT showing it. I am biting my tongue and repeating (inside my head) "it was a simple mistake, it happens, no biggie" and g...

It has been a week, I tell you! Last Saturday we had a lot of running around to do and got a lot done...but it was pretty boring stuff so I won't do that to you. :o) Sunday we wound up spending half of the day in Tulsa and got some more errands run (long story why we went up there, but all is well - there was no real emergency. We were just helping out Hubby's parents...we knew they'd do it for us! :o) We did have to miss church, though, and we were all pretty bummed...but we made it to the evening service (a.k.a. my VBS meeting and Kiddo's choir practice) so that was good. I'm going to be in charge of the VBS Teacher's Lounge again - I LOVE that job...and THIS year Mrs. Pink is going to help me, so I think we'll have a BLAST! Kiddo's shots are still going well, but we learned a valuable lesson last Monday: when his allergy specialist wrote that he was to wear ice packs after the injections for at least 15 minutes, she really knew what she was talking ab...