Ten Things Tuesday

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My list for the week includes.....

10. I'm thankful that play-doh, in small quantities, is not toxic.
9. The same goes for crayons
8. Really, what I'm saying is that, I'm thankful that Ewan hasn't yet injested anything that is toxic.
7. Moments of great thinking: We were looking for a babysitter for and I told Andy to go to the library and ask the librarians. He did, and the daughter of on the librarians is going to watch our kids Friday night while I work and Andy has a football game. She's really nice and we've already met her.
6. I love how Marcus runs to the door to greet me after getting off the bus from school.
5. (why am I counting backwards? I just realized that) The sand box site is dug out and Andy is working on leveling out the soil. This is tougher than it might be, b/c the soil is very clay-y and there are many little and not-so-little rocks mixed in.
4. Don't worry though, we have 3 little helpers that I'm quite thankful are willing to help break up the soil.
3. Marcus likes to sing and sang for me tonight. It's a song from his music class and he sang it over and over and over :-)
2. I love that Andy has a schedule currently that lets me sleep when I get home from work!
1. I'm thankful that Andy was trying to surprise me tonight by bringing home the 3rd season of Monk. It's one of our favorite shows and for some reason we have the other seasons on DVD, but not #3. He also has promised the first season of Burn Notice for me.....I'm so-o lucky :-)

2 more photos

2 more photos from Andy's trip


A picture of the Heritage Christian football team.

Andy's trip to Lucas Oil Stadium

Heritage Christian is playing at the new Colts' stadium this weekend. Andy went with the team for their practice and took these photos. Andy said it was really nice, of course. Thought everyone would like a sneak peak.

pics of the cousins

Chris, Kim and the girls came for a quick visit last weekend. Of course, I do like to try to get the kids together for a group photo...

Marie, Savannah holding Ewan, Cale, Cassie and Marcus (I was holding up my hand to catch the kids' attention-apparently Cale and Cassie took it to mean hold up their hands too.)

Slightly different order. Of course, we can't have everyone cooperating :-)

The "m" cousins-Marie and Marcus

The "c" cousins-Cale and Cassie (it's just funny how the cousins next to each other in age have names that start with the same letter-Kim and I did not plan this!)

And, one picture of Savannah :-)

Ten Things Tuesday

Ha! It's Tuesday and I have time for my thankful list today!

1. I'm thankful for a different schedule @ work this week. I get to go to daytime classes for 3 days-no nights :-)
2. The classes are covering useful material and I actually feel like I'm learning something.
3. I Rug Doctored my carpets last week. And, while the carpets don't look new-they look tons better than what they had looked like.
4. The boys had an awesome time seeing their cousins last weekend.
5. We got a new DVD player for downstairs. This is huge, since our old one kept freezing up on all our DVDs-even new ones.
6. I'm thankful that I live in a town that's not too big that has things we need locally. But, if we need to, we just drive 10 minutes to Noblesville or just a little farther to Indy.
7. Andy's schedule has stabilized and is "normal" for him. This means he doesn't go into work until 130pm and works until the end of the atheletic day.
8. I'm thankful for my babysitter. She's awesome and this is her last week before she heads back to school. We're going to miss her!
9. Finding friends on facebook. It's nice to stay connected.
10. per Cale (who is standing next to me, and I'm pretty sure did not take a nap) "I'm thankful for sharing my toys" I asked "who do you share your toys with?" he said "I share my toys with Becca" ( a little friend of his whom he has not seen in probably 2 weeks)

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figuring out facebook

I'm trying something new-I signed up for a facebook account. I've been messing around with it and realized 1) it's going to take some time to figure out the layout of my page and 2) I need someone who is techincally-facebook-with-it to show me where all the cool stuff for facebook is. We'll see what happens. It's kind of neat to see old classmates pages, and some of the nurses in the picu have them too. I'm not to sure how dedicated I'll be to it, and I definitely like my blogging more :-)

Ten Things Tuesday

Well, it's Thursday, which means that I'm right on time with my thankful list. One day, maybe, I'll be first in line....but for now, I'm content to be @ the end of the list of contributers.

I'm thankful for.....

1. Marcus LOVES school!
2. He also loves riding the bus!
3. He was able to get in the house yesterday after school (see previous post)
4. We have family coming to visit on Friday.
5. And, I have an extra day to clean before they get here
6. The weather has been awesome. Our air has been off for a week (except for a 6 hour stretch during a thunderstorm).
7. The Olympics. I just like having something to watch @ 2am when things are slow @ work.
8. I sold another book on Amazon.com. It's one of my sister's old ones and I thought no one would want an older edition of a textbook.
9. A generous, and helpful Grammy Pammy!
and
10. Free time to do things like blog, scrapbook, read-anything but housework!