Finding Krissi

Home! I am home. After a quick trip there and back. We are home. All though I can't complain that much about the there. Because the there was in California with the grand pa pa's and grand ma ma's. I'm sorry no matter how old you get there is nothing like a hug from mom and dad that puts the world to right. They are the very first ones we ran to with our scraped knees and alligator tears and no matter how old I get it just doesn't seem right not to run to them when life reaches the boiling point. I read this quote today and thought it expressed my point exactly. "Home is the place you grow up wanting to leave and grow old wanting to get back to" John Ed Pearce So with December 1st upon us I am resurrecting theSwimmom question and asking a question. Hu Hu Humm. . . . What do you miss most about being a kid during the holidays? I am going to think about this myself for a little bit and get back to you. The one thing I know for sure the holidays are way diff...

Sooo. . . How did it go yesterday? Did you come across an angel or two? I actually came across one yesterday. The kids had their six month checkup at the dentist. First of all let me tell you that I hate the dentist. I have some deep seeded squirmy fears about the dentist that rears its head whenever you even say the word dentist. I'm pretty religious about taking the kids because I know I should and as much as I hate it I put on a brave face and we go every six months. I do like the dentist office that I take the kids to. It is one of the reasons I can endure these six month checkup. Usually after the x-rays are done 4 different hygienist take the kids and within an hour four kids are done and out of the the office. Yesterday Al was the first one done with her cleaning. She jumped out of the seat and said, "Lets go." "We can't the dentist has to come give the final look over." "I know I hate that part, lets go now." "No, we have to stay and s...

Happy Thanksgiving everyone. It is always nice to take time out and spend time with family and enjoy each others company. I am looking forward more than I can say to our Thanksgiving break. I wrapped up my diversity class good, bad, or indifferent it is done. YAY! Reflections is all but done. This year we had 130 projects submitted three years ago when I started as the Reflection chick we had 9 projects submitted. It almost brought me to tears seeing all the kids projects and their creativity. So very awesome and soooo much work. The economy is looking a tiny bit better and it looks like we may get a little good news in the coming months. That will be a welcome break. All in all I have to say things are looking up. Which brings me to my thought for the day "As we express our gratitude, we must never forget that the highest appreciation is not to utter words, but to live by them." ~John Fitzgerald Kennedy My greatest hope for this holiday season is that I can live by the spiri...

All of this complaining is downright annoying. In one breath I am telling you my beliefs and in the next 2, 3, 4, I am whining. The two obviously do not go hand in hand. I told you I make mistakes I make them all (add about 100 l's) the time. Truthfully, I am annoying myself and it is time for an attitude adjustment. I will never survive the holidays without one. Which is why I have decided to start the countdown to Christmas with a daily, this world aint so bad, thought. Each day I'm going to seek out a thought or idea that reminds me why we celebrate the holidays and why this here life is to be celebrated and not spent whining and complaining. I will end somewhere around the end of the year with " The Best of 2009" post. Yes I will be tagging you my fellow readers so get to thinking. I loved reading your post last year and can't wait to read them again this year. So here is my thought for to day. I recently picked up a book that is a story centered around the h...

The past five weeks I have been in a diversity class. I have to be honest and say this class has been pretty much torture. I thought it would get better but it didn't. In fact it pretty much drove me crazy and I have never spent so much time and energy dealing with the obvious. In fact this class was pretty much like this: Everything, we studied was glaringly obvious. People are different, different cultures have different values, everyone has a different perspective. Add to this a text book that not once expressed a single opinion. Then write papers in which you don't express opinion. Ummm Hello, I have opinions lots and lots of opinions. Starting with the fact that this class was. Which is why I am doing the happy dance that tomorrow night is the last night. YAY!

I have decided the amount of laundry I have to do is a direct indication of my stress levels. lots of laundry means lots of stress. There is just something about digging around in a dirty laundry basket hoping to find something that isn't too wrinkled, too smelly, or too dirty that indicates things are not right in the world. However, there is something about opening a drawer full of clean folded clothes that indicates things are ok. So next time you see me take a good look at what I am wearing does it look like it has been dug out of the bottom of a laundry basket? Well then we both know things could be better.

I can handle it. Yup, I can handle anything. I got it all under control. Nothing to worry about here. Life is grand. Ignore the SOS signals. Everything is A. O. K!

Over the past three days I have had nearly 500 people trip across this blog. When those stats showed up in my email this morning my jaw hit the floor. Holly Cow! I don't really pay much attention to the stats, I just find them interesting, this morning I found them very interesting. I'm not entirely sure what caused the surge of visitors to my blog. I'm sure it had something to do with Blogher adds and something to do with my post about Grandpa Wayne. What really threw me was the "most searched," stat. Visitors were searching for my religion. Which I thought was curious. So I went searching for my religion and found out that no where on this blog have I said what religion I am. When I told my husband about the stats his first question was, "What kind of pictures did you post?" When I told my husband about the religion search he asked, "Are you hiding something?" I'm not hiding anything so next time you search, "religion" it will ...

I use to wonder why we couldn't have a time out button. A button we could push when life was out of control and we just needed a day or two off. No deadlines, no demands, just a time out. Honestly, I still want a time out button I've just accepted that we don't get one. All though, I would be willing to pay a pretty penny to anyone who invented one. Life keeps marching on and as sad as it is to say goodbye to a loved one the world does not stop and give you a time out. So unfair. Here we are back into the thick of things with deadlines, school work, church callings, kids schedules, etc.... etc... etc... I'm not complaining. No, not me, not at all.

The sun is coming up and it is one of those times that pink wispy clouds, float across the sky, seemingly, chasing the night away and welcoming the day. It is going to be a beautiful fall day. Today is also the funeral for my Grandpa Wayne. Grandpa Wayne came into my life almost 15 years ago. I was recently engaged and as it turns out so was my Grandma who had been a widow for more than 10 years. I wasn't quite sure what to make of this Wayne person, my memories of my grandpa were so strong in my heart, I wasn't sure that I wanted a Grandpa Wayne. Well time passed and the more I saw my grandma and Grandpa Wayne I began to realize how lucky my grandma was. She found a person who loved to do the things she loved to do. They traveled together, taking trips all over the country and one or two out of the country. They went on cruises and for the first time in a very long time she had a golfing partner. When she married Wayne he was not a member of our religion. However, not even a h...

Did you know that author's have blogs? Did you know that FAMOUS authors have blogs? Did you know that they update their blogs? They are like real people who have typos and everything. Which is really awesome. I'm acting like a nerd ain't I? I can't help it. I'm really excited to find out that there are author's who have blogs. I haven't tracked down all my favorites yet but I have tracked down a couple. Such as Meg Cabot and Sarah Dessen. Who I love! I'm sounding like a total stalker right now. Well it is just one of those little things that makes me happy. Author's with blogs. Moving on to the not so happy news. The radio stations that have always given me lots of holiday cheer are being total Scrooges this year. We are almost four days into November and they are NOT playing Christmas music. I was so confused and sad that I tracked down the website of one and they are only going to start playing Christmas music full time 100 hours before Christmas. ...

Halloween night was lots of fun the kids bags were filled to the brim with candy. The weather that has been more than a little chilly warmed up to make for a perfect night of trick or treating. Sometimes things align just right to make for a perfect night. I can't wait to go through the pictures I took. Meanwhile, my heart is a flutter since today marks the first day of the holiday season. Don't believe me well there are two local radio stations that are playing nothing but Christmas music. So I guess them and I are ready for the holidays to begin. Anyway, hope you are enjoying the first day of the holiday season and the extra hour of sleep. Got to love when the clocks fall back an hour.