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.