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Saturday, 13 December 2008
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cold remedies
I am in need of healthful ways to improve my sinus cavities. sore throat and eye headaches are plaguing me on and off. no actual medications - doc said I'm not allowed those kinds of medications through the first trimester. oh yeah, for those who didn't read through the end of the previous post that seemed to only be a questionnaire... we're expecting. and for that same reason, no herbal remedies.
it's late, and I'm tired. so that's all I'm gonna write tonight after spending some time catching up on my post reading.
Monday, 01 December 2008
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I borrowed this from OkinawaAna
1. Wrapping paper or gift bags? wrapping paper can be so much more elegant, and elegance is sometimes short in my life
2. When do you put up the tree? after Thanksgiving but before Christmas
3. Real tree or artificial? Artificial - we don't have to get a new one every year...
4. When do you take the tree down? sometime before February!
5. Do you like eggnog? nah, I prefer hot chocolate
6. Favorite gift received as a child? clothes for Dolly from Mexico
7. Hardest person to buy for? My mom. when she wants something, she gets it right then.
8. Easiest person to buy for? nieces and nephews, they're still at the age where any new toy is thrilling.
9. Do you have a nativity scene? Yes an Avon porcelain passed down from Mom - it was one that added one piece a year for like a decade
10. Mail or email Christmas cards? Mail
11. Worst Christmas gift you ever received? can't remember one in particular. I got some underwear for my birthday once, in front of male family members...
12. Favorite Christmas movie? hands down - "It's a Wonderful Life"
13. When you do start shopping for Christmas? Black Friday. I should start earlier...
14. Have you ever recycled a Christmas present? I have regifted duplicates...
15. Favorite thing to eat at Christmas? everything. cookies, peppermint also seems to taste sweeter at the holidays
16. Lights on the tree? multicolored, blinking (remember the elegance comment?)
17. Favorite Christmas song? Sacred-I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day; secular-Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas
18. Travel at Christmas or stay home? At home for the actual holiday, travel before and after the big day.
19. Can you name all of Santa's reindeer? Dasher, Dancer, Prancer, Vixen, Comet, Cupid, Donner, Blitzen, Rudolph (unless there are any new kiddie ones)
20. Angel on the tree top or a star? Star that looks like a gingerbread cookie
21. Open the presents Christmas Eve or Christmas morning? some on eve, some next day
22. Most annoying thing about this time of the year? traffic, tight budgets
23. Favorite ornament theme or color? our tree is very mish-mash from growing up, I like it that way
24. Favorite for Christmas dinner? we eat pizza on Christmas Eve. it's a rule
25. What do you want for Christmas this year? new feet for my sewing machine
So...that was fun. and I don't have a lot more to say. except something I've been meaning to post for quite some time:
we're expecting another baby!!!!! it's still early in the pregnancy. edd of July 3. and when you ask Taryn whether she'd like to have a brother or a sister, the answer is a boistrous "Both!" of course, she believes this to be possible because when Dora got to have a sibling, she had twin siblings, a brother and a sister... thanks Dora! *lol*
Saturday, 01 November 2008
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today I have a headache
and a sore throat. and chills, but no fever. I think I'm coming down with Tony's cold. and the physical part of me argues "go to bed! go to sleep! sleep until you feel better!" but the emotional part of me argues "you feel bad about yourself when you waste the day away. get up and do something!"
so maybe I will in a little bit. but not right this minute.
so far, we're all loving Des Arc. Tony loves working with the pastor, who has a real desire for growth and a humility and confidence (difficult combo to come by) about himself that is easy to want to follow.
for the most part, I like living outside of town. since its a small town without Wal-Mart (for example) we actually live just a bit closer to the nearest "city" with amenities and such. and really, the distance from the house to church isn't any longer time-wise than it was in Camden where we had to deal with two stop lights, a railroad track and a school zone.
I like the church a lot. there's a Sunday School class made of young marrieds (30s and 20s, mostly 20s) which we didn't have before, there's a Women's Bible Study that I'm enjoying but not staying as on-time with as I should (I'm a few days behind). Taryn has a Sunday school class and extended session with children her age where they actually do Bible study, rather than just babysit during the church hour. and she's really enjoying that.
Tony and I are leading the children's choir - the kids voted on the name KidStyle. and I'm working on a t-shirt design. he's talked to the youth about beginning a youth choir. and several are all for it, particularly the older ones, which is a great blessing.
I really like having the time at home with Taryn. and I like having the time to do project-type stuff for other people. ex. the Women on Mission group announced that the town's nursing home needed desserts for a halloween party, so I made cupcakes. and decorated. the decorating was the fun part. I would post a picture, but I forgot to take one. they were cute, and it was fun. the kids in KidStyle are helping decorate boxes for Sunday School classes to donate Thanksgiving meals to the area food pantry (the decorating being my idea and my prep work.) I'm not telling all this to brag, just to kind of "sigh" in the fun of being able to do these things that aren't really "needed" but just the icing, if you will. my heart is in the icing. *lol*
some things I have found I don't like are mostly minor - a mouse that came in the house and scared the bejeebers out of me by running across the laundry room floor (Taryn heard me and asked "big bug?" *lol* guess she's heard me scream like that before, huh?), wasps (like a dozen at least, but we see no nest) hovering around the primary entrance of the house in the daytime (see first item on this list for what my response to THAT must be), and how dark it is getting from the car to the house at night... then again, if it wasn't so dark we wouldn't be able to stare up and see more stars in the sky than I think I've ever seen in my life! I asked Taryn if she liked them, and she said she did. and I told her that God made them and we should thank Him. so she yelled up "Thank you God!"
more news for later. time for a long bath...
Saturday, 11 October 2008
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still here
hey. I didn't drop off the face of the earth, just the face of Internet access for a while.
we're in Des Arc. (I guess I'll have to change my blog name.) and I'll tell more later. when I can narrow down what I want to tell about. and when I get done reading posts. I've pretty much read the stuff I want to read on Xanga. Revelife is slowing me down, because I usually want to read those for the comments, and that takes a while...
for those of you who've received comments on old posts, my apologies, I'm just now reading them and a late response is better than none? (not that you all sit around waiting for me to comment on your blogs. *lol*
a bit of snack for thought:
- in need of potty training advice for a daughter age 2 (technically 2 1/3 or 28 mths.)
- wanting to know what the Hebrew meaning of the name Ethan is.
- discovering items I own that I've forgotten about (we had help packing but none loading, unloading but none unpacking) and enjoying them all over again... or discarding them... *lol*
Thursday, 04 September 2008
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this poem I like
I mentioned this poem on another person's site and thought I'd post it here, for those interested. I used to have it memorized, but alas, I had to look it up to post it correctly in its entirety. I've always liked its construction, simple, but the breaks in the lines are so well-thought-out; and the message, well, it speaks for itself.
Famous
by Naomi Nye
The river is famous to the fish.
The loud voice is famous to the silence
which knew it would inherit the earth
before anybody said so.
The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds
watching him from the birdhouse.
The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.
The idea you carry close to your bosom
is famous to your bosom.
The boot is famous to the earth,
more famous than the dress shoe,
which is famous only to floors.
The bent photograph is famous tto the one who carries it
and is not at all famous to the one who is pictured.
I want to be famous to shuffling men
who smile while crossing streets,
sticky children in grocery lines,
famous as the one who smiled back.
I want to be famous the way a pulley is famous,
or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,
but because it never forgot what it could do.
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in other news, the EGD (throat scope) confirmed what the doctors had already said - purely stress-induced heartburn. nothing physically wrong with me except that I need to learn to chill out! and, apparently, I'm a really funny person on demorral...
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church vote on husband as new music minister is this coming Sunday night; everybody pray, ya'll. last Sunday's service went so well - a genuine spirit of fellowship and desire for God is really in that church. and that's the kind of place we want to be. on a side note, pray that the man who has said he'll rent a house to us is open to our having pets. we have one dog and the opportunity and desire to adopt two others who really need a home...
camdenjoneses
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- Name: Steph L.
- Country: United States
- State: Arkansas
- Metro: Searcy
- Gender: Female
- Member Since: 11/28/2006
