a sucky day, freezers, and biting

hmmm...what is this place???  it looks familiar, but...oh yeah... my long lost blog. hahaha. you poor poor blog, im so sorry ive neglected you. 
   It has been a long long winter in the big woods... oh wait... wrong life... this winter has sucked though. im so ready for spring. and more ready to throw myself on a beach somewhere and let the sun roast me like a hotdog.  I do have to say until this current storm, the winter hasnt been too hateful... just too cold. the ice storm however i can deffinately do without. Hopefully our power doesnt go out. The wind storm theat knocked power out for most people last year or whenever that was, kept our power out longer than everyone because we were the smallest grid and the least important fr dp@l to work on.  nice- right.

luckily mike has been off work during this storm so far. he goes back tomorrow night. lately i havent been sleeping well when he is at work. ive been on the verge of paranoid at night for some reason. every little noise flips me out. nyquil was my friend for a while. im sure things will calm down eventually.

recently we have been considering homeschooling the little ones, and i am super excited to go to the homeschooling conference to get more info(meeting the duggars will be so neat too). i havent decided about jacob yet though. i worry about him alot, and pray that he isnt the next kid to go psycho at school. but i am not sure things would go smoothly at home if i tried. so that decision is up in the air about him. then i also question if i would really be able to teach him. they were doing highschool work in the 6th grade... geez! we will see...

mason has got 3 almost 4 teeth now, and i can tell he is going to be my biter. when he kisses our cheeks it usually ends with a bite attempt...lol and he is most likely going to start walking soon. this will be a super fun chase!

courtney well she is courtney... still in ballet and gymnastics, and loves them both. it is a drain on the wallet, but she is so happy there. and she is doing great!

all the kids birthdays are coming up and i am hopefully going to have a party for courtney this year since she actually has friends her size now...thinking about the gym. should be super fun.

i got a kindle for christmas! i love it, and have downloaded so many free books. currently im reading the secret garden... you know the one from grade school... i love it. one of my favorites!!! i still have yet to finish the happiness project, but i think i need to work my way out of my depression first.  im getting there... i know spring will help that for sure. my faith is growing too, and im relying on that to help me as well.

2011 started out on a positive note, but then came my birthday... IT SUCKED!!!  lol... i didnt even get a card from my family- nothing from mike, and i had to practically beg him to get me a cupcake at the store the next day. i even had to cook dinner that night.  one of my bff's made it a little better when i got a super nice gift and card in the mail!!!

ive been planning a family vacation to the outer banks for a while now, but then the van broke down, and the outlook for vacation began to look very bad... our friends were not able to go this year either which also made the whole thing crappy, but things happen, and we go with it. luckily our tax return looks like it will be pretty decent, and vaca is still a possibility!!! last year at this time, i was had just gotten back from hawaii... and i soooooooooooo want to go back.  maybe mike and i can go for a few days come our anniversary? ha! fat chance, but it would be nice. it will be our 10 yr this june!  i cant believe it.

i have been making small strides towards organizing the house... i did get started on my scrapping stuff, which i havent touched in like a year! it felt good to go through stuff and get rid of, and sort paper scraps... hopefully i can get scrapping again soon.  last night i went through toys and re-organized them... knowing full well that they will be a mess again tomorrow, but at least alot of the junky ones are in a bin in the garage now, and i dont have to look at them!  next task is organizing the freezers... we are very blessed to have a couple full freezers, but without order in them, i have no clue what we have and where it is... lol. so todays goal is to group things together. seems easy enough... we will see though. 

i need to get back on my wii fit soon too... another christmas gift. i did good with it for a while. then fell off the map... my weight is dropping slowly and i know that it will help that but i have to make myself do it.  all i seem to want to do lately is sleep. id love a nice long hot bubble bath- i think that might help the stress level---- oh wait... thats right the bathtub is stillllllllll not in!!! he did promise me that it would be in by vacation... i really dont believe him, and am not holding my breath. 
lol- my lack of faith in him with home improvements cracks me up...lol

well, i think im going to go look for some easy cold weather recipes.  im in a cooking mode. i do plan on posting more often again. good intentions... sigh. lol...   they will be more interesting i hope too...  till next time i ramble!!! stay warm and safe. <3