Christmas Wish List

Evening all. I am sitting here patiently waiting for the snow storm of the year! It is colder than you know what out side. I talked to my sister down in Texas and she told me they got about 5 inches of snow. Well she called it "Thunder Snow". They got a thunder show with her snow! How cool is that! Our turn is coming. By time I wake up it should be covering the ground. Now I probably jinxed it by talking about it, but I so want snow so bad!

~Everybody seems to be putting up a Christmas wish list or more like a Christmas list. Well I posted my kids lists and I have been busy working on them. But I figured that I could post mine. But believe me it is really pitiful. I dont want much. Let me explain.... When I first met my hubby he asked what I wanted for Christmas. I told him that I would be happy with a Christmas tree and decorations for it. So he went out and bought me one. It was a cheap $20 dollar tree and some glass balls and a couple of Hallmark Keepsake ornaments. So for me it was all about the decorations when my hubby asked. He did get me some other stuff but I loved my tree. I still have the first ornament we ever got (click here to see it). Its right below my kissing bears. Ok I am getting sidetracked here. My list... the pitiful one. Well here goes:

*Heavenly Dream Angels perfume from Victoria Secrets

*Wool Yarn

*For my husband to be able to get back to work so we can have a normal life again.

~There you have it. My pitiful list. I told you there wouldnt be much. I probably do want more but I am focused on getting my kids what they want that I just dont know what to ask for.

~The lady called me today, but I didnt answer my phone. She called about 30 mins after her first appointment. I dont know if she expected me to come after what happened or what. She didnt leave a message either. I just dont know what to do.

~I did a little shopping today. Picked the kids up from school. Cooked dinner. Then hubby took kids the HS for pep band and the basketball game. I got to watch Grey's and Men in Trees. Both were awesome shows. But Men in Trees left me hanging and I hate hanging!! ugh!!! I did get some more done on my secret project. First time in a week since I finally sat down and crocheted. I am getting closer to being done. Just think if I would have been crocheting for this past week I would have been done by now. Ugh!!!!

~Well thats it for me tonite. Stay warm and safe!!

~Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!

Still not sure what happened??

Good morning all! Today is one of those gloomy, stay in the house kind of day. I was sitting here listening to the rain falling and debating whether I should blog about what happened yesterday or not. I am still not sure myself what happened.

~Let me start back on Tuesday when I worked for the lady the last time. It was her hair appointment day. But not any hair appointment. It was color day. Now I have mentioned in the past that she doesnt see color like most people cause of her eyes. And she is always trying to get her hair blonde. Which one or the other things will happen, either it will give off a redish/golden tint that is beautiful or she will get a brown dingy color blonde. Now she dont like either of those, she wants just plain old cream blonde. They have tried numerous formulas on her and still get one or the other explained above. Well instead of doing an all over color she had her hair dresser do a highlight. She paid her and told her she loved it, but as soon as she got in the car she started talking bad about it. She does this all the time anyways.

~We left there and she wanted to get something to eat. We go to this one restuarant and no sooner do we sit down and my hubby calls me. He just needed to let me know what was going on. Well that made the lady mad. She hates it when he calls me to let me know anything or even if the school calls about my kids. So not only was she mad about her hair, now she is made cause my hubby called. (yes I know I probably should turn my phone off but you never know what is going to happen exspecially with the kids and all the family problems we have had over this last year)

~After this it was to do a little shopping and more of her talking about the hair dresser and how she hated her hair. She said she would not be able to go out in public all week cause of this. Now at this point in time I am biting my tongue. Which I do alot with her. Well we get to Wal-Mart and no sooner do I park the car and my phone rings again. Honestly the likelyhood of me getting more than one phone call in the short of time I spend with her is usually very slim. This time it was my sister-in-law calling about Thanksgiving day. Now I told her I was working, but she just kept talking. Now the lady is getting really angry at me. But I cant just be rude. So as soon as my sil comes up for air I politely tell her that I will call her back later that I could not talk right now. The damage was already done. The lady was being nasty. I just keep biting my tongue like a good girl. We did our shopping and had a little time to spare so made a run to the mall.

~Then it was off to the feet treatment. When we got there she had to wait a little while before they could hook her up to the machine. So lets recap... she is mad at the hair dresser and she was getting angry with me and now she has to wait for her appointment that we were on time to. Can you see where this is going?? When they finally hooked her up, I sat and crocheted and didnt say anything to anyone. Even when the nurse tried to start a conversation with me. The lady really hates it when someone starts talking to me. She gets really jealous. After her treatment they wanted her to do some different leg exercises and she declined stating that her back hurt. Little secret... she dont like doing any exercise and she always says her back hurts when she dont want to do something. But its her legs and she dont want to exercise then that is her right, but dont complain that you are having a hard time walking. She informed me when we were leaving that Sunday would be her last treatment for her feet. Which is good until they told her to go back to physical therapy. She said she wasnt going to do it. Yes my friends, I am still biting my tongue.

~She asked me if I had time yet to make another run to the mall. She wanted to look at a couple more things. I didnt have a problem with it. As I am turning in the mall parking lot she mentions that I must not want to cause I havent said a thing. Well at the time she was asking me all this and I was turning into the parking lot I was chewing on a piece of candy. Now it is disgusting to talk while chewing on any kind of food. When I swallowed I responded with I have a piece of candy in my mouth that I was chewing and I couldnt say anything at that time. You can tell she is just pissed off at me now.

~We go into the mall to her favorite store. Look around at a few things and she trys some stuff on. Now we all know that in any store the lighting is not the same as it is outside or even in our own home. She is looking in the mirrors at her hair and getting angry and disgusted cause it looks white to her. Now trust me when I say that there is color but maybe not enough, but it is what she told the hair dresser to do. As we are leaving the mall she made a comment about the hair dresser. "I dont think she knows what she is doing. How hard is it to make me a cream color blonde? I have several friends who have that color. She just must not know what she is doing!" Her exact words. By now I have had enough of everything. Of the way she is treating me this day and how she is putting everyone down and just the whole damn situation. I very nicely said that the hair dresser has made many suggestions on what to do to your hair to help you get it close to the color you are longing for but you are choosing not to listen to the suggestions. She is a professional and knows what she is doing if you would only listen. You have no one to blame but yourself cause you are being stubborn and wont listen. She responded in kind saying that she dont remember her making any suggestions. Then she starts complaining that she is having a hard time walking and I told her that if she would listen to the doctors and therapists and do the therapy she would be able to walk better. Now most of you know me and have talked to me. I said all of this with a smile and in a sweet tone. I would never raise my voice to her, exspecially needing the job! She made another comment to me after all this and said maybe it would be better if she just went out and sat in her car one nite with it running in the closed garage. I know what she was trying to do and no I did not feel sorry for her. I was not going to give her that kind of attention. I worried about it for the rest of the week and I told her daughter. But I was not doing the guilt thing at all. I dont feel sorry for her. She is actually doing better than most people who have suffered a stroke. If she would just do what the doctors say she would be doing even better.

~When we got back to her house I helped her put things away and asked her if she needed anything else. She said no and she paid me cause I wouldnt be working on Thursday. I told her I would see her next Tuesday at our normal time.

~When I got there yesterday morning, she said she was surprised to see me. I asked why and she started in saying that she didnt think I would be back after last week. For the life of me I still dont know what I said wrong from the week before. She told me that everything I said to her I said with hate in my eyes. She then told me that she guessed I could still work but I made her cry last week and to never do that again. Ok by now I am steaming mad cause I honestly dont think I said anything wrong to her. Now if you read this and you think I did please let me know. But I did tell her yesterday that she was not going to lay a guilt trip on me for anything that I said. That I only told her these things cause I would love for her to get better and not have some of the problems. And that she has been completely different since she has had her stroke and treating me pretty crappy. Then she said well never mind just take me to get my hair done. I said if I did that would be all I would do cause I couldnt stay the whole day or I would eventually say something that I would regret. I told her that if she dont like what people suggest to her and do what they suggest she could not get mad when things werent working out. She made a comment about my family always calling and butting in on her time. And that was the straw that broke my back. I told her that my family would always come first and maybe she should just call a cab. I left and called my hubby to let him know what happened. He told me when I got home that he didnt want me to go back over there if she called. He said it almost sounded like she didnt want me there. I told him she should have called and told me not to come. I have never once stood her up and not showed up. Makes me wonder what kind of person she thought I was.

~What is really sad in all of this, is a I truly cared for her and still do. I dont want anything bad to happen to her. I am going to miss her, but I guess this is for the best. But it couldnt have happened at a worse time. I still honestly believe that I did not say anything wrong. And to think about it, I have said this numerous times over the last two years, exspecially about her hair. Even typing it all out, I still dont understand! I know one thing for sure, I will not miss her treating me like she is better than me. She can be loving and sweet, but she thinks cause she has money that she is better and that is not true.

~Well if you think otherwise let me know please! Thank you!

~I am going to try and get somethings done around the house now. I am official done complaining! Maybe later I will talk about some actually crochet news!

~Til then Jelly Beans........................

Toys and Snowmen Trees

Evening all. Today has been one of them days that I wished I could just climb back in bed and go back to sleep for the rest of the day. But as you can tell I did manage to finish up my trees today.


~Yesterday morning I finished trimming the toy tree. I have decided that my hubby needs his own tree for all his Harley ornaments. They were taking up way too much room on my toy tree. I am going to look for a small one for him later in the week. The only thing that I have to figure out is where to put my garland. When I painted the dining room and kitchen I took out this one piece that was not necessary. Well in doing that I forgot all about my misletoe that gets hung there with the garland. I even put my Christmas cards there when we get them. Now that piece is gone and I dont know where I am going to put that stuff. Gonna have to look around the house and see what is bare...hehehe


~I made my turkey dinner with all the trimmings. Everything came out wonderful. That roaster oven that I got works like a charm. It was really nice not to have to start cooking a whole bunch of stuff early so it all would get done. The only problem that I am having now is where to store the roaster oven. We have no cabinet space or basement and every little nook and cranny is filled in my house. I am running out of room. And I dont want to put it in the garage. Another thing that I will have to figure out tomorrow. Oh well, the food was good and that is all that matters.


~Saturday nite after I got done blogging I hurt my foot. I was sitting at the computer desk reading and kicked over the paper shredder. It hit my foot right below the big toe on that one bone. It is not pretty shades of blue and swollen. I really messed it up being on it all day long yesterday. Today I took it a little easier and its not too swollen now. Just hurts when I put my shoe one. It will be good as gold in a couple of days. So all is still well. Just as long as it is not swollen when Saturday comes around.. Will explain more later in the week about this!

~The pictures are of a few of my favorite things. I figured out that I still need about 15-20 more snowmen ornaments to finish filling up my one tree. Then we will have to go bigger... hehehe I still have to finish hanging the stockings and then I am done. Except for making out my Christmas cards.


~Well that is really it for me tonite. I am tired and ready for bed. I have to work in the morning and I am not looking forward to this one little bit. Keep your fingers crossed that she dont act the way she did last week. I may have to run for the hills if she does.

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!!

PS.... Excuse the rambling tonite. I am tired! You probably would have gotten a better post if I would not have spent so much time changing my little world for Christmas! Hope you like it!

Saturday Sky and Christmas Decorations Started

Evening all. Here is my Saturday Sky shot today. It has been another beautiful warm day. We have been in the 60's since Wednesday. I am waiting very patiently for the snow that my northern friends are getting. They (meaning the people who call themselves weathermen/women) say it will be here come this Wednesday and we are suppose to drop down into the high 20's low 30's. I cant wait! I need snow to really help me get into the holiday spirit!!

~Thanksgiving day was not all that great. First of all, unlike most people out there I love to cook that whole dinner. And I dont mind the dishes either. You know how your dinner just isnt the same unless you have all your favorites. Well I missed somethings. I dont know, it just didnt feel like normal. Thats ok I have a solution.... read on to find out!

~Friday was my son's birthday. He turned 14. We totally messed up ordering his cake. Now dont say that you could have made him one. Its a tradition that we order our cakes from this one bakery and I have always gotten all of our cakes from there since they were 1 years old. I forgot with the holiday that they would be closed and I didnt get to order it in time. So now he has to wait til Tuesday before he gets his birthday cake. He still loves me though. I did cook him something special for dinner that he requested.

~As most of you all know, the day after Thanksgiving there is awesome sales if you get up early enough to catch them. I got early but not early enough. I missed out on one thing that I was trying to get for a Christmas present. But I did score big time on a new GE 7 qt. Roaster Oven for only $19.00 at Wal-Mart. I have been thinking about getting one of these but they were so exspensive that I couldnt bring myself to do it. Something else that I have always wanted was a Kodak camera and Printer Dock. I scored one of these too. A 6.1mp camera that you can do some really neat things with. I am having lots of fun playing around with it. Plus it is pretty cool that I hit a button and my pictures are printed for me! Yay!! My son loved this too cause he scored the old digital camera. But now he wont stop trying to take everyones pictures. Ugh!!! He is happy so all is good though. All tonites pictures was taken with the new camera.

~Something else that starts the day after Thanksgiving and through the weekend is putting up the Christmas decorations. Friday I got the outside lites up with the help of my son. Today I finished the garland around the windows. Then after taking the daughter and friend to the mall and going to the store, it was back home to rearrange things in the dining room and start on the toy tree. I started working on it before dinner at 4:30 pm and didnt finish it til 10:30 pm. That is with taking breaks. I didnt get the ornaments on there yet, but I will get it done in the morning. I got the longest part done tonite. Tomorrow I will get the snowman tree up in the living room and finish decorating the rest of my house. I really wish it would snow!!!!

~Tomorrow while I am doing the decorating, I will also be trying out my new roaster oven. I decided that since I didnt cook our turkey dinner on Thursday that I would do it Sunday. I am making all the trimmings: turkey, dressing, scalloped corn, green bean casserole, mashed potatoes, candied yams, gravy, cranberry sauce(homemade), bread and pumpkin pie. Yes I missed my cooking and I really missed not having the leftovers. Oh and I can not forget my son's favorite... Deviled eggs. The poor boy didnt get a birthday cake and no deviled eggs. I am making myself hungry already!!

~Well I think I got everything covered. Except for the crochet department. Ummmm its like this... I really havent had time to work on it. But hopefully tomorrow nite I will get to! We will see. It may be more like Monday before I can get it finished up. I need some more hours to my days.

~Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Wishing everyone has a Wonderful and Happy Thanksgiving!

Hump Day

Evening all! Ok here is something that I made a few years ago. Its not crochet but I did sew it and added all the little details to it. It usually sits in front of my antique trunk with a Raggedy Ann and some Boyd Bears. One day I will get a good pic of the trunk. Its from 1890 something and has all the original papers and tray to it. I got it for a steal. It sits in my living with all the teddies and a nite lite in it! So there is my little craft for the nite.

~Today was spent getting a few things ready to take to my SIL's house tomorrow. I made a couple more of those pumpkin rolls and some cranberry orange bread. Right now I placed some wheat and white bread in the oven. I was going to make up some banana bread but I got sidetracked and never got it completed. Maybe I will get up early tomorrow morning and throw it in the oven before we have to get down there. I think I may have time for that. Also tomorrow morning we have to pick up a pecan pie to take with us. Yum!! I love this kind. Pumpkin pie I just cant stand. I love the smell of it baking but I hate the taste and feel of it in my mouth. Yuck!! But we will have enough of other things dont I will have a great selections of dessert to choose from!

~Today I also did a little shopping. I needed to get some new jeans. Mine look ragged and like I have had them for a million years. Now just about every place I went I could not find just plain old jeans. I dont want those hip hugger, stretch fit, and just plain out right funky color jeans. You know just plain old BLUE jeans! I did manage to get a pair at the old faithful Wal-Mart, but that was after looking at all the good stores first. Something else I was trying to find was a pair of comfortable black shoes. I found a pair at Penney's but wouldnt you know it they didnt have it in my size. They couldnt even order them for me. I went to every single store in these two towns and I could not find one pair of comfortable black shoes. Friday after I hit a few of the sales here in town I am going to head over to Kolhs and have a look at what they have. Also there is a Target right there too that may have something. I did however score on a beautiful wool peacoat. I got it in a dark gray. Basically got it for 1/2 the normal price. Now that is a major score!!


~I worked some more on the secret project tonite and the end is near. We are getting closer and closer by the second. I should sit down and calculate how many sc I have done so far... LOL I would be forever counting!


~Well the bread is done and the kids finally went to bed! I am off to dream world! Have to get up bright and early if I am going to make the banana bread.


Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!

Just everyday stuff

Evening all. Today has been one of those days that you just want to hit the covers and sleep all day hoping and praying that tomorrow will be a better one.

I had work today and the lady was in just a mood that makes me wish I could just quit. Today was get her hair color day. I have talked about this before many times and this time was no different than the others. I dont know why she does it, she hates the color she gets on. There has been many different colors done to her hair to give her the look she wants. Each time it actually looks perfect she finds something wrong with it. She just isnt a happy person on these days. Guess who she is not happy with. Thats right, little old me! Ugh! She should either give up the color thing or trust what people have told her. But she wont! She wont listen to what anyone has to say or suggest to her. Like with the physical therapy, she stopped that cause of her feet. Well she is getting the feet treatment and she was suppose to go back to physical therapy to work on her legs so she can walk better. Guess what?? Thats right, she is not going to do what they tell her. She really does need it! Same thing with this stuff that she is suppose to thicken her liquids with, just up and stopped it. If anything happens to her..... ugh! Just 2 more weeks and I will be able to get a job at the nursing home or homecare place.

Well one good thing came out of today. I manage to crochet like a speed demon while she was at her appointments. When I get upset or angry I can crochet even faster. I have one part of the secret project done now. On to the second part, which wont take that long at all. Then I can start posting about my current projects instead of my current complaints. By Sunday I should have some stuff to show of what I am going to be working on... mainly a snowman cal over at c'ville. I bought the material for one of the snowmen that I will be making. Sunday should be the magic day for me to start it! I cant wait. I have wanted to make this snowman for years. I did use the pattern in the past but used yarn instead of the material that it calls for. And I dont have any of those snowmen left. I gave them all away for gifts! So stay tuned for that late breaking news!! LOL

Well that is really it for me. I basically sat on my butt and watched tv tonite and worked on the secret project. Tomorrow the HS has no school and my poor son has to go to school. So I am off to hit the sack.

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!

Christmas Stockings

Good morning all! I figured since I havent been posting any yarn related items here lately, mostly cause I dont want my holiday exchange pal to know what I am making her. I figured that I could share some of my Christmas decorations that I have made in the past with you. Just so you know this is still a crochet/knit blog..lol I made these stockings about 10 years ago. The snowman one everyone fell in love with and I ended up making about 40 of them that first year. When the kids were younger and in grade school I would make the snowman stocking for their teachers. Now they have too many teachers so we dont do that. But my daughter is carrying on the tradition of making them for friends. They make darling Christmas presents. We usually stuff them full of candy. The teachers that I have made them for in the past still to this day decorate their classrooms with them.

~Sunday morning I got up bright and early cause I couldnt sleep. Well mainly cause Pumpkin would not stop walking back and forth across me all nite long. So up I got. I wanted to try a new recipe anyways so I needed to get the cornish hens marinading.

~The recipe I tried is from Paulas Home Cooking Honey Game Hens. This is one of the best tasting ways to make cornish hens. Those little birds last nite were the juicyest, tastiest things I have had in a long time. Wonderfully new recipe that I will be making again and again.

~Last year at this time the lady I work for took me to White Pines for a Christmas show. We had lunch there and a dessert called Pumpkin Rolls. Now I fell in love with these. Taste like pumpkin cake with a cream cheese filling. We bought a bunch last year for Thanksgiving dinner. I have been looking for a recipe on how to make these for a while now. The other day I got Cooking with Paula Deen in the mail(a prize from Andi at Hooked on String) and on the back cover was Libbys Pumpkin Roll. So I went to Very Best Baking website and looked up the recipe. This is one of those simply easy to make recipes. Now I DO NOT! like pumpkin pie, but I LOVE! pumpkin bars and this pumpkin roll. For a little something different you should try. I promise you wont be disappointed one little bit.

~BTW... if you get a chance go over to Andi's page and wish her well. She just had surgery this last week! She is a super sweet lady!! Thank you again for all the great prizes you sent me!!

~Yesterday afternoon I got to sit on my butt and watch my favorite all time movie ever... Gone with the Wind! I also crocheted and worked on my secret project. We are getting closer to the end. I have may have miscalculated on how long it will take me to get it done. But the end is near.

~Well this is it for me right now! I may be back later.......

Have a great day Jelly Beans!!!

Saturday Sky & Hometown Holiday Parade

Evening all. Today started out to be a bright and sunny day turning to clouds this afternoon. Every year our town does this little holiday tradition called "Hometown Holiday". On the Friday there is a holiday walk through our little downtown area. All the local businesses dress up their store fronts and there is caroling and stuff like that. My daughter volunteered to hand out hot chocolate at the Youth Center that they go to and my son met up with some friends. My son with for a carriage ride and got to pet the Belgium Horse that pulled the carriage. They said it was really nice and they had a good time. I, on the other hand, stayed home cause I was feeling pretty sick to my stomach and was just zapped out.

Today was the "Hometown Holiday Parade". The HS marches in this every year, which means my daughter marched in the parade. As normal for this parade, it turned cloudy and got cold. A few years ago we even had snow for it. This morning bright beautiful sun and this afternoon clouds. But overall it was pretty nice. Most of the pictures I took came out looking fairly good. This parade only lasts about a half hour from start to finish. We always sit right at the beginning across the street from the gas station and I always run over to get a French Vanilla Cappacunio, hot chocolate(son), and coffee(hubby). At least it helps to keep us a little warm.

Starting with the second picture of the post (zig zagging back and forth). The color guard. I dont think there is a parade for our towns that these gentlemen havent been in and the same gentlemen for them all. Next we have the marching Rockets, which my daughter is a part of and then next year my son will be too. The Singing Elvises were bringing down the trailer with some hip shaking, rocking Christmas Carols. Ok well maybe they werent acutally singing, but it sounded pretty good. Something that you will learn as you get to know me is that I LOVE! antique cars. I dont know why, but ever since I was little I just feel in love with them. My grandpa use to have placemats that I would insist on using because of the cars on them. The older the better if you ask me. Next we have the girl scout troup dressed up as snowmen. Here is an antique truck. This one was a 1922 Ford I think. This one was really cool. In beautiful condition. And it wouldnt be a Christmas parade without reindeers and elves. Follwed close behind with Mr. & Mrs. Claus!! Not your Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, but a nice hometown tradition. Now one year it could be sunny for it and then all would be perfect!

Tonight I worked on my secret project for a while. I have just a little more to do. With me being sick I didnt get to work on them yesterday. But tomorrow I will be working all day on them. Today when I ran to Wally World I picked up a dvd of "Gone with the Wind". Now this is my all time favorite movie. I can tell the whole thing from start to finish. I LOVE! it!!! So while hubby is watching football (Bears of course) I will be watching the movie and crocheting. Also doing laundry on the side. Something else, I will be trying a new recipe tomorrow. Now if its good you know I will definitely tell you all about it. I know someone who already tried it and said it was terrific.

Well that is about it for tonite. I am going to do a little reading and hit the sack. Would like to get up early and get some things started for the day, so I can have my afternoon for the movie.

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!!

Nitemare of a day!

Evening all. Today started off on a pretty good road and went all downhill from that. How much worse could a day get?? Well here is mine so far.....

~Got up early, after not sleeping too good. Took the kids to school and went to work. The lady had her speech therapy today. Her therapist said that she didnt have to come back since she has been really good about doing the exercises at home. We also setup her swallow test for the end of the month. The lady and I did a little shopping at my favorite store, Wally World. After that she had another foot treatment. Those usually zap her energy and she is done for the day.

~Hubby had to go to the doctor today. He is still off work for another 2 months. He is suppose to cont. to do work hard therapy, that is if the insurance company will approve it and allow it and not wait til 1 day before the next doctor's appointment.

~Ran out and did a little more Christmas shopping. While I was checking out my grandpa called. He said that my sister had called him and he hadnt heard from me in a while so he would just call another granddaughter. He had some bad news for me though. His ladyfriend of the last 6 years passed away. She had been fight cancer for a couple of years. They had just did a surgery on her and some more treatments. She got through it all ok. A week later she got sick and he took her to the hospital. Her heart finally had enough and just stopped. He said it was as hard this time as with my granny. I am sorry that she passed and I will miss her too.

~Tonight we had a little mini holiday concert to attend at our little mall. The HS band performed with the choir tonite. They were in topping playing form tonite. Beautiful job. We did a little walking around before they started and visited with other parents that you normally see at these functions. It was a nice time.

~I would like to address something from last nites post about my son and his allergies. A "concerned parent" made a comment about peanuts not really being nuts. All I have to say to this is NO DUH!! Actually to clarify this for people who dont know me and dont normal read my blog, My son is allergic to both peanuts and tree nuts. They effect him differently but they are both still dangerous for his body. And to the "concerned parent" this was in no way my fault. I talked to the school nurse and if she would have looked in the medicial file about my son, which is in her office, she would have seen all the information about his meds and what is to be done for the different allergies that he has. When I say different I mean many!! I have been dealing with his allergies for 14 years now and I know what to do and I know what is put in his file at school for them to do in case this happens. So instead of reading the paper with phone numbers on it she would have known that he was not lying to her about it. And I have it wrote on several sheets of papers in the office that he is allergic to Nuts and Peanuts!! And it is also noted with each teacher each year of this fact, because of the food they bring in for parties. And the school lunch ladies know this too!! They usually dont put it on his tray. Mistakes happen and yesterday I was letting off steam about it. That doesnt mean leave comments on my blog telling me how to take care of my son! *Note that I removed your negative comment "concerned parent".

~Crocheting news... I got a little more done on secret project while with the lady this am. But thats it. Havent had time to work on it tonite.

Thats it for me tonite. I am not feeling very well. Maybe tomorrow I will wake up on the right side of the bed and my nightmarish day will end for me. Tomorrow the upbeat person who normally posts here will be back. Unless I get any more nasty comments telling me how to take care of my childern. Ugh!!

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans....

Run down on my week.

Evening all. Here is a run down on my week so far.

~Monday~
This day found me doing some of my pilates. I figure if my son can get up at 5:30 and go workout then so can I. Well maybe not do the exercises until at least 8:30 or 9. Actually I am pretty proud of my son for sticking with it. Really surprised. He said that it is easy when you have someone get you up and make you do. Which he has the option of not doing it but he wants to do it. His goal is to be able to do one of them chin pullups that they always make everyone do in PE. They started him on the High School program this week. This will help get him in shape for HS football next year.

Hubby and I also did a little Christmas shopping. I am hoping to have it all done by the end of the month. But if I know myself and I do, I will still be picking up things here and there for the kids. I always do and hubby always tells me that is enough. Yes my kids are spoiled at this time of year and only this time of year.

~Tuesday~
Today was a good day for the crocheting to get done. The lady had a perm day and that means extra time to crochet while she is processing. After she got her hair done we did a little shopping and got her nails done. Then is was off to another appointment for her feet. She is slowly getting better but seems to be a little cranky. Some people say that is what happens to stroke patients so I guess it is not so bad. At least she can talk and walk and she is at home!! Overall she is doing excellent and I would say about another month or so be back to almost normal.

My son was having lunch at school and somehow they got some peanuts on his tray. He didnt realize it until after he ate whatever it was they got on. Now every year when I sign the kids up for school and I fill out all those forms and get the permission slip to take to the doctor for him to carry his inhaler on him at all times, I always put on the forms his allergies. For some reason I didnt do it this year. I dont know why... thinking that these were new forms they were using and I didnt see the spot or there wasnt one. Anyways, when this happened at school my son went crying to the nurses office. He gets a little freaked out about it. He told her what happened and she said that is must not be too bad your mom didnt put it on the form. Actually this sort of made me mad. The school knows and all the nurses have known that he has a serious allergy to NUTS!! He has been in the same schools since he started. Well this nurse I guess is new to the schools. But come on, if a kid is crying about it and tells you he needs you to call his parents wouldnt you just call? Then she tried to make it sound like he ate the peanuts knowingly. She even told my hubby when he went to give him some meds that he ate a peanut butter cookie. Ok sure he is going to do that knowing that it could kill him! Some people are just idiots. He always ask people what is in the food and the lunch ladies usually dont put the nut stuff on his tray. When I talked to her she made it sound like it was my fault for not writing it on the form. And I know it is in his records. Ugh!! BTW... He is ok. Took his meds and came home so I could keep an eye on him just in case.

~Today~
I have been a busy little beaver today. I had intentions of cleaning my carpets. I like doing this right before the holidays and before I get my trees setup. Well my good intentions went out the window cause I didnt get any of my other housework done Monday or Tuesday. So today I cleaned the house from top to bottom. Well I still have two rooms to go. I will get those after work tomorrow. But I did get the kitchen washed down and vac. Then the dining room got the treatment. I even dusted. Got rid of things that I dont need or want. My room was a mess too, but I got her done too. Smells heavenly in here now. Most of the laundry got done too. Just some towels and a couple of blankets. Tomorrow will be the bathroom and living rooms turn. I am aiming to clean the carpets this weekend. We dont really have too much planned. I may even get to start on them Friday.

Also since I was in the cleaning mood I figured I could finally get my daughter to clean her room. Now I have been on her for a month now to clean it. I have even taken away the computer, cable, dvd player(she loves to watch movies), radio, and cell phone. None of this worked. She would just go in her room close the door and proceed to either read or crochet. Which I am not complaining that she did, I am however complaining that she would rather do those things instead of clean her room so she can have a life outside of this house. No not my daughter. Well I have gotten tired of telling her so I did to her what I did to my son a few weeks ago. I went into her room and proceeded to make a pile in the middle of her floor. Cleaned out from under her bed, desk, and dresser. Then I dumped out all the drawers(none of them were closed and there was stuff hanging out of them) into the middle of her floor with the rest of the junk. When she came home from school today I made her clean it from top to bottom the way I like it. I even got a couple of those storage units with the wheels and drawers for her makeup and craft stuff. And the key thing here is I did Not clean it for her, she did it all!! It took her all nite to do it too. She still needs to put her basket of clothes away and dust, but other than that it is Clean!! the way I like it. Knowing her the way that I do though I would say it will only last a day or so. But we will see. My son didnt like what I did to him and he has kept his room clean so far.

~Crochet News~
I worked on my secret project all this week so far except for today. I was just too busy cleaning to crochet any. If all goes well I should have it done by this weekend and then I am going to start working on a few snowmen. Then I will have lovely pictures to post on here. Just wait and see!!

~New changes coming soon~
I finally switched over to beta blogger. I am still learning all about the templates and all. Hopefully soon I will be able to give it more of a Christmas feel around here since we are getting closer to that time. So if something looks off for a while, its because I am still learning and tinkering.

Well that is it for me tonite my friends. I am very tired and pooped. I wore myself out today. I am going to hit the sack. I have to get up early for work. The lady has one of them 8 am appointments. Ugh!

Have a great nite and Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!

Movie Sunday

Evening all. Yep today was one of those days that I didnt even leave the house. I didnt even step outside for anything. I went to bed late and got up early. Why? I dunno. I couldnt really sleep in and I tried. I got up and took my shower and did some laundry. My daughter is feeling much better other than the side effect of having an upset stomach. She got off on having to clean her room today and we sat in the living room and watched movies all day long. Even managed to do a little crocheting. She actually finished a scarf and started another one for her friends for Christmas. I worked on my secret project and I must say that I should be able to hit my deadline of this weekend for sure. Unless something bad happens between now and then. Keeping fingers crossed that it dont. Other than that not much else happening here. We did watch some really good movies... Santa Claus, Batman Forever, Little Big League, and Monster-in-Law. Then tonite it was some of my favorite shows... Desperate Housewives and Brothers & Sisters. This last show is really getting good and I LOVE it! Early morning tomorrow with the son and his workout that he has been doing. I must say that I am very proud that he is getting up that early to go workout. He is really starting to shape up. Well I am off to bed.

Have a great nite and Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!

PS... Sorry no pictures tonite, but nothing really to show cause it is a secret. Soon, I promise Soon!!!

Saturday Sky Drive to Freeport

Evening all. Today turned out to be a pretty nice day. A little cloudy but better than yesterday.

Thursday I had to work with the lady. She had several appointments first thing in the morning. Then after I got done with her I went and "Washed that grey right out of my hair". I found a new girl to do it for me and she even gave me a very nice cut too. The last girl didnt cut my hair right. I have massive amount of it and if you dont do the layers and all just so its messed up until you can get it cut again. But that is water under the bridge and it looks great now!!

Friday the kids had no school and it was cold and a little rainy. I got to thinking how if we all stayed here in the house then they would more than likely start fighting. So I sweet talked hubby into going up to Rockford with the kids and me. I wanted to do a little yarn shopping and I knew the kids would love going into the mall. First place we went to was Chilis for a little lunch. The food was pretty good. Afterwards we hit Michaels up and I picked up some more Patons SWS in the Natural Pink colorway. They only had 2 skeins of it left cause it was on sale. Which was probably a good thing so I wouldnt spend a whole lot of money. I looked for some yarn to do the Prairie Star afghan in but didnt have that much luck. Hobby Lobby was a pretty big disappointment. They use to carry almost all of the Red Heart and TLC colors. Well they dont anymore. Which was a big bummer. I would have loved to gotten the yarn for the afghan while I was there. But it looks like I will be ordering off the internet for a couple of them. Barnes and Noble didnt really have anything new in it. My daughter and hubby did get some Starbucks coffee and my son got a Jone's Soda while I was looking around. By time we hit the mall it was storming pretty good up in Rockford. Overall it was a really nice day, even if we got a little wet.

My nite ended up in the ER with my daughter. The little turd didnt tell me she was having some pains in her lower right side. She said it was a dull ache. I got a little worried and figured that I would just run her to the hospital and have her looked at just to make sure it was not her appendix. It wasnt thank God!! She did however have a severe bladder infection. She is doing much better today with no pain. They put her on 2 different antibotics for it. And while I was waiting for the test results I managed to work on my secret project. I got quite a bit done too.

Today I wanted to go up to Joanns in Freeport to look for some buttons that I forgot to look for in Rockford yesterday. Plus I have never been to that store there before so it was a good excuse to go. My son went along with me and we had a really nice drive. I snapped the pictures on the way there and back. I also managed to find some of the yarn for the PS afghan that I will be making for another lady. I will take pictures of the colors I will be using once I start to work on it.

Thats about it for me today. Basically sat around and didnt do anything after I got home. Watched a couple of movies with the kids and did some crocheting on my secret project. I think I will be done with part one by Friday or maybe sooner. We will see. As for now I am going to get off here and go watch The Polar Express with the kids.

Have a great nite and Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!

It has begun! Christmas shopping!!

Evening all. It was a beautiful warm day here today. Just gorgeous weather, sun shining and a cool breeze. I got up and did my pilates today. I have been good lately and started doing them again. A little sore. But no pain, no gain, right??

After work today I decided I needed to start my Christmas shopping. I love Christmas, but I really dread having to find what the kids want. Now as from my previous post about the Christmas lists, you could tell that my daughter was very detailed on what she wants. Makes my life really easy shopping for her. Now my son on the other hand wants mostly hunting stuff and things that cost an arm and a leg. Which isnt so bad, but I would like to get him a few other things too. Well some of the things he wants I could not find at my local Wally World. Which means that I have to drive to the big city and go shopping there, which then means that if I dont take my daughter all hell will break loose in my house. Now I wouldnt mind taking my daughter, but in all the years that she has known about a Christmas present for my son or hubby or even me she has told. Yep that is right she cant keep secrets if her life depended on it. So what to do about some of the things he wants?? I either have to prepare myself to fight with her or do some online shopping. Ugh!! But on the brighter side I did manage to get a few things for her and a couple of things for him. Plus I got some stocking stuffer things already. Now you are probably wondering why I am not spilling the beans on what I bought them. Well that is easy. My daughter reads my blog!! He He He!!! What til I start wrapping the presents and I tell you what I do to them..... Stay tuned for that future post. I can guarantee rolling on the floor laughing!!! LOL

When I got home from my little shopping I got a couple of boxes in the mail. Now a while back I won a contest from Andi over at Hooked on Strings blog. She sent me a gift certificate for Patternworks. I finally placed an order and got me some sock yarn. And while I was in the yarn ordering mood I skipped over to Knit Picks and picked up some more sock yarn from them. I just love the Step yarn from Patternworks. Feels wonderful and silky. Cant wait til after Christmas when I will have time to make some more socks up. I have quite the sock yarn stash now!!

Thats about it for me tonite. I did a little crocheting tonite. But I am sorry I just cant tell or show you anything right now. I know it would give it away now for sure!! Just wait. Its really cute so far!!

Have a great nite all!

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!!!

Hold on to your hats, I picked up a hook!!

Evening all. Its been a rough day today. And this is pretty much how I feel about my day. Rascal has been laying on the back of my couch here lately while I knit/crochet. He will lay there for hours like that too. I wish I could do that somedays. But all seems to be getting back to normal. I hope!!

Yesterday was a quiet, clean the house kind of day. I got the front part done and a little bit of laundry. Also had to go to the library for a fundraiser meeting for the French Club trip. Some how I got talked into being the chairperson for the committee. Now I have never been in charge of anything like this before. And when we first talked about fundraising to help pay for this trip I was all for it, when there was someone else to help do this that has done this stuff before. She didnt show up last nite and somehow I got talked into it. Or did I talk myself into it?? Either way this will help me pay for this trip for my daughter and me to go. So over the course of the next several days, months, year or however long it takes I will be babbling about it. Just be prepared to listen to me complain. Not saying that I will but you never know. Our first one I think we will be doing is candles. Some mentioned to start this soon, but the people who own the company recommended us to wait til after the holidays. I am thinking it will be a good idea to wait too. We will see next Monday at the meeting.

On to other important things, like my favorite hobbies. Over the last few days I have been playing around trying to decide on what to make next. Kinda of in a funk and trying to figure things out. Most of it is I dont want to get to settled into one project cause I know I will be working on an afghan soon. Plus I signed up for the Holiday Exchange Swap and I have things I want to make for my swap pal. I have finally picked out a few things to make for her. Let me say that my crochet hooks were sooooo Happy! that I finally remembered them. Tonite I worked on a little of what I will be sending out and I thought I would give a teaser picture of what I am making. And just so you know that I do remember how to crochet. Sorry I cant tell you what it is yet. You will just have to wait and see after she gets it. But I will promise to post more teaser pictures for your viewing pleasure.

Before I picked up the crochet hook though, I was playing with the knitting needles. Now my good friend AJ made a scarf a few weeks ago. She tried out the Entrelac knitting and did a wonderful job with it. She called it Lady D, otherwise known as Danica. She also used Patons SWS yarn in the Natural Earth. I loved it so much that I started playing with the pattern and it is pretty simply to do. Now I have the Patons SWS in the Natural Pink and I thought I could make the same thing. We are like that... We like the same thing just about. Anyways, she started working on Lady Eleanor and I have been checking out other peoples Lady E's. And I so love it too. Entrelac knitting is really easy. I love how it comes out. But I have a decision to make.. Do I make the Lady D or the Lady E??? Let me know what you think!! I need lots of help to decide what to make here. They are both beautiful. Decisions, Decisions!!!

Something else that I would like some help on is coming up with a really good title to my new blog. I want to try out that beta blogger so I will be setting up a new blog under a different name soon. I was thinking that if I got some good names I could setup some kind of poll thingie and let you guys or gals pick the best name. How does that sound?? So if you have an idea leave a comment and let me know.

Well that is about it for me tonite. I am off to do a little reading and then to bed.

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!!!

Christmas Lists

Evening all. Hope everyone had a nice Sunday. Ours here has been a pretty lazy day. I did a little laundry and that was about it. Oh I forgot I gave the cats their bath too. They werent to happy about that.

I also did a little knitting. I was working on the kitty stocking and I am not very pleased with how it is coming out. I have decided to toss it. I need to practice the fair isle knitting a little bit more before I try and tackle something like this. Maybe by next year I can have it all figured out and get the stitches pretty even. These were extremely tight or too loose. Just not looking like I would have wanted it to. I am either going to start another pair of socks or make a scarf. Not sure. Will know more by tomorrow. Plus I have to start working on the Prairie Star afghan for a lady. Something else that needs my attention is for my Holiday Gift Exchange Pal. More about that at a later time too. Not quite sure what I am going to make for her. I have a few ideas swimming around in my head.

Do you remember from last week when I talked about my daughter giving me her Christmas list. Well I now have one from both of my kids and I would like to share them with you. My daughter and son just crack me up with these each year. And these are how they put them on the paper. So here goes:

M's Christmas List

electronics
Video iPod

iPod Accesories
hot pink iPod jelly form
car adapter for iPod (plays iPod in your car stereo)
stand charger

Perfume
Curious by Britney Spears
Glow by J.Lo
Japenese Cherry Blossom by Bath and Body Works (exotic collection)

Body Products
Winter Candy Apple Body Wash (No More lotion I have plenty)

Make-up
Eyeshadows in Green, Blue, and cream
Burts bees chapstick and colored chapstick
Brow Mascara
Red Lipstick

Clothes
sweaters w/ matching tanks
Arizona jeans in sz13
Long sleeve jammies
short sleeve w/ pants jammies
Night gowns
slippers and matching robe (perferably something w/ frogs or monkeys on it)
[NO hoodies plz! I have plenty]

Accessories
2-5 new belts
A fitted jean jacket
necklaces and matching earrings
a couple of new bags/purse

Books
The Glass Castle
Hiroshima
Deception Point

Cds
3 Doors Down (cryptonite)
Peter Concotti
Carrie Underwood's New CD
*Aly & AJ's Into the Rush
*Taylor Hicks
*Simple Plans New CD
*Fergie's New CD (has London Bridge on it)

Circular Needles
Double Pointed Needles
Sock Yarn

A new comforter pg. 245 of JCPenney Catalog
Bears Jearsey

Also refer to JCP Christmas Catalog

*Really Want


R's List
*1. Semi Automatic Paint Ball Gun *(I'll sign a rule contract)
2. Fully Automatic Air Soft BB Gun
3. Sopranos Video Game
4. Eragon the Video Game
5. Harmonica
6. Youth Bow (40lb drawback)
7. PS2 or PS3 it's coming out
8. Homies Low rider Model Kit
9. 20g Youth Shotgun
10. Peppers, Muhamid, or Delhome Jersey
11. Madden 07
12. Hunting cloths
13. Digital Drums
14. iPod scribbled out with paintball gun first

Now in my opinion my son's list is much simpler than my daughters. They are both pretty good kids so maybe Santa will read here and make sure they get what they want. Yes I still believe in Santa. And yes I am one of those parents that trys to get their kids everything they ask for within my power. I usually dont by them nothing else the rest of the year unless they need it. So I spoil once a year. I am not sure if I am feeling the digital drums though.... Thinking that maybe headache city....hmmmm

Well that is about it for me tonite. Have to get up early with son and take him to workout.

Have a great nite all. Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!!

Saturday Sky

Evening all. Today was the first Saturday in a while that I havent had to get up and doing any running. I got to sleep in a little bit and then take my time doing nothing. It was a really nice morning. I wish I didnt have a headache, but that soon went away.

The sky here was a cloudy dreary day. We even got a few sprinkles. They were calling for snow flurries but we didnt see any. It was colder than what they said. One of those days that you would just want to stay inside all day and maybe do a little crocheting/knitting. Which I didnt do. I was kinda of busy looking for a template to use on my blog for Thanksgiving. Now I found a couple that I would like to use, but I am having a horrible time getting it to work. Gonna have to send an email to the person and see what I am doing wrong. Hopefully I can get it figured out. We will see. Either that or come up with my own design, if I can ever get that thing figured out too... *sighs*

I got the Yarn of the Month yarns yesterday in the mail. They sent some really pretty ones this month. I even love the colors. My favorite is the brown one that is alpaca and silk. It feels heavenly. I may have to get me some and make something out of it one day. Dont have the names of all those right in front of me, but if you would like to know just say the word and I will post them for you. The colors didnt come out that good but I am blaming the lighting today.

Really not much else going on. I started a new project. If you will notice in the side bar for project list there is one that says kitty stocking. Well I actually started it last nite. I want to get some of this done before I start another pair of socks. Plus I have to make a Prairie Star afghan for someone by Jan. So for now I am going to work on little projects till maybe after Christmas. The kitty stocking is moving right along though. I did do a little more on it tonite. I will post more about it tomorrow with pictures.

Well that is if for me tonite. I am off to do a little reading and then to bed.

Sweet Dreams Jelly Beans!!!!

Victorian Diamond Top Socks

Guess what I finally got done this afternoon. Remember when I posted about sock #1. Well I started right on sock #2 and I have it completely 100% done now. I have a pair of hand knitted socks now that I made all by myself. These feel wonderful and I am just tickled green over this pair. I did one little boo boo on my second sock but you cant see it. You would need a magnifying glass to see the mistake. Matter fact I fixed it so I am the only person who will know where that mistake is....hehehehe!

Ok maybe now I should tell you about the yarn and the pattern I used. Well both yarn and pattern came from Knitpicks. The pattern is Victorian Diamond Top Socks and the yarn is Essential Solid color Grass knitted on size 1 dpns. Now the pattern its self was not that hard of a pattern, but there was a bunch of stitches I didnt know how to do. Thanks to AJ I learned of a website that was very helpful. Knitting help is a great place to see how to do all the wonderful stitches with knitting. Now for grafting the toes I used this page to help me. Both of these sites were the best and most helpful sites. Now I didnt get to complete my socks during October but I came pretty darn close. Overall I would say I am very happy with how this pair of socks came out. Now will I make more socks? Yes I will. Will I pick a pattern that calls for size 1 dpns again?? Well probably will. I love the tight stitches that the small needles make. I will be starting on my second pair tonite. Not sure which pattern I am going to do. But I do have quite a bit of sock yarn stash started now. Stay tuned for that exicting news.

Have a great nite Jelly Beans!!!

Halloween Pictures

Good Morning. Halloween nite and yesterday blogger was being mean to me. I must have made them mad or something. But all day yesterday I tried to load these pictures up to blogger and it wouldnt let me.

Anyways. We had a good nite Halloween nite. We didnt get as many trick or treaters as we normal do, but it was still fun. As you can tell by the face my daughter was a cat and my son was Superman. Actually he wasnt sure if he wanted to go this year. He had a hard time finding some other boys to hang out with and he didnt want to hang out with his sister. Well who could blame him. That is almost like taking her to his prom or something...LOL. My daughter went with her friend and my son found some of his friends to go with so all was well in the neighborhood.

Hubby and I did our second annual usual this year. He sat on the porch all bundled up in my Halloween afghan and I ran next door to talk to the neighbor while she passed out her candy. Her hubby goes hunting and usually dont get home til after the trick or treating is over.

Overall it was a pretty good nite. I made a couple of girls very happy after hubby came in cause it was close to being done and he was cold. I dumped what was left of my candy bowl (half full of candy) between these girls bags. I would have kept it, but that would be tempting the devil in me to eat it all. Plus I knew that my kids would be home with plenty.

Question for all the moms out there. How long do you let the kids keep their candy for?? Do you let them have it til its gone or do you get rid of it?? So everyone please way in and let me know. Thanks!!

Yesterday I didnt have to work. Hubby and I did some grocery shopping and that is about it. I was a good girl and started doing my pilates exercise again. I need to get in gear and do this every day if I can. I also finally heard from the lady at the college to setup my testing date. Its gonna be another month before I can test and the week before she is going to let me come down to go over the pulse and blood pressure. Its been a while and I am sure I can still do it but a little practice never hurts.

I did go to a parent/teacher conference for my son. Its report card time. He got straight A's this first quarter. Science alone he got 108% for the class. They do these trivia questions for extra credit and his teacher said that he was for sure my son knew the answers before he got the question up there. The teacher said that he even knew answers to things he has not teached him yet. At least right 90% of the time. He likes to watch alot of those Discovery Channel shows and I am sure that it helps him. So that channel on cable does pay for itself.

Sock news...... This just in. My first complete pair of socks should be done possible by Sunday. I am now on the foot part of the sock. I have 64 rows to go with that. Keep your fingers crossed. I just may try for Saturday!!

Not much else going on. I have to work this am with the lady. She is doing well. Has about another month of therapy and then back to normal as normal can be.

Have a great day Jelly Beans!!