It has been awhile since the last blog. I feel like someone who was swimming underwater and has finally been allowed to come up for air. I say this in a hypothetical way since I can not swim. I am just assuming what that would feel like. It has been a week of lots of deep though and searching for answers. Nights where you don't sleep because your brain is thinking too much. God has finally given me a peace and we seem to be close to a decision about school for next year. During all of this I also tried to distract my brain with other projects. I spent one night untill 3 am designing and researching our "garden" for this summer and finding places to order seeds from.  I say "garden" since we do not have a yard and all plants must be able to live in a pot, on the deck, three stories in the air. This is a challenge to say the least. I go for plants that say "hearty" and "drought tolerant" in the description. I watched a show on Iowa public tv the other day about a really cool place that sells and grow heirloom plants. http://www.seedsavers.org/  It got me thinking and  I really like the idea of planting heirloom seeds. I am a history nut and think it is cool to be able to plant seeds that are descendants from seeds brought over on the Mayflower etc. Also with heirlooms there is no genetic engineering so you can save seed and plant them the next year.  This means that hopefully what I plant this year I will also be able to plant for many years to come with out buying seeds again. Woohoo!! Besides, I figure if the plant can survive all this time and live native in a prairie it should be able to survive my deck! :)  I have also decided that I would like to learn to knit.  For some reason that I have yet to explain I really want to learn to knit my own socks. If my knitting ability is anything like my crocheting....This goal may not be as attainable as growing veggies and herbs. :)  There is just something exhilarating about making or growing it yourself.  This is probably the same reason that I now make our own bread, laundry soap, and dishwashing soap. Part of me just thinks it would be cool to have purple basil.....

 

Our Christmas card...in January! :)

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It's FRIDAY!!!

As seems to be the tradition, it is once again late at night. I have been inspired by the weather as of late and have been taking lots of pictures of pretty winter scenes. This is really odd when you consider that I do NOT like winter!! Oh well! So tonight's post will be short and we will just enjoy pictures from today and the "freezing fog" that we had. Now if only I had a digital camera body to go with all of those lenses...... :) I am thinking that there will be a picture of the week and maybe a recipe of the week feature too.

( Note: these pictures were taken with my iPhone and so not the best but ya gotta work with what ya got. :) )

It's a sickness...

Another weekend is down the drain. Where did it go?? What did I do?? I spent friday picking up stuff for C's birthday party, price matching groceries and dealing with herds of non friendly, non customer service oriented people. Yes I am aware that C's birthday is in April. It's a sickness... I do this every year and my husband just humors my midnight questions like which plates do you think 5 year olds will like better? :) This might be a direct result of only having one child...... Just maybe. ;) We are going for a Buzz Lightyear/ Space theme this year. So I have now started hoarding things to make cool space decorations out of and planning how to paint 3 foot tall cut outs of toy story characters.....

          

After all the shopping we got home around 8:00 at night and needed to eat supper and haul all of the groceries for the next two weeks up the three flights of stairs and into the house. Woohoo!!! Did I mention that is was like -10 when we got home?? Anyhow the pager then went off for 3 consecutive calls. Supper tastes really yummy if you don't eat it until after midnight. You should try it sometime. ;) On a side note- If you decide to hide from the EMT's, hide somewhere REALLY good!! ( I love my job! I love my job! I love....) All in all it was another sleep deprived night. I tried to get some extra sleep but this was my single parent weekend so that only lasted until around 8 or so. I'm pretty sure I spent that day doing mountains of laundry and other fun mommy jobs. Then on Sunday I was on sound duty and there early. All of that is probably leading to me starting to freak out about C being in school next year. We met with the first school for an interview today (Monday). Being a girl I changed clothes about 8 times before we finally left and even totally changed outfits because J said that my shoes looked funny with what I had on. :) Note I did not just change my shoes!! 

 

THAT would be silly!! We all really liked the school but I am still not sure what we are supposed to do. So for now I am just praying that God will show us where C is supposed to be and if that's private school, how we are going to pay for it. I realized today that I feel like I am loosing my job. Like how employees must feel who are working for a company that they know is going to close down in a few months. Yes I know that Mommies never really loose their jobs and that he WILL still need me even when he is a school aged kid but this is how I FEEL so it doesn't have to be rational. :) Today I feel like being a girl and that does not require me to be rational and even lets me cry for no apparent reason at all. ;)

Beginning....

It's 2 am. I am wide awake and decided that after 4 weeks of being almost completely snowed in by two blizzards that I am in desperate need of an adult conversation. Sadly, this is as close as I am getting for awhile. :) Don't get me wrong I love the little guy but I can now sing my ABC's forward AND backwards and in two languages. I bet that looks good on a job application! On a positive note we have got a lot of "preschool" done in the past month even with Christmas. Now on to the next big hurdle. Kindergarten. Where do we send him to school? Do we send him to school or do we home school? We have our first school tour next week and I am not sure what to think. More on this subject next week. ;) They are talking like we will get another 6 inches of snow this week.... Why is it always on the week that I go to the grocery store that we get "blizzard like conditions"?? Oh well I guess we will just dig our way into town. After living out of the pantry for a month we NEED to go to the store!

(This is outside our house after the ice before the second blizzard. Dec 24)