I absolutely love days like today. I woke up, got breakfast for everyone, got the kids all dressed and ready for the Easter Egg Hunts in Carthage. Last night we had all went Roller skating for the W.O.W. park fundraiser and had a ball. We had already came home and had showers for all, so now we just had to get up and ready today.
We went to the Square first and they had fun. Brody was quite flustered with all the people. He was upset and screamed and cried the whole time, minus the time that we got to hunt eggs. He was throwing such a fit and not having fun at all. I decided to take him to moms to sit out the next hunt. He's such a mess around so many people with his sensory processing disorder. I tried to make him stay and enjoy it, but it wasn't happening. Mom was happy to keep him, thank goodness. I didn't want to ruin the next hunt for the other kids!
They all made out like bandits today! We ate lunch at Moms I got Chinese and the kids had DQ and blizzards. I shared my Chinese with Carla Rodeffer. I ended up drinking too soon after lunch and my tummy couldn't take it and I puked for the first time in a long time. I hate to puke, but I do feel so much better once I do. What a waste of money.
We came home and I put the pork loin in the oven for supper and for lunch tomorrow. Tonight's loin I put italian dressing on it and injected it with it and baked it low and slow. For tomorrows I injected with coke, brown sugar, honey and some liquid smoke. I cooked it low and slow and then shredded it up into bbq pork and added bbq sauce and put it in the crock pot for tomorrow. I will turn it on and it will be yummy for lunch at Bev's. I also made up some cheesy tater casserole. I am also making a seven layered salad. Bevs making baked beans and some slaw and maybe some "thunder cake" from Cole's reading book. It's a recipe he wants to try for dessert!
I went out and mowed the yard. Brody went with Bill to deliver seed and so I had some relaxing time with just me and my mower! I got it all mowed and then raked on my garden some more.
LeeVi and Megan are here spending the night with Cole. They have been outside playing ALL day long. They are all having so much fun! It's almost bed time and I am pooped. We went with Bill to shut up cattle and just got done with supper. It's been such a great day. I just love days like this.
All that mowing and weeds blowing around has my head aching. Now I took a couple benadryl and tylenol and plan on hitting the hay now. Night night!
The Frakes Family
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Spring is Springing!!!
Spring is in the air! Wow has it been lovely around here! I am so pleased with the weather this year! The windows have been open, the fresh air blowing through the house and it has been so heavenly! I have been enjoying grilling out, working in the yard and getting my herb garden and my flowers planted. I hope that my green thumbs (yeah right) are in action this year and I can really accomplish growing my own flowers for my pots. I have also talked my husband into tilling up a small garden spot for me and I can't wait to get out there and get some onions planted. I also bought some radishes, cucumbers, zucchini, and green beans and plan on getting some tomato plants too. This is just something small. Something to do and enough to eat on. Just for us and Bill's mom is going to help me out I hope, cause I kinda suck at gardens! I just want to be able to walk out and pick some fresh veggies that I grew myself! I am excited for that!
Bill has finally gotten his seed orders sorted and on pallets ready to deliver to customers. That was a LONG and tiring day, but we got it all done and organized. Thank goodness. It's field time. Spring work has begun. Bill's been spending long hours working the fields and he's getting them all worked up. Chem Gro has been out and got all the chemicals applied and now we are working ground. He has a couple fields left to do and hopefully tomorrow will be done till planting time. That will start sooner than I want it to!
Grandma Jean and I made a trip to Quincy and got my vertical blinds picked up for my dining room. My birthday and Christmas present. I can't wait to get them hung. It will make such a difference getting them hung up in the dining room. This summer when we have to run the air, it will help keep the house cooler and darker. I am excited! I also bought 5 gallons of Thompsons water seal and plan on sealing the deck and swing set. I even bought a handy dandy sprayer to do it with. I am excited.
Sunday I ran our mower for the first time. I am a bit clumsy and it's crazy, but I have been scared to run a zero turn mower. Bill turned me loose and I got the hang of it eventually. It looks so great! I am pretty proud of myself for mowing and making it look so nice! Looks like I have a new job!!!
These boys are wearing me out! They sure do enjoy being outside. We've been taking some amazing three and four wheeler rides and going exploring together. It's so much fun for us. It's a relaxing and fun thing we can all do together that we all have fun doing! We've been all over the neighborhood lately!
I am so happy that SPRING has SPRUNG!!! It puts me in a good mood and makes the days go by so fast!
Bill has finally gotten his seed orders sorted and on pallets ready to deliver to customers. That was a LONG and tiring day, but we got it all done and organized. Thank goodness. It's field time. Spring work has begun. Bill's been spending long hours working the fields and he's getting them all worked up. Chem Gro has been out and got all the chemicals applied and now we are working ground. He has a couple fields left to do and hopefully tomorrow will be done till planting time. That will start sooner than I want it to!
Grandma Jean and I made a trip to Quincy and got my vertical blinds picked up for my dining room. My birthday and Christmas present. I can't wait to get them hung. It will make such a difference getting them hung up in the dining room. This summer when we have to run the air, it will help keep the house cooler and darker. I am excited! I also bought 5 gallons of Thompsons water seal and plan on sealing the deck and swing set. I even bought a handy dandy sprayer to do it with. I am excited.
Sunday I ran our mower for the first time. I am a bit clumsy and it's crazy, but I have been scared to run a zero turn mower. Bill turned me loose and I got the hang of it eventually. It looks so great! I am pretty proud of myself for mowing and making it look so nice! Looks like I have a new job!!!
These boys are wearing me out! They sure do enjoy being outside. We've been taking some amazing three and four wheeler rides and going exploring together. It's so much fun for us. It's a relaxing and fun thing we can all do together that we all have fun doing! We've been all over the neighborhood lately!
I am so happy that SPRING has SPRUNG!!! It puts me in a good mood and makes the days go by so fast!
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
That's just life...
My oh my, where does the time go? I seem to get so occupied and busy that I don't get to sit down to the computer much. I am on my phone more than anything and so that is how I tend to keep up with things, Facebook, email, texts, phone calls. I am not sure how I ever survived without my internet phone. I just don't know how Bill had one for two years without me? How did I ever let that happen? How come? Why did I ever resist that upgrade? I am soooo thankful that I finally got out of the stone age and into the reality that I can live in the 2000's.
My lack of getting on the computer seems to mean that I am spending more and more time being active in other areas in my life. I may be getting lazy keeping up with modern marvels and lazy corresponding with my friends, and for that I am sorry, but if it isn't something that goes through my phone somehow, I might not get it for a week or so. I seem to only get on the computer once a week or so. Being lazy with the computer does have it's advantages. It does... I am spending more time organizing and cleaning my house. I am becoming more organized with my life in general. I am current and up to date with all my book work. I am on top of house work. I keep meals planned, shopping done. I have been keeping my house spotless, and yes, it's lived in, but it's CLEAN and I am also spending more and more time with my boys. I do more with them now than I have ever. I have more energy and zest for life and forgive me for saying this, but for now, everyone else can just wait. I need this time to work on us. I need this time to devote to my family and myself. I should have done this long ago. Having this surgery has sure brought to light the things I was doing all wrong with my life. I am just sorry it took so long to realize how much I had let everyone around me down. I am really trying hard to focus on them now and put them first. I am also learning to put myself first and take care of me. It's not always easy, and I have had to learn to say NO a lot to a lot of things I would normally say YES to,
Things are far from perfect around here. I have my days where Brody's taken every ounce of my will out of me for the day. By the time Bill gets home I am ready to shut myself down and lock myself away in the bathroom. This usually ends up in a screaming mad child throwing a major tantrum outside the bathroom door, an upset husband because the child is screaming so loud and it's echoing through the house and me melting down even more because I can't even take a two minute shower ALONE and have some peace and quiet. Or one day this week I actually got up early, got Cole off to school, Bill off to work and Brody was still in bed. I planned to take a nice long relaxing soak. I knew Brody would sleep for another hour or so.. I just got myself undressed, and in the nice warm tub and no sooner laid back and shut my eyes and Brody was up screaming mad. I jumped out, dried off and decided I am NEVER going to get a moments relaxation alone time. I couldn't figure out why he was up screaming, until after I got him up and dressed and fed and went to get my phone and realized Bill had called my phone TWELVE times in a 10 minute time period when I was in the shower. Brody must have heard it ringing while I was taking a bath and it woke him up. He then had to let me know my phone was ringing. He kept saying "mommys phone" while I was getting him dressed for the day, but I assumed he wanted to play with it and I kept telling him "mommy's phone is charging, you can't play with it now." when in all honesty he was telling me my phone was ringing off the damn wall. What did Bill call me for??? He called to see if I had gotten the sticker for the truck cause the license expired in Feb and he was taking the truck to Quincy, was almost there already and realized he was driving on an expired tag. I had tried to give him that sticker 3 times and he kept telling me to hang on to it, so now he's worried about it? Of course he is... because I was taking a "mommy break" and I guess I just didn't deserve one that day!
Other than never getting a second to myself, I do tend to have more energy and ambition to get things done around here. I have really been on a cleaning organizing streak. I've gotten my closet cleaned out, book work caught up and filed away, office cleaned, dresser cleaned out, Cole & Brody's rooms purged and cleaned. I have worked on a few kitchen cabinets, and kept up with the normal house work in the middle of it all. I have a couple more closets I want o re organize here soon. They bug me. I need to move stuff around and put it where it's more handy than where it is now. It's bugging the crap out of me.
We got our taxes done today. That was a major under taking. I spent over 3 hours in there going over our figures and now I have a brain fog from going over and over it all all day long. Ugh. I hate tax day.
Other than the boring daily struggles of life I haven't had a whole lot going on. I like boring... it means nothing major is happening and that's the way we like it around here.
Till our next adventure...
My lack of getting on the computer seems to mean that I am spending more and more time being active in other areas in my life. I may be getting lazy keeping up with modern marvels and lazy corresponding with my friends, and for that I am sorry, but if it isn't something that goes through my phone somehow, I might not get it for a week or so. I seem to only get on the computer once a week or so. Being lazy with the computer does have it's advantages. It does... I am spending more time organizing and cleaning my house. I am becoming more organized with my life in general. I am current and up to date with all my book work. I am on top of house work. I keep meals planned, shopping done. I have been keeping my house spotless, and yes, it's lived in, but it's CLEAN and I am also spending more and more time with my boys. I do more with them now than I have ever. I have more energy and zest for life and forgive me for saying this, but for now, everyone else can just wait. I need this time to work on us. I need this time to devote to my family and myself. I should have done this long ago. Having this surgery has sure brought to light the things I was doing all wrong with my life. I am just sorry it took so long to realize how much I had let everyone around me down. I am really trying hard to focus on them now and put them first. I am also learning to put myself first and take care of me. It's not always easy, and I have had to learn to say NO a lot to a lot of things I would normally say YES to,
Things are far from perfect around here. I have my days where Brody's taken every ounce of my will out of me for the day. By the time Bill gets home I am ready to shut myself down and lock myself away in the bathroom. This usually ends up in a screaming mad child throwing a major tantrum outside the bathroom door, an upset husband because the child is screaming so loud and it's echoing through the house and me melting down even more because I can't even take a two minute shower ALONE and have some peace and quiet. Or one day this week I actually got up early, got Cole off to school, Bill off to work and Brody was still in bed. I planned to take a nice long relaxing soak. I knew Brody would sleep for another hour or so.. I just got myself undressed, and in the nice warm tub and no sooner laid back and shut my eyes and Brody was up screaming mad. I jumped out, dried off and decided I am NEVER going to get a moments relaxation alone time. I couldn't figure out why he was up screaming, until after I got him up and dressed and fed and went to get my phone and realized Bill had called my phone TWELVE times in a 10 minute time period when I was in the shower. Brody must have heard it ringing while I was taking a bath and it woke him up. He then had to let me know my phone was ringing. He kept saying "mommys phone" while I was getting him dressed for the day, but I assumed he wanted to play with it and I kept telling him "mommy's phone is charging, you can't play with it now." when in all honesty he was telling me my phone was ringing off the damn wall. What did Bill call me for??? He called to see if I had gotten the sticker for the truck cause the license expired in Feb and he was taking the truck to Quincy, was almost there already and realized he was driving on an expired tag. I had tried to give him that sticker 3 times and he kept telling me to hang on to it, so now he's worried about it? Of course he is... because I was taking a "mommy break" and I guess I just didn't deserve one that day!
Other than never getting a second to myself, I do tend to have more energy and ambition to get things done around here. I have really been on a cleaning organizing streak. I've gotten my closet cleaned out, book work caught up and filed away, office cleaned, dresser cleaned out, Cole & Brody's rooms purged and cleaned. I have worked on a few kitchen cabinets, and kept up with the normal house work in the middle of it all. I have a couple more closets I want o re organize here soon. They bug me. I need to move stuff around and put it where it's more handy than where it is now. It's bugging the crap out of me.
We got our taxes done today. That was a major under taking. I spent over 3 hours in there going over our figures and now I have a brain fog from going over and over it all all day long. Ugh. I hate tax day.
Other than the boring daily struggles of life I haven't had a whole lot going on. I like boring... it means nothing major is happening and that's the way we like it around here.
Till our next adventure...
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