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  • Bits and Pieces of Our Day

    Our day was packed to the gills with things to do.  Mondays are usually very busy for us–at least the mornings are.  We start the day with daily mass so that Mama can keep from being too grumpy at 9.  Then we have therapy appointments until noon.  Here are the highlights from our day.

    • Honey started speech therapy for her articulation problems.  It’s not too bad, but I wanted to get her in before the habits became too ingrained.
    • We have passes to get onto the military installation just like the EZ Tag for toll roads.  Unbeknownst to me, mine had expired.  I was absolutely mortified when they had me pull over the median while they wrote down information and confiscated the pass.  I need to learn to read things better.  July 07 does not mean July 2007 especially since the 2007 was underneath the date.  That’s what I get for wondering what we were going to do for about 15 minutes since we were so early for Brother’s doctor’s appointment.
    • Brother’s appointment was a bit frustrating because the doctor couldn’t figure out what could be wrong.  They had already ruled out mononucleosis.  I knew and kept insisting that something was wrong because he was not himself.  His PT even commented on it.  He had x-rays, urine tests, and blood work. 
    • Today’s dinner menu was spaghetti.  I started the sauce the minute we arrived home.  It’s a good thing to because…
    • …the doctor called at 4 to tell me that Brother had pneumonia (I almost broke down in tears–not sure if it was relief that it wasn’t anything really bad or feeling awful that my son was so sick).  Then she proceeded to tell me he needs to be on antibiotics and that we need to get them before the pharmacy closed which was in less than an hour. 
    • I grabbed Pumpkin from her nap, got the kids to the bathroom, shoes on and out the door in five minutes.  We made it with time to spare (it’s really empty and you get your meds very quickly at this hour!). 
    • With the sauce made, dinner was ready in a snap.  We eat at 6, preferably 6 sharp for Brother’s sake and we made it.  Our only snafu was when Pumpkin put a piece of spaghetti noodle in her nose.  Before I could get the tweezers to it, she pushed it in too far.  I had to go borrow a nose suction thingie, but she had snorted it and swallowed it by the time I returned (yuck).

    As you can imagine, it was a relief to put the kids to bed.  Hope y’all’s day went simpler.

  • Some Fun Stuff

    HT:  Matilda

    Your 1950s Name is:
    Nadine Silvia
    What KC Means
    K is for Kind

    C is for Classy

    What Your Soul Really Looks Like
    You are a wanderer. You constantly long for a new adventure, challenge, or eve a completely different life.

    You are not a very grounded person. You prefer dreams to reality. For you, it’s all about possibilities.

    You believe that people see you as larger than life and important. While this is true, they also think you’re a bit full of yourself.

    Your near future is still unknown, and a little scary. You’ll get through wild times – and you’ll textually enjoy it.

    For you, love is all about caring and comfort. You couldn’t fall in love with someone you didn’t trust.

  • Life Full of Loveliness

    We were in Round Rock for the weekend visiting my parents and sister’s family for various birthday parties.  So, today we attended St. William’s Catholic Church.  Their usual pastor was not there and the guest priest is one of my favorites.  He’s a very good speaker and I love his sense of humor.  Today he said something that struck a chord in me.

    He mentioned that "life is full of loveliness for sale" and the "price is the simple, childlike faith in Jesus".  While he was saying this, my two youngest were staring up at the ceiling marveling at the beauty of the church "sky".

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    This was taken during a previous field trip, not during mass.  I love to take pictures, but even I know my limits. :0)

  • Online Typing Practice

    I took this typing test the Jennie at Far Beyond Pearls took.  I averaged out around 80 words per minute with about 7 errors.  The first test was awkward for me but I warmed up and can type pretty well.  It’s really all the practice I get on line.  How about you?

  • Knitting Project

    Here’s my knitting project.  It’s been years since I’ve completed a project (think 7th grade home ec) but I’m excited about this one.  It’s a baby blanket.  It’s taking me forever since I only get to do a row or two at a time.  I started around March (I think) and haven’t picked it up since before vacation.  I need to get going because my friend who I think is having a girl is due anytime now.

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  • Happy Independence Day!!

    It’s a bit late, but here’s Happy 4th to y’all (as we say here in Texas).  The firecrackers are still going.  The neighborhood is quite alive tonight–don’t they realize it’s after 10?  Luckily, the kids are sleeping through it.   

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    Daddy’s Little Girls

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    Poor Brother is under the weather.

    As I go to hit save, the rain has started.  It’s been threatening to rain all day.  Finally, it has started and what perfect timing.  The firecrackers have stopped popping!!  Now, I can get some rest.

  • Storm Clouds, Etc.

    It’s been quite the rainy summer for us here in Central Texas.  The lakes are really, really high.  I’ve never seen it like this before.  We had more rain today.

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    The storm was brewing as the children were playing at the park.  Luckily, the park is only a 2 minute walk from our house.

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    Brother is doing much better as you can see.  His rash is slowly disappearing as the medication leaves his body.  What suffering he had to endure.  I would gladly have suffered it for him. 

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    A final picture of the clouds before the storm–they’re so beautiful.

    One more shot for you from our trip to Hawaii:

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    This is the view from the Pali Lookout.  More about that later.  Pumpkin was on my back so she’s not in the picture.

  • Good News for a Good Cyber Friend

    Cheryl has been Positively Blessed.  Please visit her and give her your congratulations. 

  • Notebooks and Such

    According to Literature Alive by Cay Gibson, a commonplace book is a "bound volume in which…readers…would copy out their favorite poems from manuscript" (page 97).  This idea appealed to me because I’m always coming across things I want to write down.  So, using one of Dawn’s ideas, I made a commonplace book for me.

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    Using the above supplies, I made these:

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    The one on the left is my new prayer journal and the one on the right is my commonplace book.  I can’t wait to start using them.

  • Pu’u o Mahuka Heiau

    In the book Oahu Revealed (an excellent resource and quite funny), the author points the reader to all the wonderful places that locals know.  He also tells the history quite well in bits and pieces. 

    One of the places he pointed us to was Pu’u o Mahuku Heiau.  This place is a remnant of a Hawaiian temple.  It’s above Waimea Bay and it possesses quite a view.  This place was a luakini heiau which is a temple where there were human sacrifices.

    The road leading to this from the Kam Highway was in a place I knew rather well in my short time in Oahu–it’s where I turned into the Starbucks.  After a few twists and turns up the hill, we came to the road leading to the temple or heiau.  The oddest things we saw upon turning onto the road were these:

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    I guess this is where modern man makes car sacrifices.  Okay, that was a bad joke.  More pictures coming.

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    People come and leave offerings here.

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    This is what remains of the temple.  It’s pretty big.  Isn’t the view amazing?

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