Been so long

I know it has been so long. I only have excuses for it, and hey to me they are great! Well to start, Jacob lost his second front tooth. So now he is front toothless. So cute. His birthday party is coming up and he is so excited about it.
I have finally started my Christmas shopping. Why I wait so long is beyond me. I could have had this done at the beginning of the year for heaven sakes. I have Mark pretty much done. Memory's is in the process, ha Mem don't you want to know? Mark is making Evan's. I think my goal for next year is to get my Christmas shopping done by June or July! It is completely nuts out there!
For all those who don't know, I got a new doctor, an obgyn. He is so nice. Here I was expecting this little Asian guy because his name is Anton. For some reason it stuck in my mind of Memory's neighbor boy Anton. Such a cutie too. Boy was I wrong. I of course had to ask my nurse if he was nice and her response was "well I have known him since before my kids were born and he delivered all my kids and my youngest is your age." Wow that was helpful. So he put me on Prometrium to force my "little friend". Not that they guys reading this really want to hear that but to darn bad. After I start my "little friend" I get to start Clomid. Now I got these prescriptions filled the day before Thanksgiving. Total mistake. It was a 4 hour wait. So of course they were just so busy I didn't want to waste the Pharmacists time explaining anything to me so figured I would just go home and read the little pamphlet they put in there. Mark of course laughed at me because I do this with any medication I take because I want to know what to expect or what can happen that is really bad. So I read it, no big deal. Basically can have pain in the abdomen, dizziness, throwing up and change of eye sight. No big deal right! WRONG! Just like the provera I took last time I had to force my "little friend" I am horribly sick, I have horrible cramps (nothing I am not us to) and I am oh so dizzy. Since starting this, I have cut myself because I got so dizzy while I was standing in the kitchen cutting something up. I have run into to many walls to count and at the moment am sporting a very nice lump on my head, and darn near fell down the stairs going to the basement. So stairs, and knives or anything sharp is totally out of the question for me to use along with driving a car. The other day it was messing with my eye sight so badly that I had to wear Mark's glasses to see anything. Now if you all know my husband he has HORRIBLE eye sight. So for me to see clearly out of his glasses is pretty bad since I have perfect vision. So after all of this I have 4 months to get pregnant or my non Asian ob Dr. will be sending me to a more specialized specialist. So cross your fingers, toes and eyes. maybe put your hair in some braids, that might help to, because that is a lot of crossing.
Last week in the Target add was a Electric Roaster for 23 dollars. Great deal so I decided to get it. Best choice I ever made. I cooked my turkey yesterday for our little get together and not only was the bird so good and juicy, but it doesn't take as long to cook as it does in the oven. I think the from start to finish which includes warm up was 2 1/2 hours for a 15 pound turkey. So next year my dear family I am so doing the turkey!

Odd stuff

I have been sitting here cross stitching thinking about some odd things that I have missed. I never knew that I could miss having a mail box at the end of the sidewalk. Is that just weird? I don't like these medal boxes that have half the neighborhoods mail boxes in them. Granted we don't have that here, we have the nice convenience of having our mail on our living room floor. None the less I really miss walking out to the mailbox. Strange! I doubt mom and dad miss having to replace the darn things though. I can't even remember how many times it got ripped off or bashed in. Sad that our society has come to that and much worse now. Brandon might remember this the most, I remember taking a round tin and putting a whole bunch of stuff in it, stuff I can't even remember anymore and we buried it in our back yard. I don't even remember how long it was before we dug it back up again but I remember we couldn't get it open because it had rusted shut. Lets see what else. Oh going in the Killians wagon to their house in Yucipa. They had that wagon that you sad backwards so you can see out the bad. Waving to people and than going down and up that huge hill that would make your stomach float. Mrs. Killian use to gain so much speed before that hill just to make it a little more fun for us. Man I miss them! We use to have to much fun. Their dog us to have that extremely hard tail that we would throw snow balls at because it was like a baseball bat. Remembering all this stuff just makes me so sad that I don't get to spend more time with my niece and nephews. I guess that is partly my fault. I feel like I miss out on so much of their lives. It give my heart and ache to have to see them leave or when I have to leave them after seeing them.
Anyway before I cry more, we finally figured out what is wrong with my brakes. There is a little thingy in the brake lines on the back brakes that makes it so the back brakes don't lock up with hard braking. Well both of them are leaking. Go figure. So I have to order those tomorrow since I was on the phone with Maytag for about 2 hours today and it irritated me to no end, I totally forgot to order them today. So my car should be up and running in a few weeks hopefully!
I picked up color samples for the color of the kitchen and bathroom. I for some reason have an itch to have a purple room. No the kitchen is not going to be purple. The kitchen is going to be yellow, and the bathroom is going to be purple. I just can't figure out what shade of either one I want. I couldn't believe how many different shades there were in each color. Makes the decision all that much harder. Where have the days gone when it was easy to make a decision on this kind of thing. Why do there have to be so many choices. Oh well. So what do you guys think. Should I go with a darker purple, medium purple or a light purple for the bathroom? And what shade for the kitchen? Of course the kitchen will not be done until it is remodeled, and that is depending on if we get the home equity loan that we applied for, which we should be hearing back about any day now.

SOOOOOO COOL!

Oh this is to exciting for me. When Jacob lost his first tooth he was with us. I had talked him into letting me tie something around his tooth to tie it to a door knob to yank it out. I know what some of you guys are thinking. Oh dear she is just like grandpa. YEP! So we got the string tied around the tooth and he just gave it 3 little light tugs to make sure it wasn't going to hurt and it popped out by itself. Totally bummed me out because I wanted to warp someone like Grandpa had warped me. Well this last weekend that he was here one of his front teeth was really really loose. So I talked him into just letting me wiggle it and I grabbed a hold of it and just yanked it out. It was SOOOO EXCITING! So now our little guy has one front tooth gone and the other is loose as well. So I am hoping that this next weekend that he is here it will be loose enough to yank out again.

Well we got the new window in. We started with the bathroom window just so we would know how hard it would be and all that good stuff. It was pretty darn easy! So it is in and done. That is also so exciting. Now we just have to do the rest of them. Not so exciting to do them all but what are you going to do?

Finally finished

We are finally done. The fireplace that we have been working on for ever is complete. I can't tell you how excited I was. Now our living room doesn't look like is half finished. It is so great.

Mark is very excited, he is building a boat. He has been working on it most chances he can get inbetween my car and a few other things. Sunday while he was working on it I was at the back of the house working on window sills. He comes over and tells me that I need to come look in the garage. He is all upset and I can't even imagine what happened. I thought he totally goofed up on something he was cutting for the boat, because he was at the time using the table saw. So I go in there and I'm looking around not seeing anything. Till he points it out. On the back wall of the garage is a long piece of wood sticking out of the wall. I was shocked and outrageously thankful that he didn't get hurt. I guess when he was cutting a piece of wood, he had a throwback. Basically the blade catches hold of what you are cutting and sends it shooting backward. Now to give you an idea of how dangerous this is and how fast it goes, this piece of wood went through 2 sheets of sheetrock and two layers of plaster. Anyone how has tried to put something into a wall made out of plaster knows it is hard stuff. It finally stoped on the outside of our bedroom wall. Didn't make it through to our bedroom. Now the silly man isn't upset at the thought that he could have gotten hurt, or about having to patch up the wall. Oh no, he is upset because the piece of wood went through his Volkswagen picture. Of all things to be upset about he is upset that it went through a picture. I took pictures so you will see. Talk about scary though.

Camping weekend

So my boys went camping this weekend. Mark drove all the way up to Aberdeen, Washington to pick Jacob up from school. Boy was he excited. They went down to the Nehalem River for the camping. Jacob caught his first keeper fish. A rainbow trout. He of course wanted to keep it and take it home for it to be a pet! Cute huh? Mark had to explain to him the cycle of life and how he either had to throw it back or eat it. So he decided he wanted to eat it.... but he didn't like it. Can't blame him as I don't like trout either. So Mark eat most of it and threw the rest with the guts back into the river. I guess when Mark was gutting it Jacob went kind of white and said that was gross enough to make him throw up. But he didn't! I am glad they had a good time.
I got a nice quiet weekend, mostly. I got the cleaver idea that I wanted bangs.... so I cut me some bangs. WOOHOO, no more curly Q's as Mark likes to call them. Of course I went to go straighten them out with the big fat curling iron Danica gave me years ago and what do I do? BURN myself!!! Now I have this huge burn mark on my forehead. Of course that was the first thing Mark noticed when he got home after dropping Jacob off, was the burn not the bangs. I had to tell him that I had them before he even realized it. What a goof.
Tomorrow granted that I can get myself in gear I get the pleasure of going down to the DMV to get new tags, and to change my name on my title. OOOPS Yes I still have yet to do that even though it has been over a year since I changed my name. What can I say. I just hope they don't realize it!
Today I finally finished our mantel. Now today was the 3rd time I have had to sand this thing down! The first was because Mark didn't sand it enough so there was still paint in the grain. So I had to sand the whole thing. Then he fills in the wholes for the nails with wood filler stuff that is stainable. Well you aren't suppose to get it on the surface of the wood. He didn't read that. So where it soaked into the surface it left this big light spot when he stained it again. So yet again I have to sand it. This time it was only the sides and the bottom as there are no nails in the top. So I did that today. STUPID! It was so hot here I was sweating like a pig, and what do you get when you are sticky from sweating and you have sawdust flying everywhere? You get a person who looks like they were tared and than had sawdust dumped on them. It was gross. None the less I got it done, and I even stained it so it would be ready to put the poly coat over it in a few days. So oh my goodness after nearly 2 years of having the fireplace ripped apart and sitting there waiting to get done... it is almost there!!!!! So memory when you say that it takes Michael so long to do projects after starting them.... well there you go you aren't the only one that deals with that kind of thing. Most of our projects take forever. Heck we haven't even finished the patio yet... and that was 3 1/2 years ago. So sad. But I feel better now that it is almost done and that I won't have to worry about it anymore. Than we are going to have to have family dinner over here so everyone can see it since mostly nobody has.

Little bit of advice

My advice for the day is: Make sure you know what you are getting into. :) So we had people from Penguin windows come out and give a great spiel. We really liked their windows so we figured we would get them. Fortunately you have 3 business days to back out of the deal. Which of course we had to do because Mark realized that he didn't want to pay that much for them and that we can order ones almost as good and do it ourselves. That I am not much looking forward to! So we figured out, before Penguin windows came along, that we were going to take out a home equity loan so we can do the windows, siding, and the kitchen. Have it all done and not have to worry about it. Than we had the spiel with Penguin windows. Now mind you we were going to take out about 10 grand for all this. Well we wouldn't have been able to do anything but the windows if we did this because it was WELL over 10 grand. So now we are back to doing everything and doing it ourselves. Still not looking forward to that, but it would be nice to have everything done instead of paying for the next 10 years for windows. So make sure you look at different options before you make up your mind. It is never a bad idea to take the time out to compare to ALL of the competition.
The start of my school year has been very peaceful. I have finally gotten back to my cross stitching. I haven't worked on that in months. Feels good to get to it. All is well with us, both of us are doing good. Can't complain at the moment.

Meet thy doom

Let me tell you, today was the most hideous way to spend our last full day with Jacob. It was the most awful thing to experience. I spent most of the day crying because of it, so of course I have a gigantic headache. I just don't know what to do anymore. I couldn't believe the horrible stuff that came out of that kids mouth. I was totally appalled and horrified. This kid needs some serious help and everyone around him ignores that. Every time I bring it up everyone gets all defensive and cranky so that is the end of that topic. I don't know how to go about this anymore.
Last Friday we took the kids to a place called Discovery Village. It is so fun! It is a little science museum place. I think the kids would really like it. They took 4 old houses in Salem and fixed them up and put the displays in the houses. There is also a HUGE play structure. This thing is so massive! I think people should bring their kids here and let me take them there.
Mark's step mom Carol has cervical cancer. It thankfully is only in the first stage so they caught it wayyyyyyy early. She is going in on Tuesday to have it all taken out. His dad is a hole other story. That poor man. They are pretty sure that his walking and speech has something to do with a toxin. So they have done blood work, mri's all sorts of things and they can't find anything. The other day they did a spinal tap to check the fluid because there are some toxin's that aren't detected in anything but the spinal fluid. It just breaks my heart to see him going through this. He is on muscle relaxers that do little to nothing but he can barley walk without them. So we are all hoping that they find something this time and that it can be taken care of before anything gets worse. Also that everything is reversible.
Well we are taking Jacob back tomorrow for the school year. It so does not seem like it has been a whole summer yet. I just can't believe it. Shocking. So I got to get in bed and get some sleep because we have to leave early in the morning to drop him off and all that fun stuff.