Haven't posted anything for a bit.  Not much happening here unless you want to count house work, dishes, and laundry.  Today Chris had two basketball games, which has been our routine for every Saturday since December. Gilman finally started winning their games they won one and lost one last week and the same today won one and lost one.  It figures that I forgot the camera today too but I have some pics from a different game that I will be posting.

Kate Gosselin

I just had to comment about Kate Gosselin new hair.  I read an article on yahoo that she just got a new hair style.  Now correct me if I'm wrong and I'm all for getting a new look to make your self feel better after a trying time in your life, but to spend around $7000 and 20 hours to get hair extensions seems a bit in excess.  Also now that the show is cancled and she is divorced why would she spend such a huge amount of money on hair extensions when that money could be use for something else like keeping a roof over the kids heads or food on the table.  She needs to look back on how she and Jon lived before they were stars before they had 8 kids and be a real role model for her kids and many other women out there who might be going through the same thing.
Just my rambeling thoughts.

Julie and Julia

I just got done watching the movie Julie and Julia. I think it was one of the better movies I have seen in some time. It got me thinking about how I could do the same thing. Except that I don’t have Julia Child’s cookbook. But I think I would enjoy doing something like that, picking a cookbook and cooking all the recipes and blogging about it. I love cooking and I think I could write about it. Well that said I didn’t use a cookbook but it goes with my previous post of cleaning out the freezer we had homemade chicken soup tonight for supper. I had made it in the spring so it was a good time to take it out and use it up.


What did all of you have for supper tonight? Just a pondering. You can post a comment and let me know if you want.

Just some thoughts

I was just checking my e-mails and one caught my attention. This one was talking about the cookie diet (yes I said the cookie diet). Now my first thought was WOW what women out there wouldn’t want to lose weight while eating cookies. My second thought was that this could be counter productive. So being the women that I am I decided to read that particular e-mail it was from a trusted source so it didn’t fall into the category of delete and ask questions later. After closer inspection of the e-mail it was titled the seven downsides of the cookie diet. The premise of the diet is to eat a cookie three to four times a day and then a low cal meal. The downsides are fatigue and irritability from too few calories, too little protein, possible constipation, too little calcium because the milk is not included with the cookies, unmotivated to exercise from the fatigue, and the largest downside is the lack of nutrition; as fruits and veggies are also not included.


Well I think I will stick to my original plan of following the Biggest Loser diet and exercise plan. At least I know I will be getting all the nutrients my body needs to produce the energy it needs to live as well as enough to exercise.

As part of my resolutions to improve my lifestyle I did a big clean out of the fridge and freezer. The first thing I tackled was the big chest freezer I tossed anything that I could no longer recognize because of the frost crystals covering the mystery item. I then looked at the dates on the other items anything with a 2006 or 2007 date was sent to the trash. The last to go was anything that I know we would never eat, I tend to save leftovers for the simple fact that I hat to toss good food in the garbage. I am trying to fix that problem in that I am trying to reduce the amount of food I make for a meal so that there isn’t too much left over of something that I know we won’t eat out of the freezer because as we all know certain items only taste good when made fresh. The next was the fridge after looking in there I was shocked to see NO science experiments. That’s right I had no science experiments in my fridge for the first time in quite some time. All the jars, bottles and etc with the dribs and drabs were trashed. You know the stuff the jelly jar that only has a tiny bit left not even enough for one piece of toast and the condiment bottles that are nearly empty that a full one has also been placed in the fridge next to the empty. I was pleasantly amazed that the light actually now goes all the way to the bottom shelf.

I am also getting rid of all the canned and boxed foods that are not going to fit into my new lifestyle. My thought is out of sight out of mind. Since I do all the grocery shopping those foods are not getting back into the house.

More Christmas Pics

Here are some more pictures from Christmas and some of the boys favorite gifts. Both got nerf guns, Steven got legos, and Chris got a DVD player, I got the next movie in the Harry Potter series.

Wedding Invitations

I have been asked by my boyfriend to create several sample wedding invitations. Here is what I came up with. Let me know what you think.

The first is baby pink with colonial white card stock and Simple Beauty stamp set the over all size is 5x7 and don't open.



The second is a 6x6 colonial white, black , and white dasiy cardstock I stamped with Hollyhock ink using the Aspiration stamp set.




The last sample I made is standard card size with the bella paper and a smokey plum cardstock and ink. I use the stamp set that came in the tickeled pink set.

Christmas Pictures

I finally got around to posting some pictures from christmas of the boys.


Christopher wasn't too thrilled on getting his picture with Santa but he did it for his brother.



The boys are always wanting to open gifts early so they got to open their gifts from Grandma and Grandpa and their new PJs on Christmas Eve.