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April 28 Five QuestionsIt's rainy, I've done what raking I can do for today, and now Emma and I are getting ready for the Girl Scouts Mother Daughter Tea. While I'm waiting, I'll answer my five questions from Amy of Tea and Bonbons with Amy. 1. a)What is your favorite childhood memory and why? b) What is your LEAST favorite childhood memory and why?
a. I have many favourite memories! I loved traveling in the summers with my mom and grandmother, spending nights/weekends at my grandmother's house, visiting her house in Panama City and our family friends we left when we moved to Tennessee.
b. My least favourite memory? Falling out of my dad's pickup when the door opened when we turned a corner. I still to this day cannot lean against a door in a car - even with it locked tight! 2. Have you made your blog known to your family and friends? Why or why not?
I have, but I'm not sure anyone reads it!
3. Where is your favorite place that you've lived? Where is the
worst place you have lived? OR, if you've lived in the same town all
your life, what are the best and worst things about living in your town?
I love where we live now: close enough to Knoxville that it is convenient, but without the high taxes. Our town is a nice size, too. I don't think anywhere I have lived is the worst place. Where I grew up was a great place for childhood (if a little boring for a teenager) but not so great for a job market as an adult. And I'm spoiled now with all the convenience I have now!
4. If you could afford to, would you send your kids to private school? Why or why not?
I would definitely send her to private school! She is very smart and I would love to have a school that would help her develop her abilities better. That said, her school now does a better than average job of teaching smarter kids.
5. What are your dreams/your heart's deepest desires? To be financially secure - not "rich" but not worrying about money. A nice house in a nice neighborhood. I would really love to own my own jewelry store! I want Emma to grow up to be a happy, healthy, secure, confident young lady. April 27 I've come to a realization...I love yard work! Not gardening - I hate gardening. I'll buy my fruits and veggies at the store, thankyouverymuch. But mowing the grass, raking the leaves, trimming the trees, digging and planting - I love it! I have so much fun doing it. The only thing that would make it better would be if the bugs went away and I didn't get so sunburned so easily.  Finally got over the "blah"It took a while, but I finally got over the Blahs. I picked up Emma from school, got her started on something, and went outside. I started only because I had to get one of her old playhouses untangled from the honeysuckle that is taking over the backyard, and ended up cutting down a huge pile of vines and stray shrubs and saplings. We had cut back the forest a bit to make room for our back yard, and it's trying to take over again! It looks so much better. Now I wish I had taken before and after pictures of our yard in various places before I did so much work in it this week. It is a huge difference! Now - if I can only decide what to make for dinner.  Blah.Today is a blah day. I just can't get motivated! Maybe it was the rain yesterday and the cloudiness today. Or the amount of STUFF I have done this week has left me exhausted. I don't know, but all I want to do is take a nap! I did get one thing accomplished that really had to be done - I cleaned the fish tank! It was getting nasty! It's amazing how it gets overlooked. I looked at it earlier though, and realized I couldn't see the fish. Scary. Now I can see the window through their bowl! April 26 Girl Scout CampThis past weekend Emma and I went to Girl Scout camp on Norris Lake. Very nice camp; very exhausting trip! Our troop combined with another troop for the weekend. We had around 25 girls, kindergarten through third grade. The girls stayed in a nice big cabin with a kitchen, big bathrooms, a huge room with big cubbies that they all slept in (sleeping bags on cot mattresses on the floor), and a day room shared by both halves of the cabin. The moms that went on the trip had different sleeping arrangements: "tents" outside, no electricity (read: no heat or lights), and cot mattresses on raised platforms. The tents consisted of a wooden floor (raised off the ground but could see the ground through the gaps) and a canvas cover. Four beds in each with a bookcase-type shelf unit that we put our lanterns on. It was beautiful during the days, but the nights were pretty chilly, down into the forties. BRRRR I froze my butt off! The food wasn't the best either, but I know the camp can't afford to feed that many people nice healthy food and veggies. Or caffeine, apparently. Overall it was a pretty good time. The girls earned 7 try-its and 3 fun patches, went on three hikes, and learned a lot about the outdoors. Catch up time!Okay it has been way too long since I updated this! Either nothing has been going on or too busy to sit down and write about it. So, a quick catch up. 1. I quit my job at the jewelry store. Tired of retail hours, new district manager was a royal pain in the you know what, and I found a new job that sounded very promising. First few weeks would be a pay cut, then I was to have been making almost twice what I was making at the store. And no weekends! 2. That job didn't work out. It was commission-only compensation, outside sales, and I was spending more on gas and babysitting than i was making! So for now I am at home - still working hard, just not getting paid for it. Although it is WONDERFUL being able to pick up Emma from school every day and have extra time with her. 3. Emma has a Girl Scout troop now! She joined Scouts in November as a Juliette since there were no Brownie troops here where we live, then we found a troop very close to us. This past weekend we went to camp and Saturday we have a Mother-Daughter Tea. None of which I could have done if I was still working at the jewelry store! 4. My wonderful husband gave me a beautiful pair of diamond earrings for Valentine's Day!! I have wanted a pair for a long time. They have been out of my ears only one day since I got them! Before I had some I never thought I'd wear the same pair every day - who knew? 5. Earlier in the month Emma turned nine! My baby is growing up... I know, the fact that she is in third grade is a clue, and that her shoes have to come from the ladies' dept instead of the kids' dept, but still! Luckily she seems to be developing into a wonderful young lady. And not just because I'm biased.  Her birthday party was at a bowling alley and had a good turnout - 13 kids total. One friend came home with us afterwards and spent the night. It was the first time Emma had a friend over, and I'm happy to say it went very well. Her room was even still clean after her friend left!So, in a nutshell, that has been our spring so far. More details to follow! |
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