January | 2010 | Mique's Xanga Site

New years commitment- more blogging.

This activity gives me great satisfaction, not only while I am doing it, but even months or years later when I re-read what I wrote.

The summer in summary:

We had an unusually hot summer. We did not have air conditioning at the house. The children & Dwayne suffered at home while I went to work. I questioned who was actually suffering. J We got a slip & slide. This was great fun for Georgie until she developed a gigantic bruise on her hip. Then she did not want to fling herself down any more. We had a camping trip with Doug’s kids, many good times had there. I made up some shadow boxes & gave them to the kids for Christmas. They loved it. We taught all the ladies at the lake by Doug’s house how to sit in a lawn chair partially submerged in water, Red Point old lady style. The kids swam. We all hiked. My sister in law, her husband and her new son came for a visit and my mother in law came for a quick visit as well, then completely unexpectedly, Dwayne’s Uncle Daniel & Aunt Linda came with their son. It was like a family reunion! During this time, I had off from work, a whole month off! It was fabulous, except for the major surgery part that got me the time off from work. It sure was nice to have a month off during the summer. I couldn’t do much but sit around, but I sat in some really great places.

Holiday season in summary:

We had a warm winter so far, no snow. Even though Dwayne went & bought the kids full snow playing gear. No snow, we are planning to drive up to the mountains before it melts from there. We baked cookies, snickerdoodles, pressed spritz – camels, trees & yellow flowers, sugar cookies, ginger bread, buck eyes, butter mints. Santa brought the kids a train set & a Barbie house and I got the kids a dog, named Santa’s little helper. We decorated the house and the tree, we made a ginger bread house and wrapped presents. We forgot to give Georgia’s teacher her gift, so we are saving it for the last day of school instead. I kind of forgot all about gifting to Georgia’s friends. I felt bad when she told me that the little girl she rides the bus with, Crystal, had given her a present. I won’t make that mistake again. This is new, you know. We paid off some bills, prepaid our rent for a few months and invested some cash into the stock market. Thanks to the generous stock that I had available to sell, at a price I haven’t seen since, 1999. WOO HOO Thank you Amazon.com!

Stories from the kids:

3 days after Christmas, Dwayne is lying in bed, I am at work. He can hear the kids stirring in the next room, slowly waking up, he hears this.

Dylan: Georgia! Wake up!

Georgia: No, go away.

Dylan: Georgia! Wake up!

Georgia: No, I want to sleep, go away

Dylan: Georgia! Wake up!

Georgia: No, git! I want to sleep!

Hears foot steps in the hallway…

Dylan: Georgia! Wake up! There are no presents under the tree.

Georgia: That’s because it is not Christmas! GO AWAY!

Dylan: Georgia! Wake up! Come & Play with me.