The Trip, part 1

Pin It I'm finally getting a chance to start blogging about our trip! I'm going to put it in several parts, probably not day by day though. We had a lot of rain the first part of the week, and guess who doesn't come out to play in the rain? Mr. Camera, that's who. So, there are a couple of day when there are very few pics. I never thought I would actually say this, but it was kind of nice to just enjoy ourselves without feeling like I had to take a pic of every single moment. Craziness, right?

Anyway ... we are such creatures of habit. Every time we've gone to Disney World, we go to Epcot first. I have no idea why that is. Maybe it's because if we go to the Magic Kingdom first, we'd never leave. We left here at dawn on Friday, spent the night in Tallahassee, then arrived at our cabin at Fort Wilderness resort at about 2:00. Check-in was the easiest ever. Short line, and quick! We got to the cabin, decided that we really really liked it (Brendan called it our wood house), unpacked, and headed to Epcot.

(borrowed pic of the cabin)



The kids, of course, loved everything to do with water.




Oh look, the mama DID come on the trip! We were waiting to see "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience."


I did some research and figured out how to take pics of fireworks. Go me, right? Unfortunately, the only time I had the camera actually out during a fireworks show was the first night, and we were behind a bunch of people. This is the best I got. Oh well.


And thus endeth the first day ... to be continued ...

The Trip Report

Pin It It's coming soon, I promise. We had a fabulous time until about ten miles from home, in which we had an unfortunate meet-up with some cows. Unfortunate for our van, more unfortunate for the cows. I have about a million pics to go through. I'll post a few on here, but most will be on facebook. I'm pretty sore though, so it's taking a while to get through them.

Disney was fabulous as always, and we left planning our next trip, as always. I can't wait to share our trip with you!

Soon, I promise!

Homecoming

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The Upsy Downsy Topsy Turvy Roller Coaster Week

Pin It And nope, we weren't at Disney. That's next week.

It was a wild week at our house.

Here's the whole story, and I'll try to make it concise. Last week, we took Madelyn to the doctor because she's had a lot of headaches and nausea lately. We really figured it was allergies and that it was time to treat her for them. Dr. said that's probably exactly right, but we should do a CT scan to be on the safe side. So we did.

On Monday, Jim left Afghanistan. For good. Woohoo!

On Tuesday they called and said the CT scan showed something and we needed to do an MRI. Within about an hour, she was in the MRI machine. Mommy was panicking.

On Wednesday they called and said everything looked okay. Mommy was rejoicing. Then mommy sat down and wondered if they said the BLOODWORK from the previous week was fine, or if the MRI was fine. Ugh. Finally decided to call, and it was the bloodwork. (Which is good, but it was the MRI that I was worried about.)

On Thursday, Mad spent most of the day in bed really hurting. On Thursday, I spent the day in a panic. I called the doctor and they didn't have any results yet. On Thursday, Jim left Kuwait and was back in the United States.

On Friday, Mad felt fine and we spent the whole day out of the house. It was a good day, and I decided to just wait until Monday rather than stalking the doctor's office. Then I impulsively picked up the phone and called and they still didn't have the results. Okay. Then she called back a few minutes later.

It's calcium. That's it. No big deal. It might just be something that happens, it might be something *minor* causing it. No big deal. Amazing, huh?

Oh, and Friday, we found out that Jim will probably be home on Monday. On Friday, all of the kids got to enjoy time with their friends. Mommy got to enjoy a good night's sleep.

What a crazy week. It was nice to go to bed last night and just sleep and be relaxed. Very very nice. I'd like to do that again, please.

Just a Day at the Park

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The Project Post

Pin It I've been busy lately! I just wanted to share some projects I've done around the house.

First ... about six or so months ago, I won a gift certificate from Back40Life. I'm embarrassed to admit that I forgot about it. Well, I looked right when I won but couldn't decide what I wanted it, then managed to forget. When I remembered, I saw these and had to have them.


This one is on my kitchen wall. It was a booger to get up there because the vinyl seems to hate the texture on my wall, but once it got there, it looks fabulous! I really really love it!


Then for curtains. I copied this totally from Micah, who I believe got the idea from The Nester. We desperately needed a change in the living room. A certain eight pound cat took great delight in swinging from the curtains when she was a little bit younger, and they just needed to be replaced. I found this fabric and thought it would be perfect. It was. Unfortunately ... or fortunately, depending on how you look at it, while I was there, I saw THE perfect fabric for my bedroom. I just recently bought curtains for my bedroom though. Well, after putting up the fabric in the living room, I realized that it really needed some sheers to filter out the direct sunlight we have in the afternoon. HM ... perhaps the curtains from my bedroom would be simply PERFECT for that. And they were.


But then there were no curtains in my bedroom. What to do, what to do ... hm ... So, another trip to JoAnn's was in order. And here's an awful pic of the final result in there. I really really like the curtains in the living room, but I LOVE this in my bedroom!


And now I think I'm done with projects for a little while. I'm not even going to look at the old boring curtains in the family room. Maybe I shouldn't even go into the family room for a while. I could totally work this ... the LAUNDRY room is off the family room ... yep, definitely I need to be banned from the family room for a long long time.

A simply fabulous post.

Pin It I was trying to come up with something profound to post today. I love Easter. I love to just sit back and think about what it really means. It's hard to put it into words, so once again, I'm going to use someone else's words. I love this. He posted it a few weeks ago, and reposted today, and while it's not the traditional Easter story, I just love this perspective I had never noticed on this verse. I love this view of God.

Thinking you’re naked.

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