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Good evening, I'm going to blog about not blogging! LOL! I've not got a whole lot to blog about, just hanging out for a bit before putting the girls to bed, then it's Jer and I on the couch to watch Heroes from last night. It's a date! LOL! Other than that, I've got about 20 mins to kill... I guess I could fold some laundry, LOL! Or put some away... Jer would love that, bahahah. That is my LEAST favorite thing to do- put away laundry, anyone who has been to my house knows that! Hmm what else? Well I guess our plans for Halloween are going to be trick or treating around the neighborhood, and then waking up Saturday morning and going to Red Lodge. I haven't been in quite sometime and Jeremy was going to take Emma this weekend anyway, so Abby and I might as well go too. Hehe! It will be nice for the girls to see their papa and grandma on Jer's side. I haven't gone lately because Jer usually goes up on Friday and stays through Sunday, and that's just too long for me, LOL, I'm getting heart palpitations just thinking about it! So, staying over one night is the limit for me, which is what we are planning! :)
Hmm, what else? November first is National Digital Scrapbooking Day- bet y'all didn't know that, did ya? LMBO! Well, it is... and May 3rd was National Scrapbooking Day- sans the DIGITAL part... but in digital land we still celebrate w/ having sales at our stores and giving away freebies and stuff. So, November 1st is pretty exciting for us in digital scrapbooking land and I have two sales going on right now in the hopes of racking up some dough. Bahaha! So, that's what I've been busy with... oh! Emma told me she'd like to walk herself to the bus stop (which is the elementary behind our house), but I'm not 100% sure I feel comfortable with that just yet. I mean I can stand in my backyard and watch her walk the whole way there, and she knows which bus she gets on, and whom she stands and waits with etc etc, but I just kinda feel ehhhh about it. She's only 5!! We will have to see, perhaps the second half of the year we can make plans to do that. It would be nice not to have to put Abby in full snow garb (snow suit, snow coat, gloves, snow boots- and no there's no snow on the ground but it's soooo cold in the mornings) just to walk 2 blocks to the bus stop in the mornings, but it's a SACRIFICE (lol!) that I make for my child, to be sure that she is safe and gets on her bus and whatnot. I just don't feel 100% comfortable, and until I do, we'll just have to wait and see.
Well, I've rambled on a bit and here it's not even 10 after 8 pm *sigh*... I guess I will lounge on the couch w/ the girls until bed time! Ooooo, Emma just asked when it's going to be bed time! LOL! I guess I am off to go get her tucked in!!! One down, one to go! Weee!!! Night night everyone! Don't let the bed bugs bite (unless you're into that kind of thing! tee hee!)

A fabulous movie- TinkerBell!

Okay, last night the girls and I cuddled up on the couch (while Jeremy left for Red Lodge), and watched the TinkerBell movie. It was soooo adorable and one of my favorite movies now! I'm a sucker for fairies anyway, and just fell in love w/ this movie right away. It was nice and short, and captured Emma's attention the whole time, though Abby's attention span is much shorter, so she got quite fidgety, which is to be expected. I really loved the movie, and when it comes out, I want you all to check it out! Oh and at the end, Tink comes in contact w/ a little girl "on the main land" and I whispered to Emma "I bet that her name is Wendy." And Emma was like "Huh?" and then a couple of seconds later the mom in the movie called out to the little girl and said "What is it, Wendy?" and Emma gasped and was like "Oh my gosh, how did you know her name was going to be Wendy!?" and I just chuckled. Anyway, for those of you who aren't sure what I'm prattling on about here, here is a preview and the movie poster image.

Sacrifice....

sac⋅ri⋅fice /ˈsækrəˌfaɪs/ Show Spelled Pronunciation ce44[sak-ruh-fahys]

noun, verb, -ficed, -fic⋅ing.

–noun

1.	the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.

2.	the person, animal, or thing so offered.

3.	the surrender or destruction of something prized or desirable for the sake of something considered as having a higher or more pressing claim.

4.	the thing so surrendered or devoted.

5.	a loss incurred in selling something below its value.

6.

Also called sacrifice bunt, sacrifice hit. Baseball. a bunt made when there are fewer than two players out, not resulting in a double play, that advances the base runner nearest home without an error being committed if there is an attempt to put the runner out, and that results in either the batter's being put out at first base, reaching first on an error made in the attempt for the put-out, or being safe because of an attempt to put out another runner.

–verb (used with object)

7.	to make a sacrifice or offering of.

8.	to surrender or give up, or permit injury or disadvantage to, for the sake of something else.

9.	to dispose of (goods, property, etc.) regardless of profit.

10.	Baseball. to cause the advance of (a base runner) by a sacrifice.

–verb (used without object)

11.	Baseball. to make a sacrifice: He sacrificed with two on and none out.

12.	to offer or make a sacrifice.

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Origin:
1225–75; (n.) ME < OF < L sacrificium, equiv. to sacri- (comb. form of sacer holy) + -fic-, comb. form of facere to make, do ¹ + -ium -ium; (v.) ME sacrifisen, deriv. of the n.

Today I'm going to discuss something that may or may not be controversial. I'm going to discuss motherhood and what I think it means to be a mother. Obviously, with the information above, I think motherhood is about sacrifice. Now, these are all going to be my opinions and my feelings on the subject, so please, if you disagree, you may leave a comment or you may simply click the red box w/ the X in it at the top right hand portion of your screen, thank you!

Now to start off, I do believe that mothers give up a lot when entering the world of motherhood. To some, I think that it might be a shocking thing, and to others, I think they give in quite willingly. I myself, think that I gave in quite willingly, I believe that I was always destined to be a mother, and the feelings that I have for my children are feelings that I don't think I could ever experience in life without actually being a mother. I think being a mother is blessed, and a complete and utter privilege. Sadly, I do understand that there are some people who do not agree w/ that statement and feel quite the opposite, and they are most certainly entitled to their feelings. I think that some women do not quite fully grasp what it is to be a mother, what we 'give up' (some willingly, some not so much so) in order to be the best mothers that we possibly can, and some women just fail miserably every corner they turn w/ their children. There are many things that I think we as mothers sacrifice, or give up, if you will... I will list the things that I feel I have given up in becoming a mother, and the reasons behind my feelings.

As a mother, I have given up my body.

[ I have stretch marks across my belly that have Emma and Abby's names written all over them, and I fear that no amount of diet and exercise will take them away, and I am completely willing to accept this fact. I also have a large amount of scar tissue and stitches in areas I never thought I ever would, LOL! I am okay with this as well. ]

As a mother, I have given up my freedom.

[ I do not feel that I can drop everything I am doing and do whatever my little heart desires anymore. I have my priorities that I must attend to above and beyond my own. I can not sleep in until noon, and go to bed at 2 am- and I am completely okay with this. ]

As a mother, I have given up my emotional outbursts.

[ There have been times when I felt like I really needed a good cry, or a foul mouthed rant and I have caught myself because I usually have a set of blue eyes and a set of brown eyes, and 4 little ears upon me. I have quelled my wild emotions for my children and I am okay with that. ]

As a mother, I have given up my time.

[ It takes a lot of time to raise children. A lot of time in which we sit around and do little to nothing. Sometimes we might feel bored, or even overwhelmed. Sometimes we might even feel angry, or resentful. Either way, your time is not your own after you have your children. They own it and take it up freely w/o thought. And I'm totally okay with this. ]

As a mother, I have given up "party time"... ie. drinking, partying, 'clubbing', girls night out.

[ Now, I personally gave this up when I got married, because to me, it's just not necessary. I have a lot of strong opinions on mothers who act irresponsibly and remain in the "party scene" long after they are due to "settle down". I know, I know, a lot of disagreements on this topic as well, but the truth of the matter is, you're a mother, act like one. And if that is how your mother acts/acted- then break the cycle. ]

Those are just some of the things that I feel I have sacrificed when I became a mother. I truly believe inside that as a mother, you should not expect your life to be your own anymore, and that you should live and breath your children. Now I know, I'm sure I've struck a nerve there, as there are so many mothers who completely disagree with that! But that is why I prefaced the comment with I TRULY BELIEVE. These are my feelings, remember, and though you are free to disagree w/ me, please have enough respect to accept that we all have different opinions and feelings on this matter. I feel like I live and breath my children. I feel like my heart is actually beating inside my chest FOR them. Now, you ask "Well, what were you doing before they were here? Was your heart not beating for anything?" Well, it's complicated unless you felt exactly how I did! It's a different feeling than loving a mother, or a father, sister, brother or husband (in my opinion). It's something entirely different and something soul encompassing. It's motherhood. I think sometimes women do not know what 'they are in for' when walking through the door of motherhood and into the whole different world that has become your new life. I am sure there's a lot of people who think I'm loopy by now, thinking that your life doesn't have to change just because you're a mother, or just because you have given birth- but if you think about it, take a long lil sit down and think about it... life does change and it's best to just accept that change, because if you don't and are resistant, then there is going to be a lot of resentment. I can say that I have felt lost through my journey of motherhood. I have felt alone. I have felt misunderstood and just really, really tired. I've felt every emotion known to man along my (short) motherhood journey, and I know that there is so much more left for me to go through as my children grow older. There will be different chapters in my life, different pages of my life book to turn, but I will make myself stop, when the road begins to get hard, and I will remember that I am a mother, and it's my responsibility to guide my children, and to protect them for the rest of their lives (yes, even into adulthood. I'm "that" type of mother).

I believe that we sacrifice a lot when we become mothers. I do not believe that the sacrifices are negative. I think they are all wonderfully positive, and necessary in order for us as women to grow and raise our children in the proper way. I wish all of the mothers that read this good luck in your journey. It's going to be hard, easy, painful and happy all in one breath and it's going to be well worth it. Don't ever look back because the person that you were before your children is no longer, you are now amazing, powerful and simply... a mother. Enjoy it.

Goooood Evening....

Hello, hello! It's evening here in the Bryan Household, and Jeremy's upstairs configuring a wireless modem/router while I and the girls... myself and the girls?? eh, whatever... while us... we? girls are here downstairs cleaning up and playing a bit before bed. About 10 more minutes and the girls are going to bed, weeee! I just took the pictures off my camera and thought I would blog about my gorgeous girls, lol! After removing their devilish red eye, I'm ready to post them! LOL! I had a fairly boring day, it was early out for Emma today, so I got her at 2:15, and then she came home, snacked and passed out, heheh. Poor stinker, I swear she's had a cold since school started! She's just always congested, hmph. Okay... I'm starting to yawn now, onto the pictures, then to toss the girls into bed and onto the couch it is for me and Jer to catch up on some DVR'd tv shows! Weee!

 

Emma is forever doodling on my note book *sigh*. And you can see where I had to write down a phrase that a customer wanted on her blinkie! LOL!

 

Abby doesn't look pleased in this picture, hehe! And her shiner is getting uglier and uglier every day! Ick!

 

LMBO!!!! Abby's in my computer chair spinning around- yes... with no pants on, she never has pants on!

 

Emma today after school- yes, I make my daughter wear skulls!! ;)

  

This evening after bath! Cozy sisters!

Candy corn madness, poor Sampson & The Girl Scout Promise...

LMAO @ my title for this blog huh!?!? Hahah! Okay to start off... sheer and utter madness over at my joint when Emma gets out of school at 3 pm. We get home, make a snack of toast w/ strawberry jam and then she's all hopped up! She always bounces off the walls when she gets home, sometimes she's tired and lays down for a few minutes, but that's pretty rare these days. I made the mistake of giving Abby a piece of candy corn and now she's going insane, begging for more and trying to the push the chair over to the counter to obtain the sacred candy of pure sugar. *sigh* So... when we walked through the door today, Emma informed me that something "bad" happened today at school. I inquired and after a few "well, well well..." (she stammers when she's excited or is thinking too hard) she lets me in on the fact that Sampson (I could be spelling the fellow's name entirely wrong, but for now, it shall remain) pee'd his pants in class today. Poor Sampson!!! Emma pee'd her pants on the 3rd day of school and it was pretty sad. I had to take her a spare change of clothes, it was more traumatic for me, I think, than her. Anyway, back to Sampson... I was in the midst of dropping two pieces of wheat toast into the toaster, as Emma explained something that I found quite odd.... She said that when the teachers' got the "light on", that no one can talk to her. And when she turns the "light off", then students are allowed to talk to her. While said "light" is on, the students are free to chat amongst themselves, but apparently not to the teacher (as Emma explains)... Well the light was "on" when poor little Sampson felt the urge to go potty, and since he's not supposed "to talk to the teacher while the light is on", he pee'd his pants. Does this sound very odd to anyone else, or is it just me? Why would the teacher implement such a thing, it sounds absurd. And Emma went on to say that the teacher told the classroom after the mishap w/ poor little Sampson, that even if the light is "on", and you have to use the potty, you may talk to the teacher... ?! I got a little upset, and irritated, which Emma thought I was getting fiesty and mad at HER (which I wasn't, but she's 5, she doesn't know any better)- and had a little rant. I probably should have kept my mouth shut because the next thing you know, Emma's going to be at school repeating my choice words about her teacher's strange "light on/off" thing. Hahah! I can see it now! *sigh* So, perhaps I will bring it up during parent/teacher conferences sometime the first week of Nov- I'm not sure which day we will get assigned to go in, but I'm very much so looking forward to Jeremy and I sitting down with her to see how she thinks Emma is doing.
Ahhh... the third Tuesday of the month... Girl Scout night. Hopefully tonight will be a little more thrilling than last meeting where we just signed stuff, introduced ourselves and were told to pimp out (sell) magazines and nuts. Ugh. We haven't sold anything, and I'm okay with that. I feel funny about pimping my child out there to sell Girl Scout goods anyways... but you better believe that when cookie time comes (I guess Jan or Feb), we'll be selling our little butts off... well probably selling to OURSELVES! Haha! That should be fun. So, we've been going over the Girl Scout Promise that Emma needs to memorize in order to recieve a badge- well her's are called "petals" because she's a Girl Scout Daisy. So are you guys ready, because here we go:

"On my honor, I will try:

To serve God and my country,

To help people at all times

And to live by the Girl Scout Law"

Now, I won't go into the Girl Scout Law, it's quite long and involved and my Carple Tunnel is acting up, LOL! But, she'll have to memorize both of them eventually. *sigh* This Girl Scouts thing is kind of tiring. Anyway, so I have beef boiling away for strogenoff this evening to eat before we head out at 6 pm for our meeting. I hope it's not nearly as long as it was last time, and the leader said that all meetings wouldn't go as long, but you never know. I can't imagine trying to wrangle 12 5 year olds, AHHHHH! My head would spin right off my shoulders. I will be in attendance to all of her meetings, I'm not the kind of mother that drops their kids off with strangers to bounce around a room for an hour- I gotta be involved, yanno! Okay, well that was my big blog for the day. Thanks for reading! :)

Poor lil Abigail! :(

Awwww! I was cleaning out the freezer this afternoon and Abby was running around in the kitchen and just as she came over and looked up to see what I was doing, a frozen baggie of stew meat slid out of the freezer right into her face!!! AHH!!! It caught right beneath her eye and there's a little welt there now! My poor little stinker pie, I felt so terrible that, after I hugged and shh'd her, I grabbed the candy corn and gave her some! Isn't that bad?! I give my children candy when they get hurt! Hahah! It immediately calmed her down, so much so, that I was able to get a little bit of ice on it, so the swelling would go down some. Ugh, talk about feeling like a bad mommy, *sniff sniff*. Emma's all concerned, she usually is about BIG stuff, but not about like, oh... cleaning her room. ARGH! I guess what is big to me, isn't big to her! Hmm, so we've just hung out today, it's just gorgeous out and the girls spent the early afternoon outside in the backyard playing. It's scary out there though, so it's usually not for long. There's tree branches everywhere and Abby tends to wander over to the neighbors where the fallen tree branches are MUCH worse when she gets bored. There also another thing... and odd thing, the wasps. They wake up when it gets warm outside, and they are EVERYWHERE. I'm getting tired of them and fast. I am thinking about perhaps wasp traps. I don't like inhumane things like traps and whatnot, but there is a wasp nest about every five feet in our backyard. Seriously!! The other day Abby went out to play and the wasps had just woken up and were swarming about, and I noticed she had one crawling on her sweater, so without freaking out the kids, I just grabbed a towel and scooped it off. Then about 5 minutes later, we were going out to the car to leave for the store, and Jeremy shouts at me after putting her in her seat "There was another one on her!" and it was crawling off on the ground. Ugh. Those freakin' things. They wake in the sun and just start flying into the window and glass back door. It's insane, they are just too much! Anyway, enough wasp ranting and raving. I just looked out the window and it appears that the elderly neighbor lady has an equally if not elderly....er man friend over to browse at the fallen and dangling branches. I sure wish she would do something about them, it's quite the eyesore- that along w/ the wasps as thick as theives out there. But the wasps aren't her problem, obviously!
The day seems to be crawling right along, and it isn't helping that I'm rather nauseated feeling. Just an upset stomach I acquired after eating Pizza Hut last night, but Emma HAD to have pizza yanno. @@-silly girl. I just feel BLAH and haven't been able to shake it all day. Ho hum, so that is my life. Jeremy will be home tomorrow night sometime, which will be nice. :) I miss him a bit this weekend!
OMGosh! I have to mention, that the elderly...er fellow out the back window, just wandered into our yard, perusing the branch that is hanging directly above the girls' playhouse and he kicked a big ball out of the way and almost fell! I guess that isn't very funny, he could like, break a hip or something, but he staggered a bit and regained his balance. Sadly, my hopes in him removing the wreckage is dwindling! *sigh* Anyway, here's some parting pictures of my poor Abigail and of Emma's favorite past time- doodling in my note book.

Poor girl w/ candy corn all over her face!

Munchin' on some play food


Emma doodling...


big smile! :)

Hello! :)

Well hello little blog readers! Sorry I haven't blogged lately, just kinda trying to get through a cold that Emma and I both have. Oddly enough Abby and Jeremy appear to be fine. Abby's a wee crankier than usual, but I think that's because of her age! ;) Anyway, not much to update. Our feet of snow has since melted and beneath it, in our backyard was chaos! The fallen branches were exposed and Jeremy dragged them into the neighbors yard, they are her branches after all! LOL! But there's still one branch that hangs so low, and is broken, but not completely, so we can't get it down. Jeremy's gone out there and tried pulling on it, but it's sooo big, he's worried it will fall on him and cause some damage! LOL! So, I haven't let the girls out of the house because the branch hovers right over the entry to the playhouse, the dang thing! I wish the neighbor would call someone to have it taken down. Grrr.
So today is officially "Emma cleans up her room day"... I have to say that it's not going well. It usually takes about 6 hours total for her to get it completely done, but then things are placed in odd little nooks and cranies- which makes me cringe since I am kind of a "everything should go in its proper place" type of person. I've learned over the years to let that go though, kids do that to you! Anyway... Jeremy will be off to Red Lodge tonight probably to help his folks out (and to get paid for doing it, of course). So it's just going to me and the girls this weekend. Jeremy's skipped the last two weekends (one due to Abby's birthday), so I know he's itching to get ou there and get busy.
Over the last few days I've worked on a few digital scrapbooking designs, and put them in their proper stores. I'm feeling like I'm getting further and further behind today, so I better get my backside upstairs and get a shower in while Abby's napping and Emma's cleaning her room!!! Thanks for stopping by!

Winter storm warning...

So, we are in the midst of a winter storm warning for our sleepy little town. If you compare the pictures from last night, to the ones I'm going to post in a moment, you'll see that there is a huge difference! It's just been snowing NON stop! Poor Emma, she's our little worry wart, and it's like the worry consumes her. She's quite emotional as well and emotion mixed w/ worry makes for a very miserable 5 year old, that is for sure. I think I will bundle both children up and throw them outside to play close to the house today (they are not allowed to go to the playhouse or further into the back yard due to tree branches that are snappin' like they were little twigs- super scary- you'll see in the pictures) today, just to kind of split up the monotony of being house bound. Anyway, here's some pictures that were taken this morning.

 

Look at all the snow on that little table!!

Guess we won't be doing much grilling~ bahahah!

 

  

Fallen tree branches.

Jeremy says if some of the heavier top branches fall, that the playhouse will be dead! :(

There's cold... and then there's COLD!

Hi all! Well, we're are in the middle of our "first snow" of the year and we are getting what my husband would call "a good pounding". LMBO! ;) Anyway, so on Tennies Tuesday (PE day for Emma in Kindergarten) Emma explained to me that her teacher was sneezing and coughing and that Mr. Weather Crab (a crab hand puppet that her teacher uses to express the weather of the day- Emma's his #1 fan, I'm pretty sure!) had a cold too. So, then on Wednesday, we were experiencing a bit of a runny nose, and by today both Emma and myself are full blown "sick". Le sigh. Ah well, we're trying to make the best of it, being cooped up in the 'sick house' with tons of snow going on! For dinner tonight we had my fave- taco salad, and I'm making Blondies for desert. What's a blondie, you ask? Well they have this amazing desert at Applebee's, it's a walnut and white chocolate blondie (which is a brownie, minus the dark chocolate) w/ this amazing maple walnut drizzle over the top, oh w/ vanilla ice cream too! LOL! So I found this recipe online and am making it! Mmmm, the blondie is baking now and it's lovely smelling already! The drizzle/sauce is quite tasty as well! :D I will have to let you all know how it turns out! Perhaps I will take some photos! I love reading blogs that photograph their food endevours, I'm a total dork like that. Anyway, I have some parting pictures for you all- enjoy!

 

Abby & Daddy chillaxin'

 

Abby bundled up, getting ready to walk to Emma's bus stop to pick her up. 

 

And... the current weather as of Saturday Oct. 11th, 5:55 pm. Lots of... snow!

Oh yummy!

Okay, so I am back. In between the time when the girls ... omg speaking of the girls... I just had to take a break to go tend to them, they are both off the wall this evening! LOL! Abby fell, Emma's crying, Abby's crying... AHHH!!! Calgon, take me away! Bahaha! Ya right, huh? Anyway, I just wanted to pop in and give a little notable mention of something so tasty and yummy, I can barely stand it! heheh! They are called Aplets and Cotlets, and Fruit Delights. They are odd little yummy, gummy things w/ nuts in them, covered in powered sugar. Now anything covered in powdered sugar, is the bee's knee's right?! Totally... anyway, during the holiday season Costco has a 3 pack of them for about $10.50 or so. You get one fruit delight box and two aplets and cotlets boxes. I'm in heaven! I remember them from growing up for some reason, I think my mom used to buy them or something, I just have fond memories of the little goodie for some reason. Anyway, I'm pimping out Liberty Orchard this evening! If you haven't tried them, find them, and LOVE them! I like the fruit delights a bit better, because there's more variety, like pineapple and macadamia nuts! Oh yummmy! I'm headed off to the box of sheer happiness now!

 

 

http://www.libertyorchards.com

Howdy!

Hello, hello! Here I am, doing my blogging for the day. It's kind of late, so I will attempt at making it quick. Today was a... CHILLY day! Whew! There's a serious cold front comin' through here and they are calling for snow and all that unplesant stuff this weekend. Blah. I was hoping for snow'less fall, le sigh. Right now it's drizzling and I'm in my cozy home, gazing out the window I sit directly in front of. I had to turn the heat on today for the first time, which was kind of stinky for the first 15 minutes or so. LOL! Hasn't been ran in a while! Hmm, what else? Abby was woken from her nap early at around 1 pm, to run to Costco w/ Jer. It was a quick visit, but efficient, as we picked up what we needed. Even hopped over to Target quickly before having to be home by 3 pm to pick Emma up at the bus stop. All was well, except for the plumetting temperature! Brrr! Now, I've got approximately 17 minutes left on my breaded, baked thick cut pork chops, and I've just finished up mashing the potatoes. Shortly I will be putting on some gravy and figuring out a vegatable to devour. I'm ravished! Oy! So, Abby's grumpy because of the cut short nap- which is never fun- a grumpy 2 year old. My gosh, lately she's just sooo emotional and grumpy! We didn't really go through too much of the 'terrible twos' with Emma, she started around 18 months, and it lasted for a few months before she kinda just mellowed out. Abby's in full swing, causing chaos every five minutes lately. It's kind of unsettling. LOL! Oh well. That is life. Ugh. I am tired. I went to bed a little late. We watched Smallville and the movie, Strangers. The movie was alright, I suppose. At first, it freaked me out so bad that I was actually sick to my stomach, nauseated! LOL! Then it kind of just dragged on and was predictiable and had a retarded ending. Grrr. Hate that. Big build up and bad ending. Okay, well the fam damily is starving as am I and there's approximately 11 minutes of pork chop cooking left. I must make gravy! Ta Ta for now! Oh, here's some pictures before I go!

Who needs expensive toys, when I have CARDBOARD!

Pardon my husband...

Pardon my freaky-deaky husband. He loves his job, honest! LOL! I just wanted to pop on here and express my excitement... SIX more pages! Only SIX pages to go and my family website is completely transferred over! I'm soo excited, I can hardly stand it! Hahah! Ah well, after reading the blog, I guess Jeremy is on his way home now, I better go pretend like I've been doing housework all day and slaving over a hot stove (bahahahah!)...

Here's a picture of the day! :D

10-8-08
Emma {5}, Abby {2}

So, the question of the day is........

Do people think that when they give over a computer, you will see nothing of what they have been doing, viewing, downloading, installing? I had a customer straight up lie to me about what AV software he was using, lie about when the problems first started occurring, and lie about how he tried to "fix" his computer. I am God in my world....I see everything and I know everything. Just be honest and tell me you were trying to get free porn and how long you have been attempting to fry your computer..oops, I mean fix your computer. That was my daily vent. About time to go see the girls now. Peace out...

Taking a break...

I thought I would take a break from doing the website thing, I've done like 10+ pages today, so my eyeballs are spinnin' in my head a little bit! Thought I would blog for a few while my left overs for lunch heat up.

So, last night was our first Girl Scouts meeting. It seems like it will be alright. A bit involved, but Emma seems to like it. I think the socialization will be good for her. Last night we just did the 'technical' stuff, like signed papers, got the list of stuff we have to purchase, and information on our first sale, which is a nut & magazine sale. I think I might buy me some nuts, LOL. Other than that, on Monday, I think we will go to the Girl Scouts store (never knew there was such a thing!) and pick up the required garb etc etc. So we were there for a bit last night, and when we got home, it was bath and bed time. Then, it was mommy and daddy time, on the couch to watch Heroes and Life on the DVR. Ahh- relaxation time! LOL!

I thought I would do an ABOUT US page for Jeremy and I, kind of like a chronilogical outline of when we met, got married, had the girls, etc etc. I might work on that today, but I think I will have to wait until tonight because I'm not very good w/ dates, hehe! Jeremy remembers just about everything, so he's my go to guy for dates and whatnot. I guess it will be 'in the works', so to say. Hmm, other than that, I've just been super busy w/ the website today. I'm probably more than half way done and will be so happy when I'm all the way done. Oh wow, it's been time consuming and annoying, but a blessing in disguise! I love having my own site. Oh! Earlier today I was sitting at my computer, per usual, and I'd just let Abby out back to play, and from where I sit, I can see directly out the window to where she was playing, and I was working on a page, and I heard a really loud sound, like wooden sounding, and I looked up and Abby's flat on her back at the entrance to the playhouse, and she's wailing in pain. POOR STINKER! OMG! I jumped out of my seat and ran outside through the yard and scooped her up to bring her in the house. I sat her on the kitchen counter after a few shh's and a few minutes of just holding her and rocking her, and her finger was owied a bit, kind like a blood blister on one of her fingers, and I thought that was it, but then I noticed her HEAD! Oh my gosh, her forhead had a huge goose egg on it, and I'm just wondering what the heck happened? I wonder if she was running through the enterance of the playhouse and didn't quite make it? or something? Hit her head on the something, or other?! I have no idea, but I put ice on her head and it wasn't bothering her as much as her finger, which she wouldn't even let me go near, she was in a lot of pain. Poor girl! I distracted her w/ jelly belly's while I put a bit of ice on her forehead and gave the rest of her body the once over. Awwww. So that was my morning! Whew! Now, she's napping, I hope she wakes up feeling a bit better, the poor booger butt! Alright. Well, my lunch is calling me, so I better go get my grub on, so I can get back on here and work on a few more pages before calling it quits for the day. Emma's got early release on Wed's, so I have to pick her up at the bus stop at 2:15pm today. Until next time!

HA HA! I told you!

I told you guys that he'd be a bloggin' fool in no time!!! HIP HIP HOORAY FOR BLOGGING!

Excuse me, I blogged.....

This is just a blog about how blogging blog the word blog is. Whose feeble mind came up with the word blog. I used to wake up feeling blog, or fearing that I may fall into a blog. Often times I get to the point where I am prairie bloggin' it. I just don't get the word blog. Maybe those with a stuffy nose would blog it, maybe the people in France drink blog with their cheese? Anyway, I must leave now, time to go blog the wife.

Kinda like being force-fed.....

According to my wife, this is going to be my new favorite past-time. Cause mommy is a blogging freak(in her own words).

Well, today was a busy day. All of the other techs were off site doing other things, so I had to handle all of the service calls and in-shop repairs that came in today. It made for a very fast paced day. I had to break the news to an 87 year old woman that her past 9 years of geneaology crashed hard along with her hard drive. I hope she had a backup. For those of you that are not "in the know", I am a computer tech.....so I get to see everyone's dirty little secrets(just kidding..............no i'm not). So this is my first shot at "blogging" and it is going to be short and sweet, so until next time. I'm out this b***h!!!!!

1st post- Welcome!

Howdy all! LOL! Well, since I've got a brand spankin' new website all to myself (www.simplythebryans.com), I thought I should do up a blog for those every so often updates that don't really require pictures! Well, there will be pictures posted here, I'm sure- I just love pictures, but mostly a lot of reading! I will try and remind myself to blog frequently, and get Jeremy into gear to post as well. I told him I'm setting up a blog for our family website, and he said "I don't know how to... blog." Hahah! I'm going to give him a crash course in bloggin' tonight when he gets off work, you better believe it! Pretty soon he'll be bloggin' from work! LOL!

So, what's the blog buzz today? Not too much, right now I just got out of the shower, and Abby's napping. Emma's in school until 3 pm. She's doing so amazingly well in kindergaten! It was pretty rocky at first, but we adjusted and got through it and actually today's the very first time she's 'complained' about school. This morning I went in to wake her at 7:10 am, and she sat up, groggy and said "Man, I sure can't wait until it's Saturday and Sunday... I just want to sleep." LOL! Isn't that sweet? She's getting the drift! I prayed for weekends when I was in school, hehe! But over all, she is excited to go, and doing very well on her progress reports (actually above average... Jeremy would say that is because of his gene's) and I couldn't be happier! I was nervous when she first started school, I honestly didn't know what to expect, she's my first child and she didn't attend preschool nor has she ever been in any form of 'daycare', so it did take an adjustment period of a week or so to get into the groove. And here we are groovin' away! Actually, tonight we start Girl Scouts! The first week or so of school Emma brought home a Girl Scouts flyer for kiddo's that were interested in signing up and so I explained to her what it was about and she was (overly) enthusiastic. There will be some girls from her school and class, so she will feel super comfy, I am sure! And I will attend meetings with her as well, but kinda hang in the background so she can have a sense of independance, which will be nice. She will be a Daisy Scout, and I'm sure after tonight's meeting (they determine which style of uniform that we need to purchase) there will be a lot of fun pictures! Well, I haven't worked on the website today, which is shocking, I usually have updated a few of the pages by now, trudging along through the whole thing- oy! It's going to take a miracle for me to get through it all. I guess I am averaging 3 pages a day... hopefully I will have it all transfered over to our host by Oct 31st- doomsday for AOL Hometown (where I have been hosting my family related pages for about 5 years now!)- hehe. Wish me luck! Hmmm, I think I will go dive into a tub of artichoke jalepeno dip and some crackers before having to scurry to the bus stop to pick up Emma. Hope you all enjoy this little personal family blogging endevour. You'll be hearing from Jeremy later tonight! :)

~Sarah