a hair blessing

so, this morning i went out and about and tried finding babygates for henry--our staffy puppy--he needs them, i need them. no luck though. everyone must have given these as christmas gifts or something...and i need a longer than a regular size door one. i left the house first thing, feeling rather annoyed at the dogs, annoyed at having to go out in this very cold weather...and i had quite a headache already from this cold that wont quit.
so anyway...

on a back note** i have been feeling rather yuck lately--physically mainly, cause i am on a quest to feel better mentally ...but my body is not matching up to a picure of good health either....i have a little head cold, added on to just feeling fat and tired and cranky...you get my picture. well throw into that mix a bad haircut. that i have been trying to grow out a bit to re-cut it to my old good style. so...i was out window shopping with a frown...when the guy at starbucks calls out to me--hey i really like your hair! What-me? yup he was talking to me. he said it looked really good on me...well, that was pretty nice. i smile and say thanks. thinking maybe hes making fun of my lame hair....
i continue on to another store...a lady stops me and asks if i get my hair done around here anywhere. what ??? again, i feel guilty saying, oh i just washed it this morning and did a little poof here, straightening iron there. but gee--thanks.
i go to a little craft store next that ive never been in. and the check out lady says--oh, honey your hair is so cute. ok, this is the point where i almost lose it. let me just say that I about cried. i felt my nose burn and when i cry i get red blotchies all over my chest--and i could feel them forming..but i held it in, took the compliment and walked out of that store....

with a bigol' thank you Lord for that one. cause i sure needed that. i mean goodness. here i was feeling frumpy and lumpy and my hairs been falling out again cause of these stupid stress cycles i seem to be stuck in...and 3 different people, in 3 different stores in a matter of 1 hour tell me how cute my hair is...when i have been feeling so crappy about it for weeks. it was just plain awesome. well, it just goes to show you what the kindness of others can do for someone. lift them up--thats what. i just needed that. ya know? and the strange thing is....people here in maryland are not so nice at first. i mean, they are a tad standoffish...so its not like you go walking around town, and everyone is bestowing compliments left and right. so you can imagine, it was a real surprise and treat for me.

that was a little blessing from God just for me. it has kept a smile on my face all day--just in time to help lighten my mood for my husband's return from a few days away.

maybe i should take a photo of my hair today so i can see what everyone else saw??? :)

xoxo

a week into 2009

everyone is back to school and work and life is in a good place.

things around the house are beginning to feel better. i am slowly--very slowly getting rooms clean, keeping up on the never ending laundry--making an actual to do today list and DOING those tasks. yeah....it is amazing what i can do once i actually get up and do them.

on a personal note**ive pretty much decided to let go of some things that have been really making me feel crappy and try my hardest to move forward. hard to do. its like i like being sucked into a fog or something. i guess in a way, ive been letting some things cripple me. not feeling able to see the positive and thats just so lame. i see the good part of doing that for awhile. perspective, truth lessons, etc. but when its enough, its enough. i know i am being kinda vague, its like airing your dirty laundry without actually putting it outside. :)

after months of stumbling around here, letting myself sink into a big chaotic emotional funk... i just feel ready to go-to try-to step forward-to start....all those things. and its about damn time. seriously. its nice that this is coinciding with the start of a new year. back to my fresh start feelings, and new life stories.

time to grow and make some goals of my own and take little steps to work at them. could be exciting really, if i wasn't so dingdang scared to start new things. but, this fear will never go away if i dont do something about it, right? yeah, i finally see that. well honestly, ive seen it in the past, but wasn't ready to do anything about it. im in a weird spot. being a stay at home mom to kids who are in school all day. no one to care for during the day. what do i do with myself? getting an actual part time job is becoming something of a challenge. i still need to be home on sick days, before the kids leave for school and return. so my options are limited as far as time goes. and then there is the story of my skills--or lack of. all of those things are swirling around in my head...mixed with my fears of moving forward, stepping out of my comfort zone. well you get the picture.

i am working on it, and that is a good thing.

i am also going to be opening a little online crafty shop pretty soon. where i will place the things i have made for sale to others...so whenever you may be in the need for a small handmade gift, you can pop onto my site and see if anything of interest is there for you....made by little ol' me.

something i am overly excited about and adding to my list of small personal goals.

and cause i love to add photos in my posts..ill leave you with a pic of me and the gang on a recent trip to DC. it is pretty exciting to be around here right now. esp, with all the hubbub of a new President and all. lots of new possibilities for everyone.

*oops photos automatically go to the top--how do i insert them where i want them????

xoxo

a few photos to share

just wanted to pop in and share a few recent pics of the kids. logi and his froggies, camille and her uggs & twilight t, and isabelles and her broken arm. when i look at pics of them, i wonder how they got so dang big.

xoxo

merry merry christmas

merry christmas my friends and family. what a beautiful time of year. nothing like God's biggest blessing in our lives to remind us of the little things too.

the williams family has a very fun, warm, and adventurous christmas day.
the kids got many gifts to enjoy...camilles favorites were her vera bradley mini backpack, a cd/radio alarm clock, a twilight poster& tshirt...along with some books, clothes and craft supplies. Isabelle got a pink nintendo ds (so she could stop stealing logan's each night), a few barbies, some books, her own xbox 360 controller, a pet frog--two actually she named them bubbles&squirt. she also got some clothes and crafty things. Logan got some games for his nintendo, a skate ramp, some action heroes, his first chargers jersey, some books, clothes, and two pet frogs which i dont think he has decided on permanent names yet. ALL three kids also got brand new bikes. amazing mountain bikes that will last them through high school...well the girls' will, logan will need a new one when he is taller. after the excitement settled, we took the kids to the school to ride their bikes, and before alex could finish giving them instruction on riding bikes with gears, hand brakes etc...

our miss izzybusy takes off...does a loop around and ends up speeding down a hill, throws her front brake on, which of course flips the back of the bike up, throwing her feet over head forward off the bike onto the ground...camille runs over helps her...and as we are running to get to her...we discover that she has indeed ate shit (sorry) and broken her little left arm.

so the williams family gets to spend christmas day in the local Emergency Room, getting our baby girl a temp cast put on her arm. today we go to the dr. for a real set up. so the cast means no more basketball--her team is gonna be disappointed cause she was a star at it. no more brand new bike to ride, and she can barely hold her new nintendo. a lesson in listening to daddy i guess.

we are always full of stories, us williams'. something is always happening to us. i figure it just adds to the character of our family. we keep things up and moving...exciting...esp. when it concerns isabelle.

oh yeah. terry and her husband tom are spending the holiday with us...for a few more days. and i got a HUGE surprise from alex. if you know him well, you'll know he never gives me gifts. just never. i can count on one had and have leftover fingers the number of anniversary, birthday, or christmas gifts he has given me. BUT we sweet man outdid himself and made up for it all. he got me my very own laptop. and its a beautiful deep blue. i love it, i was so happy and surprised, i just cried and cried. that stinker. love him.

well gotta run to the DRs for izzys cast now. everyone else in enjoying a visit to DC today...but we'll get her fixed up and on her way to healing.

chat soon.
again.
merry christmas.
xoxo

OMGOSH!

YES!

i am a total nerd. i just don't care. yesterday camille and i went to see *twilight*. i LOVED it. yup, i really enjoyed the movie. it was probably cheesy, the flying up in the trees and all...

but who cares? it was a beautiful match for those dang books that i was so addicted to reading.
after watching the movie, i wanted to go home and read the first book again. seriously. how could you not love edward & bella??? i mean, HOW? silly as it may seem, i felt so happy watching that movie. i'm glad camille and i could watch it together (along with all the other tweens, teens and college girls and moms in the theater :)).

i think i'm on the lookout for a twilight tshirt...just to show my love and wear around the house, what do you think? and i am SO getting the movie soundtrack. it was fabulous. it reminds me of my old nkotb obsession when i was a teenager. of course not as huge as back then...cause i'm an adult, and a mom and all...but anyways. i totally loved all 4 books, and the movie was great. i read somewhere that they would make a movie of *new moon* the second book--geez I hope so.

see?? total nerd here. a happy one.

xoxo

ps. i am on team edward in case anyone wanted to know. (that means i like bella with the vampire edward, not the wolf jacob)...how could you not be on edward's team? who wouldn't fall in love with some immortal, teenage, beautiful vampire like edward--he even plays classical piano? hello? i mean, come on. yes, i vote for edward.

feeling fallish...

so--i made some cards yesterday (and finished today) while alex was at basketball tryouts with isabelle and camille. it's called try-outs but i think everyone makes the team, they just check out your skill level to put in a group that fits. yes--the girls are playing winter basket ball. i know, nothing i would have ever thought they'd do. really its just the only sport offered here until spring when Lacrosse starts. no biggie. boys can choose basket ball or wrestling. guess who starts wrestling on monday night? little logan-lover-baby. yes, i'm not ready for it. but he needs something and he sure needs something to toughen him up at least a notch or two. the boy has spent his whole life at my side...and it's not that it's a bad thing--shoot to be honest alex is the one who signed him up, without checking with logan or me. but what can you do when daddy grew up wrestling, and you've spent your first eight years glued to your mama's hip??? nothing.

i am praying that he'll at least like it...some. and if by some chance the sweetest boy ever takes to it--great. :)

so...back to my blog title.

i was feeling fallish yesterday...well its been days really. so I made some cards...i am going to send them to my very good friends. kinda like a thanksgiving card--but more something to let my girlies know how much i appreciate them and am grateful for their always being there for me. i'm even going to write notes inside and mail them out monday or tuesday. i have the stamps and envelopes all ready!!!

my next project is a birthday gift for my very bff* yolanda. her birthday is coming up in like a week...oh i better get off here and get to work. alex is off at b-ball again this afternoon. have i mentioned how great it is to have my husband home for some of these extra activities that he's missed for years?? oh, well, it's heavenly i tell ya. :)

peace on this sunday afternoon.

ps. check out L-DOG with the lil pumpkin--crazy boy!

xoxo

the last month...in no particular order

playing with doggies

neighborhood fun

trip to DC

alex sick in hospital

carving pumpkins

house floods and ceiling falls into basement floor

Camille turns 12!!!

leaves changing colors

more buster and henry fun

lots of leaves to rake in the yard

a few of my paper creations for my SU! uplines contest

so...some of that about sums up the past few weeks.

i know there has been LOADS more...but just wanted to finally pop in here and at least do some sort of catch up.

it's funny how on some weeks are just so full of stuff--and can be overwhelming, and then other weeks--only daily routines, which blurr the days.

we are full swing into November. sheesh. can hardly believe that.

trying to settle myself and get some holiday projects done. kinda hard though, with the whole flooded house thing.....my creative space is temporarily on hold...i did move my table and a few things upstairs so i could work on things as time permits.

we had an emergency health scare with alex, but things are looking better now. camille turned 12--which is crazy that my first little baby girl, can be so old, but she is. she listens and dances around to music, is constantly on her cell phone, using the computer, asking for more and more big girl privileges. She is doing great in middle school too, i am so proud of her, for adjusting so well this year.

anyway. lots of big and little stuff going on around here; preventing me from blogging. (nothing new there).

i am looking forward to the Twilight movie coming out in a few weeks... i will totally be going to see that. LOVED those books, they sure suckered me in. Remember me blabbering about how I just loved those silly vampire books. yup--still do.

i've got some cleaning to do so...

enjoy your friday my friends.

xoxo

ps. dontcha just love alex and i in matching tshirts? those are his last troops tshirt. and he gave me one, and i said hey--that looks kinda scary i could wear that for halloween, so we were twins for the day. :)