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| SummarySince Wednesday night (the time of my last post), these are the goings-on that have ...um, goed on.
I went to bed much too late.
I got up early, got ready, and went to Six Flags with my family, after picking up some friends.
Oh, wait. I forgot something.
Getting ready includes getting a haircut.
...
Yes, I know! I know! I was finally getting some length back, and making
progress in growing it out, and all that... But here's the deal:
I love my hair really short.
I love my hair really long.
In order to grow it back out, it's going to have to be in between
forever, and I hate it in between. And I'm just not ready yet. Even
though I thought I was. So, I promise I will grow it back out one day.
I really will. But I just had to cut it again. And Mama can tell you, I
was rejoicing. I think I said "Yay! I love my hair! it looks so great
now!" at least 4 times.
So... confession over.
I was absolutely insanely excited to be back at Six Flags. I love that place.
Mama, Nicholas, Joey, Abby, Alicia, and I rode the Scorcher, the Cyclone, and the Goliath. We had a marvelous time.
We went out to the van and had lunch.
After lunch, Alicia, Nicholas, Joey, Abby, and I set out on our own,
while Mama took Emmie and Ben and went to hang out with her other grown
up friends and their little ones.
From 2:30 to ... 6:30 was pretty close to miserable. I was the leader,
and a bad one at that. I had totally forgotten the layout of the park,
my feet hurt, I kept leading us in indecisive circles unintentionally,
and we didn't even do much. It was partly the fault of the increasing
line lengths. The kids rode the swings, and we stood in line for ages
upon end to ride the Batman (which I got a video of and will post on
facebook eventually), and then stood in line for more ages to ride the
Scream Machine. The line looked short, but it was deceptively slow. So,
I did have fun on the Scream Machine, but the rest of the time was a
major letdown.
We all met, left the park to go to the van and get some drinks, came back, and then we had fun.
We got to ride the Scorcher a couple times more. The front car is
totally the best. ^.^ Laura and Alicia went to ride Acraphobia while
the boys and I were stuck in line waiting for the Scorcher again, while
they were fixing "technical difficulties." After that, we all met up
and ended the night with Shake Rattle and Roll. Alicia and I had almost
as much fun dancing in line as we did on the ride. LOL I love that
ride. Only the cool slideshow of images from the 50s wasn't working!
But the music and the ride were still great.
So, the middle of the day was torture, and I'm really glad we got to go back in and have a little more fun.
This morning I was supposed to have my wisdom teeth taken out, but now
my appointment has been rescheduled for Monday. Which could be a big
problem, because I'm going to the Prayer Advance Thursday. That doesn't
leave me with a lot of healing time. I'm hoping I'll have a miraculous
recovery. I'd appreciate your prayers that the surgery would go well,
and I'd recover super-amazingly-fast. :)
I think I need to brew a little more coffee.
I'm tired.
I left the camera in the van, which I don't have access to right now, so I'll post pics when I can.
Happy Weekend, dear friends, and thank you for reading, as always.
Knowing people read my little ramblings makes me feel kinda special. :P | | |
| Happy Random Things
Happy random things. That's what most of my blog is about.
... I guess that's just what I like to focus on. Yay for Happy Random Things!
I
listed some new stuff on Etsy today. I also got the pics together for 4
other things that need to be listed. I made these hats at Aunt Cindy's.
I can't stop making pleated berets like the orange one. They're my new
favorite thing.
 
My
cute ring was put in the mail today. And so was that great Kool-Aid
yarn I ordered. And I ordered those spiffy orange buttons. Hooray for
Etsy!
But the best thing of all is SIX FLAGS!! I'm going to Six
Flags tomorrow! So. Fun. If you've known me long at all, you should
know my of my truly deep, heartfelt love for Six Flags. It's true.
My
whole family is going, Alicia's coming with us, Kasey and one of her
friends are riding with us, and Keith is going to be there, so I'll
have no shortage of interesting people to yak at. (See, the problem
with yakking at uninteresting people is that they usually don't have
good responses)
I'm taking Mama's camera (even though she's
going to be there too - I get to be the camera person, hopefully), and
I should have a nice picture post sometime hereafter.
I probably
won't be around for the next couple days though. Wisdom teeth, you
know. But regular life (= blogging) should resume pretty quickly after
that.
By the way, welcome home to Paul!
I'm
having a nice cup of coffee. I only had one little sip this morning,
which is totally unusual for me. I'm making up for it now.
And I had some of the best ginger ale in the world earlier today. Blenheim. Thanks, Katey!!
It's good to be home.
G'bye. :) | | |
| In Other News...That's one of my favorite blogging phrases. In other news...
Laura and I are going home tomorrow. I'm ready to go. I didn't think I would be, actually, but I am. Especially since we were at home very little for the three weeks before we came. I miss my family, and my crazy bird.
So, yesterday Laura, Aunt Cindy, and I had our serious girl-time. We talked on our way to the mall, then we did some shopping, and then we had dinner at P.F. Chang's.
Shopping was great. I got two really cute shirts, and an amazing pair of pants at Old Navy. Only, they're way too long even when I wear my tallest shoes. But I think I've figured out how to fix that without botching them. And I got some great denim walking shorts at JC Penney's.
Dinner was SOO good. The best part. I love Chinese. We all tasted each other's food, and each liked what we chose best. And choosing was hard. Lo Mein with chicken, beef, pork, and shrimp. SO yummy. I ate my whole meal with chopsticks. Go me! I didn't know I was so talented.  It's chopsticks for me whenever I have Asian food from now on. lol I had the leftovers for lunch today. But I used a fork.
We went to the beach again last week. And it was smelly and nasty, due to the weather having washed a bunch of seaweed ashore. We didn't stay long. On our way home, a friend of Aunt Cindy's invited us to come swimming at their community pool! So, we did, and it was a blast. It was the coolest pool ever. With a big, fun waterslide. Yay!
We've rented tons of movies the past week. We had a 3 in a row marathon last night. After watching a bunch of bittersweet/depressing movies, we finished with Martian Child. Aunt Cindy fell asleep and finally decided just to go to bed, so we watched it all by our lonely little awake selves. :D It was really good. Very heartwarming. Recommended.
After my post about my favorite things on Etsy, I was contacted by Helen of ShereDesigns on Etsy. Maker of the super-fabulous cute little bird ring that I so love. (She's ordered slippers from me before.) And guess what she did? She proposed a trade. That I send her  this beret for  that ring.
Is that cool or what? I am telling you, I was so excited I scared Anna and Sarah. I jumped up and down and clapped. And squealed "Yay! I'm so excited" more than a few times.
That's just pretty neat, if you ask me.
I also made a sale, and had 2 people message me to ask if I could make something specifically for them. So, Etsy wise, it's been a good week. Now I just need to make another sale so that I can buy supplies to please these nice people who want special orders. :D
Also, some dear, dear people have paid for Laura and Mama to go the prayer advance with me! So, we're all going! And I'm rooming with my Sarah-friend! YAY!!
Our youth group might be going to Six Flags on Thursday, and I really want to... so I hope that works out.
Friday, I'm having my wisdom teeth out. I hope I won't be useless for the rest of the weekend, but I'm sure I will be.
Next weekend is the Prayer Advancce. The Tuesday after that is my birthday! That's only two weeks away!
After that, I think the excitement will finally be over. At least until October, when we're going on vacation with the Looneys. I hope camping with the Looneys, and making at least one visit to the Fontenot's house can be managed sometime between there.
I just said ALL of that, but I really just wanted to tell you guys I thought it was cool that I used chopsticks close to effortlessly, and that I'm getting the ring I like so much. :)
Pray we'll have a safe trip home tomorrow, pretty please.
Love to all of my friends!
Me | | |
| Introspective ReflectionsI've been thinking a lot lately about whether or not I'll be going back
to teach preschool this fall. I feel like I won't be. Or at least, I'm
not anticipating it. I'm just waiting rather calmly to see what
happens, but still... I feel like it's pretty much settled that I'll be
staying home, even though nobody's
said so for sure. Maybe that unfounded uncertainty is actually God
preparing me? I don't know. But I was hit with a realization the other
day - I only want to go back for selfish reasons.
Not because "God told me to" or "I feel it's my calling." No. I want to go back because:
I like being needed.
like I'm not needed at home, right?
I like being with the kids. It's fun.
I need to be with my own brothers and sisters.
I need to work on our relationships.
I want to be like Brittany Antonion in the way that she is so sweet and so motherly and so best-friendsy with her siblings- and I know they have fun together.
I like being in charge.
I'm in charge at home, too. sort of.
Only it's so much easier to be in charge in a nice way when it's not your family.
why is that?
I
like being with the other adults. Even though I'm the kid out of the
bunch. It makes me feel like a "big kid"... Like I'm important.
As if helping and loving my own family isn't important.
I like having a reason to be up and at 'em early in the morning.
Like I don't have a reason at home.
I just don't make myself get up and attend to those reasons.
I like getting a paycheck.
...
okay, so I can't counter that one with a different source of money, but
looking at the big picture, being home is so much more worth it, right?
"My God will supply all thy needs..."
And it was somewhat of a breakthrough when I realized this next one - This is the clincher.
I really like the security of being able to tell people that I have a job.
"So, you're going to college, right?"
"no..."
"Oh?! Well, then. What are you doing?"
"Oh, I work at a preschool" is SO much more "socially acceptable" than
"I stay at home. But I know I'm doing what God wants me to do right now."
It's so much safer when you can tell people you have a job.
And there are just a few people that I really love, and have really missed this summer. But I guess nobody's to say I can't visit them.
So, it sounds to me like I need to learn to love my family deeper.
That's
sad. That I would rather give my mornings to a bunch of preschoolers
I'll only know for a year than my family. That makes me really
disappointed in myself.
This post started as a journal entry
probably two weeks ago. I was just thinking and writing. And my little
ramble about wanting to go back turned into a realization - and a
discovery of my selfish motives.
It's true. They're all selfish.
And knowing that they're selfish reasons, and that staying home is the
"Godly Womanhood" way to go doesn't make me any happier about it. Not
that I feel I'm resigned to doom and misery. I'm not really upset or
anything. I know if I don't work, and stay home, I will grow and learn.
I will honestly try to become the godliest little me that I can be. But
I like working. And I like getting a paycheck. And I like the security.
I feel like people will automatically assume that I must be a lazy,
pointless, drop-out type, or like I "haven't got my act together yet"
when I tell them I stay at home.
I know for certain that a LOT of people think things along those lines about stay at home moms.
And I admit it. I'm scared of what people think of me.
And yes, I know there's no reason to be.
But
maybe it's just time for me to be as insecure as I've ever been. Maybe
I'm supposed to be afraid and insecure, and learn to get over it. Or,
more aptly, learn to realize that my ever-present Father is the only
security I need, and the only True security I'll ever have. Not just know. There's something deeper to that word, realize.
I'm
selfish, and I guess that's all there is to it. But I really do want
what God wants, so we'll see what He's got in mind, won't we?
It's
like a battle, and I'm standing on the wrong side of the field. I'm not
actively fighting. I'm just standing, looking over to the side I ought
to be on. But even though I know it's safer over there, and even though
I know I'll be fighting for the right things over there, I'm scared to
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| These Are a Few of my Favorite ThingsI've
been browsing Etsy this morning, as I do most mornings, and I thought
it would be fun to put together a little treasury of my own, featuring
items from my favorites.  I added these to my favorites the other day. They're not the only set of yellow vintage mugs in my favorites. I love yellow. I love coffee mugs. I love vintage. How can I help it?  Now are these earrings cool or what? Permanent origami butterflies. They're beautiful, unique, and colorful. So cool.  Do you know what I would make with this amazing wool? Neither do I. Probably a beret. They're my new "thing." I've made 6 the past 3 weeks. But get this- it's dyed with Kool-Aid.  GreyBrocket
is easily my favorite seller on Etsy. Which is really sad, because as
of yet, I haven't bought anything from her. But I haunt her shop
continually. She recently added a whole collection of neat
screenprinted stuff to her assortment of amazing vintage goodies. I think this bag is my absolute favorite out of everything I've ever seen in her shop. It's yellow, and it has a bird. Happiness in the shape of a bag.  I don't think I even need to say anything about this pair of earrings. A (good) picture is worth a thousand words.  Orange vintage hoodie!! YAY!  Okay, so this is actually one thing in my favorites that I will never buy. I just couldn't justify buying a cute pillow. But I can't help loving it.
 These mugs were feeling left out, so I decided to include them, too. They're also from GreyBrocket.  I'm in love with this ring. Really.  Okay, I stumbled across these one day and had to add them. I just realized they would be perfect for embellishing my kool-aid yarn berets!
And
so, there you have a ton of my favorites in no particular order. I'm
pretty sure my favorite colors and animals are reflected quite clearly
in this lovely little list.
Please do not buy any of these things unless you're buying them for me.
Just kidding.
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