Where have I been???

Well this time it is not because I having been feeling bad that I have been away from here.  I have had a good week with enough energy to make it through (which for me right now is a great week:).  But you may ask have I been doing with my time if not sleeping?  Well.... get ready for it because it might knock your socks off.... I have been quilting!!!

This is the wonderful book that I am using( I LOVE THIS BOOK!!!!) There is a new Material Obsessions book coming out soon and I can not wait to see it.  Anyway I am going to make this quilt out of it:

 
And I am going to rap it around me like that and run down the street.... ok just kidding... but I love it and hope it comes out nice.  My folks also gave me some money for getting fabric which my good friend Kari and I went and picked out last weekend and I have 6 count them 6 squares done!!! Here they are:

I got to go to the store and pick out 17 different fat quarters and I love them.  It is fun working with the fabric and they are coming out cute.  It might take me awhile to get it all done, but I love doing it so I hope I will keep at it.  (so why am I not working on it now you ask?  Well little Ada is sleeping in the car and the sewing machine is in the basement.... do not like to leave her up here while I am down there.)

Any how that is what is going on here.  Here are some plants that are waiting to get in the garden:

And here is a cute photo of my wonderful son (cause what blog would be complete without a kid photo right????)

He is pitching to his Dad.  He loves to play sports (I hope that some of his sports playing makes me loss a little bit of my weight (you know I have to run after the ball and all.... wait I make him run after the ball.... I may have to rethink my weight loss plan.... Oh well maybe tomorrow;)

sleeping

Sleeping...... dreaming......sleeping.......YELLING/CRYING. Why am I not sleeping anymore? More crying. Out of bed to Elijah's room

Z: what is wrong???? (very worried)

E: I had a nightmare! (still crying very loud)

Z: What was it about? ( I am very worried as I have always had very violent and scary dreams.... come to think of it I have not had any of those in a while.. think that has something to do with the happy pills?)

E: It was Easter and I was looking for my soldier mask.

Z: (getting worried)

E: And while I was looking Ada eat all the Easter egg candy!!! It made me very sad! (little sob)

Z: (smile) It is OK it was only a dream.

E: I know but it was still sad.

Z: You know that I would never let her eat all the candy.... now go back to sleep.

Boy am I glad this is all he has to have nightmares about.

A Problem that I do not mind having

Elijah had an allergy appointment yesterday. This is an every 6 months thing and we know what it it going to be like by now (long ~1.5 to 2 hours ) so we came with stuff to do, me with my book and Elijah with his Diji (he is really excited to be able to play for a long time). Well what do you think happened when we get there? That is right the silly thing is out of batteries and he says " Oh yeah I forgot to tell you it is running low on batteries!" Silly me not to of known that! Oh well we will just have to make do and we did. (Elijah found a book and started reading to me... gotta love that). So we see the doc, who BTW is THE BEST allergist in the world (OK I have not seen a lot of them but this guy is GOOD!) he sits there and answers about 1 million of my questions (that I did not know that I had;). He sometimes is in there with us for over an hour (OK most of the time he is in with us for over an hour (I have lots of questions.... no laughing... I can be a little bit of a talker). We always do the blood work before we go to see him so that we can have something to talk about (in case I should run out of things to talk about:). I do not expect anything to be any different... most of the time is test numbers are the same or wost then the last time so I do not get my hopes up. But this time his egg numbers are DOWN in half!!! (I think they are the lowest they have ever been!!!!) and the Doc says that we can try eggs cooked in things like cakes and cookies!!!!!

So you are thinking this is great but what does it have to do with your title? (if you are not thinking this it might be because I have written so much you have forgotten where I started this whole thing.... that happens to me a lot so I will wait while you look back up at the top.....................) Done yet? OK so last night I was thinking that I should go to the store and get eggs and stuff to make cookies (here comes the problem that I do not mind having) and I think to myself..... where are the eggs at the store???? I know they have eggs and they are probably in the dairy sections but it has been 6 years since I bought eggs so I am not sure:)

I did get eggs and all the stuff for cookies and I might even make the batter up (the oven is running for the next 5 hours with this chicken in it so I do not think I can make them, but I can have them ready.... or I could read a book.... not sure which will win yet:)

Hope you can all have problems that you do not mind having today.

Things I like. Things I do not like.

I do not have any photos since I put them all up yesterday so today you just get a list (and you can decide which is which)

• 10:40 naps (she was crying and I told her she could have the shirt she wanted if she took a nap or she could put a short sleeve shirt on..... she wanted her shirt and a nap.... really what I wanted too:)
• e-mails from friends far way (really far away) that know what it feels like to be sick and tiered, but can bring a smile to your face
  
• potty training that seems to be going the wrong direction (note to self pick out new fabric for chairs)
• little kids singing in front of a whole school and parents ( he did a great job)
  
• family that understands when you need a little help with silly easy things.
• a mom that knows exactly the right thing to get you for your birthday (a wonderful bracelet)
• me for being able to tell people exactly what I want for my b-day
• potty training (note to self fold the 10 loads of laundry that I have been doing)
• teachers who are wonderful and listen
• gardens that have little plants coming out (beans, beets, cauliflower, kohlrabi so far but I have not looked yet today)
• Husband that helps plant garden so I can look at it everyday and wonder what new will be coming up
• Husband that gives the kids a penny for every dandelion that they pick (stops them from seeding) (Didn't they do that in New York City with the rats?)
• wonderful friends who take your kids (thanks again Brian)
  
• potty training (note to self do not have more kids can not do this again)

I guess there where not all that many things I did not like...That makes one more thing I like, not having to many things that are bad about my life. Have a nice day.

Too many photos not enough to say

Ada and Lizzy

Yummy lunch

You would think that as much as she loves this doll she could get her some clothes;)

Pretty in Pink

Who said that leafs are just for fall fun.

Ada made this self portrait

Flowers from the garden

This is my secret tree... you can only really see it from my bathroom and my closet, but it brings me great joy.

Our giving tree

Making a river with friends

Grilled pizza (yes summer is really on the way)

Well that is all for now, but if you have time you should check out this website for humming birds.  Cool.  

http://www.ustream.tv/channel-popup/Hummingbird-Nest-Cam

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Ada can do the whole alphabet but she adds letters at the end. It is so cute.

I have been having a hard week, Mark is not going out of town because he does not feel good leaving me alone for that long... this is hard for me I am torn between loving that he cares so much for me and being sad that I have to have the extra help. This is why I have not been writing here. But I am trying to keep happy thoughts in my head... things that have been helping me with this are: (in no order)

• My Pandora Mamma Mia radio station
• Little girl with big smiles (even if she tells me that we are not the same because she is cutter;)
• Big boy with lots of hugs and loving (after he has spent the required amount of time being a "teenager" after school)
• Soul mate that loves me
• One of my best friends coming for a visit this weekend
  
• spring being here
• that wonderful soul mate saying that I could got clothes shopping with above friend this weekend
• my friends new little boy that they gave the cutest name
• the fact that right now our sofa is a river and that Ada is rowing us down the stream and singing row, row, row your boat
  

Off for now, I should feed little girl or she may kick me out of the boat. Be back soon..... I hope

Garden thinks it is Sprinkle time.

This guy just came up in the woods. Nice surprise.

I think that it is funny that my Mom and I took all these bulbs from plastic bags (no idea which was which) and the little yellow ones where all together, the white ones are all together, and  the big yellow ones are all together.

 This was my surprise for the day.  I did not know that this tree was a flowering tree and when we went to take Elijah to school today it was in bloom!

One last wood surprise.