dinner at Cassandra's

Cassandra cooked us dinner, it was very good. She made chicken enchiladas and spanish rice. I enjoyed spending time with her and the kiddos! We went and played outside after dinner and Aden and Abby showed me how they can ride their scooters and skateboards. I read them a few stories, I was doing a trial run for tomorrow. I am excited about doing head start, but a little nervous.
My mom sold 2 cards that she made-is that not awesome! Woohoo mom! She soon will have her own sideline job going making the big bucks!!!
I am gathering crafts for our enrichment craft day, some are really cute. I hope it will be a success. It is November 1.
Michelle at Cedarville asked me if I would make Christmas cards at her library also, so I am adding her to my list. I think I will be pretty tired of the cards down below by the end of it!!!!!!!
Josh th inks he will do White Fang by Jack London for his novel this semester. I will try to find it tomorrow at work. We got his reading tests scores today and they were great! He was at 6th grade level! He is in 7th so we wre just so stinkin' happy. Reading has been very hard for him and he has been way behind so this is great news!!!!!
I am reading the Lace Reader right now. I will let you know how it is as I go. I love reading, I just don't get much of a chance to do it. I usually only read when I go to bed at night, and lately I have been very tired when I crawl in.
Brinae is just finishing Daniel X by James Patterson and she says it is really good. It is in the YOung Adult section, so check it out! (Can you tell I love my job or what? I can do an infomercial for the library!!)

Another day....

Today I worked at the Van Buren Library, I went to HeadStart(preschool) and watched Colleen do storytime. I am filling in for her while she has surgery and recovers.. I think I will love it, reading to the young ones is one of my fave things to do. It was really sad driving by the new library, it caught on fire early Sat. morning. They were about a month from moving in, and now it got pushed back about 3 months. All the custom ordered doors and everything was stored in the community room and all gone. Such a sad sad event. After I got off I went and visited Danalene in her house, she was off because new carpet was being laid. I had a really good visit with her and her house is so awesome-full of character. I love it!
Tammy and I did our visiting teaching tonight-woohoo! We couldn't get ahold of Neena so we took Kay out for ice cream and had a good little visit. When I got home, Neena had called back, so i called her and visited with her over the phone. Now, we are at 100% yeah buddy!!!!

Christmas Cards

The cards below are the ones I am teaching at the libraries in ALma and Mulberry. I am also teaching them at the enrichment night at Church in October. i wanted them simple enough so they wouldn't take too long and also let them know you can make a card without stamps(the green one-although I stmped the inside!) Everyone really likes the snow one, the o is cut out and the same snowmen line is inside. THe snowflake card will look better once the punched snowflake has glitter on it.
I talked to mom last night for almost a hour, I sure miss her. I had called to tell her I was having parsnips for dinner mmm! Nobody else appreciated them.
I havae been running to the bathroom all afternoon, yuck! I need to go and find something for dinner, the kids are saying they are hungry now. Imagine!

Pocket NOtes Purse

This is my first post of something I made. This is a pocket notes purse. Kinda cute, eh?

kind of hum-drum day

Today was kind of funky, not sure why. Shannon came in for the knitting class and we were talking and realized that we both felt like crying for no reason and just kind of moody-weird. SHe asked me if I was staying here or moving to Canada. I told her I couldn't leave my grandbabies, I should have added my older girls either, because I can't imagine my life without them in it. I said I just missed the pace I was at there, I still did stuff and even worrying about Mom and Glen it was alot less stress. She said I know I can tell you have alot of stress here.
I am planning my goodies for Tammy's and my booth in October. It will be fun and hopefully will make some money.
I am ready to curl up with my book for the night.
I just finished TIme is a River by Mary ALice Monroe-awesome book, still my favorite is Beach HOuse by her. Her way of writing is just so descriptive and I felt like I was at the cabin and in the mountains with her.Check out your local library and get a card!

Here is my brother David, mom, my sister Kathy, and myself the morning David and Kathy had to leave. The snow covered mountains were takedn on the way to Vancouver for Mom's surgery. Pretty aren't they?

TRying to learn to post a pic and this is where my Brinae wants to marry. It is the Idaho Falls Temple.

Oops I did it again!!!!

Today Serenity came up and we were all playing chinese cheeckers while eating lunch, I asked if she walked today with Shannon, she said no she was at work. She told me Amy was off on vacation again, I said man I need some hours and a few minutes later the phone rang and Shannon says, Are you coming into work anytime soon? I didn't know I was on the schedule! I flew in the shower and made it to work in 15 minutes!
Our computers were down at work all day today, it limits what we can do, but makes more work when it comes back up. I work tomorrow also so hopefully it will be back up.
Bryan and Serenity are now coaches for Sam and Savannas' soccer team as they can't find anyone and they volunteered-ok the correct story would be that Serenity volunteered them!
I am sure ready to back to Canada and my beach! It is already too hectic here again. I miss the tranquility of the waves and the pace we had there. Maybe I should get a cd of ocean waves-you think that will work?????

Getting back to "norm" of my life

Well I am back and trying hard to fit everything in, and have decided I just have to make everything fit.
I have been going non stop since I havae been back and feel like now that my 2 big scrapbooking teaching days are over, I acan breathe a little bit easier. I would have been lost without my Tammy girl, she spent the night and taught the class on the 6th for me. I lost my voice due to the mold and such in the library(leakes from the rain), I was there but in body only!~
My baby book class went so well, I loved it , it was one of my favorite classes, I was able to just be there and guide, it was wonderful-they made awesome paper bag books.
We went to Donnell's company picnic on Saturday and had a good time with the grandkids and kids. We came home and Donnell was going to smoke some ribs-mmm! they were awesome, but in doing so, he hurt his back in dragging the smoker around. He hardly ever cries and he was hurt today, he cried and we got some back pain reliever and heat release pads, hopefully they do the trick. He is moving very slowly and it breaks my heart to see him like this.
This week is my getting down to the nitty-gritty of school, Donnell and Brinae have been doing Josh's teaching for me and I am now in a position where I can take back over. He won't know what hit him!!!!!! ;)
I sure miss my mom, Glen, and the beach. it really was just so calming and relaxing. I loved my little evening schedule, I will have to come up with something here.
Have a great night.