Give Away!!!

Not from me but from a blog I was linked to from Ronee's blog. (Thanks girl!!!)

Go check it out at: http://www.shaywilliams.blogspot.com/ She has some amazing art and if you leave her a comment, you might win your own personalized family crest!!! So neat!

WARNING: Political Message

Had an interesting conversation with my seven year old yesterday. Here she is with her mischievous grin:
Skylar and I were in the living room hanging out while the little ones napped and a political ad came on television. I wasn’t paying that much attention so I don’t even know who it was for, but obviously she was. She turned to me and said “Mommy, are we voting for that Ala-bama guy or Cane?” Being that I wasn’t really paying attention to the television, I wasn’t sure at first what she was talking about but then deducted that she meant “Obama” and “McCain”.

I told her that we were voting for McCain. Of course, if you know anything at all about Skylar, you know that was not the end of the conversation. At first, being Skylar, she had to disagree with me and decided she was voting for Obama. I explained to her that she was not able to vote but that if she were, she should vote for McCain too.

“Why Mommy?”
“Well, because Obama does not believe in the same things that we do.”
“Like what Mommy?”

LMAO Okay, how do I put this in terms that a seven year old would understand and summarize the fundamental differences between the two parties? So, I decided to tell her that he believed we should pay people who didn’t want to work to just sit home, he believed that it was okay to take a baby out of a Mommy’s tummy before it was born and effectively kill it, and he believed that marriage should be between two women or two men not just a man and a woman.

“Yuck,” she said. “Two women should not get married! I am voting for McCain!”

Thought that would be the end of the conversation and it was for a little while. She must have continued thinking about it though because when I tucked her in bed last night, she said, “Mommy, two women should definitely NOT get married. Then the kids would say ‘Who’s my Mommy? Where’s my Daddy?’ and they would be all confused!”

You are so right Honey…out of the mouths of babes!

(Also, in this same TV watching time, a commercial came on that said the word "sex". I was hoping to avoid that one since we had just had the other Hot Topic, but no such luck!

I heard "Ooooooh, that is a bad word!"

Trying to play it off, I said, "What is babe?"

"You know, S-E-X! That is bad."

"It isn't really a bad word. It is just a word that grown ups should use, not children. What do you think it means anyway?"

"Sex is when you kiss all the time and you don't stop!"

"Yep, that's right baby. And you only do that when you are 30 and married!"

Whew, got out of that one! lol And no, just for the record, I wasn't watching something horrible on television. It was the Nascar race on ABC. Gotta love modern cable TV.)

Craftiness

Hi guys! Things are going great with the Weas's. All the kids are doing good. Runny noses and aggravating coughs but so far nobody has been down for the count praise the Lord. The weather has gotten cooler which has been nice but it rained ALL day today. I am hoping that it will clear out by morning so I can take the kids out to do something fun. Skylar had her first Maestro Club performance last weekend. She loves to perform and sings her heart out. Got some good pictures. This one is one of my faves...

With Matt working evenings, I have had a lot of time to play in my craft room. Here are just a couple of things that I have worked on...

A necklace made from a Scrabble tile for my secret stamping sister

I made this cute little box to put the necklace in.

This was another gift- an altered note pad. It was just plain brown when I started.

And this is the name tag that I made for my card swap. I won the name tag contest! Yay!!!

I will have some more to share later as I have a couple more deadlines to meet! lol

Oh my word!!! It has been a whole month since I last posted. Wow!!! Thanks to all you guys who have been checking in and sticking with me. I have been such a slacker. I need to be off this durn computer now and making some crafties for a crop this weekend but when I saw how long it had been, I had to just do a quick update. We all are doing fine. I spent two hours in the emergency room last night with all three kids. I had given them baths and when I was getting Brayden out, I noticed that he had some red spots on his legs. Well, upon closer inspection, both of his legs were completely covered with red welts. I had Nana check it out and she said that it looked like an allergic reaction. Had it been the middle of the afternoon where I could watch him, I would have given it a little while but it was 7pm and the kids bedtime. I didn't want to take the chance on it getting worse and me having to haul everyone out in the middle of the night to the ER nor did I want to take the chance of something happening in the middle of the night while I was sleeping. So, I piled the kids in the car and off we went to the ER to be on the safe side. We were only there 2 hours which was pretty good considering. But trying to manage three cranky kids by myself, it felt like ages. Diagnosis: Hives. They gave him some Benadryl and sent us on our way. They were pretty well gone by this morning and he has been fine all day. I don't think we will ever know what caused it but I hope it doesn't happen again. It was pretty nasty looking. Anyway, no excitement really other than that. I have been busy, busy trying to make my hobby work and being a semi-single parent. Matt has been working the 6pm to 2am shift for the last three weeks so we really only see him on the weekend. He is gone by the time we get home in the afternoon and sleeping when we leave in the morning. I have done a lot better than I thought I would though. I have been working on my patience and counting to 10 when necessary. Here are a few recent pictures. I have some others to post later.

Mom and Skylar before Grandparent's breakfast at school

Aren't the sweet?

Blue Ring Pop! lol

My latest craft- Candle Stamping...Too cool!!!!

Finally an update...

I know, I know. I have been a terrible blogger again. It has been difficult getting used to all of the new schedules around my house. Matt is working nights but the days vary so it is hard to plan for. Skylar is back in school with multiple activities going on. She has Girl Scouts that will start back this week, Maestro Club (which is a musical club for the Second Graders at her school), and Children's Choir started up again last night at church. Notice a pattern with the last two? She absolutely loves to sing and dance and perform (although she confessed to me last night that she gets 'butterflies' when she gets up in front of a bunch of people, lol) She is definitely a natural although at this point it is more talent with the performance and not necessarily the vocals. Bless her heart, she tries so hard! lol

I am still trying to get everything organized. My life seems to run itself instead of me being in control and I would like to see that change. Matt has missed the last couple of weeks of church due to his schedule but I am still getting the rest of us there. It is so important these days. Brayden switched into a different class this week and was just traumatized. I had to pry him off of me and have Skylar come sit with him for a little while. I think that he is the most like me in that respect. He is not very comfortable in new environments and with new people. Hopefully he will grow out of it (although it has taken me nearly 35 years! lol) He had a good time in his class after that. It is always just the initial apprehension even though he has been with this same group since he was born. Peyton takes right to it and loves her teacher. She is getting so big. I can't believe that she is halfway to three! Where does the time go?

We made it through Hanna this weekend with hardly a limb down. Matt had to work security, of course, so the rest of the Weas clan had a slumber party at Grandma and Grandpa's. Don't know what we would do without them! It wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be and we got breakfast to boot. Yay! lol

Well, anyway, here are some pics of the first day of school. They are not the best quality. My lens for my camera broke so I have not been taking any pics lately. I have my long range lens still but not good for children and close ups which is what I normally take. Maybe Santa will be good to me this Christmas!


At the bus stop waiting in the Panda dress she and G'ma made from scratch (with only minor issues, lol)

Heading on to the bus

Our Big Week

Well, I don’t have pics yet because I haven’t uploaded them from my camera but I wanted to put an update. This has been a big week for the family. Mom and I spent the weekend in Charlotte at a scrapbooking convention and had a lot of fun. It is always great to get out and be with other creative people who love to create as much as you. I thoroughly enjoyed all of the classes that I took and even though one of the classes that I volunteered for was a nightmare, I enjoyed volunteering too. We shopped at the show as well but we were both really good. I think we are kind of ‘product’ed out. Lol

Yesterday was a big day for the kids. Skylar started Second Grade. My goodness, that is so hard to say. She had a good day and I believe is going to enjoy being the “expert” in her multiage class. Each Second Grader (expert) will be assigned their own 1st grader (novice) some time this week that they get to mentor. I think she will be great at it and can’t wait to hear the stories. Brayden also moved up to the 4yr old preschool at Miss Edie’s. He was definitely excited to be in the front building where the ‘big kids’ go but Peyton not so much. That leaves her alone in the back building with the littler kids. She wanted to go with him so badly. My heart broke for her. This is the first time she has had to be on her own and I know it was rough. Thankfully there is a little boy named Lane in her class that she just adores and he went and sat with her patting her hand.

And finally, Matt had a big day as well. He started his new job at the College of Charleston. He is going to be a Public Safety Officer. Right now he will be working security at the dorm but they are looking to move him into a law enforcement position on campus which would mean a significant increase and a few more benefits. We are praying that it works out. He really liked all the guys that he met and I think he is going to do really well. He couldn’t wait to show the kids all his gear when we got home last night. Brayden was excited that his Daddy was going to be a Policeman but even more importantly…he has a BIG flashlight! Lol Boys and their toys.

Anyway, I will try to get some pics up this week from the first day of school and some of the crafts we worked on in Charlotte. Hope everyone has a great week. We are truly grateful for God’s blessings.

Sunday Update

Well, it has been awhile so I felt the need to update. First, I need to thank everyone for their thoughts and prayers. Matt got the call last week that he will be starting at the College of Charleston on the 18th. He will be doing security in one of the dorms. It is night shift but should work out great. Even though he will be gone at night, his shift won't start until 10:30 so he will still be home for dinners and tucking kids in bed. He also will not work weekends. I am so thankful for those two things and for the fact that he will not be out on the street at night.

Thought I would share some craftiness. First is my work-in-progress...my craft area. This is an ever changing space and with the addition of all my Stampin' Up! stuff, I am rearranging again. These are the befores and hopefully I will post some afters later this week.

This is my craft desk after a few projects and some temporary storage for the rearranging. Yikes!

You can see on the left my old cassette rack that I am repurposing. It is now holding all my current SU! ink and punches.

Holy Ribbon Batman!!!

This area definitely in need of work. I am just running out of space! lol

Now for a few projects.

Here are three cards that I made this week.

Didn't get any scrapping done but hopefully will get a PH assignment soon.

An owl stamp set from Cornish Heritage Farms that I just love!

A technique new to me called Black Magic. See my demo instructions coming soon on Michelle's blog for the Pink House. http://www.michelledulaney.typepad.com/ And finally a technique I learned at Patti's called Faux Silk which uses crumpled up tissue paper.