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  • The Hunster, the Huntley-dog, the Hunt-man, aka our Golden Retriever, has put on some weight.  Time for a diet plan and more exercise plan.
  • The extreme Southeast unseasonal cold winter blues and resulting family hibernation has not helped matters.  I suppose it’s time to get out and walk again.
  • He sure is fat and happy though.  :D
  • I have the best piano students and families in the world.  Have I mentioned that before?  I always fall in love with all of them.  So precious.
  • I am reading Creative Correction by Lisa Wheschel.  It is a book and Bible study aimed at, well, creative and loving discipline for our families.  I’m looking forward to a slew of new ideas for my highly energetic and stubborn children.
  • I say that most lovingly.
  • Supernanny’s time-out methods work beautifully, too.
  • I actually like watching episodes of Supernanny when I need a boost to my parenting morale.  Ha!  Not that I am a perfect parent by ANY means.
  • Then there are the days when I want to call her myself and ask, “Now what do I do with THAT?  You never cover THAT on your show!”
  • Before you know it, they are both standing in front of you with cherubic grins on their faces, drawing hearts in the air, “cutting them out” and handing them to you.  ”Here, Mommy, here’s a heart for you!”
  • And I melt.
  • What makes you melt?  (Kids or not.)

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  • The flu stinks.  Bronchitis stinks.  Sinus infections stink.
  • Yes, I’m whining.  Very much ready to feel better.
  • Ok, pity party over.  On to more exciting things…
  • Like…the dog is sick, too.
  • Did you know dogs can get upper respiratory infections?  Apparently so.
  • Even the dog has a cold.  How hilarious is that?
  • I mean, not really.  But the DOG, too?  Poor Huntley.  We’re all coughing and hacking, EVEN THE DOG.
  • I have found a new author I like:  Lori Wick.  I’m really enjoying her books.  Great Christian fiction of a romantic nature.
  • Yes, I’m such a girl.
  • I got a new console table!  I’m so excited!!  It’s from Pier 1.  I’ll post a picture soon.
  • Next up:  a coffee table.  I have my eye on one from an unfinished wood store.
  • Yes, I’ll have to finish it myself but it’s worth it when it is exactly what you want and you are the picky sort.
  • No, no, that wouldn’t be me at all.  Ahem.
  • Chris is building some new shelves for me for the classroom.  I love that married a handy man.  The first set is almost done.  Two more sets to go.
  • When one is an avid reader AND a homeschooler, you can never, ever have enough bookshelves.  Add to that a career as a piano teacher…well, then you are destined to be surrounded by shelves of books.  It’s inevitable.
  • Do you have lots of bookshelves?  What fills them up?  Books?  Boardgames (Chris Katsuda!)?  Or do you prefer books behind closed doors?

Happy Flu Year!

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Happy Flu New Year!

Oh the fun of having the flu between Christmas and New Years.  The blessed week of forgetting what day it is, spending time with family, eating lots of sweets, playing with new toys…it was not to be.  Instead, I spent time choosing between Robitussin or DayQuil, three sweaters or two blankets to ward off chills, hot tea or Lipton soup, and wishing for bedtime and sweet Nyquil dreams.

My plans to keep you all updated of S and G’s Christmas fun with their cousins got short-circuited by a flu virus.  Unfortunately, it was also the gift that kept on giving.  It started with S in the car on the way up, to me, to sweet little D (my nephew), and on to my brother’s family and then my mom.  Share and share alike, right?  Isn’t that what we siblings are taught to do?  *grin*

No worries, I’ll be back with pictures soon.

And did I mention we saw SNOW????

It was glorious.

Randomness 85

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  • I have items in my closet that I just cannot bring myself to toss or donate.
  • I think I keep hoping they will come back in style.
  • It worked for bell-bottoms, didn’t it?  :D
  • This weekend I held my piano studio recital at an assisted-living facility.  LOVED it!
  • S was a social butterfly handing out Christmas cards to the residents and chatting it up with them.
  • We have yet to figure out where this social DNA comes from in her.  Neither Chris nor I have it.    She does it with ease and thrives on it, in fact.
  • G is like us.  He was content to hang out in back and watch the festivities from afar.
  • It is 32 degrees this morning and has been frigid the last few mornings…unusual here.  Tomorrow and Friday?  Back up to 68 and 70.
  • My heat and a/c system just can’t handle the excitement.
  • S had her Christmas dance recital yesterday – a mini-recital at the end of her last December class.  It was adorable.  They did a tap routine to “Jingle Bell Rock” and a ballet routine to “Happy Birthday, Jesus.”
  • Next, they demonstrated some technique things and they girls had to correct the teacher on incorrect technique.
  • You guessed it.  S took charge of that and told her what was what.  Our little ballerina.
  • I’m trying to decide what holiday cookies to make with the kids.  We always do decorated sugar cookies in Christmas shapes.  Ever since I was a kid.
  • I might twitch if I didn’t do holiday sugar cookies at Christmas one year.
  • It wouldn’t be a pretty sight.
  • We also do dates (pitted) with cream cheese frosting and pecans – oh YUM.  I know, those aren’t cookies but they holiday traditions around here.  I know you’re making a face right now, but don’t knock it until you try it!  They are wonderful!
  • And homemade (I stress homemade) apple cider.  In a crock pot, simmering all day.  Mmmmmmmm.
  • What holiday cookies or foods are traditions for your family?  Those that you just cannot do without?

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  • Oh, Randomness posts, how I have missed you!
  • G is doing very, very well in homeschool!  Mommy is loving it, too.
  • Even S is picking up on so much.  She can write her full name now.
  • Speaking of S, she just had a birthday and is now FOUR.  I know, FOUR.
  • Her birthday party was a Barbie explosion.
  • She loved every second of it.
  • She blew out her candles, opened one present from the pile, then declared, “Ok, can we have cake now?”
  • Ha!  That’s my girl!
  • Yesterday, we had to have a long discussion about Christmas not being about her birthday, too.
  • Yes, there were tears involved.  Oh, the drama.
  • G has a heart of gold.  Such a giving spirit in that kid.
  • S accidentally left George, her stuffed monkey, at Grandma’s.  She cried (of course), so he promptly drew her a picture of George to make her feel better.
  • Read any good books lately?
  • Favorite Scriptures?  I’ve been enjoying Hebrews lately.  Oh, such good stuff in there.
  • Speaking of birthdays, TODAY is Chris’s birthday!  Yea, Chris!  The awesome rescuer of damsels’ in distress (aka Daddy’s girl), and the great fixer of trucks and builder of things (G’s favorite), and incredible super-gluer-of-shattered-childhood-Christmas-ornaments (yea, that was me) – we love you!!
  • Ahhhh….Randomness-awesomeness is back!!