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Wednesday, March 30, 2011
Dear bloggy friends using Blogger....
Are you about ready to break up with Blogger too? It is On. My. Nerves. I've been one of the die-hards holding out and still using the old editor. The last couple of days when I've been working on a new post (gasp!), it keeps deleting all my line breaks! My whole post, pictures and all, is squished up into one big blob (case in point - this post). If I create the entire post in "compose", it's fine, but if I move into "edit html" to move around a picture or add some code or whatever - ZAP! There go all my line breaks. I read in Blogger help that moving to the new editor would fix this problem. I've tried moving to the new editor in the past, and I hate it. I can't resize my pictures, and drag and drop will never put them where I want them. But out of desperation I switched again today. It seemed to fix the disappearing line breaks problem, but there was the same old issue with not being able to get pictures to go where I want them. Text on the SIDE of pictures, instead of above or below, and when I tried to drag and drop, my picture DISAPPEARED! I switched back to the old editor and ZAP! There went all the line breaks again. Hate. Hate. Any of you Blogger users have any advice? I'm about ready to pay someone all the money I have saved for my mission trip a hefty hunka change to move my blog to another platform.
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Tiny Talk Tuesday
Last night we were at Wal*Mart buying a few things. We were on the aisle with the air fresheners and Jacob said, "Oh, look, there's one of those automatic sprayer things. We have to get one of those! It just smells the stink, and then it sprays - it's so cool!" :)
For more Tiny Talk Tuesday, visit Mary at Not Before 7.
For more Tiny Talk Tuesday, visit Mary at Not Before 7.
Tuesday, March 15, 2011
From my bookshelf
It's been a really long time since I posted about anything I've been reading. When we were on the cruise I felt like a freak, having never read a single Karen Kingsbury book. I'm telling you, it was like a Karen Kinsgbury groupie fest on that ship! In fact, I kind of think I had intentionally never read any of her books, just because of all the hoopla about her. I'm a little stubborn that way. Well, after I actually met Karen on the cruise, she was so warm and friendly and down-to-earth and wonderful that just being around her made me want to read her books.
So when we got home, I buckled down and forced myself to finish up this book, even though it was eating my lunch:
and after I made it through that, I was in serious need of some lighter fiction fare. Perfect time to try out Karen's books. On the cruise, she gave everyone a copy of Book 4 in her Above the Line series (great marketing strategy, huh?), so of course - just like she planned - I had to go out and buy books 1 through 3, right? Luckily I found all of them on the bargain table at Mardel. :)
Well, let me just say, after book one in that series I was almost ready to join the groupie club myself. Almost. I slurped up all four books in the series, and then my mom gave me the 4-book series that came before Above the Line. I read the first one of those, but then decided I wanted to start at the very beginning of the Baxter tales, which includes something like 22 books. So, to pass the time while I'm trying to locate the very first book in the very first 5-book group of the series, I'm reading this as a little easy-reading passtime:
HA! Just kidding. :) I'm actually reading this....
while I'm scouring PaperBackSwap for Karen's early books.
What are you reading these days?
So when we got home, I buckled down and forced myself to finish up this book, even though it was eating my lunch:
and after I made it through that, I was in serious need of some lighter fiction fare. Perfect time to try out Karen's books. On the cruise, she gave everyone a copy of Book 4 in her Above the Line series (great marketing strategy, huh?), so of course - just like she planned - I had to go out and buy books 1 through 3, right? Luckily I found all of them on the bargain table at Mardel. :)
Well, let me just say, after book one in that series I was almost ready to join the groupie club myself. Almost. I slurped up all four books in the series, and then my mom gave me the 4-book series that came before Above the Line. I read the first one of those, but then decided I wanted to start at the very beginning of the Baxter tales, which includes something like 22 books. So, to pass the time while I'm trying to locate the very first book in the very first 5-book group of the series, I'm reading this as a little easy-reading passtime:
HA! Just kidding. :) I'm actually reading this....
while I'm scouring PaperBackSwap for Karen's early books.
What are you reading these days?
Sunday, March 13, 2011
Hello friends.
Not feeling very bloggy lately. Not sure why. There's so much going on, but none of it really blog-worthy. Thought I would pop in here anyway and give you a little update of what's been going on in our neck of the woods.
* We had our first Uganda fundraiser garage sale a couple of weekends ago. We made over $500!! I was so surprised! We still have tons of stuff left, and three more people have told me they have things to donate, so we'll be having another one in the next few weeks. I am so not looking forward to that. Garage sales are so. much. work. But I am SO very thankful for everyone who has made donations - what a huge blessing!
* Speaking of Uganda, can you believe it's only 2 1/2 months until I leave? Exactly 80 days. Oh my goodness. Kari, my team leader, told me it would get easier as we got closer to the trip. I'm thinking I don't agree. I'm getting more and more nervous the closer it gets. Like, knots in my stomach nervous. A friend asked me just yesterday if I'm excited. And after so many years of longing to go, of praying and wishing and dreaming....I was shocked when I heard myself say "no".
Oh, I do want to go. It has been my dream for almost 8 years. But really, I'm a home-body. Actually, not so much a home-body as a family-body. I like to travel, but I like to do it with my family. Twelve days away is a long time. And I'm not even sure how much contact we'll be able to have while I'm gone. It's not like going to another state where you can call every day. I don't know what cell or internet service will be like there. It's certainly going to be an interesting two weeks!
* Last Wednesday I took our sweet Annie in to have her eye surgery. About an hour after I dropped her off, the vet called to tell me that Annie's liver enzymes were off the chart, and we would have to postpone the surgery because she wouldn't live through it. The vet wanted to do an ultrasound and a biopsy - which would cost over $500 - to rule out a tumor. I just broke down in tears right there in my office. This is SO hard! I don't feel like it's fair to Annie for us to just do nothing, but on the other hand she is 14 1/2 years old. How do you know what is right? *sigh * I asked the vet if there were any other options, and she said we could try medication for 30 days to see if that would heal Annie's liver and make her well enough to endure surgery. So that's what we're doing. If the medication doesn't work, that will most likely mean she has a tumor and, well, I don't know what we'll do then.
* The kids are out of school for spring break this week. I'm so sad that we won't be going anywhere this year, since I'm trying to save both money and vacation days for Uganda. We're thinking about just taking a little one-day trip to somewhere close by, just so the kids can get out of town and don't have to spend their entire break stuck at home. I hate that they're out of school for a whole week and will have to spend every day with the babysitter since The Mister and I will both be working the whole time. Hate it.
* Kloe was nominated to participate in the Lone Star Leadership Academy this summer! It's a week-long camp-type thing in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We're so excited for her to have this opportunity! She doesn't really want to go (seems we're all kind of family-bodies around here - I think it comes from The Mister being gone so much for work) but we're making her. ;) I think it's going to be such a great time.
* I signed up for another year oftorture fun with PTA. :) Looks like I will be the secretary next year. I really do enjoy being on the board. I love being involved at my kids' school - I love being able to get to know all the teachers and staff so much more than I would otherwise - but man, is it ever a lot of work. Whoever said PTA is a social club obviously hasn't been part of OUR school's PTA. ;)
Wow, I just realized what a downer of a post this is. Sorry about that. Guess I have been leaning a bit toward the melancholy lately. Just the ups and downs of life, I suppose. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with all we've got going on - feeling like a single mom with the Mister out of town so much, Uganda on the horizon, mounds of fundraising yet to do, Kloe gearing up for middle school, Annie's health issues.... I'm a "shut down" kind of person, rather than the "charge forward" type when life gets overwhelming. Not good when there's so much to do!
* We had our first Uganda fundraiser garage sale a couple of weekends ago. We made over $500!! I was so surprised! We still have tons of stuff left, and three more people have told me they have things to donate, so we'll be having another one in the next few weeks. I am so not looking forward to that. Garage sales are so. much. work. But I am SO very thankful for everyone who has made donations - what a huge blessing!
* Speaking of Uganda, can you believe it's only 2 1/2 months until I leave? Exactly 80 days. Oh my goodness. Kari, my team leader, told me it would get easier as we got closer to the trip. I'm thinking I don't agree. I'm getting more and more nervous the closer it gets. Like, knots in my stomach nervous. A friend asked me just yesterday if I'm excited. And after so many years of longing to go, of praying and wishing and dreaming....I was shocked when I heard myself say "no".
Oh, I do want to go. It has been my dream for almost 8 years. But really, I'm a home-body. Actually, not so much a home-body as a family-body. I like to travel, but I like to do it with my family. Twelve days away is a long time. And I'm not even sure how much contact we'll be able to have while I'm gone. It's not like going to another state where you can call every day. I don't know what cell or internet service will be like there. It's certainly going to be an interesting two weeks!
* Last Wednesday I took our sweet Annie in to have her eye surgery. About an hour after I dropped her off, the vet called to tell me that Annie's liver enzymes were off the chart, and we would have to postpone the surgery because she wouldn't live through it. The vet wanted to do an ultrasound and a biopsy - which would cost over $500 - to rule out a tumor. I just broke down in tears right there in my office. This is SO hard! I don't feel like it's fair to Annie for us to just do nothing, but on the other hand she is 14 1/2 years old. How do you know what is right? *sigh * I asked the vet if there were any other options, and she said we could try medication for 30 days to see if that would heal Annie's liver and make her well enough to endure surgery. So that's what we're doing. If the medication doesn't work, that will most likely mean she has a tumor and, well, I don't know what we'll do then.
* The kids are out of school for spring break this week. I'm so sad that we won't be going anywhere this year, since I'm trying to save both money and vacation days for Uganda. We're thinking about just taking a little one-day trip to somewhere close by, just so the kids can get out of town and don't have to spend their entire break stuck at home. I hate that they're out of school for a whole week and will have to spend every day with the babysitter since The Mister and I will both be working the whole time. Hate it.
* Kloe was nominated to participate in the Lone Star Leadership Academy this summer! It's a week-long camp-type thing in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area. We're so excited for her to have this opportunity! She doesn't really want to go (seems we're all kind of family-bodies around here - I think it comes from The Mister being gone so much for work) but we're making her. ;) I think it's going to be such a great time.
* I signed up for another year of
Wow, I just realized what a downer of a post this is. Sorry about that. Guess I have been leaning a bit toward the melancholy lately. Just the ups and downs of life, I suppose. Feeling a bit overwhelmed with all we've got going on - feeling like a single mom with the Mister out of town so much, Uganda on the horizon, mounds of fundraising yet to do, Kloe gearing up for middle school, Annie's health issues.... I'm a "shut down" kind of person, rather than the "charge forward" type when life gets overwhelming. Not good when there's so much to do!
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