Well, Happy New Year !!!

I didn't realize that it had been so long... I guess I've been doing more on Facebook. Let's what is new and worth mentioning. My sister is staying with us for now. She moved down here and has a job at the Naval Hospital. She's an RN. It's been nice having her here and being able so see and interact with the kids. I haven't had a member of my family close by for this long.since I've been down here and having babies. I think I'll just make some statements.

I told hubby that I was never the type that dreamed of having lots of babies and being a housewife. Well, once I was saved for awhile maybe and I did think of homeschooling, but now feel too overwhelmed to do so.

Yesterday, I wrote a letter to the editor dealing with courtesy and customer service being important with the retail business when consumers have so many choices in this troubled economy.

Today, I sent a recipe in for a contest to which the prize is a years worth of certified angus beef. I called my creation Scooper Up Nacho dip.

I was driving around and Maranda pointed out, "theres the airplane port"...

While driving I was listening to a silly recording that I made of myself singing childrens songs to a foster girl that was being adopted. I even had done harmony to it. Does anyone know how you can make turn cassettes into CD's without computers? Our computer doesn't want to burn CD's right now.

I"m bummed that I haven't been losing weight. I need to be more consistent with the excercise and break my addiction to sweets and soda (pop... to my friends up north).

I love the mild winters here makes the extra few degrees in the summer worth it.

I love my baby. He is the sweetest little guy.

Talk to ya'll later, Beth      

My sons are on medicine. Without it, Kendon in particular couldn't succeed in school without alot of stress on all involved. In the morning before it kicks in he is extremely hyper and somewhat idiotic. I taught the boys how to do dishes. Last night they were very helpful, but this morning Kendon wanted to do them and he had a colander and put it on his head and was spinning it around and said that he was looking for bubbles. Until it kicks in I question his inteligence, he's so oddly loud and everything seems exagerated. Maybe the real problem is me, I'm not much of a morning person and just long for a moment of silence.

 

Yes, I know right where I was on 9-11-01.  Kendon was our only child and we had gone to PA to visit Robert's cousins. Kendon cut his first tooth that trip and we had to travel home that day. We got up that morning and everyone else had gone off to their daily tasks and I had the TV on to the Today show. Then, newscasters broke in to the programing telling of the first airplane going into the tower.  I got Robert to watch and we questioned if it were an accident and as they had cameras on the first tower the second plane struck. We were in shock at enormity of this. We watched the terrible events unfold and fall. I was afraid to travel back and Rob called to see if he could have an extra day off, but no and we soon were loaded up coming back to Norfolk.

Now, seven years and three more children later the normality of life has returned (as much as it can be normal with 4 kids ).  I don't really think of that tragedy everyday and if I do, I think of Iraq and Afghanistan and try to relate those wars to the crumbling towers. Thousands of lives, though, were affected that day. Many fathers, mothers and children forever gone from their homes. So many more lost in the aftermath  miles from here. America is forever changed and peace has a new meaning.

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