I didn't know that!

I read this idea on Mat Anna's blog and thought it was a great idea to share a little about myself.

1. The furthest east I had been was Texas (if you can even consider that east) until 3 years ago when hubby and I made a trip to New York City. At the time were in communion with the Eastern Catholic Church and were able to see the Pope at Yankee Stadium.

2. I was a dancer for 12 years in my youth. I danced from the time I was six until right before my eighteenth birthday. I was mainly a classically trained ballet dancer. Interestingly enough I am quite clumsy and have two left feet (that are what I describe square Barney Rubble feet from all those years in point shoes.)

3. I prefer not to drive on the interstate. I am living in a big city and prefer not to drive on bridges changing from one interstate to another. They intimate me.

4. I have not lived outside of Arizona and have not lived where it snowed in the city. With that being said I have only seen snow less than a dozen times. However there is a possibility that we may be moving back east at the end of the summer. It should lead to rather interesting stories.

5. I saw Groundhog Day for the first time last year. Since then I have purchased the movie. Hubby makes fun of me for my lack of not having seen some of these classic 90's movies.

6. I have not been camping. Hubby does not know if I would be able to last in the wilderness with sounds of bugs nearby. Anytime I spot any sort of bug I run the other way. I use to run wildley but since having children I try and run calmly.
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7. I am a history and geography dud. Hubby always stumps me when it comes to geography and history. I am looking forward to learning and perhaps sparking a new interest in these subjects as I teach the children.

8. I am not a very creative person. Which does not make sense since I majored in Marketing. I am much more an analytical thinker. Give me a math problem or when I worked some kind of manual recalculation and I will have a spark of excitement and adrenaline.

9. The girls birth names and both dogs names begin with a D. More often than not I can be found calling the dogs by one of the girls names or the girls by one of the dogs names. We were going to continue this trend with Ice Man but couldn't find a name we agreed upon.

10. I haven't broken a bone. Glory to God I have been a healthy person. The only times I have been hospitalized were when I had my three children. The closest major thing I had done to that was having a wisdom tooth pulled. It is rather surprising that I have not broken bones as I am always running into things. I do end up with some nice bruises though.

Why of course....

I am fortunate to have my Mom living with us to help out with the kids. So when its time to run errands it goes so much quicker being able to leave the younger kids with her while their napping and Pic Pic and I go out. Yesterday we had to run a few errands including a stop to Office Max about a mile away from our home. We ran in and got our supplies and then settled into the van, I went to start it and what do you know it would not start. Nothing happened no lights nothing. I called hubby at work and he ran me through a couple of things to try and nothing. After some discussion I we agreed that I would walk home and he could come look at it when he got a chance. It's about a 40 minute commute from his work, I would probably make it home before he got to us. I checked in with my Mom and Ice Man was awake and starting to get hunger. We decided she would feed him some baby food and I would nurse him when I got home.  Luckily, I had a stroller in the car. Pic Pic informed me she was tired and I thought it would go much quicker to push her. I realized that the jogging I had been doing really paid off. It was actually a pleasant walk.

Hubby came home early to pick me up and we ventured back to the Office Max parking lot. He popped the hood and took a look at the battery connection then asked me to try and start it. And what do you know, it started right up with no hesitation. I felt rather silly and profusely told hubby that it really would not start. Needless to say he had a rather fun time teasing me that if I wanted him to come home early I could of done a better job than that. Thanks be to God that nothing was wrong with it.

Season of Colds

It seems to me that the past two months we have been cycling through one cold after another.  It starts with one kiddo and travels to the others and keeps going in this vicious cycle. I am not sure how to stop it other than keeping the kiddos in a bubble, but they keep popping out. :)

We celebrated hubby's birthday yesterday it was a nice evening of fun. I made him a fast friendly cake although the icing was a bit thin it came out surprisingly well.

I think we finally settled on what we are doing regarding Pic Pic's schooling next year. We will be going with an online public school while implementing Orthodoxy and other resources. Some of the ones I am considering are language lessons, apologia and five in a row.

Our plans for the rest of the week will be celebrating the feast day of St. Nicholas.  After liturgy we will enjoy decorating the house. In the past we would decorate the weekend of Thanksgiving; this year we decided to start a new tradition and decorate on St. Nicholas day. I also must finish sending out Christmas cards.

For next week, massive amounts of baking. I am planning on giving baked goods as gifts this year.  We still have a few people to get gifts for and I need to start wrapping. We will be traveling next weekend to spend our extended family's Christmas with them. Not to mention the house and van need major cleaning and I have to pack for three kids. Add to the mix that hubby has a 15 page paper due on the 25th and Grandma will not be here this coming week. Lord have mercy!

Black Friday ...

We spent our black Friday by going on a small road trip to the monastery.  It was a nice way to spend the day after Thanksgiving. The fresh air was much needed as most of us of have been a bit under the weather. Here are a few of the pictures I took:

When we made it back into town we stopped for a fish taco dinner that was just what the doctor ordered. We came home to see our Cats lose to the #1 Ducks. Bear Down Arizona!