Friday, August 27, 2010

Do you feel that?

(severely angry to be re-typing this massive entry and sitting here with my head pounding!)


Its FALL creeping in! Now, I know the way GA weather works, just when we cant take another day of the sweltering heat we get a breath of relief (currently we are mid 80s during the day with pure sun and 60s at night) but then just as we think its fall, BAM! it becomes hot again for a week (by next week we are expecting highs back in the low 90s) and then just as we think we have been screwed, almost overnight it becomes cool and dry and fall officially falls in GA. The older locals around here say the signs are in order for an early and colder fall, and the almanac calls for a colder and wetter winter...so maybe we will have a white christmas and a frosty halloween? I can only wish! The trees at Lowes are all bright red, and gold, and yellow and some of the bigger trees are starting to have their color drain from them and some even have a lot of yellow leaves. My  elephant ear in the front yard is already starting to shrivel and die, my snowball bushes are all turning brown, and the sod is starting to lighten in color and I see patches of gold coming through. (the sod turns a straw color in the fall/winter), and yesterday for the first time I think since I put it in, my mountain hybiscus had NO flowers on it all day! That has never happened that I can recall, and my neighbors daylillies are all dying off around her tree already....and I can remember years when she had to fish through lush green leaves for halloween decorations that fell off her tree in them. I am very excited for fall and winter this year. Mostly because my 2 kids are finally old enough to enjoy everything the seasons have to offer. From firepits and marshmellow roasting, to hayrides and corn mazes, to pumpkin patches and decorating! They are both as excited for it all as I am which only makes me more excited! I have a feeling this year we may even end up buying a bunch of firewood because we will be having so many firepit nights! :)
Yesterday Clover celebrated his 3/4 birthday! I cant believe my baby puppy is already 9 months old! I am still so in love with everything about him and he makes me so happy. He loves us more than ever in return. He seems huge to everyone in the world but me. To me he seems like a big lapdog! All 90 pounds of him! LOL! I have to start working more on his training now that the cooler weather is coming, but at the moment he is limping from pano. It is a common but painful issue many GSDs suffer from and is an inflamation of all his bones which causes limping and pain constantly. I am giving him baby asprin and keeping him indoors as much as possible though and soon this attack will pass and he will be back to his active self again.
The kittens are now ready to go too and I am hoping to find them a home this next week so I can start getting my house in order again! They are very cute and very sweet and I think they will all make great family members to peoples homes. Now I just have to find those homes!
Yesterday I also surprised Christopher with 2 new action figures, Chewbacca and Darth Vader. I explained that this was a gift for doing so well in school this first month and adjusting so well and that this will only be a one time gift because we are so proud of how well he has done with the huge workload  he now has and class changing and responsibility that comes with 1st grade. His teacher told me that he is one of the best kids in class and that he is always polite and respectful and helpful and he has been doing great on all his work. I am also amazed with how great his handwritting is coming along. Its shocking to me to see how well he writes! He went to school this morning with Darth in one pocket and Chewbacca in the other to share with his best friend during recess today. My little man is growing up and I am so very proud of him! Laci is doing well at home again full time and she is really starting to show an interest in the world around her and colors and shapes and numbers and letters and has started asking me all the questions I remember answering for Christopher not that long ago and I am so happy and thankful for every day I get to spend with them in my life. They make me happier than words could ever explain.
Today I promised them that I would take them to Party City after school to see if they finally got all their Halloween decorations out. I know finally is a funny word to use on August 27th, but bare with me. Anyhow they are both rediculously excited for Halloween this year which is only making me more excited! We started working on decoration props last night and I now have two nasty jars (one growing a monster and the other full of ping pong ball eyeballs) sitting on my counter in my kitchen! LOL! I am going to treat them to some Dunkin Donut holes on the way and maybe get myself a coffee...I need one after last night!
Tonight is our pizza and movies night and it is quickly becoming a favorite for me with the family. Of course I was up pretty much all night last night and I have a pounding headache so I am sure I will be in bed early tonight....maybe even before the kids! Ha!
Well I cant really remember everything else I had written before, but this will have to do for now...I will need to start printing stuff soon. This computer is shot and freezes on me and is a hunk of crapola anymore. I cant do hardly anything on it and I am trying to do everything computerwise from my phone or brians computer in the evening making computer stuff very hard to do! I would love to say we will be saving for a new one, but with the original problem with the blazer being fixed wasnt enough to actually fix the blazer and it still being in the shop, and christmas quickly coming, I have to say that my computer days will just be very limited til next year..oh well...thats life :)
Hope everyone has a great Friday!

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