Last of 2010...

Wow! What a blur of a year! Seems like we were just saying good bye to 2009 and now here it is December 31st, 2010! I swear the older I get the faster life seems to be passing me by! This year I have some huge plans coming up and big changes in life and a ton planned! Vacations (albeit small ones), Joey graduating highschool, Laci starting school, school shopping for two, and just a ton of daily trips here and there around town with the kids. Its going to be a big big year!
I am going to be making a lot of personal changes in the upcoming year too. I am taking a break from fostering for an undetermined amount of time, I am going to spend more time on myself, I am going to start coming off the computer more and more and really work with Laci to get her prepared for pre-K! I have to start looking into getting her into a place starting next week. I am going to work more on Clover and Momma with their training and try to keep my house more organized and clean. I am going to work on focusing more on people who bring me joy, and love me for me, and less on people who bring me heartache and strife. I am going to work on my marriage, and my parenting. I am overall going to work on making my life a happier smoother ran one.
I cannot believe my kids will be 4 and 7 this year! I swear they are half grown already! Its insane! Christopher will be doing his first big testing in school at the end of this school year. I plan on trying to volunteer my time more at school again too. My biggest thing I want to get back to is my blog. I love the feedback I get on daily stuff on facebook, but my life is happier when I post here in my little place and I like the idea of being able to keep up with my kids stuff by recording it safely here.
Yep, today is already a big day, my baby girl just put a straw in her capri sun all by herself for the first time ever...my kids are going to be driving before I know it! Gah!
Ok, well there's the plan for the new year, Looking forward to everything 2011 has in store for us, and hoping to be even happier next year! Much love!

an interesting piece of news

I read this morning and want to hold onto this here as a record was set this week :) (we are in Canton)

The clouds began rolling in Tuesday night. Temperatures before daybreak Wednesday were about 10 degrees warmer than a day earlier, but were still well below freezing, ranging from 23 in Canton to 28 in Peachtree City.

The warm weather front should take the chill off. Though showers will remain in the forecast through Saturday, the temperature is expected to climb into the high 40s or low 5os, Burns said.

That's a contrast from the record-breaking low Tuesday.

At 8 a.m., the temperature at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport dropped to 14 degrees, breaking by 1 degree a record for Dec. 14 that had stood for 93 years, since 1917.

Brisk winds made it feel even colder. The wind chill before daybreak ranged from zero degrees in Marietta to 6 in Peachtree City. The actual air temperature just before daybreak was 12 in Canton and 14 in Marietta.

Get ready for more ice-cold weather Tuesday night. Burns expects lows near 20 degrees in downtown Atlanta, with temperatures dropping into the teens in the suburbs.

On to other things, I am taking a break from Facebook as much as I can for the next 10 days, and then hopefully getting off of it most the time after the new year. I have a mind packed full and sitting on facebook for hours a day is not fixing anything, I have also decided to take a small freak from fostering once Christa's litter is adopted and she finds a new foster once her babies are weaned. I am getting burnt out on it and the fun is not there as much for me anymore, I need a break so that when I do start fostering again, its exciting and fresh for me at the time....getting off facebook will also help me keep strong on my need for a break without looking at all those sad faces all day and wanting to "save them all". I am coming into the last 8 months of having my little girl home all day as a true stay at home mom, and I want to really work hard on her letters, numbers, colors and shapes before pre-k starts in august. I am sad that my baby girl is turning 4 in just 3 months and I want to really enjoy and soak in as much as I can this next 8 months...I also want to work on myself. Not buy myself a bunch of crap I dont need, but mentally, physically, and emotionally repair myself. I want to pick up a hobby or two and I want to stat filling my life with something more useful than status updates. I have wasted away a whole year on facebook...but its just one year....now to live twice as much in 2011 (and pray 2012 is just hype). I want to work on Clover and his training and also now with Momma since it looks like she is a permanent fixture around here. I also want to get away a few times during the year with the kids and take at least one solo vacation for a weekend during the year. I have a lot on my mind, a lot on my plate, and a lot of goals....and I plan on achieving them all! Add that to the zoo, the aquarium, fernbank, and a million other day trips, and I hope to be too busy for much else! :)

Well, I better get going on all that now! Have a wonderful Wednesday!

Its been a few days,

But I am back! Not a ton to report on besides the fact that it is freezing cold and we are another week closer to christmas. I found myself day dreaming about the summer and springtime activities this morning on the way to Christopher's school, in 23* weather...which is funny, because I absolutely hate the heat, the humidity and the bugs that those times bring...but, its ok, I love the cold weather (except at 6:15am when I have to come out of a warm bed and get everyone ready).I think those daydreams are a common thing people do right before they settle in for the long cold winter...and something I will regret mid July next year! Ha!
Today I need to take my mind off of rescue stuff as much as I can and get it on filling out christmas cards! I am worried about Lucky and I am praying for his safe return, but last night on the phone, I realized I am again putting too much heart and getting too personally invested in these guys only to surely be hurt in the end....its best if I start putting up that mental wall now to protect myself. I am tired of crying over the people involved with the rescue work more than the actual dogs I save. This is yet another mess that makes me feel that even though I have the heart for miles to do this work, I just dont feel like I have the intelligence. Today I rest my head as much as I can.
My coffee tastes funny, I keep drinking it which is silly, but I just keep drinking it...I am fairly sure Brian did not mean to make a 12 cup pot of coffee and I am afraid I am drinking 5 day old water plus this mornings water added to the coffee maker. Bleh! Maybe I should dump it and start over....or...just keep drinking my funny flavored coffee. 
Well, I guess I better make this short and sweet today...hopefully tomorrow I will have more to report on!