Random Kitty Picture

Here's the weekly kitty photo. I'll try and do one every so often. She's just so photogenic!

I can't believe I haven't posted in two months!

What a LAME blogger! Usually I don't get any traffic, but it appears that 9 people checked out my sad little blog. So sorry to you wonderful 9 folks.

Yesterday I started baking for Christmas. It's later than usual and I told my kids that I was NOT making fudge this year. They weren't too upset. It just takes so long, is expensive to make, and makes too much that it sits in the fridge until March (well, some of it sits).

So far I've made 2 loaves of banana bread, one to keep, one to give away and I made the MOST wonderful gingersnaps. Who knew that ground cloves would cost $7.99 for a little tiny container? My family better appreciate these cookies. However, they are D-VINE! These are probably the best cookies I've ever made. They're crispy, yet soft, sweet and spicy. I'll post the recipe tomorrow.

Anywhooo, I'm posting a picture of my daughter's cheer competition from this past weekend in Richmond where they took FIRST PLACE in their division (senior small level 4). Rock on. However, one of the girls, during warm-ups, got whacked in the nose and had to go to the hospital. The girls said there was soooo much blood all over the place and, yup, it's broken. Poor little thing has to have surgery this week. She's so cute, too.

Check it out! (On close-up photo, my daughter is the one on the very far left with her head tilted sideways - dark brown hair).

More Baseball!

Two baseball games this weekend and four more this week, including two middle school softball games. Whew!! When will it end? We need a break, big time. Today the freshman coach from an elite private school that we're looking at for DS was scouting our game. I don't really know who he was there to see, but at least DS didn't strike out. He did play well in the field, too.

Quick Trip to U of D!

We had a quick trip up to Newark, DE to check out the University of Delaware. Really nice campus. The only down side was the dorms are NOT air-conditioned and I saw a lot of people smoking on campus. I can't believe it's not a non-smoking campus. Hello!! It's 2008!! No smoking please.

Wednesday

Today DH decided to take my van in since I'm driving to Delaware tomorrow. So he's home, under foot, and eating everything in sight. I'm trying to get laundry finished, things cleaned up. On Thursday I'm taking DD and two of her friends up to Newark, DE to check out the University of Delaware. It's only a two-hour drive, so it's just a day trip. Hopefully the weather will be good. Nothing worse that walking around campus in the drizzle. (It's supposed to rain overnight tonight).

Go Blue Hens!

This is My "Present"

I accepted the challenge from Stacy Julian to make a super-mini scrapbook of my "present," meaning my here and now. I took 11 photos (mostly from the same week, not actually from one single day) and created a tiny mini-scrapbook to keep in my purse, to encourage me to think about the things in my daily life. It was a fun challenge.

Check it out! It's kinda hard to read the writing on the little pages, so here's the journaling for each page.

People to love
Things that pile up
Sweet smiles to cheer for
Games we play
Furry things to love
Work to do.

Tuesday

Tuesday is always hard. I'm an at-home transcriber and Tuesday is when work is due. It seems that I'm always trying to play catch-up and get as much work finished to be able to turn it in on Tuesday for the next week's paycheck. Half the time I never seem to make it. Oh well. I might pit-stop at ACMoore when I drive down to the office later today. I've got a coupon! Later today DS has a baseball game and DD has to work. Guess it's leftovers for dinner, if we ever get to eat it. I hate eating at 8:30 p.m.