I'm having a great time learning to digital scrapbook. It does mean that I'm not getting as much sleep, as I usually work on it from 9:00pm until 11:00 or so. But, its a lot of fun......
Sunday, March 30, 2008
Digital Scrapbooking
I'm having a great time learning to digital scrapbook. It does mean that I'm not getting as much sleep, as I usually work on it from 9:00pm until 11:00 or so. But, its a lot of fun......
New Look
I'm working on changing the look of my blog. Don't really know what I'm doing, but I'm having fun. So, bear with me while I try to figure out what I'm doing.
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Saturday, March 22, 2008
Have you got your Hootcase packed?
We were sitting out on the patio eating lunch today, and LiAnne tells us that Peter Pan lives up in the sky. That is where Neverland is. (Can you tell what movie they watched last night?) So, she begins to explain how you can fly, and how Michael and Peter live in the house, but fly to Neverland. And about having your Hootcase packed to go. LiAnne can't pronounce her "s's" very well unless she really stops and thinks about it, so suitcase comes out Hootcase. Ok, when LiAnne tells the story it is just waaayyy toooo fuuuuny.
When Lancy was here in December, she brought her Hootcases, and then had to repack the hootcases in order to leave again in January.
Actually, both Taylor and LiAnne call them hootcases, and Richard and I have had some pretty good laughs over it.
It makes for some pretty interesting conversations around here when you stop and consider the speech problems of the three kids. LiAnne's is just a little kid that hasn't learned to pronounce all of her letters very well yet. Taylor's is from his cleft, and will take some real work to get over, and Janelle's is because she is going from Chinese to English, and she will, unfortunately, probably have a pronounced accent with her English. But it can be pretty funny.
On another note, we heard back from the doctors at Shriners yesterday, and Taylor is supposed to get brackets on his teeth right away. They apparently want to begin to move his front teeth around before they are ready to do his next surgery. They want to see him within a year, so we will probably need to make a trip to Portland at this end of this year, beginning of the next for him to see the doctors there. Janelle just got her's on earlier this month, so now we will have two in brackets. At least we can combine trips to the dentist and do two at once, so it will save me some trips (it is 45 minutes away in Tequisquiapan.)
Easter service tomorrow. I am fixing breakfast for 30-40 people for church. It will be a busy morning.
Ok, still no pictures, but I'll try to get some taken tomorrow.
HE IS RISEN!
When Lancy was here in December, she brought her Hootcases, and then had to repack the hootcases in order to leave again in January.
Actually, both Taylor and LiAnne call them hootcases, and Richard and I have had some pretty good laughs over it.
It makes for some pretty interesting conversations around here when you stop and consider the speech problems of the three kids. LiAnne's is just a little kid that hasn't learned to pronounce all of her letters very well yet. Taylor's is from his cleft, and will take some real work to get over, and Janelle's is because she is going from Chinese to English, and she will, unfortunately, probably have a pronounced accent with her English. But it can be pretty funny.
On another note, we heard back from the doctors at Shriners yesterday, and Taylor is supposed to get brackets on his teeth right away. They apparently want to begin to move his front teeth around before they are ready to do his next surgery. They want to see him within a year, so we will probably need to make a trip to Portland at this end of this year, beginning of the next for him to see the doctors there. Janelle just got her's on earlier this month, so now we will have two in brackets. At least we can combine trips to the dentist and do two at once, so it will save me some trips (it is 45 minutes away in Tequisquiapan.)
Easter service tomorrow. I am fixing breakfast for 30-40 people for church. It will be a busy morning.
Ok, still no pictures, but I'll try to get some taken tomorrow.
HE IS RISEN!
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Missing, but still in Action
I know that it has been a loooooong time since my last post, but there are reasons. I have this nice, new laptop that I just got in early November. It had been giving me problems....blue screens of death my son calls them....and three weeks ago it just shut down, and wouldn't start up again. A quick call to Dell, and it was a confirmed hard drive death. That meant sending the hard drive to the states, and having a new one sent down. Caleb thought that he could recover my folders from theold one, and that sounded good to me. He had a really busy week, though, and couldn't get to it right away. It did arrive earlier this week, but when I put it in the computer and started it up, somehow I messed up (who me, the mom to the computer expert?) and I lost all of the folders he had recovered. So, I am starting over again, sad about losing so much. Pictures are all on CD's, but I had downloaded a lot of digital scrapbooking stuff, and that is all gone.
I did use the main computer some during these weeks, but Richard uses it for work, plus has been doing our taxes, so I didn't get on much. But I did get other things done.....curtains for the living room, a good part of Lancy's quilt quilted, and a couple of books read.
School is going ok. Taylor loves to sound out words from cereal boxes, back of books, anywhere he can these days. Janelle is almost done with the 4th grade math book. There are days when things go well, and days when they don't. It is hard to figure out how she can do one problem well, and the very next problem she has no idea what to do, even though it is the same type of problem. Is logic something you can learn???? Sure would be nice to think that her logic skills would improve. We started with the 1st grade Science and Health books a couple of weeks ago. She reads the pages outloud to me, and writes down new words to look up. She is able to understand quite a bit. I was hoping to jump her up to the 4th grade books when these are finished, but looking them over decided that we would just go on the 2nd. It is just too big of a jump. We have made it one day shy of three weeks without a crying breakdown, so she is doing well.
I have had problems with my left lower arm since we were in October....tendonitis the doctor said. It is finally feeling about 90% better, when the same problem started in my right arm. That is much worse, since I use it so much. I am going to physical therapy a couple of times a week here in Bernal, and do feel that it is helping. But, have you ever tried to keep a house clean with two sore arms? I have tile floors that need to be mopped every day. Very hard to wring the mop out with out using those arms.
Hmmmm....what else is new around here? Lancy is really enjoying Thailand, we have the walls of the Sunday School rooms about 1/2 up, this weekend starts the two week Easter vacation here in Mexico, next Friday is the first day of Spring, so we can expect a few thousand visitors here in Bernal to "get their energy from the Pena". (We stay home that day.) Oh, and Amanda was accepted to go to Thailand with a Baptist group this summer for a few weeks, so she'll get to visit Lancy while there.
This is long enough for now, so I'll quit and promise some pictures for next time. Still don't have any pictures on my computer. It takes a lot of work to get a computer back in service after losing everything!
I did use the main computer some during these weeks, but Richard uses it for work, plus has been doing our taxes, so I didn't get on much. But I did get other things done.....curtains for the living room, a good part of Lancy's quilt quilted, and a couple of books read.
School is going ok. Taylor loves to sound out words from cereal boxes, back of books, anywhere he can these days. Janelle is almost done with the 4th grade math book. There are days when things go well, and days when they don't. It is hard to figure out how she can do one problem well, and the very next problem she has no idea what to do, even though it is the same type of problem. Is logic something you can learn???? Sure would be nice to think that her logic skills would improve. We started with the 1st grade Science and Health books a couple of weeks ago. She reads the pages outloud to me, and writes down new words to look up. She is able to understand quite a bit. I was hoping to jump her up to the 4th grade books when these are finished, but looking them over decided that we would just go on the 2nd. It is just too big of a jump. We have made it one day shy of three weeks without a crying breakdown, so she is doing well.
I have had problems with my left lower arm since we were in October....tendonitis the doctor said. It is finally feeling about 90% better, when the same problem started in my right arm. That is much worse, since I use it so much. I am going to physical therapy a couple of times a week here in Bernal, and do feel that it is helping. But, have you ever tried to keep a house clean with two sore arms? I have tile floors that need to be mopped every day. Very hard to wring the mop out with out using those arms.
Hmmmm....what else is new around here? Lancy is really enjoying Thailand, we have the walls of the Sunday School rooms about 1/2 up, this weekend starts the two week Easter vacation here in Mexico, next Friday is the first day of Spring, so we can expect a few thousand visitors here in Bernal to "get their energy from the Pena". (We stay home that day.) Oh, and Amanda was accepted to go to Thailand with a Baptist group this summer for a few weeks, so she'll get to visit Lancy while there.
This is long enough for now, so I'll quit and promise some pictures for next time. Still don't have any pictures on my computer. It takes a lot of work to get a computer back in service after losing everything!
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