Wednesday, September 17, 2008

A Yam Winner

No, I didn't win any sweet potatoes. It's just my name scrambled. Got an email from my sister today with the link: http://wordsmith.org/anagram/advanced.html Pretty funny for some names. Anyhoo, I'm very tired and MUST go to bed early. Anne fell asleep in the car on the way home from storytime tonight. It was the first night of Pajama-Rama at the Grosse Pointe Woods Library. Unfortunately, it just wasn't Anne's cup of tea tonight. She went in with her jammies on and Growlers (her tiger) under her arm and found her cute little nametag. She took two steps into the storytime room and lost her mind! She cried and screamed until I took her out! So we listened to stories from outside the door and peeked through the glass at the other kids. Maybe she'll be up for it next week. We'll see!

Monday, September 15, 2008

Under the weather



Poor Anne was sick all weekend. And of course, it rained and rained and rained. You'd think I could get some cleaning and organizing done, but not so much. I HAVE made some progress, which I'll try to post about another day, but it's almost 11 pm and I have to get up at 5:30 am (well, maybe 6 if I don't care what I look like tomorrow--but middle school kids notice EVERYTHING about your clothes, hair, make-up, etc. believe it or not). I'll just post a couple pics of Anne with her 103 temp on the couch, waiting for Grammy and Grand Dad to come over and babysit on Saturday. Marty's friends had a very nice "Going Away" party for him that night, so Mom, Dad, and Nanny came over to sit. Anne actually looks pretty good for being sick, I think! Okay, the Marts wants me off the computer...fantasy football's going well tonight apparently.


























Sunday, September 7, 2008

A new goal

Yes, I'm still alive! No, I'm (obviously) not good at keeping up with things, such as blogging, among many, many other aspects of my life, during the school year. The beginning of the school year is always an adjustment and a little hectic but I'm hoping in the next week or so I will be feeling a little less stressed. I actually committed myself to a new goal this weekend. I am such an incredibly disorganized person, which brings on unnecessary stress, I've found. Therefore, my new goal is to become more organized in every way I can! Sounds simple enough, right? We'll see. The main things I need to work on are how I organize my time, meal planning & shopping, house cleaning, and paperwork. I am SO sick of CLUTTER! I really feel like I need to strip my house from top to bottom and go through every drawer and cupboard and closet and just get rid of stuff! I actually was online last night googling about organizing and de-cluttering and cleaning and I got a lot of good ideas. I'll let everyone know how this goes as I begin organizing my life! Sounds exciting, doesn't it?! Ha ha!

Anne is doing just great and seems very happy at Aunt Jane's while Marty and I are at work. She does tell me "I miss you Mama" sometimes which I love! She's also been very friendly lately, greeting people when we're out on walks: "Hi, my name's Annie." She'll say this to Marty sometimes, too, though, which is kind of funny.

Part of being more organized is getting myself to bed on time, so goodnight!