i'm back!

after 4 years i find myself here again.  it didn't make sense to pay $10 a month for a blog that i wasn't using on a daily basis plus i have like 3 followers anyway so...here i am.
if you followed me from the old blog, welcome to my new old home!

so sorry! bad blogger!!!

this is the first day since i moved that blogger has allowed me to come here to let everyone know that i have moved...and because of that statement it won't be hard to figure out why i moved...
this is where i live now:
http://momy4him.typepad.com/the_little_things/
hop on over and say hello!!
i am still adding people to my list, so i will add you as you stop by!
hope to see you soon!

it's been one of those mornings. you know the kind where it's just one thing after another? that's my day so far. i got few hours of sleep. overturned cereal on the table, followed by a spillage of orange juice. the baby has the worst diaper rash i have ever seen, with blisters (poor guy). neighbors coming over during a chaotic moment and the house is in shambles. it's raining and it's cold. but i am not discouraged. this day has not overtaken me and it is not over. i will take it back. and i will start by getting off the computer. right now.

quickie...

i really need to remove myself from this computer, but first just wanted to post about the cutest thing. carter said "thank you" for the first time yesterday! i gave him a toy he had been reaching for but couldn't get to, and he said, "dan du" - so sweet!!! he excitedly shakes his head no when he means yes, but we are still working on that one...

i just added some new photos to the photo blog, so go have a looksee!

finished my layout for gina's sketch challenge #6 :

papers and elements from Dawn Stocstill's "Simply Soft" kit

then i actually got the time to attend a crop at sbb! the simple style crop sketch was great!

paper and doodle heart are from Jen Wilson's "For the Girls"kit

i got my tablet to work again, i uninstalled it and reinstalled it, rebooted and everything else i could think of. then it hit me, that i removed the tablet disc from my computer while i was scrapping and had to put it back in to reinstall. now i wonder if that was the problem all along...

off now to tackle laundry and i have also decided to dig into a room a day and deep clean. today it will be the children's bathroom. for dinner we're having tamales! yum! no, i do not make these from scratch. even if i knew how, the time it would take me to make them would be um...not good.

bye for now!!

thanks to all of you who offered to help me out, you are very kind. i know how to upload pics from hello but that was not working yesterday either...
i was also ready to say that my local costco doesn't have the option of uploading photos and picking them up there later, because at one time, they did NOT have that option but there is one 15 minutes away, that does. but i can no longer say that. for the heck of it i called my local costco in hopes that they finally adopted this option and they have! so this is cool to know!

i finally installed my wacom intuous 3 tablet this morning!!! i was so excited that i could write and doodle- i called my 8 year old daughter to come and see. she just looks at it and says "cool".




then she asks, if she could try it. so i'm thinking sure, why not? so i give up my seat to go take a shower. i come back to find she has done this:


leave her alone for 5 minutes and she's got the thing figured out!

the three older kids went to enrichment today at their school. i was kinda excited for them to go so i could come back home and play with the wacom. they have enrichment on wednesdays from 10-2. so, i had it all figured out. i would drop them off, then take the little ones to the park, let them play for about an hour, bring them home, feed them lunch, then nap time! i would then have the rest of the time to scrap and play! well...how does that saying go? best laid plans...two of them fell asleep on the way home and i knew if i tried to go to the park they would just be cranky the whole time for having awakened them. so i went home and tried to transport them carefully with out rousing them too much. no dice. but i still tried to play with my new toy. now that i know what i can do on this little baby i get it out already to go, and now it does NOTHING!!!!!
i have no clue what happened. it won't do anything now but make mere dots on everything i try to use it on! if you have a tablet and this has happened to you please, please tell me how to fix this!
now it is time to go and pick up the kids...sigh. so much for that.

ooooooh!!!!

i am sooooo about ready to leave blogger!!!!
first of all, i was living in virtual bliss having switched over to mozilla. everything looked great and i was happy. then i happened over here to my blog in internet explorer and i find a jumbled mess! now i am trying to upload photos to my photo blog, which is, yes- a separate blog. i can't seem to upload any photos to it from mozilla OR ie- i am so frustrated right now...
i forgot to mention that i did take the kids to michael's and we picked up some fun crafts for them to do. some wooden crosses for the older kids to paint, and some foam ones and lots of foam stickers for the younger ones. and we also got some wooden eggs for painting. messy, but fun. and i haven't posted the pics yet. :(
i need to go to costco. i keep putting it off because i don't have layouts ready for printing and i figure if i'm going to go to costco i might as well get some layouts printed while i shop. what do i have to do to get them ready? just put 6 6x6s on a 12x18 formatted page and save to a disc. but i have yet to do it and i really need to go to costco so i am not going to let that hold me up anymore.
i am signing off now, i can't really think. i probably had more to say, but the kids are listening to matilda on tape, and i am half listening half typing, making a ton of typing errors. so i better go ...

new schtuff!

happy monday!!!!
what a filled weekend i had! it's aaall good though. i filled everyone in on friday- that was pretty much my day. had my crop, then went to bed.
on saturday i woke up and jay had gone in to work. i soon learned he took two of the kids with him. he knew i had a baby shower to go to so he was home by 10am. the shower started at noon, and i was there just a few minutes after that, but the guest of honor was almost an hour late!! (hee hee- hi juls!!!) i had fun, but jay was not happy the rest of the day. after the shower i was home just long enough for him to go to the store before being picked up by my friends for dinner, after a nice dinner i went straight to a friend's house for a movie so i was gone basically all day! i walk in the door saturday night and he says to me, "look who decided to come home..." lol - i then went straight to bed. he is good to me though really, but i sooooo needed to be gone all day. it's what i call a mental health day.
on sunday, jay asks me, if you could buy anything you wanted what would you buy? and i could not think of a single thing! so after i had some time to think about it i told him how we needed new towels and i wanted to paint the walls and...he said, no! this is for you not the house! back to the drawing board. i don't NEED anything, so this is hard. then he added that it had to be something i would use- he is referring to the wacom tablet i just got a month ago, that is still sitting on my desk that i have not even attempted to use yet...he was thinking of getting me a new lense for my camera but the one he is thinking of is $1000 and i told him no since i may hardly use it. i can't justify buying it. a while later i got an idea- i told him he could always buy my ticket to chicago for october and he dashed that idea. he said that is gonna happen anyway so...i so love this man!
i am still trying to think of something. it figures, when i have the oppotunity, there is nothing i want or need. but when money is tight, i want everything! but then there are those times when opportunity comes and i spend it all on the kids. jay says not this time! so now i am thinking haircut, spa, a new spring wardrobe...btw, he is getting something for himself too, he is upgrading his computer, getting a video ipod, and something else (prolly something geeky- we are all for geeky in this house). oh! and while i was gone all day he took the time to get me a new phone! with the family plan we have we have the opportunity once a year to get a new phone free of charge. but the phones (he got one too) he got cost him a pretty penny since he did not choose one of the ones you get for free. so i said good bye to my old peeling, nokia and hello to my new motorola camera phone!
we have seen some crazy weather this weekend! it seems california forgot to have winter so decided she would throw some our way this weekend. it rained a good portion of the day on saturday and it was freezing cold! infact, we had a hail storm and parts of southern cali saw snow on the ground! how fun! the kids and jay were all outside catching hail so i snapped a few pics. i also did a layout this weekend!

Sweet Dreams Baby

Funky Phresh kit by Sara Carling- sweet shoppe designs

and if you are still here, you have to check out this cute video! i laughed so hard i cried!

of course, today it is nice and sunny and a nice day to get some fresh photos- that always inspires me to do some srapping ;) !

have a great day!

darn it! this is what my blog is SUPPOSED to look like...i have my clock and slide show up top! this is in mozilla. but then i come over to internet explorer and see THIS mess...why? you have to scroll ALL the way to the bottom to see all of my stuff! ugh!!!!!!

just for the record...

i had to laugh out loud when i read Lisa's comment today, she thought the photo below in the previous post was a photo of me! i wish i was as gorgeous as actress Lisa Anderson, but alas, i am just plain ol' me... at least we have the same first name!

i had a pretty busy day today. i knew i had to sub for a crop today so i got up early to work on the freebie. we were supposed to go to a baby shower for one of the children's teachers (yes, i still homeschool, but they also have teachers, i'll explain that someday in another post.) but it rained and sbb was down so i was able to work on the freebie with no distractions!! i'll tell ya, when i am on sbb, i am there all day! i know that is bad, i am slipping in the computer time management area big time! i got the freebie done, but was thinking it may have been for nothing, since the site was still down by the time i was done. then i got a call from the school saysing they moved the shower to the school. so we jetted over there for a bit. i took pics for about half an hour and then jetted back home to see if sbb was back up for the crop. it was1 and only a half hour before the crop! finished the crop, played a card game (war) with keith, took drew cam, and devy to piano lesson(3:00) came back to straighten up the house before jay arrived home. he came home,(3:30) and i jetted to the bank. when i got back(4:00), he went to pick up drew and cam from piano, leaving devy since she was not done for another half hour. dropped cam off at home (4:10) so i could take her to her art lesson which started at 4:30. he kept going with drew on to karate (he teaches a tai kwon do/ hapkido class once a week) so i dropped cam off at art lesson a little early (4:20) cause devy's piano lesson ends at 4:30! picked up devy and then went to pick up dinner(pizza) i ate dinner with the boys while devy went to a friend's house and then cam calls me at 5:30 telling me she is done. well, jay and i agreed that he would be picking her up from art lesson and he was not there! ugh! so i call him to find out where he is...on his way. ok.
so now i am here blogging.

Pure (Superchick)

paper and alpha circle-Dawn Stocstill's Simply Soft kit notebook paper strip- Amy Martin both can be found at modscraps.com

this is the second layout in my soundtrack album. i kept this one really simple with just the words to the song...i love superchick- great band.
i just found this really great artist named beckah shae- this girl can sang!!! she has this indie/neo soul thing going...just check her out! i really like all of the songs, but am really drawn into the groove of 'sistas' really relating to that song. 'victory' is another really good one... i could go on! ooooooohwee!!! if i could just get webjay hooked up on here! i have a pretty expansive playlist. i listen to all kinds of music- classical, country, r&b, hip hop, alternative, pop, i listen to it all and do not discriminate between genre. my radio is set to a christian station, but the songs are vast in types. just wait- you'll see, if i can just get. this. thing. hooked. up.

Cam and Lilli

papers and elements- Sara Carling's Just the Icing kit
sweetshoppedesigns

my daughter loves this baby girl! she cannot get enough of her! and the feeling is mutual. lilli always gets soooo excited whenever she see's camryn. it's so cute! well that's it for now, i have a crop at sbb tonight, i host the west coast scrap (no, no fighting involved)(that was for you tiff, i am still cracking up over you!) on friday nights at 9pm- west coast time of course!! and if you are up on monday mornings, i host the monday morning subscriber's crop at 9am eastern time. stop in sometime and give me a holla!

how about this? i like it, but i already know that jay won't be able to get past the 'ropes'. back to the drawing board...




check out this really cute kit by the modsquad! i am loving this kit!

this is what i've done with it so far. i know i will use it several times over!

and look! i did another layout lastnight:

i used Sara Carling's Pure Vanilla kit, and yes, this is a scraplift from the latest Scrapbooks Etc. i had to get my mojo jump started again! i think i can take it from here now...

hircuts and a funny story....

i am contemplating cutting my hair this spring...i love the look of short, it's cute, but can be high maintenance for me. and i need little to no maintenance hair. i have no time to do my hair everyday. as of now, all i have to do to it is wash it and get a relaxer every other month. i curl it only when i have somewhere important to go, otherwise it's just straight and i pull it back at night. so i am really a practical kind of girl, and i am not really frivolous. getting a short hairstyle for me feels like a waste of money since within a month my hair will have grown out and i would be back at the salon trying to maintain the style...BUT, i want to try something new, something sassy, i want to look cute! the few times i have gotten my hair cut i feel empowered, i feel light, i feel pretty. then after a few weeks i regret the decision to cut it. then i wait. and while i wait, i spend a week putting it in braids, which lasts for about 3 months. then i relax it. and just wear it straight until i start getting grand delusions of cutting it short again. maybe i can just go to the salon and get something pretty done to it leaving it the length it is. maybe get some color. always wanted to try some red...

i was reading gina's blog this morning and she totally inspired me to do some spring/easter crafts with my kids. so i need to add go to michaels to my do do list for this week. devyn has been asking when we are going to get the house ready for Easter, so here we go...

a funny story. last week at cubbies we talked about the story of the shepherd who had 100 sheep and one had gone missing. so he had 99 sheep and one lost, who, he went to find to return to the fold. ok so, cubbies are 3 and 4 year olds who almost always have something cute to say. one little girl raised her hand and when she was called on, proceeded to say, "when i was lost, Jesus found me." all the adults said "awwwww, how sweet". well, then others began to raise their hand to cite the following, "when i was lost, Jesus found me", "one time i was lost, and Jesus found me" it went on all around the room like this, and one kid said, "one time, i was lost in the bushes, and Jesus found me." lol. but then my kid. my 3year old, raised his hand and said, "i was lost, Jesus found me and gave me a spanking." lovely huh?

i am hoping that today i will be able to get some scrapping done since i am always bad after coming back from not being on the computer for a few days. i find it hard to jump back in creatively for some reason. but i need to take a break from the computer for a bit right now and tackle some laundry, and figure out what to make for dinner. hopefully i'll have something by way of a layout to post later...

Home...

glad to be back. back in my house. i waited the whole hour drive long to get home from the airport to dive into jay's arms to receive the biggest i missed you so much hug. and i gave one right back to him.
i became really sick after returning home. i don't know that it was just one thing, or a lot of little things like being tired, not eating and sleeping properly during the trip, and i also forgot to pack my thyroid medication, so i have been off of it for about 5 days, or the stress of what to do about schuyler, my oldest son. but enough of that-
my dad looks and sounds really good. he is incredibly chipper and in good spirits, but then again, i should not be surprised. alot of people have asked me if my dad is saved. he is. he knows the Lord and you can tell. his whole attitude about his whole ordeal is great and he is happy to be alive. he is eager to learn to walk and get around again and take care of himself. he will be fitted for a prosthetic leg soon, which he is excited about. he was glad to see me walk into his room, his whole face lit up! then he proceeded to pick up the phone and call everyone he could to tell them i was there. i am so glad i went.
now i gotta go and tackle laundry, shopping lists, and school work with the kids...
i just wanted to pop in and say hey!

i received a Random Act of Kindness last night. i am so happy that this wonderful woman decided to bless me with her gift. it really gave my night a boost! it was a great end to my day. thank you dianne!

here are just a few layouts i have to share:

this first layout was made while trying to teach a friend who is interested in digital scrapbooking how to do a simple layout. this was just supposed to be an example, but when the time came to close it, i thought it was rather cute and kept it as is!! this sweet little face belongs to za'kenzie, whose mom is val, a friend of mine and awesome photographer and digiscrapper!

credits: helen o'daniel's peachy keen kit. a cherry on top

credits: sara carling's silly little man kit. sweet shoppe designs

credits: sara carling's silly little man kit. sweet shoppe designs

credits: taran conyers' girly girl kit. shabby shoppe

credits: sara carling's authentic kit. shabby shoppe

whew! that was some serious scrapping going on there! i had fun and am really enjoying my new kits from sara (thank you sara!).

ok. now comes the part of the post that i really don't care for. sharing bad news. some of you may already know about my dad. he is a diabetic and has had to have one of his legs removed and a toe from the remaining leg. i am leaving for georgia in a couple of days to go and see him. and, my son lives there too so i will get to visit with him also. i cannot believe he will be 18 in june. i feel old... alot of that going around today lol. i was reading gina's blog and saw her faded memories layout. it's a layout of her with her parents when she was around a year old. when i saw the year, i thought "she's so young!" followed by "oooh! i'm sooo old!"

this cracks me up!

laughing babies

i am over what i had and am better and no one else is sick in this house! yay!!!
we had a special weekend though...

keith turned 5!! i can hardly believe it! my baby is 5! he got his jolly jump and his one friend that he wanted to invite over and everyone had a great time! now the older kids want a jolly jump for their birthdays...maybe i should just invest in one?!

i did some layouts but i will post them tomorrow as i am almost asleep typing this. it's going on midnight and i have been up since 5am so i am going to bed now. early!!

it's official, i am totally and dreadfully sick. what i thought was a head cold has moved and settled into my chest and it hurts to cough. i now remember why i never go to bed early. i always wake up in the middle of the night anyway. helen was still up so she kept me company for a while, then i scrapped this page. love these papers.

Sara Carling's Aero kit (sweet shoppe designs)

back to bed i go to try to sleep

Sad HP Ending...

oh it was the saddest thing...last night before i went to bed, drew came up to me and i could clearly see that something had upset him. when i asked him what was wrong he replied, "snape is the half blood prince. and dumbledore is dead." whoa! that was a blow even to me!!! i was open to almost anyone being the half blood prince, but dumbledore's death was totally unexpected! and if drew was not upset enough, i had to tell him that the next book has not even been released yet and that he had to wait until this summer to read the rest! the look on his face-man. poor kid. he only had one more chapter to go and was looking forward to going on to the next book. i laid on the couch and listened while he read the last chapter, and fell asleep.

i feel better this morning, still stuffy though. i hope to get some scrapping in today as the three older kids are at enrichment day from 10am-2pm. i can put the other three down for a nap and have some quiet time for myself. oh i can't wait, i have a date with myself!!!

great news! I AM ON SARA CARLING'S CREATIVE TEAM!!
















i am very excited about this, i have admired her work since she first started designing!
bad news is, i am starting to feel sick..i know it's because of the late hours i have been keeping. becky, you warned me. now can you come take care of me? jay is gone away on a business trip, just until tomorrow though. tonight i am just going to relax, and watch a movie with the kids and then get them into bed. we are watching "sky high". i haven't seen this one yet, but heard it was cute. if i am still awake, which i hope not to be, i have on my 'watch list' "sweet home alabama", and "a walk to remember". thanks margie for the suggestions! i own "how to lose a guy in 10 days" also! ok, the kids are waiting!

Ramblings....

i got a few things done on the list. went to costco, but only got the groceries and not the layouts. darn psp froze up on me while i was trying to make 12x18 formats...i'll do it another time. going to our costco during the middle of the day is for pyschos. i'll never do that again.
i organized the girls room. notice i left out the word "helped". i ended up cleaning out their closet and throwing away a lot of junk. i remember buying them specific containers for barbies. for barbie clothes. for polly pockets. for my little ponies. well, nothing was in it's proper container, and there seems to be even more stuff than i remember! some of these things they never even play with! i am so glad they were not helping me, that way i was able to throw away a ton of stuff without question or crying.
the van got smogged.
didn't get to do any real pitching today. i spent the bulk of my time in the girls room.
i ran to target to ket presents for keith. jay popped a blood vessel when i told him how much i spent. lol. knowing full well that if he had gone with me we would have spent a whole lot more!
jay is all set for his trip.
gonna rent some chick flicks while he is gone. any of you have any good ones in mind?
helen and her family are coming to visit this summer! my whole family is very excited! especially cam. that is the motivation i gave her to keep her room clean!
ok. that's it for now. gonna take mother hen becky's (wink) advice and turn in early tonight. oh ya! there was one other thing on the list i did get to...













paper and elements from Jen Wilson's Early Kite Flyer kit, on the Seasonal Scraps cd

i'll get to the rest of the list tomorrow, plus some...

i know it's way early for me to be on the computer at 6:30 am, but i had a crop this morning and got up at 5:30! oh you think that's bad? i went to bed at 1:30. yeah.
we went to my inlaw's house this weekend for a family reunion. it was nice to see everyone again, it's been about 5 or 6 years since the last get together. everyone had fun, especially the kids, who always enjoy going to grandmas.

i did scrap this weekend though. can't post anything here though. i did two layouts on the laptop in pse3. since i have jumped up to pscs2, playing in pse seemed easy enough, though there are still a few things in pse that are different. on the laptop i don't even use psp since it is version 8. i am used to using version 9 on my desktop, and though it really isn't all too different, using version 8 seems like taking a step backwards. but i don't want to uninstall it from neither the laptop or desktop just yet...

today we are spring cleaning and pitching everything we don't need...only i can't seem to figure out what that is...

i need to get off of this computer and get to work- i have a do to list!


these all have to be done today (yes, the scrapping too)!! on top of everything else that already has to be done daily like laundry, laundry, and more laundry etc...
AND maybe today will be the day i actually learn how to use my new intuous 3 wacom tablet i got weeks ago. it sits on my desk all nice and dusty now!

keith will be 5 on friday! i wanted to give him a party, but a while ago i asked him who he wanted to invite and he only named one person. he has lots of friends, but he only wants this one person over, so let it be written, let it be done.
the two of them can jolly jump until their hearts content.

drew is halfway through book 5 now in the harry potter series. i think he is slowing down because book 5 is not as good as book 4 so far. he already knows sirius dies in this book and i don't think he is looking forward to that part. he can't wait for goblet of fire to be released on dvd though, and i wouldn't mind seeing that one myself.

enough rambling...jay has the day off, so i wanna spend time with him today before he goes on his business trip tomorrow.