Wednesday, May 6, 2009
Sunday, May 3, 2009
Sunday Blessings
Today begins Teacher's Appreciation Week. I had a CV Kidz meeting today and one of the women on our Dream Team bought me this hanging basket to tell me that I was doing a good job and that she appreciated me. Boy was I surprised! It really made my day. The two humming birds that live in our front yard will love it too!
The front yard is filling in nicely. I already see many buds forming and can't wait for the next two weeks. Usually a lot begins to bloom by Mother's Day where we live.
This basket will be beautiful all season long. I am so grateful to have loads of color right by the window to keep me company.
The front yard is filling in nicely. I already see many buds forming and can't wait for the next two weeks. Usually a lot begins to bloom by Mother's Day where we live.
This basket will be beautiful all season long. I am so grateful to have loads of color right by the window to keep me company.Saturday, May 2, 2009
A Really Good Cry
How do I even begin to explain this week?! We had a blessing happen on Sunday! We were given a love offering to help pay for our new lap top! I was able to get back online, working again, and it also began "catch up."
By Thursday, I finally was able to get to the store to get a few groceries before getting home to continue the mound of laundry that piles up when you are sick. I finished it all! Can you believe it? I couldn't. I also finished all the housework!
Friday came and Dave woke up with hives all over his body. He was miserable at work and asked me if I had done anything different with the laundry. Dave has sensitive skin and so we usually use Dreft. This time I tried to save money by buying Target's brand of baby detergent. Well... needless to say that I am now emptying out drawers and rewashing all the clothes.
This morning, while I was on the phone with the on call nurse for Dave (who by the way is now swollen and having cold chills while working) I opened the mail from yesterday. I found our water bill and it was six times higher than usual. Of course all I could do was leave a message on the company's answering service. But, what if we have a water leak? There would be no way that Dave could crawl under the house to see since he is so sick with allergies as it is!
So, when Becca and I came back from Craft Warehouse (read about that adventure here - unless you are MOM) and I got changed to go into the crawl space. Becca held the lamp. I opened the door. I realized I was going to have to get on my stomach to even get in there. I admitted that I was scared and so Becca humored me and prayed a prayer that went something like this, "Dear God, give Jen strength to go under the house because... well, were girls... help her be brave. Amen." I brushed the gigantic cop webs from the entrance and when I peered inside I saw something on the ground that looked similar to a mouse shaped body. I cried out and took the broom to see if it was such. We both began to laugh so hard that Sarah yelled from inside the house if we were OK. I then realized that I really had to do this and in my hysteria began crying. I crawled under the house and slowly went as far as I could before the pipes began to cross each other and I couldn't go any farther. I didn't see any leaks (that's good right?) and began back. It is amazing how being under the house can cause asthma. I am just beginning to feel better.
Dave was given a steroid at the Urgent Care after work hours and now is asleep. I guess the moral of the story is ladies, let someone else do the job of crawling in small spaces with creepy crawling things, with poor air supply. Unless you need a really good cry...
By Thursday, I finally was able to get to the store to get a few groceries before getting home to continue the mound of laundry that piles up when you are sick. I finished it all! Can you believe it? I couldn't. I also finished all the housework!
Friday came and Dave woke up with hives all over his body. He was miserable at work and asked me if I had done anything different with the laundry. Dave has sensitive skin and so we usually use Dreft. This time I tried to save money by buying Target's brand of baby detergent. Well... needless to say that I am now emptying out drawers and rewashing all the clothes.
This morning, while I was on the phone with the on call nurse for Dave (who by the way is now swollen and having cold chills while working) I opened the mail from yesterday. I found our water bill and it was six times higher than usual. Of course all I could do was leave a message on the company's answering service. But, what if we have a water leak? There would be no way that Dave could crawl under the house to see since he is so sick with allergies as it is!
So, when Becca and I came back from Craft Warehouse (read about that adventure here - unless you are MOM) and I got changed to go into the crawl space. Becca held the lamp. I opened the door. I realized I was going to have to get on my stomach to even get in there. I admitted that I was scared and so Becca humored me and prayed a prayer that went something like this, "Dear God, give Jen strength to go under the house because... well, were girls... help her be brave. Amen." I brushed the gigantic cop webs from the entrance and when I peered inside I saw something on the ground that looked similar to a mouse shaped body. I cried out and took the broom to see if it was such. We both began to laugh so hard that Sarah yelled from inside the house if we were OK. I then realized that I really had to do this and in my hysteria began crying. I crawled under the house and slowly went as far as I could before the pipes began to cross each other and I couldn't go any farther. I didn't see any leaks (that's good right?) and began back. It is amazing how being under the house can cause asthma. I am just beginning to feel better.
Dave was given a steroid at the Urgent Care after work hours and now is asleep. I guess the moral of the story is ladies, let someone else do the job of crawling in small spaces with creepy crawling things, with poor air supply. Unless you need a really good cry...
Monday, April 27, 2009
Sunday, April 26, 2009
Getting Wired
Have you ever tried checking your email on a computer hooked to a sixty inch high definition television? No? Well, just picture it... you rearrange the furniture just so that you can see comfortably. Although the screen is large you find it hard to even read small print. So, you make sure that your glasses are on so that you can even read the email in the first place, all for the wireless mouse and keyboard to shut off. You change the batteries and it still doesn't work. So, to get the work you need to get done during a limited time, due to your son's nap schedule, you hook up the wired keyboard and mouse to the desktop PC. The mouse's wire is only about three feet long which requires you to rearrange the furniture once more to reach it and the keyboard. In the end you get a migraine for sitting that close to the television and results you closing yourself in a dark room, medicated, and going to bed far to early for a thirty year old.
Thursday, April 23, 2009
What a Week!
Last Tuesday started a whirlwind of events in the Evans' household. I got a call from Craft Warehouse saying that I won the contest I entered and am now a part of their design team! I am still a little shell shocked and not sure if it has truly sunk in yet. You can read my bio here. I will be designing for their website, stores, and ads. Totally amazing!
Wednesday I spent the morning at Aldersgate Conference Center helping clear out plants in one of their gardens. They said I could have anything that was taken out! So I filled my car so full with plants that I am sure there were roots hanging out the trunk. When I got home, I put Ethan down for a nap and got to work planting the starts in the garden. I can't tell you how happy I was. But, afterwards I was really tired. I was surprised that a bit of gardening wore me out that bad.
Thursday I woke up with the stomach flu. I could barely move. Pretty much the rest of the week I felt like that. In the meantime, my laptop died. I knew it would be hard for me not to have the laptop, since I did 100 percent of my work on it! But I am slowly getting use to the fact that I can only get things done on the computer at night - after Dave is finished using it. You see, our computer is connected to our television! We will have to learn to share!
I started to feel better Monday and Tuesday of this week and just in time too! Dave burned our enormous burn pile in the back yard. It was there when we moved in three years ago and now it is GONE! Whoohoo! I also finally conquered the grass that surrounded it - we liked to call the "jungle." It took quite a bit of mowing but it is done! I had to get it done so that my mother-in-law could come over on Wednesday.
Mom came over Wednesday (she always does for her birthday). She always comes over so that she can work in the garden. I wanted all the hard work and chores done with before she got here so that we could just have fun planting. I still had about 50 irises that needed to get into the ground from Aldersgate. Mom helped with that, moved a new found clematis to a new home, and planted annual seeds. Ethan just had a ball playing in the sand box and with his dump trucks outside. Before nap, Grandma had to read to Ethan.
I am so glad to be feeling better and back online!
Wednesday I spent the morning at Aldersgate Conference Center helping clear out plants in one of their gardens. They said I could have anything that was taken out! So I filled my car so full with plants that I am sure there were roots hanging out the trunk. When I got home, I put Ethan down for a nap and got to work planting the starts in the garden. I can't tell you how happy I was. But, afterwards I was really tired. I was surprised that a bit of gardening wore me out that bad.
Thursday I woke up with the stomach flu. I could barely move. Pretty much the rest of the week I felt like that. In the meantime, my laptop died. I knew it would be hard for me not to have the laptop, since I did 100 percent of my work on it! But I am slowly getting use to the fact that I can only get things done on the computer at night - after Dave is finished using it. You see, our computer is connected to our television! We will have to learn to share!
I started to feel better Monday and Tuesday of this week and just in time too! Dave burned our enormous burn pile in the back yard. It was there when we moved in three years ago and now it is GONE! Whoohoo! I also finally conquered the grass that surrounded it - we liked to call the "jungle." It took quite a bit of mowing but it is done! I had to get it done so that my mother-in-law could come over on Wednesday.
Mom came over Wednesday (she always does for her birthday). She always comes over so that she can work in the garden. I wanted all the hard work and chores done with before she got here so that we could just have fun planting. I still had about 50 irises that needed to get into the ground from Aldersgate. Mom helped with that, moved a new found clematis to a new home, and planted annual seeds. Ethan just had a ball playing in the sand box and with his dump trucks outside. Before nap, Grandma had to read to Ethan.
I am so glad to be feeling better and back online! Wednesday, April 15, 2009
Easter Joy
We had a blessed Easter! My first Easter Bible-Bash at church went as planned and was better than expected! The children had so much fun and the parents were totally blessed! From there we headed home for Ethan's nap. We couldn't wait for him to get up because Dave and I were so excited to get over to Mom and Dad's for Easter dinner. After we stuffed ourselves terribly, we went outside for the traditional Evans' egg hunt. This year was the first with just plastic eggs! Tammy was so kind to fill all the plastic eggs so that Ethan could have his hunt too.
Ethan found the same egg here last year.
After having a great time of fellowship with family, we went over to see Becca, Josh, and Sarah. We got to hang out for a bit before Ethan became too exhausted to do any more! We are still playing catch up...but it was worth it!
Ethan found the same egg here last year.
After having a great time of fellowship with family, we went over to see Becca, Josh, and Sarah. We got to hang out for a bit before Ethan became too exhausted to do any more! We are still playing catch up...but it was worth it!Saturday, April 4, 2009
Ethan's First Zoo Trip
We still had tickets to the zoo from when I worked at the preschool last year. Since they expire next week and the weather was perfect, Becca and I planned a zoo trip for today! Ethan had a blast and was on his best behavior... for a two year old boy...
Here he is staring down a kid for wanting to pet "his" goat.
I loved when the goat picked up a stick and started eating it. Ethan was screaming, "No eating the stick!"
Ethan was so serious for most of the trip. He was computing it all.
I was so embarrassed. After lunch we gave Ethan some time on the grass to run around. Ethan ran right into a roped area up to two people sitting down. It was zoo personal giving someone an interview. She laughed and said to the guy she was interviewing, "Well, you are good with kids!" and pretended to scribble notes on the application. All Ethan kept on saying was, "Two people!"
This was way better than interrupting interviews.
Ethan watching the elephant walk back and forth.
I took so many photos to get this one. I just wanted the silhouette of Becca and Ethan. It was so sweet. Becca was asking Ethan how many hippos there were and right when I took the picture was when a kid next to them answered, "Two!" So, Becca and Ethan aren't even looking at each other in the photo!
Ethan looking at the Larakeets.
I had to take this picture with Ethan and the HUGE poster of Bob the Builder at the Children's Museum across the street from the zoo. I hope we can get to go before it closes in June.
Here he is staring down a kid for wanting to pet "his" goat.
I loved when the goat picked up a stick and started eating it. Ethan was screaming, "No eating the stick!"
Ethan was so serious for most of the trip. He was computing it all.
I was so embarrassed. After lunch we gave Ethan some time on the grass to run around. Ethan ran right into a roped area up to two people sitting down. It was zoo personal giving someone an interview. She laughed and said to the guy she was interviewing, "Well, you are good with kids!" and pretended to scribble notes on the application. All Ethan kept on saying was, "Two people!"
This was way better than interrupting interviews.
Ethan watching the elephant walk back and forth.
I took so many photos to get this one. I just wanted the silhouette of Becca and Ethan. It was so sweet. Becca was asking Ethan how many hippos there were and right when I took the picture was when a kid next to them answered, "Two!" So, Becca and Ethan aren't even looking at each other in the photo!
Ethan looking at the Larakeets.
I had to take this picture with Ethan and the HUGE poster of Bob the Builder at the Children's Museum across the street from the zoo. I hope we can get to go before it closes in June.Afterwards, we were driving by Dave's work during his lunch break and stopped. That made Dave's day since he had to work overtime and wouldn't see Ethan otherwise. When we came home, Ethan crashed and slept for a few hours. Which meant I got to play in the garden and mow my yard! What a beautiful day!
Friday, April 3, 2009
Our Week in a Nutshell
We haven't been doing too much over here. Ethan has been teething his two year molars; which could explain our week in a nutshell.
We have had fun with some new activities and this I think this one is Ethan's favorite so far. After we did our lesson, he was having a blast playing for a while at the table by himself.
Other than that, we have been just stuck in the house. It has been raining all week without stopping! The only glimpses we have had of spring has been the birds feeding from the feeder in the back yard. I love this time of year when the birds collect items in the yard for their nests. We will have to cut Ethan's hair this weekend and leave it in the grass for the birds. It would be cool to find a nest with Ethan's hair weaved into it! Or... is that gross?
We have had fun with some new activities and this I think this one is Ethan's favorite so far. After we did our lesson, he was having a blast playing for a while at the table by himself.
Other than that, we have been just stuck in the house. It has been raining all week without stopping! The only glimpses we have had of spring has been the birds feeding from the feeder in the back yard. I love this time of year when the birds collect items in the yard for their nests. We will have to cut Ethan's hair this weekend and leave it in the grass for the birds. It would be cool to find a nest with Ethan's hair weaved into it! Or... is that gross?
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