Christmas with the girls

Christmas with the girls. Everyone made it this year and we had a great time.

Gmommy update

Well her surgery went great on Dec. 2nd. She recovered well and quickly. She got to leave after only two weeks. She's had to infections or blood clots. She's eating and getting enough fluids on her own to keep her hydrated. She is really tired however mainly because she was on blood thinners in the hospital and of course you do lose some blood during surgery. So we think it'll just take a little time for that to build back up. Also she 84, she's old, old people just sleep a lot. Before all of this happened she use to sleep at least 12hrs a day. So that's about it. Gmommy is doing really well.

Chirstmas time

For Chirstmas this year we went to my sisters house on the 16th-18th. We had Christmas with my dads side of the family at her house on that Saturday and then that night we had Christmas with just our family. The kids had a great time of course. Even though Ansley wasn't quite awake for it she still loved her new Rapunzel doll and chair. She opened those first and of course didn't want to open anything else after that. She finally did open a pink remote car and then of course that's all she wanted to play with. She was so cute. The boys loved their new sleeping bags and duffel bags and the toys they got from meme and pops.









For actual Christmas I went to the lake house with mom and dad. It was nice. I got some pretty awesome pictures on Monday while we walked around the lake a little bit.

patience

I have never asked God to give me patience. I know that God doesn't just give that to people. He gives you the opportunity to be patient. Which means you are going to have a very aggravating time. lol. I never wanted to go through that so I've never asked for it. Also I'm just not a very patient person so I don't care about it. I can be patient at a restaurant or standing in line somewhere but I'm not patient when it comes to dealing with people on a personal/one on one level.

However this year it seemed God thought I needed to learn patience. By the way it hasn't worked out so well. I've had to wait on finding a significant other, which is hard sometimes but over all I think I am doing pretty well with that. He constantly pushes me at work dealing with incredibly stupid, arrogant, ignorant people on a daily basis. I want to reach through the phone and hit them. Also working with my parents and living with them and during the holidays spending even more time with them almost makes me crazy. I want to scream at them all the time! Literally! AHHHH. . . anyways. Also living in Albany is just aggravating enough to drive a person insane.

So I haven't dealt with patience as well as I probably should. O well.

at work

Here are just a few of the dumbest things that people have said to me when I answer the phone at work.

this one happens ALL THE DAMN TIME!!!

me: Clayton Smith's office

other person: um... is this Clayton Smith's office?


caller: ive missed 3 of my payments to title max and last week they STOLE my car, what can i do about it?


me: Clayton Smith's office
other person: um yes do you guys sell computer stuff?

my pirate ship

It is made entirely of Bristol Bored which is a thick paper. And is assembled together with simple ol Elmers glue. Took me a little while to do it all but I'm really happy with it. The Pirate Ship is an entire ship you can hold in your hand. Even has a little ladder leading up to the top deck, there are masts and sails. The clouds, moon and waves are just flat cut outs but attached at different depths to give an illusion of space. I painted a shadow box white to fit match and assembled it all together.

terrible cookie

WHY ON EARTH WOULD SOMEONE COVER A PERFECTLY GOOD CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIE WITH TONS OF SUNFLOWER SEEDS!?!?!?! it was bad. stupid BreadHouse.