Thursday, January 04, 2007

THURSDAY

I have a zillion photos to load but blogger won't work with me. OK - not a zillion but I did take 60 pictures today and 35 yesterday. ::snort::

Today is Jared's 13th birthday. Wow. Time flies. I now have 5 young adults. 4 children....do the math...the youngers have decided there needs to be one more younger...and since there are 5 boys, they need a girl. Go figure.

We didn't celebrate Jared's birthday today. We've all decided to wait for gifts until Mike is home. I did get out the pig hat. I also got out the celebrate plate. Collections etc. was having a huge sale before Christmas and so I got a birthday sign, a birthday welcome mat and some seat covers to go with the pig - permanent decorations. I realized I'll need a few more "things" other than the birthday pig to pass down...so we now we have lots birthday "things" that within a few years will be traditions. LOL

Today was also one year since our family met Tricia and Adrienne's at a local park. What a God thing that was. Within weeks we were all fast friends. I called them and Heather and her family and we all met at Ye Olde Gatti's for a celebration. We met Heather and her family at the park day the day after we met Adrienne and Tricia. It was a fun afternoon.

When we got home we tackled that impossible list of "to do" things for our week "off". We went and bought Jared shoes. We found a place to fax AK DMV. They are to fax me a temp license until I can get up there this summer. We bought a railing for my bed. This was needed as Arielle wanted to move the crib back to her room. We planned to convert it to a toddler bed...but since Stacia still sleeps with me, and the crib wouldn't be next to my bed to serve as a railing - I bought one. Our plan is to gradually get Stacia used to her bed....before Mike comes home.

Oh - Jared and I ran to the mall too. We visited Cy......and we bought some things to send the girls. Jared refused to go into the Bath and Body shop with me....I told him he was afraid of estrogen. ::snort::

Back at home we discovered converting the crib wasn't as simple as it looked. Somewhere in here Heather called and I told her we were going to have to drill holes in the crib. She told me to wait and tomorrow at produce co-op she'll look at it...she has some tool that may help. We got it all together except it really looks like we need longer screws and to drill through the railing to attach the safety railing. I went looking for the duct tape. Couldn't find it...but taped it all together with packing tape. Stacia LOVED the bed....jumped right on it. We'll see if she sleeps in it.....

The railing turns out to be in 36,829 pieces. ARGH. Why do they do this???? I'm desperately trying to figure out how to put it together...Stacia has fallen asleep and I'm going to simply put her in the new bed...maybe that will work. We'll see.

I called for a refill on my thyroid meds and they wouldn't give it to me - so I have to go to the doc tomorrow.....argh. This messes with co-op but it will all work out. Heather and Adrienne plan to come by and take over when I need to leave.

That's it for today - but I have some darling photos - some day.... ::snort::