Where Oh where did this year go to?? It only seems like yesterday we were looking forward to 2009 and we couldn’t wait till the twins were old enough to sit by themselves and now they are walking and getting into EVERYTHING and looking so cute in ponytails. I just love it.

New Year Resolutions???? Where do I start? I have so many. I look back over this past year and see lots of room for improvement. First of all so thankful to my heavenly Father for giving me my health back. It is such a blessing to feel good. Even though I take about 70 pills a day.  I just can’t wait to get in the garden and flower beds. Last year Mark did most of it, and he did a good job but got tired of doing most of it by himself. My house needs a scrubbing from top to bottom. The clothes that are to little for the girls have just been thrown into bins or wash baskets and so they need to be sorted and labeled. Sewing!!!! I just about despair thinking about sewing for four girls plus myself. Danika is in pretty good shape, she can wear Gwenyths hand-me-downs but the twins need them badly. I like to have look-a-likes for them esp. for church. Today was a good start, I mended three dresses for Gwenyth and made her three veils. Who knows if they will fit.  

YEA, tomorrow is the last day of hunting season!!! It wasn’t too bad this year, I did feel sorry for Mark, he virtually saw no deer where he was hunting and that was depressing for him. Hopefully next year he can find a better place.

This year we are planning to go on David Ramsey’s financial program. If you are looking for ways to budget and pay off your debt, you need to read his book. It is very good and I highly recommend it!! It takes a lot of hard work and sacrifice but I’m excited about it. This year has not been good as far a financially, medical bills, hospital bills etc. and it was very discouraging for me and  I found myself questioning God why??? He gently reminded my to have FAITH. He sees the future and we just need to Trust Him but it’s so hard!!!Today was very discouraging and I think I could’ve cried all day or so it seemed. If only I wouldn’t have heart problems or had twins plus a c-section (it takes a lot of pampers and clothes) and the list goes on and on. Don’t get me wrong I love my twins and wouldn’t trade them for the world and I’m glad God blessed us with them but these are some the things I was struggling with. I’m so glad God loves us and He will provide for us. Oh to have Abrahams faith.

LIVE LIKE NO ONE ELSE SO YOU CAN LATER LIVE LIKE NO ONE ELSE! This is David Ramseys slogan!

I just want to wish my xanga friends a Happy New Year. Lets make this year better then last year.

Today being a special day for me, my birthday, my husband usually takes me out for supper, but opted to stay home and make my birthday supper instead. I had dreams of him coming home earlier and we could eat before six and spend the evening doing fun things, but instead he called and said he won’t be home till six-thirty. Sigh!! What a birthday night:( Ok, its time to dry those tears and be happy inspite of my dreams going down the drain. Note to self, smile, your husband loves you and he can’t help that he’s late.

I have never in my life had breast infection but today I know what it feels like and its awful. The pain is horrible and the acheness is not pleasant. Mark stayed home to take care of me, don’t think I would have make it without him. Anyone have any suggestions on what to take or do?? It would be apperciated.

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. May you have a safe and sick=free vacation.

Two more days before Christmas, (counting today) and I have a hundred and one things to do. I’m praying the babies will be happy and the girls will play nicely and not fight  I must say that is a pretty tall order. It never fails whenever I have a lot of things to do they somehow detect that and it can be a very frustrating day. My goal today is to not let my work take first priority but to take care of my girlies and show them that I love them. My work will never run away although I wish it would. Tomorrow is another day. What is Christmas all about anyway? Having a clean house and everything just perfect??? I think I will need to come back to read this more then once today.LOL!!! I wish you all a wonderful day!

     Last Tuesday I had a tea party and cookie exchange at my house. It was a good turn out and we had lots of yummy cookies. I can hardly believe that our cookies are almost all gone and I was going to save them for Christmas.  

We were going to go to Ohio for Christmas but plans got changed and my family is all coming to VA instead. My handicapped brother has problem with his knee coming out and so mom and dad decided they would rather stay here instead of traveling. He can become very irritable when he doesn’t feel good or has pain. So now I need to clean my house and do more baking. I was looking so forward to going up to my sisters and then I was planning on staying up till New Years. Well at least we will save money.

The latest excitement around here is all the snow we got this past weekend. We had 21 to 22 inches and that hasn’t happened for years. It was so beautiful to watch it and it didn’t take long to accumulate. Mark was out Saturday, blading our driveway and also did some of the neighbors driveways and he was gone most of the day. We did get to go out and enjoy it with the two oldest after the twins were sleeping. The girls love it and they were playing house in the snow.  Church was cancelled yesterday so we slept in and had a very relaxing day. My family got together over at dad’s for supper and we enjoyed chili soup. It was delicious on a cold winter night and then some of us played Monoply. A family favorite when we were little. The roads were nasty and what should have only took 20-25 minutes took an hour.

Mark didn’t go to work today so went shopping with all the girlies. What fun!! They actually didn’t do to bad. I wasn’t in the mood to go with the girls later on by myself, it can get pretty hairy sometimes. Last Friday I went to get a few things before the snow came and it was not a good day to go. Town was CRAZY. Everybody was out shopping before the snowstorm came. The twins were not happy and I was in Sam’s Club and they were both crying and some people would look at me and say, “wow, your a busy mom”, or “you’ve got your hands full”, or “four girls, so cute” and some would smile and shake their heads!!! I think I shall wear a sign that says, “Yes, I have my hands full and I’m a busy mom and yes, they are twins.   I do get tired of answering those questions but I love my girls and enjoy taking them with me when I go shopping ”IF” they are happy. I’ve had some very humbling experiences. LOL!!!

One thing to be happy about is, the twins are sleeping ALL NIGHT!!!! It’s amazing how much better I feel mornings. I think we should have done this training process months ago.  I love these quiet evenings when the girls are sleeping and we have some time to ourselves. Mark is watching a hunting video and I’m updating  

One of my good friends and her little baby boy are coming to see me one day this week and I’m so looking forward to it. It’s been a long time and I’m so ready to catch up with her again over coffee, oops, she doesn’t like coffee so it might be tea. Trish, I’m so looking forward to seeing you again. There are some people who are “kindred spirits” she is one of them and I treasure our friendship and I can just let everything “hang out” I love my friends.

Enjoy the snow pictures!!!

It’s snowing, it’s snowing and I’m so delighted!!!! We have nine inches already and it looks like it has no plans on stopping. We went four-wheeling tonight and it was fun. The trees are so gorgeous and I can’t wait to see it in the daytime and take lots of pictures. The girls are so excited and they can’t wait to go out and make snow angels and snow cream. I think I will take it easy tomorrow and sew and drink coffee and watch it snow. They are calling for 14 or more inches. That will bring back lots of childhood memories. Years ago when I was little I remember having 20 inches at least twice and you just stayed home and played games and played in the snow. Mark is looking forward to going out and blade peoples driveways and make them happy. Good Night you all and dream of snow!!!!

  Because of forgetting to do our scrapbook page for the Smucker calander last week, I had to work on that today and believe me working on the computer DOES NOT WORK WITH BABIES!!!!!!!! It makes for a very frustrated mother. Why can they not go play? I ask myself a thousand times, or so it seems. It’s still not finished. GROAN!!! But here are some pics that I did and it was fun!!

Another exciting thing is that now instead of me enjoying my coffee by myself my dear husband enjoys it with me. It tastes so much better. HA! I’m just praying our electric doesn’t go off tonight. Its icy out, just wish it was snow instead. 

Ahh, once again we have a quiet and a clean house. By Friday morning I was feeling pretty frazzled and I just wanted to get away from everybody. I think I should’ve went black friday shopping by myself. It was a good weekend but I was thankful everybody left before Sunday and we had at least one day with daddy before he went back to work. Here are some pics of the weekend. 

On my agenda for this week…..

Clean basement

clean the house, upstairs and down

make lots of food, (cereal, yogurt, cheeseballs, pumpkin cookies, danish braids, etc)

return books at the library

meet someone tomorrow morning at 9:30

round up some mattress’ and pack-n-play, tables and chairs

get ready to entertain about 38 people for a few days and make sure everyone has a bed and towels to shower and food to eat

keep my sanity and not get grouchy

and last but not least go shopping on Black Friday

I told Mark this morning we had better enjoy these last few days of quietness.

Marks family is coming for Thanksgiving and they all plan to be here except for his one sister and family. The house will be full and running over with children, I think there’s around 26 children  I was hoping for a beautiful warm day, so they can play outside but it looks like they are calling for rain.  Thankfully I don’t have to make all the food but it worries  me about towels and washcloths, would it be rude to call them and tell them to bring their own or do I just wash twice a day and hope nobody has to drip-dry? I know we will be ready to have the twins sleep in their own crib and girls in their bed by Sunday night. They’re not all staying for the weekend. On the menu for Thanksgiving dinner:

Turkey and filling

mashed potatoes

creamed celery

onion bread and smear cheese

coleslaw/ christmas salad

pumpkin/ pecan pie and ice cream

sweet tea and coffee

My mouth is already watering. Mark grew up with creamed celery and smear cheese and I’m still getting used to it

Have a Happy Thanksgiving. Let’s be thankful for all the wonderful things that we have so abundantly.