A Standing Stone

I don’t know why but I feel compelled to see this movie…

Well, we are officially nuts.  We have a dog now.  Her name is Clover.  She’s a 10 week old Golden Retriever.  She’s a rescue dog we got from a lady who rescues abused and abandoned dogs.  She’s soooooo sweet and we are crazy about her already. Please pray for my allergies!

I heard about this on the radio and thought it was a joke, but apparently it’s not.

“Information Age Prayer is a subscription service utilizing a computer with text-to-speech capability to incant your prayers each day. It gives you the satisfaction of knowing that your prayers will always be said even if you wake up late, or forget.”

For Muslin prayers they point the speakers towards Mecca.  For Catholics, “Hail Marys” are only 7 cents each!

Crazy stuff.

Yesterday we visited the Memphis Zoo.  We left Conway around 8:15am, arrived around 11:30am, ate lunch, and then spent the next 5 or so hours going through the zoo.  Here are some pictures and videos (most taken by Elizabeth).

Self portrait

Big cats

Panda

Souvenir (a Webkinz of course)

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The kids in this video are part of our home school co-op. Pretty funny…

It’s New Year’s Eve and I’m waiting on the plumber to unclog the drainpipe coming from the washing machine.    He was supposed to be here yesterday, then this morning.  Now we have people coming in an hour and a half.  At least I bought myself some new music (finally).  I can get happy again listening to my two new Brian Setzer Orchestra CD’s.  If you’ve never listened to Brian Setzer, go check out his stuff.  Absolutely great!

Can’t believe we’ll have to get back to business as usual in a few days.  It seems like Christmas break just started.  I was sick in bed all day Christmas, but at least I had new pajamas!  I’ll have a hard time adjusting to having my husband go back to work after having him home for 2 weeks.  Now I will have to make my own breakfast and coffee.  (Supper, too!)  He’s a gem!  I don’t deserve him!

Our cat Jack is feeling much better these days.  In fact, so good that he’s picking fights with Gracie.  It never ends around here! 

Hope everyone has a Happy New Year!  There are 359 days until Christmas!

Oh my, it’s me, Rae Lyn.  I am in the blogging mood for the first time since I began this blog.  I think I’m just using it as an excuse to avoid the many things on my to do list.

We have had a busy and eventful school year so far.  We have managed to pretty much keep up with schoolwork, but are not getting to do all the extras I would like.  I am, however, planning on making a Gingerbread House for the first time ever.  Elizabeth has been learning how to use decorating tips for icing so this will be good practice for her.

I’m teaching a poetry class at our homeschool co-op this quarter.  That is going well and I’m enjoying preparing the lessons.  “Purple penguins are paving the way to my pantry.”  That’s alliteration for you.  The kids seem to be enjoying writing their own poems and I’ve been enjoying their creativity.

Please come and visit the new Sperry nursing home for old cats.  About a month and a half ago, our oldest cat, Grace, was diagnosed with hyperthyroidism.  She is doing very well on daily thyroid medicine.  She will turn 16 in February.  We almost lost our Jack cat a couple of weekends ago.  He got sooooo sick and lost sooo much weight.  For a cat who normally weighs in around 14 pounds, he had gotten down to 10.  I took him to the vet and he treated him with antibiotics.  Over that same weekend, he dropped two more pounds.  Come to find out, he is diabetic.  So now we are having to test glucose and ketones with urine strips and give him dialy insulin shots.  He is making much improvement.  I caught him terrorizing squirrels this morning.  Please come visit the nursing home this Christmas season!  (I was not aware of this before, but cats can actually go into complete remission for diabetes.  Pray this happens with Jacky.)

It’s been a hard week and I’m looking forward to sleeping really late in the am.  I was in the proverbial doghouse earlier this week after breaking an expensive bottle of Jack’s insulin. (No, our insurance doesn’t pay for the cats’ medicine.)  As the week draws to a close, I am happy to say I am no longer in the doghouse (at least I think so).

The Men in My Life

Our front bathroom is finally remodeled!  Now, we only have to take care of the foyer and paint the living room(oh and the yard still has quite a way to go!).  The front bathroom is now my fav room in the house!

Here are the layers of wallpaper Jonathan had to take off.  From looking at the orange flowers do ya think our house was built in the seventies?

Here’s the new bathroom.  I was going for a 1940’s theme:

My husband found our cat, Jack, taking a snooze on the patio.  He looked so funny that I just had to get pictures!

Elizabeth has been taking swimming lessons the past two weeks. Today was her last day so I decided to take a day off work and go watch her. She said she was going to jump off the high dive for the first time, so I definitely wanted to be there.

I guess since it was the last day, everyone else in her class decided to skip, so she had one-on-one training with her instructor today.

Here are a few photos…

But did she jump off the high dive???

Yup, did it three times without hesitation.

Here’s one with her in mid air.

And here’s a video clip…

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