Yesterday and today were Lauryn’s End of the Year Celebration programs for school.  I can’t believe my big girl has completed her first year of preschool!  I love seeing her stand up with all her classmates, singing her little heart out and dancing along with the songs.  At the beginning of the program, they had a DVD with tons of pictures they’d taken of all the kids during the year.  There were two college kids (who used to attend Oakwood preschool ) in the back of the room, putting on the show and music.  I think they were using Nady Systems and they did a great job.  We were able to purchase (for a small donation) a DVD and I love that we’ll always be able to look back at that and see Lauryn’s first year of preschool.

I never used to mind painting.  A room here or there was not a problem at all.  I actually liked it.  We’ve painted so many rooms now, in different houses, and I’m not a fan anymore.  There is so much painting that needs to be done in this house.  Lauryn’s room, our room, the dining room, the bathroom, eventually the half bath and now I’m thinking the basement too.  When we first moved in, I thought the basement was fine but someday, I’d like to brighten it up.  It’s a great space but the previous owners used a pretty dark color and I think that if we went with something lighter, it would love even bigger down there.  I’ve been looking at different ways to update the fireplace down there too.  If you go to modern fireplaces here, you can find a lot of different options.  Anyway, I know the colors I want to do for every room but our bedroom.  I think I might go neutral there so I can change up the bedding when I want to.  I haven’t decided though.  It’s all a lot of work that we can hopefully get done this spring/summer.

Greased Lightnin’

Welcome to Saturday: 9.  What we’ve committed to our readers is that we will post 9 questions  every Saturday. Sometimes the post will have a theme, and at other times the questions will be totally unrelated. Those weeks we do “random  questions,” so-to-speak. We encourage you to visit other participants  posts and leave a comment. Because we don’t have any rules, it is your  choice. We hate rules. We love memes, however, and here is today’s meme!

Saturday 9: Greased Lightnin’

1) Greased Lightnin’ was the name of a car. Have you ever given your car a name?

No.
2) Could your vehicle use a trip to the car wash this weekend?

I just washed it a couple of days ago.

3) This song is from the soundtrack of the movie Grease, the biggest money-making movie musical of all time. Have you ever seen it?

Yes.

4) John Travolta’s astrological sign is Aquarius. What’s yours?

Scorpio.
5)  In addition to being John Travolta’s birthplace, Englewood, New Jersey, played a significant role in telecommunications history. In 1951, Englewood’s mayor made the first-ever direct dial long-distance call in the United States. Now it’s your turn. Tell us something about your birthplace.

I was born in Greenville, MI which is also the birth place of Meijer.
6) Travolta is an excellent dancer. How are you on the dance floor?

I’m not great but I don’t think I’m awful either   I just like to have fun on the dance floor!

7) Grease is an upbeat musical about the students of Rydell High. Another Travolta movie is Carrie, which features the worst prom night imaginable. Grease or Carrie — which is closer to your high school experience?

I’m going with Grease.  I got a long with pretty much every one and I was in J.V. singers.

8) What was your best subject in high school? What was your worst?

I was good in biology and terrible in math.

9) Sam made good use of the bus ride to school, using that time to complete her homework. What do you remember about getting to or from school?

I walked to and from school every day.  And it literally was uphill both ways!  I know that the old joke or saying but if you know Ann St. in Belding, it really does! 

I absolutely love the conversations I have with my friend, Kathy.  It’s starts off normal with “So what’s new with you?” and snowballs into everything from our favorite coffee creamer and the death penalty to a fayetteville nc business lawyer.  I never know where our conversations will go and that makes them so much fun.  We’ve been friends for about 16 years and our conversations never get old…just more fun!

And…here we go!

1.  I use lotion constantly.
2.  Apollo 13 is one of my favorite movies.
3.  It’s time for these kids to go to bed!
4.  Bed time now!  (Mama needs a break!)
5.  I said all this working out is making my butt look better, and then he said yeah it is. LOL
6.  A Lindor truffle is what I’m craving right now!
7.  And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to getting to bed at a decent time, tomorrow my plans include possibly cleaning out the raised flower bed out front and getting new flowers in it and Sunday, I want to chill with my family!

Lauryn has quite a few bath now and I’ve noticed some of them get moldy pretty easily.  I’ve scrubbed them and I’ve sanitized them in the dishwasher but it’s discourage how quickly it shows up on some things.  I’ve thrown out quite a few things, like the sprayer toys that you can’t get all of the water out, but I wish there was some type of product that would keep them from getting yucky altogether.  I’ve seen mold removal products but haven’t come across anything to prevent it.  Even drying every thing off doesn’t work because some toys have crevices I can’t get to.  It’s frustrating because she loves her bath toys and it’s not practical to throw everything out and keep buying new all of time.

Tonight we’re going to go to B.C. Pizza for dinner.  They’re doing an all day benefit to help a boy in Lauryn’s class.  He and his family have been through so much this year.  At the beginning of the year, their sweet boy was losing strength.  They found out he has Guillian Barre Syndrome.  He has been out of school and in the hospital since, rarely getting to go home.  So if you want to do something good today, order some pizza!  10% of all sales (lunch buffet, dine-in, delivery, take-out), will go to his family.  There will also be a bake sale to help raise money and there is a donation jar sitting on the counter of the restaurant.  I don’t know the family personally, but imagine your four year old child going through something like this.  It’s breaks your heart.  This is just one small way of helping out.  And, you can do it and not have to cook tonight!  It’s a win/win!

I’m pretty sure my kids have conspired to keep me worn out by not letting me sleep.  Perhaps they’ve come to the conclusion that if I’m constantly tired, I won’t have the energy to tell them “no” on things.  Maybe I’m wrong but Sunday night, Lucas got up around 1 am, went back to sleep, got back up at 4:30 am and when he went back to sleep again, I was wide awake.  I finally started dozing off a little before 6 am and Lucas woke back up.  By 10:30 last night, I was whooped so I went to bed.  I woke up around midnight with an upset stomach, then Lucas woke up a little over an hour later.  Lauryn woke up around 3:30 and I went and laid in her bed until she got back to sleep.  Lucas woke up again around 4:30, I nursed him and got him back to sleep and then Lauryn got up and said she was wide awake and didn’t want to stay in her room any more.  She and I went out into the living room and just a few minutes later, Lucas woke up again.  You’d think all this getting up in the night would affect them, but no, they both have tons of energy during the day.  That’s why I think they’re out to get me

I’ve been thinking we might want to look into home hepa filters.  I’m not sure but I think Lauryn and I might both be bothered by some things in the air.  Neither of us have had issues with allergies before but recently, she’s had major sneezing spells and I’ve had itchy and watery eyes.  It seems to happen quite a bit when we’re at home and I wonder if the little field and woods in the back yard might have something to do with it.  It’s something I’m going to check into anyway.

Welcome back to Sunday Stealing which originated on WTIT: The Blog authored by Bud Weiser. Here we will steal all types of memes from every corner of the  blogosphere. Our promise to you is that we will work hard to find the  most interesting and intelligent memes. You may have heard of the  expression, “honor amongst thieves”. In that age-old tradition, we also  have our rules. First, we always credit the blog that we stole it from  and we will “fess up” to the blog owner where we stole the meme. We also provide a link to the victim’s post. (It’s our way of saying “Thanks!”) We do sometimes edit the original meme, usually to make it more  relevant to our global players, to challenge our players, sometimes to  select that meme’s best questions, or simply to make it less repetitive  from either this new meme or recently asked questions from a prior  featured meme.
Let’s go!!!

Today we ripped off as a blogger named Danielle,  from her blog Sometimes Sweet.  She doesn’t say where she got it–but it was probably stolen from somewhere cool.  Tracing back the thefts of those that we steal from could take a while. So, of course, that will be as far as we go. Link back to us at Sunday Stealing!   

Thinking about:  What to make for dinner.

Feeling:  A little tired.

Reading:  One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

Listening to:  P!nk   

Wondering:  Why my dog eats walls.  

Looking forward to:  Seeing how our shirts turned out    

Missing:  My niece and nephew, terribly  

Watching:  Full House   

Eating:  Nothing at the moment.