Random Journal Entries

I just found these entries from ages ago...

5/23/09 – CARSON’S BIRTHDAY!!!!!
Today was Carson’s 4th birthday party. On his actual birthday!!! The theme was Disney’s Cars and we took water balloons, water guns, balls, food, etc to Victor Ashe park in Knoxville. Yeah…the water theme had NOTHING to do with Cars, but it’s summer…what do you expect. And, since Carson wants a Cars-themed room, we figured that was the easiest way to get things for his room. Free is always good.

Anyway, it was a beautiful day and everyone we invited showed up. It was perfect! Until Carson got sick. Really sick. Out both ends sick. Gross me out sick! Will this ever end sick! So, Christian’s illness from Wednesday had finally gotten to another member of the family. Ugh!!!! I have some of the saddest looking pictures ever…I need to pull them off my camera.


5/24/09
Our visit to TN is over. Darren, Carson & I are headed home. I miss Christian already. I can’t believe he’s going to be gone 3 weeks! THREE WEEKS! The longest I’ve ever been without him is a week. Camp Good Spirit in 2007, our trip to Sandals in 2008 and when the boys stayed in TN during Spring Break this year. Each ONE WEEK. And, on each occasion, I missed him/them terribly about mid-week. What am I going to do this time??


5/25/09
I woke up sick this morning. Mom called from the road (they left at 8am this morning) and she and Daddy are sick too. I feel so guilty! I didn’t know Carson was sick. If I had known, I would have postponed his party. Good news is, he was better a few hours later. Bad news is, they’ve only been on the road a few hours & have already stopped 6 times for….um…..necessity. At this rate, they’ll never get to Missouri. (Their first planned stop.)

Mom called a couple hours later. They’re spending the night in Mount Vernon, IL instead. *fingers crossed* that nobody else gets sick. I tried to keep Carson away from everyone, but you never know how those little germy things travel.

Around 6pm…I’m finally feeling a little better. I ate some chicken noodle soup around 5 & it stayed down. Still not 100%, but getting there.

5/26/09
I feel great!!!! Thank God! Still a little weak, but no more nausea or the other.

Christian called this morning. They were at a Walmart (really? How surprising!!) buying an air conditioner for the back of the truck. Apparently the cooler-top fan Daddy bought for the back of the truck doesn’t work as well as advertised. That’s disappointing because it was a good idea in theory. He said Mom & Dad felt better. I’d like to hear that directly from Mom, but I’ll wait until later tonight so we can take advantage of her unlimited night minutes on the cell phone.

I Googled the trip and it said it would be over 29 hours one way. WOW….no wonder they’re taking 3 weeks to make the trip!

A NEW STOVE!!!!

I know with the economy being in the dumps like it is, I shouldn’t be proud of spending a large amount of money….but I’m SO HAPPY to have a new stove. First, a little background. My old stove came with the house. That means it was about 19 years old! The typical life span of a stove is about 10 years…so I think we did pretty darn well! We had the electronic pilot light replaced about 3 years ago. At the time, the repairman told us we’d be lucky to get another year out of it. I’m glad his estimation was off by a couple years because, seriously, we couldn’t have afforded it back then. Especially since we had to replace our fridge last May because the water line decided to bust (another 19 year old appliance!). But, that fridge now proudly sits in our garage holding drinks and whatever else. Without the water line connected, it still works great. Thank God for small miracles!!!!

Here's a pic of my new stove:

It has 5 burners and I’m madly in love with it. We bought it at a scratch and dent place for a really good price. Retail on it is $848…we paid $600. The funny thing is, the scratches & the one dent are on the sides. Yes. The sides. That means you can’t see them when it’s installed. I find it hilarious that we saved ~$250 because of imperfections that nobody can see. But, I’ll take it if it saves me money!

L