A Pajama Mama

I've decided to go back to school. Because I obviously don't have enough going on right now. I found this link for Blogger Friend School through my bloggy friend Jessie's site . And I decided to give it a whirl. We'll be given weekly assignments to blog on and it sounds like homeschool mommy encouragement and new friends are the end results. Although enrollment is all year long, the official school bell rings this week! So I'm joining just in time! Oh, and there's an enrollment giveaway!! If you're a homeschool mom, care to join me??

Enjoy a few pics from our first two homeschool weeks.

I just realized something!!! This week is my blog's first birthday! I thought you might enjoy reading my very first post with me to celebrate A Pajama Mama's blog's first birthday. The title of my first blog post? Rain, Rain, Go Away. Kinda funny...considering the foot of rain Fay dumped on us this week, a year later. And I still don't have a new Vera Bradley umbrella. But we did buy two new Dollar General umbrellas last week. And it's ok if the Hero gives them away. And why did we need two new umbrellas, you ask? Because Fay was coming and we DON'T HAVE A GARAGE ANYMORE! Hope you enjoy the walk down memory lane! (And for the record, FeO is the Hero is the dh is the darling husband. FeO....think periodic table of the elements.)

UPDATE: Dr. said he'll see me in three months for a follow-up. Surgery can wait for now. Yea!!! I have to go see the dr tomorrow about The Cantaloupe . I dread it. I don't want to go. I don't like doctors. Unless they are taking care of my children or delivering my babies. I don't like the ones who think they need to remove cantaloupe-sized melons while the Melon Mama is symptom free, sorta. So, I have determined that I will not lose heart because these light and momentary troubles are achieving for me an eternal glory that far outweighs all melons. I am determined to fix my eyes NOT on what is seen on the ultrasound screen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen on that screen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal. 2Cor 4:16-18

Oh Fay, Fay, Fay With skies of black, gray, gray Your floods can't stay, stay, stay The limbs just break, sway, sway Please go away, way, way No one wants to play, play, play It's not okay, kay, kay You've ruined our day, day, day Just go away, way, way.

Apparently, there wasn't an able-bodied man within a 20 mile radius of our house yesterday morning. Do you see the window behind My Hero? It had to come out so the 49 pieces of sheetrock could fit in it. And who helped haul, push, shove and stack the sheetrock? Yep, you guessed it. I am not a manual labor kind of girl. I am a girly girl who wears pearls (that Beachmama brought me from China!) and I don't enjoy sweating. The kids were great! They loved helping. Even Appledoodle got in on the action. Did I mention there were FORTY-NINE slabs of sheetrock? 49. It obviously couldn't stay outside because Fay is coming. Fay's been coming for days now. Fay is currently not budging. But just in case Fay decides to slowly lumber towards the west, we can all breath a sigh of relief because the FORTY-NINE pieces of sheetrock are safe.

There's a gas station/convenience store in our neighborhood that's been here since the 70s. It's the only gas station on this side of town. It's right around the corner from the school I attended for 12 years. When I was in school, it was called Stop N Shop. It was THE place to gather for after school snacks. And they had those little chocolate footballs wrapped in orange foil...which just so happened to be a school color! When we moved back here in 1997, Stop N Shop was still there but the name had changed. I think it was Sunrise Pantry. Later, it changed to Flash Foods. The Hero, not knowing the original name, would refer to its current name and I'd never know what he was talking about. I finally convinced him to just call it by it's original name, Stop N Shop, like everyone else does and will do until eternity. Ok. Follow me here bc I'm switching gears but it does tie together. We've got the garage closed in and are working feverishly on finishing......