New life

My son's class has been nurturing eggs in an incubator for 3 weeks. Yesterday, they started hatching. I LOVE live poultry! I am obsessed with roosters and chickens...they cover my kitchen. And I was so excited about taking some pics of the new chicks. My emotions totally surprised me. I felt sad.
There is no mama to raise these chicks. They are in the incubator all by themselves. It actually sorta freaks me out. You can't even hold them yet, cuz you can't open the incubator because it is temperature controlled, and there are still quite a few eggs that still need to hatch. (sigh)
On another note, did you know that chicks are born with an egg tooth that they use to crack the shell? And then they lose that tooth. Imagine, a special tooth just for their arrival date! God was so creative.

And here is a picture of Lily...isn't she so cute?...we just can't seem to get that fur at the top of her head to go down. She lays in the same place on the area rug everyday. It is sorta the middle of our house...near the foot of the stairs, so she's not far from anything that is happening. I just LOVE this dog. Although, if she keeps snoring at night, I'm afraid my dear husband will throw her out the window.

I'm in a funk...

I'm not sure what's going on...I have not been a mood to be creative. This is never a good sign. It usually means I'm depressed...but I don't think that's it. I look at photos (all my favorite photographers online), I obsess over scrapbook magazines, I am mildly obsessed over the whole "hybrid" scrapbooker thing...(I think that's what I am, by the way). I think that eventually, I might be all digital. Hmmm. Anywho, I'm not sure what's going on...maybe I'm just "off" cuz I'm hungry all the time from being on Weight Watchers again, and I'm tired from going to the gym again, and I'm scatter-brained from having the kids home for snow days (yes, at the end of April!).
So, I'm gonna start taking pictures again...daily. I'm lifting my camera in a toast to all...here's to being creative!
Oh, and to answer a previous comment...my fancy schmancy photo/wording/photo collages are all done in Photoshop CS2...the best purchase I have ever made!

busy gloomy day...so here are shoes to pep everyone up!

It's snowy, with more on the way...and I was playing around with some pictures that I wanted printed, and saw this one...it just called out to me...isn't it happy? I love feet and shoes...even though in this picture, one leg is missing...where did it go? Heeeeeeere, leg...come heeeeeeeere leggy-leggy!

more laundry talk

So I'm doing more laundry today (the rest of my week is packed, so I'm trying to do it while I can...I'm not usually this into laudry!)...and I'm using the new "concentrated" Tide. You only pour like 2 Tablespoons in! How does this work? Am I just kidding myself that our clothes are clean? Maybe I pour so much fabric softener in that I just don't notice that we are all walking around in filth.

amazing things...and laundry day

Okay, something totally amazing happened today.

First, let me go back in time...a few years ago, I lost ooddles of weight doing Weight Watchers. Did it online, felt great, loved feeling better in clothes. Then we moved. And I've been on and off ever since, and gained back more than I had started with originally. I blaim big portions and my increasingly absent metabolism.

In the last 4 weeks, I have been getting up at 5:45am (!!!) 5 days a week to go to the gym and I have not lost a single pound. Frustrating. So last night I prayed that if God wanted me to do Weight Watchers, that I would get an email invitation to rejoin, and maybe a discount for the re-joining fee.

Guess what was in my inbox this morning?!

So, I'm back in the Weight Watcher's groove. And while I don't believe that God prescribes to any certain weight loss plan, I do believe that He cares about my health and how I feel about my body. :)



It's a quiet Monday here besides the inbox revelation...just folding load after load of laundry, and maybe even some ironing...hubby will be shocked!

my daffodils are sad

Our world is covered with icy frost. Soccer games have been cancelled and the kiddos are watching tv and are being nice and cozy and warm inside. I'm going to have to make a run to the store to supply the easter bunny with yummy goodies...this is why I should never wait til last minute!...God help me on the road this afternoon!


doesn't it look like my newly hatched hyacinth is being comforted by the daffodil?!

This is what I did last Friday night...a mini album about me RIGHT NOW...not me when I'm "model" thin, not me when my house is perfect, not me when I'm caught up on the albums for the kids, me NOW. :) You know, it felt pretty good to do it. It shed some glaring light on the fact that I don't have any pictures of myself!...on the front page, it's blank until I can set up the tripod and attempt a self portrait (the last time I did that was back in college at ucla). My album isn't complete yet, but it's pretty stinkin' cute!


And this is what helped me do it...the "Tote-ally Cool Tote" from All MY Memories. Wow, this thing is so great! It holds all the stuff I use on every layout (except paper). So, I can set up anywhere...like in front of the tv watching "what not to wear." :)