long time coming

It's been a long time coming for the burgundy and gold but we did it tonight against the Dallas Cowboys -- HTTR and RGIII!!!!!!!!!!!

On other notes, we celebrated a good Christmas after a hard fall for us, it is my hope to keep you updated more often in the upcoming year, it seems every year I post this as my goal, but I am determined this upcoming year to make it stick.

Inside my head

I often wonder does it feel like this for most people, starting a task and finding yourself
hours later wondering how did I get here?  Not speaking of driving or anything like that but just for example will sign on to check email -- should take 10 mins, but I get so distracted by all the small details and sidebars that don't really matter I could be there for 10 hrs, the same with facebook, pinterest etc -- even when I am scrapping, getting too caught up in the what should I use, what will others perceive, will this go with all the rest -- Does that really matter in the long run, as long as memories are preserved and shared with others.   Don't even think about sending me into the grocery store or the library for just 1 item, it is physically impoossible for me to do so, the sight of something triggers a thought or memory and I could be hours when all I needed might have been cough drops or to return a book.  When I started this post there was so much more focus on what I wanted to say in my head and then I started to type and the words escape me, next time I will write down my thouhts first to give them more clarity.

Bad Blogger

Can you tell I have been away for over a year, it was just a year of many things that we had to work on personally in our family that I am sure I will talk about in the future, but just wanted to say I am working on getting this up and running again. Will be back soon.

My Belated Weekend Update

It was a good weekend---
Friday was the last day of school before spring break -- Jaden had an diorama due at school on habitat -- he choose to make one of the ocean, here is what his finished project looked like.

It was crazy hair day at Gavin's school and this is how he want to school -- he had just recently cut his hair, so there was not alot we could do to his actual hair, so we grabbed a fun extension pony tail that his sister has bought and managed to keep it on his hair with barrettes and bobby pins, I also spiked it with get and sprayed  it with multi glitter hairspray.

We played a great game of pictionary for the Wii as a family on Friday night, boy do we get some funny drawings with that game.  Saturday me and Alexa went to an all-day scrapbooking crop-- it was alot of fun, but what a bad weather day --- lots of rain -- driving home there was so much water on the road and it looked like there were waterfalls coming down the side of the mountain thru Harpers Ferry.  Alexa worked on her Christmas 2010 Album and I am working on scrapping our 2008 Ireland vacation. --so far I am only mid way thru day 3 of a 12 day trip.  Sunday was a trip to the library and get some laundry done day.  Hope everyone had a great weekend:)

Giving it a try

So I have done a few reviews and giveaways on my own before, as well as for some communities that
I belong too such as BzzzAgent, and One2One Network, after doing a lot of reading I have decided to
join another network -- the Business2Blogger Network, I am hoping that this will help me to offer you
more reviews of products that I find interesting or useful and that you might too.  If you don't know about
B2B you can find out more information here on their website or check out their blog, there is great information  on social media you will find useful even if you don't become a member, but I think it is definitely worth a try. The main goal of B2B is to help business with tailoring campaigns to bloggers of any size to help with product reviews., it can be a product you are launching, an established product, a book.  Businesses can tailor their campaign by geography, blog theme, diff ranking systems, and other categories.  Since it is not just ranking based this helps the new and or smaller market blogger get their name out into the world as well.  It is bloggers and businesses helping each other.

Lets Plant A???

Let's plant a what you say.... -- yesterday my 3rd grader came home from school with this....

Yes, every 3rd grader came home with a tree to plant -- not sure if all teachers gave out the same kind of tree or not, at my other son's school their 3rd graders got them today, but he is only in 1st grade.  My 3rd grader was really not sure why he had gotten the tree, but boy was he excited about it.  I think it is a combination of Arbor Day-Md celebrates the 1st Wed in April, National is the last Wed in April I believe and Earth day is coming up too. I had him re-water the roots and wrap it in the plastic bag so they would stay damp, as I did not think we could plant it then--heck I am not even sure it will grow in our yard.  At bedtime he cried and was very upset for over 1/2 hour that we would not plant the tree in the dark.  We promised him that when Daddy got home from work today that we would plant the tree in our backyard, so in the cold and damp -- (yes our weather that had been springlike is now back to gloomy and grey), we went outside and .....

Gavin waiting to Daddy to make the hole bigger

Digging the hole.

Helping hands putting the tree into the hole together.

Covering the roots back up and making sure it

could stand on its own.

Gavin with his planted tree:)

Now we just have to wait and see if it actually survives.  We told him that it may not, and that we were not even sure if this was suited to our soil and area, but that we would give it a try. We have a snowball bush that has survived over many years, and some flowers out front but I would not say that we have green thumbs in our immediate family.  If it actually starts to take root and grow I will post updated pictures.

ZZZZzzzzz....

Is what I really should and want to be doing right now -- considering it is 5:45 am and I have not been
to sleep yet -- insomnia is getting really tiring----lol.  I can usually grab a nap after the kids get on the
bus, but I really would like to sleep at nighttime again -- last night was OK, went to bed at 12:30 -- one night last week I even made it at 10:30, but no matter how well I sleep the night before each evening is always hit and miss.  I have tried about all the sleeping medicine my one Dr can think of and none of them make me feel sleepy -- now my M.I.L takes one pill and you can tell w/in 1/2 hour that she needs to go to bed.   I am just craving one good night of sleep.  What are you craving??  or dreaming about since you are probably asleep??