We are due for more snow!

Please winter, you must go away. Bill is delighted. He loves snow. He was disappointed we didn't get the snow storm that DC got. They just upped the amount we may get on Wednesday and Thursday. Snow is pretty at first. Then it's messy and dangerous and downright dirty looking.

Today was a swell day. I got a ton of items done. I am currently working on a few car issues. Booked an appointment for my fluffy Sasha. Delivered a treatment to Neesha and Sasha for heart worm. We do this monthly now for these two girls. I can't get Sophie, so she doesn't get the treatment. I can only hope that we never run into any issues with heart worm for her. I tackled CVS, the cleaners, Walmart and Price Chopper as well.

Bill had the Masons tonight, so I put Ping to bed. After I read her a book, we chatted in bed. I think I fell asleep before her!!!! I did wake up obviously. Not till around 10:00 pm though.

We got two deliveries today. Nothing great. Ping decided that the boxes were hers. See photos below.

Ping just got rid of a cold maybe two days ago? She is starting to sneeze again. Now I am as well. I hope we are not headed down the road for another cold. Maybe it's an allergy?

Well off to post a few pictures. Stay warm.

Mama Out!!!!!!!!

Think we will ever be allowed to adopt again? I can see it now. "Mrs. Cummings, sure you could adopt again, but you can't afford comfortable seating for the child you have now, how do you expect to take care of more children?"

I love my Daddy.

The weekend goes by too fast

Friday night I took Ping to her dancing class and then the three of us went to Holliston. Ping had a birthday party to attend. Bill and I went out for a very quick dinner. The food was good, but we were so rushed because we had to get back to pick up Ping.

Yesterday we had a crazy day. We got up early and headed to Foxboro for a Chinese New Year party. We had a nice time. They have a silent auction, a huge raffle, tons of crafts for the kids, they can get their nails painted if they want too, Chinese dancing and a few vendors for shopping. We got Ping a lion. She wanted one desperately. It's bright pink and it's similar to a puppet. We also got her two little Chinese doll figurines and a small satin figure for her room. The dancing was great. The food is horrendous. It was last year as well. I really don't care, but I just can't get over how horrible it is. The raffle things are cool. I didn't bid on any silent auction items. There was a huge embroidery piece. It was gorgeous. It was really large. I wasn't sure where we would hang it, so I decided against it.

We spent the rest of the night home.

Today Bill is at a fire call, Ping is watching TV and I am getting a few things done at my desk including catching up here.

Have a wonderful Sunday.

Mama Out!!!!!!

This is Ping's friend Molly. She lost her tooth at dance. Too cute.

Ping is wearing her traditional Chinese dress.

Sitting in a Barbi chair.

Standing on stage.

Dancing.

Dancing.

Daddy love.

Daddy love.

Our little lion.

Trying on a mask.

Ping with the lion head and the dragon.

TGIF!!!!!

Well the project I am doing is downright boring, so I thought I would catch up here. It's not like me to not finish a project, but I just am not enjoying going through my filing cabinets and bundling up last years bills!

Yesterday was a quiet day. We spent the afternoon at home. Ping watched her favorite PBS shows and I cleaned the bathroom and kitchen. I have to say that some time in the afternoon, I sat with Ping and closed my eyes. For some reason I could not stay awake yesterday. Everything was an effort.

I did happen to have a decent night. I used my massage gift certificate and had an hour long massage. Very enjoyable. Unfortunately, I am very achy today. That happens to me usually, so I anticipated it.

We are home for the afternoon until I take Ping to her Creative Movement class. I am trying to work on the files, but like I said, I wanted to stop in here. Tonight is a busy night. Bill is meeting us at her dance class and then we are going to drop Ping off at a PJ Birthday party. She is bringing her nightgown and Rico, her stuffed penguin. While she is at the party, we have decided that since we need to stay in the area, we will have dinner out alone. Just the two of us. Forgot what that was like! Not complaining though because I love having Ping with me all the time. It will be a nice treat though. I have a feeling that Ping is going to have a ton of fun and be totally exhausted by the time we get her home and plunked into bed.

Tomorrow we have a really busy day too. Hopefully she won't be too tired to enjoy tomorrow.

Enjoy your Friday!

Mama Out!!!!!!!!!!!

Flurries

We are getting flurries here this morning. Very little. If you don't stare at them, you won't see them. So why am I staring out the window? You would think I had nothing to do!

There isn't too much going on here. Today we have nothing to do in the afternoon. I am a little sad that I haven't been out that much this winter. I don't think I suffer per se from Seasonal Affective Disorder and yet my energy level is not as good in the winter as it should be. In the summer, I buzz around like crazy. I am not sure if it's the gloomy color of gray that does it to me. I keep thinking that winter is the time when you can't be outside comfortably, so why wouldn't you want to do more during that time inside? Maybe it's the overwhelming amount of stuff that needs to be accomplished? I am not sure, but I wish I had the answers.

Monday we stayed home after school. I puttered around picking stuff up and cleaning. Yesterday we had ice skating in the afternoon and then Bill and I had a meeting at 6:00 pm at the house.

Ping was really cute yesterday. On the way to ice skating she starts asking about what we are going to do with the clothes that no longer fit her. Out of the blue, Ping often starts these conversations. I guess this stuff just runs through her mind. Anyway, I proceed to tell Ping that we hold onto the clothes that no longer fit her because in the event of adopting another little girl younger than her, we can pass them on to her. Just the good stuff obviously, not the clothes with holes or that have stains that don't budge. So Ping says "Mama, I will share, you need to get a little girl that is younger than me, so she can wear my clothes." So I proceed to explain to her again that we don't always get what we would like. We would just have to see what comes along if anything comes along! So I said to Ping "if we have a little girl that is younger and smaller, she will wear her clothes, okay?" Ping responds with "Okay Mama, that works for me." Thank god it works for her today! Tomorrow she won't want to share her clothes. I love how her mind works.

Well off to put away a few things before picking up the little darling.

Stay warm my friends.

Mama Out!!!!

What a stupid day

I was woken up by a phone call this morning. I was very glad to hear from my friend, but I was in a coma. After talking for quite some time, I laid down and closed my eyes for a few minutes. Stupid me slept on and off till 2:00 pm. I had to force myself to get up. I was in a terrible fog. I can't sleep like that, especially when I don't have my CPAP on. It's not real rest!

It is not 12:35 am and I could tackle the world. I hate when I am in a fog for hours and then clear up late at night. It's my own fault though. Again today I was going to get two big items done that I wanted to do on a weekend in the event that I needed some assistance from Bill. I didn't get them done. However, I did copy and paste over 1000 photos into a folder and placed an order. That took hours. Not a fun project, but one that had to be done. I watched an excellent movie on Lifetime tonight "Lying to be Perfect."

I got a few cute photos of Ping today who was supposed to be helping Daddy. She likes to fold clothes. Daddy is one lucky man!

Mama Out!!!!!

Daddy's clothes.

Oops, she dropped her drawers.

Shaking her butt.

Trying to get the clothes back up.

Our silly goose.

It's Saturday night....oh, it's Saturday night

Don't ask me why I am singing that. I guess it's because I thought it was Saturday night. It's so not. It's Sunday morning. It's 1:30 am!

I feel like it's been a long day and yet at the same time, I feel like it flew by. I got up earlier than I wanted too. We had two gentlemen hear fixing a board in our family room. Shortly after they left, I popped our wedding video into the DVD because Ping has never seen it and wanted to. First she said it was short, then she said it was long and then short again. I actually found myself in tears watching the video. My mom is no longer here and so that reality was painful, but it wasn't just that. Over half the people at the wedding are either no longer alive or they are no longer in our lives for one reason or another. None of my family is in our lives anymore. None of my Dad's. Most of the friends and coworkers are no longer in our lives either. I never felt like our wedding day was the best day of my life. It has nothing to do with Bill. I had a lot of difficult emotions that day and they crowded out a lot of the good ones. That and it was hot out and the day just flew by.

I would very much like to renew our wedding vows. Maybe for our 10th, I am not sure. It may just be the three of us on a cliff in Hawaii. That would be delightful. Mind you we want more children, so we hope it won't just be the three of us. I would like to register again, can I do that? Okay, I am kidding. I have a few years to think about it at least.

After the video, Bill and Ping went shopping and I passed out in the chair I was sitting. I heard them pull into the garage and I jumped up. I felt guilty for napping. Minutes after Bill brought all the food in, the fire department toned out a fire call and off Bill went. So lucky me got to put away all of the groceries. That took forever. We just do not have enough storage in this house. In order to put things away, I have to constantly neaten the cabinets. Not a bad thing, just wish we had more room so it didn't get so messy again so quickly.

Before I knew it, it was time for Ping to go to bed. We read her a story on adoption and then the two of them passed out. I came back downstairs. I watched the movie "Passengers" and "Milk." It is now time for me to head off to bed.

I really hope that I get the rest of my mom's walk in closet cleaned. I meant to do it today and never got to it. I want to clean out the cabinets in the family room as well. It never ends does it?

Hope you are keeping warm this weekend.

Mama Out!!!!!!

Where has the day gone?

I dropped Ping off at school and proceeded to come home to make a few phone calls and to answer a few emails. Before I knew it, I had to go back to pick up Ping. Then we had the standard errands to do. CVS, bank, gas station, McDonalds for a child size chocolate shake and the jewelry store to get something cleaned. Ping wasn't happy about the errands of course, but once I said I would take her for a shake, she thought errands were just dandy!!!!! After we went on the sleigh ride last week, we got her a child size strawberry mild shake. She had never had one before. Hooked! So she has been begging for one ever since. I told her that I would take her today after ballet. However, I had some time to kill before going back to CVS, so I drove to the McDonalds down the street and got her a chocolate shake. She has decided that she wants to do a pattern with her shakes. Strawberry and then chocolate and then strawberry. You get the point!

We were not home long before the cable man came. We have been complaining for months and months that there is a line issue. However, Charter never wants to hear it. We know we are not having a computer issue. Finally, after an enormous amount of hours on the phone and techs being dispatched over the last few months, we have found someone who knows what he is doing. He agreed it was a line issue. Supposedly, it will be fixed within a week or so. We shall see! I appreciated his assistance, but he left my floors a dirty and soaking wet mess from his boots! The house was just cleaned, so I was a little disappointed. Oh well, it's not a big deal.

By the time he left, I had to feed Ping. Shortly after we left for her Creative Movement class. Since we have been home, I have been at the computer. That is a good three hours. I have answered all of my emails and have worked on some CASA stuff. I have also booked a car to and from the airport for when we go to Texas. Now I am here getting caught up.

Ping was so cute yesterday. She is cute everyday, but yesterday she said to me "You and Daddy said vows and then you danced at the ball and you were merried?" That is how she says married. I said "Sort of like that honey." I told her that we got married at the church that she goes to Sunday School at. She knows this, but I was reiterating it. She then said "Was the Ball there?" I told her that it was somewhere else and that some day I would take her over there. I need to show her our wedding video. She has never seen it and I know she would love it. The last thing Ping said was "Will you and Daddy say your wedding vows again so I can hear them?" I told her that I had forgotten what they were, but it was something like we loved each other and always will. I just thought it was so sweet that she wanted us to say them so that she could be there and witness them. I guess we will have to go to Hawaii, stand on a cliff and recite them again for an anniversary. Gosh darn it, that is just horrible. What can I say, the child wants to hear them?

Stay warm!

Mama Out!!!!!!

The monkey foot cook.

Why are you looking at me?

I love this bean bag when Ping is not around. I am baking bread with my paws.