She Shoots, She Scores

On Fridays at boot camp we get to play a game after we run hills, use our weights, do push ups and sit ups etc. Today we played basketball. We have some new women in our group so we had to warn them. Explain ourselves, if you will.

No fouls are called, blood happens, take the shot, and get the ball! It's easy. Oh, and Melinda K. had a basketball career and no one else needs to play like her. Just let Mel and Robb battle it out. Karen always gives the sister disclaimer, Mel is like one of my sisters and sometimes we trash talk a bit. But we would never be so abrupt to the nice new women. So don't worry!

Tami(me) and the other Tami scored today and so did Tena. Yay! Tena is new, usually comes with her daughters. Her daughters weren't at boot camp today. We told her she has bragging rights. I told Tena to go to work at SSK and brag that she played basketball this morning against Melinda K. and scored. People will be impressed. Mel's reputation precedes her.

I'm sure everyone remembers the day I made the winning basket. If not, read this account.

No photos for this post, it's just too ugly.

Edited to add: Max scored a goal for his soccer team yesterday! Yay! He just noticed I didn't post about him this morning, instead it was all about me. Sorry. It will never happen again.

Max did score yesterday and I did yell, "Wooooo Hooo That's MY baby!"

Random- I Hope You Can Keep Up

I talked to Danny yesterday. He is crazy busy with school and work. He was working on Sunday afternoon when Roger Daltrey came in and ordered a cappuccino. Roger Daltrey, as in, The Who. Dan said he was a nice guy. Pretty cool.

Sam got accepted for Airborne! Yay! He really wanted that so we are happy for him. In the meantime he thought he was coming home for two weeks, bought a ticket, we got all kinds of excited to see him, and now he isn't coming home. So, while we are happy there is disappointment too. Sam is going to Ft. Benning and then everything after is pending.

Max has his last JV game today. It has been a fun soccer season for him and for me. Freezing, windy, rainy, but fun! He has mountains of homework this week. I think teachers are cramming the quarter into one week. Not sure what the students will be doing the rest of the school year.

Yesterday Hubby got home from work, told me to take my camera, we were going for a drive in the country. He saw something on the way home from work that he had to show me. It was a sweet stone house mailbox. Obviously I need this mailbox!


I have been cooking and baking for my absence. I need to leave Max pans of enchiladas when I am out of town. We will be home for Mother's Day brunch so I am doing some baking, cooking and freezing for that as well.

We are still trying to get home from our cruise. We thought Sam and Max could pick us up in Vancouver. Now, no Sam. Has anyone driven to the cruise terminal? Is it hard to find? Can Max (age 16) drive there?

These are the questions that keep me awake at night. Kidding. I always sleep like a rock. Even with my guys all over the country, I just give it to God and go to sleep.
Good thing.

Cruise Packing

Packing for a cruise isn't easy. Especially since those mean, selfish, nasty airlines started charging moi for luggage. Let's just look at the whole evening bag issue. I have a few evening bags, I love beading and rhinestones and bling so they are a natural fit for me. Most of these came from garage sales.

I'm trying to take just one. Or two...

Why do I need an evening bag on a cruise? I mean it's not like I have to pay for dinner, or a cab home if my date gets nasty. My date is Hubby, he's nice, and if he's not I can storm off to our cabin without a cab.

It's for you! I need to take my camera to dinner, right? Cuz y'all want to go with us, right?



I've narrowed it down to seven pairs of shoes. If I take these pretties I don't think I'll be storming off anywhere. I'm practicing walking, ladylike in them in the privacy of my own home. Not sure they are keepers yet.

Advice? And don't tell me to pack light or take less shoes. Not. Gonna. Happen.

That Sam I Am as a Soldier

Sam was in the field for two weeks. He graduates as a medic next week. I am so proud of him. And I was so happy to get these pictures that I had to share.

When he got back from the field a sergeant told him and some of his buddies that they were going to Fort Bragg to become paramedics. So happy and excited until the next day another sergeant came and told them none of them were going to Ft. Bragg.

This is how the military rolls but it's hard to hear the disappointment in his voice on the phone. The good news is that Sam gets to come home for a visit before going to Fort Bliss. He is already rethinking his plans and thinking more about a nursing degree.

I told Sam that there is a reason God is having him go to Fort Bliss, we just don't know why yet. God's plans for Sam are made.

Sam is in the center.

Sam is on the left.
Sam is third from the left, enjoying a soldier's recliner.

Trust in the Lord with all thine heart, and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all ways acknowledge Him and He shall direct thy paths. Proverbs 3: 5-6

Friday Random

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. -Emerson

It's early but I'd like to forget this morning. Soccer at boot camp this morning, that is. The score is tied, Robb yells that the next score wins. I go for the save, miss it, like kick and miss, they score, my team loses.

It just keeps replaying in my mind. It was a slow motion, super fast, split second.

Max had a good soccer game yesterday. It ended with a win for LCHS. He is loving soccer and I am too.

Some great news, I'm reading a really good book, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt by Beth Hoffman. Makes me want to lay around and read, instead I will be cleaning and doing laundry this morning. Nice to know it's waiting for me.

This afternoon I'm going to work for a few hours. My kindergarten teacher is getting married tomorrow and her reception is going to be at the museum. Nothing like young at heart true love. Only for Mrs. Springer would I work on a Friday! I wonder if we'll get to sing, i'm a little teapot, short and stout, here is my handle, and here is my spout... with motions. Favorite part of kindergarten for me.

Hubby and I are getting excited for our honeymoon cruise. The last time we went away for more than one night, and not for business or anything to do with our guys was when Sam was a toddler. It's time.

That Sam I Am is back from the field and will be calling us tonight. I can't wait! He left a note on FB that he is off to Airborne so he must have gotten accepted. Then on to Fort Bragg for more medical training. Go Sam Go!

Functionality or Charm

What to do? What to do? Our home was built in the mid twenties. It is a stone house with metal, single pane windows. The windows give the house a certain look. The windows are very energy inefficient. Drafty, if you will. Hubby repairs and babies them along.

That said, I LoVe them. Charm and all, you know.

They swing open and pictured below is Hawley's treat window, or taptaptap, "IleftbutI forgotsomethingcanyougetformemom?" window. We use this swinging window daily.

I pulled up the shade in our bedroom this morning and there in my sweet poppy patch is the first one, a lone poppy! She is very pretty with the black grids. I'd miss that.

That said, when I snap up the shade the window is foggy, wet and steamed up. Not so nice.

Here is the problem, finally, getting to the issue here. The original windows were a dark bronze color. Over the years the outside grids were painted white and the inside grids were painted black. Vinyl window don't come that way. If we get black on the outside the house trim will need to be changed. I don't want to give up the black or dark grid on the inside. They don't come with black on the inside of the window. I love that look.


Hubby and I like to restore back to the original look if possible. We are collecting bids and ideas. What do you think? Remember, we aren't made of money, we want charm, we like the casement style so they swing open and then there's the addition. If we add a new master bedroom and bathroom it gets even more complicated. The window size then has to meet code. I don't want huge windows because the rest of the house doesn't have huge windows.

Many of you come to the blog and are easily entertained for a few minutes in the morning. Well, that party is over! Get on your thinking caps and help me!