I saw this on woot today. Great song. Great reason.
I’ve have been busy studying for the CFA exam that happens in about 11 months. I have been trying (and succeeding) in doing study blitz to get a lot of work done in a short time. Just trying to make it a habit. It is working so far. Once that is down pat I will hit the blogging trail again.
Props to my sister Joy who finished her first triathlon last weekend. Visit her blog for the not so gory details. Good job Joy. Leela Joy says she is proud to be named after you.
Well, tonight we say good-bye to a rather tumultuous year, at least for our clan. We saw the loss of a job, an unanticipated move, the gain of a job, the blessing of a better place to live and the great blessing of another child. There were also the incidental victories. I got my second Bag ‘o Crap from Woot and I and won my fantasy football league.
Looking back at the year, I feel the same way a forest must feel after a fire. The fire hurt, but now there is room for growth and renewal. In 2009 Sammy will start kindergarten and Mary will start pre-school. I will continue (God willing) in my new job and Casey’s Speech-Pathology practice serving the Catholic Schools will grow. We will wrap up the year with our first Christmas in Boise and our first Christmas in Idaho since Casey and I were married.
We lost our dog, Cassie this year. She was a good dog. A good dog. Noelle started wearing an eye patch to help with her Anisometropic Amblyopia. For each day she wears her patch, she gets a gold dollar to use to buy a hamster. The hamster won’t live as long as the dog (at least I hope not. I don’t want a 16 year old hamster).
We are going to strive to cut our current garbage output from four bags a week to three bags. We have cloth diapers for Leela and Mary will be potty-trained this year. We tried last year, but it just didn’t take. Too much going on.
We replaced our dinner table one that will allow us to seat all six people and keep food on the table. That may not sound like much, but it is really a huge deal to us. Ralphie and Steve were nice enough to provide the table.
Ralphie was able to spend a month with us while Leela finished cooking. The kids loved having Grandma Ralphie around for so long. So did we. Mary is still asking, ‘Where did Ralphie go?’.
This year my blog enters its third year and I will pass the 100 post mark. I don’t know if that is really a big deal, but hey, I am running out things to say.
I hope all of you have a wonderful 2009 and that it is full of the Lord’s blessings.
Hi everyone. I have decided to let my newest daughter, Leela Joy make her first blog entry. Keep in mind that she is only three days old, so don’t be surprised at what she says….
Wow. This place sure is bright. It is a lot brighter than where I came from. I must admit that I don’t really know where that is, or in this case, was. I just know that this place is brighter.
I noticed almost from day one (six days ago) that this place is filled with strange people of different sizes. There is a ‘No-well’, a ‘Sam-e’, and a ‘Mary Leela’. I am beginning to suspect that I am the ‘Mary Leela’, but I am not sure. Most of the time they call me ‘Mary’, then ‘Leela’ and makes some cryptic comments about getting the name wrong. Maybe if they just picked one name, it would not be so difficult.
Another thing I find interested is the amount to time people spend in near silence around here. I think that I am something very special because whenever people are around me, they speak with an awed, almost reverent hush. At first I thought it was because they did not want to disturb me, but I am beginning to think that it is out of respect for who I am. That rocks!
Today I made a trip somewhere I had not been before. It was very, very bright and colder than I am used to. The ceiling was very high and light blue with a single light way up at the top. I didn’t stay long because the guy who carries me around didn’t want me outside too long, just long enough to be exposed to something called ‘nature’. It seemed important, so I went along. All in all it was not bad.
There are also other people who come around sometimes, but don’t seem to be here as much. There is a ‘gram-e’, a ‘popa’, a ‘pat’ and most curiously, a ‘ral-fee’. The ‘ral-fee’ is around more than most and she is taller too.
All I do is eat, poop, pee, cry and sleep. I am really good at all of them.
I am also good at being cute. Look:
I decided to put in a picture of my big sister, Mary. She’s cute too. I think she is the ‘Mary’ of ‘Mary Leela’.
Sorry for the slow slow blog month. Casey and I are waiting for the arrival of Leela Joy and the antcipation is a but distracting.
But tonight, something else imporant is happening. Not as imporant as the birth of your fifth child, but important none the less. Tonight I finished my Pity Whiskey. Some seven months have passed since mom gave me a 1.75l of Makers Mark the day I left that other job of mine. Seven months.
