Yea….stuff
In a way, doing this on Safari is easier, because I don’t have to deal with the music player. In Firefox, I have to go to the source code to get anything to show up correctly, in Safari, the source code is just THERE. On the other hand, there’s no editor in Safari, which means, no way to put pictures in…well, I’m SURE there is a way, however, that would actually involve remembering HTML code, and every time I try to do something with HTML code in this diary, it does NOT work for me.
I’ve got about 10 minutes to write. I put baby girl down for a nap, but it needs to be a short nap, because it’s almost 6 p.m. The other girls are at a bounce house place, the 7 year old is going to a party, the other two just went for the heck of it… I’ll BET they get to go to the bday party though. Our bday party was ALMOST a bust… if not for the fact that we invited TWO classes, and the cousins and the neighborhood kids, it would have been a bust. We could easily have taken everyone to the bounce house place for as much as we spent on the water slide jump house. Crazy, and we shouldn’t have gotten that thing. Oh yea, it was fun…but it was 225 bucks. And I forget that we’re not bringing any money into this house. Sigh. So shouldn’t have…but I just wanted SOME semblance of "normalcy" if you will. Having things the way they used to be. Actually, in the "old" days, I’d have spent even more on little goodie bags, etc… skipped that this year, though we DID do a pinata, the kids enjoyed that quite a bit. Oh, I don’t know… I was glad I combined birthday parties though.
Man…what do I do when Sammi gets older? Hers and Syd’d birthdays butt up against each other, but there is a 7 year difference between the two…at least with Shabree and Syd, they’re close enough in age to have a lot of the same interests (which reminds me… Shabree says she doesn’t like Dora anymore! Not like Dora? Wah… but she still likes Elmo and Diego… what’s up with the boy stuff, lol?) Eh… well, it’s probably minutae, but I am NOT going to be able to do 3 separate birthday parties between July and Sept for those kids unless our income dramatically changes, which IS a possibility, you never know. These deals take awhile to close sometimes. Hopefully Jerry closes one soon. I feel pretty hopeful. Or SOMETHING comes along that will bring in some money. Doesn’t have to do much at this point, pay the bills, allow me to buy a couple of things each month. I don’t buy much now as it is… get a lot of scrapbooking product from the free digi sites, have so much on hand that there isn’t much I can’t scrap anyway. So, I don’t need much. I would like to buy a new computer, but it could wait, that would be fine. The kids have toys coming out their ears, and they don’t play much with what they’ve got anyway. I’ve gotten tired of collecting (except for free digi stuff, lol), and I just want to get my scrap stuff organized, which means I shouldn’t buy anything else anyway.
Would you believe I’m pretty much done with my Christmas shopping for the kids? I bought a few things, nothing big, nothing much. Just some things I thought they’d like. I don’t want to make a big deal out of Christmas this year, since we won’t probably have a lot of money, and like I said before, the kids have ENOUGH. We could easily take a bunch of their toys, store them for awhile, then bring them back out, and it would be just like Christmas again, lol. i don’t think they really even need clothes. Especially not Sydni. Rebecca MIGHT, but seeing as how I haven’t seen her run out of clothes in like 2 weeks, I doubt it very much. Most of her clothes are on her floor. I told her I’m not dealing with a bunch of her clothes, since I’ve asked numerous times for them, and never gotten them. It annoys the crap out of me.
What else? Sammi is ALMOST walking. She takes a few steps, falls down. It seems to be more of a balance problem than anything. That’ll come. She almost seems like she prefers to crawl, but I think once she really LEARNS to walk, there’ll be no stopping her. She grins like crazy when we walk her, though Shabree keeps walking her too fast, and tonight, the baby fell, and took Shabree down with her, and she fell on TOP of the baby! Argh! I keep telling her not to walk her so fast, but she isn’t completely coordinated herself, kwim? The sad thing is, I’d JUST sternly said Be Careful! when she fell.
Well, I guess I’ll post. This has only taken me about 4 hours to write, as it is now 10:00 p.m. lol. I got a phone call right before the alarm for the baby went off, so when I was done with the phone call, I went to get her, and this just sat here. Fortunately, OD doesn’t CARE… sessions don’t time-out, thank goodness.
Enough.