Valentine’s Day

We had a really nice Valentine’s Day.  if you want to see the pictures, go to galtscrapper.blogspot.com.  Actually, you can read about it there too!  That way I won’t have to re-type.  *grins* That’s not laziness, that’s just plain smart! 

Speaking of laziness, I somehow always feel like I am, because my house is generally cluttered, but I forget all the little things I DO do.  The cooking, the putting away of dishes, the playing, the feeding (the baby).  And then, I do write, which is not exactly a complete waste of time.  Maybe someday it’ll be worth something!  I don’t know.  I guess time will tell.  I just need to stop thinking about myself so negatively.  Jerry doesn’t really help me think positively, because he doesn’t think the feeding, the playing are all THAT worthwhile.  And I’m sure he’d prefer that I made some money from my writing.  So would I!  I will have to see what I can do about that.  I admit though, that I am scared to even try.  Writing here is SO different form writing for money.  I don’t exactly have a writing resume, but I suppose I’ll have to begin somewhere!  Gulp.

I FINALLY got Alex to go to bed around 10 tonight, like when I laid her down, she didn’t fuss, she didn’t cry, she just went to sleep.  That was the FIRST time today she did that.  Every other time I tried, she’d gotten enough rest, I guess, while nursing, that she just cried and cried while in her playpen.

I am in LOVE with this bear Jerry got me for Valentine’s day.  He’s SO doggone cute, and it’s fun to watch it light up in the dark.  Sammi loves it too, and will press it again and again so she can watch it (or she has me press it, since she can’t seem to get it to work… which MAY be a good thing!) 

Jerry and I actually got a couple of pictures of just us, together!  LOL… I went into the closet for something, and he followed me in, closed the door, and kissed me.  He was doing little things like that all day, just being romantic and sweet.  It was nice, and I liked it a lot.  It doesn’t take much to make me happy.  I was thinking about how some women would have a whole night planned out, but I was happy to just stay home… though truthfully, I MISSED our (now) semi annual "heart-on" party.  Sigh.  We used to have it every year, but anymore, we just don’t have much of a social circle, so there’s no one to invite!  It’s kinda sad.  I’m not really sure HOW to fix it, either.  Going back to work would be one way, but even when I did work, I didn’t have THAT much of a social circle, just a couple of people whom I haven’t seen in years.

Oh well… quit dwelling.  I have plenty of friends, truthfully.

I named my blogspot blog "Crazy Around Here"  Doesn’t that just FIT?  I mean, I love the title of this as well, but Crazy Around Here is SO appropriate.  Especially for a "family" blog.  Indeed, it IS crazy around here often.  No doubt about that.

I wonder what I’ll think in 5 or 10 years when I look back upon these years?  I mean, I’m looking at pictures of Shabree as a baby, 6 years ago, and I just don’t remember what it was like!  She was SO cute, though in some of the pics, I’m going, WHO is that Mexican looking baby?  She sure did get my olive complexion…but her Mexican comes from Jerry, and he does NOT look Mexican at all, though if you saw his grandma, you’d see it.  I also forgot how ROUND her head was.  And what a little chunky monkey she was… though even NOW, she’s a chunk, though she’s probably more so now than she was then.  Though I gotta say, she’s thinned down a bit, and appears to have grown some, she’s fitting into size 7 clothes now.  She needs more exercise though.  And Becca… Dr Vails told her she needs to watch her calorie intake.  She’s like 5 foot 3 or 4, and I was four pounds lighter than her at her age, and I was 5 foot 7, and by no means was I skinny, because of my bone structure.  I looked all right though… I LOOKED skinny enough, I guess.

I’m STILL picture sorting.  This is going to take awhile, I can see.  Sigh… I should scrapbook already!  I have plenty to do there.  But at least I’m not that behind in my scrapbooks!  Thank goodness… because if I was, what WOULD I do if I can barely do this?  Yea, so glad I am not that behind.  Less than a year, easily caught up, if I do a challenge, or just challenge myself to a certain number of pages, and quit getting on the computer.  If I spent half as much time scrapping as I did on the computer…  I’m sure I could probably do a few hundred pages by year’s end.  I SHOULD set a challenge for myself, just so I have something to shoot for.  200 pages isn’t unreasonable for me.  Not in a year. Heck, I’ve had months when I’ve done 50 pages.  Of course, I WASN’T trying to constantly breast feed a baby… but I’ll work it out.  I need to do it so I don’t burn myself out though, and get into a terrible rut.  The nice thing is, I do have 30 dollars a month I can spend on it, so I can do something a LITTLE different than what I have in my stash…but I think I need to do what I can to use my stash up. 

Yea…

Yea.

I think I’ll attempt to do SOMETHING, even if it’s just cleaning up.