ARE YOU COOKING YET?????

So, are you cooking yet????? Have you baked your pies???? I haven't yet.....I will though. I sort of cheated though and bought a pumpkin pie from Publix......John's pecan pie, I will probably make. Well, maybe. I went shopping yesterday, since we had a half day of school, I took advantage of the afternoon. Although, it seems many others had the same idea. Publix was PACKED. While I say this, it was nice to see ALL the lanes lit up and a check out person at each and every station. There wasn't a line more than two deep! You'd NEVER see that at Wal-Mart or K-Mart!!! Target was horrendous!!! Only one checker!!! 10 people in line waiting! BAD!!

I am ahead of the curve a little bit since my Christmas decorations are up......more or less. I still need to put the mini ornaments on my ALABAMA tree in the den, and find my wreaths/door ornamentation, but for the most part, I'm ready for Christmas!!! I tried to convince Jn to hang outdoor lights but it was a NO GO. Oh well, I'll keep trying. I'm all ready to go look at others though.

And you know, the sad part about today is this.......I'm bored already. I'll scrap and I'm trying to convince John to take JEB to a movie....his first at a theater.......just for something to do.

But tomorrow I'll be busy.......baking, cooking and getting ready for dinner. Gotta go feed my ever always hungry little guy.

HAPPY TURKEY DAY!!!!

Saturday WAS NOT any better....

well, while JEB was totally better and on the mend, it seems that he passed it along to ME! I woke feeling very full and tummy=yucky and actually did ok for a couple of hours, then proceeded to toss my cookies! Oh yeah, loads of fun.....BUT it did make me feel much better. Slept on and off all day, was sick AGAIN a couple of times and now have the other, as well. Loads of fun! While now, 12 hrs. later, I feel better and have kept down some orange sherbert and SPRITE, I'm still weak and haven't really eaten anything today. AND Jn is starting to feel bad.....oh, yippee!! Hopefully by morning, it will have worked its way thru my house and things will get back to normal tomorrow!

So, how was everyone else's SATURDAY???? At least my Christmas tree is up! Did that yesterday!

Tell me some of your 'sick' day remedies.....

I'm SO glad it's FRIDAY....

Hey everyone......and am I ever glad it's FRIDAY!!! and only 1 1/2 days for next week!! YIPPEE!!

Well, JEB is sick with some sort of stomach virus, because he was busy tossing his cookies last night....yeah, loads of fun! Let me tell you, pizza just doesn't hold the same attraction the second time around! I'm thinking I won't be eating it any time soon! We're really not sure what's going on......he was fine, eating and playing, then he came in and was laying on me and **voila**......upchuck! So we cleaned up, .....chair, carpet, him, ME ..... and then went and lay down on his bed. He went to sleep with no trouble and about 10:30 started coughing and such and whatever was left in his tummy, soon followed the demise of the previous contents! Then it was all the bedclothes, jammies and various and assundry stuffed animals that needed washing. I was doing laundry till about 1AM. He then slept fairly peacefully and woke with me at 5:30 AM. Went to school for a brief meeting with a parent, then came home and promptly put up my Christmas Tree!!!

He's eaten some soup and crackers, a little SPRITE but nothing else. I guess the good news is that it has stayed in him, instead of coming up!! Oh, the joys of motherhood!

I have some more pics to share, but left them on my desk at school so it will be next week before I get them on my computer.

Everyone have a great weekend!! I plan to!

no pain today....

Hey there......well, I feel pretty good today!! No pain meds, just advil only so that's a great thing! Still a tad bit swollen inside my mouth but nothing else really. Even though Jn elected to stay home with me instead of going back to school, he did very well taking care of me! He was quite the doting husband....made sure I had Sprite to drink, soup to eat and of course, the cure all for pain.....milkshakes!! He even went and picked JEB up from daycare, got him dinner, put him to bed and then stayed up late and watched the weather to make sure we weren't being blown away by a tornado!! What a guy!! Isn't he great????

Since I felt pretty good this morning, we went out for breakfast to IHOP and then off for grocery shopping at WalMart. Man, I so miss our WalMart's in Alabama. This one is ALWAYS FULL, jammed packed. They are always restocking merchandise and they are still always out of at least two or three things that I need and again, let me say PACKED!!! Today was no different. I would rather spend $50 more on groceries and go to PUBLIX!!! That's how bad it is!

But I guess the good news.....gas was only $1.97 per gallon!! NOT BAD! It only took 34.00 to fill my tank today. That is awesome!

Started thinking about Christmas shopping a little today. Planning my strategy for what I want to get everyone. I love Christmas!!!

I survived....

well everyone, I survived!! But now, I'm a little poorer and 3 teeth less.....there was another bad one on top of the same side that was beginning to get infected and it had already broken off some, so they pulled it too! All in all, not too bad. My drugs have kicked in and I'm feeling pretty good!! A little swollen, but not bad!

Thanks to those of you who were praying for me!! More later!

I have to have 2 teeth pulled.....

Hey all.....well, I only have another day before I get my teeth yanked out.....then I'll have a nice big empty space in the back of the left side of my mouth. At least I'm glad the dentist is doing stitches....I hate having a huge gap where there used to be a tooth! I go to the oral surgeon on Friday at 10:00am. Which of course means no food/drink for breakfast, which will kill me, I'm sure. Then I'll be drugged for most of the rest of the day and in pain for the evening. YIPPEE....this sounds like so much fun! All the while my darling little munchkin will simply stand by the bedside and ask me if I'm ok.....Yes, JEB....Momma's fine!

JEB's name...

By the way, I was just re-reading some of my thoughts and decided for any of you who are new to my blog that I should probably tell you where we came up with JEB's name.

We joined our church last night and so many of the people who came thru the line and shook our hands and told us how happy they were for us to be a part of the Sherwood family, would shake his hand and say, 'What a cute name!' Actually, it was my husband's idea.....J for John - not just named after his daddy but after his great-grandpa, E - Ethan....a John Wayne character from a movie and it was better than Edward, and B - Benjamin, which John decided on after he was born and we found out he had Down Syndrome and I had gotten sick from the anesthesia at the beginning of my C-section AND I put my foot down about him having the name Beauregard!! One of our friends kindly reminded John that we weren't naming our new family dog! So it's John Ethan Benjamin (JEB) and he's never ever been anything but JEB!

Just thought you'd like to know!!