I've been neglecting my LJ in favour of facebook and games I guess. I've also been quite busy with the kids since they got out of school. Lots of free summer activities at local (and some not so local but the stuff is free so we travel) public libraries and so on. There have also been free movies at the cinema in Gastonia. So far Livvie and I saw ( Read more... )

Taken at the Schiele Museum yesterday. I was trying to take a picture of the cannon being fired, signalling the official opening of their new Pirates exhibit. As members, we'd arrived at 8:30 that morning and had a preview of the exhibit as well as a free breakfast with Blackbeard. Anyways..I was trying to get a picture of the cannon being fired ( Read more... )

A mish-mash of recent photos. Bill's parents have been visiting for the past week. They were going to leave this morning but I think that's been postponed til tomorrow now because Pops is talking about watching the race tonight on tv..hehe. :)

Two kitties. Olivia pretending to be a kitty with Violet on the rug in the livingroom.

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A picture of me and Olivia taken by my mom-in-law yesterday on the front porch. Livvie's hair was still a little wet because she'd just had a trim on the porch. Ma is a hairdresser and she gave Bill, Wes, and Olivia haircuts yesterday and she coloured my hair today ( Read more... )

I make them scrub the floors. ;)

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It was a beautiful day on Thursday and the kids were out playing and I was sitting in my rocking chair on the front porch and I snapped a few photos. I still have a bunch of photos that I haven't posted yet that I have to get around to, including ones from Christmas in Montreal, Livvie's birthday, and the Girl Scouts Father/Daughter banquet that ( Read more... )

Keep in mind...this is North Carolina where it hardly ever snows in my part of the state. I'm guessing school will be closed at least Monday if we get what they're forecasting.
Winter Storm Warning in effect from 6 PM this evening to 6 PM EST Saturday... Today ( Read more... )

Apparently it's been 5 weeks since I posted anything here...I did post a picture in picturing_food last night but other than that...yeah...nothin'. The desktop died just as we were leaving for Canada...the week of Christmas and it didn't get fixed until the night before last so I was just getting on facebook on the uber-slow laptop mostly while the desk top was ( Read more... )

The kids received packages with Christmas presents from their grandparents in Wisconsin on Friday. We were told to open them and have early Christmas since we're heading up to Montreal to visit with my parents and brother for the holidays. So we opened them and then yesterday as I was sitting at the computer, Olivia stood behind me and started ( Read more... )

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