Its been an awfully long time since I updated on LJ. Christmastime was really crazy. My little choir that I direct had nine performances in three weeks, which definitely kept me busy. Add in rehearsals and a Jubilee performance during those weeks. Oh, and Christmas. Nothing busy there, right?

To try to keep this from running miles and miles ( Read more... )

The boys have been re-treated, and no lice appeared!  Woo!  Since we didn't even find a nit on them (and hadn't in days), we went to get haircuts this weekend.  Which is when I re-learned that I should never let the husband handle haircuts.  I was even there, just getting my own hair cut!  Anyway, they now have very short hair on the top, which ( Read more... )

I discovered Friday afternoon (of course) that the boys had head lice.  I thought it was Sean, since Sean's school just sent home a circular on head lice.  No note that someone HAD head lice, though.  Now I'm thinking it was Ian, because Ian seemed to have more signs of infestation ( Read more... )

Yep.  I'm thirty today.  That feels really odd.  And you know what I did to celebrate ( Read more... )

 I'm doing OK.  I'm pretty goofy, though ( Read more... )

Having surgery on Monday morning.  It should be utterly routine, and he says I shouldn't be in too bad shape.  No bending down and no lifting things, take it easy and all that good stuff.  I'll be coming home with lovely splints in my nose, but apparently that's much preferable to the stuff-it-full-of-cotton plan, even if it's messier.

I've spent ( Read more... )

My mom is doing well.  The weather messed up our TX trip so that we barely got there before her surgery, which is why I missed getting in touch with people.  Sorry, everyone ( Read more... )

I just spent awhile puttering out in my garden.  I didn't do a very good job of dead-heading my verbena, but that's because of the bees that LOVE my groundcover there.  Still, the front gardens are looking nice.  I put in some marigolds along the back of the big garden-- I finally gave up on the zinnas ever showing up in the gardening stores.  ( Read more... )

I swear, the kids are TRYING to drive me crazy.  I'm downstairs making marinade and trying to clean up and dust when Sean comes down crying that he hurt his foot while dancing ON THE BED with Ian.    Who is, of course, still dancing on the stinking BED.  I came upstairs and he was JUMPING on Sean's bed.

Well, I just about lost it.  I yelled at ( Read more... )

Ouch.  I went to the Ear, Nose and Throat clinic today on the referral from my primary care doc.  He thought that the eternal cough/drainage/yuck I've had is acid reflux.  Apparently, this is common, even when you don't have any heartburn.

The ENT stuck a tube up my nose to see what was up.  He put some Afrin/Lidocaine spray up there first, but it ( Read more... )