Nichole...my artist

This is my daughter, Nichole and she was at her aunt's house painting for a charity project in Door County. I'm really proud of what she has accomplished in the few years that she has been concentrating on art and photography. One of her pictures she took for a class this past year is being shown at the State Fair in the Expo Hall. She didn't win a thing for the picture, but I'm proud none-the-less.

Thought I would share her in "action", rather than just tell you about it.

Kelly

August already??

I cannot believe that it's August already. Where in the world did the summer go? I for one, will be happy to see the upper 80's and lower 90's leave and take the darn humidity with it. Today is beautiful, a little cloudy, but temps are nice and humidity is lower. My type of weather.

The State Fair has started and my daughter Nichole is working for the first time at the fair. I'm not sure what she's doing but when she came home last night, she went straight to bed and I talked a little to her this morning and she was still tired (and a bit sunburned). I haven't heard from her yet today so I assume that all is well. I cannot believe my kid is old enough to earn her own paycheck.

I also registered 2 out of 3 kids for school. They suck you dry of money I tell ya. Now all they have to have done is their pictures and get their schedules and that's it. School starts Sept 1, so does Nathan's homeschooling. I'm just glad we didn't have to put the registration fees on a credit card this year. It's sucky when we have to do that.

I've lost my stitching mojo. I'm not sure where it went or when it went but it's gone. I'm tempted to sell my stitching patterns but I know better. It will be back (I hope!) So for right now, I'm concentrating on school and reading fun books in my spare time. I also hope to take Christmas card pictures with Nichole's very expensive camera that I bought her. I'll post those pictures when I take them. It won't be anytime real soon, as I promised Nichole that we would do them AFTER she was done with the fair (August 15th).

Have to run and stop a fight in progress.
Hugs
Kelly

I'm still here. It's been hot and yucky out for the last week or so, so I've been stitching away at a exchange project and nope I cannot show you until she's received it. But it's a BlackBird Designs stocking that I stitched, boy do those stitch up fast!! I just might have to do another one for myself before too long.

School is going well. I hate Ethics class. I can't wait until it's over but my other class is fun. I get to put my computer knowledge to work finally so it's fun. I just wish Ethics was fun, don't get me wrong it's informative, but a bit boring and such. I'm trying my best and I guess that's all I can ask for these days.

Everyone is doing well. The kids just got back from Door County where they had a blast! And some how I got pink eye while they were gone and it's not going away!! If it doesn't go away soon, I'll have to visit my doctor (oh goodie! NOT!)

Otherwise, everything is good. Same ole stuff different day. I better run as Sam wants the computer to play games on again. Typical 10 year old if you ask me.

Talk to ya soon
Hugs
Kelly

Starting school....

I thought this would be easy. Take a couple of classes in my "spare" time and have no worries. WELL WELL, let me tell ya, it's not easy. I found that there is a lot of required reading a bunch of weekly papers due and so on. I don't know why I thought this was going to be easy. I need to get a schedule of things to get done by my kids and let them know that after a certain time in the day the computer is mine. Right now I'm taking an Ethics class and a Information in the Online age class and I'm finding that the Ethics class is not as easy as it seems and the other general class is just stuff I know but putting it to use.

As far as the rest of the house is concerned, 2 of my kids are going on a 7 day vacation with their aunt and I'll have one of the kids home with DH and myself. Then all three are going to a different aunt's house for about 5 days on a farm, so DH and I will actually have the house to ourselves, if all works out the way it's planned.

The weather here in Wisconsin has been a little hot and humid but now a cool front went through and the weather is cooler than normal with little or no humidity. I like this weather, it's perfect.

Hope you all have a good week and I'll check in when I can. Hopefully with a stitchy update.

Hugs
Kelly

old pictures...

While scanning some old pictures onto a SD card recently, I came across a couple of pictures I want to share with you all. The top picture is a picture of my grandfather holding his "great" one, my son, Sam when he was almost 2 months old. Sadly, my grandfather passed away about a week after this picture was taken and we think this is the last known picture of my grandfather alive. I'm so grateful that he got to see Sam and hold him (even if his health was failing)

The second picture is of my boys when they were 4 and 1, in our old house. My DH had Nathan climb the tree and I was outside with Sam and DH put Sam in the tree with Nathan and I got a bunch of cute pictures of them. But this is my favorite and I have NO clue what Sam is laughing at.

Thought I would share
Hugs
Kelly

Framed piece + Sam

Here is my framed piece of a Black Bird Design (I cannot remember which leaflet but it is still in circulation I believe) that I stitched a while ago and just now had the money to get it framed. Sam (my now 5th grader) is holding it.

A vent of sorts

Here it is, a pretty day in June and I'm sick of people knocking things down that I want to do.

As I mentioned in a previous post, I have a neighbor that is going back to school for something in the medical field. I decided earlier this year that I would go back to school to learn a new career and try to get a job in that field to help DH with finances. Things are so tight here it's not funny and I cannot seem to say "NO" to my kids (me bad I know!).

So I tell this person that I'm going back to school for IT/Web Design and she proceeds to tell me that those types of jobs are being outsourced and I should go into a different career path and go into the medical field. Now, if you know anything about me, I'm the medical guinea pig for dermatology and don't want to work in that field. So, she had me second guessing my career path and it took my wonderful DH to tell me that she needs to mind her own business and if that is the path she wishes to take, then that's her choice but it's not necessarily mine.

I'm supposed to start my "real" classes (opposed to the workshops that I've been taking now and really not taking them seriously) in the next couple of weeks and I cannot wait. I'm dying to understand what goes into web design and I think I can succeed at it. My kids tell me I can do it, my mom tells me I can do it, Hell, my DH tells me I can do it. So why not? I'm just sick of people telling what I should and shouldn't do. I'm not 6 people.

That's my vent for what it's worth.

Kelly