Quiet Life Homestead

Sunday Happenings and Whatnot

We've been working hard, trying to get the house ready for company.  My mom and sister (and her kids) will be here tomorrow afternoon/evening and then Charlie's parents are coming over for Christmas dinner.  We've never had his parents over and so I'm a wee bit nervous, but I know all will be just fine.

My asthma has been kicking up quite a bit lately.  Nothing to be too concerned with, just an annoyance.  At least we have inhalers now.  When I was a kid, I had to take some awful liquid stuff.  YUCK!

We got a light dusting of snow yesterday.  The boys played outside in it for an hour or two and had a great time.  Of course it wasn't enough snow to really do justice to football and hockey was totally out of the picture, but who cares?! 

Our power went off for about two hours yesterday.  We watched the transformer blow - very pretty, but scary!  Right afterward, the firemen came around in their firetruck just to check out the neighborhood and make sure everyone was fine.  I told the kids that is one of the reasons why its great to live in a small town.  People care.  When I called 911 when my dad went into his coma (way back in 2002) in our small town of Mustang (where we had lived for 20+ years), help came before I even hung up the phone.  And ALL the firemen, emts, and a lot of the police came.  You'd think we were having something happen that had injured several people - nope.  They all knew my dad and wanted to help out!  My dad died a few days afterwards and I remember seeing quite a few of those same guys at his funeral.  As much as I like moving around, I very much appreciate the benefits of planting roots in a small town. 

We watched The Miracle Worker on OETA (PBS) last night.  I hadn't seen it in many years and it was the first time for Bethany and Cody.  They really enjoyed the movie and for once in a week everyone wasn't counting in my dreams last night (we just finished inventory at Charlie's store), they were all signing to each other!  We had started learning ASL when Charlie first started losing his hearing, but once it leveled off, we stopped.  I have a feeling that there will be a request to pick back up on it now.

Well, the coffee Cody made is now ready and Dallas is chomping at the bit to go onto foxsports.com so I'd better sign off.

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!!!

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{ 12:36, Sunday, December 23, 2007 } { Posted by stitchnchick }

Wishing you and yours a very Merry Christmas!

Amy

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{ 09:39, Monday, December 31, 2007 } { Posted by a1health }

Blessings for the new year!
~Farrah