The DDA Trouble Free Zone Part 8

[kc10family]

Denise, congratulations on your new job! I never found much in the way of Disney classroom decor, but I can tell you from shopping for Alyssa's and Matthew's rooms, that Home Depot has some neat removable adhesives (princesses, Pooh, Mickey and friends, Nemo, Tinkerbell, and Cars). I also made a lot of my own Disney mini-motivational posters and laminated them.

Jennifer, I hope you are feeling better soon!

Paula, great pictures!

Oh, Denise I missed the new job thing. WTG!!!

 

[kc10family]

Ok, Becky needs some pixiedust tomorrow. She is taking her drivers test to get her real license. She just wasn't ready before but the last couple of months has really wanted to drive and has done so every chance she could. The only thing I'm really worried about is the parallel parking. We don't have much of that here so it is hard to practice. We'll be spending a few hours practicing in the morning. I'll set some stakes up in the driveway. She spent 1/2 hour just driving down and backing up our driveway getting used to the feel of backing up. It was amazing how much she improved in just that 1/2 hour. There is a selfish side of me that hopes she won't pass but then the real mom side wants her to accomplish this!!!!!

Selfish Vicki.... back off and let real mom see her daughter get what she wants.

 

[kc10family]

Paula, Glad that you dropped by if even temporarily. I hope things slow down for you soon.

Things are never slow..... they are just a different speed of fast and crazy.

 

[kc10family]

Ok, here are the pictures!~

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

Love the pictures!!!!

 

[kc10family]

We went to Home Depot last Saturday morning for their Kids Crafts program. Apparently they do it the first Saturday of each month. Kids can build projects. They supply the projects, tools and instructions. The best part was that it was completely free. These are the projects that my kids did.

Colby's Firetruck

Hunter's Mickey media rack, tool box and bird feeder

Nick's Mickey media rack and Mickey bookends

These are the cookies that we made today. The kids decorated them:

We have decided to cancel our camping trip for this weekend. If you've watched any weather reports you know that New England is having a summer Nor'easter. We have had non stop rain all day. The rain is supposed to taper to on/off showers for the weekend, but we still expect a lot of rain. My brother and his family can't go as his truck is sitting in Chris's garage. He needed a lot of work done. Chris worked on it Monday night, Tuesday night and tonight. He fixed everything that was wrong with it, but when they tried to bleed the brakes a brake line broke. He will now be replacing all of the brake lines. It was a good thing that it happened in the shop and not while towing his camper. My parents were thinking of cancelling due to the weather so we all are cancelling. We promised the boys that we'd do another Home Depot craft clinic as it is our Home Depot's 1 year anniversary so they are having special events. They also want to go bowling and we all want to go see Cars. Since we are staying home I will have to work Friday night as they were really short handed without me. Oh well.

Deb

WOW!! LOVE the pics, great work!!
Hope the weather changes for you soon. Sorry you cnx your camping trip.

 

[kc10family]

I have some very sad news.......




































This ends my P4.























Don't be very very very sad..... I shall some day have another P4 for you all to enjoy.





















it's O-dark thirty and I must be up in less than five hours. So off to dreamland I go.

 

[Tammi67]

Today was an exhausting day. Poor Alyssa has a diaper rash, so she was rather cranky and I spent most of the day cleaning, which makes me cranky too. At 1:30 p.m. Remax called to ask if a realtor could show the house in an hour. As much as I hated saying it, I had to say no...first, Alyssa would be napping and second, I was still trying to get the house looking decent. When I told Kevin later that I said no, he wasn't too pleased, but for crying out loud, an hour's notice?!!!

So, around 5:30 p.m. I'm making dinner (the showing wasn't until 8:15 p.m. so there was plenty of time to do this) and the phone rings. Remax again...someone wants to see the house now. In fact, they are parked next door waiting for the okay! So, Kevin says fine, but please understand the animals are here, I'm making dinner, etc. The realtor was very nice and he spoke highly of the house as he walked through. They must have been out looking at other houses and decided to stop by. The man he was showing around spoke no English, and we heard the realtor speaking Spanish to him throughout their tour.

Okay, so we eat dinner, and I vacuum one more time. We lock Lucy (evil cat)up in her cage, Kevin takes Libby (dog) to the new house, and I take Alyssa to Home Depot. On my way home, I drive by at 8:35 p.m. and there's no one in the driveway. I call Kevin and tell him I'm just going to get Alyssa ready for bed. He comes home about 10 minutes later. At 8:55 p.m. the doorbell rings!!! They were very apologetic for being so late. This time it was a young woman who works at Children's Hospital. She took lots of pictures. This realtor was very nice and complimentary too. They left around 9:15 p.m. and now here I am, telling you my saga!

Though I hope the house sells ASAP, it will be nice to be all moved in to our new house and not have to worry about these showings! Whew, what a day!

Keeping my fingers crossed Amy. Could part of the problem be that you are showing the house "by appointment only?" I know 5 years ago we did that and our realtor discouraged it, but we had 2 dogs and we both worked during the day, so there was really no place to lock them up.

 

[Tammi67]

Hey all -

I couldn't resist posting on the bag thread!!!

Did you post our picture, looking totally unfashionable? I so wanted to do that, but not without your ok.

 

[Tammi67]

Ok, Becky needs some pixiedust tomorrow. She is taking her drivers test to get her real license. She just wasn't ready before but the last couple of months has really wanted to drive and has done so every chance she could. The only thing I'm really worried about is the parallel parking. We don't have much of that here so it is hard to practice. We'll be spending a few hours practicing in the morning. I'll set some stakes up in the driveway. She spent 1/2 hour just driving down and backing up our driveway getting used to the feel of backing up. It was amazing how much she improved in just that 1/2 hour. There is a selfish side of me that hopes she won't pass but then the real mom side wants her to accomplish this!!!!!

Good luck Becky!

 

[Tammi67]

Are you sure parallel parking is on the exam...it was not for Jonathan..and it was not for me when I took it MANY years ago...

It was for me!

 

[Tammi67]

Rees getting PM for Monday morning. What a great smile!

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

Giving PM a big hug.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

Playing with PM in the hospital room.

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

Right before going into surgery. PM and Pooh went too!

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

After surgery. PM and a new Mickey baloon!

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

And today, making the Sand Art creations that Deb sent the kids. They turned out so cute, and we all had a great time making them. Thanks, Deb!!!!

http://s19.photobucket.com/albums/b175/DenisePersonal/Rees Surgery/?

Thanks for posting!

 

[Tammi67]

We have decided to cancel our camping trip for this weekend. If you've watched any weather reports you know that New England is having a summer Nor'easter. We have had non stop rain all day. The rain is supposed to taper to on/off showers for the weekend, but we still expect a lot of rain. My brother and his family can't go as his truck is sitting in Chris's garage. He needed a lot of work done. Chris worked on it Monday night, Tuesday night and tonight. He fixed everything that was wrong with it, but when they tried to bleed the brakes a brake line broke. He will now be replacing all of the brake lines. It was a good thing that it happened in the shop and not while towing his camper. My parents were thinking of cancelling due to the weather so we all are cancelling. We promised the boys that we'd do another Home Depot craft clinic as it is our Home Depot's 1 year anniversary so they are having special events. They also want to go bowling and we all want to go see Cars. Since we are staying home I will have to work Friday night as they were really short handed without me. Oh well.

Deb

The kids did a great job decorating those cookies!

Sorry you had to cancel, but as much as I hate to say it, Virginia could use a little of that rain, if you can send some here.

 

[Tammi67]

btw...what's a water baby??

Thanks for asking. Glad I'm not the only one in the dark!!

 

[yellowfish78]

Our parallel parking is now called "manuverability". And so many people fail it the first time around they make you take before you take the actual driving exam, because if you don't pass, they don't let you take the driving part of the test. (I passed by two percent; no I'm not a bad driver, I drove a stick shift to my test and there are hills everywhere where I took my exam! The examinator said I "rolled" on the hill too much...yea whatever!)

 

[mommy2emmersNmo]

Good morning DDA! We had some excitement here last night. Emma lost another tooth. As you can tell she was very excited knowing that the Tooth Fairy would be visiting. And it won't be long for the 4th tooth, I just hope the TF is better prepared. This tooth was worth $5.

 

[yellowfish78]

Emma!​

 

[PNO4TE]

Denise - great pictures... thanks for posting them!

Vicki - Pixie dust that Becky passes her driver's exam!

Deb - loved the Home Depot Project pictures. How cool is that?!? Sorry that you all have ot cancel your camping trip but it sounds as if you have already filled up your weekend

 

[mommy2emmersNmo]

Hey, I've already said that I'll stop buying after this auction ends. I really, really want this one though - more than I wanted the convertible. It is a Tigger Disney Water Baby. I'm told by another Pal Mickey fashion dresser that the outfit fits Pal Mickey. Won't that make a cute Halloween costume for him?? Tigger is my favoritest character of all time. That's why Pal Mickey has a Tigger buddy. I bought a dalmations water baby outfit a week ago but it hasn't arrived yet. I couldn't resist as that is what my girls dressed up as when they were little. They loved the 101 dalmations.

Thanks Vicki, I went to Ebay and checked these babies out and found a Dumbo one that I will be bidding on. Molly will love it!

 

[PNO4TE]

Terry - what a wonderful card. He IS a keeper! Have a wonderful time at the shore. We will miss you!

 

[mommy2emmersNmo]

I hope this post finds you all well.

I can't find the pictures from Ellie's end of the year preschool program but when I do I will post them.

I do have a few from my weekend at the inlaws........

the little blue belly guy we found

the little guy I caught and had in a container WITH LOTS of air holes

The little guy everyone kissed when we let him go after a few hours


The little mommy and her girls after a long day

I wont get to post much the next few days, my SIL just let us know she would staying the night on their way home.

I tried to read all the posts I was behind on but that didn't happen so I guess I will just need to have someone give me the cliff notes on the past few days.

Enjoy!!! I am off to Bethie's gymnastics.

Paula, Great pictures!