Am I just dizzy or did I find a cap in my pants???

So, starting yesterday, I started feeling dizzy and today it was worse. So I went to the doctor this morning. They cleaned out my ears (very impressive how much wax you can store up in your ears) and I am supposed to take Sudafed for fluid behind my ears.
So, anyway, I got back to work here and was sitting at my computer when I felt something in the back of my pants. I reached back to find out what it was, and it was one of the end caps to the light that they look in your ear with. It struck me as really funny that I found one of those in my pants. Pretty funny!

I can't believe it is almost Christmas!

It does not feel like Christmas is around the corner to me this year. I dont know why. Some years I am dying for the Christmas season to get here, and sometimes it sneaks up on me so fast it is unreal. Some years I can't wait to decorate the house, and some years I dont want to even bother. This is a year that I dont want to bother. But I will.

I can't wait till Caleb gets old enough to understand Christmas so we can make crafts and decorate together. That will be so fun! We can take a night or weekend to all decorate together and have hot chocolate or apple cider and snacks while we decorate. It will be fun!

Happy Thanksgiving!

We have just decided this afternoon to leave a day early for El Paso, so we are leaving tonight. I hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving! See you when we get back!

Movie Quotes

You can go to this website to create your own movie quote.

Here are some of mine:

I always say a kiss on the hand might feel very good, but a Stephanie lasts forever.

With great power comes great Stephanie.

Stephanie, for lack of a better word, is good.

This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old Stephanie.

Houston, we have a Stephanie.

Pretty funny!

I Love Turkey

and all of the other Thanksgiving food! What is your favorite Thanksgiving food? Mine is a toss up between turkey and green bean casserole!

Need Some Cookies

Ok, if any RE people are reading this, we are in desperate need of more cookies for Sunday night's Thanksgiving service. I have been calling people this afternoon and no one seems to be able to bring cookies. If you are going to the service and can bring cookies, this is me begging you to bring cookies! Thanks!

I Love a Road Trip

We are leaving in just a little bit to go to College Station for the weekend to visit my brother's girlfriend since she will not be able to see Caleb over Thanksgiving (we are going to El Paso). I absolutely LOVE road trips! I have been so excited all week about going out of town! Next week we are driving to El Paso to spend Thanksgiving with Chris' family, and I am excited about that too (but half way scared of driving that long with Caleb...could get ugly). In just a few minutes I'm outta here and on the road! Woo hoo!

I'm Back

For more reasons than I can think of, I have been so busy lately to where I have had no time to even look at blogs much yet post something on here. Things seem to be getting back to normal though, so hopefully I will have more time to write down my thoughts.

Ok, so things that I have been up to in the past week and a half...

I went to a workshop for work last week which was GREAT! I am so excited to get to use the things that I learned. It will take lots of practice, but it is going to be awesome in the long run!

I have thought for awhile now that I wouldn't be a very good student if I went back to school, but after going to this workshop, I was reminded of how much I really love school. I would much rather be the student and get to learn new things than be the teacher. I simply love to learn new things. There is something extremely exciting to me in learning a new idea, skill, etc.

I dont know if I ever will, but I would like to go back to school and get my masters someday. Not so much to have another degree, but just to learn new things. We'll see.

Unexpected Kindness and a New Friend

Well, a few days ago I posted about someone's rudeness. Today I have a story about someone's unbelievable kindness.

There is a boy that stands across the street from our house every morning waiting for his bus. I've never talked to him before, but he is always there.

This morning as I was walking out to my car with Caleb and all of his "baggage" I noticed that there was a trash can put out (today is trash day), but it was in a different place, so I didn't know if it was ours or the neighbors. Chris normally puts the trash out before he leaves for work on Fridays, so I didn't really think anything about it.

Well, this boy comes across the street and says that he noticed that Chris had already left for work and he didn't want me to have to put out the trash (like I do when I see that Chris has forgotten to put it out -- obviously he has seen me do this before), so he did it for me.

I was completely blown away by the kindness of this boy. It's not everyday that you see this type of random act of kindness...especially from a middle schooler.

I was immediately interested in this boy and wanted to find out more about him. His name is Franklin and I now know where he goes to school and what street he lives on. He said he has a newborn cousin named Caleb and that he has fun with him. I have a feeling this is the start of a new friendship. I never talked to him before, but I will now make a point to say hi to him in the mornings.

I have been wanting more interaction with neighbors, so it is really interesting to me that this young boy made the first step in getting to know us. It made me think on the way to work that I would like to have a street party or something to get to know our neighbors. I miss the old days when you knew everyone on your street.

This little act of kindness has made my morning. It makes me want to go out and do something nice for someone else.

Trunk or Treat

Here is my family at Trunk or Treat. It was so much fun! Even more fun now that we have a kid!

Rudeness...

The other day I was shopping at Hobby Lobby with Caleb (in his stroller). When I was getting in line to pay, Caleb's stroller started acting up, so I started messing with it. I thought it was clear that I was in line already, but this lady (with a ton of stuff in her buggy that needed to be rung up funny) jumped in line ahead of me. Now, I only had like three things, and like I said before I was already clearly in line. This really ticked me off. I wanted to say something to her, but I didn't. I know my body language was probably not really pleasant to her, but oh well.

Now here's the deal...when I am shopping and see someone who has a baby, is elderly, etc. I always do what I need to do to accommodate that other person. I let people in line ahead of me, I hold doors for them....anything I can do to help. So it completely shocked me when this lady was so blatently rude in cutting in front of me in line.

Sometimes things like this tick me off. I used to get really upset about it when it happened and let it really get to me...even for awhile after it happened. I am now to the point where it will tick me off for a second, but then I can get over it really fast.

I hope to be able to teach Caleb how to treat other people. It seems so rare these days for people to just be even courteous of others. I want my children to know how to treat others...not just as they would like to be treated themselves, but even better.