Sweetpea Tuesday

Sweetpea Tuesday brings us to Paige's room. My little sweetpea likes her room to be dark, and very warm. Whatever mess she may have going on in her room is a very organized mess. Most of the time it is a pile of dirty clothes laying in her room, oh and the pencil shavings from the nonstop drawing that goes on in here. Since Grandma Joan got her a great art kit box for Christmas, her art supplies no longer lay from one end of the room to the other. I added some rubbermaid containers for the larger things and now they are all stored away and kept very safe. If you cant guess from the pictures, Paige loves dragons. All things dragon, there is barely a space in this room that doesn't have some kind of dragon on it. It starts are her bedroom door and runs through the whole room. Since I was just trying to get the picture shot I opted against doing a better set up with the camera and trying to capture the lighting that she does with the room. Some say it is very calming, I say there are days walking into her room that it makes me feel like I have found the portal into hell. It is the torch light that we got her that gives it that feeling. Paige does lighting in her room according to times of the day and her mood, so she has the most lamps in her room. Plain white 3-way lamp for when she is drawing and doing homework. The flame orange of the torch lamp for when she is trying to relax and center herself. Blue for when she is resting or sleeping. Unlike the other two girls she is very much against bright in her room. So the blinds are hardly ever open, and unless I open the window, there is no such thing as fresh air allowed in this room. Some how Paige manages to keep her room a good 10-15 degrees warmer than any other room in this house. I still have yet to figure out just how she does that. Paige views her room as her own little part of the world where no one judges her for being "different", it is a place where she can just let her mind wander and her imagination run free. She doesn't like to let other's in her room much at all. Even I'm just tolerated for brief moments in her room, which is fine because I know that when I ask her to get something done she is going get it done.
Okay that is it for Sweetpea Tuesday, I hope everyone is having a good week so far. See you tomorrow for Cheybug Wednesday.

Random Monday

It is Monday morning, and one of my two free days for blogging that the girls gave to me last week when they made up my blogging schedule. I think they are working on revising my week so as to add a day for the dogs though. But for now, today is whatever I want, and I wanted to do some flowers for today. Okay some flowers with bugs on them but it's my choice for today. My search for some flowers last Wednesday left me very tired, since I was still fighting with what took me down the week before. It was just a very quick trip up to reservoir hill and there really wasn't all that much up their blooming right now. Well, unless I had the energy to hike down part of the mountain to take some pictures. Since that wasn't going to happen due to me feeling so wiped out, I only took maybe 7 pictures while out.

My other picture choice for today is a first portrait attempt with Mia. Actually it was an attempt for both Mia and Trinity, but Trinity was not going to sit still long enough this weekend for that one. She is still trying to figure out this new thing that Mom brought in the house. Anyway, I hope that everyone has a great start to the new week.

Sibling Sunday

We are only missing two for this picture of the siblings, but Angel and Eclipse probably are not going to pose for a picture with the dogs anytime soon. The girls have been very helpful this weekend with Mia, and Trinity. The dogs seem to be having moments of accepting each other, and then other moments of no way in the world are they going to like each other. I'm pretty sure as time passes that all will be okay with them though.

This week brought home progress reports, the most disliked time for Paige and most liked for Steph and Chey. Paige just doesn't care to do the homework in most of her classes, which is the main reason that she tends to have bad progress reports. It is usually split half good and half bad grades. She knows the talk by heart now, and I'm finding myself getting tired of repeating the words "Do your homework". The funny things is that odds are by the end of the grading period she will have pulled all of the grades up and then next quarter we will have to do the progress report time talk all over again. She keeps me on my toes that is for sure. Steph is doing very well so far and Chey I have to wait for hers to come in the mail sometime this week to see.

I guess for this Sibling Sunday there really isn't all that much new going on. The girls want another long weekend from school already, and have one heck of a run till they will actually get another one. We are nearing the one more month till Todd gets to come back home, and are just really kind of settled into a good routine again this week. We hope that everyone has had a good weekend, and that there is a great week ahead.

New family addition

I would like to introduce everyone to Mia, the newest member of our house here in Arizona. Mia and her siblings made one heck of an entrance into my day yesterday. While outside with Trinity I noticed her acting funny and doing her hunting dog stance. After a couple of times of thinking that she was just being her Trinity crazy self, I realized that I was hearing sounds too. High pitched yelping, crying sounds coming for the ravine area in back. I was guessing Trinity was hearing it much better than me, so I opened up the back fence and took Trinity on her leash out towards the ravine. Trinity took the lead sniffing and listening the whole way, the coon hound in her was doing a great job yesterday. When we got down closer she stopped and took a pointing stance. After calling her back up to me and then telling her to go again she went right back to the same spot and I listened and heard the crying yelping. After bringing Trinity back up into the house, I grabbed a box and headed back down to the ravine hoping that what we had heard wasn't a bunch of coyote pups. But since the ravine had a good amount of water running through it due to the rain that had been falling since Thursday night, I figured no matter what I needed to get whatever was down there out of there. It took a little bit of hunting through all of the brush and tree limbs but eventually I saw a flash of a little brown fur and kept hearing the crying. Six puppies is what I found trying to climb up the hill of the ravine to get away from the flowing water. They were all moving around very well, and looked to be healthy, just having one heck of a time trying to climb that hill with their short little legs. One at a time I got them all picked up and put into the box that I had brought out with me, talking to them about calming down and they were going to be okay. After wandering around in the ravine to make sure that I had all of them, it was back up to the house to try and figure out just who to call and what to do with our find of the day. By the way, six puppies make one heck of a noise when they are upset. I finally found the card for the main gal over at the Huachuca City shelter, figuring I would rather take the puppies there than any place else because I know that they do a lot of placing the animals with rescue groups if they cant find other homes for them before time runs out. It is where we adopted Trinity from last year, and just has some really good people working there.

Now, just let me say that I had no intentions of keeping any of these puppies. Heck I was avoiding looking at any of them to much for fear of falling for one of them. I got them all out to the shelter and stuck around while they were all being checked out. When I went to leave viewing my time with them as over, I was stopped by a little someone holding onto the hem of my pant leg. I looked down and saw the facial features of our Daisy dog looking back up at me. I still was going to try to get out of there without a new addition to the house, but little Mia was not going to have anything to do with that shelter I guess. I think she made up her mind that she was going to make the return trip with me and if it meant staying attached to my pant leg then that was just what she was going to have to do. I crumbled looking at her, and seeing the face of my Daisy looking back at me. I have so missed my Daisy dog, how could I leave this little one behind when she was making it very clear that she wanted to go home.

So little Mia is our newest, and finally addition to the house here. She is the littlest one here, but is already showing signs of claiming the whole thing as her own. To find her you only have to find me, and she will be very close to if not laying on or by my feet. Trinity has taken on a mothering roll with the little one, and I think is pretty proud of herself for finding them. Trinity got treats for being such a good dog yesterday, and I think she is really happy to have a friend to play with. It was a good day yesterday for both Trinity and I, we did a good thing rescuing those little pups. Even better was while I was out at the shelter there were two couples that came in and fell in love with some of Mia's liter mates and were taking them home. So by last night three of them had homes and I'm sure hoping that by the end of this weekend all of them are in forever homes, and not having to give a thought about the fact that someone tossed them into a ravine yesterday morning and probably hoped they would either drown or be coyote food. I hope that all of them by the end of this weekend are curled up sleeping very content by someone that already loves them like little Mia is right now. Everyone have a good weekend!

Okay so Angel doesn't like me

I got the picture on Friday, just didn't get around to posting it. Okay I kind of got a picture yesterday. I really wanted to get Angel for this weeks Feline Friday, to bad the cat just hate that camera of mine. When all was said and done, of the 40 some pictures I snapped this one and only this one was any good. Angel is a tease that has figured out just when and how to ruin or blur a picture shot. Of course it also may have something to do with a new addition to our house as of yesterday, but that will get it's own entry, this one is all about the Felines. Time to post pictures of your kitty babies and then head over to Steve's and leave a link back to the entry, and of course make sure to check out all of the other kitty fur babies.

Feline Friday

What's in a room? Binky Sue style

Ah a new topic. The girls picked this one, which made me laugh that they would want this topic to be covered at all. Bedroom, their rooms, the spot where they hide, they chill, they do homework, they sleep. All though how I'm just not sure. Steph's room during the week is very much a girls room. Her bed has the outfits that were a no go in the process of getting ready for school, shoes laying around as she figures out just what kind of shoe mood she is in for the day. When she gets home she adds to it with papers from her bag and school books scattered around as she works on homework. By the time Friday rolls around I'm always amazed that she can find anything. It always seems to be a little more rushed in the get around come Friday mornings. Come the weekend though it gets cleaned up and looks perfect again. No fighting with her to get it done, she just picks up everything. Which is really good, because if she let this grow it would probably crawl it's way right out the front door.

Okay so there is the first of the three rooms. I'm just kind of worried about shooting the pictures of the other two. Everyone have a great day!

Cheybug Wednesday

Time for Cheybug and her food fact. Chey is my difficult one for this week, because she like lots of different foods, but is picky at the same time. She also spends a lot of time behind this refrigerator door because she eats so slowly that she fills up quickly and never really eats a whole meal at one time, but instead eats lots of little meals over the course of the day. There aren't many things that she doesn't enjoy eating. Chey is the one that is almost always in the kitchen either looking for something to eat or looking to help cook the meal. Snacks are her favorite meal, popcorn being the best of the snacks really.
I was hoping that once I sat down to this one that it would be easier to type out for her, but really she just loves food.

I hope that everyone is having a great week so far.

Sweetpeag Tuesday

Last Thursday I posted about Steph and the great cinnamon roll addiction, and said that I was going to try and do one girl each Thursday. Well, the girls saw it and decided that they would each like their own day week. So after them sitting me down and planning out my blogging week this is what I'm going to be trying to be doing:

Sibling Sundays

Sweetpeag Tuesdays

Cheybug Wednesdays

BinkySue/Nennie Thursdays

Feline Fridays

I get to keep Monday and Saturdays for whatever I might want to do. I'm so glad that the girls planned things out for me. Cool thing is that they have already picked the next topic to blog about them.

Okay now for the all about my Paigee! Paige has earned the "most picky" eater of my house since she was very little. She loves tomato soup, but hates any meal that has a tomato base to it like chili or spaghetti. Her vegetables are limited to sweet peas, green beans, corn and broccoli, but only if it has cheese on it. Paige loves to eat same meals for days on end and very rarely likes to try something that is new. There is an odd thing about this child though, she has created some combinations that I have never thought about to like. What she is holding in the above picture is everything that you would need to make her favorite sandwich. A turkey and tuna sandwich! It's very easy to make of course. Just a little bit of mayo spread on the bread, minus the crusts of course. A slice of cheese, some slices of turkey lunch meat, a drained can of tuna, a little more turkey, and then according to Paige...you are in sandwich heaven. She has yet to be able to talk any of the rest of us into trying one, and I really don't think it will happen. We are just going to take her word for the fact that it is wonderful. How she came up with this one, no one really knows, just one of those wonderful creations that my Sweetpeag comes up with every now and then. It is like the salad that has not one piece of lettuce in it. Now if it were to be said that Paige has an addiction to any one thing it would have to be milk for her. She is the main reason for this house still going through 4 gallons every two weeks.

So there is the odd facts about food for Paige. Now that everyone has their own day of the week, and is going to help me pick topics to write about, we shall see how long Mom can keep this going. I hope that everyone has a great day today, and see you tomorrow for Cheybug Wednesday.

End of a long weekend

Paige missed being out for this photo tonight due to being busy getting around for school tomorrow. The last weekend of summer is nearing an end here, and it has been a very good weekend here in Arizona. The girls were happy to have their first long weekend of the school year since they started the 8th of August. We got some more back to school shopping done this weekend. Had a good amount of just goofy time spent with each other here. We are all happy that one month is done of the TDY for Todd, and with the way time is passing it will be done very soon.
The older girls are hoping for a better week out at the high school this week. Last week brought a lot of sadness to the high school and the community as a whole, they lost 4 students. Tuesday brought automated phone calls from the high school to let parents know what had happened and directions to their web site for more details about what all was going on and just what the school was doing to help the students affected by it. The short version of it was that in July a young man was killed in a monsoon related car accident, and over last weekend 2 other young male friends of his were killed in dirt bike accidents, and his young girl friend to her own life early Monday morning. Steph and Paige said that the high school last week was just mostly silent, which with the size of their school really says something. The school brought in grief counselors, and are going to keep them present for the next couple of weeks to help all of the students to deal with the loss of their friends. So prayers and good thoughts for all of the close friends of these young people.
Things at the middle school for Chey were very uneventful this last week. I'm really happy seeing her doing so very well this year so far, and happier that the lowering of her depakote seems to be going great.

Okay, I think that is about enough for one entry. I hope that everyone had a wonderful, laughter filled weekend with those that you love. I also hope that the week brings lots more laughter.

Eclipse Close up

Running late with my Feline Friday entry here this week. Eclipse was ready several times this week, but I just wasn't due to being taken down for the count by a migraine and a sinus issue gone way bad. This morning though she really showed just how ready she was for the camera though and sat right down and started her poses. Even without having to sit and play for a time before hand, she was the perfect kitty model this morning. I'm starting to think that she is claiming Friday as her day to be in the spot light of the camera.

Okay by now you know the deal with this, head on over to Steve's to check out all of the wonderful felines. If you want to play along just shoot a picture, post on your own blog and then leave a comment over at his place. I hope that everyone is having a great holiday weekend, stay safe!