Aimee’s Random Thoughts: Random Randomness ~~ vol. 1

02 December 2006

Random Randomness ~~ vol. 1

We're finally settling in a bit of a routine here. It's only taken 6 months.
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Saturday morning is cartoon & waffle time at the Bucher house. The older boys have to have their room clean, beds made and be dressed before they can watch cartoons. (I recently instituted this rule and I have to say that it is one of my more brilliant ideas!) I use Saturday morning to do my weekly attendance for my online music classes. This takes anywhere from 1 to 3 hours so I get started right away in the morning. (I typically sleep until 5:30 on Saturdays.) Eli is invariably up before the other two, so when he's ready I will put on a video for him to watch while I finish up my work. (This serves not only to entertain Eli, but to motivate the older boys to work faster.) But, this morning, the older two have snuck downstairs and are now watching Kipper the Dog with Eli. I know their room is not clean and I can see that Max is not dressed yet. So, do I pretend I don't see them and let them get away with breaking the rules? Do I take the hard line and declare no cartoons for them since they are breaking the rules? Do I change the rule? Do I just leave and go out to breakfast by myself and let Bryan deal with it?
The dilemna of motherhood.....
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We are starting to get Christmas cards. This happens every year. And every year I think, "Holy cow! It's Christmas card season all ready!" Last year I created a virtual card. It took less time than "real" cards and it was a whole lot cheaper. It gets expensive when you send over a hundred cards and I can't figure out who should be cut off the list! But, if we were going to send snail mail cards this year, then I think we would strongly consider this one or this one
I love this guy's stuff. It makes me laugh every time.
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Well, the boys determined their own fate. Eli wanted to push buttons on the DVD player and they stopped him and made him cry. So, I sent them upstairs to finish their work. The ironic part in this: Kipper is a VHS. Pushing the DVD buttons made no difference.
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My Mom had several good days this week. She is feeling much more energetic now that she's off the chemo. She goes to the James Center in Columbus a week from Monday. They are planning to do some sort of radiation. Mom is fuzzy on the details....
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Watched the movie/documentary Reverand Billy with Bryan last night. Very interesting. Here's his website
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I'm working to finish up Shawnee UMC's website redesign. (It is in great need of work!) I haven't done much of anything with the current site, I'm just focused on the redesign. I'm hoping to have it done this week. I'm sure I will be very excited when the site is finally uploaded. I will post the link again so you can see it (and admire it and tell me how wonderful I am. lol)
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Instead of exchanging Christmas gifts, Max's class at school is raising money to buy a goat for a third world family. His teacher, Jan Thornton, has been teaching them what one goat can mean for a family and how much it will help them. I love that they are doing that. It's very cool. If you've never heard of Heifer International you need to check it out. It's an awesome organization.
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Time to go take a shower. I hope all is well with you.
Aimee

Labels: christmas, design, kids, My Mom

posted by Aimee @ 8:21 AM

2 Comments:

At December 03, 2006 11:12 PM, Anonymous said…

Understand that rule thing...I am horrible at it myself..
At December 04, 2006 7:35 PM, Anonymous said…

First...i think you should leave go to breakfast and let the big B deal with it...lol...Don't know which i like better, calling baby Jesus, bubba, or the big flute girl....rofl....yeah for kids getting themselves in trouble...so much easier that way :o)...praying for your mom (and the fuzzy details)...I think you are wonderful, and i don't even need to see the new designed web site to think that!....and finally, maggie's class is doing the heifer project too...a very cool lessoon for all of us! Peace to my BFF! Love, Amu