I am so embarrassed! After all of my "copyright posturing" of late, I went and posted a new set to my shareware section and forgot to give credit for the lovely photo! Sorry Philippe! So there - it's fixed. Why didn't anybody tell me?! Hopefully nobody noticed. Yikes.

I am surprised I found it at all - I got maybe 4 hours of sleep last night and they were interrupted! Ian has the cold that Kaitlin started out with and it's his first stuffy nose. I have renewed one of my old hats - back to momma the snot rag for awhile LOL! Sorry for the graphic nature of that comment, but thems the breaks!

I suppose an update is in order!!!

Kaitlin is much better. We tried a new breathing med which seems to work without making her so fidgety. Once her breathing got better, her high fevers reduced and her stomach got better so she is eating again. It is this huge cascade thing and she gets high fevers and we can't get tylenol in her or much more than tiny sips of water - it's a scary time. But I figure she's ok because she's had two popcicles and a handful of cheese-its this morning. I think she'll have normal lunch today. ;-) Thanks, Eva, for asking about her!

I am so torn today - I need to do the bills and the kids room is a fiasco but I wanna create - oh no who will win? Also have a meeting for Masterworks at 3 - trying to decide whether to just skip it or take the baby and show off. I'll just see how the day progresses.

Good news! I won the Graphic Goo September contest!!! Ok - I tied for second with a pretty bad score. I thought I did so well - LOL! But still, it was cool! This was a good idea for a contest - several members were asked to create a web set and we got to guess whose was whose. I am dying to find out which and how many I got right, or should I say, wrong. That was fun!!!

Well Kaitlin had a complete meltdown tonight - asthma. She's so peculiar. She does not get them from environmental conditions, but rather get a cold and often in less than 12 hours requires a breathing treatment. Came real close to heading out to emergency tonight - it was BAD. It had been so long since she went sick on us that we couldn't find all the stuff. And some of her meds had gone past date - it was a mess. Ummm . . . I think we're under control now. We'll see how the night progresses. Thankfully, dh is staying home from work tomorrow so he helped out tonight and will be there for me tomorrow as well. So glad he's my hubby! We are a sad bunch, though, sometimes! LOL! Dh has diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol. I have Lupus and am looking to go diabetic eventually, too. Daughter has asthma. Sons are perfect. Can't complain. I feel so for my eldest boy - he has to fill in the gaps sometimes. He is so sweet about it and helps out however he can. He sure loves his little brother. I can see them being very close later on - they are already building such a sweet relationship! Oh, Hey, did I mention? We had Ian baptized last weekend. Ooh I am having deja vous. Hate that.

Ali has done it again! She has been working hard over the summer!!! Check out her updates page to pick out the new sets. Excellent work, Ali!!!

Fun. Doing what I love again. I get to make a web page and got the domain name for a new homeschool group to grow out of our church. You can check out www.coreathome.com later for a look. Right now there's nothing there. I have it forwarding to a page at Rigdonia, but I think my "server dude", as I like to call him, will probably let me set up a new comp web, since it's an non-profit site. (He's a really nice server dude!) So anyway, taking (constructive) suggestions for the graphics and layout. The C.O.R.E. at Home stands for, "The Company of Reformed Educators at Home." (What is reformed, you ask? Well, I suspect there will be content on the site to speak to that. I am not sure that I can treat it completely myself, esp. not in a blog entry! Very basically the reformed part speaks to our world view - that God created the earth in 7 days, that he sent his only son to die for our sins, that Jesus rose again, that He is coming back, that the Bible is the inerrant word of god to be taken literally and most relevant here: that we do everything to the honor and glory of God, who should also be in charge of and central to our homeschools. "Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God" (1 Cor. 10:31).
Boy, putting that in type is convicting. Hmmmm . . . ) Anyway, the logo will have to be an apple core. I sprang for one from Eyewire The motto will be "Stressing the "core" of covenant education - nurturing the seeds of the coming generation." Cool, eh? So I am thinking a left red side link bar and an apple core logo - maybe I'll add some geometric designs or something. This is my first site design for a more structured need rather than a personal site. It feels harder because I have to pull back and keep it simple. Kinda hard for me. Oh well, I suppose I'll rise to the occassion!

LATER: Here is a sloppy first attempt - coding is not neat, just trying out the graphics, mostly!

Leigh has a new blog - Hi Leigh!!!

This is so silly, really and I should get to work on my client site. But it is the 22nd for a little while longer and I just wanted to say Happy Birthday to my mommy. She would have been 64 today. Sure miss her. She was so witty and smart and moody and silly. We got along great . . . except when we didn't LOL! IT breaks my heart that she didn't get to know (and visa versa) my last two kids and Henry barely remembers her now. I have been a Christian for a long time now and have a great deal of faith in God's word and I believe that my mom is in His presence right now. It never shook my faith or anything like that, but I was so surprised at how much my being me depended on her being there to see it. I had no idea how central to my sense of self she was. Still to this day, 6 years later, I see things in those terms. I find myself wondering what she would think, or say, or do about this or that. I still wish I could drop by and see her. She'd be sitting on her couch with her little feet up watching crap on TV and doing some craft - maybe cross stitch or something. She loved miniatures and even made a dollhouse. She was my best friend - she takes the cake! Happy Birthday, MOM!

Hi All you guys at GA!!!! Thanks for visiting!

Having a blast learning CSS! Thanks to my generous friends at Graphic Goo. I haven't done anything real fancy yet, but it's cool anyway! Sorry my tagboard is out of commission for all of you happy taggers. I'll put it on my list, but I may not get to it for awhile, so you'll have to find fun somewhere else. Bummer.

Well, I am recovering. From my first experience in an online forum/club. I won't say who or give details because that could be hurtful. I have already said enough, me thinks, but I have a few thoughts that will feel good written down. When I started to feel uncomfortable about where the group was going, I tried to extricate myself gracefully. I think that failed. It is unfortunate because now there will be taking of sides and all of that 'stuff'. My decision (and the decision of others) to leave the group wasn't meant to be hurtful or judgemental in the sense that aren't we better than they, but rather, we can't agree on a fundamental issue, so we must leave. It's too bad folks took it personally. Sometimes timing is everything. That's all I have to say about that. (Thank you Forrest Gump.)