December 27, 2008 at 10:19 am (Uncategorized)
So here we are all held up at the Winder ranch in south Missouri. We have my mom and dad, grandma and grandpa, my family, my sister and her family, my brother and his wife, and my little brother Matt who escapes the madness each night and retires in style in his new home on the other side of town.
Usually we play games, sacrifice ourselves to the junk-food gods, and otherwise step all over each other for a couple four days and have a good ol’ time, but last night somehing interesting happened…We went to my little brothers new digs and can I just say I am a little resentful that my parents basicly: bought him a house, gutted it, refurnished and painted it, and then decorated it with a style even the coolest hipster would settle for. When I was his age, I had an apartment furnished with all the finer things I could purchase from local garage sales. But I guess he’s not the baby for nothing, did I mention he’s the only one who sill gets Christmas presents from them, hmmm. No hard feelings though, it’s all good. (Dad if your reading this you should be wiping tears from your eyes right now, we’ll take that Hawaiian vacation in the spring)
Anyway, my brother has this game, it’s called Rock Band, and I have to say that playing it was the highlight of my night, of course I only sang, but I really felt like, standing there in his living room, singing, “White Wedding”, by Billy Idol, that I had found myself, that my purpose in life was coming to fruition, that I was meant for this. I am really not sure where it will take me, if I can make a living on it or even if I can find an appropriate medium other than my own living room with which to express my craft, but I do know that we will be purchasing this game, and it will happen soon. I haven’t let my husband in on the plan but I am sure he will go along with my desires 100%, he’s artsy like that.
So tonight will be the first annual sibling party at Matt’s pad. We are leaving the kids at Grandma and Grandpa’s after dinner and heading over to the Bolivar metro-sexual geek chic crib for some good times. This is new for us, we may be coming home more often..
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December 22, 2008 at 9:42 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: blog, excercise, Family, life, random, twitter
So in the past few months I have taken up a new hobby/activity
that has taken much of my “extra time”. I have started to excercise,
not just randomly, but seriously. I go to the gym 4-6 times a week
and have just recently started to think of it, less as a chore and
more of an investment in myslef. I started in September and my
ultimate goal is to do this for at least one year, then hopefully it
will really stick. A few things I am doing differntly in order to make
this animalistic behavior possible: let my house go a little more,
look forward to naps less,(but due to the added excercise I no
longer need them), tuning out the kids when they don’t want
to go to the gym daycare, and basicly just making it a priority in
my life. This is also part of the reason why I have blogged less and
started “microblogging”, (i.e. twitter) more. I am adamant about not having a weight loss New Years resolution, I want to be already in the grove come Jan 1, but if I must have a resolustion it will be to blog more and try to wear make-up more often. I so tire of people seeing me out and about when I actually wear make-up, and hear them say how good I look with expressions of dismay and happiness for me at the same time. I guess I am allot like Oprah in that my appearance so changes with the addition of make-up that people are often shocked. So, look for me to be here a little more in the months to come. I want to organize my thoughts in the New Year and maybe get some catagories going so I don’t feel so paralyzed by the myriad of topics in my head…
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year
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December 8, 2008 at 12:20 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: Family, Family force five, life, mission trip, random, south bay church
Here is a quick update…I don’t want this site to fossilize so here goes.
Mesha is in the thick of high school diving, her first meet it this Thursday and we are looking forward to it. Owen just transitioned to his toddler bed, he is getting up an average of 5 times before he goes to sleep. He keeps telling us he wants a rockabye, which is so sweet and I usually give in, Dad does not. He’s too cute, growing up fast and so two right now. Emerie is really into learning and can’t wait to go to kindergarten. Wow, I really need to update this site more, I feel like I am writing a Christmas letter:-)
The big thing going on right now is in Stephan’s life, he will be leaving on Thursday morning for a mission trip to San Francisco. “San Francisco”, you might say, “doesn’t sound like a mission trip to me”. He is going to help with a church start called southbay church. If you click on the link you can find out more information about it. San Francisco is the 5th largest metropolitan area in the United States with 7 million people. It also has the highest median household income in the nation. Unfortunately, 95% of the population is unchurched. So being in the Silicon Valley/San Francisco area, if you know Stephan you know this is right up his alley. It is the great commission among his fellow geeks and I think it is awesome that God is using him in this way. Of course not everyone who comes to this church will be a tech savvy employee of google or yahoo, but the odds of them being in that industry is high, and Stephan has a special place in his heart for the geek chic set. So please pray for him as he will be gone until Monday. Pray that God will do great things at South Bay Church this weekend!
Here is a pic of us heading to the Family Force Five, Reliant K, and Tobay Mac concert. Mesha, my brother Matt, my nephew Bryce, my sister Kim, Brian my brother in law, and Stephan.
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