Stacey Rainer Photography

This is my favorite sandwich place. They actually quit making my most favorite sandwich, but after a short mourning period, I returned and found other sandwiches I like. Not as much, but yummy enough to keep me coming back. This is a dip. I love dips. There is nothing like a good au jous to make a good sandwich great.

Tom site and plays with his phone. A lot. He uses it to check Facebook, read email, watch silly shows. He really and truly loves his iPhone.

So, I fell really behind on posting my images. I am finishing January with one post, then a special update and then February will start. I left off with Jan. 17th, so here we go starting with Jan. 18th:

This is a typical evening in our house. We enjoy several TV shows, so can often be found catching up on what’s been DVRed.

Jan. 19 – OOPS!! MIss number 1.

Jan. 20

I was out of town this morning, and Emily was watching Ian. She called me just as I was on my way home to tell me Ian had burned his hand on the stove. It was a really ugly burn, covering his entire palm and the tips of all fingers. I doused him in aloe gel and later colloidal silver. He kept it on ice for the rest of the day and over night. By the next morning, despite having half a dozen blisters, he acted like it was all better. The burned skin is now peeling off. Looks like no scarring, though.

Jan 21. OOPS again. Sigh. Number 2. I wonder how many of these I’ll have at the end of the year.

Jan. 22

I feel defeated by the never ending laundry monster in my house all the time.

Jan 23

But for now, at least, I get to claim victory!!

Jan. 24

I’m thinking it’s time to schedule a visit with my stylist for a bit of color. Ug.

Jan 25

I made a yummy dinner of spaghetti and meatballs, salad, and garlic bread. The fun thing about this meal for me is that I used a whole bunch of my new Pampered Chef stuff. My awesome mixing bowels  and small scoop for mixing the meatballs, very cool strainers for the pasta, served on my bamboo platter, and the bamboo bowel for the salad. I really, really love Pampered Chef stuff. Oh, and I used my cool NON Pampered Chef bread basket with warming stone that my sister gave me for Christmas. I’ve wanted one forever and I love it.

Jan. 26

My favorite facial feature is my eyes. I really like blue eyes, but I have these mega dark brown eyes. They are so brown they look black. Which is cool. If I have to have dark eyes, I’m glad they are so intensely brown and not an ugly muddy color.

Jan. 27

Wednesday nights, the kids all have church activities, except Hannah. So, Hannah and I work in the nursery. It’s a lot of fun and Hannah enjoys the babies. She’s telling the story here.

Jan. 28 OK, so I took a picture this day. Several, in fact. On my iPhone. But now they’re gone. Ian likes to play with my phone, so maybe he deleted them. I don’t know. But I refuse to count this day as a miss, since I absolutely DID take a self portrait!

Jan. 29

My daily routine. How in the world am I going to get this guy to sleep in his own bed??? He won’t even sleep in my bed unless he is laying on me. It’s going to be a challenge. That’s for sure.

Jan. 30

We went to the library today. Ian found tons of dinosaur books. This particular one is interesting in that the two main characters throughout the entire book get eaten in the end. Survival of the fittest, I guess.

Jan. 31

I have body image issues. I mentioned that at the top of this blog. However, one thing I am very content with is my legs. I don’t have the legs of an over weight person. I’m an apple. I carry it all in the middle. I heard once that apples are more prone to heart disease. Something to be aware of, I guess. For now, I like my legs.

And that’s it for January!!