A Glimpse into my Life.

As much as I love Winter, snow, icicles, frost, and all that; my least favorite part of the cold is when I am so cold I can NOT warm up. It is a whopping 12°F/-11°C and the only part of me remotely warm is the spot on my tongue I burnt with hot chocolate!!! Thank goodness for hot chocolate and herbal tea otherwise I'd be a popsicle before Spring!

My little Miss is sick right now. At first we thought it was just a teething fever because she has been working on some molars, but now it doesn't seem like it. Unlike some kidlets who like to throw fits or whine when sick, she just likes to snuggle and sleep. Needless to say, not a lot has been accomplished when she is awake, but that is just fine with me. Honey is going to come over and watch her when I get Rynie from preschool today.

Rynie and I need to check fences and water troughs for the horses and remaining steers right now. We have a break between the storms and today is about as sunshiny as we are going to get for the next few days so it needs to be done. When I went to drop Rynie off at school the five larger steers were out and on the road so I put them up. That'll teach me to to not take a coat along just because it's a short jaunt over to his preschool and I'm not really getting out of the car!!! At least I had some work gloves though. And I have a farrier appointment at 3:30 so we will be doing lots of outdoor work today.

We went to visit my Grandma in New Mexico for the weekend. It was a nice trip, but a bit sad since she'd fallen down three or four times in the last week. She had a blackened bruise on her hip, her chin was yellow/green/purple and cut up, I think she broke a finger (She doesn't think so, but it hurts to touch and can't stand mild pressure on it) on her right hand, has a goose egg the size of a chicken's egg on her forehead, and massive bruising on the left side of her face. For some reason she is having blood pressure problems so they are trying to get her blood pressure up. Low blood pressure runs in the family, but it shouldn't drop 40+ points when you change from laying down to standing up. She now has had her medication adjusted and is wearing the circulation nylons and it seems to be helping. We are hoping and praying this works and she recovers well from it. It was really nice to let the kids visit her and see family this weekend. My cousin Sierra and I cleaned her house for her since it's getting harder for her to do the deep cleaning and since she's been so dizzy lately.

Now the random bit. I think the pseudonym Pink Princess is a bit much for Little Miss, and truth be told, I don't really like it much and Rynie no longer calls her that so I'm trying to come up with a new pseudonym. I am open to suggestions at this point since I am drawing a blank.

No pictures, because I have to run, but more posts and pictures later!

I didn't intend to take a break from blogging, but we have been crazy sick in our house. Rynie brought something home from somewhere and it was a viral nasty. He got it a lot worse than the rest of us. We all just had coughs and colds of never ending nastiness. Rynie ended up with a nice raised rash to compliment the rest of it.



The doctor thought he had Fifth's Disease, but since his rash was raised, it wasn't. In the end, the doctor told us we could pay to have lab work done and find out but since he was clearly on the mend, he didn't recommend it. We went with no lab work. Our sniffles have mainly cleared up now.

The Pink Princess is growing like a weed. She is getting to be extremely mobile also. She keeps trying and trying to crawl, but just can't quite do it. Pink Princess will square up, start rocking and suddenly scoot backwards. It drives her absolutely crazy. She is trying to be a big girl, but she still can't quite sit up yet. When she does sit up, she gets excited and then falls over laughing. Here she is after she wedged herself under Great-Grandma Grey Kitty's table.



Rynie has been my little buddy. We have been reading lots of books and playing in the mud/dirt in the back yard. He was so excited that the first nice day we went out to play (read: wouldn't sink in the mud) he was rolling in the dirt.





I have started taking Rynie horseback riding. He loves being a cowboy and moving his Uncle Jakie's cattle and Grandma Floolie's mule.



I've been working on the dress for Pink Princess. After I got most of the dress put together, the trims I had thought would be cute just didn't cut it. I found some lace in my stash and I'm going to trim it with that. I just have to put buttons and hem the dress and slip then it's done. Hopefully by this weekend I will be done or else Pink Princess may be too big for it soon.

The little sister of one of my childhood friends is getting married next month. She asked me to do her hair and makeup for her bridals and wedding. I am so excited. She is actually wearing my wedding dress and my veil/circlet so it's an interesting trip down memory lane. I can't wait to do what she is wanting for her pictures. She is such a sweet girl and adorable.



Well, off to bed. I'll have to post Saturday when I finish Pink Princess's dress and my new *surprise* but it's actually not a surprise for me, just a surprise from anyone else! I just don't want to post about it before I can add a picture with it!