POKEY PEAS CHALLENGE FOR October 2018

This thread is not coming up for me any more. I have to find it by looking in a members history. What have I done wrong? I looked in my privacy setting but didn't see anything that could have caused it.

Happy Thursday! I hope you all are having a nice day. My dh won a free ticket to the World Series home game tomorrow!!!! A couple of days ago, his job had a drawing for world series tickets for four lucky employees. He wasn't sure he wanted to enter but I said go for it and see what happens. So today, he found out he won. They are great seats plus they are paying for his parking and food. How awesome is that? I am so excited for him to go and know he will have a great time. I hope the Dodgers win the game too. I told him to take a few pictures cause I gotta scrapbook this.

nylene- Yes, I am working on a new painting. I did a test a week or so ago and it was hard. So I hope with some practice I can get it going. Drawing a profile face is hard so I will be practicing tonight. Hope you are doing better.

justlisa7- I hope your dgs are feeling better. Glad they have you to love them through it.

knutschen- Great to see you had fun at the pet and pumpkin event. That sounds so cute. The movie deal sounds fun too. I haven't been to a movie in like forever. LOL! I wish they played more old movie classics in local theaters.

LisaDV- How is the house search? Praying you find your dream home.

grammadee- Have a good trip with your fam. Hope the weather is nice for you.

woodysbetty- Thanks for sharing the yoga info. I am gonna check out the download about loving kindness. I love the whole teaching on self compassion and it has helped me not be so critical of myself and more loving.

Waving hello to al you Peas and have a nice evening!

Happy Thursday.

Sorry the thread got lost on you @elaynef . When admin set up the new Challenges board, she moved all the current challenges into it, including the Pokey Peas. I wondered about leaving it there, but didn’t move it back until most of the Pokeys had already found its new home, so we left it with the challenges.  

I am glad your boys are feeling better, justlisa7 . Excited to see a page with photos of them with their baby brother. The oldest little guy here has been fighting an awful cough all week. His mom had to take him to the doctor one evening. He is on nebulizers too. Activity seems to aggravate his condition, so we have been doing a lot of artwork, lego playing and movie watching. Starting to feel better—well enough to start fighting with his brother lol. Today he was able to play outside for a couple of hours.

Good luck with your new art project, kellyr21 . I am sure it will turn out beautifully. Looking forward to seeing a pic of it. Congrats to your dh on winning the World Series tickets. The only professional baseball game I ever attended was a Dodgers game. Had to be at least 25 years ago. Our family loved the experience. I hope he takes lots of photos for you to scrap.

Your cards and pages are good to see, nylene , especially when you are going through stressful times. I noticed a couple more pages in the gallery. Hoping to get there to leave some love before too long. I love the colours of autumn leaves. Sadly, ours have been gone since the beginning of the month. The weather is quite warm and dry for this time of year, but without snow everything looks pretty dreary. Not that I am wishing for snow, mind you.

I hope that your dh will be able to find the perfect home LisaDV , once he is in situ. Word of mouth with other employees may help him find something before it actually hits the market.

That pets & pumpkins event sounds like fun, knutschen . Glad you are enjoying your kittens. We have yet to replace our farm dog. My sister in law had a stray that dh almost accepted this week, but it was a young male (under a year) and we are looking for an older female. Hopefully we will get one soon.

woodysbetty , how did your dh’s surgery go?  My dh has follow up testing the end of November at the clinic where they inserted his stent a year ago.

I finally found a moment to read through all the posts here. I love catching up with all of you. Big hugs nylene.

I've been so busy driving around with my DD20 with the health issues. She's really been pushing herself lately to go places and do things every day, but it's a lot for me to manage along with my other responsibilities. She's in so much pain by the end of the day, but she keeps wanting to do more. Her self motivation is pretty awesome, so I'm just trying to keep up with her as best I can. LisaDV, I hope your DD has fully recovered from her motion sickness. I know what you mean about needing a whole week to recover.

This week we took a 2 hour drive so she could visit her twin at college and see the campus for the first time (her sister has been there for more than 2 years). She's even studying to get her driver's permit. She probably won't get her license because of her vertigo and sensory issues, but she can have some fun in an empty parking lot.

We're leaving now to run errands and go out to lunch. Maybe I'll scrap tonight? My projects are moving ahead in slow motion!

Look after yourself, @elaynef. A persistent fever can’t be good. Would love to see pix of your camping trip.

I am amazed at everything you moms have on the go, I msliz, hope the extra effort your dd is putting in will help her develop new skills and confidence. And LisaDV, I hope your dd is feeling better now. The anxiety about the move probably doesn’t help.

I have moved on to my other son’s home. The little guy cried when I left today. It was lovely spending all that time with them. I guess if you are going to be cooped up sick, a good person to spend your time with is Gramma. This weekend will be busy. We already carved pumpkins. I am driving my dgd to swimming in the morning, then watching one of the little guys at hockey. The 15 yr old plays two competitive out of town hockey games this weekend. We will be driving out to see at least one of them. Completely different pace here with everyone in so many activities.

kellyr21, how exciting for Ron! I hope he took pics for you.

grammadee, are you still making the grandkid circuit or are you home scrapping the photos you took?

@elaynef, I hope you are feeling better.

msliz, It's so great that DD20 wants to go and do. It hopefully will build up tolerance and stamina. But HUGS to you. I know how badly our heart hurts for our baby's when they're hurting. I hope that she will be able to go and do more. My DD is now on to our phase 2 of her healing process, (different pills and regimen) she has to have physical activity for 30 minutes a day. Well, when you've had a few years of inactivity due to chronic pain, 30 min. is a lot and makes you hurt, she's done 4 of the last 7 days, so positive progress.

woodysbetty, please let us know how your dh is doing.


Waving hi to everyone else!

I'm still plugging along. Just trying to get life under control.

We took our chickens in to be butchered last Saturday. Although I don't miss going out early in the cold to let them out, I do miss them. It just seems so lonely outside without them.

I got a migraine last night that finally subsided this afternoon. I think it was from lack of sleep. But my list of things to do for today got barely anything checked off. And I love to check things off. So I'm hoping tomorrow will be a good catch up day.

Wishing everyone a very good week.