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Name: Nicki
Country: United States
State: Illinois
Metro: Decatur
Birthday: 1/8/1979


Interests: SHOPPING! (mainly Target and thrift stores), kids (I'm a foster parent and a teacher at church), books (mainly christian but also cookbooks), music (I play piano/clarinet and some more occasionally), singing in the car :), Jesus (he's pretty cool), Prims, hanging with my friends (when they'll have me) and most recently eBay where I'm trying my hand at making some extra cash!
Expertise: I have a degree in sociology-gender studies from North Central College. I've worked in an Adult Day Care and at my church for a while. Now, I'm a stay-at-home-foster-mom.


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Saturday, January 10, 2009

Finally making the move

Without further ado, I invite you to visit my new blog at http://www.flipsideliving.com.  This blog will remain here until I find time to get all my precious posts off of it and saved onto my hard drive.


Friday, January 02, 2009

It's a quickie....

I haven't forgotten my blog...as a matter of fact I have numerous things I'm DYING to share with you.  However, I 'm trying to set up a newer better fancier fantasticier blog than this one.  It's a learning process, one that requires a lot of Jeremy's help.  I don't even have pictures to share... I promise that very soon I will get my new blog up and get to posting on it...with pictures...and probaby even a video or 2.  Oh yes. Video.  It's like we're in the space age or something. 


Saturday, December 27, 2008

More Christmas pictures...

Zedekiah slept through Christmas...




The unpsoken favorite this year were the nerf guns....Legos were a close second (as were the unpictured RC trucks)


If you squint you'll be able to see that there are actually 3 kids in this picture.


Zedekiah got the seat of honor this year on Grandma S's lap.


This is a great picture of Zedekiah's face.



Zedekiah told me he was feeling sporty one day so I pulled out his fantastic hand me down from Joanna and put shoes on him for the first time ever.  He felt like such a big boy that he decided to just hang out in this chair by himself.



Fantastic Christmas (with pictures!)

It has been a busy Christmas season this year...and we're not done yet!  Fortunately we have a couple of days to relax which is really nice considering it's been a couple of weeks since we had a nice day like this.  Christmas day was extra special this year since it was Zedekiah's first but he didn't get the memo on that and ended up sleeping through pretty much the whole day.  Apparently Christmas Eve wore him out.  The boys were very excited about all of their gifts.  Michael's favorite of the moment appears to be the castle lego set that we won't let him get out yet and Joseph's is his new RC truck.  My favorite would have to be my new macbook but I have to say that Jeremy did a good job picking out a new pair of pyjamas for me....pink flannel with sock monkeys...they're super cute!  Our family gift will be a big hit too, we just got it out and played with Guitar Hero - World Tour (the full band one) and it is pretty awesome.  Zedekiah thinks all of his gifts suck.  I keep trying to find something he'll play with but we're just not having much luck with that...nothing compares to the awesome yumminess of his hands.

I'm hoping that the weather turns a little less depressing soon but apparently that isn't necessarily in the immediate future.  It is rainy and windy and foggy and dreary and just all around yucky around here.  I'm coveting the snow some of you have.

I forgot my camera when we went to my grandma D's this year so my sister sent me these great photos featuring the "original" santa (Uncle Larry) who has been on something like a decade long hiatus.  Mistress Clause didn't make an appearance this year.... so sad.


"I'm so sneaky Santa will never know that I've been naughty as all get out if I just say 'yes' when he asks if I was good this year."


Michael might be unraveling the mystery that is Santa Clause....this could be his last magical year of believing.


Check out that elf sitting like a big boy on Santa's lap!


My sister and niece rode with us to grandma's.  The back seat partied a little too hard and zonked out on the way home.


Saturday, December 20, 2008

And he put himself to sleep....



Zedekiah has been working on making more of a schedule for himself.  He's been taking longer naps and when he's tired he will occasionally just fall asleep doing whatever he's doing.  Right now he was playing in his "jungle gym" and he fell asleep. This is a welcome change from "I must nurse constantly for 2 hours before bedtime."  Oh and yesterday we made a lame developmental milestone that Zedekiah was excited about.  He grasped an object with both hands.  You should have seen the joy on his face!  That's what he worked on while I was sorting presents yesterday.   I think I have another 2 days of working on the presents and then we have to be done because it's christmas.  My mom was kind enough to watch the boys yesterday then when Jeremy got home she came over to the church and held Zedekiah while I sorted and then wrapped while he slept and I fed him.  That was definitely a blessing! 

Well today we're going to try and get our tree decorated and our cat moved out.  We've had it up to our ears with scarlet and her peeing on everything so Jeremy is out buying a fish net and a big pet carrier right now. We will not miss her.  The tree is the auten version of short which is about 9.5 feet tall.  Jeremy says the tree guy sold it to him as an 8 foot tree. 


OK, I'm going to see if I can't catch teh cat before Jeremy gets back.



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