Divas in the making

These girls LOVE to primp! Make up, glitter, lip stick, powder - the more the merrier - the heavier applied, the better!
This is normal, right???!

"I'm a Georgia Voter"

Xian wouldn't allow me to post his sourpuss mug!

FUTURE MEMBERS OF

THE YOUNG REPUBLICANS!!!!!

Frankly, I'm glad it is over. I'll be MORE glad when next Tuesday comes (and goes.) I'm so very, very sick of everything having to do with this campaign.

Yesterday I went to vote and was turned away because the computers were down.

Today I took my 3 youngins' with me (Xian and LB wanted to go.) The line was outside of the library and we were told it was about 2 hrs. It was about 50 degrees here in GA w/ some pretty major wind - definitely chilly! The girls sat in their stroller under blankets playing their DS's. Thankfully everyone in the line was in good spirits!

The Chestnut Tree by Hyun-Min Lee

My own little Mims:

Pumpkin Patchin'

****FINAL PUMPKIN PROJECT 2008****

GA really is lovely in the fall. You would never guess that after the hot, muggy, buggy, and terribly humid summers that this wonderful weather (and colors) can emerge! I actually really enjoy it here after the summers end!

Today we did something that I hope can become a tradition for as long as we're here. We visited Carlton Farms in Rockmart, GA. The girls and I did the petting zoo and the hay ride while Xian and Dana (friend) did the corn maze. We all did the hay bale maze and the duck racing.

I'm so cheap, that we didn't buy our pumpkins there, but stopped at - you guessed it - Crawlmart on the way home to buy them for $3.50 each. Mimi wanted little ones.

We especially miss Nanny on the day we carve pumpkins. In the past, she has always made this something that is special between her and the kids. I did my best - they would have rather had grandma!

GA TECH

Man-in-Iraq had a phone interview w/ the GA Tech Research Dept. this week. I can't even begin to explain how much I want him to get this job so he can actually come home... and I don't mean just come home from the desert, but home from FL as well!

The job possibility that strung him along for the past 3 months has dissapaited; they lost their funding, the job disappeared:(....

T has a friend, Jeff, who has been a HUGE networking resource. Jeff connected T w/ the GA Tech people and the interview went really well! Thank you, Jeff!!!!

Of course, timing is an issue now. They want someone ASAP, of course. I pray they will not find anyone before T can get home and meet them face-to-face.

We are all SO over being apart! We miss you, T.

Dining room turned shipping and receiving....

My once never used dining room is the perfect place for my latest endeavor - sorting, posting, selling, boxing, and shipping the girl's clothing.
I'm selling only a tiny fraction of the clothes that I'm giving away.


To think that some people do this for a living - buy and sell on ebay, I mean.

Seasonal clothing rotation

This is what the girls' closet looked like last week w/ their summer clothes.

It was time for the dreaded changing of the clothes. I drag up the 4 huge boxes of fall/winter clothing from the garage. The closet has to be emptied before the winter clothes can go in. Thankfully I can sell or get rid of the clothes that won't fit Mimi next summer (hence the big clothing sale going on here recently.)

It would be so wonderful for the girls to have a great big, walk-in closet! Maybe fewer clothes is a more realistic desire.

Can't forget about the winter shoes!!!!!