My Layers

Always around this time of year I think it's a good thing to be introspective...so here it goes.


Name: Kathy
Birthdate: July 3
Birthplace: MA
Current location: ME
Eye color: BROWN
Hair color: BROWN
Height: 5'5"
Righty or lefty: righty
Zodiac sign: Cancer
LAYER TWO
Your heritage: Irish, Italian and Portueguse
The shoes you wore today: Black
Your weakness: Organizing bills
Your fears: Losing the people I love
Your perfect pizza: black olive,mushrooms, red peppers, & artichoke hearts
Goal you’d like to achieve: write a novel
LAYER THREE
Your most overused phrase on AIM:n/a
Your first waking thoughts:ugh
Your best physical feature: Eyes
Your most missed memory: My grandparents at the holidays
LAYER FOUR
Pepsi or Coke: Coke of course
McDonald’s or Burger King: MickeyD's
Single or group dates: I like the one-on-one time
Adidas or Nike: New Balance
Lipton Ice Tea or Nestea: Lipton Green Tea
Chocolate or vanilla: I'm a vanilla girl
Cappuccino or coffee: Hazelnut Coffee
LAYER FIVE
Smoke: On Occassion
Cuss: hell yeah
Sing: sometimes
Take a shower everyday: always
Do you think you’ve been in love: I am :)
Want to go to college: been there, done that
Liked high school: sorry I don't recall
Want to get married: have
Believe in yourself: yes
Get motion sickness: no
Think you’re attractive: I'm cute
Think you’re a health freak: definitely not
Get along with your parent(s): yes
Like thunderstorms:no.
Play an instrument: nope..
LAYER SIX In the past month…
Drank alcohol: yes
Smoked: yes
Done a drug: n/a
Made out: hell yeah
Gone on a date: yes
Gone to the mall: yes :)
Eaten an entire box of Oreos: Hahaha, 1/2 a box
Eaten sushi: yes love it all seafood
Been on stage: yes
Been dumped: yes
Gone skating: yes
Made homemade cookies: Yes...!
Gone skinny dipping: I actually have a few times.
Dyed your hair: Yep, highlights
Stolen Anything: No
LAYER SEVEN
Ever…
Played a game that required removal of clothing: yes
Been trashed or extremely intoxicated: Yes.
Been caught “doing something”: yes!
Been called a tease: No... hahahahaha.
Gotten beaten up: No
Shoplifted: I stole some candy when I was like 4...
Changed who you were to fit in: No
LAYER EIGHT
Age you hope to be married: was 29
Numbers and names of children: k is 8 s is 5
Describe your dream wedding: already happened.
How do you want to die: In my sleep. At age 90.
Where you want to go to college: I went to MTIDA.
What do you want to be when you grow up: a wife, a mom ,PRETEND PHOTOGRAPHER
What country would you most like to visit: maybe Ireland
LAYER NINE
Number of drugs taken illegally:
Number of people I could trust with my life: maybe...4
Number of CDs that I own: quite a few
Number of piercings: 2
Number of tattoos: None
Number of times my name has appeared in the newspaper: probably only five or 6
Number of scars on my body:c-section a few others
Number of things in my past that I regret: none. I'm happy where I am today.

Happy Old Year

Year 2009 Overview
As we enter the Golden Age of Aquarius, you are ready to receive all the blessings that are there for you, especially in the areas of communications and relationships.
Being understood and getting the responses you desire helps you believe in your ability to succeed and reach your highest potential. Your focus is excellent, and you know what you want. Use this to your advantage when working with others, but don't demand that they see your ideas as visionary -- even if you do. As ideas start flowing freely to you, make sure you articulate your insights clearly.
This year, you will be strongly motivated by transformation, especially in romantic unions. When balanced in your heart and mind, you easily express your emotions and are quick to support others. It is important for you to have a partner who is willing to explore different ways of doing things. You will experience many changes as you learn new ways of expressing yourself.
As you make this shift, avoid putting restrictions on yourself and stopping the flow. You are learning to behave in a new positive way, not worrying about the outcome. This will curb your need to control situations and enable you to take your relationships -- work and personal -- to a higher level of consciousness.
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Snow Ice & The Holidays

I am been so busy lately,my head is spinning. I have managed to mail out over 50 Christmas Cards to friends and family. I have been working crazy schedules. When not at work I have been chaperoning and making cookies for school activities for 2 children. Oh and shopping, and more shopping. Oh how I love Santa! Haha..I have had to drive to and fro in the snow and ice storms. Yet I looked at the calendar on our family cork board and even though it says the correct date it is technically still Fall. Yea right not here, not in this state. My head is spinning. When I do have a day off my list is a million things to do long. Oh and it helps in the middle of it weather decides to early release the children from school. Oh joyful is the season. I want to live simply and I wish the holiday season to be just that. Yet as the economy grows dimmer I wonder what the future holds. Perhaps January will bring the peaceful quietness I so adore and long for in the winter's here. The tranquility and the time of reflection. I miss my parents and my younger brother, even more so this time of year as the holidays are slowly approaching, sooner then I anticipate. I miss our dear family friend who is serving our country in Afghanistan, I think of him and pray for his family. We look forward to his return in May 2009. I don't even know how I found this one small chance to write this all down. Happy Holidays to all near and far wishing for peace.

10 things I am Thankful for

My children
My husband
My parents
My brother
Merlot
Faith
My good friends
My home
My pets
My comfy bed

nine years

nine years, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

Happy nine years

my personality

Your Personality is Somewhat Rare (ISFP)
Your personality type is caring, peaceful, artistic, and calm.Only about 7% of all people have your personality, including 8% of all women and 6% of all menYou are Introverted, Sensing, Feeling, and Perceiving.

So God help us all, America has made a poor choice, an uninformed decision. I am so upset I went and took our flag down. He was not my choice and he doesn't deserve to be the President. He can't even place his hand over his heart to recite the pledge of allegiance. God Bless America., we are going to need it. Maybe we will all just go to hell in a hand basket. He is a fraud.

kjuly

kjuly, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

Today she is 8..I feel happy and sad at the same time.
She is the best part of my everyday, and has been since she was born.
In my daughter's eyes, I can see the future.
A reflection of who I am,
An' what will be.
An' though she'll grow an', some day, leave:
Maybe raise a family,
When I'm gone, I hope you'll see,
How happy she made me,
For I'll be there, in my daughter's eyes
- Martina McBride

We had a Hannah Montana Birthday Party, she had a wonderful time with her cute friends at the bowling alley. I love her more then she will ever know.

Design & Declutering

Winter cleaning is somewhat like spring cleaning. I am attempting to so the fall winter clean up thinga round here, I think it may be a huge negative when you have to live with the changing of the season. It feels so good though to declutter, if I could only spend more time to it.

10 Commandments of Good Design

Dieter Rams is one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century. He wrote his 10 commandments of good design:
Good design is innovative.
Good design makes a product useful.
Good design is aesthetic.
Good design helps us to understand a product.
Good design is unobtrusive.
Good design is honest.
Good design is durable.
Good design is consequent to the last detail.
Good design is concerned with the environment.
Good design is as little design as possible.

Harvest Time

pumpkin, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

So last week, we went to the pumpkin farm, this is an annual family tradition. The children have gone since we moved here., age seventeen months for k and since birth for s. They enjoy going not just for the farm, pick the pumpkin off the vine experience, but all of us together and the simplicity of it. Or as I would like to believe that is what they are getting from it. It is a real farm with lots of open space., old apples trees perhaps over a 100 years old. This farm has been run for generations. It will contiue as such., we were lucky enough to meet the farmer's grandson's wife, so I can imagine this farm will be here for many more years, as she was a new young mother. She gave us a small quick tour and much to my delight I saw more of the farm I never knew exisited. We all had a blast!

do you like apples?

do you like apples?, originally uploaded by MsMamaK.

Mom and Dad were here last week and it was so much fun. We went apple picking, and went through a corn maze, went out to dinner and had a few great dinners at the table togther as a family. We had a lovely visit.